The Most Serene Lettonian Republic is the byproduct of decades of revolutionary upheaval in the former Lettonian Empire. It is perhaps the cultural superpower of Nirvali, having imprinted Latin (which is still spoken in the Republic, along with its neighbors) across many nations through conquest and wicked imperial integration. Today, the Republic is a constitutional monarchy, ruled by the House of Caesar, though most power lies in the Republic's unicameral senate, which has 800 seats. It is a neutral state, having avowed itself to stay out of foreign conflicts which once decimated it to near destruction, unless it is forcibly attacked. It is a nation without ambition or aspiration, and wholly dedicated to the lives of its citizens, to their welfare, to the combating of corruption of all kinds. Lettonia is also the beating heart of the Church of Soacism, a polytheistic religion practiced in much of its former empire.