Levantine Union: Difference between revisions

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| colspan="2" |Location of the Levantine Union in Levantia

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!Capital

|Corcra

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!Largest city

|Urceopolis

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!Official languages

|3 languages[show]

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* 91.6% Christianity

** 79.9% Levantine Catholic

* 1.8% Muslim

* .6% Other faiths

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!Demonym

|Levantine

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!Type

|Political and economic union

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!Member states

|16 states[show]

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!Government

|Supranational and intergovernmental

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|June 1st, 1954

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|Taler (₮; in Talerzone) (₮)

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!Time zone

|Urceopolitan Mean Time

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The '''Levantine Union''' ('''LU''') is a political and economic union of 16 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 standardised 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. Since 2038, 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 1935 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 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 due to the duration of the war it existed for nearly two decades. 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 Roseney, a crown commonwealth of Urcea. This treaty strengthened the already close union between the states. On January 1st, 1955, Kuhlfros joined the Union. Yonderre was later admitted to the union, being the sole member who was not a member of the Holy Levantine Empire at any point.

The Holy Levantine Empire was reestablished in the 10th century out of the Southern and Eastern Kingdoms of the Levantines, binding its people and princes together under the authority of the Emperor of the Levantines and Imperial Diet. They reminded bound together for a millennia, but the Second Fratricide effectively brought the Empire to a sudden end in 1935, leaving the economies and political structures of Catholic Levantia in chaos. The Treaty of Corcra ended the Great War in southern Levantia and set forth the future settlement of agreements between the former states of the Empire, but such an agreement did not immediately come about as a consequence of the war and the ongoing violence in Dericania known as the Third Fratricide. Consequently, Urcea and Burgundie agreed to the so-called Istroya Pact, which bound the two nations together in common defense, free travel, and a common market. The Pact was viewed as a wartime expedient, but the relative economic stability within the two nations even during wartime lead to widespread political support for renewing and expanding the agreement.

With the end of the Great War in 1953, the Levantine great powers could end the Third Fratricide in Dericania. Decades of war and sudden economic isolation had depressed the Deric economy, necessitating an infusion of capital from Urcea and Burgundie. Given the popularity and success of the program, as well as the obligation under the Treaty of Corcra to settle the Holy Levantine Empire, Urcea and Burgundie began to negotiate what would become the Levantine Union Treaty, which they agreed to on June 1st, 1954, establishing the Levantine Union. The Deric States, which had been founded earlier in the year, agreed to join the Levantine Union in October of 1954 following the conclusion of the Third Fraternal War. Kuhlfros decided to join effective 1955. With Kuhlfros joining, the entire area of the Holy Levantine Empire in 1927 had been rebound together under the terms of the Union.

The Levantine Union's primary program in the two decades following the Great War concerned reconstruction of the Deric States, which had been plagued by more than two decades of war. In 1956, the Levantine Union Diet voted to create the Levantine Union Economic Development Agency, which would use funds from Urcea primarily to rebuild the infrastructure of the Deric States.

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=== Central Committee ===

==== Union Diet ====

Main article: Levantine Union Diet

==== Union Defense Council ====

Main article: Levantine Union Defense Council

From its inception, the Levantine Union shared a commitment for common defense and "general military cooperation", per the Levantine Union Treaty. However, the defense functions of the Union were effectively, but not officially, handled by the Levantia and Odoneru Treaty Association (LOTA), which included several Levantine Union members in addition to other nations based in Sarpedon. Following the end of the Occidental Cold War, LOTA's membership was reduced to the member states of the Levantine Union, creating a redundancy. Consequently, in 2037, following the departure of Cartadania from the alliance, it voted to dissolve itself and reform as a similar organization fully within the Levantine Union. The new body, the Levantine Union Defense Council, retained the assets and goals of LOTA while embracing all members of the Union, fulfilling the vision of the initial Levantine Union Treaty.

==== ''Cort de Antics'' ====

The ''Cort'' was created in 1956 in order to resolve disputes between member states of the Deric States and deposed Derian nobles in the wake of the Third Fratricide, although the ''Cort'' was soon expanded to adjudicating all rival noble claims. The ''Cort'', since its creation, has accrued the world's largest library of ancestral and feudal records, documents which are necessary for determining claims. Throughout its history, the ''Cort'' has become involved in several high-profile claim disputes, including a large series of claims of Derian nobles against Burgundie in the 1970s as well as an ongoing case regarding the claims of several pretenders to Bussdaberria.

Main article: Taler

== Culture ==

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