Empire of Kiria

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Empire of Kiria
Righting Old Wrongs
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Ideology	Corporatocracy
Leader	Fickle Current
Ruling party	National Association of Kirin Patriots (Varies)
Population	Varies
Ponypower	Varies
Race	Kirin
Stability	Varies
War support	Varies
Factories	Varies
Capital	Fragrance
Continent	Eastern Zebrica
Demonym	Kirian
Tag	KIS
Color	#446CCF

The Empire of Kiria, intially known as the Council of North Kiria/National Salvation Front, is a nation that may appear at some point over the course of a playthrough. It doesn't have any cores or claims at the start of the game.

For the Empire of Kiria to form, the  Realm of Kiria the Realm of Kiria must let stability fall below 10%, causing the Cacophony to break out; the Council of North Kiria/National Salvation Front will spawn and can be tag-switched to. The exact nature of the initial state of the Empire of Kiria will depend on actions taken prior to the Cacophony;

1. If the 'In the Vermilion Court' focus was not completed or the focus was completed and Rising Sun was denied entry to the Plenum, the Council of North Kiria will appear along with the  Republic of Kiria, triggering the War of the Double Succession.
2. If the 'In the Vermilion Court' focus was completed and Rising Sun was accepted into the Plenum, only the National Salvation Front will break away; while it is stronger than the Council of North Kiria version, it will also start at war with the Realm of Kiria in the the War of the Northern Succession.

Lore

At the break of day, the bells throughout the magnificent port city of Fragrance began to ring. Their clamorous cacophony echoed far and wide throughout the kirin city, the noise reverberating off of ship hulls and carrying across the waters of the Kirin Sea. Every kirin in the city streets stopped what they were doing and looked around, and as a crowd began to form from thin air, they moved to join it, swelling its numbers and adding their weight to the procession. Soon, they reached their destination: 88 Chrysanthemum Plaza, the national headquarters of the National Association of Kirin Patriots, and the onlookers craned their necks to see over the countless rows of red horns to catch a glimpse of enforcers in crisp uniforms fashioning a perimeter around a stage. The stage was large, magnificent, but hurriedly assembled, and as the crowd looked on, one kirin in a pressed suit stepped forward and took the podium before everykirin assembled.

Chairkirin Fickle Current looked out at the crowd that had come to hear this speech, summoned by the ringing of the bells. There were at least four, maybe five thousand kirin in front of him, with others watching from the windows of nearby buildings. He touched the speech notes he'd hastily scribbled down this morning and stuffed in his coat pocket, if only to remind himself of their contents, and when a sufficient quiet anticipation had settled over the crowd, he began to recite his speech from memory.

"Kirin of Fragrance," he began, his gaze sweeping across the crowd. "Today marks an important day in the history of our beloved city. I scarce need to remind any of you of how Fragrance suffered during The Silence a century ago, how Vermilion's backwards politics nearly strangled the life out of our prosperous mercantile town. When The Silence was lifted and The Grand Gallop Onward began, I dared to believe like so many of us returning from our exile across the world that things would change. Change, they indeed have, but nokirin can definitively say whether it was for the better or the worse."

He frowned at the crowd, projecting some of his emotion into the kirin gathered around him. "Kirin of Fragrance, the Grand Gallop Onward was a failure. It was sabotaged by unbending spiritual dogma, blasphemous revolution, and the sheer incompetence of those that led it. Fragrance already knew the path forward to peace and prosperity, but our voice was drowned out by ignorance and superstition. And now, with the house of cards beginning to topple in Vermilion, we are supposed to pledge unending loyalty to the regime that fostered all this failure?"

"I will not have it," Current said with a stomp of his hoof. "Fragrance has suffered under Vermilion for too long. No more, I say! No more will we be shackled to the fate of our lesser sibling. No more will Vermilion hold sway over us. We, who have been given all the tools we need to succeed, will no longer share them with those that know not how to use them properly. It is time for Fragrance to stand on its own. It is time for the kirin of the north, the kirin of Greater Providence, to claim the independent identity we have longed for for so long!"

"It is time that we break with Vermilion, and we do what our inept leaders could not: bring Kiria into a new and prosperous modern era!

Decisions

Main articles: Kirian decisions, Kirian decisions 2, Kirian decisions 3, Kirian decisions 4

Events

Main articles: Kirian events, Kirian events 2, Kirian events 3, Kirian events 4, Kirian events 5, Kirian events 6, Kirian events 7

National Focus

Empire of Kiria Focus Tree

Main article: Kirian national focus tree‎ 3

Technology

The Empire of Kiria inherits its techs from the Realm of Kiria.

Politics

National Spirits

On the start of the War of the Double Succession:

Failed Industrialisation

• Resource Gain Efficiency: −8%
• Monthly Population: −25%
• Consumer Goods Factories factor: −25%
• Construction Speed: −8%
• Production Efficiency Cap: −8%
• Production Efficiency Growth: −8%
• Production Efficiency Base: −8%
• Research Speed: −8%
• Ideology drift defense: −25%

The 3½ Year Plan had tried to do too much, too quickly. The crushing pressures exerted by the attempt to transform Kiria into an industrialized nation had stretched and strained the Realm's kirin and resources, until the tension became too great and the tenuous chains of progress snapped. Kiria has imploded like a boiler pushed past its maximum working pressure, red-hot from the pressurised volatility it had failed to contain within, and whatever successor state emerges triumphant from the inferno shall forever bear the scars of the Silence's fiery climax.

War of the Double Succession

• Army Experience Gain: +15%
• Division training time: −15%
• Monthly Population: −25%
• Recruitable Population Factor: +10%
• Stability: −10%
• Division Defense on core territory: +5%
• Factory Repair Speed: −5%
• Daily Command Power Gain Multiplier: +10%
• Commander Abilities Cost: −20%
• Land Doctrine Cost: −20%
• Supply Combat Penalties on Core Territory: −15%

For the first time in centuries, kirin blood is being shed by kirin hooves all throughout the Realm. The Way of Fire was not strong enough to withstand the assault of modernisation on our way of life, and what once bound the kirin people together has shattered into pieces. Whether or not the Realm of Kiria and the kirin faith in Concord and its Matriarch can survive this civil war, even were Vermilion to prevail, remains to be seen.

The Order of the Iron Chrysanthemum

• Political Power Gain: −10%
• Division Organization: +5%
• Party Popularity Stability Modifier: +5%
• Infantry Division Attack: +5%
• Daily Command Power Gain Multiplier: +5%
• Daily Supremacy Support: +0.1

The paramilitary wing of the NAKP, the Order of the Iron Chrysanthemum drums up support from the kirin in the streets and roots out subversive elements and potential threats. They also serve as excellent soldiers in a pinch, and their experience fighting dirty in the streets will be a great boon to our armed forces in the field.

On the start of the War of Northern Succession, not including those added by focuses:

Failed Industrialisation

• Resource Gain Efficiency: −8%
• Monthly Population: −25%
• Consumer Goods Factories factor: −25%
• Construction Speed: −8%
• Production Efficiency Cap: −8%
• Production Efficiency Growth: −8%
• Production Efficiency Base: −8%
• Research Speed: −8%
• Ideology drift defense: −25%

The 3½ Year Plan had tried to do too much, too quickly. The crushing pressures exerted by the attempt to transform Kiria into an industrialized nation had stretched and strained the Realm's kirin and resources, until the tension became too great and the tenuous chains of progress snapped. Kiria has imploded like a boiler pushed past its maximum working pressure, red-hot from the pressurised volatility it had failed to contain within, and whatever successor state emerges triumphant from the inferno shall forever bear the scars of the Silence's fiery climax.

