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===Destruction of the Sister Cities=== | ===Destruction of the Sister Cities=== | ||
The North Songun civilization was not without its rivals, however. During the later years of the North Songun, its two main rivals were [[Varshan]] and the nomads of the [[Earplanne]]; the latter of which would be united by the [[Matokté Tashnacate]], and the former had grown to overtake the North Songun by the time of the late 14th Century. Around this time, the arrival of [[Paul Aster]] while on an [[Aster's expedition| | The North Songun civilization was not without its rivals, however. During the later years of the North Songun, its two main rivals were [[Varshan]] and the nomads of the [[Earplanne]]; the latter of which would be united by the [[Matokté Tashnacate]], and the former had grown to overtake the North Songun by the time of the late 14th Century. Around this time, the arrival of [[Paul Aster]] while on an [[Aster's expedition|expedition]] to find the source of all gold for his patrons at [[Ardmore]] introduced the North Songun civilization, and Crona in general, to the [[Occidental world]] for the very first time. The arrival of the [[Ænglish people|Ænglish]] mariner and his crew was met with different reactions from not just the North Songun, but also from Varshan. The North Songun reacted relatively cordially to these outsiders, but Varshan interpreted this as the sign of an impending apocalypse and soon [[Zurgite Varshan#Žuqulid Revolution|transformed]] their society into that of a militaristic culture that exalted the ideals of the warrior. | ||
During Varshan's transformation, the twin cities of [[Tutayopakayu]] and [[Churumayka]], which were located at the mouth of the Innis river and were two of Maktalin's wealthiest tributes, were destroyed in one of the most destructive earthquakes in the history of Crona. The [[1391 Sister Cities earthquake]] had grave religious implications. The destruction of two major tributary cities was interpreted by many of the North Songun as a sign of divine displeasure, and in the ensuing chaos and religious turmoil the nomads of the Tashnacate took advantage of the new instability and conquered the North Songun by the year 1399. The Tashnacate was noted to be rather lenient and allowed the North Songun to retain its culture and its elites, but that did not stop the instability caused by the sudden destruction of the Sister Cities which was soon exacerbated by the rapid decline and eventual collapse of the Tashnacate by the year 1498, leaving the newly-independent North Songun city-states in a state of complete vulnerability. | During Varshan's transformation, the twin cities of [[Tutayopakayu]] and [[Churumayka]], which were located at the mouth of the Innis river and were two of Maktalin's wealthiest tributes, were destroyed in one of the most destructive earthquakes in the history of Crona. The [[1391 Sister Cities earthquake]] had grave religious implications. The destruction of two major tributary cities was interpreted by many of the North Songun as a sign of divine displeasure, and in the ensuing chaos and religious turmoil the nomads of the Tashnacate took advantage of the new instability and conquered the North Songun by the year 1399. The Tashnacate was noted to be rather lenient and allowed the North Songun to retain its culture and its elites, but that did not stop the instability caused by the sudden destruction of the Sister Cities which was soon exacerbated by the rapid decline and eventual collapse of the Tashnacate by the year 1498, leaving the newly-independent North Songun city-states in a state of complete vulnerability. | ||
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====Wamanis==== | ====Wamanis==== | ||
Beneath the 11 ''suyukuna'' are the ''wamanikuna'', of which there are roughly 66. However, the exact size of these ''wamanikuna'' varies depending on the size of a given ''suyu'', with the largest ''wamanikuna'' primarily being in | Beneath the 11 ''suyukuna'' are the ''wamanikuna'', of which there are roughly 66. However, the exact size of these ''wamanikuna'' varies depending on the size of a given ''suyu'', with the largest ''wamanikuna'' primarily being in the largest regions of the country and mostly in sparsely-populated areas such as multiple villages and more rural areas while the smallest ''wamanikuna'' are most prevalent in the smallest regions of the country in mostly in more populated areas such as towns and large urban areas. Each ''wamani'' is governed by a ''toqrikoq'' ("local governor") who reports to the ''apu''. During the years of the North Songun civilization, the ''toqrikoq'' was traditionally an ethnic Kelekonese, but in the present a ''toqrikoq'' is usually of the ethnic group represented in a given ''suyu''. In multiethnic regions other than Maktalin, the ''wamanikuna'' are used to represent the recognized ethnic groups that reside in the region. | ||
