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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]]

|established_event1 = Founding of [[Mérida del Mar|Emerita Maris]]

|established_event3 = [[Emeritan Republic]] established

'''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 country derives its name from the [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]] translation of the name "Lucretia", itself in reference to {{wp|Lucretia}}, a [[Caphiria|Caphiric]] noblewoman whose brutal murder at the hands of a son of King Admoneptis inspired an aristocratic revolt that overthrew the Caphiric monarchy in favour of the Caphiric Republic, of which Lucrecia derives its form of government from and retained in an unchanged form from the establishment of the [[Emeritan Republic]] in 178 BC until the 1970s when a series of reforms dubbed the "Popular Amendments" federalised the nation as well as rationalising and democratising the legislature. With the traditional foundation date being 178 BC, Lucrecia lays claim to being one of the oldest extant sovereign states, as well as the oldest {{wp|constitutional republic}}.

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.

With the collapse of the Adonerii league, ''Emerita Maris'' became an independent power in the southern part of the Kindreds Sea. It began to establish its own colonies and trade network throughout eastern [[Vallos]]. It soon expanded to rule over other settlements on its home island, eventually culminating in the establishment of the Emeritan Republic in 178 BC, with a form of government that closely followed that of the Caphiric Republic, that being a diarchical consular republic. Its first consuls were [[Sextus Luria Rufus]] and [[Marcus Cornelius Scaevola]], two prominent merchants who have greatly expanded the trading networks between the Emeritans and the other polities in Vallos.

The first century of the Second Republican era was also marked by a few attempts to restore the classical [[Caphiric Republic]], with prominent Emeritans arguing that the collapse of the Second Imperium has proven that there were many fundamental flaws with what they deemed to be the "royalist disgrace" that has emerged since the fall of the Caphiric Republic and that the only way to restore stability and prosperity is to establish a stronger republic based on the ideals of the classical era while making a few necessary modifications to prevent the rise of perceived royalist demagoguery that was said to have plagued the latter years of the Caphiric Republic. However, the Republic was at the time too far away from mainland Sarpedon and too small to effectively wield enough influence to do anything beyond declaring themselves to the true heirs of the old Caphiric Republic, and any and all ambitions of restoring the old Republic on the mainland were soon dashed with the emergence of the [[Caphiria#The_Third_Imperium|Third Imperium]] in 1283.

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.

The establishment of Pelaxian suzerainty over the Republic saw the emergence of a pelaxianised Latinic culture within the span of fifty years as Emeritan elites took on Pelaxian customs, traditions, and even a [[Emeritan Pelaxian|new vernacular of the Pelaxian language]] with many Latinic loanwords. By the year 1554, the Emeritans had effectively became a Romance ethnic group, a far cry from when they had seen themselves as a Latinic ethnic group.

On a similarly-sized island neighbouring the island that the Emeritan Republic was home to there were multiple settlements that were home to the descendants of [[Isurians|Isurian]] peasants who had first arrived on the island in the year 1343 on their attempt to establish a new and independent homeland away from mainland Sarpedon and away from any form of authority beyond that of {{wp|God}} himself. These settlements made up the [[Old Isurian Generality]], a {{wp|peasant republic|republic of peasants}} under a loose {{wp|confederate state|confederacy}}. It had no {{wp|head of state}}, but rather a popular assembly in which anyone may attend on any given day, except for Sundays and religious holidays, and take part in the political process. Such a form of government was, and still is, a rarity, and to the Emeritans it was seen as a perversion of republican ideals due to the notable lack of a hierarchal class structure and the amount of power the peasantry had in the Old Generality. This sparked many fears that the Emeritan peasantry may very well attempt to overthrow the Republic and establish their own republic in emulation of the Old Generality.

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]].

Located within the tropics, the climate in Lucrecia is generally warmer and more humid than in most areas outside of the tropics. However, due to it being very close to the {{wp|Tropic of Capricorn}}, the climate is generally more temperate compared to the climates of areas further within the tropics such as that of [[Rumahoki]] or [[Equatorial Ostiecia]]. Overall, Lucrecia experiences a mostly mild {{wp|seasonal variation}}, though the coldest parts of the country are in settlements that straddle Mount St. Andrew's, much of which experience colder winters and milder summers compared to the rest of Lucrecia, with summer averages that reach no more than 18 degrees Celsius and winter averages as low than -12 degrees Celsius in contrast to the averages for the rest of the country (summer averages in most of Lucrecia are often as high as 25 degrees Celsius while winter averages can go as low as 10 degrees Celsius).

