>>5166098>How much land are we talking about here, considering the Republicans are flatly refusing?It's land accumulated over many years, decades, bitten off in chunks over repeated wars. Ellowie has never been able to gain territory since the fall of the Grossreich's Sosalian holdings- as it hasn't been in a position of strength for a long time.
Keep in mind that Ellowie was strong- and then the Reich rolled in, and it decided to submit rather than resist. This gave them assistance in subduing and right to rule over the territory where Twaryi is now; and all the troubles that came with it. The red lines are Ellowie's borders at their height, and the blue, in case it was forgotten, are their present borders...at least, before the country was double teamed finally and conquered. As one might notice, the old borders are right up at the capital; because Netilland was founded in a relatively chaotic period, by Republican-minded Reich governates, who then seized more territory to secure their borders, from then, all the way up until now. Of course, with anti-Reich sentiment, the Ellowian Kingdom was seen as unrighteous holders of this land, and to be true, it was indeed land that does not hold Ethnic Ellowians exclusively, but Alexander purposely threw a wrench into what people could and couldn't define as cultural ethnicity when he took over and instituted his cultural purges.
