POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
A Basic Political Map of Geletia
Parmisi People's Federation
These are the most ethnically diverse of the so-called Geletians, being largely mixed-race since the integration of European-origin Celtic populations with small populations of aboriginal peoples believed to have arrived many thousands of years ago in two waves, one from Africa and another from Asia.
The native populations have adopted Celtic culture, but Parmisi customs, art, and dialects remain distinct from any found on the mainland.
Annexed by the Kingdom, the Parmis Islands had no hope of winning independence alone, but were well placed to take advantage when troubles reached a critical point on the mainland, and revolutionaries here favoured a cautious approach leading up to a peaceful abolition of parliamentary authority when revolutions elsewhere allowed.
Population, being 2.4 million at the time of the great census that revelead a 6bln continental population, was around 0.04% of the Geletian total, or 400,000 Parmisi in every billion Geletians.
The Durcodi Parliamentary Protectorate
The Durcodi, whose capital is at the eclectic and beautiful village of Portmeirion, are famous warriors, proud and described by visitors as a handsome race, but they have been the first to stumble into the successor to the classical world that Geletians have so long opposed.
It is from the Durcodi that Adiatorix rose to conquer half of Geletia, and later to attack Sel Appa in pursuit of wealth and political distraction.
Decadence is widely attributed by other Geletians to the once noble Durcodi, and it is perhaps the recognition of this shame that is the best spur to revolt in a land that invented Geletian inequality.
With 252 million citizens at the six-billion census, the Durcodi represent 4.2% of the Geletian populace, or 42,000,000 in a billion.
The Revolutionary Trocmi State
The Trocmi never accepted the rule of the kingdom, but did suffer a measure of defeat that imposed limits upon them. Since then, Durcodi influences have seeped into what is described as one of Geletia's hardcore anti-classicalist lands, and, as the Trocmi see local and individual power rolling up-hill to their capital, Tavium, in what looks like parliamentarianism by stealth, radicalism takes root here in both traditionalist and modern communist theory.
162 million strong at the census, these people are 2.7% of the total non-colonial population of the continent, being 27,000,000 in every billion Geletians.
The Democratic Tolistobogii State
With their capital at Pessinus, these too are a people called hardcore anti-classicalists, and since the loss of some territory to the Kingdom they have been staunch in their refusal to accept any modern western influences, though their proximity to the heart of the Kingdom has enabled a limited bleed-off of technological progress that makes these ancient Celts with tractors and assault rifles.
With 384 million heads counted in the six billion census, the Tolistobogi are 6.4% of the Geletian population, or 64,000,000 in every billion.
The Sygenii People's Republic
Highlanders made miners by the government and redundant by the market, the Sygenii are perhaps the continent's most avid Marxists, though they embrace amongst them a range of radical theories and are united primarily by a common desire to obliterate the influence of the Kingdom that subjugated them.
222 million strong at the census, 3.7% of Geletians, live in the land of the Sygenii, or 37,000,000 from every billion on the continent.
The Pitovirii People's Association
The Pitovirii are a fascinating people of contrast. One of the three most primitive of Geletian sub-groupings in technological and arguably in cultural terms, they also remain the most independent and free of influence from foreigners or Kingdom. Living in the largest single Geletian territory, they number amongst the fewest.
These semi-nomadic people inhabit vast tundra and expansive sub-antarctic lands, and remain opposed on principle to property rights and almost any form of centralisation.
Their numbers 12 million strong at the six-billion census, just 0.2% of Geletians live in the vast domain of the Pitovirii, making them 2,000,000 in each billion roaming the continent.
The Soviet Republic of the Tectosages
A third group described as anti-classicalist in a hardcore manner, the Tectosages have their capital at Ancyra, while Tolosa is their largest city, being a hillfort of breathtaking scale and an epic physical imposition upon the landscape.
The Tectosages are reasonably advanced and wealthy in tradition, but it remains to be seen where they shall head in future as their revolutionary course is hard to judge, as is the proability and scale of their immediate scientific progress.
