Rojo

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Rojo (Rojoan: Rojo), officially the Rojoan Ethnostate (Rojoan: Rojoén Königreich) is the richest state in Earossath, and is the most populous nation in the entire world. controlling the Amarojillo river, considered to be the cradle of civilization. Rojo is bounded by the Pannian ocean to the East and the Vathotsk Ocean to the West, having control of the Amarojillo river delta, Rojo produces 30% of global food, only 17% of it being in active internal consumption.
Rojo's ideological grounds are entirely based on racial exclusion, seeing the rojoan race as the purest of all, and over all the other races. This set of views is not based on religion, but on historical events that led to the general distrust of foreigners because of several failed diplomatic attempts of the state.
== History ==
=== Pre-History ===
Much of rojoan pre-history is evident on scarce cave paintings near the Amarojillo river, where the first civilizations rose. Rojoan humans share their optical ancestry with Amarillans and Laranjeans, The first rojoan tribal settlements were constituted of fierce warrior cultures, which embodied the survival of the fittest in their own civics, with the rojoan tribes battling each other to near extinction, as seen in stories told by old petroglyphs found by the Amarojillan shores. The major Rojoan tribe known as the "Punainen" rose in the early ascension of agriculture, where rojoans used earth hillforts as the base of their cities, expanding throughout the river's northern shores.
The Punainen rojoans consolidated most of the regional rojoan tribes, and after the discovery of the wheel and horseback riding, stability over the conquered tribes was made easier, as contact with the capital and exchange of tribute was made easier. Very little is known about the conquered tribes, wether if they really were rojoans, other amarojillan tribes, or extinct races is unknown, as rojoan slavery policies did not allow slaves to have children, and if they did, the child was to be thrown in the river for the gods.
Not much is known about early rojoan beliefs, as the pagan celebrations were lost in time, but it is known that they worshipped the gods of the amarojillan river, a set of 6 war gods led by the main war god "Rosso", who controlled the result of wars.
=== The Early Ancient era ===
As the Punainen tribe expanded, the technologies of it's people became refined, and the rojoan figured out how to traverse the amarojillan river without suffering losses by creating galleys. By the other side of the river, the Amarillan cultures were developing, and the first contacts were made. By this time, the Amarillans had developed complex building techniques, and the technology of wallbuilding was discovered; Rojoans, amazed by the defensive potential of the walls, studied it and brought it to their own realm, the walls of Rimare were built at this time. Diplomacy between the two realms was smooth, and many of the amarillan advances were assimilated to rojoan villages. At this time, the Punainen developed its flag.
The trade between the two realms is shown in the road connecting the two sides of the river, which unknowingly, led to discontent of the rojoan populace, as amarillan immigrants flocked rojoan village centers, which led to the occupation of merchant roles by the amarillans, suffocating rojoan trade, and leading to the First Amarojillan War.
The war solidified rojoan control over the amarojillan river as the amarillans were completely unprepared for a Rojoan attack, the rojoan galleys struck the amarillan fishing boats, the rojoan soldiers burned down their crops, and caused a massive famine, which weakened amarillan warriors, who were killed on a massive bloodbath inside their own walls.
The few attacks the amarillans managed to survive were followed with hordes of 1,000 men who suffocated the already wounded warriors, and the victory was on rojo's side.
The amarillans capitulated, and were forced to dismantle their walls, their armies were cut down to size, they were vassalized, and the entire population was given slave status, meaning they would not be able to reproduce by rojoan law.The Rojoan population increased incredibly fast after the war, and agriculture flourished on both sides of the river. The Punainen's tribal chieftainship customs were severely outdated, so the chief estabilished new customs and passed new laws, and the Punainen was reassembled into the Rojoan Empire. 
Slave revolts and fugitives sparked attrition between the vassal and the overlord, with rojoan people aching for war, the monarch was pressed to declare war again, and solidify rojoan claims on the south. The Second Amarojillan war was declared. 
Much like the first war, amarillans showed incredibly weak resistance, as they were in fact weakened by the rojoan policies. The amarillan cities were razed, and the war unanimously was a rojoan victory.
After the war, the amarillan people had no centralized government; They became nomads and migrated away to the south.
The Rojoan Empire had no commercial ties with any other nation, had severe consequences because of the war, and was on the brink of collapse, until the art of architecture rose up, and the demand for marble opened new commercial opportunities to the rojoan populace.
=== The Late Ancient Era ===
The Years passed, and the Rojoan Empire held a number of 120.000 burgeoning souls, and it was open to explore new horizons. The Rojoans inevitably met the Assulian people, who habitated the Akxulle Lake in giant wooden platform systems, Trade was open once more, and the Rojoan economy started flowing again. The Rojoans saw the assulians with deep respect, as their culture was of warrior origins, going as far as holding cerimonial spars to honor their neighbours.
