States of Edropia

The Federal Republic of Edropia consists of twelve partly sovereign federated states, with Drefort usually referred to as a city-state, despite also including smaller towns near Drefort, while the other eleven are described as area states.

Federalism has a long history in Edropia, dating back to the creation of the Northern and Southern Edropian Alliances in 1831. The alliances were created due to the strong rivalry between the Kingdom of Gralia and the Kingdom of Cromerania, both of which had high influence over Edropia and were interested in uniting Edropia into a sovereign empire with themselves as the emperor.

The Northern Edropian Alliance was led by Gralia and included Crosshaven, Newmarsh, Norwick and Surwick, while the Southern Edropian Alliance was led by Cromerania and included Atrilia, Drefort, Halmere, Milchester and Thornhampton, with both alliances making promises of protecting the sovereignity of the nations and incorporating them with their current borders as states into the new empire.

The growing tensions eventually led to the Gralo-Cromeranian War (1838–1844) that ended with the victory of the Southern Edropian Alliance and the creation of the Edropian Empire with Fletcher II of Burrows, the king of Cromerania at the time, as its first emperor.