Ventosuan Republic

The Ventosuan Republic is a country located in the Balkans and Apennine Peninsula.

Scenario
During the societal collapse dubbed "The Collapse of the Modern World", Greece was an early country to fall, while Italy was relatively late. After the collapse, Greek and Italian settlers united under the Ventosuan Alliance. On February 13th, 2210 AD, the areas pledging allegiance to the alliance united under the Ventosuan Republic: a joint state between the two ethnic groups.

The new-born republic saw interest in conquering some Motropolian lands, most notably Venice, the part of the one-month old republic's western port on the Adriatic sea. Since this hasn't been accomplished to this day, the two countries were always rivals of each other. The attempts to conquer the areas in most of its existance is called "The Ventosuan Attempts at Motropolian Conquest", of which there were 25, each spread between 1562 and 1754 on the new cycle, of which 22 resulted in ultimate defeat, the opposite of what they'd hoped. The prime reason for failure was Motropolia being backed by multiple stronger countries, of which it was the reason for 16 of the 22 failed attempts.

But that didn't stop the country from succeeding everywhere else. Today, it is one of the few powerhouses in the world: it succeeds in trade, labour and military areas. Unemployment is at an astounding 0.4% of the population, import goes in and export goes out, and has the biggest military spending in Europe.