Grand Transalpine Principalities

The Grand Transalpine Principalities are a federation of monarchic principalities in Europe, west Africa, north Australia, the Atlantic and the Pacific under the current rule of Crown Princess Maira I.

General Information
The languages used as lingua francas are French, German and English. The crown residence is currently Stuttgart, Germany, the residence of crown Princess Maira I. There is no unitary state religion, instead local pagan traditions are still practitioned.

Principalities and Capitals:

 * South-West Germany: Stuttgart
 * Bavaria: Munich
 * Eastern Germany: Berlin
 * Salesia: Breslau
 * Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur: Nizza
 * Catalonia: Barelona
 * Aragon: Saragossa
 * Denmark: Copenhagen
 * South Sweden: Malmö
 * Middle Sweden: Stockholm
 * Azores: Ponta Delgada
 * Madeira: Funchal
 * Canares: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
 * Cape Verde: Praia
 * Senegal: Dakar
 * Northern Australia: Catherine City
 * Antarctica: Penguinsburgh

Political System
The Principalities are a federated representative and constitutional monarchy with basic democratic grassroot politics.

Every principality is made up of municipalities which are autonomous units and which decide their issues in assemblies of all inhabitants hold with the consent and veto principle. They elect a representative which brings issues that concern more than themselves to the princesses court.

Then all representatives gather at the court with imperative mandates from their municipalities and the princess moderates the assembly and brings it to the court of the crown princess if necessary, where the issue is discussed in an assembly of princesses. The elected princesses are usually women because of the matriarchal traditions of the regions shared culture. The princesses are representatives to their principality to the outside world and the crown princess is the representative of the grand transalpine principalities and represent the assembly of princesses. There is a constitution which illustrates in more detail how this all works. the crown princess is elected by the assembly of princesses from their own ranks all 6 years and the court of the crown moves to the elected princesses principality which she still also governs.

History
The principalities union have their origins in the great peasant uprisings of the late 15th century when the big rift between the nobility and peasants in Germany, France and Denmark became deep enough to be unmendable. The peasants overthrew their lords and installed a mock nobility whose only function was to ridicule the former class in power through weekly satiric plays. Over the next century, the popular mock lords and ladies became popular enough to become serious representatives for the growing grass roots movement of self-managed peasants, whose ideas spread into regions in Sweden, Spain, Poland and even as far as Senegal and Australia, everywhere uprisings produced sovereign principalities which bonded over a common cause of self-determination and eventually federated to become the Grand Trabsalpine Principalities.