{-<\Baron/>-} is a government from Final Fantasy 4 but is not quite the Baron that the players were left with from the end of the game. Here, the Kingdom has been recaptured by former agents of FF4's villian Golbez, the Four Fiends of the Elements led by Rubicant. For this reason, Baron has been "returned" to being an evil government. The course of roleplay has further seperated Baron from its Final Fantasy counterpart, as it has become a Kingdom based largely on promoting education and research, as well as a government that claims to have the divine right to rule. A religion based off of the Fire Crystal, the Phoenix, and the former King Rubicant is widespread throughout the Kingdom, and acts to keep people both distracted from their and loyal to the Monarchy. Baron's main strength is their vast Airship fleet, the biggest in the world, and they act as a Guardian and protector to the Fire Crystal. Baron typically does a very good job of covering their "evil" deeds, which may lead many to trust them regardless of very questionable motives. It is fairly know throughout the world that most Baronians hold a grudge against most of the "humanoid" races, and this is further illustrated by nearly every Baronian town being populated by non-humanoid races. Indeed, many of the citizens of Baron are what the rest of the world would call "monsters." Along with their massive Airship Fleet, Baron also boats the most magically oriented population than any of the other Governments.

<)TheEmpire(> is derived from primarily The Empire from Final Fantasy 6, but differs from the original in many ways. The history of Empire basically being destroyed after Kefka betrayed Gestahl remains, but after Kefka was defeated and peace came back to the world, Imperial loyalists in the tradition of the honorable General Leo came together to eventually rebuild the Empire. One of the most important of these was the Emperor Jay. Under his reign, the Empire became a very tolerant and open government, swearing off the use of magicite and anything else harmful to Espers. Perhaps one of the most important things Jay did was open the Empire's borders to the recently homeless Al Bhed. The Al Bhed were a group of technologically advanced people from Final Fantasy X. History remains that their Home was destroyed, but diverges from the game in that they remained homeless and mostly shunned by the rest of the world. They found refuge in the Imperial cities. Over the years, they became a very integral and vital part of the Empire. It wasn't until Jay's daughter Rasha marries an Al-Bhed named Meuh and they passed into the line of succession for leadership that the Al-Bhed lineage took power and the two cultures were officially merged into the Al Bhed Empire. With the influence of the Al Bhed, The Empire has abandoned using Espers and other such real sources of magic, but instead places a heavy emphasis on Machina technology. In this tradition, any previously existing MagiTek armor has been converted into Machi-Tek Armor, and all development toward weapons of that nature are now completely Machina.