Zanscare Consortium (Galactic Century)

The Zanscare Consortium is one of the primary factions of Mobile Suit Gundam Alpha. One of the larger and more powerful nations in the modern day, albeit still dwarfed by the likes of the Earth Federation, Zeon Empire and Sanc Kingdom, Zanscare is renowned for its distinctive culture (which is vaguely similar to AD era Eastern Europe), its varying stability and prosperity throughout the ages and for being one of the few diarchies (a government which holds two heads of state instead of one) to ever exist.

Originally a Federation colonial world, Zanscare would eventually break away from Earth and establish its own standalone republic in G.C. 13. Unfortunately this would lead to a chaotic age, in which poverty was rampant and resources scarce, eventually devolving into a full out civil war between Republican loyalists and Nationalists rebels. The Zanscare Civil War would, in turn, last twenty years until the Nationalists emerged victorious, in turn establishing the diarchy government with two of their leaders, Gillian and Rebecca Gattle, taking the thrown as King Odysseus I and Queen Penelope I.

From its inception, the Zanscare Consortium would have a randomized existence, shifting from ages of peace and stability at one point in time to nearly devolving into another civil war, or war with outside nations, the next. In the modern day, Zanscare is engaged in the First Galactic War against the Zeon Empire, though unlike most other nations it has largely held its own against Zeon advance. That said however, it is widely believed that it is only a matter of time before Zanscare succumbs to the Imperial war machine like so many others.

Trivia

 * The Crux Republic, as hinted at by its name and structure, is the Galactic Century incarnation of the Jupiter Empire from Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam.