Empire-in-fact: Difference between revisions

The Empire-in-fact not only provided a mutually amicable way to end the [[Second Great War]] in [[Dericania]], but also had the practical legal and prestige effect of recognizing Urcea's elevation to being one of the world's {{wp|superpower}}s. It solidified the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]]'s ability to claim a kind of {{wp|universal monarchy}} and universal {{wp|defender of the faith}}, giving legitimacy to [[House de Weluta]]'s long-held pretensions of being the definitive "Catholic monarchy." While [[Sarpedon]]ic scholars have generally dismissed this argument, both Levantine and [[Coscivian]] scholars have argued since the Second Great War that this symbolic elevation implemented a fundamental change in the psyche of both the average Urcean and the Apostolic Kings themselves. In traditional precedence, it also made the Apostolic King of Urcea the equal of the [[Imperator of Caphiria]] in dignity, a point that would later take a religious and geopoltiical aspect with the [[Exsultetsphere]]s.