Welserland

Plurinational State of Welserland

Plurinationaler Staat von Welserland (German)

Flag of Welserland

15.5% Black

6.1% Wayuu

5.6% Kalina

3.7% Warao

2.6 Pemong

2.3% Arawak

2% Muisca

1.4% Baniwa

1.2% Akawaio

1.2% Yanomami

5.7% Other

10.4% Atheism

3% Vodun

1.3% Chibchanism

4.2% Other

**Welserland**, officially the **Plurinational State of Welserland** (German: *Pluritantionaler Staat von Welserland*) is a country located in the Amazonian region of Antillia. It is bordered by New Granada, Marignon and Guayana and shares a maritime border with the East Indies Federation & the Antillian Republic. It's capitals are New Aubsburg and Frawenthal, and the population is 39.8 million. The country, though historically violent is now starting a peaceful era.

## History

It is not known how many people lived in Welserland before the European conquest, though it has been estimated to be around 1.3 million. In addition to indigenous peoples known today, the population included historical groups such as the Kalina Caribs, Caquetio, Mariche, and Muisca. The Muisca culture was the most complex society in Pre-European Welserland, with pre-planned permanent villages, surrounded by irrigated, terraced fields, and water storage systems.

Beginning around 1,000 AD, archaeologists speak of the Neo-Indian period, which ends with the European Conquest and Colony period. In the 1650's, when colonization began in Venezuelan territory, the population of several indigenous peoples, such as the Mariches (descendants of the Kalina Caribs), declined. Native caciques (leaders), such as Wayakapuro and Tamanaco, attempted to resist European incursions, but the newcomers ultimately subdued them.

The Welsers, a wealthy finance and trading family from the Alemannic city of Augsberg soon heard of the "newly-found" lands to the west of the Atlantic Ocean, and it's immense natural and resource wealth. It's main colonial competitors were Spain, based in the New Granada colony to the west, and Britain based in the Guyana and it's multiple Caribbean colonies to the east and north. Originally, plans were made by the Welsers to colonize Marignon, though many settlers died to tropical diseases.

The first area that settlers arrived in New Venice, or Klein-Venedig, aptly named for stilt houses in the Ehingerland region built by the Wayuu. The German colonials, despite coming from Alemannia, did not make either the Alemannic or Bavarian languages official due to preassure from mainland Germany, as well as the fact that it would complicate teaching the natives. Resistance from the Wayuu, Kalina and Arawak led to the creation of the Welser Army, a horse-mounted division who's role was to subdue the native rebellions.

Elsewhere, in the present-day New Bavaria region, the Muisca and other groups were caught off-guard when Germans started to arrive in the area. The area was, and still is known as New Bavaria due to it's high altitude and snow-capped mountains which reminded German settlers of home. It was in Orinoco city that the first attempts to convert the natives to Catholicism. The native Muisca, of course did not understand the concept of Catholicism and refused. Later encounters negatively decreased their population by about 75%.

During the 1700's, the colonial Spanish of New Granada began to see the German colony as a threat to their mining economy, partially due to the fact that gold mines began operation in Jaracui