Name: The Democratic Republic of Rome
Territory: Northern Italy, Northern Coast of the Adriatic
Form of Government: Demo-Republican Absolutism
A bare-bones explanation of the system goes something along the lines of this: The people vote for it's Senate members, mimicking the democratic practices that rose to dominate Europe after the last fall of the Empire. This Senate selects a pair of Consuls from its own and these Consuls act as commander-in-chiefs and judges to the highest cases of the state. Consuls also serve to attempt to put certain state-wide policies or agendas (i.e. decrease military funding to reinvest the money into infrastructure and the public school system). For the most part, the Senate is in charge of legislative affairs.
There are five major political parties, most of which are associated with sports teams (i.e. The Blue Party is connected to the sports team, the Blues. This connection developed when the requirements to become a Senator became much looser, a lot of the rich and influential that funded the games were able to implant themselves in politics, firmly bonding the Roman political and entertainment worlds for years to come).
Religion: The Vatican-Nicenic Sect
The Sect is a creed of Roman Catholicism that focuses on centralizing religious authority around the government to justifies it's rule and its actions (think: divine right but rather that justifying monarchies, it protects the sanctity of the democratic process) It isn't nearly as authoritative as it sounds on paper, it's a group of teachings and interpretations that back up a stable transfer of power and safeguard it from the ambitious and malicious who would want to re-establish an Emperor, not a religious personality cult. Essentially, you n would hear about it every now and then at Mass, but other than that, it's mostly OTL Roman Catholicism with its fair share of butterflies.
Demographics:
Ethnicites:
37% Roman: Whoever can draw their lines back to a mostly pure line of Latin blood
21% Latinized Germanic/Gallic: Whoever has a fair mix of German/Gallic and Latin blood
16% Latinized Briton: Whoever has a fair mix of Briton and Latin blood
8% Latinized Slavic: Whoever has a fair mix of Eastern European and Latin blood
10% Greek: Whoever has a majority of Greek blood
5% Germanic/Gallic: Whoever has a majority of German/Gallic blood
1% Briton: Whoever has a majority of Briton
1% Slavic: Whoever has a majority of Slavic blood
.08% Eastern: Whoever has Anatolian and Middle Crescent blood
Religious:
74% Roman Catholic: OTL Roman Catholicism with the obligatory butterflies.
15% Theogonist: Reformed Greek Paganism with a holy text and a system of rituals. This view of Greco-Paganism attempts to make sense of all myths and make them all truthful, therefore all the Olympians take their seat as Olympians (i.e. 13 seats, Hestia and Dionysus are simultaneously Olympians). In an attempt to centralize the faith, Theogonists mostly ignore the minor gods and focus on the Greater 13.
7% Valkism: One of the major sects of Reformed Germanic/Gallic/Briton Paganism with a hard focus on the Germanic gods. Henotheist religion that focuses on Odin and "his daughters" the Valkyries (Essentially, compare Odin and the Valkyries to God and his angels)
3% Jewish: OTL Judaism with the obligatory butterflies.
.3% Unreformed Pagan: The very few who still respect the old gods. Ranges from normal people (teachers, cooks, office worker, etc.) to mad cultists, which gives the entirety of the religions a bad wrap.
Power:
Rome is a far cry from the ever-powerful empire it once was. As a state, it is still a fairly good size and is still a very relevant political entity when it comes to Mediterranean affairs. Culturally, it is a treasure trove, being the root of most art and literature. This combined with its prestigious history makes it a tourist hot-spot and people flood to the country constantly. Its military, while not as grand as it once was, Rome keeps itself safe from external threats. Its citizens enjoy being members of one of the highest developed countries in the world and have a pretty high quality of life rating. Most Romans are comfortable financially and, while Rome's own industrial production is not much to impress, the famed Aquileian port island (couldn't think of a better name for Venice) and other factors has made trading and exports an important part of the Roman economy.
(Thanks to John I of Brazil for the template)