According to the most recent census, the percentage of Lucrecians who speak Isurian (Lucrecio-Isurians) is around 53% of the population, with the percentage of Pelaxian speakers (Emeritans) being around 47%. Asides from the official languages, there are a number of minorities who can speak a non-official language alongside one of the official languages (all residents of Lucrecia are required by law to be fluent in one of the nation's official languages), the most notable being the Emeritan vernacular of the Latin language, one of the only two colloquial forms of Latin, the other being [[Caphiric Latin]], in the world, and the Standard and Rumahokian vernaculars of Pelaxian from amongst the [[Pelaxians]] and the [[Delepasians]] who reside in Lucrecia.

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 {{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.

Although constitutionally a semi-presidential republic, Lucrecia has given a branch of the House de Weluta an official role as recognised in the constitution. The Lucrecian royal family has existed since 1685 when Archduke Niall of Urcea was invited to become the Republic's permanent designated dictator, a role that remains with his descendants to this day. The head of the Lucrecian branch of the de Welutas is given the title of Grand Duke in Lucrecia, a {{wp|legal fiction}} that was created as a royal title that would not be in violation of the constitution nor in violation of Pelaxia's then-suzerainty over Lucrecia. The current Grand Duke in Lucrecia is [[Amadeo II. Grand Duke in Lucrecia|Grand Duke Amadeo II]], who inherited the grand ducal title from his mother [[Veronica, Grand Duchess in Lucrecia|Grand Duchess Veronica]] after her death on 30 September 2015. Dictatorial designation aside, the Grand Duke wields no political influence nor is he the head of state of Lucrecia, instead serving a purely ceremonial and cultural role under normal circumstances.

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One of the most well-known symbols of Lucrecia are the [[Arcos of Emerita]], three forts that date back to the early years of the Emeritan Republic and are located on the island of Emerita's hill range. The most famous of the three forts is ''[[Vegro Retendor]]'' (Old Retainer). First built in the 2nd Century BC, its current form was not built until during the years of Caphiric suzerainty in the mid-10th Century; it houses a museum to honour the nation's history. ''[[Torri Capeda]]'' (Chapel Tower), so-called due to its accompanying chapel within the fort, was built initially as a temple for the Latinic faith before being converted into a chapel upon the introduction of Christianity to Lucrecia; its modern form was built in the 12th Century and it currently serves as a monastery, having been converted into one in 1293. ''[[Il Eremita]]'' (The Hermit) is the smallest of the three forts and is currently a private residence owned by Isurian billionaire [[Iago Castro]]; the current tower was built in the 16th Century as part of an attempt to scare the inhabitants of the then-independent Isurian Generality that an invasion from the mainland was imminent. All three forts are depicted in the nation's coat of arms.

Another well-known symbol of Lucrecia is the {{wp|Civic Crown}}, a representation of one of the nation's highest civilian honours, that being the [[Order of the Old Liberty]], is an ancient symbol that has existed since the Classical Era. Originally a {{wp|military decoration}} given to Emeritans who saved the lives of fellow Emeritan citizens, the civic crown became the headpiece for members of the Order when it was first established with its first member being [[Marcia Eròina d'a Repùblica]], an elderly woman who was said to have thwarted an attempted conspiracy to subvert the republic and transform it into a hereditary monarchy; the leader of the conspirators was exiled alongside his family and was subsequently condemned to {{wp|damnatio memoriae}}.

The {{wp|tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector}} comprises a major proportion of the Lucrecian economy, with tourism, services, retail, shipping, and banking making up the primary components of this sector. Lucrecia is currently the seventh-largest trading entity measured by imports and exports, trading an amount of goods worth more than its total {{wp|gross domestic product|GDP}}. The nation’s [[Toledo Stock Exchange]] is among the largest in the world by market capitalisation, at $5.9 trillion as of Q3 of 2034. Its major banks, the [[People's National Bank]], the [[Federal Credit Union]] and [[New United Bank]], are among the largest in Vallos, and have been ranked as the 3rd, 4th, and 6th most stable and strongest banks, respectively. Lucrecia also maintains a small {{wp|secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector}}; focused on the manufacturing of electronics such as terminals for [[Rumahoki]]'s [[Videocom]] service.

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.

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