War of Northern Succession

• Army Experience Gain: +15%
• Division training time: −15%
• Monthly Population: −20%
• Recruitable Population Factor: +10%
• Stability: −5%
• Division Defense on core territory: +5%
• Factory Repair Speed: −2.5%
• Daily Command Power Gain Multiplier: +10%
• Commander Abilities Cost: −20%
• Land Doctrine Cost: −20%
• Supply Combat Penalties on Core Territory: −15%

For the first time in centuries, kirin blood is being shed by kirin hooves all throughout the Realm. The Way of Fire was not strong enough to withstand the assault of modernisation on our way of life, and what once bound the kirin people together has shattered into pieces. Whether or not the Realm of Kiria and the kirin faith in Concord and its Matriarch can survive this civil war, even were Vermilion to prevail, remains to be seen.

The Order of the Iron Chrysanthemum

• Political Power Gain: −10%
• Division Organization: +5%
• Party Popularity Stability Modifier: +5%
• Infantry Division Attack: +5%
• Daily Command Power Gain Multiplier: +5%
• Daily Supremacy Support: +0.1

The paramilitary wing of the NAKP, the Order of the Iron Chrysanthemum drums up support from the kirin in the streets and roots out subversive elements and potential threats. They also serve as excellent soldiers in a pinch, and their experience fighting dirty in the streets will be a great boon to our armed forces in the field.

