Terran Empire

The Terran Empire is a fictional nation represented in the 1880 Quikbyrn Ocean Game.

The Terran Empire is the most powerful nation in Velravin, with the largest navy and highest gross domestic product in 1880. As well, the Terran Empire is the only truly imperial nation in Velravin, with colonies on Cas-a-Cwryn and Ossentia. While quite powerful nominally, the Ancient System used since the Expansionary Period has provided ripe ground for corruption in the nation.

Politics
The Terran Empire's current system of government has been in place since the Expansionary Period. Known as the Ancient System, the Terran government comprises an executive branch run by the ruling Emperor, a quad-cameral legislative branch and a mostly perfunctory judicial branch.

The executive branch centers on the Emperor, who is selected by birthright. This system has been notoriously controversial in the past, and conflicts over the rightful heir have led to several large wars in the past, most notably the Fifth and Seventh Wars of Independence. In recent years the heir system has stabilized. The current Emperor, Nelson XII, took over from his father, Charles III, as he was bedridden by a wasting disease. Nelson XII is one of the youngest Emperors to ever gain the throne (save for the Child Emperor in the 12th century and Edward III) at only 24, but has so far proved relatively competent.

Trivia

 * The Terran Empire is based off the Terran Empire from the Star Trek series. In that universe, the Terran Empire is part of the 'mirror universe', an alternate universe visited by the crew of the Starship Enterprise. The empire itself is a repressive interstellar government founded by humans from Earth. Terran Empire original flag.jpg
 * The original flag submitted by High_Admiral (the creator of the Terran Empire) was directly ripped from Memory Gamma, a Star Trek fanfiction wiki. As the flag depicted the planet Earth (and the Quikbyrn Ocean game was being played on the fictional Velravin & Ossentia map), Dreadnought edited the flag and removed the landforms. Instead, the flag now depicted a sword and a shield, while before it had depicted a sword through the planet Earth.