Steele Brand

We're tribal, we're federal, we're confederated.

You keep that stuff out in the East.

Okay, so that's the structure overall of the Federation.

Now, the Republic itself.

The Republic is a nut that no one can crack throughout history.

ancient history.

That Roman Republic, it generates so many citizens by bringing all of its citizen soldiers, as many citizens as possible into the Roman Republican structure.

So Macedon has levies, but they really rely on that

really sharp warrior class to win their battles.

Whereas Rome is like, no, we have farmers and their citizens.

We made farmers citizens.

Now let's make these citizens soldiers.

And we're going to train them to do that on the farm by working hard and by going and fighting people out in the mountains every year.

And we're just going to do this for the entirety of our existence.

There's like five to 10% of years when Roman boys...

And young men aren't going out and fighting battles out.

Because we have all the campaign records.

They know how to fight just as ferociously as a Macedonian.

And so these boys are all taught how to fight.

And then when it gets to fighting for their republic, that's what we do.