Leaders

Starting leaders
Leader	Leader		Ideology and party		Traits	Description	Comes to power by
Fickle Current		Corporatocracy Supremacy NAKPNational Association of Kirin Patriots	Nationalist-Bourgeois Modernizer Construction Speed: +10% Production Efficiency Cap: +10%	Born: 11 October 953 in Skyfall Biography:: Despite his rise to power in Kiria, Fickle Current was not born a son of the Realm. Rather, he was foaled in Skyfall, where his family had fled the crushing economic collapse that struck hold of Kiria as The Silence was imposed at the beginning of the 10th century. It was there in Skyfall that the Sycee Trading House, one of the Realm's strongest trading conglomerates before The Silence, had relocated, and Current's family enjoyed close ties to the Trading House that left them extremely wealthy. With the wealth that his family possessed, Current was able to afford a prestigious education in Yale, where he was personally tutored by Cypress Snow, another member of the Kirin diaspora and its foremost literati. Under Snow's guidance, Current learned to sharpen his business acumen and cunning insight that would serve him well as a successful businesskirin and, later, the natural fit for leader of the NAKP during the Grand Gallop Onward in Kiria. It was only late in 1006 when Fickle Current stepped hoof in Fragrance, the city of his ancestors, for the first time as The Silence began to lift across the Realm. Remembering the tales of how ineptitude and superstition in Vermilion once forced his family into exile and nearly impoverished them, Current soon resolved to be a champion for the kirin who lost everything in Fragrance and do everything he could to truly modernize Kiria according to what he and the rest of the Kirin diaspora knew in Skyfall and throughout western Griffonia. Unfettered capitalism would be the order of the day, for the wheels of progress in such a backwards land could only be turned with the grease of tremendous investment into the Realm. If Kiria ever wanted to truly join the modern world as a functional nation, it would take an almost unimaginable level of investment, and so Current has resolved to do everything he can to make the nation an enticing opportunity for the wealthy. Portrait by: Twotail813	Default leader.
Cherry Blossom		Social Harmonism Harmony NAKP-CNational Association of Kirin Patriots - Conciliationist	Silent Workirin Political Power Gain: +15%	The People's Mayor of Fragrance. Portrait by: Twotail813
All Kiria Revolutionery Assembly		Revolutionary Dictatorship Communism MSWPKMarksist-Stallionist Workers' Party of Kiria		None
Lustre Hail		Oligarchy Non-Aligned NAKP-RNational Association of Kirin Patriots - Reformist		None
Post-start Leaders [may contain spoilers]
Leader	Leader		Ideology and party		Traits	Description	Comes to power by
Fickle Current		Oligarchy Non-Aligned NAKPNational Association of Kirin Patriots	Viceroy of Providence Political Power Gain: +5% Construction Speed: +10% Production Efficiency Cap: +10%	Born: 11 October 953 in Skyfall Biography:: Despite his rise to power in Kiria, Fickle Current was not born a son of the Realm. Rather, he was foaled in Skyfall, where his family had fled the crushing economic collapse that struck hold of Kiria as The Silence was imposed at the beginning of the 10th century. It was there in Skyfall that the Sycee Trading House, one of the Realm's strongest trading conglomerates before The Silence, had relocated, and Current's family enjoyed close ties to the Trading House that left them extremely wealthy. With the wealth that his family possessed, Current was able to afford a prestigious education in Yale, where he was personally tutored by Cypress Snow, another member of the Kirin diaspora and its foremost literati. Under Snow's guidance, Current learned to sharpen his business acumen and cunning insight that would serve him well as a successful businesskirin and, later, the natural fit for leader of the NAKP during the Grand Gallop Onward in Kiria. It was only late in 1006 when Fickle Current stepped hoof in Fragrance, the city of his ancestors, for the first time as The Silence began to lift across the Realm. Remembering the tales of how ineptitude and superstition in Vermilion once forced his family into exile and nearly impoverished them, Current soon resolved to be a champion for the kirin who lost everything in Fragrance and do everything he could to truly modernize Kiria according to what he and the rest of the Kirin diaspora knew in Skyfall and throughout western Griffonia. Unfettered capitalism would be the order of the day, for the wheels of progress in such a backwards land could only be turned with the grease of tremendous investment into the Realm. If Kiria ever wanted to truly join the modern world as a functional nation, it would take an almost unimaginable level of investment, and so Current has resolved to do everything he can to make the nation an enticing opportunity for the wealthy. Portrait by: Twotail813	See Condition: As the Realm of Kiria, do not invite Rising Sun to the Plenum; when civil war breaks out, complete the 'Loyal to the Homeland' focus then complete the 'The Viceroyalty focus'.
		Neo-Feudalism Supremacy NAKP National Association of Kirin Patriots			See Condition: After meeting the conditions to have the Children of Concord revolt, defeat the revolt and then complete the 'Wards of the State' focus to get this ideology.
Leaders of Playable Breakaway Tags [may contain spoilers]
Leader	Leader		Ideology and party		Traits	Description	Comes to power by
Kindling Flash		Agrarian Socialism Communism Worker-Peasant UnionAll-Kiria Union of Workers and Peasants	Peasant-Preacher Non-Core Ponypower: +5% Division Recovery Rate: +5% Recruitable Population Factor: +5% Compliance Growth Speed: +5% Daily Communism Support: +0.05	Born: 2 February 963 in Verdant Biography: A grassroots preacher from Verdant, Kindling Flash has always been one of the loudest and most persistent voices speaking out against the oppression of the Realm by the Way of Fire and the need to bring liberation to Kiria through the adoption of the tenets of the Rising Fire. For many years, Kindling sailed from island to island in the delta of the Great Mellifluve to preach the tenets of the Rising Fire, and on one of those journeys, he happened to engage with Rising Sun, who had traveled to Verdant on her own spiritual journey. The two debated religion and philosophy for many hours, and it was ultimately through Kindling that the charismatic and fiery priestess adopted the Rising Fire as her faith. In the years before the end of the Silence and throughout the Grand Gallop Onward, the two would work in unison to spread the teachings of the Rising Fire to the masses. When civil war came to Kiria, Kindling found the importance of his role and faith enhanced, and traveled across the country to spread the ideas of the Rising Fire and encourage the kirin of the west to join the fight in Concord's name. Unfortunately, for all his skill as an orator, he could not move the populace to overcome the might of the NAKP, and so when the NAKP claimed victory over the Realm, Kindling disappeared into the many islands of Verdant once more. When the Children of Concord rose up in revolt, however, Kindling soon took his place among their number once again, continuing to spread his message of a free Kiria, and adopting some of the beliefs of the Radiant Trinity into his messaging. Maybe through the Radiant Trinity rather than the Rising Fire, Kindling will be able to finally motivate the kirin of the Realm to seize the freedom and peace so long denied to them through one last struggle.	See Condition: Meet the conditions to have the Children of Concord revolt; Kindling Flash will be the leader of the Children of Concord.
Tranquil Light		Socialist Monarchism Communism Worker-Peasant UnionAll-Kiria Union of Workers and Peasants	King of the Kirin Stability: +5% Required Garrisons: −15%	If you were to visit the Kingdom of Concord, travel to Vermilion to find that its king is not there, for he is elsewhere, where the kirin need him most. While Mahogany Blaze grew up in Equestria and became a student at the School of Friendship, the fires of civil war—fuelled by the rage of kirin against kirin—drew him to a battle for the soul of Kiria. Initially a point creature for Premier Autumn Blaze and the RaHP, he had to retreat west when the harmonists became lost causes. There, he would then be picked up by what would become the Children of Concord as their frontstallion, nicknamed "The Vermilion Pretender". His travels throughout the countryside demanded him to promulgate both a radical form of government and a radical version of The Way of Fire, interspersed with rallies to fight against the Imperial forces. Later, he pretended no longer: Mahogany had the support of the weary and the downtrodden, who see him as the first great kirin who is no Superior but a kindred soul, a divine flame of inspiration. Now, Mahogany Blaze, with the regnal name of Tranquil Light, journeys throughout the entire realm, lending aid to those who need it the most. In a clean break from the Vermilion Dynasty, Mahogany—aware of his kingship's temporal nature—will abolish the crown through death or resignation, paving the kingdom's transition into a Commonalty. For the former Realm, it is finally time to step into the light. Portrait by: Twotail813	See Condition: To get him as leader of the Children of Concord after the completion of the 'We Are Free' focus, make sure that either Dayspring Rose either has 2 more influence points than Kindling Flash or have only one point of difference between Kindling Flash and Dayspring Rose; if the latter occurs, select 'I can be a fair king to the people of the Realm..' in the 'Assembling the Future' event.
Common Senate		Democratic Socialism Communism Worker-Peasant UnionAll-Kiria Union of Workers and Peasants	Direct Democracy Political Power Gain: +20% Recruitable Population Factor: +10% Ideology drift defense: −5% Stability: −5%	"Never to lead, always to help." ~ The official voted-on motto of the Common Senate Arising from the ashes of a revolution borne from the excruciating suffering of the common kirin, the Common Senate is an assembly of national representatives gather in ever-changing venues to vote on the pressing issues of today. National representatives do not have fixed terms: they can last a lifetime should they be exceptional spokeskirin, or they can last mere days thanks to local emergency recall referendums. The finer details of these national issues, however, are not fully decided in the national assembly but, rather, sent down to all able bodies of each village-wide assembly. This also works the other way around: referendums conducted in a single village can, if projected to have far-reaching consequences, become an issue for the national assembly to vote on. In between the national and the village-wide lie various tiers of assembles, from an assembly of towns to a regional assembly to an assembly of two or three regions (or what is commonly referred to as a "superregional assembly," which can shift regions depending on their unity surrounding an issue). Portrait by: Caspy	See Condition: To get it as leader of the Children of Concord after the completion of the 'We Are Free' focus, make sure that either Kindling Flash either has 2 more influence points than Dayspring Rose or have only one point of difference between Kindling Flash and Dayspring Rose; if the latter occurs, select 'It is up to the people of the Realm to decide their future, not me.' in the 'Assembling the Future' event.
Sciaridae		Military Government Non-Aligned Changeling AdministrationProvisional Changeling Military Administration of Fragrance	Military Governor Political Power Gain: +10% Stability: −5% Political Advisor Cost: −20%	Portrait by: Rich May	See Condition: When playing as the Empire of Kiria, complete the 'Patriotic Obligation' focus then complete the 'Overseas Investors' focus while selecting the Changelings in the 'Picking Your Friends' event; losing Fragrance at any point after doing so will cause it to break away as 'Vespidae-Korps' with this leader. He will be replaced by Ardent Bloom or Cypress Snow on completion of the 'International Fragrance' focus.
Ardent Bloom		Libertarianism Non-Aligned Civil AdministrationCivil Government of Fragrance	Reluctant Figurehead Political Power Gain: −20% Stability: +5% Financier-Executor Consumer Goods Factories factor: −5% Resources to Market: +10% Trade deal opinion factor: +50% License purchase cost: −10% Industrial Factory Donations: +1	The younger brother of Zenith Bloom, Ardent Bloom was educated at the prestigious—and notorious—Middenheim School of Economics before landing the position of Chief Economist of the NAKP upon his return to Kiria. Portrait by: Neither	See Condition: After completing the 'International Fragrance' focus, select Ardent Bloom in the 'The Meeting' event.
Cypress Snow		Oligarchy Non-Aligned Civil AdministrationCivil Government of Fragrance	Reluctant Figurehead Political Power Gain: −20% Stability: +5% Literati Elder Daily Political Power Gain: +0.05 Justify war goal time: −5% Acceptance of Supremacist Diplomacy: +50	The foremost intellectual of the kirin diaspora and mentor to Fickle Current, Cypress Snow serves as the bridge between the struggles of a modern Kiria and the ideas of the diaspora born and raised in Griffonia. Cypress hails from the lineage of the All-Kiria Artificers' Guild, and was tutored from a young age with the best scholars that money could buy, both within Griffonia and from Equestria overseas. His sharp mind and great ambition led to him pursuing several doctorates at both Griffonian and Equestrian universities, and he would eventually move to Yale and serve as a professor and mentor for countless members of the kirin diaspora that sought the best education they could afford. In each of them, Cypress instilled a sense of pride and superiority that they were the lucky kirin to escape the wasteful devastation that The Silence had imposed on their ancestral homeland, and they were better for it. And furthermore, he assured them that one day, perhaps, they would return to Kiria and remodel it in their own image, that of the enlightened kirin who had shed the superstitions of the kirin theocracy to modernize like the rest of the world. Now Cypress Snow has returned to Kiria at the behest of his former protege, Fickle Current, to help recruit kirin from the diaspora and urge them to return to Kiria. Working closely with Current, Cypress makes sure that the whims and wishes of the diaspora are presented to its de facto leader for consideration, and aids in keeping them in line behind Current's policies. This has given him a great amount of influence in kirin politics, and puts him in a unique relationship with the wealthy and powerful returning diaspora that even Fickle Current himself lacks. Portrait by: Neither	See Condition: Same as above but select Cypress Snow instead.
Cheli Cerae		Surveillance State Supremacy Infils.-kommando OZAufklärung- und Infiltrationskommando Operationstheater Ost-Zebrika		Born: 17 December 948 in Lyctida Biography: Growing up as a gifted nymph with a passion for both music and theatre, it was obvious from a young age that Cheli Cerae was a changeling of extraordinary ability. So much so, in fact, that her talents as an actor and musician eventually caught the attention of the Infiltrator Corps. In the ensuing years she was trained in the venerated deep infiltration tradition, but she retained an artist's mindset, appreciating the elegance involved in manipulating creatures. She played a part in the disastrous attack on Canterlot in 1002, narrowly escaping with her life. Recriminations followed soon after: as the highest-ranking infiltrator who survived the operation, she took the brunt of Queen Chrysalis and the Heer High Command's backlash for the invasion's failure. They pinned the blame on the Infils.-Kommando Equestria's "outdated methods," saying that training deep cover infiltrators was too expensive, that they were too unreliable, that the risk of discovery was too great, and ultimately, that they were just not worth the cost. A new belief began to take hold: that the future of changeling conquest lay in mechanised and industrial warfare. Not in brilliant artistry but cold, calculated steel. The top brass argued that having a whole operation hinge on a single deep cover infiltrator meant having one point of failure, which was unacceptable. Cheli couldn't help rolling her eyes at that. They never mentioned that it was Queen Chrysalis who was the single point of failure during the battle for Canterlot. Of course, she couldn't mention it either. Without recourse, Cheli Cerae was disgraced, demoted, and her beloved Infils.-Kommando Equestria was defunded, with all its personnel and resources diverted to other units. And now she has been sent to Kiria, far away from the fires of war that rage across Equus. With her raison d'être utterly discredited, no doubt Vesalipolis intends for her to languish in obscurity. But Cheli refuses to accept defeat—she intends to take this chance to resuscitate the old infiltrator traditions in a new world, or die trying. Portrait by: Rich May	See Condition: Leader of Changeling Fragrance as part of the Masquerade mechanic.
Unique Leaders of Non-playable Breakaway tags [may contain spoilers]
Leader	Leader		Ideology and party		Traits	Description	Comes to power by
Crimson Line		Kleptocracy Supremacy Pirates of Nacre		None	See Condition: If a Player-controlled Changeling Fragrance takes the 'A Sea of Black Flags' decision, she will show up as leader of the Pirates of Nacre tag.
Stalwart Sarsen		Ultranationalism Supremacy Society to Pierce the Veil		None	See Condition: If a Player-controlled Changeling Fragrance takes the 'Operation Veilpiercer' decision, Stalwart Sarsen will show up as leader of the Rightous Realm Army tag.
Roaring Fire		Kleptocracy Supremacy Imperial CouncilViceroyal Council of the Imperial Vermilion Dynasty		Born: 3 June 973 in Nacre Biography: The pirate queen known as Roaring Fire has become familiar with accomplishing the impossible. Born as a poor fishermare in Nacre on the pirate-controlled Auburn Isle, Roaring Fire joined her first pirating expedition at the age of 11 and never looked back. As she gained experience, so too did she gain respect from pirates all over the Isle for her fearless bravado and sharp mind. By the time she turned 19 she was captain of her own ship, and through clever diplomacy and cunning intrigue she began to amass a coalition of pirates and assembled a small flotilla. It was with this flotilla that, on one fateful night in 997, she lured the previous de facto pirate leader of the Auburn Isle and his ship out of his cove and beset upon him with a ferocity pirates still talk about in Nacre today. While cannonfire ripped through the wooden hulls of both junks, Roaring Fire swung off a rope and launched herself onto the enemy ship, where in a brutal display of blood and death, she cut through pirate after pirate until finally finding and besting the enemy captain. When she returned to Nacre the following morning with that pirate in chains, she cemented her legend and earned the loyalty of the brigands and buccaneers that called Auburn Isle home. Thanks to her cunning, the pirates of the Auburn Isle have managed to survive into a new age. After successfully negotiating with Fickle Current to join his forces with her pirate armada serving as a mercenary navy, Roaring Fire spared her home from destruction by a resurgent Realm of Kiria and saved her pirates from the gallows. Now, standing at the forefront of a brave new world, the pirates of the Auburn Isle are firmly devoted to their pirate queen, and Roaring Fire is determined to not let them down. Portrait by: Twotail813	See Condition: Start the 'Reclaim Auburn Isle' focus when playing as the Realm of Kiria, then select the second option in the 'The Matriarch of the Auburn Isle' event; after tag-switching to the Empire of Kiria when it spawns, completing the 'A Favour Owed' focus will get Rising Sun as leader of the ENEZ South Kiria tag.
Bracken Ray		Neo-Feudalism Supremacy InCor DirectorateInterCorporate Directorate of the Mellifluve Delta Authority		None	See Condition: The Sycee Trading House must have at least twice the number of Corporate Concessions as the Artificers' Guild, or vice-versa, on the start of a new month; this will trigger the 'Sycee-Guild Rivalry' mission. If this mission times out, a series of events will take place and the Corporate War will take place between the Artificers' Guild and the Sycee Trading House. Bracken Ray will lead the neutral Mellifluve Delta Authority tag.
Guild High Council		Technocracy Non-Aligned Central CouncilCentral Council of the All-Kiria Artificers' Guild		The Guild High Council is the supreme decision-making body of the All-Kiria Artificers' Guild. In the past, the Guild was organised as a loose federation of dozens of autonomous regional Chapters across Kiria. They were united via the Central Council, with each Chapter sending one representative for every one hundred and eight members it had. The High Council was a council of nine, eleven or thirteen senior Guildsmasters elected from the Central Council, sitting for terms of no more than five years. Today, none of that remains. The Guild has been thoroughly corporatised, shedding most aspects of its decentralised and democratic organisation. The Central Council still exists, but as a ceremonial body that serves more as a memorial to the Guild's past traditions than a functional decision-making body. The High Council, primarily composed of high-ranking directors and executives rather than craftsmares, makes most important decisions from their sequestered boardroom. Vestigial Chapters exist only in name as social cliques of Guild executives and managers, and the Guild's traditional membership of inventors and scientists has been relegated to salaried senior employees working under the control of management. Portrait by: RyanBoi	Same as above; leader of the All-Kiria Artificers' Guild tag.
Silver Silks		Plutocracy Supremacy Board of DirectorsBoard of Directors of the Sycee Trading House of Kiria		Portrait by: RyanBoi	Same as above; leader of the Sycee Trading House tag.

