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|native_name =        ''Serenísima e República Federativa de Lucrecia'' ({{wp|Galician language|Isurian}})<br>''Serenisima e Republica Federada de Lucricia'' ([[Emeritan Pelaxian|Pelaxian]])<br>''Serenissima e Rebùbrica Federada di Lucricia'' ({{wp|Sardinian language|Emeritan Latin}})

|national_anthem =    {{wp|Inno Nazionale della Repubblica|O República Afortunada}}<br />{{center|1="O Fortunate Republic"<div style="padding-top:0.5em;"> </div>}}[[File:Inno Nazionale della Repubblica.ogg]]

|leader_name2 =      {{ubl|[[Rosalía Rueda]]|[[Alfredo Posse]]}}

|leader_name4 =      [[Fernando Jimenez]]

'''Lucrecia''', officially the '''Most Serene and Federative Republic of Lucrecia''' ({{wp|Sardinian language|Emeritan Latin}}: ''Serenissima e Rebùbrica Federada di Lucricia''; {{wp|Galician language|Isurian}}: ''Serenísima e República Federativa de Lucrecia''; [[Emeritan Pelaxian|Pelaxian]]: ''Serenisima e Republica Federada de Lucricia''), is an archipelago country in the [[Kindreds Sea]]'s [[Catenias]], consisting of three major islands. It is characterized by its bilingual, bicultural nature, consisting of both [[Lucrecio-Isurians|Isurian]]-, and [[Emeritans|Pelaxian]]-influenced cultures.

The republic gets its name from the official [[Emeritan Pelaxian]] name for the island of [[Emerita]], ''Insa Lucrecia''. The name "Lucrecia" is the Pelaxian form of the Latinic name ''Lucretia'', itself the feminine form of the name ''Lucretius''. The most likely source for the name ''Lucretius'' is the Latin word ''lucrum'', meaning profit or wealth. The name "Lucretia" became associated with the island of Emerita and subsequently the republic in general thanks to an old [[Caphiria|Caphiric]] legend about a noblewoman from the era of the Caphiric Kingdom by the name of {{wp|Lucretia}} who was brutally murdered by the son of King Admoneptis for refusing his advances. The murder of Lucretia would inspire an aristocratic revolt that overthrew the Caphiric monarchy in favour of the Caphiric Republic. Coincidentally, the {{wp|patron saint}} of [[Emérida d'u Mar]] is known as [[Lucretia of Emérida]], who was martyred on 23 November 306 during the [[Emeritan persecutions]] of the 4th Century, but she is not the origin behind the {{wp|endonym}} for the island of Emerita as records for an ''Insula Lucretia'' date as far back as the 3rd Century BC, long before the emergence of Christianity.

Although the Republic would never fall under direct Caphiric suzerainty, it would soon find itself under the suzerainty of a nascent and newly-unified kingdom in western Sarpedon, the [[Pelaxia|Kingdom of Pelaxia]]. First contact with the Pelaxians began in 1499, by that time Pelaxia had already established a colonial empire in [[Vallos]]. Because of the Republic's relative stability compared to most of the polities in Vallos and overall Latinic homogeneity, the Republic was not to be made into a colony, but rather a protectorate wherein the Republic will be allowed to maintain its internal affairs without interference while in return they allow the Pelaxians to hold the exclusive right to maintain a military presence as part of its efforts to maintain its hold in the Southern Route to Alshar.

Formal partisan politics began to coalesce around this time. In previous years, Emeritan and early Lucrecian politicians were not necessarily formally affiliated with one of the two informal political factions, that being the aristocratic ''[[Viejos Leales]]'' (Old Loyalists) and the proto-{{wp|populist}} ''[[Demagogos]]'' (Demagogues), with many career politicians "switching" factions so as to prolong their time in the Senate. By the mid-17th Century, newer generations of Lucrecian politicians began to identify more and more with their faction of choice as proto-ideological convictions began to take hold, eventually culminating in the formation of the [[Courtier Party|Courtier]] and [[Countrymen Party|Countrymen]] parties. With the formalisation of the party system came the rise in political tension between the two parties, with many cases of senators getting into duels while in the Senate over even the slightest of ideological differences. The tensions were so bad that Lucrecia was on the verge of falling into a state of civil war, and in such a crisis it was customary for the consuls to designate a dictator from amongst the ranks of the Senate, but with the Senate being in a state of constant disarray, there were fears that designating a senator to assume the role of dictator, even for a span of twelve months, would actually make things worse.

