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The Republic of Jaydonian, commonly called Jaydonian (More commonly called pure garbage) is a free Socialist democracy between the Balkans and Anatolia. It is Bordered by The Democratic Socialist Republic of Romania. Jaydonia covers 1,117,291km2 and has an estimated population of 111,274,000 people. Jaydonian comprises 2 continental divisions, 10 administrative regions and 168 provinces.

Jaydonian uses numbers to defend the country, with the military doctrine being, "Shotgun your problems away".

History
Early history After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, Ottoman expansion continued spreading into the Balkans. Though relatively peaceful, the rise of nationalism in the 1800s led to an inability for the Ottomans to retain their Balkan lands.

Rebellion
In 1812, a man by the name of Jayden Paliologae began making speeches in the Peloponnese. Claiming to be a member of the Palaiologos family, he began making speeches for the replacement of the Greek royal family at the time with his family into the Greek monarchy. He also believed in the refounding of the Byzantine empire to its 11th century level. His speeches grew rapidly in popularity in 1817 to a point where he gained the mayorship of Tripoli in 1819. With cries of independence on the horizon, Jayden began using his power to secretly gain military arms and training from Russia. By 1820, Jayden had a secret militia force of over 12,000 men.

In 1821, with the beginning of the Greek war of Independence, Jayden's now 15,000 militia quickly occupied all of Tripoli and the surrounding towns within the 1st month of the war. By the end of that year, all of the Peloponnese had been captured.

Founding
On April 1st, 1822, the treaty of Tripoli was signed ceding the Peloponnese to the new Republic of Jaydonian. Jayden the 1st founded a democracy with a constitutional monarchy in an attempt to differentiate his country from the surrounding area. He made non-aggression pacts with Bulgaria, Russia and the Ottoman empire before beginning major reconstruction in Jaydonian.

Reconstructive government
During the years of 1822 to 1830, a transitional military dictatorship was established being named a "reconstructive government" instead. During this time, reconstruction efforts to most communities were made, along with the stabilization of the economy, public education and gender equality. This time also saw increased tensions between Jaydonian and Greece due to differing beliefs on who the true successor to the Byzantine crown was.

The war of Byzantine inheritance
With Greco-Jaydonian tensions at an all time high, Jaydonian began rapidly militarizing and fortifying the small border between Jaydonian and Greece. When a small apartment was bombed in Jaydonia(now known as the Thrakis incident), the government immediately blamed Greek nationalist (though others claim it was purposely planted by the government). The incident bursted tensions and on August 11th, 1861, Jaydonian declared war on Greece. Having an army at the border due to tensions, the Greek 2nd and 3rd divisions assaulted the fortifications at the border with Jaydonian. Despite the rapid militarization and modernization of the Jaydonian army, the fortifications were slowly overrun by Greek forces. By December, the line had been overrun, but also by that time, the Greek forces were exhausted and depleted. In that time, Jaydonian slightly pushed back the Greek navy, allowing a few thousand Jaydonian troops to land behind Greek lines and resecure the fortifications. With the 2nd and 3rd divisions of the Greek army surrounded, unsupplied and hopeless, they surrendered allowing the Jaydonian army to slowly fight their way to Athens and force a full capitulation of Greece.

On June 1st, 1865 the treaty of Athens was signed, ceding all Greek land to Jaydonian apart from the small island of Agistri. The war did finalize the Byzantine claim Jaydonian had over Greece.

Age of expansion

With the bloody repression of a revolt in Bulgaria in 1877, already tense Russo-Ottoman relations had deteriorated to a breaking point, where because of the revolt's bloody means of repression, the Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman empire on April 24th, 1877. Noticing an opportunity for expansion, the Jaydonian government justified war with the Ottomans citing recent border skirmishes that had occured at the border. After the full mobilization of 50,000 Jaydonian troops, Jaydonian declared war on the Ottoman empire on November 8th, 1877.

