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Signoriate of Hellenia

Type: Signoria (Aristocracy)

Creator: Panda

Spread across numerous island city-states, Hellenia is a centre for trade, arts and letters in the Old World. Although the balance of power shifts frequently, the Signoria has managed to keep a cohesive alliance together, resulting in a strong trade network spanning multiple climates and environments.

While each city-state maintains a well-paid and trained army, they prefer to avoid direct armed confrontation. Instead they prefer to buy out the competition, and manipulate larger powers through finance. To date their greatest success is the state of debt they have created with Morcia; by allowing the kingdom to take out debts with multiple cities, they were able to cripple the kingdom's economy without revealing their true motive.

With news of a New World rapidly spreading, the scholars and merchants of Hellenia have turned their gaze east, seeking new riches in goods and knowledge, and new economies to subjugate.