[[File:Giuliano Gozi 1923.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Primo de San Agustin]], sole leader of the [[National Fascist Party|PNF]] and four-time Consul from 1922 until 1947.]]

In a last-ditch attempt to assert the regime's authority after multiple embarrassments, the Consuls opted to grant the reigning [[Maria-Adelaida, Grand Duchess in Lucrecia|Grand Duchess Maria-Adelaida]] the role of dictator. During the [[Marian dictatorship of 1947]], the last time a dictatorship was granted, the Grand Duchess used her temporary dictatorial powers to dismantle the fascist regime over the span of twelve months, replacing PNF members in the government with members of the moderate {{wp|christian democratic}} [[Anti-Revolutionary Party]], and even putting down an attempted fascist coup supported by her first cousin [[Prince Juan-Carlos in Lucrecia]], who was subsequently stricken from the line of succession along with any of his descendants. By the end of 1948, Lucrecia's fascist regime was so thoroughly dismantled by the Grand Duchess that even the laws passed during the regime were forcibly repealed, and the rampant and explicit persecution of the Isurian populace was put to an abrupt end.

The federalisation and democratisation of Lucrecia was a gradual process that transformed an aristocratic republic into a {{wp|bilingual}} {{wp|federal republic}} by the 1990s. The end of the centuries-long Emeritan monopoly on socio-political power led to the rise of a new Isurian elite as the newly-reestablished Generality began to receive the economic development it had never gotten many years prior. It was around the time of democratisation and federalisation that Lucrecia had its first Consul of Isurian ancestry, [[Veronica Franco]] who, alongside [[Maria Zorreguieta]], served concurrently from 1985 until 1987; they were also the first all-female consulship. Another consequence of the federalisation along linguistic lines was the linguistic segregation of the political parties, with the old political parties splitting up into smaller, more regionally-oriented, political parties; no single party would be able to attain a majority of the legislature unless they form a coalition with other political parties, with many recent compositions of the [[Popular Assembly]] involving so-called "grand coalitions" across ideological and linguistic lines to combat the emerging popularity of the populist and ultranationalistic [[Party for an Independent Generality]] (PXI) and its partner party [[ILUCED]].

Economically, the Lucrecian economy experienced a boom as the nation moved towards handing out free trade agreements with other nations regardless of geopolitical affiliation once the [[Occidental Cold War]] ended mutually with the signing of the [[Assumption Accords]]. Among the nations that the republic has entered into a free trade agreement with, the most notable of these are with their neighbours on the Catenias, that being [[Burgundie]] ([[Port de Vent]]), [[Caphirira]] ([[Coribus]]), and [[Kiravia]] ([[Krasoa Islands]]), with a couple more free trade agreements being proposed for [[Vallejar]] on mainland Vallos and [[Pelaxia]] on mainland Sarpedon.

Lucrecia is a small sub-archipelago within the [[Catenias]] consisting of three islands, two major islands and one small island. The major island that is closer to mainland Vallos is often known in [[Ænglish]] and throughout [[Levantia]] as [[Emerita]], although officially, and throughout Sarpedon, it is known as ''Insa Lucrecia'' from which the nation gets its name from. The other major island is known as [[Illa Herba Linda]], often known in older maps as ''Insa Yorba Linda'' (''yorba'' being the Emeritan pronunciation of the word ''yerba'', itself a Vallos variant of the Pelaxian word ''hierba'', meaning herb). The small island off the coast of Illa Herba Linda is referred to as [[Illa Vitoria]].

