Kingdom of Rumburg
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kingdom of rumburg, commonly known as rumburg, is a constitutional monarchy situated in northern merkopa the country's capital is thornbourgh and its monarch is queen beatrice livingston it is the largest country on the merkopan continent by size, spanning the entire north from west to east, and is a founding member of the guild of royal allies for commercial exchange (grace), which it has traditionally led in policy and coordination rumburg initially emerged as a march of the rums around the 7th century and later, with the migration, developed into the heartland for the kingdom of the rums in 1599, rumburg broke away from the markian empire and established its own kingdom in the early 19th century, rumburg transitioned into a constitutional monarchy as king uthred livingston transferred powers to the council of state and later to the parliament of rumburg the royal line is commonly listed as alfred i livingston, uthred livingston, elswyn livingston, alfred ii livingston, and beatrice livingston, with succession governed by the succession ordinance and regencies by the regency act, which places full authority in a regent until the monarch reaches the age of 18 in the nineteenth century rumburg rose as a major power in merkopa after colonizing and industrializing vast northern territories of steppe, tundra, and ice during this period the crown gradually absorbed hereditary duchies into centralized crown lands, with industrial expansion driven by collectivized production programs and penal labor the result was rapid growth in mining, rail infrastructure, and military manufacturing, which positioned rumburg among the continent's leading military industrial powers rumburg historically maintained close commercial relations with the kingdom of arcas; following the arcasian revolution of 1823, this relationship evolved into a complex rivalry between the continent's foremost monarchical and republican powers rumburg was shaped by repeated interstate conflicts, including the central merkopa war (1837β1866), which ended in the treaty of alfretsrat, and the treaty of crimsrad (1846), which expanded access to agnolian ports after suffering extensively during the fifteen day war against sordland, the country developed the ka 74 automatic rifle, which became one of the most widely used weapons on the continent later, the false crowns war culminated in the treaty of glenhill and secured strategic rail and border regimes rumburg's economy also came to be shaped by large private state industrial actors, including rumburg emerald energy in november 1921, beatrice livingston acceded to the throne at sixteen following the death of king alfred ii, ruling under a regency headed by duke eadric wulfsbury until she reached majority her early reign was marked by the war of broken wills (1921β1924) and the subsequent treaty of konstantium, followed by the war of the ridges it also included the sending of aid to rizia during the 1926 uprising and the formal abandonment of a proposed eastern merkopan pact with the valgos empire following its revolution in favor of closer ties with arcasia in her later reign, her foreign policy was codified under the title "the great unification β despite official denials, rumburg is believed to have been heavily involved in both the wehlen civil war and the sordish civil war rumburg's internal politics are described through three major parliamentary factions the greater rummish union party, the crown preservation party, and the constitutional reform party, which compete over foreign policy, industrial strategy, and the balance between court influence and parliamentary governance the nation has a strong economy and a below average civil rights record with limited political freedoms, and it remains heavily oriented toward strategic industry and military technology through extensive state promotion of science and defense research, it has experienced rapid technological development and is believed to maintain significant experimental weapons programs despite having extensive northern natural resources, rumburg imports large volumes of raw materials to sustain its growing industrial base it is a member of omec, grace, and the alliance of nations related articles led by beatrice livingston docid\ ner1o2gbjrsmq eic5hvx