Grand Duchy of Venus

The Grand-Duchy of Venus is a group of LGE's colonies in Planet Venus established on 9 September 2014 with the goal of dividing and organizing celestial territories of the Lomellinian Galactic Empire. It's capital and largest city, Duchy of Ovda Regio, has an extremely hostile atmospheric condition, a surface colony on Venus is not possible with current technology. The atmospheric pressure and temperature approximately fifty kilometres above the surface are similar to those at Earth's surface and Earth air (nitrogen and oxygen) would be a lifting gas in the Venusian atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide. This has led to proposals for "floating cities" in the Venusian atmosphere. Ovda Regio and the other 2 colonies, Tethis Regio and Artemis Corona remained unclaimed by any terrestrial nation or micronation until 9 September 2014 when the Principality of Lomellina claimed the colony as lomellinian territory.

Government and politics
The Grand-Duchy of Venus is an absolute monarchy like it's sovereign state Lomellina. However the head of state is depicted as a Grand-Duke(chess) wich can control the member-duchies of the grand-duchy in this case, Ovda Regio, [Tethis Regio]] and Artemis Corona, but obeys ligeance to the Empress of LGE, [[D. Tânya Correa D'Ornellas]]. The Grand-Duchy can establish laws and traditions to themselves and the member-duchies, and each of them can establish a sub-council to the Lomellinian Aristocracy. Usually the title of duke/duchess are given to the High-Nobility Aristocrats and in some cases to the Lomellinian Infantes.

List of Grand-Dukes

 * vacant

Territories
The Grand-Duchy of Venus currently has 3 colonies in a total of ~10880 km² (4200.8 mi²) being the lasrgest group of territories in Lomellina.