Republic of Palorium

The Republic of Palorium or Palorium is a human superpower nation located in the northern taiga biome, bordered by the Independent Territory in the south and the sea in the North. Palorium is the birthplace of the republican governing system and remains the biggest republic in the Mortal World.

Palorium is a seafaring nation, with most of its imports coming from nations overseas. Due to its heavy reliance on oversea trade, Palorium has the largest navy in the Mortal World. Due to its large naval influence, Palorium also has many territories overseas. These territories are primarily governed by Palorian politicians, typically former Generals.

Palorium's government is the Mortal World's only Matriarchy, with women controlling the government and occupying the highest positions within the workforce and family unit. Males primarily only serve leadership roles within the military, which is primarily served by men.

Male and female roles
Palorium is sited as being unique in its roles between men and women in society and culture. While every other nation in the Mortal World follows a patriarchal system in politics, work life and family life, Palorium is the only nation that has a matriarchal system in place. Men are subservient to women in Palorium culture. Women serve as heads of the government, they often take leadership roles in the workplace and their status is the highest in the family.

While women are of a higher status than men in Palorium, men are not seen as "useless" or "completely inferior" in Palorium culture. Men often serve in parts of society that take advantage of their strength, such as construction or the military. The Palorium military is the only of Palorium life where men dominate. This has created a microcosm in Palorium culture, where men can obtain superior roles that they could not get anywhere else. Palorium Generals or Admirals who led a successful colonization campaign will often become the governor of the newly colonized land, this is the only way a male can become a government leader in Palorium. Due to the opportunities men get in the military, the Palorium military has a very high retention rate.

This matriarchal system has created a culture rift between Palorium and other nations and this has caused Palorium to have a low immigration rate. However, Palorium has a high population of young female immigrants.

Although this role reversal between men and women is seen as odd to outsiders, a vast majority of Palorium males view this culture as normal.

Presmotopian War involvement
The Presmotopian War, also known as The Blood River War, was a massive world war that included the Azerath Nations and Authoranian superpowers against Presmotopia and her allies. Palorium was infamously neutral during the conflict, although this has been put into question by Authorania and several other nations since the end of the war.

It is believed by the Authoranian government and several other governments that Palorium secretly funded Presmotopia and even contributed soldiers to her army in secrecy. Most of these claims have been denied by the Palorium government although they do acknowledge sending shipbuilders to Presmotopia after Authoranian spies caught the act. Palorium denies that the shipbuilders were there for war, claiming Presmotopia paid for shipbuilders to build merchant vessels in order to export goods across the sea.

Authoranian officials claim that Palorium invested massive amounts of money into Presmotopia which is the reason why the small insignificant nation grew so rapidly. Any documentation on these transactions don't exist but Palorium's past secret funding campaigns to extreme religious groups and nations has caused some suspicion.

Authoranian officials also claim that Palorium loaned soldiers and marines to Presmotopia, under the terms that their nationality be kept secret. This claim has more proof behind it as several captured Presmotopian soldiers were suspiciously fluent in the Palorium language and some did not speak any Presmotopian-Authoranian at all.