Republic of Piscodia

The government of Piscodia was first established after the withdrawl of the Kingdom of Sunþiruda from the area in 1027 SC, after which the town elected its first representatives of the republic. This first republic of Piscodia would soon rise to become a major power in Acledina, despite its small land area, thanks to its rich fishing waters. The city would also become a center of banking for the region, with merchants trusting the families of Piscodia to maintain their wealth. However, Piscodia's government would shortly become monopolized by these banking titans, who came to control the state and eventually established an oligarchic system of Tyranid rule.

In the early 1200s, these families sought to expand their influence, and began sending agents to the nearby city-state of Insulana, which was closely allied to Floren- some said too close. Worried that the nation was on a path to becoming a Floreni sattelite, the Piscodians would attempt to insall their own puppet ruler by raising popular resistance. In 1126, it was revealed that these anti-Floreni were working with the Piscodians, prompting a bloody reprisal by the Insulanan Tyranid. However, this led to war with Piscodia, which sent forces to aid their allies in the city. Of course, Piscodian intervention prompted Floren to send their own forces to the city, which soon became a battlefield. In the end, Piscodia was forced to retire to the headlands, installing their own suppet Tyranid in the coastal village of Amioni. This "Amioni Tyranid" would be opposed by a Floreni puppet in the city proper. However, after several years of skirmishes and low-intensity warfare, things remained inconclusive, and a peace treaty was signed in 1135. Although the Piscodians failed to actually achieve their aims, dominating the Insulanans allowed for them to take advantage of the fishing waters off the headlands, thus improving their economy. Nonetheless, the loss in Floreni banking revenue actually led to the city's finances decline, and the rule of the Tyrani became shakier.

Since neither Floren or Piscodia side wanted to annex their Insulanan subjects and thus lose their claim on the half of Insulana the other controlled, the two puppet states remained in place for decades before a new conflcit emerged. In 1142, the old Giriþiudan Gens, who had been ruling the city as Floreni vassals, was deposed by Floren and replaced with a Floreni Gens, whose new Tyranid was disliked in the city. This led to the exile of the Giriþiudans, who secured a marriage with their rivals in the headlands in 1149. This gave Piscodia additional claim to the city, and the Piscodian Tyranids began preparing for a new conflict. With both gens behind them, Piscodia attacked Floren in 1153, but this war also ended inconclusively, and squandered much of the city's wealth. However, when Floren's ruling gens entered into a house feud with the gens of controlling Insulana in 1188, the once-Floreni Tyranid invited his two rival gens into the city and seceded, putting Floren in a hard place and unable to press their claim, though they nonetheless attempted to invade Insulana once more. With the burden of this war falling heavily on Piscodia, their Insulanan subject ended up being able to assert its independence and slip from their rule, all while the Piscodians wasted countless men and vast sums of wealth fighting the Floreni over nothing.

During the 1200s, Piscodia was in turmoil as conflicts between the old elites and new-rising gens who hadn't involved their wealth in the state's expansionism came to a head. With ties to the Blazennian Empire, one of Piscodia's young gens managed to come out on top and establish a new Tyranid government, while also bringing the Blazeological faith to the nation. Bitterly resisted by the old elites, the nation would see a century of coups, counter-coups, and uprisings before finally the old gens were pushed out of the city itself, whereupon they began attempting to expand their estates into the hinterlands. They would soon come into conflict with the expansionist state of Mediolene, which used this as an excuse to conquer the state in 1332, and make it a part of their growing kingdom. The Mediolener period of control lasted for around 60 years, until 1401, and after this Piscodia was freed.

After their liberation, Piscodia has ceased to be an important banking center, and had only the fishing industries to rely upon. Seeking other avenues of wealth, the city would begin expanding inland in earnest. It enjoyed several quite centuries, aside from war crimes along the frontier, and eagerly began colonizing the new continent of Ifyrial, following in the footsteps of the other powers. However, due to the city's general weakness, they never managed to retain more than a small foothold on the continent, thus preventing the colonies from being a ticket to wealth and cementing interior expansion as the only viable method by which the state would prosper. Intrigue would ramp up again within Insulana during the mid-1800s, as land grabs in the interior and the discovery of deposits of silver and copper there led to new gens becoming powerful, with the rule of Piscodia changing between various gens tyrani multiple times betwen 1800 and 1900. However, the 1900s would be a dark time for Piscodia. The arrival of Dragan Ivar's Army proved a great threat to the city, which depended upon salt extraction to export its fish to the world- this was from salt pans just inland from the city and therefore just outside its wall. With the city of Piscodia itself put under siege, only the fishing industry kept the city afloat (since the fish could not be exported their price fell and thus people could afford them even with many refugees having lost most of their possessions), renewing their faith in the Blazennian goddess of the ocean in particular. After the death of Ivar', Piscodia worked with the other northern cities to push the Erleting frontier far inland, securing new lands for several generations of citizens to take advanatge of.

Piscodia is largely dependent upon fishing and salt-panning to maintain its wealth, especially in the city of Piscodia itself. However, much of the interior provinces are good rangeland, and many deposits of silver within the mountains have been found, thus giving the nation a diverse economic future, if it can actually develop these other industries to the level of fishing. Piscodia has little agriculturally viable land by area, but most of the capital region outside of the salt panning regions are rich, ancient farms which mainly produce wheat.