====Thistiritus==== | ====Thistiritus==== | ||
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====Ayllius==== | ====Ayllius==== | ||
The lowest administrative division, which is at the fifth level, are the ''aylliukuna''. These correspond to the main federative units of a ''ripartamintu'', and form the most local instance of {{wp|democracy}} in Kelekona. An ''aylliu'' consists about 500 people, and the main governing council functions on the basis of {{wp|direct democracy}}, encouraging its residents to directly participate in local affairs. As the primary point of contact with the government for most citizens of Kelekona, it is through the ''aylliukuna'' that petitions to the government sent to at first before being transferred to higher divisions as needed, even all the way up to the Qhapaqs' Council in some cases. | The lowest administrative division, which is at the fifth level, are the ''aylliukuna''. These correspond to the main federative units of a ''ripartamintu'', and form the most local instance of {{wp|democracy}} in Kelekona. An ''aylliu'' consists about 500 people, and the main governing council functions on the basis of {{wp|direct democracy}}, encouraging its residents to directly participate in local affairs. As the primary point of contact with the government for most citizens of Kelekona, it is through the ''aylliukuna'' that petitions to the government sent to at first before being transferred to higher divisions as needed, even all the way up to the Qhapaqs' Council in some cases. | ||
==Demographics== | |||
===Ethnicity=== | |||
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Kelekona has nine recognized ethnic groups in the country, all of which are represented approximately in proportion to the amount of people they have in the 100-member Council of Nobles, but only seven of them have their own ethnic homelands. The largest of the nine recognized ethnic groups are the [[Kelekonese people|Kelekonese]], known to themselves as the ''Mayukimsaruna'' ("Tri-river people"); so-called due to their traditional homeland being located between the Innis River, the Cochrane River, and one of the branches of the Innis River Basin. The second-largest ethnic groups are the ethnic Varshani peoples, descendants of the former ruling bureaucracy of the tributary state of Kelezuno and, more recently, Deluge refugees; they are known by Kelekona's six indigenous groups as ''Jawaruna'' ("Foreigners") or more derogatively as ''Nunat'irachakakuna'' ("Soul-pullers") in reference to the long-time Arzalist practice of human sacrifices. The [[Telekonese people|Telekonese]], known locally as ''Uchuytarakunaruna'' ("Little islands people"), make up the third-largest ethnic group in Kelekona, and primarily reside in the coastal and insular southern regions of Kelekona. | |||
The ''Kinichuyuruna'' ("War-blessed") are primarily worshippers of the Nahibist war god Kinichzo and reside on the mountaintops in northern Kelekona, making up the fourth-largest ethnic group. The fifth-largest ethnic group are known as the ''Kuntichinchaysuyuruna'' ("Northwesterners"); their homeland is situated between the Varshani homeland and the ''Kinichuyuruna'' homeland. To the south of the ''Kuntichinchaysuyuruna'' live the ''Kuntisuyuruna'' ("Westerners"), who comprise the sixth-largest ethnic group, followed by the ''Gocahalliparuna'' ("Lakelanders"), the seventh-largest ethnic group. The two smallest recognized ethnic groups are the Carnish from Malentina and the Arcos from Arcerion. These last two groups are wealthier on average compared to the rest of the population, and generally reside in separate communities which happen to be one of the most developed parts of the country. | |||
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===Linguistic demographics=== | |||
As an ethnic federation, Kelekona gives the ''suyukuna'' the right to determine their own linguistic policies, though homeland ''suyukuna'' are required to make their official language the primary tongue associated with their home ethnic group. On the federal level, the government recognizes six varieties of the {{wp|Quechua languages|North Songunese family}} of indigenous languages as official. Although previous scholars have originally classified these varieties as simply dialects of the North Songunese language, more recent studies have suggested that those dialects are not as {{wp|mutually intelligible}} as was once thought and thus North Songun has been reclassified as a language family. Kelekona's national language is known as ''T'inkirunaysimi'' ("United people's tongue"), an attempt at standardizing the North Songunite languages that is primarily based on the elements found in the nation's capital of Maktalin; although the attempt at standardization was not as big of a success as was hoped, it retains recognition as the country's national language due to its status as an indigenous {{wp|lingua franca}}. An eastern vernacular of the Varshani language and [[Ænglish language|Ænglish]], while not official at the federal level, are still given official status in their respective ''suyukuna''. Linguistic statistics are primarily congruent with the ethnic make-up of the country. | |||
