Holy Roman Empire

The City of Gods
The Pope was a Satanist; his Consul a staunch Catholic, and there flock in utter disbelief to the insane regime upon Mount Terminillo. The Vatican had fled to the hills, leaving Rome a barren field of flowers. There was no beauty; only flags and flat walls of sandstone. It's easy to call it the Holy Roman Empire, as it's a miracle that it even occurred. Not only considering it's Pope, who's head was made of metal, and his mind had been pecked away by vultures. But overall the sheer incompetency of it's Pontifical Army, which had to be led by a mercenary army of ardent Homosexuals; Transsexuals, and most importantly to the needs of Pope Nicolas VI, Professionals. Where this history commences is with one coke can, put into power to legitimize the Parisian Regime.

The Papal Puppet State
Pope Nicolas VI, also known to contemporaries as Colaboy2012; airheaded idiot, and the Soda Pope. Had his beginnings as a French-backed Italian regime, meant to bolster the power of the French Kingdom, and so that they could say that God had there back. They, by contrast to the man put in charge of God's City upon Earth, had plenty more than what the Soda Pope offered. There was experience among them, able to hold there own in conventional conflict. The only conflict the Pope would see in the beginning is against nature herself, whom threw at him several scores of the undead, and those that would make him dead. Was the Vatican suppose to be art? You could not differentiate a homesteaders dirt shack from the Vatican. It is no wonder then how they rose to power. By the summit of idiocy displayed; dumb charisma, and pity from the Ambrosian Republic. It could have helped that the French Kingdom died off from inactivity just weeks later, allowing for a power vacuum which was quickly, and ruthlessly exploited.

Just HOW MANY Crusades?
To put it succinctly, 13 Crusades. That is how many were ordered under the Pope. They redefined the maps, as it lead to the discovery of the America's just to wring the life out of a Native's neck. It was also a tool for advancing the goals of the Pope, to have the City of God triumph under his command alone. Steadily after the fall of Paris, the Italian realm was united under the Papal States. The former sentence of course had to discount Milan, which stood as a legendary city state, there architecture, and moreover there culture, put every city of the HRE to shame.This was the group which would ultimately be the sole contributing factor to the HRE's success, waging Crusades when the Pontifical Army could not, and bringing the East to it's knees. It took 13 Crusades to assure there goals were met, just so the Pope could look over the Empire he hadn't forged, with an oblivious smile which said he did it himself.