Jorthar

Flag of the Jorthari Diktat. The Nordic black cross is fimbriated in a cyan, yellow, cyan border. The black cross represents the nation without a soul as the Jorthari nation and people have lost their identity. The cyan border represents the protective shell that remains guarding the old yellow beauty of the previous principality-era. Lastly, the black background represents an unknowable future for the Jorthari in their time of mourning.

## Government data

### Government

Interim. Government, Benevolent Dictatorship

## Demographic data

### Towns

Jotunheim, Midgard, Alfheim, Vanaheim, and Nidavellir

### Religions

Lunarian Triune, Jothari Ancestor Worship

## The Nation of Jorthar

The nation of **Jorthar** (Jörðar) is a southeastern country found in Eldham. The small independent nation has undergone many hands and transitions through its existence. As of August 23rd, 2022, it is now an indefinite interim government organized under a benevolent diktat and council hierarchy. Jorthar underwent new leadership after the abdication of its previous leader and blessing of its former queen. The nation has experienced stability in its time but has suffered a major lack of growth in population, economy, and industrialization. Compared to its Southern Leifmyrr counterparts, it can be considered a third world country. However slow, the nation is seeing its own independent growth through their own self-sufficiency.

## Modern History

### Soul Searching (March - April 2023)

Recently, a sizeable band of immigrants have begun moving into Jorthar. The sudden spike has caused the once quiet nation to reopen diplomatic channels with their bordering nations of Eleanor, Kryvonea, Orisifell, Samora, and Santos to negotiate a sea & land expansion to meet the sudden demand for housing.

### Stability and Remission (Jan - March 2023)

The Jörðar Diktat had succeeded in reobtaining the desired sovereignty the Jorthari people had long sought after. However, exhaustion had took its toll on the hivemind entity and the impromptu council leading the Jorthari people. The Jörðar Diktat financial situation did not bold well either as it was estimated in their own internal economic census that all internal and export trade had stopped. It was devised that a maritime salvaging, archaeology and fishing based industry would help stave off the worse economic woes at the time.

In the later months, the Jörðar Diktat and its people would begin to quietly self-isolate from the cataclysm of the Goddess Segra and her forces and the many open conflicts engaged between disputing nations. Economic stagnation had set in as the sole fishing industry had reached its economic limits. Developmental environmental conscious policy-led industrialization and infrastructure plans came to a reeling halt without support. Many towns began to exhibit signs of lifelessness far-beyond what is normal for even its undead inhabitants. The Elemental Forces of Jorthar began to rise, terrorizing the land once more with an ever-enveloping mist surrounding the nation.

### Gilded Tidings (Nov 2022 - Jan 2023)

Jorthar had also participated at the second summit of the Gilded Tide alliance and later joined as an allied nation until the alliance's dissolution in early January 2023.

### A Country Without a Soul (Sept - Jan 2023)

The newly formed Jörðar Diktat quickly began to distinguish itself unlike many other totalitarian or authoritarian regimes that had cropped up in Eldham and Rathnir over the years. Setting itself up to be a Benevolent Dictatorship, it began to recruit and reinstate many of the previous political advisors and council members of the prior SRJ state and Principality-era. The hivemind entity, ill equipped and unwilling to subjugate the Jorthari populace, sought to benevolently pacify and accommodate the needs of the Jorthari nation. The Jörðar Diktat sought to instill stability and trust once more in the crisis-riddled state.

A looming threat existed in the form of the United Socialist States of Eldham, as the previous SRJ state was a satellite country under the USSE through a brokered loan-debt repayment deal facilitated by the late Dmitry Kuritszi (BlitzK) and Queen XwX. The deal had its origins in the repurchase of the territorial land of Volgorath and repayment for land owned by Schimmel (UndergradMold) of Prubensia who had brokered the deal from another nation. Internally the Jörðar Diktat suffered from a stiff opposition from its populace to remain in the USSE as it was believed at the time the war centric USSE would have heavily industrialized the Jorthari nation to meet its ever-growing war economy and conscripted the Jorthari people into a war it never wished to participate in. Externally, the Jörðar Diktat had no means to formally protect itself without a forced conscription that would have been costly and suicidal to the Jothari populace and homeland.

The Jörðar Diktat devised its "best case" scenario was to negotiate terms of a peaceful secession from the USSE while simultaneously preparing for an inevitable war it could not have won. Diplomatic talks were conducted with the USSE to negotiate an amicable release of the nation and repayment of the USSE's portion of the loan-debt repayment deal owed to Schimmeldov Vikuija-Trilius while under the harsh scrutiny and subterfuge of Krakhov and his operatives. Old and new allies were contacted in the background, re-establishing diplomatic ties and protections with the nation of Samora and Kryvonea. The Jörðar Diktat and the Jothari people held their breath, fearing the worse outcome until the strike of midnight on the 9th of September.

On September 9th, 2022, through a landslide vote of 100%, the Jorthari populace had democratically voted to peaceful secede from the USSE. The USSE authorized the secession without objection.

### Assuming Direct Control, Formation of the Jörðar Diktat (Aug 2022)

On August 23rd, 2022. Prime Minister Dmitry Kuritszi resigned from his role of Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Jörðar. In Dmitry Kuritszi's resignation, he had fired Deputy Pime Minister Potato and appointed Mattatrix as the new Deputy Prime Minister. Due to the vacancy of the Prime Minister, Mattatrix became the new Prime Minister of the failed state, absolving it entirely and assuming direct control in the formation of the Jörðar Diktat.

The newly formed diktat immediately went into damage control. It was publicly revealed that Mattatrix the Mad Druid was a subordinate to an unknown hivemind entity. The hivemind began activating their subservient sleeper drones throughout the nation to cast off the flags and symbols that had castigated the old Jorthari nation. A new flag was raised as a shadow of the old Principality of Jorthar's national flag. Ultimately the formation of the Jörðar Diktat was a quiet day, not a single drop of blood was shed, and many citizens had quietly celebrated the abandonment of the artificial nature of the S.R.J experiment and statehood.

It is unknown what had happened to the previous Prime Minister Dmitry Kuritszi. It is believed he had quickly evacuated to the fledgling nation of Merconis before becoming deceased sometime after.

## Culture

The Jorthari cultured is loosely based on Norse mythology and the likeness to Icelandic, Norwegian and Scandinavian real-world countries.

## Population

The Jorthari population is comprised of a majority diverse race of non-humanoid and humanoid monsters, animated plant-life, elementals, spirits, undead, incorporeal, and supernatural races with a small population of humans. A sizeable percentage of the population are non-natural born citizens who have immigrated from the bordering nations of Samora, Kryvonea and other Leifmyrr-Serrona nations like Oceanum. The Jorthar nation often naturally attracts refugees, political dissidents, criminals and bandits alike fleeing conflict abroad.

The Jorthari nation historically was known to be the land of monsters and magic in Samoran tales. Once ruled by a Queen of Monsters themself, XwX.