===Religious demographics=== | |||
The vast majority of Kelekonese citizens are of the [[North Songun civilization#Religion|Nahibian]] faith, an indigenous faith that is commonly said to have been single-handedly established by its namesake the Maktalinese priest-king Nahibe, but more recent scholarship have debated this and have since explained that much of the framework behind the Nahibian faith was more likely to have been the work of multiple prophets and priests over the span of several decades. Historically, Nahibianism was the primary religion of the North Songun civilization and of northern Crona during the years of North Songunese hegemony, but when the North Songun civilization collapsed by the 16th Century it was soon overtaken by the [[Arzalist]] faith from Varshan, specifically its [[Orthodox Arzalism|orthodox]] sect. It would not be until the 19th Century when Nahibianism would experience a revival, soon growing from a holdout in northern Kelezuno to becoming the largest religion in the country as well as in neighboring [[Titechaxha]]. | |||
The next-largest religious group are adherents to the Ænglican faith due to cultural influence from Arcerion. It is the religion that the Arco and Carnish people in the country adhere to as well as a sizeable amount of indigenous people in the southwest of the nation. The only other denomination of Christianity that has a significant presence in Kelekona are Catholics, who happen to make up the fifth-largest religion in the country and are most prevalent in the southeast, being the majority faith of the ''Gocahalliparuna'', the only indigenous group in Kelekona, other than the majority-Ænglican Telekonese, to be almost entirely Christianized. On average, the Christian minority in Kelekona tend to be wealthier than their counterparts who adhere to more indigenous faiths. | |||
A sizeable minority of Kelekonese identify as irreligious, meaning that they have no religious affiliations whether because they were not raised in a particularly religious household or because they have rejected religion altogether. The rise of irreligiosity began in the 1980s during the socialist era, and the abject devastation and chaos of subsequent eras have led to more people to renounce religion entirely. Following the irreligious are a group of people of varying faiths that do not comprise of a significant amount of people to be given their own separate categories, most often people living in small, {{wp|Protestant}} missions. | |||
Arzalism was once the majority religion in Kelezuno throughout much of its existence until the Nahibian revival of the 19th Century. It is speculated that the vast majority of the nation's irreligious might actually be practicing Arzalis as successive Kelekonese governments up until the Qarawi regime and beyond have either been complacent in or even outright encouraged the persecution of Arzalis, thus forcing many to hide their faith by identifying as more palatable affiliations such as irrelgion, Nahibianism, or even a form of Christianity. | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
Kelekona is | Kelekona's culture is as diverse as its ethnic diversity. Although there exists commonalities amongst the North Songunese-descent cultures such as religion, certain traditions, and heritage, the primary locations of these particular cultures within Kelekona have given them certain variations beyond just the common North Songunese-descent culture. The ''[[Kinichuyuruna people|Kinichuyuruna]]'' people, for example, are a primarily mountainous culture and thus much of their unique traditions and practices revolve around the winter and the coming of snow; their homeland also happens to be home to the sole intact North Songun Nahibian temple in all of Kelekona, so they are often considered to be the most traditionalistic and conservative out of all of the extant North Songunese cultures due to them often having the most well-preserved artifacts from era of the North Songun civilization. | ||
