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The Federal Empire of Lutherania
The origins of the Federal Empire of Lutherania trace back, obviously, to the Protestant Reform of Martin Luther.
The first idea of a common front of the Protestant states of northern Germany can be found in the written of Melantonius in 1547, after the battle of Muhlhausen in which Charles V won over the Protestant league. But realpolitik prevailed after the Augusta accords of 1552 and every Protestant power kept on just like before. The real shock which led to the creation of the Empire was the horrendous Fifty Years' War who devastated great part of Europe between 1618 and 1668. The Danish intervention in defence of the Protestant states of Germany in 1621 was completely defeated by 1627. Then the Swedish king Gustav Adolf invaded Germany in 1631, and was killed the following year at the battle of Lutzen. By 1638 even the Swedes had to get back home. When the Catholic cause seemed on the way to prevail, the unexpected French intervention in 1639 caused the collapse of the Hapsburg power in the Flanders after the battle of Rocroi (1643). This gave courage to the Protestant states of Germany and Scandinavia, which united to form the Lutheran League at Wittenberg in 1645. The united armies of Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, Brandeburg, Oldenburg and the former Hanseatic cities managed to push back the Austro-Bavarians at the battles of Erfurt (1646) and Leipzig (1647) and conquered Prague in 1648. The following year they failed in the siege of Vienna but managed to link up with the Transylvanian Calvinist rebels led by Bethlen Gabor, with its Hungarian Protestant allied. The devastations of war now ravaged across Austria, Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary and Transylvania, ruining them for a century to come, as the Turks tried in vain to exploit the chaos to expand further north. They only managed to be fought off by the Protestants at Pressburg (1650) and by the Hapsburgs on the Mura (1652).
In 1650 Europe was in complete chaos. Civil war ravaged Spain in Catalonia and Portugal, had finished a year before in England and was beginning in France (1651-1653). The Protestant League had the upper hand but in 1652, when all parts wher on the verge of signing a peace by exhaustion, the sudden attack of Poland on the Protestant League reopened the war. The Poles conquered Prague and Bohemia cutting out much of the Protestant forces. The ensuing battle of Budweis was a slaughter in which a Protestant army of 80,000 thousand was exterminated by a joint attack of Poles from the north and Austro-Papists from the south (the Pope had joined his troops after the Poles attacked). When a Hapsburg army under Montecuccoli defeated again the Protestant League at Wurzburg in 1653 the Catholic were able to advance and fiercely pillage what remained to sack in the Low Saxony, whereas the Poles were stopped by Prussian and Swedes at Stargard. Called for help, Russia attacked the Poles at east in 1655. This, together with a major Cossack revolt in Ukraine under Taras Bulba, effectively put an end to the Pole menace. In the same year 1655 Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sent an army of 30,000 on the continent after settling out his quarrel with the Dutch (who savvily kept out of the war after the fall of the Spanish Flanders). This, together with a great rentrèe of the French army across the Rhine and renewed rebellions in Hungary and Transylvania, equilibrated the situation. Meantime the Savoyard king had ridden of the French influence and enetered the war on the Hapsburg-Catholic side, the Swiss knew their second civil war (1655-1659) making their country a battlefield between Hapsburgs and Bourbons. The English general Monk led the Protestant to the victory of Munster that forever chased the Catholics from the north of Germany, but with the death of Cromwell the English army was retired. At this point Prussia-Brandenburg and Sweden resolutely agreed to better unite forces, which was made through a dynastical marriage between Queen Christine of Sweden and Prince Frederick William the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia (1659). The war dragged on harshly for some years, but after being defeated at Germersheim (1661) by the French, the Austrians were too much concerned with the Ottoman increasing strength to effectively continue the war. After years of debates and skirmishes it arrived to the Peace of the Palatinate (1668) which confirmed the "cuius regio, eius religio" principle. France annexed Savoy, Alsace, Lorraine and parts of the Palatinate, Prussia took Silesia and Pomerania, the former Catholic Munster was awarded to the Hannoverians, Hesse was finally recognized a Protestant state. The Austrians kept Bohemia and in the aftermath managed to crush the Magyar Calvinist revolts while keeping the Turks at bay. Switzerland's neutrality was officially recognized.
In the following years a weakened Denmark had the bad idea to make war on Sweden-Prussia on the issue of Lund. It was overrun with the conquest of Copenhagen by an assault across the frozen sea (1676) and obliged to signed a pact of vassalage towards the Swede-Prussian union. When in 1688 the Palatinate war broke out because of the French attitude towards southern Germany, the Protestant power initially stayed neutral, then enterd the war to protect Hannover in 1692. The bright victory of Kleve (1694) assured a reasonable peace treaty in Rijswijk three years later, by which Oldenburg, Hannover and the free cities along the North Sea and the Baltic all entered the Foedus Lutheranum signed in 1698 in Copenhagen. In 1701 Frederick I von Hohenzollern-Vasa was crowned King of Prussia, thus giving equal dignity to the two parts of his reign.