Parties

Political parties
Name	Ideology			Leader	Popularity
NAKP National Association of Kirin Patriots			Corporatocracy Supremacy	Fickle Current	Varies%
NAKP-C National Association of Kirin Patriots - Conciliationist			Social Harmonism Harmony	Cherry Blossom	Varies%
MSWPK Marksist-Stallionist Workers' Party of Kiria			Revolutionary Dictatorship Communism	All Kiria Revolutionery Assembly	Varies%
NAKP-R National Association of Kirin Patriots - Reformist			Oligarchy Non-Aligned	Lustre Hail	Varies%

Staff and Designers

Political Advisors
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Cypress Snow	Literati Elder	Cypress Snow is not the country leader Cypress Snow is unlocked (?)	Daily Political Power Gain: +0.05 Justify war goal time: −5% Acceptance of Supremacist Diplomacy: +50	150
Zenith Bloom	Matriarch-Commander	(Hidden) Zenith Bloom is not dead or otherwise unavailable (?)	Reinforce Rate: +5% Party Popularity Stability Modifier: +5% War Support: +5% See description: Still in her late 30s, yet one of the most powerful mares in Kiria, Zenith Bloom is the ambitious and highly determined Matriarch-Commander of the Banner of the Starred Taurus - one of the lineages whose bannerkirin had offered their services en masse to the Lotus Crown during the Silence. She incarnates power and prestige in triplicate: as a member of the NAKP's ExecCo, as the Matriarch-Commander of one of Kiria's largest and most distinguished Banners, and as CEO of the Taurus Concerns. Portrait by: Scroup	150
Ardent Bloom	Financier-Executor	Ardent Bloom is not the country leader	Consumer Goods Factories factor: −5% Resources to Market: +10% Trade deal opinion factor: +50% License purchase cost: −10% Industrial Factory Donations: +1 See description: The younger brother of Zenith Bloom, Ardent Bloom was educated at the prestigious—and notorious—Middenheim School of Economics before landing the position of Chief Economist of the NAKP upon his return to Kiria. Portrait by: Neither	150
Bracken Ray	Captain of Industry	(Hidden) Bracken Ray is not the country leader	Civilian Factory construction speed: +10% Infrastructure construction speed: +10% Railway construction speed: +10% Refinery construction speed: +10% See description: Portrait by: Kaiser Sauce	150
Silver Silks	Shipping Magnate	(Hidden) Silver Silks is unlocked (?)	Railway construction speed: +20% Naval base construction speed: +20% Dockyard construction speed: +10% Infrastructure construction speed: +10%	150
Simple Survey	Technocrat Elite	(Hidden) Simple Survey is unlocked (?)	Daily Political Power Cost: −0.05 Factory Output: +5% Dockyard Output: +5% Factory Repair Speed: +5% See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	150
Cherry Blossom	Silent Workkirin	(Hidden) Cherry Blossom is unlocked (?) Cherry Blossom is not the country leader	Political Power Gain: +15% See description: The People's Mayor of Fragrance. Portrait by: Twotail813	150

