Orlais

Orlais
A powerful presence in the Germanian continent, Orlais has long stood for the principles of Equality, Democracy, and Success. Although balancing the three has not always been easy. However, stability has been reached, and the Orlesians are feircly proud of their country. The following article will hopefully provide a bit of understanding to the complicated Orlesian nation.

Rave
Today Orlais is known as the home of Rave. With an extremely liberal drug policy, including legalized MDMA (Ecstasy), it certainly has the right environment for raving. The fact that so many raves are held in Orlais yearly, has created a humongous tourist industry, in which hundreds of thousands of techno/dubstep/electro fans gather from around the world to party without fear of arrest.

Military
As any nationalistic nation, Orlais is very proud of its military. The weapons industry is one of the few that is not nationalized, in order to increase competition. Military recruits go through an extremely brutal 16 month training program, which explains the small number of troops in the Orlesian Armed Forces. However there is a seperate branch of the military known as the Accueil Forces de Défense, which is much larger in number than the Armed Forces, but also much weaker. The AFD acts as more of a national guard than a military branch, and it's only function is defense in the rare event of an invasion.

Religion
While freedom of religion is encouraged in Orlais, the government is extremely secular, almost hostile, towards religious institutions. Which has in turn created a society that tends to be mistrusting of organized religion. Whitch shows, with about 53% of Orlesians considering themselves Deist.