After the signings of both the treaty of San Stephano on March 3rd, 1878 and the treaty of Berlin on July 13th, 1878, Jaydonian gained the Vilayets of Monastir, Janina and Selonica. These acquisitions that were gained by Jaydonian began tensions between Russian influenced Bulgaria and Jaydonian. Despite this, the concerns would be dismissed by the majority of people.

After observing the Italian victory in the Italo-Ottoman war, many Balkan countries saw the vulnerable state the Ottomans were in. Jaydonian also saw the vulnerable state of the Ottoman empire and wished to gain some land from it as well as gain closer a border with relatively weak countries such as Montenegro. These reasons led to Jaydonian joining the Balkan League on June 7th, 1912.

On October 8th, 1912 the first Balkan war began. There was little change in the borders after the war, with Jaydonian losing a few border towns from the Ottomans with the rest going to Bulgaria. The Jaydonian public was outraged, believing that they had been cheated of their gains. Riots flooded major cities such as Athens, Jaydonia and Tripoli with part of the military siding with them and almost overthrowing Jayden the 2nd before being defeated at the battle of Corinth (1912).

The civil unrest and anger in Jaydonian influenced the government's decision in joining the 2nd Balkan war against Bulgaria on June 29th, 1913. With the frustration from the first war and some bribes from corrupt delegates, Jaydonian gained most of Bulgaria in the treaty of Bucharest excluding the acquisitions given to the remaining allies.

After the ratification of the treaty, many in Jaydonian celebrated for days on end. Despite this, many military officials, politicians and even Jayden the 2nd noticed the new vulnerability Jaydonian has with a very large and unstable land that could pose a threat if any foreign power attempted to influence the region. Therefore, on February 21st, 1914, mass militarization began and Jaydonian made alliances with Britain, Romania and Serbia with the only major threat left being the Ottoman Empire.

World War 1
On July 30th, 1914 Jaydonian declared war on Austria-Hungary after Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia, aiding Serbia with supplies and 10,000 troops. Despite these efforts, Serbia fell to Austria-Hungary and the Serbian army was forced to retreat into Jaydonian on December 15th, 1915. The Serbian army successfully retreated into Jaydonia and set up a base of operations on the island of Corfu.

Jaydonian would spend the rest of the Austro-Hungarian front holding the line with no significant changes.

On November 2nd, 1914, Jaydonian declared war on the Ottoman empire along with Russia and Romania. The first year of the Jaydonian-Ottoman front ended in a stalemate with few changes across the line. On December 25th, 1916, the Christmas offensive was carried out on 80 towns across Ottoman Thrace, destroying multiple key supply lines and railways. These led to the capture of Constantinople on March 19th, 1917 and the captures of the Izmir and Bursa Vilayets.

Due to pressures from allies in Anatolia, the Balkans and Arabia along with the capture of Istanbul. The Ottomans signed the treaty of Sevres on August 10th, 1920, ceding the territories on Thrace and the region of Anatolia to the Republic of Jaydonia. The war was won by the allies and therefore Jaydonian, who declared themselves the inheritors of Rome, set their capital in Constantinople and coronated Jayden the 2nd Paliologas on September 10th, 1920 as Roman emperor.

Post war reconstruction
After the war, the Jaydonian government began reconstruction and infrastructure projects. Noticing a threat with the recently incorporated population they gained from the treaty, Jaydonian posed martial law in major cities across Thrace and Anatolia, while also reforming the bureaucratic, social and educational systems to assimilate the majority Turkish population. Overtime, the Jaydonian government would become more lenient and overtime phase out martial completely in 1928.

During that time, the Jaydonian government began education drives and mass industrialization to have Jaydonian rival other world powers such as Britain, France or the US. Despite these successful endeavours, Jaydonian's general share in the global economy was relatively low. Therefore, when the Wall Street crash of 1929 hit, Jaydonian's economic growth was slowed, but relatively undamaged.

