Rastok

Even by the more liberally minded of Sigzlor, Rastok is likely to be called a nation of debauchery, egotism, and heresy. In stark contrast to several countries close to it, such as Wraz and Dzvie, Rastok has cast off all gods and all faith. Belief and faith declined rapidly following the Godbomb, but it wasn't until the Rastoki Revolution in the year 4307 that this atheism reached its apex. The Rastoki government was accused, in its attempts to maintain tradition and proper faith, of being a puppet government installed by Wraz in order to remotely control other countries, particularly one so close to the secretive country of Dobroye. The government was violently overthrown, and in a stand against the religion that sought to "chain" them, temples all throughout Rastok were overturned and destroyed. Clergy or those capable of using divine magic fled or renounced their belief. Those that refused were thrown into prison, where they eventually died if they did not ever turn against their religion.
To this day, the highest population of divine magic users in Rastok are those who derive power from the Rastoki icon of independence: the self. In this sense, Rastok believes themselves to have "deific potential," but only in the sense of being the true origin of strength and power. To them, there was never any god that blessed and granted magic. It was always a lie, a sort of veneer of piety painted over something that came from the self. Rastok's government is unsurprisingly very weak, and the country has little to do with outsiders or overwhelming rules and regulations beyond token efforts at police forces and basic stability. While it is an exaggeration to state that anything is legal in Rastok, the country is so weak at enforcing any laws beyond restricting religion or excess violence that other laws may as well not exist. Anything that imposes upon "freedom" is heavily scrutinized at best, and Rastok's government knows all too well what comes of lawmakers that try to "interfere".
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