As of the six billion census some 423.6 million -7.06% of Geletians- live in the Tectosages territory, making for 70,600,000 of them per billion total population.
The Scordisci Soviet Republic
Invaded by sea and annexed to the Kingdom, the Scordisci people are famous for their ability to adapt not only to different geographic and climactic settings but to political change. They have coped reasonably well under the Kingdom and engaged the freemarket with what has been described as success, but this term hides deep emotional disturbance at seeing a large minority made idle by market forces and discontent at the creation of a criminal element outside of alien law and beaten with a stick marked
rights. They caused little trouble to parliament, but threw themselves ably on the passing wave of revolt without worry for the challenges it presented.
The census recorded 72 million Scordisci, making them 1.2% of the Geletian population, or 12,000,000 in a billion.
The Durotrige Soviet Socialist Republic
"The Durotriges", said Adiatorix while on campaign, "are best left alone, so long as there are left also enough enemies for them to fight".
Militant to a totally reckless degree, the Durotriges are known to join battle even in the face of the most ridiculous odds, and to do so often naked and without any obvious thought on the tactical situation. In brief skirmishing against Kingdom forces the Durotriges used frontal assaults supported by flanking cavalry and chariots and longbowmen even when facing mechanised forces, machineguns, and artillery, and were effective enough to encourage the all-conquering enemy to by-pass their territory.
Living still in hillforts, the Durotriges seem happy to blend tradition with leftist radicalism as they advance into the modern age practicing direct democracy and drunken blade-wielding.
480 million in number at the census, Durotriges account for 8% of the Geletian people, making them 80,000,000 to the billion.
The Deceangli Commune
With a mysterious island, off the coast of their main territory, that is widely believed to contain forces beyond understanding and with these most religious of Geletians regarded as respectable , the Deceangli were able to live in relative peace.
Their submission to Adiatorix and the coming to Geletia of western leftist political theory has seriously hurt the privileged position long maintained by these people, but that their druidic tradition did at least delay the spread of
new religions (this term applied disparagingly to the likes of Christianity, which the Geletians at large regard as an hysterical flash in the pan) may be enough to save for their domain a valued position in the continental movement to revolution.
204 million strong at the census, 3.4% of Geletians are Deceangli, for 34,000,000 in every billion across the land.
The Allied Nervii Soviets
Based on a large island off the north coast of Geletia, the Nervii were able to live in relative peace for much of their history, but have proven themselves capable of great sacrifice, sending many volunteers to various short-lived coalitions against Adiatorix and placing themselves at the fore in periodic encounters with explotative foreign powers visiting Geletia through the ages.
On their island the Nervii have come to embrace humanitarian and left-socialist ideas on revolution, and were early proponents of a grand commonwealth of free Geletians spanning the whole continent, essentially world-revolution for Geletia.
At the census, an impressive 150 million people, or 2.5% of all Geletians crowded the island of the Nervii, who account for 25,000,000 people in each billion.
The Cornovii Democracy
The Cornovii are traditionalists who rarely look to conquest, favouring prosperity and popularity by farming and trade, though they have often fought to defend their peninsula, deploying warriors in a proud cavalry tradition and with a string of commanders skilled at manoeuvre warfare. They never fell to the Kingdom, but have feared the technological superiority of their near-neighbours in the Azazian colony.
270 million Cornovii registered on the six billion census, meaning that 4.5% of Geletians live on the Cornovii peninsula, which contains 45,000,000 of every billion people on the continent.
The Silures Soviet Republic
These people, the Silures, make war for sport, clashing time and again with the Durotriges in ancient history, always managing to hold-on to their territory by bracing against the mountains and sinking their fingers into the valleys of home. Despite their love of fighting, the Silures are rarely accused of unusual brutality, and are in fact described usually as a jolly lot, fond of drink and story-telling: some have observed that they go to war only when in need of new tales to be swapped over a bowl of wine and a leg of mutton.