Rising tensions
With rising tensions in 1933 due to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, and the rise of Facism in Italy, Jaydonian was becoming concerned about it's security and the threat of annexation especially, with the Italian rhetoric of a Neo-Roman-Empire. These were the reasons that Jaydonian began remilitarizing. After the purchase of arms from the Soviet Union and the recruitment of 70,000 troops, Jaydonia began fortifying the border with Yugoslavia.

World War 2
On April 7th, 1939, all ports in the region of Albania were attacked simultaneously. Catching the Jaydonian forces off guard, Italian forces managed to take every major port on the Albanian by April 10th. When the regional capital of Tirana was taken by Italian forces on April 23rd, Jaydonian signed a ceasefire the next day, ceding making the region of Albania an Italian protectorate.

With this humiliating defeat, Jaydonian sent diplomats to the allies and Axis powers, while secretly arming itself with Russian and British arms. On October 1st, 1941 with Soviet support, Jaydonian forces retook Albania along with the enlarged piece of land of what is now Kosovo the protectorate gained under Italian control. By November 11th of that year, all of Kosovo was liberated from Axis control.

On September 8th, 1943, Italy surrendered it's remaining territory and returned any remaining occupied Jaydonian land back to Jaydonian. On May 25, 1945 along with the fall of the Independent State of Croatia, Jaydonian gained the region of Kosovo and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed under Josip Broz Tito.

Cold War Period
After the 2nd World War, Jaydonian kept good relations with the Eastern and Western blocs, receiving economic benefits from both sides, while also having good relations with the rest of the world. This time saw unprecedented economic growth because of the benefits, with an average annual GDP growth rate of 9.8% between the years of 1950-1972. Not being aligned with either side of the cold war, Jaydonian joined the Non-aligned movement in 1964, strengthening its relation with Yugoslavia. Despite this good relationship, the situation with Kosovo and Serbia always made Jaydonian relations with Yugoslavia friendly, yet somewhat tense.

The Republic continued to prosper until October 20th, 1973 when the 1973 oil crisis occurred due to the oil embargo declared by OAPEC, gas prices skyrocketed from 2 JD (0.16 USD) per gallon to 5 JD (0.60 USD) per gallon. For the first time since the second world war, the Jaydonian government was forced to take out a loan. By 1973, the national debt was 4 billion Jaydonian dollars. Rationing in major cities began as oil prices skyrocketed and the unemployment rate grew to 11%, the country's growth rate had slowed to just 2.3% and many believed that it would soon go into the negatives. Despite these fears, the embargo was lifted after 3 months of negotiation by February 27th, the national debt was fully paid off on August 6th and the growth rate bounced back by October. This crisis began the Jaydonian government's initiative to fund research regarding electric replacements for gas. It also increased the government's strive for a more self reliant yet relatively free market economy.

The fall of the Eastern bloc

With the death of Tito in 1980 and the introductions of Glasnost and Perestroika into the Soviet Union by Mikhial Gorbachev, the Eastern bloc began to crumble as countries such as Czechoslovakia and Poland began to break away from the Warsaw pact and the Eastern bloc as a whole. These factors were celebrated among the Jaydonian government, but sparked concern in the Jaydonian government as one of their major sources of economic benefits may fall soon. With this concern, the Jaydonian government attempted to improve relations with the west and attempted to create its own unsuccessful trade union. While the Jaydonian economy continued to steadily grow, it was running out of time and it needed to find a solution quickly if it did not want to see another economic crisis.

Since the death of Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia was suffering from political instability, Ethnic tensions, Hyperinflation, etc. These factors concerned Jaydonian as they feared insurgents would attempt to attack the Jaydonian-Yugoslav border. By 1990, Jaydonian joined the Schengen area (under the conditions that it did not need to join the European Union or use the Euro as its official currency) in order to create economic stability during the collapse of the USSR. By June 25th, 1992, areas such as Croatia and Slovenia began to breakaway and declare independence. By January 9th, 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina broke away from Yugoslavia. By April 28th, 1992, with only 2 of the Socialist Republics of Yugoslavia remaining, the Socialist Republics of Serbia and Montenegro officially formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a rumpstate dominated by Slobodan Milosevic and his political allies.

