Thaupenas

Þœpenas is a southern niaptic country to the east of lltashtha. It is part of the niapti economic union where it is the X largest country by population. It is cuurently allied with Cuite, lltashtha, and Na Kua. Þœpenas is one of the oldest countries, being around 1000 years old; however, folkloric legends say that the country was founded 500 years before.

## Languages

Calon is heavily inspired by latin inflections with Korean inspiration in the phonology. Grammar is higly agglutinative with many verb and noun pardigms. Preferred word order is SOV, but it can be in any order. Similar to German, auxiliary verbs are separated from the infinitive by the object and prepositional phrases. Additionally, all modifiers agree in class, number, and case with the  nouns they modify, and verb infinitives agree in aspect, mood, and negation with their auxiliaries. Calon has a handful of irregular null verbs, meaning they are filled in by other non verb means.

Eastern Þœpenite is a highly analytic, tonal language found to the eastern and northern borders of Þœpenas. It is a language isolate of unknown origin, but with heavy grammar and loans from Cælon. The language was nearly extinct until in the education reform of 1950 allowed schools to teach East Þœpenite as the main learning language. no one really knows why eastern Þœpenite is so much different than the surrounding languages. A popular theory states that it is the lone survivor of an ancient language family of the Emz Rad archipelago. The only evidence the theory has to go from is the similarity in tools and burial practices from north Þœpenas and southern islands near Emz Rad; however, these could be from an unrelated ancient extinct Emz Rad culture.

## Culture

The þeoseodjom are a loyal and ambitious people, they are strive to make things more efficient andunderstandable. They are mildly individualistic with strong family ties and loyal to their government. Due to their loyal mentality, they are rarely neutral, which has lead to bloody schisms in the country’s past. Most þeoseodjom work either on family owned farms or in the bureaucracy.

The Cæwemsos became incorporated into Þœpenas after the conquest of the Lilliput Steppe in 500CE. There the steppe stayed until in 1200, the steppe was united under a Pan indigenous independence movement ultimately leading to the Lilliput Steppe becoming a protected free territory.

### Religion

Religion info: almost all Þeoseodjom practice the quasi monotheistic religion of Þeo. The main belief is that one creator, Þeo, made 50 worlds called the great sieve. The goal is to make it to the 50th world to live in eternal happiness by learning the teachings of Þea which include lessons such as respecting the spirits of the land and hearth, restraint, and loyalty. Most people agree the world we live on is the 25th world as it is equal in having good and bad things happening on it. Once a person dies, they are tested in Limbo to see if they should move up or down the great sieve. People may also get help in the test by helping spirits in life by giving them offerings and celebrating their feast days. It is believed the destinies of all things are controlled by the three high spirits, Þeo the human creator who sows the seed of life, kwefam the koi/goldfish spirit who grows and nurtures the crop of life by enriching it with knowledge and art, and apaþon the raven spirit who harvests the fruit and returns the body to the earth to grow life again.

## Politics

The government of the Þeoseodjom is an absolute monarchy with local rule by the royal bureaucracy. The government is highly bureaucratic, with regulations on  almost all non personal matters. Taxes are usually collected in coin, but farmers pay in rice and wine instead. The current power split is due to a bloody war fought 80 years ago between the monarchy and bureaucracy. The war stopped only because the church was forced to declare the split by the nobles who were facing democratic revolts in their provinces. The split government are pretty much just two governments stacked top of eachother, taking two diplomats and having inability to change the other’s laws