The Silures today have embraced the Soviet with enthusiasm, enjoying comraderie in social groups based around the warrior tradition. Their prime struggle is almost post-revolutionary, being between leftists and Leninists for the future role of the Soviets in society and government.
540 million heads on the six billion census meant that 9% of the continental population live the life of the Silures, making them 90,000,000 in the billion.
The Democratic Demetae Republic
Successful farmers fortunate to have few powerful and aggressive neighbours, the Demetae were brought into the Kingdom by a military coup that coincided with an invasion for which they were not best prepared. Their interest in revolution is mainly for national independence, but it is likely that after any defeat of Adiatorix they will face important decisions over traditionally and politically structured modes of co-operative agricultural management.
The six billion census indicated that the Demetae's rich farming culture supported a population of 356 million, equivalent to 5.6% of the Geletian whole, or 56,000,000 in each billion.
Regni
The smallest population in the smallest territory of Geletia, the Regni were also primitive in society and technology, and most were welcoming of Azazian colonial enterprise on their peninsula. Clan-based rather than a united tribal structure, Regni society lost cohesion after a relatively short period of co-existance with the foreigners and their small population has been absorbed into colonial life with a high degree of success.
The Regni's population is counted in the total belonged to the former Azazia, and the distinctness of the small Regni race is in some doubt.
The Averni Celtic People's Republic
The Averni highlanders are keen revolutionaries of a traditional bent, and violently opposed to westernisation. The term
enthusiasm barely does justice to their excitable nature as a people, and many would accuse the Averni of hyperactivity. They will typically spring to the defence of anything perceived as Celtic and attempt to shout-down ideas taken to be alien.
408 million hits on the six billion census meant that the Averni were confirmed as representing 6.8% of all Geletians, or 68,000,000 in every billion.
The Selgovae Soviet People's Republic
The Jungle Celts. Selgovae are known as hunters, the people always said to be in touch with nature, though they are almost as famous for the natural wealth contained in their territory. Felled by the Kingdom's forces only after an especially ferocious war of resistance, Selgovae independence is likely to be returned by the most authoritarian of political revolts anywhere in Geletia.
Selgovae military tradition is of intermediate intensity and repute, boosted by the people's painful and long-lasting opposition to the Kingdom, and it is the sudden rise of warriors to the fore in their society -a trend encouraged by the applause of Geletians from other lands- that has put an unofficial military junta at the head of the main rebel movement in this forested land.
402 million on the census means that 6.7% of Geletians are Selgovae, accounting for 67,000,000 of each billion in the populace.
The Celtic Soviet Alliance of the Parisii
Parisii misfortune is a standing black-humour joke in Geletia, for these are a people who right themselves from one disaster only in time to be struck by another, in a pattern that repeats throughout history. Frequent droughts and unexpected floods frustrate attempts at self-sufficiency and attempts by the capital, Lutetia, to plan for development, and hardships such as these discourage visitors and trade. Parisii numbers have never grown very strong, and while those that do endure here are hardy people, they remain assaulted by bad luck, and serious endemic diseases.
Valiant attempts to help their neighbours against annexation by the Kingdom left the Parisii themselves vulnerable to eventual conquest, but the long-suffering people here, famous for chariot burials and sports, remain ever willing to see themselves first as Celts or revolutionaries, and only second as Parisii.
It was with some difficulty that 1.23 billion heads were counted here in the census, indicating that a massive 20.5% of Geletia's populace is gathered in the under-developed domain of the Parisii, making them 205,000,000 of every billion. The CSAP alone, just one of many Geletian lands, now houses more citizens than does the PR China.
The Venetii Free State
Along with the Parmisi the Venetii are the best of Geletia's sailors and have defended themselves with a tactical flexibility resulting from this. They have tended to be the most agreeable to foreign contact, and are marginally less traditional in outlook, though the sale of Celtic arts and crafts has at least kept alive many traditional skills.
450 million people, 7.5% of Geletians, live in the Venetii domain, or 75,000,000 in each billion.