Tank Designers
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Taurus Concerns	Heavy Tank Designer	None	Armor Research Speed: +10% Armor technology: Hard attack: +5% Armor: +5% Armored Car: Hard attack: +5% Armor: +5% See description: The Taurus Concerns is a new player in the Kirian industrial game, first registered as a company in Skyfall in 998 by Ardent Bloom and his sister: Zenith Bloom, Matriarch-Commander of the Banner of the Starred Taurus. A modern industrial conglomerate, the Concern has bought up factories and mines across Kiria to manufacture both modern industrial products such as automobiles and tractors, as well as weapons of war. While questions have been asked about the Concern's treatment of workers, its leadership's drive for Kiria's modernization and industrialization cannot be ignored. Worth nothing is the Concern's close ties to the National Association of Kirin Patriots. Ardent Bloom is chief economist of the NAKP, and Zenith Bloom makes no secret of her personal involvement in the less-than-savoury activities of the Order of the Iron Chrysanthemum — the NAKP's paramilitary organisation and, as some allege, smuggling network. But politics aside, Taurus has shown an interest in developing native Kirian tanks and armor, as long as they get to be the ones to manufacture it.	150
Subsidiary Syndicate	Main Battle Tank Designer	(Hidden) Subsidiary Syndicate (Tank) is unlocked (?)	Armor Research Speed: +10% Armor technology: Soft attack: +5% Hard attack: +5% Max Speed: +5% Armor: +5% Reliability: +5% Armored Car: Soft attack: +5% Hard attack: +5% Max Speed: +5% Armor: +5% Reliability: +5% See description: The Subsidiary Syndicate, officially the Sorghum Subsidiary Syndicate	150
Fulgent Focus	Master Artificer	(Hidden) Fulgent Focus is unlocked (?)	Armor Research Speed: +10% Motorization Research Speed: +10% Fuel gain per oil: +5% Supply Range: +10% See description: Portrait by: Tek	150

Ship Designers
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Fragrance Enterprise	Lunar Ocean Fleet Designer	(Hidden) Fragrance Enterprise is not rebranded (?) Fragrancy Inlet (1071): Controlled by Empire of Kiria	Naval Research Speed: +10% Carrier: Max Range: +25% Armor: −15% Deck size: +100% Capital Ships: Max Range: +25% Screens: Max Range: +25% Submarine: Max Range: +25% See description: The shipyards of Fragrance were among the most modern in the 700s and 800s, churning out top-of-the-line oceangoing junks and other vessels for private owners and the Vermilion government alike. Upon the conclusion of the Silence, Fragrance saw its chance. The diaspora flooded into the city of their ancestors, and many returnee shipwrights pooled together their knowledge and capital to rebuild Fragrance's ruined shipyards and render them operational. Combining domestic craftsmareship and foreign innovation, the shipyards of Fragrance function once more. While Vermilion generously subsidizes the Fragrance shipyards, the Matriarchate has never formally apologized for the devastation of Fragrance.	150
Dreamboat International	Battlefleet Designer	Unlocked Dreamboat International (?)	Naval Research Speed: +10% Capital Ships: Armor: +15% Heavy Attack: +15% Screens: Sub detection: −25% Torpedo attack: +25% See description: The Dreamboat name is on the lips of every trader, captain, freight forwarder, and harbourmaster in all the ports of Zebrica, Griffonia, and Equus. Shipments from Dreamboat do not arrive very often, but when they do, everycreature hears about it. Many clients contract Dreamboat for shipments that need to sail through the South Kirin Sea, to ensure that their cargo is protected from pirates by the best sailors money can buy. Dreamboat's rivalry with Scarlet Sails Shipping is the shipping industry's worst-kept secret; indeed, stories of thrilling skirmishes at sea between Dreamboat mariners and the pirate scoundrels of Auburn Isle have become the stuff of maritime legend, and do much to burnish Dreamboat's brand image. Allegations of collusion with Scarlet Sails Shipping, their seemingly pirate-immune navy, and their dubious ties with Pirate Queen Roaring Fire are wholly unfounded.	150
Scarlet Sails Shipping	Raiding Fleet Designer	Unlocked Scarlet Sails Shipping (?)	Naval Research Speed: +10% Carrier: Surface Visibility: −10% Max Speed: +10% Capital Ships: Surface Visibility: −10% Max Speed: +10% Heavy Attack: −10% Screens: Surface Visibility: −10% Max Speed: +10% Submarine: Surface Visibility: −10% Sub Visibility: −10% Max Speed: +10% See description: Even more so than most corporations in Kiria, Scarlet Sails Shipping is not what it seems. On paper, the company was founded during the Silence, with its headquarters in the small coastal village of Jasmine, and has experienced unusually stable and consistent growth since. Scarlet Sails Shipping, known colloquially as "The Triple-S Syndicate", specializes in shipping and logistics operations throughout the South Kirin Sea and the Sea of Hope, with branch offices in Sen Kinh and the Zebrides and lesser presences in other ports.	150

Aircraft Designers
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Crane Heavy Industries	Light Aircraft Designer	Unlocked Crane Heavy Industries (?)	Air Research Speed: +10% Small Airframe: Agility: +10% Max Speed: +10% Carrier Fighter Airframe: Agility: +10% Max Speed: +10% See description: The commercial venture that represents Crane Heavy Industries most prominently in the public eye is their light aircraft production operations, for which Crane has won numerous procurement contracts with the Vermilion government. Crane alternates between coy courtship and fierce commercial competition with the National Association of Kirin Patriots over its private modernization initiatives — a tense, capricious, and mercurial relationship that the Kirian commentariat love to hate. Crane cares little for the temporal affairs of the Realm, save for those that concern its most modern and commercially-promising venture, Crane Aircraft. But if one were to strike at this one limb of Crane, the whole beast may soon come knocking.	150
Wingluck Consortium	Heavy Aircraft Designer	Unlocked Wingluck Consortium (?)	Air Research Speed: +10% Large Airframe: Strat. Bombing: +10% Transport Plane: Range: +10% See description: The Wingluck Consortium is unique among Kirian corporations in that it is not actually from Kiria. The founders of the Consortium, a griffon named Sevac Sembavat and her pegasus wife Starfruit, were from New Mareland, and immigrated to Kiria following the lifting of the Silence. The two of them were fascinated with the natural ability of flight, and sought to replicate it on an industrial scale. Securing a loan from the businesspony Gladmane, they began work on plans for large commercial airliners before being contracted by the New Mareland government for military aircraft design. However the two of them were never a couple to simply be content with what they had in life, and when they saw the chance to expand into the virgin markets of Kiria, they took the risk. In an agreement with the Sycee Trading House, they settled their debt to Gladmane and moved all their operations to the North Kirian region of Greater Providence. Their pioneering designs were heavily patronized by rich kirin who have long wished to sail the skies, as well as forward-looking Bannerkirin commanders who see promise in such "Flying Fortresses".	150
Subsidiary Syndicate	Naval Aircraft Designer	(Hidden) Subsidiary Syndicate (Air) unlocked (?)	Air Research Speed: +10% Naval Bomber Airframe: Range: +10% Naval Attack: +10% Carrier Naval Bomber Airframe: Range: +10% Naval Attack: +10% Carrier Fighter Airframe: Range: +10% Agility: +10% Carrier CAS Airframe: Range: +10% Naval Attack: +10% See description: The Subsidiary Syndicate, officially the Sycee Subsidiary Syndicate	150

