Statistics
Name - Status Pontificius (Latin) / Stato Pontificio (Italian) / Estat Pontifici (Catalan) / Estado Pontificio (Spanish)
Continent - Europe
Capital - Castellum Pontificium [Ciutadella]
Administration
Head of state - Pope Innocent XV
Head of government - President of the Pontifical Commission --------
Legislature - Pontifical Commission & Council of Deputies (initiative), Council of Administration (decision)
President of the Council of Deputies -
President of the Council of Administration -
Judiciary - Signatura Justitiae
Prefect of the Signatura Justitiae -
Form of government - Apostolic theocratic elective monarchy under a semi-democratic executive constitution
Form of law - Canon law
Demonym - Minorcan
Geography
Area - 695.8 km^2
Largest cities
-Castellum Pontificium - 51,000
-Mahon - 32,000
-Sanctus Martinus [Es Mercadal]
Time zone - TMP+00:00
Currency - Minorcan lira
Demography
Language - Latin, Italian, Catalan, Spanish
Population - 146,000
Density - 209.83/km^2
Symbols
National festival - Anniversary of the Election of Pope Innocent XV
Anthem - Hymnus et modus militaris Pontificalis
Motto - Ad majorem Dei glorium
History
-papacy flees to Minorca after having been forced out of Spain after its revolution (Heads of Spain > Presidents of the Spanish Republic)
-the Knights Hospitaller give up their sovereignty
-after war ends with Spain not returned to forces of reaction
-and because papacy believes its temporal sovereignty is necessary
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, of Malta, and of Minorca
Head of state - Grand Master --------
Anthem - Ave Crux Alba
Motto - Pro Fide Pro Utilitate Hominum
Knights Hospitaller History
-in the wake of War of the French Revolution (1792-1804), British Isles gets Minorca
-serves as very important naval base for the British in the region
-however, during Second French War (1821-32), Franco-Spanish fleet invades Minorca in 1825, try to get it
-simultaneously Franco-Italian fleet occupies Malta, takes over lands of Knights Hospitaller
-causes shock across Europe as Knights Hospitaller respected
-British Isles gets British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), in the middle of Franco-Spanish fleet invading Minorca
-massive confusion, but part of Franco-British peace treaty is that Knights Hospitaller (or rather a remnant of it) granted compensation for Malta in the form of Minorca in 1828
-Spain, fearing alliance b/w Britain and France crushing it, reluctantly accepts it
-Knights Hospitaller re-create themselves in Minorca
-a fair amount of migration from Italy, particularly from Naples
-quickly forms as neutral port
-campaigns against piracy, however this has for the most part been totally destroyed by French Algiers misadventure