The empire of Neredia

The flag of Neredia

The **Empire of Neredia** (In neredian : **Dig Imperatorat van Néridiya**) or shortly named **Neredia**, is an authokratist country mainly situated in Nordica.

With a country size of 17,6 million km square and a population of 5,7 billion, it is the second largest and the most populous country in the world. It's territory stretches from the middle of the Trenchorat mountain range and the Littoran corridor to the coasts of the Nardasgiff Sea and the Shirwakiw Ocean. All the while, Neredia owns 10,66 million km square of polar colonies and it borders six countries, including Ivrenikia and Altacore.

The empire is an absolute monarchy which values nationalism, authokratism and its culture and faith. The country also known it's gargantuan industry, extensive agriculture and profitable mining sector. All of it allows this member of the Authokratist Coalition for Civilization to have a modernized and big enough army to become the "Bulwark of Civilization".

## History

### Prehistory

Due to the Trenchorat being neredia's southern natural border, it was with northern Suderia the first land to see the arrival of pre human ancestors at the beginning of what is called the "Noredal Ice age". Such migrations were said to happened in the region between 10600 to 800 before YR (meaning "Year prime". It's year zero being situated in during the birth of agriculture) as archaeologists found fossils of many pre human ancestors such as Hoemoa Hyperbor or Hoemoa Vodit beyond the mountain range.

Between 10600 and 3430 before YR, as long as the Ice age lasted, those evolved primates where mainly found at the more warmer south and west of modern neredia. All the while, the colder and inhospitable center saw fewer and fewer people there. More surveys and researches showed that the warmer places of modern neredia were diverse and populated, while it's colder counterparts were mainly inhabited by Hoemoa Hyperbors. It saw fewer people as they had to face constant winter times and hostile animals such as the Ram elephant or the neredian wolf.

Even if it was suggested by many paleontologists that the discovery of fire and appearance of primitive stone tools in the region happened between 6000 and 5900, the exact place and date of it's first discovery/invention was harder to pinpoint, despite many elements (such as the cold and dangerous animals) hinting it's invention in the center of the modern neredia.

As the earth started it's 7 millennia long warming, the number of pre-historic neredians grew and the area they live in grew and grew. Prehistoric societies of hunter gatherers started to appear more and more as archeologic searches unburied silex's, spears, bone knives... Some paleontologists claimed that the prehistoric neredians domesticated wolves, other animals and even Ram elephants. Though these claims were more nuanced in truth, certain animals such as wolves were proven to be domesticated in random parts of the north-center-east while yet in low number. On the contrary, the domestication of Ram elephant had no proof or proofs against its being.

One thing was sure : around 4000, at the end of the "Noredal Ice age", the hunter-gatherers started to settle more and more permanently on this land. Many remains of villages made out of fur ,mud or stone huts showed the formation of an increasing number of societies and of growing population.

One final notable note of neredia's prehistory was art. From 2070 and onward, more and more cave paintings were found mainly in the trenchorat. The paintings either portrayed scenes of prehistoric life like hunting and dancing ones or scenes of the lands fauna. Many archeologist found near remains of the trenchorat's most populated places caves whose walls carries one of the most elaborate prehistoric frescoes in it's time. An example being the "Podsonnaren" (Cave-sun in neredian) showing multiple animals, men, mountains and other undescribed things surrounding a sun.

The tradition of neredian menhirs seems to also to originate from that time as they were more and more numerous as the neredians started to sedentarise. The erection of those menhirs were theorized to either a show of a chief's prestige, for spiritual purposes or as a kind of landmark. Such claims were mainly confirmed due to the placement of those menhirs on important places of several settlements. The number and size of menhirs per site depended both on it's proximity to rocky mountains and the population density here. While crude and extremely rare, sculpted menhirs started being erected at the latest part of prehistory. One notable example was the "Droy Lovtararen", three statues of anthropomorphic wolves which not only was the birthplace of the "Wolfirist" faith, but later the of Neredia's religious capital : "Gostantia"

Around 10 after YP, the ancient neredians now fully settled started agriculture. Thus bringing this region from prehistory to early antiquity

### Antiquity (10 BYP-5529)

As the number of preys drasticly collapsed under the weight of the ever increasing huge population of lower neredia, many of those neredians were in search of food. As a consequence, many started to either settle in the wet highlands of the littoral corridor and fusse-sgalagar or in the deltas of the eastern coast of the country.

### TRASh

Antiquity/Pre confederation era (0 - 1593): Between the Trenchorat mountains and three coastlines lies forests, hill and fertile lands. Is in the year 3 that neredians grew their wheat and rye. As such forgiving land brings the arrival of at least two million people and numerous statelets. Such statelets had a common religion, resembling culture and even common language. Yet they were never one, whether they fighted, coalited or being ganged on by other statelets. Only three countries managed to create something resembling a nation spanning empire : The kingdom of Koveliren(953-962 The empire of Volekt (1187-1199) and the holy theocracy of Valia(1453-1593). The two first barely endured decades: The first kingdom failed to secure it's border from a band of organized barbarians from nearly everywhere, as it was enduring one of the nation's worst season. The second empire had fallen in the same fashion as it has risen : through bloodshed, violence and chaos. With the death of it's emperor Artilaren the bloodlusty and a non existant succession law, the many people who claimed the throne all fought in a civil war which destroyed the empire. On the contrary, the Holy theocracy of had both a century an ever lasting legacy : The pagan Wolfirist religion. With a group of religious patriarchs and the productivity and military values of the cult, it is