Materiel Designers
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Rhapsody Arsenal	Infantry Equipment Designer	Unlocked Rhapsody Arsenal (?) Providence Demesne (1060): Controlled by  Empire of Kiria	Weapons and Equipment Research Speed: +10% Artillery Research Speed: +10% See description: The Rhapsody Arsenal proudly bears its illustrious and storied reputation. The "Ever-Industrious Smithy" of the Procurate of Rhapsody has long supplied the Kirian Banners with cannon and arquebuses, shot and shell, to defend and enforce the will of Concord across the Realm and beyond. As the Silence descended over Kiria, so too did the Arsenal's fortunes suffer. Officially, the Arsenal never ceased operation, having received a special writ from Matriarch Superior Noctilucent Charm to remain in operation throughout the Silence. The Arsenal had always been the premier military supplier of the Procurate and the Realm, and therefore they had some prestige in the eyes of Concord. In reality, the Arsenal's forges had cooled many years before the Silence for lack of funding, resources, and expertise. As the Silence came to an end and Matriarch Superior Rain Shine decreed modernization and openness to be the order of the day, the Procurate decided it would be wise to try and resurrect the Arsenal once again. And so the Rhapsody Arsenal was reborn, recruiting to its workshops and laboratories both domestic talent and foreign know-how to gird the defenders of Concord once again.	150
Rhapsody Arsenal [Upgraded]	Infantry Equipment Designer	Unlocked Rhapsody Arsenal [Upgraded] (?) Providence Demesne (1060): Controlled by  Empire of Kiria	Weapons and Equipment Research Speed: +15% Artillery Research Speed: +15% See description: The Rhapsody Arsenal proudly bears its illustrious and storied reputation. The "Ever-Industrious Smithy" of the Procurate of Rhapsody has long supplied the Kirian Banners with cannon and arquebuses, shot and shell, to defend and enforce the will of Concord across the Realm and beyond. As the Silence descended over Kiria, so too did the Arsenal's fortunes suffer. Officially, the Arsenal never ceased operation, having received a special writ from Matriarch Superior Noctilucent Charm to remain in operation throughout the Silence. The Arsenal had always been the premier military supplier of the Procurate and the Realm, and therefore they had some prestige in the eyes of Concord. In reality, the Arsenal's forges had cooled many years before the Silence for lack of funding, resources, and expertise. As the Silence came to an end and Matriarch Superior Rain Shine decreed modernization and openness to be the order of the day, the Procurate decided it would be wise to try and resurrect the Arsenal once again. And so the Rhapsody Arsenal was reborn, recruiting to its workshops and laboratories both domestic talent and foreign know-how to gird the defenders of Concord once again. Following the NAKP's conquest of Kiria, the Rhapsody Arsenal was the target of a hostile takeover orchestrated by the Kirian Ministry of Finance as part of the NAKP's subjugation of the Procurate of Rhapsody. Today, the Arsenal loyally serves the Realm as one of the Vermilion Dynasty's Twelve Vassal-Corporations.	150
Subsidiary Syndicate	Motorized Equipment Designer	(Hidden) Subsidiary Syndicate (Motorized) unlocked (?)	Motorization Research Speed: +10% Motorized Rocket Artillery Research Speed: +50% See description: The Subsidiary Syndicate, though a formidable corporation in its own right, is a subsidiary of the All-Kiria Artificers' Guild. Styled as an independent company with a board of directors staffed by Senior and Specialist Artificers on a rotating basis from the Guild.	150

Industrial Concerns
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Sycee Trading House	Merchant Bank	Unlocked Sycee Trading House (?)	Consumer Goods Factories factor: −2.5% Infrastructure construction speed: +10% Civilian Factory construction speed: +10% Naval base construction speed: +10% Dockyard construction speed: +10% Railway construction speed: +10% See description: The port of Sycee in the Comely Cape houses the waterfront headquarters of the Sycee Trading House, one of the oldest merchant banks in all of Eastern Zebrica. After the beginning of the Silence, the Trading House's merchant-directors took their business abroad and continued to make their fortunes away from their homeland. A century of consistently-prudent investment and diversification in Griffonia and Equus have brought them wealth beyond our dreams, and now they are ready to make a small portion of that wealth available to us. Returning home, Sycee has become one of the chief corporate supporters of the National Association of Kirin Patriots and their modernizing and pro-corporatist policies, while always maintaining their classic openness to anyone that they can make money from.	150
All-Kiria Artificers' Guild	Electronics Concern	Unlocked All-Kiria Artificers' Guild (?)	Electronics Research Speed: +10% Conversion speed modified by:: +10% See description: Founded sometime during the 8th Century, the All-Kiria Artificers' Guild has long been the vanguard of scientific and technological innovation in Kiria and Eastern Zebrica; the Guild's prolific experimentation with steam and clockwork mechanics in last decade of the 9th Century were the dominant driving force behind the rapid modernisation of contemporary Kiria. The Guild had fiercely resisted the Silence, withdrawing to their strongholds at Massicot and Fragrance and seceding from the Realm. The devastation of Fragrance in the aftermath of a punitive expedition by the last remnants of organised Imperial forces led to the exodus of the surviving members to Griffonia, where the Guild would endure a century in bitter exile. The post-Silence generation of the Guild's leadership-in-exile kept abreast of the latest technological developments in Griffonia, with some even having taken up teaching positions at the prestigious universities of Yale.	150
Sorghum Foundry	Industrial Concern	Peace-and-Plenty (1069): Controlled by  Empire of Kiria	Industrial Research Speed: +10% Steel: +6 See description: The infamous Sorghum Foundry exemplifies a core trend in Kirian history, that being the constant tension between modernisation and the pressures thereof. Founded before the Silence by an enterprising Bannerkirin who foresaw the inevitability of modernization, the Foundry stoked its first furnaces in the city of Sorghum, importing raw iron from the Peaks of Peril and the mountain ranges of the north to process into steel. Just prior to the enactment of the Silence, Sorghum had begun to look like a truly modern city of the time, with new structures of brick and steel being erected in its industrial districts. As the provincial capital of the rural-agricultural Great Mellifluve Delta region, Sorghum occupies a perfect geographical position for labour-intensive industrial production, with its factories presenting a chance for famers from the rural periphery to earn relatively high wages as urban workers.	150

