The Republic of Medici is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Spain's Balearic Islands and the Italian island of Sardinia. It consists of an archipelago comprising 170 square miles of land and 651 square miles of land and sea, and Citate Di Ravello serves as the country's capital.
Medici was first inhabited by the Baleares, who built several temples revering bulls. The island was a warzone between Rome and Carthage during the Punic Wars, and the Romans eventually conquered the island, which they called Salrosa. The Romans established the capital of Manaea and built aqueducts and temples that survived into the 21st century. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Salrosa fragmented into mercantile city-states which built new settlements, cities, and even star forts during the Renaissance era. The island was eventually reunited by a cadet branch of the House of Medici, which lent its name to the republic.
Medici's multicultural character, in which Italians mixed with Spaniards and North Africans, among other groups, produced a unique Medician language and culture. The island was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, but it was later liberated by Allied forces after much devastation. During the Cold War, NATO utilized Medici as a staging ground for its nuclear ICBM tests, and the island became a tourism hub due to its vast beachfronts and warm, Mediterranean climate.
During the 1980s, General Sebastiano Di Ravello seized power in Medici with the help of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), cementing Medici's status as an anti-communist, right-wing authoritarian ally of the United States against the Soviet Union. While Di Ravello's reign was marked by prosperity brought about by the tourism industry, he also developed a cult of personality spread through propaganda vans, the erection of statues in his honor, the creation of "Di Ravello Week," and the terror brought about by the Di Ravello Militia paramilitary group. In 2015, the Liberar Salrosa rebel group initiated the Medician Civil War from their bases in southern Medici, and, with the help of the retired CIA agent and Medician exile Rico Rodriguez, they were ultimately able to shut down Di Ravello's pending Bavarium exportation deal with the United States and take over much of the country. Di Ravello was killed while trying to flee the country in his Bavarium-powered helicopter, enabling the populist leader Rosa Manuela to establish a democratic government in Medici.
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