However, after the Irrigation incident in the Assulian lands, in which many wealthy rojoan traders perished, the skepticism of the rojoan people rose, and superstitions about the nature of the floods led to general opinions of the neighbouring realm to decrease. The Monarch, afraid of assulian retaliation, was deemed incopetent, and the council decided to overthrow him in favour of a more warlike minded noble. Tryotsikov I of the af Vayllae dynasty was declared emperor, and the war preparations started.
During the training of the Rojoan troops, several logistic flaws ingrained into the empire's war structure were discovered, such as the poor quality of weapon manufacturing, the material they used, and the lack of populational reposition due to the lack of food. Tryotsikov I decided to plan the rojoan expansion into the Amarojillo delta. During the war preparations, the situation in the Assulian lands just kept getting worse, as pestilence spread around the city centers, destroying crops and reducing the assulian population. 
The Assulian-Rojoan war was declared, however, at arrival, the situation of the Assulians was deplorable, as there was only few battles and all of them resulted in Rojoan victory. According to historians, Tryotsikov, who was leadering the campaign, caught the deplorable sight of the impoverished assulian armies, and famously shouted the words: "ESTRUM QUI AT THEI SOLTRUTI VICILEUM, ASSULIE? PATAETI." ("Are these your invincible soldiers, Assulia? Pathetic."); Alledgedly, the assulian warriors after hearing Tryotsikov's words were deeply enraged, and the battle that seemed like a complete rojoan victory was starting to see it's strengths equalized. The assulian army, however, was already fated to lose.
Arriving at the assulian capital, the soldiers were welcomed by cheering assulians, which deeply concerned Tryotsikov. Standing by the palace, was the Assulian governor, who promptly kissed Tryotsikov on the hand as a sign of submission, and handed the Assulian king's severed head, on a marble plate. Shocked by this act of surrender, Tryotsikov ordered the soldiers to kill all people present and put them on spikes, outside of the city. The governor, deeply terrified by the backfiring of his treason, on a quick move, stabbed Tryotsikov on the chest, saying, in Assulian: "Dyemus nos leae! Porkai punistenos!?" ("We gave you our loyalty! Why do you punish us!?") By response, Tryotsikov took out the dagger, and stabbed the governor back, uttering his final words "Qualke yu kaun lealis, essetti trytorum." ("Anyone can be loyal, except traitors"). The governor collapsed to the ground and so did Tryotsikov, bleeding to death,
Tryotsikov's son and heir, Tomauk I, rose to the Throne of Rojo, and finishing the Annexation of Assulia, he solidified rojoan's place in the continent as a force not to be meddled with.
== The af Vayllae era ==
During the reconstruction efforts of conquered lands in former assulia, Emperor Tomauk decided to estabilish a secondary, smaller government in that area, model which he called "Porivinchia" (which today we know as a "Province"), estabilishing the Province of Akxulle, which he appointed his younger brother Tryotsikov II as the governor. During these times, Rojoan traders met the Taupa'atekae eta-peo ketae people, who were incredibly isolationist, and prohibited rojoan trading from taking place within their walls.
Tomauk had unknowingly married a close relative, his wife was biologically his aunt, which led to his heir Tomauk II to be infertile. Before being able to alter any succession laws so that his brother Tryotsikov !! could inherit the throne, Tryotsikov II died, leaving only his daughter Ayikka II as an heir.
Tomauk altered the Succession laws from Absolute Agnatic (Only males can inherit) to Agnatic-Cognatic (Women can inherit if there's no suitable male Heir), and not after long, died from a kidney stone.
Tomauk II inherited the throne, and possibly due to his angst from his incapacity of producing an heir, proceeded to enact the most absurd acts in Rojoan ancient history such as (but not limited to;) expulsion of traders, deconstruction and reconstruction of multiple aquifers due to "them not looking right", grave robbery, adultery, poligamy (which on his pagan tradition was considered heresy), sodomy, unjust executions, and the building of the Vayllae palace, which costed not only the lives of 30,000 slaves but his own life, because a marble block fell on him when he was visiting the construction site.
