Montsoirre

The Confederation of Montsoirre, is a powerful nation found in central western Euresta. Despite its small size, in both territory and player numbers compared to the rest of the Top League, Montsoirre is at number 6 in the League Table and holds formidable influence. In fact, by the rules of the Top League; namely to have over 5 million active players, Montsoirre shouldn't even be qualified. It holds this position, for one reason and one reason alone. Montsoirre is incredibly rich. It is by far the richest faction per capita in the entire game, Trevona coming a distant second. Montsoirre has the money to hire powerful mercenary groups to defend its already highly defensive Mountain fortress of a country. More important than this is its reputation, Montsoirre is global hub of money in game and the host country of many of the banking guilds. An invasion of Montsoirre would crash the economy of the entire world and so no nation in their right mind would do so.

Geopolitics
Montsoirre holds a unique position in the game world. Due to its importance to the global economy, it has no vocal enemies aside from distant allies of Rokov and Anfaran who can afford to. Even Rokov and the Anfaran Empire themselves have learned to respect Montsoirre. Montsoirre also has a friendlier relationship with these taboo nations than many other western powers. It's wealth gives it a little more freedom from the moderators than others. Despite all this, there are many countries that are quietly jealous of Montsoirre's success and want nothing more than to rise up and take its crown. Montsoirre's closest ally is Trevona who it shares a powerful trade network with.

History
The confederation hasn't always had this power and has had many attempted invasions over the years. The most dramatic of these events was the Great Rush of Hokenbor Pass, a two month assault of a secret mountain pass into the country by an alliance of North Solan Nations in the spring of 1780. The City State of Drinci found the pass and quickly formed an army and invaded. As soon as this weakness was spotted though, a dozen more nations charged in. Montsoirre hired a great number of elite mercenary companies that slowed the invasion to a halt. The south of the nation turned into a bloodbath as Trevona joined the war on Montsoirre's side and attacked the invasion from behind. In the end the Solan states surrendered. Almost 2 billion troops were lost and the game world economy plus the real world economy, took almost a year to fully recover.