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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.

Lucrecia's {{wp|state religion}} was, until 1795, the [[Caphiric Church|Imperial Church of Caphiria]] (prior to the [[Great Schism of 1615]] it was the [[Catholic Church]]). Lucrecia was one of the few nations outside of Caphiria to have sided with the nascent Caphiric Church when it split from the Catholic Church in 1615, but due to remaining under Pelaxian suzerainty the Caphiric Church in Lucrecia soon came under the influence of the Levantine Church in Pelaxia despite the two institutions remaining separate. The Caphiric Church in Lucrecia was formally abolished as the state church of Lucrecia after the [[1795 Law of the Independence of the State from the Church]] was enacted, thus establishing the republic as a {{wp|secular state}}. The main motivation for the law was due to the belief that the establishment of a state church was in fact in violation of the Lucrecian constitution, particularly in the preamble where it explicitly declared Lucrecia to be "a republic governed by the civic and temporal rule of law". The 1795 Law did also include provisions to establish {{wp|freedom of religion}} and tax exemptions for any and all religious establishments while at the same time it included assurances that relations between the Curia and the Caphiric Church would be based on an {{wp|arms length principle|arms length approach}}, with the Law describing it as the two entities being independent of one another while remaining on equal footing. The Law also abolishes the clerical seats in the Senate which were first created during the 15th Century.

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.