The Din Republic

The Din Republic was one of the countries that participated in The Great War, and an espionage powerhouse in the Shadow War. The Republic is the nation where the Lamplight team resides.

## Culture and Politics

The Din Republic is a rural, pacifist nation, focused on agriculture. Their economy is small and their influence on international politics is minuscule.But as backwater as The Din Republic might sound, they were a backwater with a big secret--the fact they were an espionage powerhouse. Lurking in the shadows, the Government invests resources in Spy Education with the intention of gaining the upper hand in the shadow war. In general, the Din Republic is a relatively safe country to live in in the current period. Although it does have it's share of gangs and criminals--especially in the cities. The influence Din held over world affairs made them to be a force to be reckoned with.

The Din Republic shows to kindness to captured foreign operatives. According to Klaus, what awaits them is a darkness deeper than death. Either their hearts and mind shatter or their bodies give out from the torture and they die. There are rare instances where people are spared and volunteer to serve as double agents as traitors. But those people meet their demise at the hands of their old comrades' hands.

In the Din Republic, traffic jams happened once in a blue moon. And Din didn't have a subway system. Their big cities only recently got commuter trains and out in the sticks, it wasn't uncommon to see people still riding in horse-drawn carriages. You could scour the country without finding a single building with a double-digit number of floors.

## History

### Medieval times--The Popular Revolution

Before Din became a Republic, the populous was ruled by the royal family. It is unknown when the popular revolution took place. However what came of the revolution was the abolition of a monarchy in favor of a Republic. During the Popular Revolution, Inferno may have served the royal family before being allegedly exiled and the royal family may have used Heat Haze palace as a hideaway.

### Before The Great War

Before the Great War, The Din Republic had two central intelligence agencies. One for the military known as the Military Intelligence Department and the other for Naval Intelligence. The agencies faced tension amongst each other and neither were particularly out of the ordinary or outstanding as neither of them liked the other so they both kept secrets leading them both to underperform. A part of the cause being the strict military regulations. This was why during the war Din established a new body that triumphed both factions, The Foreign Intelligence Office

### During The Great War

In the wake of the industrial revolution, The Republic wasn’t among the nations to keep up with the rapid advancements. Instead, The Republic focused on cultivating high-quality agriculture. The Republic lacked military and natural resources relevant enough to inspire potential conflict and attempted pacifism when The Great War started. The Republic's status as a pacifist nation didn’t help when faced with the power hungry, rapidly expanding Galgad Empire. The Great War cost The Republic countless lives.

### Post-war

After the war, Din was chaos. gangs were running rampant scamming veterans out of disability checks and pressuring people who lost their partners in war to sell their homes at low cost. The worst of these gangs was The Cannibals who killed for sport with a leader who was an expert at killing. Ordinary people at cops feared this gang util the leaders daughter Sybilla turned him in.Left-wing groups rose to popularity after The Great War calling for drastic reforms and were criticized by the well-educated conservative population of Din. A Din Newspaper company--the second oldest in the country lambasted them and played a meaningful role in the current political discourse after the end of the war

## Locations

### Maple Lane

Maple Lane is pointed out for appearing nothing like its name. It’s a length of road smack dab in the middle of the city. The store feature luxury and imported goods.

Emai Lake is the most popular tourist attraction in Maple Lane. Even the wealthy folk from the capital scurry to rent a boat on the beautiful lake.

### Port City Arranq

This city is the location of Heat haze palace--Lamplight’s headquarters. The city acts as a major commercial hub, home to a series of trading companies. It's port has been described as the nation's gateway to the rest of the world, and it's presence has grown the city into the third most prosperous locale in the country.Traders gather to sell imported goods, and there are throngs of immigrants who work on the docks. The city is a melting pot of every socioeconomic status imaginable. One from Arranq, and cities in the Din Republic in general have are philanders, tourists who come to have their way with the local women and return to wherever they came from, leaving the women pregnant and without the means to raise a child, and then abandon them. When they do, those children are recruited to crime syndicates.

Inside the city is a local meat pie shop beloved by members of Lamplight and the former team Inferno. It is a long standing institution and it's predicted that hundred if not thousands of people find joys in the pies the owner makes.

### Entertainment district

The entertainment district is located in the southernmost tip of the Din Republic. In the past, gold was discovered in a nearby mountain in the district and workers flooded in from all over and they even set up a railway system. The city even avoided suffering major damages during The Great War and its lights never went out. Once the money ran out, the district invested money into building tourist attractions to prevent it from becoming a ghost town. The entertainment district is the hottest spot for tourists and locals in all of Din. There are underground casinos the wealthy like to visit.As a result of all the tourists, criminals became commonplace in the entertainment district, even more so than the rest of Din as tourists as easy to trick.The district itself caters to rich tourists and according to Lily in Volume 3, you can spot over a dozen ritzy hotels just around the station.The one's facing the main street welcoming and well maintained. But hidden within the fancy, tourist friendly exterior, the entertainment district also caters to a shadier audience. The district could stay awake even in the nights later hours. There were always people out and about, some of them trying to win over women in bars and others making the bets of their lives in sketchy, underground, casinos.

### City Hall

The city hall has a residential affairs section.

### Administrative District

The Capital has an administrative district near the station and the cabinet office and ministry of Foreign Affairs buildings stood side by side there. In fact, aside from the post office and the handful of restaurants and banks, the entire district was filled with buildings the country was managed out of. The administrative district was also home to a few stand-alone office buildings. They appeared to be subdivisions of larger organizations, but with unremarkable names. In the district was a small, three-story building called the Cabinet Office Economic Research center owned by the Foreign Intelligence Office. That building is where the Foreign Intelligence Office holds it's captured spies. The construction below where the spies were being held was described by Thea as modern, aside from its lack of windows, it was quite typical to any other facility one might visit. A wine-red carpet decorated the floor under the hallway's blaring light. Though the cells themselves were par for the course in terms of solitary confinement.

## Trivia

* According to Spy Classroom English translator Rook on Twitter, The Din Republic may be based off of Belgium
* Both Din and Galgad share similar languages, culture, ethnicities and even a border
* As the Spy Classroom Anime confirms in its first episode, the common-spoken language of Din is German.
* While it is not currently known how well immigrants are treated in the Din Republic as of the current English translations, Arranq, the port city in which Heat Haze Palace is located, has hordes of immigrants who work there.
* While with the current official English translations we don't know much about the Din Republic Police, the narrator in the first Short Story Collection describes corrupt cops as threats running rampant. It is not known yet whether that line refers to the actual institution, or individual cops abusing their power.

1. ↑ Volume 3 page 144
2. ↑ Spy Classroom Light Novel volume 1, Chapter 1, page 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Volume 3 page 101
4. ↑ vol 4 page 48
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 volume 2 page 2
6. ↑ Spy Classroom Light Novel volume 1, Chapter 1, page 2
7. ↑ volume 2 page 80-81
8. ↑ volume 2 page 3
9. ↑ SSC 1 pages 18-19
10. ↑ SSC 1 page 29
11. ↑ SSC 1 page 121
12. ↑ Volume 3 pages 49-50
13. ↑ Volume 3 page 76
14. ↑ Volume 3 page 89
15. ↑ SSC 1 page 2
16. ↑ vol 4 pages 14-15
17. ↑ https://twitter.com/HiroshiThrasher/status/1489784354901352453
18. ↑ SSC 1 page 19
19. ↑ SSC 1 page 42