Hessen
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| Local: | CORTO |
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| National motto: THE MOTTO! | |
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| Capital: | CAPITAL CITY |
| Largest: | LARGEST CITY |
| Other: | OTHER CITIES |
| Currency: | CURRENCY |
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| Organizations: | Holy Roman Empire |
PEOPLE'S STATE OF HESSE
Originally a fief to the Dukes of Franconia, and later attached to the Thuringian court, Hesse came to its own as a landraviate in 1247 under a branch of the Brabant house. Landgrave Philip of Hesse, or Philip the Magnanimous later brought the territories of Hesse together following a long series of border disputes with neighboring states.
Hesse was partitioned in 1567 upon Philip’s death to his four sons, who established capitols in kassel, Marburg, Darmstadt and Rheinfels. Rehinfels and Marburg both fell during the following century, and were restored to the remaining lines, producing Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1814 and 1815, large territorial awards were granted by the Congress of Vienna, greatly increasing the size of Hesse. In 1868 Hesse, Frankfurt and Nassau were all merged, and Kassel was appointed the capitol.
Hesse was largely battered during the Second Great War, and the Battenberg family was driven from the country. Though the name may be misleading, the People’s State of Hesse is not a Communist country, and is lead by a president, and is an active part of the Holy Roman Empire. Since the capitulation of the Bavarian government to the Communist Party, Hesse has continued to grow in its economic stance in the HRE, passing Bayern more substantially each year.
Hesse’s industry is in large part focused on chemicals and pharmaceutical production, as well as mechanical and electrical engineering. The Adam Opel AG car factory in Ruesselsheim, one of the largest in the world, brings Hesse to the forefront for Foreign Capital investment in the HRE.
There is also a large service economy; legal, accounting and IT services, which promises growth since the launch of the first artificial satellite in space in 2001.
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| Anhalt | Baden | Bavaria | Bremen | Brunswick | Hamborg | Hannover | Hesse | Lippe | Luebeck | Luxemburg | Mecklenburg | Oldenburg | Premaria | Prussia | Rhineland-Palatinate | Saarland | Saxony | Schleswig-Holstein | Thuringia | Waldeck-Pyrmont | Westphalia | Wuerttemberg | |||
| Colony: Rickerman-Insel |
