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| style="font-size: 10.2pt; background: #fcfcfc; text-align: center;" colspan=2 | '''Atrassica Territory'''<br>'''''Skírēn Atrassika'''''

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'''Atrassica''' is an island territory of the [[Kiravian Federacy]] located in the North Aquilonem Ocean (known in the Coscivian world as the Atrassic Ocean, from whence the colony's name is derived) off the coast of the Western Apalachnee Federation in northeast [[Punth]].  

Humans first migrated to Atrassica, presumably from mainland North Punth, during the last glacial maximum. At the time of the island's discovery by [[Coscivians]], it was inhabited by two tribal groups, the Massapíkva and Minnéola, with close linguistic and genetic relationships to the peoples of the nearby Western Apalachnee Federation and [[Nanseetucket]].

Although it is unclear who from Hesperic Ixnay was the first to discover Atrassica, it began appearing on maps in the 1580s AD. Kiravian merchants, seasonal fishermen, and missionaries visited the island from 1594 onward, and the island was formally claimed for the newly-reorganised Kiravian Federacy in {{H:title|1622 AD|20802}} by the Atrassica Act. For the first half-century following the annexation, Kiravian settlement was largely confined to the coasts, and merchants, fishermen, and missionaries continued to account for the bulk of the colonists, as more Kiravians were drawn to the inland areas of [[Great Kirav]] opened for settlement by the Continental War and the Lesser Punth colonies of [[Rovaīon]], [[Porfíria]], and [[Avenica]]. At this stage, relations between the settler society and the indigenous were generally peaceful. From the {{H:title|1640s AD|20820s}} through the {{H:title|1710s AD|20890s}}, colonial officials negotiated a series of agreements with various indigenous leaders to establish formal Kiravian suzerainty over the Massapíkva and Minnéola, although it is now believed that the two parties had vastly different interpretations of what they had agreed to. Coscivian Orthodox and [[Insular Apostolic]] missionaries succeeded in evangelising parts of the native population, and some native communities near the coasts gradually assimilated into Coscivian civilisation, but for the most part the two societies remained independent of one another until the {{H:title|1750s AD|20930s}}, when a larger generation of Atrassica-born Coscivians and a new wave of immigrants from Great Kirav pushed the Kiravian pale of settlement deeper into the hinterland. Competition for land and resources between the settlers and indigenous resulted in the Massapíkva War ({{H:title|1755-1756 AD|20935-201936}}), which ended in the final subjection of the Massapíkva to direct Kiravian rule and precipitated the submission of the Minnéola to the same the following year.

In terms of structure, local government in Atrassica resembles the situation in [[Devahoma]] and [Neighbouringstateland]. Below the countyship level there are three classes of municipality - city (''sar''), borough (''vestra''), and village (''dasa'') - as well as civil townships and off-reservation indigenous villages with more limited powers and functions. However, countyship governments in Atrassica are significantly stronger than those in Devahoma, and are responsible for important services such as education, public health, road maintenance, and a great deal of policing, as well as overseeing local economic development. Like other federal subjects in Punth, Atrassica has codified the special status of Settlement Movement communities, many of which are located in the island's interior. Although not municipalities or civil townships, settlement trusts are considered civic bodies, have special tax status, and have their affairs governed by a special Coöperatives Court.

The Atrassican economy has historically been based in the extractive and mercantile sectors, relying mainly on the island's rich natural resources and as a trade link between Great Kirav and the west coast of North Punth.

Atrassican breweries, making use of local produce, have long exported beer to the countries of western North Punth, especially [[Nanseetucket]].