The majority of these new states (except Slovenia) grew a negative diplomatic relationship with Jaydonian. These may have been influenced by the Jaydonian government's disapproval of independence for the majority of the former Republics and the fact that a few inconclusive terror attacks occurred in Constantinople at this time. These eventually led to remilitarization of Croatia, Jaydonian and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Balkan wars of the 2000s
On June 11th, 2001, Jaydonian sunk a Croation cargo ship and shot down a Bosnian commercial plane by accident. This severely soured relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and also caused Croatia to declare war on Jaydonian on July 11th, 2001.

The Croatian military began bombarding the city of Durres on July 12th. Being caught off guard and not yet fully mobilized, the Jaydonian military scrambled to stop a landing and scuttle the Croation fleet. After a day of fighting, the Jaydonian military and Navy managed to force a retreat up the Adriatic, but due to miscommunication, the Jaydonian military accidentally landed 2km from the Croation coast and landed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a skirmish and a declaration of war by Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 15th, 2001. Seeing this, Serbia declared war on Croatia a day later in an attempt to take the Serbian parts of it. The invasion was brutal and exhausting for both sides, but ended in a stalemate fairly quickly and a peace treaty was made a month later. But that invasion gave Jaydonian time to slowly advance through both Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Croatia before their northern forces could properly reorganize. By September 8th, 2003, despite the best efforts of the UN to regulate the conflict, Jaydonian forced both Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Croatia to sign the treaty of Constantinople (2003), ceding all their Dalmatian lands (with the exception of Istria, Croatia) to Jaydonian in exchange for semi-autonomy.

With relations souring between Jaydonian and Serbia and Montenegro due to the Jaydonian occupation of Serbian majority parts of Croatia, both countries were on the brink of war with each other, both militarizing and fortifying the border crossing between each other.

On May 30th, 2004, a Jaydonian commercial plane was shot down by unidentified persons in the Plav Municipality, killing 207 of the 354 passengers onboard. This sparked outrage in the Jaydonian public and on June 19th, 2004, Jaydonian declared war on Serbia.

The Jaydonian army began a treacherous advance through Serbia, being bogged down across the limestone ranges. With major roads in the south destroyed and the Danube river being firmly guarded by the Serbian flotilla, the ground advance slowed to a near halt, only being supported by barely superior airforce. The Jaydonian navy would be much more successful in the south; capturing the bay of Kotor by July 2nd, Cetinje on July 20th and Podgorica on November 27th. The naval landing forces met up with the bulk of the ground army on January 8th, 2005 at Novi Pazar. The advance was temporarily halted for 2 months due to UN intervention, but after long negotiations and multiple promises made to treat all non-combatants under the Geneva convention, the conflict continued and Jaydonian military eventually took the last northern stronghold of Subotica on March 17th, 2010.

On March 20th, 2010 Serbia and Montenegro signed the treaty of Skopje, ceding all Serbian and Montenegrin land (with the exclusion of Northern Serbia) to the Republic of Jaydonian. With the war being finally over and with over 280,000 casualties, this embarrassment encouraged the Jaydonian government and emperor Jayden the 3rd to declare an initiative to modernize and improve the Jaydonian military.

Modern day
On April 17th, 2011, Jaydonian legalized gay marriage after waves of protests erupted in major cities for it's legalization. On May 11th, cannabis was legalized for recreational use for ages 20 and above. On the same day, the first 2 Jaydonian astronauts were successfully launched into space; staying in low Earth orbit for 5 hours before coming back down.

On December 18th, 2013, as part of the military improvement initiative and rising tensions in the area, Jaydonian detonated its first nuclear weapon, a 16 kiloton atomic bomb. On March 30th, 2014, Jaydonian detonated a 4th nuclear weapon, with an explosive power equal to 8 million tons of tnt (8mt). After these tests, the Jaydonian nuclear program was redirected towards less militaristic means of usage of radioactive elements.

