Removed the following from Fantasy Counterpart Culture for being unnecessarily chatty and detailed.
Only they're universally loved, Irish, had their capital at Istabul for awhile, they have a serious hardon for the military, they've ruled most of Europe for the past few millenia but never India or North America, they're extremely accepting of other cultures, have a powerful monarchy comprised of supernaturally good people, have had two dynasties is several thousand years, and are generally more like Super-Rome/Britain/maybe-a-little-India-or-China than anything else.
Removed the following from Fantasy Counterpart Culture for being unnecessarily chatty and detailed.