Aueras

(All Infos about the kingdom here, please. I will put them in order later -Skaz Dark)

The kingdom Aueras on the continent Freia.

Crown Prince: Hansbach Tam Stellin

Second Prince: Wedrick Tam Stellin

Prefecture's:
 * Balivia
 * Town's:
 * Whitestag
 * Kafreizit
 * Gourneygada

Military:

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The kingdom's land-based armed forces is split into three entirely independent pillars.

The army was the first.

It was constituted of the forces under the king's command via his appointed officers mandated with protecting the king and his lands, by any and all means so deemed necessary, from the armed actions of others who claimed their own right to rule. They had no de jure or de facto responsibility to enforce the king's laws, however, and as such rarely acted domestically, unless there was a large-scale uprising or an extensive natural disaster. Their main presence was along the kingdom's landside borders. They did have extensive powers, however, quantified and expounded by various laws under the ‘by any and all means so deemed necessary' clause of their mandate. One of which they were particularly fond, was to conscript locals to do the menial labour in major construction projects such as erecting new bases or various military installations. They did not, however, generally conscript villains. In fact, it was very difficult, if indeed practically possible at all, for a villain to have anything to do with the army other than as their professions -- mainly prostitution -- guaranteed. They weren't outright banned from volunteering, but there were stringent background checks, exams, and evaluations almost no villain was likely to pass since they'd had to have done something in contravention of those rules to become a villain in the first place. The military also wasn't a career for them as it could be for the peasantry. While the peasantry could rise up the ranks and eventually become dignitarians, and dignitarians could rise even further and become nobility, villains almost never became anything more than menial labour and occasional cannon fodder.

The second pillar was the keepers, mandated by the king to maintain, by the means deemed so necessary by the king through his relevant regulations, the loyalty and obedience of the king's subjects -- both those living in peace under his reign and those serving in his armed forces. Unlike the army, they had the de jure responsibility and power to enforce the king's laws as expounded under the ‘maintain the loyalty and obedience of the king's subjects' clause.

The keepers were divided into two branches, the constabulary and the keeperage. The keeperage was the combined equivalent of old earth's ‘special police' and ‘metropolitan police'. They operated in defined zones, called keeperages, usually in and around the prefectural capital and any other big cities in the prefecture, and were only rarely deployed to the countryside outside of them. Each keeperage was an 800-to-900-man-strong tribe, made up of four clans. The keepers rarely, if ever, deployed forces outside their keeperages in any strength less than a whole, full-strength clan on the rare occasions they did operate outside their own areas. Constabularies operated in defined zones, much like their keeperage counterparts, also called constabularies -- but these were generally more rural in location and centred around smaller settlements such as large towns or villages.

The keeperages were manned exclusively by retired military veterans. Coastal keeperages tended to have more navy personnel, while inland keeperages had more army personnel. Their constabulary counterparts, while they did technically allow civilians to join them directly without having first served in the military, rarely had a shortage of retiring soldiers such that they opened recruitment to civilians. As such, the entire keepers were almost entirely just keepers, the keeperages so by regulation, and the constabularies so by supply.

In peacetime, a soldier generally had to serve for fifteen years to earn enough dignity to become a dignitarian. Those who made it into the keeperages usually spent their first seven years with the military, then retired to join the keepers where they served for their remaining eight years, while those who didn't, usually retired to the constabularies instead, though they generally remained with the military a year or two longer than those that made it into keeperages.

The keepers, keeperage and constabulary both, were also part of the broader reserves, though they were less likely to be called up than retired-to-civilian-life veterans, and when they were, were generally called up to more specialist units and senior ranks in accordance with their skills and experience.

The third branch of the military were the sentry forces or guard forces. Their numbers fluctuated greatly depending on the kingdom's needs. For example, in war time they might make up as much as a third of the entire armed forces, deployed behind the front lines to keep the peace and maintain control in occupied areas. In peacetime, however, relegated to simply sentry duty, they were a minor presence at best, relegated to the positions well behind the kingdom's borders too unimportant for the army to bother watching over themselves, but that still needed some kind of presence. The old fort ruins on Egret Island was one example. Their unit sizes were just as fluid as their overall size, varying depending on how many men were needed to reasonably guard a position, though they were rarely anymore than a clan strong in any one location. Despite being part of the kingdom's armed forces, they were not, however, under the king's command through any appointed officials. Instead, they generally reported to local governors or officials under mandate from the appropriate authorities, such as the keepers, the navy, or the army, and were, as such, funded by those people. As lax as their general administration might appear, and generally was, the regulations governing their use and operation was very strict. Since the king and his upper government or military did not have direct administrative command of such forces, and did not generally directly call for or disband the individual units, they were very careful to legislate their operations and powers in such a way that they could never be used as private armies. One of the regulations was that only civilian-life-retired veterans and, in extreme circumstances, civilians in the peasant caste or higher could serve in them. Villains were outright banned from any service in guards, and the families of villains made so by heinous or treasonous crimes were also banned from service.

- Tent (Squadron) 10-12 men led by staff sergeant or sergeant-major

- Band (Platoon): 4 tents - 54 men led by sergeant-major or second lieutenants. Staffed with medical personnel, guard, communication unit, and logistics troops.

- Clan (Company): 4 bands- maximum of 320 men led by second lieutenant or first lieutenant. Supported by adjutant, communication unit, medical personal, guard unit, and logistics troops.

- Tribe (oversized Batallion/small Regiment): 4 clans- around 1,200 men led by captain or major. The smallest combat unit of the army. Given the right to act independently to execute tasks assigned to them. Supported by second-in-command, staff officers, a communication squad, a medical personal squad, an enforcement squad, and a guard platoon.

- Special Independent Tribe (Independent Battalion): 1,800 men led by lieutenant colonel. Consist of 4 direct combat company of 1,000 men in total, 1 light cavalry company of 280 men, and 1 artillery company of 240 men. 1 garrison platoon and enforcement platoon. 1 company of logistics unit with an additional guard platoon, a support platoon, and staff.

- Line (oversized Brigade): led by Colonel; a aurean line has four tribes and one keeper clan and a number of additional staff with an expected total of 5400 man.

- Folk (halfsized Corps): Led by a General. Four lines, a keeper tribe and cannoneer tribe. Including staff it has a maximum of 25 thousand men.

- Independent Folk: Led by a General. One main force the size of a folk, a cavalry line, an independent enhanced combat tribe, and a cannoneer tribe. Total including staff of 32 thousand men.

- Corps (reduced size Army): Led by a marshall. It has two folks, one cavalry line, one keeper line, and two cannoneer tribes. In total 60.000.

Military Ranks

Soldier Class:

-Recruit -Soldier -Corporal -Sergeant -Staff-Sergeant -Officer Class -Master-Sergeant -Warrant Officer -Sergeant-Major -Commissioned Officer Class -Second Lieutenant -First Lieutenant -Captain -Major -Lieutenant-Colonel -Colonel -Major General -Lieutenant General -General -Marshal

Court Ranks and Four Caste -Royalties --King --Prince/ Princess -Noble: The highest caste of the four caste. Does not own receive or own fiefs but could receive Deeds which gave them the right to govern a territory on the behalf of the king. -Duke -Marquis -Count -Viscount -Baron -Half Noble: -Baronets -Knight -Dignitaries: Compose of people who raised from the ranks of peasants through making contribution to the country in art, academics, business, or service in the military or the government -Peasant: -Villian: