Marley

Māre (マーレ) is a nation inhabiting the expansive continent to the west of Paradis.

History
In ancient times, Marley was a powerful nation. Over 1,800 years ago, the dominion of Marley was threatened when Ymir Fritz, a queen of the Fritz family who ruled the "Subjects of Ymir", made a deal with the "Devil of All Earth" and was granted the power of the Titans. After Ymir's time, her "soul" was split into nine Titans who inherited her power and formed the Eldian Empire. With the power of the Titans, the Eldians waged war against the Marleyans, utterly destroying their nation and obtaining complete rule over the continental mainland. Over the course of 1,700 years, the Eldians would designate all other races of the world as inferior and resort to genocide and rape in order to cleanse the world of other peoples.

Many centuries after Eldia's ascension to power, the 145th King of the Fritz family inherited the power of the Progenitor Titan, the greatest of all Titans. Rather than maintaining order in Eldia as his forebears had done, the King chose instead to relocate the capital of Eldia to the remote island of Paradis. In the King's absence, the surviving peoples of Marley rose up against their oppressors, starting the Great Titan War. At this time, Marley succeeded in obtaining seven of the nine Titans in Eldia's possession, drastically turning the tide of the war. Over an unspecified amount of time, Marley gradually gained control of the continental mainland that once was ruled by Eldia until only Paradis remained as King Fritz's undisputed territory. At this time, in the year 743, King Fritz used the Progenitor Titan to guide countless Colossus Titans in the raising of three concentric walls, Maria, Rose, and Sheena, around Eldia's remaining territory. In order to force peace between Eldia and Marley, King Fritz gave the ultimatum that any further act of war against Eldia would be met with the releasing of the countless Titans within the walls. With this, the Great Titan War ended.

Marley would remain the dominant influence in the continental mainland for the next century, segregating the remaining Eldians of the mainland into internment zones.

Technology
The Marleyan society is technologically more developed comparing to the Eldian society within the walls. There are civil transports powered by battery and fossil-fuel, such as blimps and automobiles, although these seem to be available only to the wealthy, non-Eldian population. Electricity seems to be in use, as there are loudspeakers mounted on the walls surrounding the Liberio Internment Zone.

Eldian minority in Marley
After the Great Titan War, the Eldians who remained on the continental mainland were designated as low-class citizens. Rather than resorting to genocide, the Marleyans chose instead to segregate the Eldians from the rest of the population into designated ghettos under the watch of the Public Security Authorities. In later years, the Marleyan populace saw the Eldians as inferior by blood due to their ancestor Ymir Fritz's deal with the "Devil of All Earth".

Military
The Marleyan armed forces is a rapidly-developing force which is mentioned to have made incredible advancements in military technology in recent years. These advancements are shown clearly by the triplanes and an ironclad-style warship it possesses, although it is unclear if the force has dedicated air and navy branches. Its soldiers are equipped with bolt-action rifles and revolvers.

Titan shifters
Adding to its conventional force, Marley also possess seven Titans which assure its position as a world power. This power is eclipsing, however, as advancement in technology are beginning to undermine the military importance of Titans. The Marleyan government is aware of it, therefore it planned to conquer Eldia in order to take over the immense fossil resource laying beneath the island, continuing its military supremacy in the new era. The plan was hindered by King Fritz's threat of unleashing Wall Titans upon the world in case of a Marleyan invasion.

Warriors
In order to counter King Fritz's ultimatum, the Marleyan government decided in the year 830 to grant the power of the seven Titans in their nations possession to a selection of Eldian children. The families of those chosen children were promised to be made into honorary Marleyans with all freedoms that come with the distinction.

Fifteen years later, in the year 845, Marley sent out four of their warriors, Bertolt Hoover, Reiner Braun, Annie Leonhart, and Marcel, from their settlement known as the "Hometown". These warriors were given the task of breaching the gates of the walls in order to wipe out the Eldian race and take the Coordinate, or Progenitor Titan, from the royal family. They succeeded in breaching Wall Maria, though their efforts in breaching Wall Rose were halted upon learning that Eren Yeager was had the power of the Titans, leading them to suspect that he held the Coordinate they sought. Since that revelation, the goal of the surviving warriors has been to capture Eren Yeager in order to obtain the Coordinate.

Public Security Authorities
The Public Security Authorities is responsible for repressing the Eldian minority in Marley, such as restricting Eldian movement in and out of the Liberio Internment Zone and exiling undesired Eldians into Paradis. Brutal behaviors against Eldian are encouraged within the force. For example, Gross, a PSA soldier, had his sons sadistically killed Fay by unleashing a horde of dogs upon her for entertainment. The deed did not seem to hurt his career, as by the time of Grisha's exile to Paradis he has attained, or was still keeping, the rank of Sergeant Major. Despite its power, the PSA was actually heavily infiltrated by the Eldian Restoration Movement to the extent that the latter was able to get its hands on censored historical records and important government documents. For example, Kruger, aka "the Owl", was a high-value Eldian agent who managed to become at least on par with Gross within the PSA command hierarchy. It was not until Zeke Yeager's defection that the PSA was able to weed out most of the conspirators. The role and behavior of its troopers seems to make it analogue to the Military Police Brigade within the walls.

Politics and Diplomacy
The Marley presumably has a poor relationship with an unidentified eastern nation. The Eldia Restorationists had considered using the Progenitor Titan to gain support and defection from this enemy nation, though their efforts failed. Whether or not this nation is Paradis or some separate territory is unknown.

Trivia

 * Marley technologically resembles an early 20th century nation from our world.
 * Marley's policy of segregating Eldian into ghetto parallels . Coincidentally, some named Marleyans and Eldians have German-sounding names.
 * The history of Marleyans and Eldians is also comparable with that of the Rwandan populations of Hutu and Tutsi. By 1700, the Rwandan populace coalesced into around eight kingdoms, of which the Tutsi Kingdom of Rwanda became dominant and oppressed the Hutu, fueling a hard relationship between the two races that lasted for centuries. In 1994, during the Rwandan Civil War, the then Hutu majority government perpetrated a which resulted in the extermination of around 70% of the Tutsi population.
 * Rwanda was also a German territory from 1884 until World War I.
 * Since Isayama is Japanese, the Marleyan government's exploitation of ancient grudges for expansionist purposes might have been inspired by the, where the memory of the is kept alive by the government for nationalistic purposes. The landmass size difference between Marley and Paradis also reminds one of China and Japan.
 * The memory alterations to people on Paradis to make them forget the past might have been inspired by the Japanese government's own attempts to downplay and deny Imperial Japan's war crimes.
 * If turned upside-down and mirrored, the territories of Marley and Paradis are very similar to the real life continental territory of Africa and the island of Madagascar, respectively.
 * This also coincides with the Rwanda parallelism, as Rwanda is an African country located at the northwest of Madagascar. When turned upside-down and mirrored, Rwanda is at the southwest, and it is said that Titans primarily target the southern regions of the walls (although the exact location of Marley within the continent is still unknown).