The Amorous Imperium
It was in the reign of Gaius Caesar, when he was of flesh, that the Imperium took shape. The failed plot on his life saw to the end of the last vestiges of a dying Republic. Surviving his wounds, Gaius would find his wife murdered, his daughter almost killed before he slew the madmen who tried to harm her. In an act of fury, he stood before the people of Rome and called on them to act, and with his mob, he had the Senators dragged from the Curia, the guards and soldiers only watching on in fear that they would join them. These men were torn to pieces, stabbed, strangled, burned, and violated as the Imperator watched with glee. With this act, the Cleansing of Rome, so were the foundations laid for the Amorous Imperium. Hedonism became the status quo as greater lavishness grew amongst the populace, emulating their great leader. With this boon to his prestige, Gaius had the army whipped into a fervor, conquering southern Britannia and pushing more into Germania.
Upon his death, he was recognized a god, Caligula, God of Glory and Pleasure, and his cult, which venerated his sister Drusilla, recognized him as being descended from Venus, and their power and size grew over the ages, first under Caligula's daughter, and then under subsequent imperators and imperatrixes, each adding to Rome's glory, furthering a culture of lust, love, and pleasure. Soon the old gods faded as Caligula's power grew, eclipsing even Sol Invictus. Strife would eventually strike the empire as it made its final attempts to conquer all of Europe proper, reaching from Hibernia to the Uralia, from Scania to Mauretania. In this period of internal struggle, the Empire saw itself divided between three factions; the Purists, who sought an end to centuries of hedonism; the Dolorists, who taught pleasure from pain; and the Amorists who taught the love and compassion could unite all. Eventually, the latter two factions came together with common bonds of creating more unified, hedonistic states, and crushed the Purists. Soon, all of Rome's resources, once used for war, turned fully and utterly to pleasure.
Sex and intimacy are ubiquitous, the line between platonic and romantic being a matter of context and mood. There is no such thing as 'single', there is only a matter of preference for individuals. There is no Valentine's Day or equivalent holiday, because
every day is Valentine's Day, a celebration of love and lust, and closeness between someone and their desired partner as of that moment. As the nation has moved forward in technology, everything has focused around perpetuating a life of total indulgence. The Cult of Caligula reigns supreme, and the imperial family in the venerated standard of all beauty and fashion.
Their flag takes the color of the Imperium, as seen in the clothes of the imperator, and places on it a gold sigil. It displays laurels of prosperity, framing the silphium seed, which has become widely produced and selectively grown to become a near perfect natural contraceptive and shared in seed-shaped packages. The seed is a symbol of the Imperium and its way of life, and above it is the motto of the nation:
Amor Vincit Omnia, Love Conquers All.