Demographics of Bujan

The Kingdom of Bujan has a number of ethnicities and cultures, and two of them predominate the nation's society: Slavs, and Wonaos.

## Bujanski Slavs

Nearly half of the island nation's population is of the fair-skinned Bujanski ethnicity, who were descended from a mixture of Darroskei and curly-haired Vilonian colonists who conquered and settled on the island. They, alongside the aboriginal Wonao tribes, enjoy the privileges of being prioritised over other citizens, such as with cheaper housing; and easier access to education, government, and top-ranking business positions, however, healthcare is easily available for both Bujanski and non-Bujanski.

## Drevobojanse and Ljetoslouna

The Bujanski Slavs, as they are known, are the majority of three Slavic ethnicities in Bujan: themselves, the Drevobojanse, and the Ljetoslouna. The Drevobojanse are the direct descendants of Koschei's earlier Slavs, having intermarried and become more Wonao. They mostly practice a traditional culture influenced by Sarmelonid aristocrats, and behave like aristocrats.

The Ljetoslouna are a community of Slavs who live at the Outer Islands south of Bujan, having migrated there at the time of Zvesta's founding. They have become heavily-influenced by Wonao culture after millennia of coexistence with the Wonaos, even though they became the majority in their island due to large families. To avoid overpopulation, Ljetoslouna young adults and new families were given charters to move and buy homes on the other islands, in newly-built towns and artificial islands assigned by the locals.

Like their Wonao compatriots, they also overwhelmingly voted to join Bujan as a federal nation.

## Wonaos

The Wonaos are the native people of Bujan, having settled and thrived as sophisticated civilisations there for millennia. They, along with the Bujanski Slavs, enjoy various privileges as the "co-rulers of Bujan". Wonaos make up the other half of Bujanski society, with everyone else being a small third in between.

Many Wonaos are members of the aristocracy, alongside the Bujanski Slavs. In fact, both groups make up much of the noble houses who elect their sons as the various kings and queens of Bujanski history.

It was the Wonaos who supported the unification of the Outer Islands, turning Bujan into a federation, because they wanted to reunite with the local Wonaos who also supported the state union. Some southern Wonaos became among the richest people in the whole resulting federation!

## Ontemazei and Arnadjanai

The Ontemazei and Arnadjanai are humanoid aliens: the former are colourful plant-based lifeforms that value beauty, and the latter are a mostly-blond race born with additional strength and toughness. Those two latter minorities were brought in as slaves during Wannaenid rule, and for helping Bujan's people in their fight for their independence they were automatically given citizenship.

## Bujanski Irajonians

Other than those are the ruddy "Irajonians" or "Vozonids", descendants of either the Wannaenids who defected to the Bujanski revolutionaries during the war of its independence, or of Irajonians who formed their own communities on the island.

## Heronoi and Waxeroi

There is a community of Heronoi and Waxeroi in Bujan, mostly along the northern coast and shores of the Lake. They are descendants of Heronoi slaves that were brought to Bujan by the Wannaenids to be tortured for amusement, so they aided the revolution to fight back against the Wannaenids. Many pureblood Heronoi returned to their homeland, while those who remained also became citizens. To the joy of the Waxeroi, many of them were also considered as Heronoi in legal censuses, while the rest became Arnadjanai.

## Bujanski Norse

In addition, another minority in Bujan was the Norse minority, some of whom were direct descendants of the Freyrgardians who followed King Koschei. One of his Wolf Knights was a Norse man who trained his son, the next King of ancient Bujan. Although they fled from the Wannaenid destruction of the country, they returned to aid their countrymen in expelling the Wannaenids, and after independence to rebuild their lost homes.

## Bujanski Tuksharans

The city of Mondoi, in northeastern Bujan, is home to a community of ethnic Tuksharans. They are descendants of defectors who helped the Wonaos fight against the Tuksharan Empire, and they continued to help the Wonaos resist Sarmelonid and Wannaenid rule.

## Namiri (Bujanski Pinogunians) and modern Pinogunians

Before the Sixteenth Age, Pinogunians sailed to the kingdoms east of their homeland to settle, trade, work, and serve as mercenaries. The presence of Pinogunians in Bujan is actually older than their modern counterparts, who have reconnected with their own homeland at several times in history and recently.

Pinogunians in Bujan tend to live in the west and south, where they work as merchants, craftsmen, engineers, chefs, and carpenters. Their modern counterparts from the 1890s onwards are sometimes seen as disdain, mocked as lacking the artistic skill of older Pinogunians who lived on the island. However, they gladly welcomed any modern Pinogunian who wished to be an apprentice. Many modern Pinogunians live in the western and central cities, with a few migrating to the eastern ports.

Most of these Pinogunians call themselves "namiri", since the invasion of the Pinogunian Empire when they joined the Wonao crusades to repel the invaders. The word originally meant "a wandering knight".

## Terran Bujanski

See also: Terrans of Bujan

The four Terran human communities in Bujan are the Tyrskans, the former rulers of Bujan; the repentant Maeranoi, former fanatics who reflect on their own wickedness; the later Slavjane, refugees from another world and ex-Tyrskans who renounced their identity; and the Free North, defectors from Tyrskan and Maeranoi families who supported the revolution and were granted citizenship.

While the Tyrskans were generally hated by society for their supremacist attitude and war crimes, the Slavjane were seen as more reliable. They and the Ontemazei wanted to help in deradicalising the Tyrskans, and helping them learn to live as fellow subjects, not masters.

The Maeranoi are the most hated of the Terrans, having committed more horrific war crimes mostly for their amusement. Many of them were killed by each other or the revolts, some migrated back to their homeworlds or to Valtois (for the more loyal Terrans who were unable to become citizens). The Maeranoi who remained underwent penance by rebuilding Bujan, and over time, they became citizens like other Terrans left in Bujan.

The Free Northerners are Terrans who joined the revolts, allowing them to easily become citizens of Bujan. Many un-Terrans who refused to be Bujanski, Maeranoi, or Tyrskan joined the community after completing their penance and becoming citizens.

Some Terrans who were rescued by the revolutionaries, especially former slaves who were freed, were no longer considered as Terrans or even Free Northerners. Because of their innocence and loyalty, and because they chose to do so, they were later considered as Bujanski! Some of those who were not Slavs were listed as "Bujanski of other origin", but were given the same privileges as the Bujanski and Wonaos.

## Everyone else

Most other Bujanski citizens are expatriates that come from other ethnicities that immigrated to the country, mostly in business, education, science, and technology.