Cortellen
07-01-2007, 07:58
This is for use with this thread. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=513299)
Government Structure
The Cortellen Confederation is centered in what is now Michigan. Compaired to most civalizations their government type is very odd in the fact that they are a socialist republic. Their capital and largest city is in the one place where you can always get to, where the Grand River spills into Lake Michigan (site of Grand Haven in real life). One man and one woman, both unrelated to each other, from every settlement no matter how large are appointed every other year to represent their people in the government, to aid in this people are sent back and forth in canoes and other boats to and from the settlements.
Transportation
They live in Michigan and on the banks of Onterio, Wisconson, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana. Their settlements are on rivers and the Great Lakes and as such their main method of transportation is by shallow draft boats. Their boats are a mix between canoes and very Vikingish boats. Most boats with a square sail have a jib and a boom for sailing into the wind. They also have horses and carts that they use for land transportation.
Main Resources
The main building material is wood as their homeland is covered in wood. They mine Copper and Hemitite (used to make steel and iron) from mines in the Upper Peninsula. They also have large salt deposits although they have found little use for them.
Basic Overview of Society
Their society is made up of 10 million people who fill jobs as needed in each settlement. Although everyone is pretty much considered equal farmers, hunters, fishers, gatherers, and sailors are respected slightly more because with out their servaces they would not be as large as they are. A person's wealth means almost nothing as respect is gained by how you do your job and how you act towards others.
Military
After their conquest of the nomadic tribes in the area the Cortellens have had a time of almost compleate peace and as such feild only a small army. The bulk of their army is lightly armed and armored skirmashers, who are armed with spears, bows, and short swords with leather armor. They also have varied light infantry and heavy infantry armed with bows, axes, pikes, swords, and armored with studded leather, chian mail, and plate mail. Their main artilery weapon is like a large slingshot more then anything else. It is a larger design of rock hurlers on war boats. The way it works is you place a large rock in the pouch in the middle of a large rope made of sinew and pull it back from the arms. You use this and the hight of the arms to determine the distance traveled and the arc of the rock once airborne. They also have small units of caveraly skirmishers, caveraly archers, and light and heavy caveraly.
Cities
Cortel: Capital
Great Rapids: Large city built around canals to bypass the large rapids in the area (site of RL Grand Rapids)
The Two Cities: Two cities on eather side of the Machanac strights.
Wisconson: The first settlement on Wisconson shores. Farthest western city.
Smelly Onion: At the south edge of Lake Michigan so named for the onions that grow in the swamps near by (near RL Chicago) Farthest southern city.
City on the Front: Farthest east city at the western mouth of Lake Ontaro.
Kanadas: Farthest northeastern city in Ontaro.
Iron City: City in the Iron Hills in the UP.
Northern City: Farthest city in the north. On the Northern Shores of Lake Superior.
And they have countless smaller settlements.
Government Structure
The Cortellen Confederation is centered in what is now Michigan. Compaired to most civalizations their government type is very odd in the fact that they are a socialist republic. Their capital and largest city is in the one place where you can always get to, where the Grand River spills into Lake Michigan (site of Grand Haven in real life). One man and one woman, both unrelated to each other, from every settlement no matter how large are appointed every other year to represent their people in the government, to aid in this people are sent back and forth in canoes and other boats to and from the settlements.
Transportation
They live in Michigan and on the banks of Onterio, Wisconson, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana. Their settlements are on rivers and the Great Lakes and as such their main method of transportation is by shallow draft boats. Their boats are a mix between canoes and very Vikingish boats. Most boats with a square sail have a jib and a boom for sailing into the wind. They also have horses and carts that they use for land transportation.
Main Resources
The main building material is wood as their homeland is covered in wood. They mine Copper and Hemitite (used to make steel and iron) from mines in the Upper Peninsula. They also have large salt deposits although they have found little use for them.
Basic Overview of Society
Their society is made up of 10 million people who fill jobs as needed in each settlement. Although everyone is pretty much considered equal farmers, hunters, fishers, gatherers, and sailors are respected slightly more because with out their servaces they would not be as large as they are. A person's wealth means almost nothing as respect is gained by how you do your job and how you act towards others.
Military
After their conquest of the nomadic tribes in the area the Cortellens have had a time of almost compleate peace and as such feild only a small army. The bulk of their army is lightly armed and armored skirmashers, who are armed with spears, bows, and short swords with leather armor. They also have varied light infantry and heavy infantry armed with bows, axes, pikes, swords, and armored with studded leather, chian mail, and plate mail. Their main artilery weapon is like a large slingshot more then anything else. It is a larger design of rock hurlers on war boats. The way it works is you place a large rock in the pouch in the middle of a large rope made of sinew and pull it back from the arms. You use this and the hight of the arms to determine the distance traveled and the arc of the rock once airborne. They also have small units of caveraly skirmishers, caveraly archers, and light and heavy caveraly.
Cities
Cortel: Capital
Great Rapids: Large city built around canals to bypass the large rapids in the area (site of RL Grand Rapids)
The Two Cities: Two cities on eather side of the Machanac strights.
Wisconson: The first settlement on Wisconson shores. Farthest western city.
Smelly Onion: At the south edge of Lake Michigan so named for the onions that grow in the swamps near by (near RL Chicago) Farthest southern city.
City on the Front: Farthest east city at the western mouth of Lake Ontaro.
Kanadas: Farthest northeastern city in Ontaro.
Iron City: City in the Iron Hills in the UP.
Northern City: Farthest city in the north. On the Northern Shores of Lake Superior.
And they have countless smaller settlements.