Second Seleucid Empire

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The Reborn Empire of the Seleucids, or simply the "Second Seleucid Empire" was a nation in Europe that lasted between 2005 to 2053. The first country to unify the Mediterranean Sea since the era of the Roman Empire, the country took a moderate approach during the three-way cold war with Aeternia and Imperios, each striving for their own goals.

History
Plans for an empire to reunite the Mediterranean again flew through Europe over the years, but the SSE's formation in 2005 after a civil war in Italy would soon pave the proper path and put two millennia of unfulfilled promises to rest.

The SSE quickly scrambled for dominance during the Third European War, invading and taking over a good chunk of the Mediterranean including Croatia, Albania, Greece, Ankara, the Iberian Peninsula and some of Occitania, but failed in it's invasions of Persia, Caspia and most of the Mediterranean Africa, though in later years it would emerge victorious. After the TEW ended, the SSE had possibly the largest land taken in the aftermath with even the Aeternian invasions of Scotland (now Grand Britain) and the sweepings of the majority of Europe through Imperios merely rivaling it. Now with the country on potentially a two sided invasion coming up, the SSE attempted to negotiate non-aggression pacts between the two other superpowers of Earth. Aeternia accepted, Imperios refused.

The SSE established it's government in late 2020 shortly afterwards, attempting to be similar to it's predecessor in numerous ways. It also established it's true goal afterwards with the rise of Aeternia's Grand Avalon plan and Imperios's Hyperborea plan, creating the Umayyadusia Plan. Even with it's successful invasions of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia among others, it still felt hungry for more powerful, but with the coinciding wars in Africa, it didn't feel like the right time to strike. So with the recent new cold war coming up with Aeternia and Imperios nearly duking it out, the SSE attempted to focus on internal matters and it's only major event in the 2030's was a failed invasion of Arabia, though like it's past wars this would soon turn around.

In 2035, Aeternia recruited the SSE for one reason; to join it in a plan to destroy Imperios. Initially, the SSE hesitated, fearing due to Imperios's recent nuclear arsenal projects thinking of it as possibly the end of humanity. But soon, the two properly allied and when the Aeternian-Imperion War broke out in 2037, the SSE took a defensive approach by distracting Imperios's forces; somehow, this worked and there were not enough to defend the mass scale invasion of Imperios by Aeternia and the SSE. This managed to also unify the two halves of the SSE at the time and the war successfully unified the Mediterranean, finally putting 2,000 years of merely proposals to a quiet end.

In 2040, the SSE soon began to suffer an economic crisis, which evolved into an economic collapse. Soon heading down a path of governmental and soon national collapse, the SSE formally declared itself disbanded in 2053, putting a 48 year reign to an end.

Government and Politics
The SSE tried to put it's government as close to the first Seleucid Empire as close as possible, following a king-heir system in which whoever was directly related to the emperor's bloodline would be chosen as their successor once they died. However, it was possible to intervene into the heir system by attempting to promote a challenger into the ascendency, and the emperor could negate or accept the offer. The new addition often serve as a replacement should the level of ascendency's current acting member be killed, go missing or other related incident happen.

Near the end of the SSE, the intervention system was dropped and the people introduced into the current chain of command were relieved of their status.

Trivia

 * In the map that the SSE originated from, it's territory was large and comparable to the country of Al-Andalus; it stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran, but did not own Italy.