Principality of Nossia

The Principality of Nossia was a protectorate of the Karno-Ruthenian Empire and it was founded on 05 January 2016 by Prince Carlo I of Lamburg, inspired by the Principality of Monaco, the Byzantine Empire, the Second French Empire, the Empire of Brazil, and other small kingdoms in Ireland, as much as the Principality of Lampedusa and the Kingdom of Corsica. Nossia operates as a simulationist project. Its cultural aspect lies in the desire to spread the Venetian culture, especially the Talian dialect and its foreign policy is focused on the active participation of the principality in the integration of the Anglophone and Lusophone spheres of micronationalism. It has been the province of the Empire of Lifréia from May 2015 until the end of the Nossian-Lifreian Civil War, when it became independent. On 20 February 2017, after several weeks of negotiation between Carlo I and Oscar I, it was decided that the principality would join the Empire as a protectorate, the first of the imperial history. The agreement between Karnia-Ruthenia and Nossia foresaw that the protectorate would last for a month, since for the imperial government it would be a sufficient period of time for the princely government end all their disputes to join the Empire or give up doing it. Despite the relatively peaceful period, the principality chose to maintain its independence through a referendum held on 16 March 2017, the result of which was recognized by the Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia the following day.

=History=

Early Years
The idea of a "Nossian" nation didn't exist until the breakout of hostilities that led to the Nossian-Lifreian Civil War in mid-July of 2015 in the, until then, Lifréian province of Astra. The governor of the province, Carlo of Lamburg, brother and heir of Ivan, Kanfre of Lifréia who then used the regnal name of "Lopes I", announced, in an internal minute, the intention of the province to seccede peacefully from the Empire. Things got out of hand when a contingent of the 1st Imperial Provincial Brigade, allied with the seccecionist government of Astra, opened fire against Lifreían soldiers on leave at the Plaza of Palco, against orders from the government. The Lifreian response was quick and precise, declaring martial law on the province and lightning the fuse of full-blown rebbelion by the Astrans.