You would? Are Tagmatium citizens easily scandalized or something?
Anyway, the motivation behind the Batory Empire. This may turn out to be rather long, bear with me.
The nation I played primarily on NS, and other sites, was one called Callisdrun. It was pretty weird already. In many ways, it was a lot like modern day Scandinavia. Similar, perhaps more extreme climate (sorta like RL Scandinavia meets San Francisco meets Seattle, for very little sunlight), similar terrain, socio-economic levels and policies, etc.
There are a few important differences, however.
15% of the population I specified as being moroii, a type of vampire (not of the sparkly variety... this was back in 2004 before anyone had heard of such a silly thing as glittery vampires). While the term "moroii" is not original, these vamps were thought up by myself and a friend, and tweaked until they were workable as a living organism (not undead) that I could use in my regular RP's and not just in fantasy settings. In short, they don't need to drink as much blood (and can also eat regular food, in fact, they have to), they're not instantly killed by sunlight, and they're not immortal. Feel free to ask more about that in another question, as that's not the main focus of this answer and it's already getting too long.
The second really huge important difference was that Callisdrun ICly had never been converted to Christianity. As I'm sure you could surmise, this has pretty vast implications, because so much of our modern day society is based upon judeo-christian social norms. Although much has changed and things are much more secular now, the enormous influence of Abrahamic religion is still quite present in western culture.
This resulted in Callisdrun being perceived as quite left wing in a number of areas due to the wholly different basis for the culture (though Scandinavia, the closest thing to a "model" for Callisdrun, is also highly left-wing). On a couple issues, however, because "pagan norms transmuted to modern day life" don't necessarily equal "all left-wing political views," Callisdrun could be rather right wing. For instance, it's very militaristic and nationalist, because the traditional religion says nothing about turning the other cheek or loving your enemies, in fact, quite the opposite. Immigration is also very difficult into Callisdrun, and illegal immigrants are viewed as interlopers who should be ejected, even by the more left wing political parties. One of the more important deities is the fictional Ithtyr (based to some extent off of Ishtar, a Sumerian goddess, and the Morrigan, an Irish one), a goddess of lust, vengeance/war, the earth/nature, moroii, and death. So it's a very sex-positive and environmentalist society, if not a very pacifist one.
In this fictional nation, many of the usual dichotomies of politics did not apply. It was very, er, not American (not UnAmerican, as that has an implication of being against the US).
How does the Batory Empire figure into this, since I've not really mentioned it so far?
The Batory Empire is essentially an alternate history of the area that would otherwise be Callisdrun.
I usually try not to say "an alternate history of Callisdrun," because in this timeline, Callisdrun never existed as such.
In Callisdrunian history, before there was Callisdrun, there were a number of little city-state kingdoms/queendoms, much as was the case for, say, England, before its unification. Most of these had pretty much the same ethnic group, peoples who would later become known as Callisdrunians (much as the Senones and Arverni were different 'nations' but both still Gauls). Central-Eastern Callisdrun was part of the Batory Empire, which at its height was larger than Callisdrun ever would turn out to be, and included a variety of ethnicities, though its leadership was of the same ethnic background as the other Callisdrunian city-states.
This Empire had been in place for a while, and was on its second dynasty, having enjoyed ups and downs throughout the centuries. In the century before Callisdrun's unification, the Batory Empire was actually at its height, led by Empress Sarkany (the Batory Empire only has Empresses, no Emperors), nicknamed "The Dragoness." However, there was a problem. Sarkany Batory was infertile, and had no heirs. It so happened that before she could expand westward (conquering the other Callisdrunian city-states), and before she had designated someone to be her heir, she was thrown from her horse and broke her neck, dying.
This touched off a succession crisis that basically led to civil war and the collapse of most of the Empire. The weakened state of the Empire allowed Drun and Callisdrin (the names are stolen from fantasy novels, as much of my stuff is, admittedly) to conquer all the other city states, and eventually Drun beat Callisdrin and merged with it, forming Callisdrun (cheesy explanation for the name, I know). A few years later, Callisdrun conquered the tiny remainder of the Batory Empire, which ceased to exist (though its rulers, the Batory moroii clan, did not die out).
That's regular Callisdrunian history. That all took place between about 745 and 825 CE.
Usually I've portrayed Callisdrun in RP as sorta the "good guys." It's a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliament, etc. Big on human rights, all that good stuff.
This can be limiting, however, because it means that some things are just not in the nation's character to do.
An RP friend and I speculated one time about what would have happened had Sarkany Batory not been killed before designating an heir. It was an interesting idea that I'm surprised I hadn't thought of before. It seemed interesting, so I decided to do it.
The premise is that Sarkany Batory did NOT die from falling off of her horse, and came to terms with her own infertility, designating an heir and ensuring a stable succession. Naturally, she did conquer Callisdrun, and a whole mess of other stuff.
What really made the decision was my love of weirdness. I realized that a surviving Batory Empire would be even more amusingly bizarre than Callisdrun, and would be awesome because it would fit into none of the ideas about what political terms mean and what the dichotomies are.
I also love ancient history, and the Batory Empire is basically an ancient state that has somehow survived to the present day. It is not based upon any modern day model of government or society. The most recent states to bear any resemblance to it are the Qing Empire (which ended with the Chinese revolution in 1912), and possibly the Ottoman and Hapsburg Empires, which, of course, ended with the close of WWI.
It's basically an exploration of how an ancient empire would look if it somehow still existed.
To my glee, it doesn't really fit the political compass at all. It can't really be placed on either the social authoritarian/libertarian axis or the economically left/right axis. While it's not ancient times anymore, the way the Batory clan views the world is much the same. One of the major changes though is that they've come to terms with evolution and no longer claim to be the heirs of Ithtyr (that lust/vengeance/nature goddess I mentioned earlier)
Ironically, the shorthand for politics that it fits best is the NS game one, with civil liberties separated from political freedoms. In the Empire, there are few restrictions upon behavior, and little "moral legislation." Obviously, however, there's very little political freedom.
As far as economics goes, I like having a nation that doesn't at all fit into traditional left/right wing, communist vs. capitalist economic debate. On the one hand, the Empire's government has many policies that one could call rather socialist. On the other hand, it could also be seen as the ultimate libertarian state. Why? Because the Empire IS the property of the Empress. Everyone else is technically a tenant.
I also like scandalizing people and demonstrating that western culture's social norms regarding sexuality are not necessarily the default ones. While I don't subscribe to Batory sexual views (they're perverts even in my opinion), many of them are not that outlandish and have been commonly held at some point in history by some society in history.
Basically, in short, since this is very TL;DR, I wanted to make a nation that was much more like an ancient Empire than any modern state, partly out of my love of being weird and not fitting into regular ways of thinking, and also partly to satisfy my own curiosity. It's been pretty fun, so far.
Anyway, hopefully I can answer other questions without this huge a post.