===Dignitas===

{{main|Dignitas (Lucrecia)|Dignitas Scoring System}}

Lucrecian society places heavy emphasis on prestige and overall trustworthiness, much like the concept of dignitas in Caphiria. Unlike in Caphiria however, Lucrecian diginitas is entirely based on one's achievements rather than a combination of birthright and achievements like in the former. Although once a status that had no exact numerical value placed upon it, with the advent of computers in the 1980s there emerged a numerical scoring system that quantifies one's current dignitas. Called the [[Dignitas Scoring System]], it is a national {{wp|credit rating}} that has been developed by the Curia since 1987, complete with a {{wp|whitelist|purplelist}} (purple being deemed the colour of high prestige in Lucrecia) and a {{wp|blacklist}}. The idea behind the Dignitas Score is to encourage government institutions, citizens, and businesses to strive towards good deeds and achievements. Being on the purplelist is said to net certain privileges to those who are on it, mostly favourable discounts in public transport and parking, an easier time navigating through the highly complex government bureaucracy, and even favourable interest rates from banking institutions; purplelisted businesses are also much less likely to be inspected beyond the absolute mandated minimum set by the Curia so that regulators may focus on investigating businesses that are not purplelisted.

The study of {{wp|genealogy}} is a major aspect of Lucrecian society, particularly among the Emeritans and the republic's Latinic minority, a fact that is inherent in their naming conventions. Unlike in most Pelaxian-speaking nations, full names amongst the Emeritans do not make use of the mother's main family name except in one of three cases: either the father is not an Emeritan or a part of any culture that makes use of a similar naming convention to that of the Emeritans ([[Urcean people|Urcean]] and [[Caphiric people|Caphiric]] fathers may pass on their estate names, but [[Pelaxian people|Pelaxian]] and [[Delepasians|Delepasian]] fathers may not pass on their surnames), the father is not known, or the mother's lineage is more prestigious than the father's. Under most circumstances, Emeritan names consist of the first name (legally referred as ''nombre''), the main family name (legally referred as ''gente''), and a branch name (legally referred as ''estirpe''); the main family name for the average Emeritan is legally required to be displayed in its original Latinic form, but the first and branch names are not legally required to be Latinic or Pelaxian in origin. All Emeritans are legally required to retain their original ''gentes'' regardless of marital status or gender (though the suffix may be changed to reflect one's gender), but they may change their ''estirpes'' whether through marriage or through a name change request; the only way for one's ''gentes'' to change is through adoption. This naming convention is primarily based off of the classical Latinic trinomial system.

Conventionally, an Emeritan's name usually only has the first and branch names written. For example, Juana Marcia Posse may be commonly referred to as Juana Posse; if she were to marry Juan Octavius de San Francisco, her full name would be Juana Marcia de San Francisco, not Juana Octavia de San Francisco. However, if she were adopted by a Fernando Flavius Borbon, then her full name would become Juana Flavia Borbon, assuming that Fernando Borbon did not opt to change the newly-renamed Juana Borbon's ''nombre'' upon adopting her (this being dependent on how old Juana Borbon was when Fernando Borbon adopted her). However, it is also not an uncommon occurrence to find some ''estirpes'' that are {{wp|double-barreled name|double-barreled}}, often when the wife's ''estirpe'' happens to be prestigious in their own right; the most well-known case in Lucrecia being the royal family. The royal family descends from the [[House de Weluta]], the royal house of [[Urcea]], and from 1884 until 2015 was headed by a female. Because the ''estirpe'' of the Lucrecian royal family is deemed to be highly prestigious, it became practice to simply join the ''estirpes'' of both wife and husband together, thus leading to the current situation of the Lucrecian royal house being headed by a member of the [[House of Velucia Alba]]. However, there was no question over whether or not the royal ''gente'' of [[Julian dynasty|Julia]] would be preserved as Emeritan naming rules had already established provisions that allowed for the wife's ''gente'' to be inherited if it was more prestigious than the husband's ''gente''.

Lucrecia's currency, the [[denario]], is one of the few currencies in the world not to have been {{wp|decimal currency|decimalised}}, instead being divided under the ratio of 1:20:12, a rationalisation of ancient pre-decimal currencies. Notes are exclusively issued by the [[National Bank of the Republic]], the nation's {{wp|central bank}}, and coinage are exclusively minted by [[National Mint of the Republic]]. Because of Lucrecia's global connections and key position in global trade, the Denario is one of the strongest currencies in Vallos.