== The Af Sithuye and the Stone Route era ==
After Tomauk II's death, his cousin, Ayikka II of the Af Sithuye dynasty inherited the throne due to her being the only suitable heir from the Tryotsikov lineage. During her reign, Ayikka sought to soothe the rojoan foreign relations due to the common belief that the Rojoan empire was nothing more than warmonger clans fighting over control. She organized and funded multiple foreign expeditions, one of which came to fruition as they met seafarer clans from the other side of the shores, the Pannians, who eagerly opened trade with the rojoans; this is the moment that marked the start of the Stone route, which as the name implies, was a trade route that mainly focused on the exchange of building materials and precious gems, one of the most valuable trade commodity being the rojoan polished marble, which at the time, was considered to be the most beautiful material to build monuments from. As a treaty between the two realms, Pannians would buy rojoan marble in bulk, and in exchange, Rojoans would recieve various samples of Pannian crops, which were highly adaptable to the seasons, which allowed the Rojoans to fulfill their plans of expanding the agricultural areas into the Amarojillo delta, it was around this time that the Great acres was built. 
== Rojoan colonial empire ==
The Pannian navigations had started, and the tales of colonial marvels reached rojo rather quickly. By assimilating the pannian early caravels, the rojoans were able to set sail to the sea and discover new lands.
=== Rojoan pannia ===
The first place rojoan explorers disembarked at was the pannian island due to several complications in the sailing techniques. Mistaking it for new lands, the rojoans quickly set up colonies along the shoreline, until the pannians finally discovered this condition and signed the "Free commerce pact" which allowed pannia to freely set up trade posts in the rojoan coastline in exchange of the rojoan control of the eastern side of the island.
When the Pannian "res publica" fell and the empire rose, the inhabitants of eastern pannia were rojoans only in name and eye colour, as the pannian culture during that era was flourishing and the rojoans in the main island eventually joined the empire, leaving only the island of Tsyiotta under rojoan control.
File:Rojocolonies1.png|First instances of colonial borders/zone of control recorded on the map.
File:Rojocolony2.png|Greatest extent of the Rojoan control over pannia
File:Rojocolonies3.png|The island of Tsyiotta, the last remnant of Rojoan control after the pannian revolution
File:Rojo-pannia(rojopage).png|The Rojo-Pannian Commonwealth, the direct result of the melting pot between the two cultures.
=== Rojoan Extreme north ===
The rojoan voyages did not only go east, they also went north to the northernmost point of Earossath: Cape Vermelho
Seeing no inhabitants, the rojoans were quick to set up colonies, which didn't go well at first due to the extreme cold, but once the discovery of the Beaver was announced, the "furs and fish" economy of the cape vermelho colony boomed and the colonial attraction exploded through the roof.
The Vermelho colony was the first and only rojoan colony to recieve a flag, which is nowadays their naval flag.
The expansion westwards led to the discovery of the aguans, and the vermelhian colony was deemed a high profit investment.
After some occurances of colonial mismanagement plague ravaged the colony, and after rojo cut ties with the colony for security measures civil war was born. After series of unfortunate events, the colony declared independence. With the input of aguan furs into the stone route, the rojoans no longer needed the vermelhian colonies, so they didn't bother to mantain so they could cut costs.
File:Rojocolonies4.png|The estabilishment of the Cape Vermelho colony. The colonization was slow and population was sparse due to the extreme cold.
File:Rojocolonies5.png|The discovery of the beavers spiked the production of furs in Cape Vermelho, leading more and more immigrants into the cold heartlands. 
File:Rojo in 12.png|The Rojoans in vermelho started estabilishing coastal fishermen colonies to mantain vermelhian sovereignty.
File:Rojocolonies6.png|After the Assulian-Cape treaty that equalized morder claims, the fishermen migrated north, finding an island. The native assulians were met, and first contacts started.
=== Rojoan Sulphur islands ===
The Sulphur islands were the result of several volcanic catastrophes in the north glacial sea, which were the opening door to the Daelylis continent.
The biggest volcano island, Yukuli was first discovered by the rojoans, then split in half by the incoming Pannian settlers. Colonial tensions started to rise between the two powers until the pannians pulled back.
Yukuli was the only island at the time, however, as mentioned above, volcanic catastrophes gave birth to the archipelago. The Rojoan-Pannian isle treaty who claimed all islands east was now in action, but in closer inspection, the newborn islands were, well, piles of rock and waste. No plants, no fish, not even seaweed, those isles were completely barren. The rojoans decided to "gift" those islands to Pannia with the exception of the island of Rossia.
File:Yukulia1.png|The Yukulian island colonial battle. Because of it's large deposits of sulphur (that in the era was believed to be medicine) was only sourced from this island, so both great powers rushed to see who could colonize it first.
File:Yukulia2.png|Because of internal problems, Pannia had to pull out from the battle, and rojo ended up in an agreement with pannia.
File:Yukulia3.png|The Sulphur archipelago is born and the Pannia-Rojoan isles treaty is enacted. Unfortunately, those islands were barren, so rojo decided to partition the archipelago with pannia.
File:Yukulia4.png|Yukulia and Rossia were rightfully rojoan, and the other eastern islands were rightfully pannian.
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