The Province of Greece

Established with the signing of the Grecian Accord, the province of Greece is a bipublic, a republic with representitives assigned by both Nordsted and Rome.

Our Earth has no historical records of a bipublic. Every five years, the emporor of Rome and the people of Nordstead each select seven Grecian Electors to sit on the Grecian Counsil. The Counsil then votes to elect a Chancellor to lead the Grecian Counsil. After budgetary expenses are paid for, the income of the government is split three ways between the two major nations and the Grecian treasury.

In the years following the Great War, the region went through an economic crisis. The land had been ravaged by decades of battle, most of which took place in what would become Greece. The newly instituted government could do little to rebuild or help those displaced by the destruction, as any tax increase would only raise a third of the total funds acquired. Seeing an oppurtunity, a few wealthy families from both Rome and Nordsted moved to Greece and spent large sums of gold to rebuild much of Greece, most notably, to completly renovate the capitol city of Athens. They retained ownership of most of the newly built infrastructure, and began charging reasonable tolls, just enough to reclaim thier wealth. Some objected to this, but most Grecians were just glad to no longer live in squalor. Eventually these families would become beloved by many of the people of Greece, and with much of the province under thier control, establish themselves as major political powers. To this day, there is a strong oligarchical presence in the governance of the Province.