Izeryk Realm Guard

The Realm Guard (Izersprek: Rykskyld) is the national of Izeryk, responsible for its defense and consisting of four service branches.

Factionalism
Within the Realm Guard is a complex intersection with Izeryk's royal government and civil bureaucracy, operating under a highly fragmented command structure with competing interests. Izeryker military officers—who may serve directly under the Izeryker monarch and her federal secretariats or under a lower princess or duchess as part of a Duchal Army—are known to possess highly polarized views as to the strategic purpose of the Realm Guard, particularly with regard to imperial expansion. As a result, no single element of government has complete control over the means to use force and the military is an entrenched element of Izeryker politics. At the operational level, this factionalism has been widely criticized as increasing inefficiency, volatility, and cutting the effective deployable manpower of the Realm Guard by 60%. Historically, it has resulted in several attempted coups d'etat at the hands of lower nobles, although this has not occurred on a large scale since 1913.

Revinists
The Revinists, translating roughly into "reclaimers", center their military policy on the invasion of Continental Avinia.

Zonvegists
The Zonvegists, translating roughly as "way of the sun", believe that the primary task of the Realm Guard should be to project Izeryk's power around the globe and force potential conflicts to occur as far from its shores as possible. The Zonvegists are the dominant voice within the Realm Armada and Territorial Armies, which are Izeryk's main expeditionary warfighting services. High ranking leaders in the Realm Core's Duchal Army—the army with the Empress as its commander-in-chief—also espouse Zonvegist values, as Empress Anika II's primary foreign policy imperative is maintaining Izeryk's overseas empire. As a result, Zonvegists are typically also federalists, supporting the centralization of state power in the hands of the federal monarch.

Konservists
The Konservists, translating as "conservatives", are a loose ideological group that believe the Realm Guard should not be used for military intervention abroad when the home islands are not directly threatened. Unlike the Revinists and Zonvegists, the Konservists are not a semi-organized entity. Rather, they are composed primarily of senior officers serving in the Duchal Armies serving the principalities ruled by the Izeryker royal family and ethnically Izeryker duchies.