Theorists
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Mayflower Bloom	Well-Meaning Eugenicist	None	Political Power Gain: −5% Monthly Population: −5% Research Speed: +5% Training time: −5% Special Forces Capacity Multiplier: +5% See description: Mayflower Bloom D.Sc., Ph.D., MMSc. is an incredibly talented scientist in her late thirties. She is the cousin to Ardent and Zenith Bloom. She had a cloistered childhood on the Bloom family estate outside of Lotus, in Sen Kinh, back in the days before the end of the Silence. Like her cousin Ardent, Mayflower received her higher education in Yale: at the University of Gamia, becoming one of the institution's foremost biologists. She is an advocate of eugenics as the path to a happier, more harmonious, and peaceful kirin society untroubled by the violence and destruction of the nirik state. Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	100
Felsic Crystal	Military Theorist	Unlocked Felsic Crystal (?)	Land Doctrine Cost: −10%	100
Cobalt Wind	Air Warfare Theorist	Unlocked Cobalt Wind (?)	Air Doctrine Cost: −10%	100
Ginseng Varnish	Naval Theorist	Unlocked Ginseng Varnish (?)	Naval Doctrine Cost: −10%	100
All-Kiria Collegium	Research Centre	(Hidden) Unlocked All-Kiria Collegium (?)	Research Speed: +5% See description: Without brilliant minds at work, Kiria can never enter the modern age, and the All-Kiria Collegium is the gathering of those minds. Created in an attempt to bolster Kiria's intellectual might, the Collegium acts as a mix between a university and a general research institute, working constantly to advance Kirian science beyond the bounds it was confined to during the Silence. The faculty at the Collegium is made up primarily of diaspora Kirin from Equus and Griffonia, augmented by domestic researchers and other foreigners given jobs as professors or visiting fellows. This diverse cast of characters means that the Collegium is a hub of foreign ideas, often drawing the ire of the Way of Fire. Like many of Kiria's other modern institutions, the Collegium is heavily influenced by the National Association of Kirin Patriots though one of their chief theorists, Cypress Snow, who serves as both a professor of Classical Literature and the president of the university. However, the Collegium's role in modernizing Kiria must be valued above its ties to the NAKP, lest Kiria be lost in the ashes of the past.	100
Kiria Circuit Board Fabrication Company	Computronics Concern	(Hidden) Unlocked Kiria Circuit Board Fabrication Company (?) Has researched Early Electromechanics	Computing Tech Research: +10% Radar Research Speed: +10% Encryption Research Speed: +10% Decryption Research Speed: +10% Kirin Numerology Research Speed: +10% Nuclear Bomb Research Speed: +10%	100

Chiefs of Army
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Minty Zest	Army Maneuver (Expert)	None	Division Speed: +10% Army Experience Gain: +0.30 Max. Command Power increase ( ): +20 See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	100

Chiefs of Navy
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Arctic Flash	Commerce Raiding (Expert)	None	Naval Experience Gain: +0.30 Convoy Raiding Efficiency: +15% Max. Command Power increase ( ): +20 See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	100

Chiefs of Airforce
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Serac Wind	All-Weather (Specialist)	None	Air Experience Gain: +0.20 Bad Weather Penalty: −10% Max. Command Power increase ( ): +10 See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	50
Dusk Glow	Air Superiority (Expert)	None	Air Experience Gain: +0.30 Air Superiority Mission Efficiency: +10% Max. Command Power increase ( ): +20 See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	100

Military High Command
Name	Trait	Requirement	Effect	Cost
Alpestrine	Commando (Specialist)	None	Special forces Attack: +5% Special Forces Cap: +3 Max. Command Power increase ( ): +10 See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	50
Burnt Oak	Artillery (Expert)	None	Artillery Attack: +15% Artillery Defense: +10% Max. Command Power increase ( ): +20 See description: Portrait by: Leo the Unicorn	100
Odonata zu Ditrysium	Armor (Expert)	None	Armor Division Attack: +10% Armor Division Defense: +10% Max. Command Power increase ( ): +20	100
Army Assets Administration	Army Logistics (Bureau)	(Hidden) Army Assets Administration is unlocked (?)	Division Attrition: −12% Max. Command Power increase ( ): +30 See description: Officially a behind-the-lines department of the Imperial Kirian Army, the Army Assets Administration oversees the army's supply chain, with a mission to ensure that every piece of equipment purchased or produced for Kiria is up to the IKA's rigorous standards and is then transported efficiently and safely to the common soldier, with said transportation and routes also meeting said rigorous standards. An incident involving the various offices that would end up becoming the AAA was their legal departments suing a great majority of military surplus stores across several cities on the pretence of serving as fronts for resistance groups and other dubious organisations.	200

Military Leaders

Field Marshal
Field Marshal	Traits	Description	Skills	Race
Field Marshal Minty Zest	Kirian Nationalist This kirin is an ardent Kirian patriot and nationalist. Aggressive Assaulter The best defence is a strong offence. Breakthrough: +10%	None	Level 2 Attack: 1 Defense: 1 Planning: 2 Logistics: 2	Kirin

Generals
General	Traits	Description	Skills	Race
General Zenith Bloom	Politically Connected This leader has political connections which has smoothed the way for his career. Perhaps too quickly. Leader Experience Gain: −10% Promotion Cost: −50% Harsh Leader Discipline is necessary to lead an army, but some leaders take it a bit too far. Division Recovery Rate: −10% Attack: +1 Bannerkirin Commander This leader is a commander of a Kirin Banner. The Vermilion Dynasty's Banner System codifies a warrior caste centered around familial clans, all of which can trace their lineage back to ancestors who had served in the army of the first Kirin Matriarch, Incandescent Dawn. This leader would have trained from a young age in martial arts and leadership, so as to carry on their Banner's proud legacy of military service to the Kirin Realm. All Kirin Banners are headed by a Patriarch- or Matriarch-Commander who are the most distinguished member of their clan — usually capable warriors and leaders in their prime. This leader may or may not be the topmost commander of their Banner, but regardless, they are a respected and experienced commander with much seniority. Leader Experience Gain: +5% Experienced soldier losses: −5% Reinforce Rate: +5% Planning Speed: +5% Chance to get wounded in combat: −20%	None	Level 3 Attack: 4 Defense: 2 Planning: 2 Logistics: 3	Kirin
General Lignite	Career Officer Dedicated to the life as an officer, with ambitions to match. Promotion Cost: −25% Reckless A good officer needs to lead from the front. Planning Speed: +20% Chance to get wounded in combat: +50% Bannerkirin Commander This leader is a commander of a Kirin Banner. The Vermilion Dynasty's Banner System codifies a warrior caste centered around familial clans, all of which can trace their lineage back to ancestors who had served in the army of the first Kirin Matriarch, Incandescent Dawn. This leader would have trained from a young age in martial arts and leadership, so as to carry on their Banner's proud legacy of military service to the Kirin Realm. All Kirin Banners are headed by a Patriarch- or Matriarch-Commander who are the most distinguished member of their clan — usually capable warriors and leaders in their prime. This leader may or may not be the topmost commander of their Banner, but regardless, they are a respected and experienced commander with much seniority. Leader Experience Gain: +5% Experienced soldier losses: −5% Reinforce Rate: +5% Planning Speed: +5% Chance to get wounded in combat: −20% Kirian Nationalist This kirin is an ardent Kirian patriot and nationalist.	None	Level 2 Attack: 3 Defense: 2 Planning: 3 Logistics: 1	Kirin
General Alpestrine	Kirian Nationalist This kirin is an ardent Kirian patriot and nationalist. Commando Skilled in Amphibious operations, Air Assaults, and Cold weather conditions - the Commando is a man of many talents. Non-Combat Out of Supply Penalties: −25% Skirmisher Skilled at using probing attacks to test the enemy's strength and to wear them down.	None	Level 1 Attack: 1 Defense: 1 Planning: 1 Logistics: 1	Kirin
General Burnt Oak	Kirian Nationalist This kirin is an ardent Kirian patriot and nationalist. Artillery Leader Skilled at directing artillery in combat. Artillery Defense: +10%	None	Level 1 Attack: 1 Defense: 1 Planning: 1 Logistics: 1	Kirin
General Geyser Stream	Armor Officer Trained as an armor officer. Panzer Leader experience factor: +100%	None	Level 1 Attack: 2 Defense: 1 Planning: 1 Logistics: 1	Kirin
General Verdant Pyre	Kirian Nationalist This kirin is an ardent Kirian patriot and nationalist.	None	Level 1 Attack: 2 Defense: 1 Planning: 1 Logistics: 2	Kirin

The Empire of Kiria does not start with any Admirals, but some can be obtained through various methods.

