Empires of the World

In the age of near unrestricted travel and technological wonder, ambitious and powerful nations have grown into huge empires. Among these, the most prominent are the Commonwealth, the Hauberian empire, the Tamurian domain, the Kingdom of the Sun and lastly the Kazaik empire. Among these great powers there still exist numerous sovereign states of multiple kinds, anything from duchies and city-states to kingdoms. All in some way depend on the goodwill of the empires to keep them independent.

With the growth and expansion of the empires, the need for more resources has grown too. The solution has been to acquire colonies in the unknown world on the other side of the great archipelago and great ocean beyond it. Only now has it become possible to have stable routes going beyond the archipelago into the unknown world where resources are plentiful. However, even as the rule of empires may seem total, the colonies have become the grounds where the mighty measure their strengths as the imperial fleets and forces often skirmish and maneuver to gain more ground and important resources. Relations may be stable in the old world, but in the unknown world they are volatile, always on the brink of open conflict. But all rulers know that if it would come to that, there would be no stability at home either. All of this makes for fragile and strained relations, constantly balancing on the edge of total war.