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The "Common Navy" is a parallel service of the Commonwealth with naval ranks, pensions and traditions but no cannons or missiles. Instead, the Great White Fleet serves the conscience of mankind, with a mandate of compassion, mercy and international solidarity

"Justice by bread or sword" is the military creed of Vekllei, but it is easy to understate the sincere belief the country has in both of those things, as two sides of the same commitment to dignity. So rarely does bread receive even a fraction of the attention of the sword.

The Common Navy is an expression of the Commonwealth as a country and its values, but also an expression of internationalism and the declaration of human rights achieved by the United Nations in their victory over Nazism. A hundred years on they carry on this work.

This is such a cool concept, I can’t wait to learn more about the setting you’ve created. I’m sorry it received a sour reception from cynics (and worse) on Twitter.

All this modern infrastructure (navy, trains, trams etc.) makes me curious about how Vekllei is able to source all the materials and resources to build it.

It’s clearly not easy for the country to import, as it runs (at least internally) off of a moneyless economy, and it would seem to have much less land to rely on for mining and other such due to being a set of island states