On the opposite end, the most divergent of the North Songunese-descent cultures are the [[Telekonese people|Telekonese]] people, whose homeland is located in the southern islands of Kelekona, and holds a sizeable presence on the southern coast near the islands. They are the least isolated culture thanks in part to them having lived in close proximity to the country's Arco and Carnish minorities. Because of their close contact with the nation's two recognized Occidental-descent ethnic groups, they have converted to the Arcer Ænglican form of Christianity for the most part, and thus generally observe holidays such as {{wp|Christmas}} and {{wp|Easter}} that most of the country does not observe. The next-most divergent of the North Songunese-descent cultures are the ''[[Gocahalliparuna people|Gocahalliparuna]]'' people, who happen to be the only other North Songunese-descent culture to be almost entirely Christianized; most ''Gocahalliparuna'' people are adherents of the Catholic Church. | |||
The most modernized of the North Songunese-descent cultures that have not diverged heavily thanks to extremely close contact with Occidental-descent people are the [[Kelekonese people|Kelekonese]] people. Historically, the Kelekonese people once made up the ruling classes of the North Songun civilization, and it is their variety of the North Songunese languages that has had the great linguistic influence over the other North Songunese languages; the Kelekonese language has served as the basis for the ''[[T'inkirunasimi language|T'inkirunasimi]]'' language, a 19th Century attempt at standardizing the North Songunese languages. Because they were often the ruling classes of the North Songun civilization, they were, and still are in many cases, most often the wealthiest and most developed out of all the North Songunese-descent cultures. | |||
The ''[[Kuntichinchaysuyuruna people|Kuntichinchaysuyuruna]]'' people used to be as culturally-divergent as the Telekonese and ''Gocahalliparuna'' peoples are now, with much of their culture having once been heavily based upon that of the Varshani people complete with many of them once having adhered to the Arzali faith. With independence, and the advent of the brutal junta of 1988, most ''Kuntichinchaysuyuruna'' people have abandoned these Varshani influences and have deconverted from the Arzali faith to avoid persecution from the junta's secret police. Most ''Kuntichinchaysuyuruna'' in the present derive much of their cultural influences from the ''[[Kuntisuyuruna people|Kuntisuyuruna]]'' people, and are mostly split between those who have converted to the Nahibian faith and those who have opted to abandon religion altogether and have proclaimed themselves as irreligious. | |||
===Cuisine=== | ===Cuisine=== | ||
Kelekonese cuisine is heavily based upon the cuisine found in the North Songun civilization, and the exact foods eaten in Kelekona depends mostly upon the region and ethnic group. For most North Songunese-descent groups in Kelekona, the cuisine primarily consists of {{wp|yam (vegetable)|yams}}, a staple potato-like vegetable found in temperate and tropical areas in Crona, {{wp|corn}}, a {{wp|cereal grain}} native to Vallos that has some of its largest yields grown in Crona, freshwater fish from the lakes of southeast Kelekona such as {{wp|bass}} and {{wp|trout}}, and crustaceans found in both the aforementioned lakes and in Malentine Bay such as {{wp|crab}} and {{wp|shrimp}}. A known popular beverage found amongst the North Songunese ethnic groups are varieties of ''apanqurahilli'' ("crab juice"). Despite the name, ''apanqurahilli'' is not literally juice made from crabs, but rather a powder made from the essence of crabs that is added into an existing beverage; the crab essence is said to bring a tangy or snappy flavor to the drink. | |||
===Education=== | |||
Education in Kelekona is the responsibility of the regions, which determine the school curriculum for the schools under their jurisdiction. The school system for each state is highly dependent on the majority culture and religion of a given region; this often leads to variation in how long a student must stay in the school system and when the student graduates. For example, in most regions that are of a majority North Songunese-descent culture and the majority of the populace adhere to Nahibianism, everyone is required to be in school at age three and are mandated to stay in the school system for seventeen years until they graduate at age twenty. These indigenous school systems are generally aligned with the Kelekonese concept of ''kawsayruwanakuna" and each school level is determined by the student's life stage (e.g. secondary schools cover the entirety of the ''malta'' stage of a person's life). | |||
