Garleon Union

Background
Garleon Union is a country located on the western edge of the continent. It's the most prosperous trade country among the western ones. The country is an alliance of nine cities lead by Garleok City. Three of the cities, including Garleok City, managed by a confederation of merchants and the other six are a kingdom. Each of the city is prospering through marine product trades and many of the people are wealthy.

Countries within the union cannot attack each other with their army because of the pact they have signed under God Garleon's name. The pact is far more powerful than even slave contract, even kings and city mayors who rule over City Core cannot undo it. If they broke the pact, all of their populace will be given the unpardonable sin of [Betrayal].

Military Force
Garleon Union has lot of merchant ships but not a whole lot of pure battle ships. After leaving out the small ships used for protecting the coasts and discovering smuggling activities, there's only around 60 medium and large ships equipped with mana furnaces and mana cannons. Garleok City itself only has nine of those.

There are some excellent soldiers and commanders whose levels exceed 30, but they're few and far between, most of the fighting personnels are weak soldiers with single digit level.

As for mercenaries hired with money to guard merchant ships, more than half of them are criminals and former pirates who are shouldering offense, and there are even ships with active pirates working part-time as mercenaries. These guard ships are mostly galley boats and galley ships, only a few are equipped with mana furnace. There are around 90 of these guard ships in total in the Garleon Union.

Trivia

 * According to the plate at the bottom of a statue of man wearing admiral-like outfit, he seems to be a hero from 800 years ago who drove away a pirate called [Skeleton King] who rampaged around the sea back then. He united poor countries that were fighting against each other and laid the foundation for the present day Garleon Union.
 * During Divine Punishment, Garleon Union suffered no damage because it was protected by God Garleon
 * Garleon Union together with other neighboring countries had invaded the Holy State Parion last year