Toolmak Confederation

## Toolmak Assembly of Cantons

Official flag of the Toolmak Confederation, adopted in 1856 AD. However, it took its modern form in 2007 AD, after significant revisions done to the flag across the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Map of the Toolmaks as of 2022. Note that actual borders haven't changed since 1818.

### Regional & Minority Languages

FrancianElbrian
Kingare
Southern Germanic
Gammerian

### Ethnic groups (2020)

71% Basilian Surnachte17% Gammerian
7% Francian
3.5% Danubian Surnachte
1.5% Other

### Religion (2018)

36% Irreligious31.3% Avarlosian Noobism
24.3% Decism
5.4% Grystallicism
1.7% Toolmak Paganism
1.3% Other

### Government

Federal direct democratic directorial republic

### Legislature

Assembly of the Delegations of Toolmak Cantons

### Legislature houses

Upper: People's ParliamentLower: Council of the Canton Delegations

### Formation

273 (establishment of minor mountain states before the First Gammerian Religion Wars)399 (Treaty of the Defense of Qurnecht against Gammeria)
582 (Dissolution of the Qurnecht Alliance)
1319 (Alliance of Basella and Kyrnivera)
1637 (Recognition of sovereignty)
1831 (Federalization)
1912 (Modern constitution)

### Currency

Ducati

The **Toolmak Confederation**, officially known as the **Toolmak Assembly of Cantons** but colloquially known as Toolmakia or Toolmakquia, is a country situated in the Alps of Central Europe. It is situated inbetween the National Federative Republic of Francia, the Erwinian Federation, and the Republic of Gammeria. As such, it shares many aspects of these three nations, mostly Erwinia's (as Toolmakquian culture is primarily based off of Germanic being part of the Divine Surnachte Imperium before its independence) however shares a distinct identity which transcends racial, ethnic, religious or cultural boundaries. The Toolmak Confederation is multiethnic, multicultural and very multiracial, with the western cantons being primarily populated by Noobs and the southern cantons by Gammerian humans. As a result, there is no official race, religion, ethnicity or culture (a law which has been in place since the 1831 federalization to address concerns relating to Toolmak domination over Noobs and Gammerians in the union); only dominant ones per region, due to this multicultural reality. The primary two native races of the Toolmak Confederation are the titular Toolmaks and the Kingares, the former being separated into various subspecies such as the greater Core Toolmaks (Toolmak-3s and Toolmak-33s), Ayrianos, Hasterons, Grelegyrili, and Lerisgaches. While the location of the Toolmaks should be...obvious, Kingares are largely located within Greater Alina, which is part of Erwinia (a few Kingare-majority cantons are part of the Confederation). While the Kingares are a Spore-related species, alongside the Algodoos and Noissons (the primary race of the Valladian Sultanate), Toolmaks, in spite of often being confused for Spore relatives (which is why education is prioritized so much in the union, to prevent racial violence between Kingare-Toolmaks and uninformed Gammerians due to Spore-Gammerian animosity), are...rather unique in that they don't seem to have much in common with other races in spite of being elven-looking (pointed ears, unnatural hair and eye colors, lifespans of up to 300 years but average life expectancy is at around 175-200) humanoids. Their closest relatives are the *Snowbrines*, who are also well known for being racial isolates (meaning, being unrelated to most other races and having a relatively unknown lineage or point of origin) Even more interestingly, in spite of their often cold climates their skin is often Mediterranean-y, and as such many have proposed an origin for the Toolmak species to be in Garebage, while others posit that the Toolmaks came from the Middle East. Either way, their origin is unknown and very interesting, and it's likely they are fundamentally atleast partially composed of magic. The Toolmak Confederation is infamous for its neutral foreign policy; it has not been involved in any war since the end of the Second Lunar Invasion in 1820.

The Toolmak Confederation has a long history. Starting off as small, mostly Elbrian Alpine states, it soon became a front for warring armies during the First Gammerian Religion Wars, which led to the establishment of the Qurnecht Treaty of Defense. While noble in cause, the Qurnecht Treaty's armies proved to be frail, inexperienced and too small to put up much of a fight against the titanic armies of the Realm of Acquitáine and the Kingdom of Gammeria. When the wars ended, the Qurnecht Alliance proved fragile without a common enemy and engaged in three civil wars, the last of which led to its dissolution into a bunch of small tribal confederations. This continued until the 870s, when the Francian Empire would conquer the region. When the Francian Empire ultimately fell apart, there was once again a power vacuum which was later taken over by the Divine Surnachte Imperium; this led to the spread of Germanic culture to the Toolmak race, which later supplanted the Elbrians as the majority. Before this point, the Toolmaks didn't have much of an identity, being hardly distinguishable from their Gammerian neighbors but afterwards they started to forge one under the Surnachte Imperium.

The Confederation scores very high in many indicators, such as the Democracy Index (where it has a 9.63), the Human Development Index (which is the highest such HDI in the world, 2nd highest adjusted for economic inequality as southern Gammerians are in slightly worse conditions than Noobs or Toolmakquians in the north) and Press Freedom Index (93 points, which is also first worldwide). Due to its neutral policy, the Toolmaks are not a member of any major international organization besides the ICN itself, which it only joined in 2001. This didn't mean they were not a part of any organization; the primarily Francian speaking (and a Noob majority, that being Lives) cantons of Toolmakquia are observers of the Noobist International Council.

In 2019, the Toolmakquians were among a host of nations to sanction Gammeria (ironically, the south was most in favor of doing this) for starting the 2nd Arian-Gammerian War, which led to a significant decline in relations between the two countries and the subsequent termination of the Toolmakquian-Gammerian free movement treaty in 2020.