Easwegian Irredentism

**Easwegian Irredentism** is an Easwegian nationalist political ideaology which seeks to restore territory which Easwegians once either held domain over or have ethnic or cultural history from into one Easwegian state. Those who subscribe to this ideaology are known as Easwegian Irredentists, Easwegian Nationalists, Easwegian Confederalists or Easwegian Imperialists. The two main factions; the Confederalists and the Imperialists often disagree on major points of society and government and so often hold animosity towards each other.

   Territory that Easwegian Irredentists often want restored into the Realm may include;

* Svalbard and Jan Mayen,
* Bjarmaland and the Komi Republic,
* Vardø,
* Hammerfest,
* Tromsø,
* The Nenets Autonomous Okrug,
* Franz Josef Land,
* Novaya Zemlya.

Less commonly included is Iceland, Greenland, and various islands in the British Isles.

Although Easwegian irredentism is practiced to a minimal degree, with the Emperor during the beginning of his reign relying on the mythology of the Easwegian Commonwealth to state that "in time, all territory of the Easwegian Commonwealth lost shall be regained within a new Realm". (Referring to Hopen, Reike Eisoux, the Thousand Isles, and the the Pomors Isles), the Imperial Council has an official policy of avoiding those who hold these views from working for the government within their legal powers to do so. The view is that due to the extremist nature of wanting to annex territory many sizes of Easway, and the upset these views would cause to the foreign governments, it is best that they avoid fostering those views or being connected to them.

## Mythology

The exact origin of the original inhabitants, the Zerri Easwegians is unknown, but what is known is that the Easwegians originated from somewhere in Bjarmaland, probably the Komi territory and broke out through travelling with the Pomors in the 12th century. As trappers, they travelled to Svalbard and first discovered Bear Island.

During the travelling of Svalbard, they met Norse vikings who had come from Iceland. The tribe that had travelled to Svalbard crashed their ship on Bear Island, staying and creating through the settlementslaw a new polity in 1195, and often traded with the Pomors which helped them build a home on Bear Island, whilst exploring the rest of Svalbard, officially settling on Hopen and the Southern tip of Spitsbergen the next century or two.

The Easwegians, known natively as the Zerri are a seperate tribe to the Komi, the Nenets, and the Saami, but their language has many words which come from Finno-Ugric languages. This was strengthened with the continued trade with Northern Russian ethnicities after Easwegians continued trading more once Willem Barentsz rediscovered Bear Island in 1596.

These shared cultural values have led the Easwegian irredentist movement to claim that it justifies a common state in order to protect and expand on the culture which has been often wiped away because of conquests by both Norwegian colonialists and Slavic influences, which almost wiped out many ethnicities such as the Nenets and especially the Pomors during the existence of the USSR.

## Easwegian Confederalists

Easwegian Confederalists, or Easwegian Confederates wish for an irredentist Easwegian confederacy.

## Easwegian Imperialists

Easwegian Imperialists wish for an irredentist Easwegian empire.