The Prussian-Swedish army became soon the most modern of Europe. Its skill and organization made it a terrifying instrument of war. It proved its valor during the long and bloody war with Peter the Great's Russia, the Great North War (1701-1711). General Karl Wagner von Jakobstadt defeated Saxony obliging it to enter the Foedus Lutheranum (1702), literally conquered all of Poland (1704) and entered the Ukraine. Despite the defeat of Poltava (1709), the final agreement of peace signed at Wilno in 1711 was favourable. The Russians gained Estonia and Ingermanland with their new capital town of St. Petersburg and ripped much of Byelorussia and Ukraine off Poland, who was to give the Prusso-Swedes Livonia and Danzig.
From the 1720s on the new empire searched for an identity. It assumed informally the name of Lutherania (first mention of this use in 1729) and expanded its navy establishing trading posts and colonies in Greenland, the Caribbeans (Virgin Islands), Suriname (taken to the Dutch in 1728), Gulf of Guinea (colonies of Fredericia, Nova Gothia and Benin) and Australia (colony of Fredericia Australis, 1740).
During the Austrian War of Succession Lutherania ripped Bohemia to Austria in 1742. It payed this very dearly. When it enterd in 1756 the Seven Years' War on the side of Britain it underwent the simultaneous attacks of Austrains, French, Poles and Russians. Only the extraordinary skill of its generals saved its southern part from being completely overrun. Stunning victories against the French at Leuthen and Rossabach marked the first two years of war, then the Russians invaded Prussia, setting Koenigsberg ablaze and conquering Berlin in 1762. When the war seemed lost, the Tsarine Elizaveta died, and his weak heir Peter, a fond admirer of Lutherania, exited the war in change of Livonia and another sizable chunk of the decrepit Polish kingdom. The final peace at Amsterdam (1763) regave Bohemia back to Austria, and that was all. The following years were marked by a growing critics of absolutism and a rise in science, technology and culture. These were the years of Frederick II the Bold. A new capital was built after 1765 at Fredericia, in the south of Sweden. German was the official language of Lutherania, but Swedish was also used and French was the language of the much-refined court.
The French revolutionary wars saw Lutherania opposing France after 1792. The first war raged till 1798 when the peace treaty of Strasbourg recognized the Batavian Republic and the French supremacy on southwestern Germany. When Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Germanic Empire in 1806 Frederick William III assumed the title of Emperor of Lutherania. The war broke out that same year, and the Lutheranian army was destroyed at the battle of Jena, after what all of Germany remained in French hands except Prussia proper, Denmark went her way and the Empire was humiliated. Its revenge came in 1813, after Napoleon's disaster in Russia. In the battle of Lipsia an Austro-Lutheran joint army thoroughly defeated Napoleon's last Armèe, then the following year, despite many tactical setbacks, Lutheranian troops entered first Paris. In 1815, then Feldmarschall Blucher destryed Napoleon at Namur without even the need of help by the English army of Wellington. The Congress of Vienna was a triumph for the Empire. It had to give Russia all of Carelia, but it was a long-due accord. For the rest, it retook all of its territories and all vassal countries not only reaffirmed obedience, but entered a federal union with the Empire which was to be progressively strengthened into a single, more powerful state. After the 1848 revolutions Lutherania too had its Constitution and slowly democratized, though a real constitutional monarchy was born only in 1867. Full male right of vote was given in 1896; women followed in 1916. In 1866 Lutherania lost a brief war with Austria re the control of southern Germany. General Benedek defeated Von Moltke's army at Pilsen and Lutherania recognized the Austrian sovereignity on the region, which was quickly incorporated in the new powerful Hapsburg Empire. In the following years, the British hostility obliged Lutherania to ally with Austria.
The scientific contribute of Lutherania to the world was astounding, in chemicals and engineering Lutherania was the best in the world, art and phyloslophy were thriving. It was the era of progress. In 1897 a Lutheranian engineer, August Karl Sonnenfels, built and piloted the first fragile motor airplane.
The First World War broke out in 1912 between the Franco-British-Russian Entente and the Pressburg League of Lutherania and Austria. In the end, in 1915, Russia had crumbled in pieces, France had to beg for peace and Britain agreed to the peace of Lausanne. The independent kingdoms of Poland and Italy were created, respectively vassal to Lutherania and Austria. Lutherania controlled the baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia too. In the 1920s the reunification of Russia by the fanatic United Motherland movement posed the pillars of the Second World war (1940-1946), which saw Russian and French forces overrun all of Central Europe and the Japanese rush across the Pacific. The Us-British-Lutheranian developed A-bomb solved the war after the destruction of St. Petersburg and Moscow. The Lutheranians had their part in in occupied Russia and annexed Carelia and the Kola peninsula.
Nowadays Lutherania is a stable and rich First World democracy, with a permanent seat in the UN, under His Imperial Highness Olaf I von Hohenzollern-Vasa and Prime Minister Hans von Pedersen, of the Lutheran Zentrum Party.
Its constituent states are the kingdoms of Sweden, Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Saxony, Hannover and the principalities of Oldenburg and Hessen plus the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Lubbeck, Stettin and Danzig. Its borders are west with Netherlands, south with the Hapsburg Empire, east with Poland, Lithuania and Russia. It controls Greenland and West-Australia as associated members of the empire for a complex of 75 M population. Lutheranian military have bases in Russia, Siberia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, France and Benin, besides all of the territories of the empire and associated members.