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So, for those uninitiated, Lithuania has a history of portraying itself and it's nation as successors of Roman culture, most of it happening during the Renaissance. This was done with the legendary Palemonids.

Here is a brief summary of the legend of Palemon, first presented in the Lithuanian Chronicle:

Palemon was a Roman duke and noble, relative of Emperor Nero, who fled the Roman Empire along with 500 patrician families and their followers aboard ships to the Eastern Baltic and then through the Nemunas River, settling down in modern day Ariogala (central Lithuania), creating a state and starting all major Lithuanian noble families.

Here is my idea - what if this sadly made up story actually happened? What if a group of Roman patricians, led by an upstart ambitious leader, fled their nation to settle down in the land of the Balts to carve out a nation in the region? How big would this nation (let's call it "Aestica", after the Roman name for the Baltic tribes - Aesti, for simplicity) be? How long would it last? What effect would it have on the Balts, their culture and society?
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