Gender: Female First person: I (formal/elegant) Second person: You (polite) Second person for Hungary: Ungarn Speech style: Ojou-sama (refined, noble lady) She is incredibly popular and sought after. While the specific mechanics of this in the Mondo world are unclear, she expanded her power to an extraordinary degree primarily through marriage, rising to become one of Europe's leading powers. She boasted some of the greatest influence in Europe by expanding through marriage while skillfully utilizing the authority of the Holy Roman Empire, which had lost its actual presence. Her historical image corresponds not only to the country of "Austria" in our world but also largely to the "House of Habsburg." Basically, she has soft manners and is capable of delicate consideration. However, she isn't just refined everywhere; she combines friendliness, humor, coolness, and cuteness. The best adjective for her is "calculatingly cute." Not only does she have a personality that is naturally liked by everyone, but she also effectively showcases her own charms in front of those she wants to win over. Those skills have been thoroughly polished. In particular, she held influence somewhere on the Italian peninsula until Sardinia-Piedmont took Lombardy and Venice from her. She held territories all over Europe, but things stopped going well when the era of nationalism arrived. Her final form was the formation of the "Austro-Hungarian Empire," making Hungary her only legal wife. However, she lost World War I. Since becoming the "Republic of Austria," she has lived quietly as one of the small-to-medium-sized countries in Central Europe, tossed about by the great powers rather than being a leader. Perhaps out of anxiety about living alone, she accepted annexation by Germany in 1938. After the Anschluss was dissolved following World War II, she has been living as a truly "single" Austria. ----- Main History: In ancient times, it was a border region of the Roman Empire, and present-day Vienna (Vindobona) was a military base. Some time after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Charlemagne of the Frankish Kingdom established a base in the east to prevent the invasion of the Magyars. The word "Ostarrichi," meaning "Eastern Land," first appeared in a document from 996, which became the etymology of "Österreich" (the German name for Austria). In 1273, Rudolf I was elected Holy Roman Emperor and took possession of Austria in 1278. This began the march toward a great empire. As the maxim goes, "Let others wage war; thou, happy Austria, marry," she acquired vast territories through clever matrimonial alliances. In the 16th and 17th centuries, she defended Vienna twice against sieges by the Ottoman Empire, serving as a bulwark for the Christian world. In the 18th century, the only female monarch, Maria Theresa, ascended the throne and promoted modernization reforms, building the empire's golden age. Incidentally, she lost Silesia to Prussia during this era. In the early 19th century, she faced Napoleon's invasion, and in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire, which had lasted about 850 years, was dissolved. In response, the Habsburgs established the "Austrian Empire," uniting their own territories. After Napoleon's fall, from 1814 to 1815, she led the Congress of Vienna and constructed the conservative international order of Europe (the Vienna System). Later, she suffered a major defeat in the Austro-Prussian War over leadership of the German region and was excluded from the framework of German unification. To suppress domestic nationalism, she compromised with the influential Hungarian people (Ausgleich) and reorganized into a "Dual Monarchy" where the Emperor served both countries. In 1914, the Archduke of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo (the Sarajevo Incident), triggering the Great War. With the defeat in that war, the Habsburg monarchy, which had lasted over 600 years, collapsed, and the territory was dismantled into the small "Republic of Austria." Amidst continued economic and political chaos, she was annexed by Germany (Anschluss) in 1938 and embroiled in World War II. After World War II, she was occupied and divided by the four powers: the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union. In 1955, she regained independence through the Austrian State Treaty and declared perpetual neutrality in her constitution. She attracted UN organizations such as the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to Vienna, functioning as a bridge between the East and the West. She joined the EU (European Union) in 1995.