On January 16th, 2015, Jaydonian began research of Thorium power, a said cleaner and safer alternative to Uranium based nuclear power. These efforts also influenced Jaydonian's decision to sign the 2015 Paris agreement on December 15th, to reduce greenhouse gases by 55%. The Jaydonian government is currently working to it's goal by promoting public transport and creating environmental recovery projects in the Balkans and Anatolia.

On February 24th, 2022, Russia declared war on Ukraine over the disputed territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, a long contested region between the 2 nations. As the war soon grounded to a stalemate by March, Jaydonia would initially stay fairly silent, only pledging their support in the region. About 6 months into the war, Russia had lost its northern front due to a large amount of support by NATO countries, most prominently the United States, Germany and the UK. Jaydonia also pledged its support to Ukraine, restricting access to the Dardanelles to sanctioned Russian merchant vessels. Jaydonia also began supply Ukraine with more modern equipment such as 4th gen TRAIANVS IV-A fighters and AVGVSTVS III tanks.

Geography
The Balkans
The Balkans (also known as Illyricum) consist of 10 administrative regions and hold the 3 largest cities in the country. It's north borders the countries of Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and the Croatian rump state. It's west is bordered by the Adriatic sea, it's south is bordered by the Mediterranean and it's east is bordered by the Black sea.

The Balkans is mostly covered by mountain ranges going from it's northwest to it's southeast. The Balkans have a temperate climate and are also well dispersed with plenty of rivers and forests. The majority of soil is poor outside of plains making it bad for agriculture, while the majority of mineral wealth can be found in the Province of Moesia superior.

Anatolia
The region of Anatolia (also known as Asia minor) consists of the majority of the administrative region of Turkey. It holds some of the largest cities in the nation such as Ankara. It's bordered by the Black sea to the north, the Mediterranean to the south and the Republic of Turkey to the east.

Anatolia is mostly made up of plains with a few rivers inbetween. Anatolia has a relatively warm climate, with a warmer Mediterranean climate to the south and a cooler climate to the north with snowy winters. It has good soil for agriculture and vast mineral deposits.

Largest Cities

Rank	City	Metro Area population	Province
1	Constantinople/Jaydonia	15.5 million	Thrace
2	Ankara	5.7 million	Ankara
3	Athens	3.75 million	Attica
4	Izmir	2.5 million	Izmir
5	Belgrade	1.65 million	Belgrade

Government and politics
Jaydonian is a full democracy with a tradition of libertarianism. It's people hold significant civil and political liberties that are held very dearly by most. Jaydonian's principals of power, order, freedom and responsible government are implied and utilised through the Jaydonian constitution.

On the federal level, 1 far left, 1 far right and 2 centrist parties have dominated the government for the last 70 years.
With the Liberalis party and the Optimatium party holding the majority of seats in the senate. Despite this, the Monarchia and Libertatem parties also hold significant amounts of power in government.

Jaydonian has a constitutional monarchy with limited powers in government outside of ceremonial and emergency situations. The Senate house is made up of (depending on the number of provinces) senators, where senators representing their province vote on bills and laws which only the judicial branch can veto. Jaydonian's head of state is prime minister Traianus Justinianus.

Demographics

Group	Population
Turk	58 million
Greek	9.9 million
Albanian	5.5 million
Serb	7.33 million
Croat	8 million
Bulgarian	6.6 million
Macedonian	1.36 million
Other	14.584 million

Controversies
The claim to Rome
With Jayden the 3rd Paliologas as emperor of the Republic of Jaydonian, Jaydonian has taken the claim of inheritor Rome with the reason being that the current Jaydonian monarch being is the legal successor to the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine the 11th Palaiologos. These claims directly contest the legal claims of the Russian Orthodox church and the Spanish crown, which both have claims to Rome through legal and spiritual claims. The current Jaydonian crown is also being contested by a few scholars and historians, who claim that the difference between the last names of the last Byzantine and current Jaydonian crown suggest that the current emperor of Jaydonian may not be directly related to the Palaiologan family. Though little evidence has been shown to prove this claim, multiple foundations such as the Roman Catholic church back these claims.