Admiral
Admiral	Traits	Description	Skills	Race
Admiral Roaring Fire	Bold The difference between a bold attack and a stupid attack is that the bold attack succeeds. Naval Speed: +10% Naval Damage: +5% Blockade Runner Able to rapidly Disengage from Naval Combat. Retreat Decision Chance: +20% Fleet speed while retreating: +15% Convoy speed while retreating: +5% Concealment Expert This officer has completed the government-mandated training course on how not to be seen. Visibility: −10%	None	Level 4 Attack: 4 Defense: 2 Maneuvering: 5 Coordination: 2	Kirin

Cosmetics

Cosmetics
Flag	Country Name	Ideologies	Notes
	Council of North Kiria		Fickle Current rebels in the north, if Rising Sun has also rebelled
	National Salvation Front		Fickle Current rebels in the north if Rising Sun has remained loyal to Vermilion, or has rebranded the Council of North Kiria if Rising Sun also rebelled
	Confederal Union of North Kiria		Fickle Current has declared northern independence
	Viceroyalty of Providence		Fickle Current proclaimed a northern independent viceroyalty
	Empire of Kiria		Fickle Current has won the civil war and united Kiria
	Children of Concord		Second civil war rebellion against Fickle Current
	Kingdom of Concord		The Children of Concord have won their rebellion and Mahogany Blaze accepted the throne
	Commonalty of Kiria		The Children of Concord have won their rebellion and Mahogany Blaze refused the throne
	Vespidae-Korps Operationszone Fragrance		Changeling creditors seize Fragrance after the NAKP loses the civil war
	International City of Fragrance		The Vespidae-Korps has formed a collaborator government
	Protectorate Ost-Zebrika		The Changelings have defeated the Pirates of Nacre and Righteous Realm Army

Non-playable cosmetics
Flag	Country Name	Ideologies	Notes
	Exclusive Naval Economic Zone of South Kiria		Roaring Fire formally granted a fiefdom by Fickle Current
	Sycee Trading House of Kiria		Active participants if a corporate civil war erupts under Fickle Current
	All-Kiria Artificers' Guild
	InterCorporate Authority of the Great Mellifluve Delta Production Region		Neutral sides if a corporate civil war erupts under Fickle Current
File:Western Territories Governate.png	Provisional Government for Peace and Security in the Western Territories
	Pirate Thalassocracy of Nacre		False flag rebellion incited by the Changelings
	Righteous Army for the Redemption of the Realm		False flag rebellion incited by the Changelings

Custom vassal cosmetics
Empire of Kiria path (Supremacy)
Flag	Base Countries	Country Name	Ideologies	Notes
	Lan Kir Militarchy  Sen Kinh  Khamrin	Vermilion Commandery of Zaikiria
	Talarayi  Maglibing  Naugdaw	Vermilion Commandery of the Far South
	Feathisian South Zebrides	Vermilion Commandery of the Zebrides
	Kingdom of Zongo  Tanaigha  Melahaka	Protectorate of Zongo
	Roaman Kaiserate  Imba-Zaru Principality	Protectorate of the Western Regions
	Taungpau	Vermilion Mandate of Taungpau
	Barasingha	Vermilion Mandate of Barasingha
	Doelhi Confederation  Yarildom of Sambar  Yarildom of Chital	Vermilion Domain of Hindia
	Zeblu	Vermilion Mandate of Zeblu
	Stagpal	Vermilion Mandate of Stagpal
	Llambet	Viceroyalty of Llambet
International City of Fragrance path (Supremacy)
Flag	Base Countries	Country Name	Ideologies	Notes
	Realm of Kiria	Peril Range Industrial Combine		Established in the western part of the Realm
	Yarildom of Chital	Hives-Kolonie Neu Olenia
	Roaman Kaiserate	Schutzkorps Zuid-Zebrikaansche
	Kingdom of Zongo	MHI East Zebrika Holdings
	Feathisian South Zebrides	Naval Protectorate Far-South and Zebrides

Economy

Laws and Development

If the Council of North Kiria spawns, it has the following laws:

Laws and Development
Conscription Law	Trade Law	Economy Law
Limited Conscription Recruitable Population: 2.50%	Free Trade Construction Speed: +15.00% Research Speed: +10.00% Factory Output: +15.00% Dockyard Output: +15.00% Resources to Market: +80% Trade deal opinion factor: +30.00% Civilian intelligence to others: +40.0% Navy intelligence to others: +20.0% Market construction boost multiplier: 5.00%	Early Mobilization Industrial Research Speed: +2% Consumer Goods Factories: 30.0% Fuel Gain per Oil: -25.00% Infrastructure construction speed: +5.00% Military Factory construction speed: -10.00% Civilian Factory construction speed: -10.00%
Scientific Development	Society Development	Illiteracy
Substantial Science Base Daily Political Power Gain: +0.10 Research Speed: -30.00% Air Doctrine Cost: +30% Land Doctrine Cost: +30% Naval Doctrine Cost: +30% Special Project Speed: -25%	Newly Industrialized Society Resource Gain Efficiency: -10.00% Supply Consumption: -10.00% Construction Speed: -10.00% Research Speed: -10.00% Factory Output: -10.00% Dockyard Output: -10.00%	Limited Illiteracy Construction Speed: -5.00% Research Speed: -15.00%
Poverty	Race
Negligible Poverty No penalties	Kirin Race Uses Kirin Racial Tree

If the National Salvation Front spawns, it has the following laws:

Laws and Development
Conscription Law	Trade Law	Economy Law
Limited Conscription Recruitable Population: 2.50%	Limited Exports Construction Speed: +5.00% Research Speed: +1.00% Factory Output: +5.00% Dockyard Output: +5.00% Resources to Market: +25% Trade deal opinion factor: -30.00% Lend-lease tension limit: +20.00% Civilian intelligence to others: +10.0% Navy intelligence to others: +5.0% Base construction line speed boost: -5.0%	Partial Mobilization Consumer Goods Factories: 25.0% Military to Civilian Factory conversion cost: -10.00% Civilian to Military Factory conversion cost: -10.00% Fuel Gain per Oil: -10.00% Military Factory construction speed: +10.00%
Scientific Development	Society Development	Illiteracy
Substantial Science Base Daily Political Power Gain: +0.10 Research Speed: -30.00% Air Doctrine Cost: +30% Land Doctrine Cost: +30% Naval Doctrine Cost: +30% Special Project Speed: -25%	Newly Industrialized Society Resource Gain Efficiency: -10.00% Supply Consumption: -10.00% Construction Speed: -10.00% Research Speed: -10.00% Factory Output: -10.00% Dockyard Output: -10.00%	Limited Illiteracy Construction Speed: -5.00% Research Speed: -15.00%
Poverty	Race
Negligible Poverty No penalties	Kirin Race Uses Kirin Racial Tree

Industry and Resources

If the Council of North Kiria spawns, assuming nothing was done by preceding countries since the start of the game, it has the following resources:

Factories*

Military Factories	Naval Dockyards	Civilian Factories	Fuel Silos	Synthetic Refineries
1	0	1 (-1)	0	0

Numbers in red indicate the number of civilian factories required to produce consumer goods, based on economy laws and the total number of military and civilian factories, rounded up.

Resources

Oil	Aluminum	Rubber	Tungsten	Steel	Chromium	Crystal
0	0	0	0	5 (-4)	0	0

Numbers in red indicate how many resources are reserved for export due to trade laws.

If the National Salvation Front spawns, assuming nothing was done by preceding countries since the start of the game, it has the following resources:

Factories*

Military Factories	Naval Dockyards	Civilian Factories	Fuel Silos	Synthetic Refineries
6	0	3 (-1)	0	0

Numbers in red indicate the number of civilian factories required to produce consumer goods, based on economy laws and the total number of military and civilian factories, rounded up.

Resources

Oil	Aluminum	Rubber	Tungsten	Steel	Chromium	Crystal
0	0	0	0	12 (-3)	0	0

Numbers in red indicate how many resources are reserved for export due to trade laws.