Austria (Utopia)

The State of Austria is a Central European country located in the Balkan region and just the south of Germany. It is the fourth most populous country ahead of France and behind Great Britain, Germany and Russia.

History
Austrian Empire era

Prior to the existence of the empire, Austria was a smaller nation called Kingdom of Vienna. The military of Vienna had an advanced military equipment and tools and were well trained, making it the strongest and most competent in the Balkan region. When Gerald III representing Hasburg family took the throne as the king of Vienna, he took this military advantage to conquer more kingdoms in the Balkan.

After conquering Hungary and Croatia, he renamed his kingdom into the Austrian Empire in 1497. He proceeded to expand further into the region and eventually taking Serbia and some parts of Bulgaria. During his reign, he either purged or forced the non-Austrians into adopting Austrian language and culture. This is called Austrianization and it was successful. In 1521, King Gerald III died and his oldest son succeeded him and adopted the name of King Louis I. Just like his father, he was an effective leader. He expanded to the East and took some parts from Kievan Rus and Byzantine Empire. He also significantly improved Austrian navy and conquered many parts of Northern Africa from Mussad Caliphate, causing it to collapse due to significant territorial losses. He also established relations with Sardinia (Italy), Prussia (Germany), Francia (France), Portugal and England (Britain) and his empire frequently traded with them, making Austria economically rich. When the Ottoman rose and took Constantinople from Byzantine in 1538, he and the other kings of these empires formed a alliance called the Great Entente, the first ever alliance to be formed in history to combat the Ottomans.

When the Ottomans reached Austria's doorstep in Africa, they regularly clashed, and most of these conflicts resulted in the Austrian victory. As Byzantine fell into a civil war, the Austrian quickly intervened and established the Kingdom of Greece as its puppet to prevent the Ottomans from expanding into Greece. In 1542, King Louis I died and his youngest sister succeeded him, declaring herself as the Queen Glacia. In the first place, many Austrians thought that Queen Glacia was not as effective as her brother and her father due to her gender as well as being the youngest daughter of Gerald III. However, overtime she actually proved her worth to her people. Queen Glacia's army easily took Cyprus from the Ottomans and returned it to the Greek in 1544. She also poured a lot of money to research and develop new military weapons and tactics for her military, making Austria even more powerful. She also sent out forces to help England to conquer the British Isles and helping the English to establishing the Empire of Great Britain in 1555. She eventually died in 1570 at the age of 78. Her son, Georgie Hasburg succeeded her as King Georgie I at the young age of 16. King Georgie regularly had his navy and land troops to train with the British and the Italian. He also helped to improve the infrastructure across the empire. When the Great Plague happened in 1577, his empire somehow avoided getting affected by it. This led to King Georgie to spend a lot of money on medical research to develop a cure for the epidemic.

By 1560, a cure was made by a team of Austrian doctors who were close friends of King Georgie and the medicine was then traded to other European countries affected by the plague, thus ending the epidemic. He and the doctors was then honored by his allies for saving Europe. Fast forward to 1590, the Polish Commonwealth invaded Prussia, causing Austria to declare war on Poland along with other members of the Great Entente. During the war, the Austrians had trouble in battling the Polish, and they suffered a lot of casualties. This led to King Georgie to establish a group called the Austrian Free Fighters in 1592. Basically, the members of the organization sneaked into many Polish military fortresses to steal supplies. This was a success for the Austrian and it became the turning point of the war for the Great Entente. As they lost many supplies, the Polish military were unable to fight against the alliance and in 1593, it finally surrendered. The Prussians took many western parts of Polish Commonwealth while the Commonwealth collapsed and a new regime was created to become the puppet of Britain as well as becoming the British Kingdom of Poland.