The Cypriot dispute

Under British rule, the Greek Cypriot population became hopeful that British rule could lead to enosis, a part of the Megali idea which would see a greater political ambition for the unification of historically Greek territories including Greek majority territories in the Balkans, Constantinople and Asia minor. The majority of Greek Cypriots saw unification with mainland Greece as a natural right. In the 1950s, enosis became a part of Jaydonian national policy. With the policy of enosis becoming more and more prominent on British Cyprus, the significant Turkish population became alarmed, with the threat of a mass exodus of the Turkish population from Cyprus. The Turkish Cypriots also saw themselves as a distinct ethnic group on the island, believing themselves to have the right to self determination from Greek Cypriots. In the 1950s, the Turkish president at the time rejected a partition of Cyprus by ethnic lines, believing Cyprus should be fully annexed by Turkey because he claimed that Cyprus an "extension of Anatolia". In Turkey, nationalistic slogans promoting the full annexation of Cyprus for homeland security began to appear. Upon realizing that the Turkish Cypriot population of only 20% made annexation unfeasible, the Turkish government changed it's national policy in favour of partition, with slogans such as,"partition or death" appearing in Cypriot and Turkish protests beginning in the 1950s and continuing up to the 1960s. Although after the Zurich and London conferences, Turkey generally accepted and independent Cypriot state over partition; with the Turkish government attempting to distance itself from the national policy of partition. In January, 1950, the Church of Cyprus organized a referendum under the supervision of clerics with no Turkish Cypriot population. With 80.2% of Cyprus' population consisting Greek Cypriots, 96% of the vote was in favour of enosis. In 1955, the EOKA organization was founded. It seeked union with Jaydonian through armed struggle. At the same time, the Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT), calling for partition was established by Turkish Cypriots as a counterweight. British officials tolerated TMT, actively asking the Cypriot government to ignore the TMT's illegal actions in order to maintain good relations with Turkey.

On August 16th, 1960, Cyprus attained independence after the Zurich and London Agreement between the UK, Jaydonian and Turkey. The UK retained the sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while government posts and public offices were allocated by ethnic quotas, giving the Turkish Cypriot minority a permanent veto on the island.

In the 1960's, the Jaydonian and Turkish governments began arming and training the Cypriot militia again, with Greek Cypriots believing that the Cypriot constitution gave Turkish Cypriots too much power. Intercommunal violence began on December 21st, 1963 when an incident involving 2 Greek Cypriot police officers saw the deaths of 2 Turkish Cypriots. The violence ended up killing 364 Turkish and 174 Greek Cypriots. Over 100 Turkish Cypriot villages were destroyed and 30,000 Turkish Cypriots were displaced. The crisis resulted in the end of Turkish Cypriot involvement in administration, claiming that it had lost its legitimacy; the event is still controversial. In some areas, Greek Cypriots kept Turkish Cypriots from entering buildings of administration while in others, Turkish Cypriots willingly withdrew due to calls of Turkish Cypriot administration. Turkish Cypriot enclaves began to appear, as the republic's structure changed. Unilaterally, by Makarios and Nicosia, Cyprus was divided by the Green line with the deployment of UN peacekeepers on the island. In response to the intercommunal violence in Cyprus, Turkey threatened to invade, but was stopped by stern warnings from the US and Jaydonian, with the US warning that they'd not intervene in case of a Soviet invasion and Jaydonian threatening war if Turkey invaded Cyprus. By 1964, enosis was Jaydonian national policy; hoping for a quick union with Cyprus, Jaydonian deployed 10,000 troops on the island to deter Turkish invasion.

On June 15th, 1964, a Greek military junta under Dimitrios Ioannides carried out a coup d'etat in Cyprus, to unite the island with Jaydonian. The coup ousted Mikarios the 3rd and installed a pro-enosis president named Nikos Sampson. Citing a right to intervene from the Treaty of Guarantee, Turkey invaded the island 5 days later.

