Formed several hundred years ago after a series of bloody (and costly) naval battles that left the coasts of Bottomswell Bay a snag of broken masts and hollowed-out ship hulls, the Coracre Republic as it currently exists is a loose collection of city-states and territories that have agreed to set aside most of their differences in order to pursue what the powers-that-be have decided is truly important - the collection of ever larger piles of coin.