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The '''Levantine Union''' ('''LU''') is a political and economic union of nine member states that are located primarily in [[Levantia]]. It has an area of more than 14 million square kilometers, and an estimated population of over 2.5 billion. The LU has developed an internal single market through a standardized system of laws that apply in all member states. LU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the internal market, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development. The Union emerged out of the former [[Holy Levantine Empire]], which provided for a degree of economic interoperability for nearly a millennium. Since 2018, the Union has more actively involved itself in the common defense and military preparedness of its members via the [[Levantine Union Defense Council]]. Within the Union, passport controls have been abolished. A monetary union was already in place during the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], and the Levantine Union [[Taler]] is the currency of the Union. The de facto religion of the Levantine Union is [[Catholicism]].

The Levantine Union's immediate precursor, the "Istroya Pact", was a common market, open borders, and mutual defense agreement signed in 19XX between [[Urcea]] and [[Burgundie]] in the wake of the functional end of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. With the end of the Empire's institutions, the various Levantine states that comprised it suddenly found themselves with closed borders, tariffs, and independent economies. The Pact was intended to last the duration of the [[Second Great War]] in order to link the two nations and economies together during the crisis and was not intended to be a permanent institution, but soon became indispensible to both nations. At the end of the war, Urcea and Burgundie replaced the Istroya Pact with the Levantine Union Treaty, signed on June 1st, 1954, joined by the rebuilding and reorganizing [[Deric States]] and by [[Anglei]]. This treaty strengthened the already close union between the states. On January 1st, 1955, [[Fiannria]] joined the Union. [[Yonderre]] was later admitted to the union in 1962, being the sole member who was not a member of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] at any point. The [[Dissolution of the Deric States|Deric States was dissolved]] in the 2020s and 2030s, consolidating the number of member states to the nine presently part of the Union.

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