The following is a list of the States of the Prussian Empire. The States are each controlled by an Imperial Governor under the oversight of the Imperial Chancellor. Under the Kingdom of Tenarra, the 5 states had originally been sovereign nations that agreed to unify the Alliance of Central European States. In the Kingdom, each state had the right to withdraw from that union at any time so long as the people in the state voted favorably to do so in a referendum. This right, however, was taken away after the Tenarran Civil War and the establishment of the Prussian Empire by Alfred von Schliefen. As such, elements of nationalism began to creep into state legislatures and the people of each state. The most severe location of this nationalism was Poland, where eventually the Prussian Civil War