Hāze Republic

*Hāzetan*, officially the *Republic of Hāzetan (*Zāzapūyika ō Hāzetan), is a country in the north of Buzāratan.

## Zāzapūyika ō Hāzetan

Flag of Hāzetan (Note: text reads "Zāza, Hājer, Yōmas, Canjar")

Map of Hāzetan, featuring Beyzāle Autonomous Zones

COA of Hāzetan

## Lore

### Overview

Originally the largest, wealthiest and most culturally diverse country in Buzāratan, Hāzetan has, following the Vesticane Wars, a revolution, a Dictatorship founded by that revolution and a large famine, become a shell of itself. Radicalised, Ultranationalistic, and with a cult-like worship of the Country's Founder, the Hāze Renaissance is well-and-truly over.

### Trivia

* The nation's motto is "Zāza, Hājer, Yōmas, Canjar", literally meaning "Contry, Revolution, Truth, Victory"
* While originally a haven for science and art, most of this was destroyed by the first president, *Hovram y-Dauras Hājera*, who held a grudge from her failure to enter either fields. And so, she had a large amount of it destroyed, dragged the country into deep and fundamentalist Venuziye, and forced remaining passionate artists into creating propaganda for her dictatorship.
	+ While she is now dead, her sucessor *Gǣrucėe* has maintained this stuff.
* Hāzetan is the poorest Country in the Dataverse, second most corrupt country in the Dataverse, and 15th most isolated country in the Dataverse.

### Government

Hāzetan is officially a presidential republic, where the head of state (the... uh... *President*) wields pretty much supreme, absolute, unchecked power over the country, due to a complete lack of a senate, parliament or anything of that kind (Instead, Hāzetan has a small cabal of Party Officials, chosen by the President to run parts of the country such as its economy or agriculture and the like), and extreme centralisation. This is because the President isn't actually elected via popular vote, but instead chosen by... the previous president! And so, President Hājera gave way to President Gǣrucėe, who seems set to give way to President Ēkarāy.

However, the President is only as powerful as her influence over the Army and Police allows, and the President's Influence is... uh... not much.

The Hāze Army prefers to ignore Government demands, instead focusing on its own internal goals of glory. The Police generally hold their loyalties with the Ultranationalistic, Ultraconservative, Hājera-ist *Hājer Cha* (Revolutionary Guard), who, due to their opposition to any kind of deviation from Hājera's plans for Hāzetan, are the closest thing to an official government opposition, inspite of technically being the Government's tool.

And, finally, the efforts to Centralise the nation around Hijvā have mostly failed. Generally, things such as laws are defined by the local Mayor, Warlord, Government Representative or Bandit Faction. The closest thing to Government authority is the Hāze Army's raids on Bandit Territory, which is technically part of the Vesticane Wars, lol.

## Statistics

### Populous

Hāzetan is the home of 5.86 Million people, predominantly Hāze, but with many, *many* pockets of minorities such as Khironese, Vāspi, Anāt, Beyzāle, and Flāre. Generally, the population lives packed-together in Cities and Towns, due to the predominantly desert geography of the country.

### Military

The Hāze Army is the largest of Hāzetan's military branches, due to 15-year mandatory service for all citizens (including former bandits). It has 3.2 Million Soldiers, split into 5-Bee Squads.

The Hāze Airforce is, while a cultural staple due to their "Instinctual" revival, isn't actually that big, due to quite long training times. It has roughly 800 thousand trained flyers.

The Hāze Navy is literally just seven angry fisherbees with Bolt-Action rifles. No, really, that's the real, *official* Hāze navy.

### Economy

lol

In all seriousness, Hāzetan is mainly propped up by Neopetrol exports, primarily to the Vāspi and Adrieline Empires. It is generally a barren place, and gets many of its resources by simply sending people disguised as refugees to neighbouring countries to steal them (most famously, a large amount of Anāt Mushrooms were stolen to revive Hāze farming, as they'd lost pretty much all their arable land to their neighbours following the First Vesticane War.)

Most of Hāzetan's export money is either embezzled by the Army for equipment or embezzled by the Government and Hājer Cha so they can buy more materials for the nice mansions they're gonna make political prisoners build for them. Very little gets to the average overtaxed, opressed Hāze civillian, but they can't complain *because this is the people's government, idiot.*

## Culture

### Language

Hāzetan is predominantly a Buzār country. While Buzār is a language spoken in many states, of equal relevance, and deserves its own page, Hāzetan *does* have a unique, Hāze dialect, distinct from the Anāt Dialect most of the Buzār world speaks.

Hāze Buzār is mainly unique for a sound commonly represented in Romanisations with "⋗". While in Anāt Dialect, this is just a dry breathy sound, in Hāze Dialect, it is pronounced with a buzz. (Note, Hāze (bees in case you haven't noticed lol) can pronounce both a "s" and "z" sound *and* make a buzzing noise.)

### Tradition

Hāzetan, in spite of the Government and Hājer Cha's best efforts, remains a deeply artistic country. While now often shared via black-markets and shady dealings, the art of painting is still very popular in the nation. Plus, Khironese influences from the Renaissance Era remain, and are, in fact, the only non-Propaganda form of Art that *isn't* banned. Neat.

### Food

Due to it's location, Hāzetan is pretty sparse for food. Most common are dishes that are just dolled-up mushrooms, grown in metal boxes buried under the sand overnight to be grown. Hāzetan is generally quite well known for having, uh, *Unique* Culinary Tradition.

### Religion

Hāzetan is officially a Venuziye Country, and so believes that the world is ruled by many different gods. There are two gods for every abstract concept, one good and one evil. Venuziye mainly focuses on the worship of Venuzi, Good Goddess of Nature. Funnily enough, there is evidence of Venuzi actually existing, although she was probably killed by Khironese Rebels during the fall of Gāzoden (Hot tip: Hāzetan still remembers Gāzoden.)

Hāzetan's variant of Venuziye sees Venuzi as a martyr, dying Jesus-Style to redeem the sins of the Buzār Race, and that her death only proves her goodness, and the evil of those who oppose the religion.

It also says that Venuzi's soul was transported to live next to Hājera's and then after Hājera died moved on to Gǣrucėe and that she is now co-soul of all future Hāze Presidents and therefore Hāzetan's goals are Venuzi's but we don't talk about that. :p