However, in regions that do not hold an indigenous majority or even a Nahibian majority, the school systems are more closely aligned with those of Occidental school systems where mandatory schooling starts at the age of five and lasts for roughly twelve-to-thirteen years, with students graduating at the age of eighteen. These Occidental schools are most common in parts of Kelekona that are either of an Arco or Carnish majority, or the majority of inhabitants adhere to a denomination of Christianity (e.g. the Telekonese people). These are most common in the south as it is where the nation's Christian minority generally reside in, and are often a source of tension between the more traditionally indigenous north and the Occidentalized south. | |||
===''Kawsayruwanakuna''=== | ===''Kawsayruwanakuna''=== | ||
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===Pre-Occidental writing systems=== | |||
[[File:Tukapu.jpg|thumb|175px|Example of a ''t'oqapu''.]] | |||
The North Songunese languages did not have a standardized writing system until the introduction of a Latin-based alphabet in the 19th Century as part of a North Songunese cultural revival. Like most indigenous Cronan cultures, the traditional methods of keeping records and writing down stories was through proto-writing methods. The North Songun civilization made use of two proto-writing systems, those being the string-based ''{{wp|Quipu|khipu}}'' which was an encoding system used to collect data and maintain records, and the glyph-based ''t'oqapu'' which was used for written communication to represent certain concepts and areas as well as for describing visually-recorded narratives on both textiles and paintings. Indeed, most towns and regions even in modern-day Kelekona have an official ''t'oqapu'' used to uniquely represent their locality through visual means. Regular usage of the two proto-writing systems remained in regular use in official documents throughout the existence of Kelezuno as a Varshani tributary state up until the 1950s when official documents were legally required by the governing council of Kelezuno to exclusively use the Latin-based alphabet. | |||
===Symbol=== | ===Symbol=== | ||
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===Energy=== | ===Energy=== | ||
Kelekona has no domestic power plants in the country, meaning that the country has to rely on other countries to get its needed energy. As such, the current situation with Kelekona's energy sector is that it is entirely dependent on Arcerion's energy sector, itself consisting of both nuclear and fossil fuel power plants, but the most common resources that Kelekona imports from Arcerion for use in its energy sector are oil and gas due to the relative low cost of the two materials. Up until 2025, energy-related imports were often lacking, resulting in many places in Kelekona falling under {{wp|power outage|blackouts}} or {{wp|brownout (electricity)|brownouts}}, but with the rise of a more friendly form of government in Kelekona, energy-related imports have risen dramatically with areas of Kelekona that are connected to the current power grid having reported less frequent occurrences of blackouts and brownouts. Many isolated communities in Kelekona have resorted to using {{wp|solar panels}} to handle their needs in electricity as access to the national power grid is often nonexistent, with larger solar panels often being used for local power grids to handle the needs for multiple households in a given locality. | Kelekona has no domestic power plants in the country, meaning that the country has to rely on other countries to get its needed energy. As such, the current situation with Kelekona's energy sector is that it is entirely dependent on Arcerion's energy sector, itself consisting of both nuclear and fossil fuel power plants, but the most common resources that Kelekona imports from Arcerion for use in its energy sector are oil and gas due to the relative low cost of the two materials. Up until 2025, energy-related imports were often lacking, resulting in many places in Kelekona falling under {{wp|power outage|blackouts}} or {{wp|brownout (electricity)|brownouts}}, but with the rise of a more friendly form of government in Kelekona, energy-related imports have risen dramatically with areas of Kelekona that are connected to the current power grid having reported less frequent occurrences of blackouts and brownouts. Many isolated communities in Kelekona have resorted to using {{wp|solar panels}} to handle their needs in electricity as access to the national power grid is often nonexistent, with larger solar panels often being used for local power grids to handle the needs for multiple households in a given locality. | ||
==Commitments to pacifism== | ==Commitments to pacifism== | ||