Greek Cypriot positions were bombed by the Turkish airforce with hundred of paratroopers dropped in the areas between Nicosia and Kyrenia, where well fortified Turkish Cypriot enclaves were long established in. Off the Kyrenia coast, over 6000 Turkish troops, tanks and trucks were deployed onto the island, causing the Cypriot positions to be overrun. 3 days after an agreed ceasefire, 30,000 Turkish troops were deployed, taking all of Kyrenia the corridor between Nicosia and Kyrenia as well as the Turkish Cypriot corridor of the island. The Sampson regime fell soon after, with constitutional order being restored and the Turkish pretext for the invasion being gone. But after peace negotiations in Geneva, Turkey reinforced the Kyrenia bridgehead and launched a second invasion of Cyprus on August 14th. The invasion resulted in the capture of Morphou, Karpass, Famagusta and Mesaoria; but it also ended up in war with Jaydonian. With mounting pressures from the US, Jaydonian and the UN, a ceasefire was signed with Turkey taking 36% of the island.

After the restoration of Makarios the 3rd to Cyprus in December 1974, Turkish troops stayed on the island, souring relations with Jaydonian. In 1983, the Turkish Cpriot leader proclaimed the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is only recognized by Turkey.

The Boringverse conspiracy theory
With the predecessor of Lord Jay now dead, Empress Azietta has succeeded him to the Jaydonian throne.

Empress Azietta has since experienced many incidents that seemingly alter the fabric of reality itself. The Ankara Particle collider incident saw Empress Azietta accidentally walk into the particle collider. Particles going almost 99.99% the speed of light should have pierced through the Empress' brain with near certainty under normal conditions. Despite this, she stayed under the collider for a full 10 minutes before is successfully shut off. Even more miraculously, she seemed to have suffered little to no damage. Interestingly, she reported having interacted with an "alternate self" of hers, one who is male and rules a country not from this world. This has led to a conspiracy theory by some that the Empress interacted with her alternate self, going as far as arguing that based off her internet comments, she may have regular contact with several versions of herself.

Military
Jaydonian defense budget:3% of GDP
Conscription is mandatory for at least 1 year
Active duty personnel:2 million
Reserve personnel:4.2 million

Jaydonian army
Budget:1% of GDP
Active personnel:1 million
Reserve personnel:3,000,000
Equipment
AVGVSTVS V-A (MBT):10,000
ARIES V (IFV):20,000
ARIES IV (APC):20,000
Equites I (LTV):50,000
Kolch I (UCGV):10,000
ONAGER IV (SPA):2000
Constantine 53(towed artillery):4000
Balloon Popper II (SPAAG):1000

Jaydonian air force
Budget:1.5% of GDP
Active personnel:300,000
Civilians:170,000
Reserve personnel:530,000
Equipment
TRAIANVS VI (6th gen stealth fighter):400
JI CASTRA (Strategic bomber):50
IMMVNES III (AEWAC):20
Aerial Screw IV (Attack helicopter):3000
Argus II (UAV):500
Argus III (UCAV):1500
Argus IV (Loitering munition):20,000

Jaydonian navy
Budget:1% of GDP
Active personnel:400,000
Civilians:100,000
Reserve personnel:800,000
Equipment
CASTRA V aircraft carrier:5
HEXAREME III cruisers:10
QVADRIREME IV destroyers:40
TRIREME V stealth frigates:80
Speedo I missile boats:360
V-Boat V nuclear submarines:40

Missile sector
Budget:0.5% of GDP
Active personnel:8000
Civilians:15,000

ICBMs:500
SRBM:1000
SLBM:600
TBM:1000
SAM:30,000
Grinchville III-A (ABM):5000
Grinchville III (ABM):15,000

Provinces

Continental divisions
1. Anatolia/Asia Minor
2. Illyricum/Regionis Balcaniae

Administrative regions

1. Turkey
2. Thracia
3. Graecia
4. Nova Epirus
5. Moesia inferior
6. Macedonia
7. Moesia Superior
8. Dalmatia inferior
9. Dalmatia Superior