Middle age/Early confederation era (1593 - 1920) : But if the theocrats of Valia used religion to unite the neredians, one emperor from the same region would create the concept of a neredian national identity to do so. And that emperor is Kaviniff the first. While he conquered much of modern neredian lands, he managed to keep the empire together for centuries by turning it into a confederation in 1789. This didn't only made certain of it's members happy with the autonomy they still kept, but allowed the "neredian" national identity to finally concretize : And so, the Neredian Imperial Confederation was created. All according to the emperor's plan, the unification process was meant to be both progressive and beneficiary for Valia and certain region. Not only it made the Valian empire and other loyal states strong enough to stands above the others, but it yet created a situation where the confederation's stability was varying. As the unequal autonomy, developments and aid from the main states caused discontent or even open rebellion among the disadvantaged. Given it's constant focus on internal matters and it's experiences with it's neighbors. The confederacy was fairly defensive in terms of international diplomacy. This cost them to be always on the brink of technological backwardness. Despite this, their seemingly natural engineering and administrative skill made the confederation support itself and find the way toward economic prosperity. As time went on, an economical and cultural golden age slowly arrived and went on (1800-1920). With this, it managed to launch wars of expansion or religion on others : The war against Westetia (1818-1821 The Neredo-Litorjackist holy war (1841-1891 The Broghtarens (name of a wolfirist holy war) in eastern Aranika and Shoreb (1820-1945) and so on. Their results ranged from acceptable victories with territorial against to disastrous defeats which nearly ended the confederacy. One of them being the Altacorian Popular crusade of 1920, which caused the loss of an 8th of the confederacy, the weakening of the neredian entity and an increase lack of stability which would take decades to be repaired.

High Gunpower age/Late Confederacy era (1920 - 2015) : If the first decades of this era was one of painful reconstruction and borderline isolation, The emperor of this time Voldaren the 3rd had seeing the virtuous of allying against the southern Altacorian republic. This led to an alliance with Shoreb and Aranika, now wary of the danger that is Altacore. With Nereida's populous and powerful labor and The two allies' technologies and methods. The confederacy, while still plagued by factionalism, still stand rich and tall as it manages to rebuild itself. Yet, it's ambitions still resides in protecting the homeland, standing well in defensive wars between 1961 and 2003 against not the Altacorian and it's newly created allies. But came a point where in 2003, the continent's second great war came : The Tyranicidal war. after decades of massive wars, the neredian confederacy lies victorious but extremely broken to a point of no return. As time went on, the Neredian Imperial Confederation slowly brokes into independent states until the region of Valia abandons the idea of a confederacy in 2015, in order to be an empire yearning reunification.

Steam and modern age/ Neredian reunification (2015 - 2100): What Valia managed to do before the collapse of the confederacy is borderline pillaging the leaving and remaining lords as the emperor sent the end of the political entity. With enough resources and with support from the now re-befriended Ivrenikans, the Valia empire passed it's post confederacy decades building it's industry at the price of everyone quality of life. This nearly caused a worker revolt which was avoided by negotiations and promises of a better life after reunifications. The Valian industrialized army marched south-east in 2034 until they encounter the Altacorian border. Then, managed to march north and west from 2038 to 2054) after agreement from Ivrenikia to not touch neredian lands in exchange of laying off all claims on Shoreb. The weak and backwards statelets didn't stand against the rifles, artillery and even armored cars of the Valians. As nearly all neredian lands were united, remains Westetia and Tchotchanerrdi, all under the Littorjakist Thalassocracy. The reunification campaign thus ends in 2060 with a neredian victory over the Littorjakist, leading to the reunification of neredia at the price of Litorjack's place as a secondary power. This yet enraged the Sudla-westi republican union, who wanted to unite this land under their republicain values. This shortly leads to a war between both nations in 2070. And as the wars falls disadvantageous to the neredians, they thus search alliance with their opportunistic neighbor Ivrenikia. And with Altacore finally entering the war for ideological reasons, the first world war begin . As years of attrition warfare and internal tension went on, a white peace was signed in 2080. Ensues then a moment of peace where each nation rebuilt itself, especially neredia as it adopted an aggressive industrialization policy. Many projects were also made : A development of the navy; colonization of the artic coasts and of one Gorigan island; Changes of the social structure for industrial society ; diplomacy with fellow empires against southern republic; enforcement of the neredian culture ; creation of the atomic bombs and even attempts at launching sattelites.

Information age and Emergerium age/ Imperial readiness era (2100-2421): The neredian state managed to have take the place of the super-powerful super states. It may not have the cult of cultural and technological progress as it's ally or enemy, but it is an ever-growing industrial nation. With massive mineral exploitation, sprawling megapoles and gargantuan industrial growth, the neredian empire grew mighty. It yet suffered from massive pollution, pollution in which effort had being done as soon as technology allowed for environmental cleaning. On the meantime, their aggressive mining campaigns led to a discovery which will change the world : Emergerium. With further research on it's acquirement, the empire did like everyone else : going from a state of steel to one of emer. It begin to be the first producer of emer and became the first nation to fully transition to emer. Yet, in 2421, ethnic tensions rises and escalates in the south-west. And with violent mismanagement of the situation Progressist league used the violent repressions as a casus belli to invade neredia and it's allies : Thus begins The emergerium war

## Gouvernement and Geopolitics

### Trivia

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