Cyria

679-Present

Cyria is a nation in the continent of Kaveria, on the Cyrian peninsula. It is one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world, and Kerocratic Cyria has kept completely private about its existence from the rest of the world except Imperial Cyria. Since 1428, Cyria has been in a large civil war between the Imperials and Kerocrats. The Imperials represent the historic "Cyrian Empire" period and are known of by a large part of the world as their aim is to conquer it. They have employed several detestable measures to do this, such as transforming 9,200 of their people involuntarily into mindless servants (the original operation was Operation Aviet, which was planned to target a third of their population, but was stopped by an errant individual now only known as Aviet-9253), and creating many more by using Kerocratically illegal exploits of the recovery system. Kerocratic Cyria has a single colony in space, called the Tervine Outpost, on the planet Tervis in another star system.

## Environment

Cyria has an artificial environment made by the Cyrian Empire and maintained by modern Cyria. All plant life and soil in the area has become completely black, and a large crackling purple storm swirls through the entire area. Where there are deep pits, a black fog sinks to the bottom making them appear bottomless. Cyrians have placed illusions to mask this from the outside world. Cyrian sentry structures are present regularly throughout the area.

## Demographics and Population

Kerocratic Cyria is made up 100% of Cyro-Navidani people, and has a population of 84,404,926 people, 63 percent of which are elves, and 37 percent are humans. (There are approximately 500,000,000 people stored in their database, however a majority of them have not been active in the last 70 years and are not counted for population. There are around 5,000,000 people active at any given moment.)

Imperial Cyria has a similar racial and cultural distribution. However, without its mindless soldiers, its population is about 2,292,202 people. There are about 10,000,000 soldiers present at any given moment. Cyrhi has also enslaved some people from eastern Urilian states like Zayin and the Bridge Kingdom.

## Government

Kerocratic Cyria is a self-proclaimed 'kerocracy', which behaves much like a republic. The current executive is Ghila, a woman from the capital, Ani. The legislative branch is made of 99 individuals, and the judicial branch is private.

Imperial Cyria is an absolute monarchy and totalitarian dictatorship, which has only been present for the past 5 years or so. It roughly mirrors the government of the old Cyrian empire, though with a more cult-like aspect to it. The leader is Cyrhi, who is a reconstructed version of the original ruler of the Cyrian empire.

## History

The modern nation of Cyria was founded in 679 after a malformed action performed by the Cyrian Empire accidentally reset the entire Cyrian people. There was no Cyria for approximately 29 years; however it was founded again shortly after. They were able to pick up where the Empire had left off quite easily due to the ruins of the Empire's technology lying about (ruins were even found as far east as the desert in eastern Kaveria, suggesting the Empire extended that far). The republican system was settled due to the instability of an authoritarian system (the second Cyria from 679-708), and the inability of a democratic system (709-752) to work with large numbers of people.

In 926 SR, Cyrian scientists discovered how to store the consciousness and basic appearance details of a person easily, and use surrounding matter to recover that person if they died. The first person to be backed up using this technology was Evartagna, who had been one of the only Cyrians not affected by the strange reset. (After this point, Cyrians started to artificially decrease their initial lifespans.) Evartagna is still around today, and her account of historical events is searchable.

In 1333 SR, as teleportation technology was being worked on, a misfired teleport sent approximately 122 people to an island on Tervis, a planet in the nearest star system.

In 1428, Toro-Tesanet decided to use Evartagna's account of Cyrhi to reconstruct him. This immediately caused a massive cult-like following to emerge, splitting Cyria in two and starting the Cyrian Civil War, which is still ongoing to this day.

## Culture

While strictly speaking, Cyria belongs to the Cyro-Navidani culture group, a phenomenon has emerged in recent history called the "culture void", where both Cyrian factions have become somewhat degenerate due to extreme technological and societal progression. Thus, parts of Cyria have adopted Zayinite and Upper Urilian culture.