Great Hegi/Nordun-Pitrou

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**Nordun-Pitrou** is a Constituent Country of the **Confederation of Great Hegi**. Located in the Nordun Region, Pitrou is the northernmost confederate. Its southern border reaches down to the northern peak of Monvaros, with its eastern and weastern coast bordering the Rutherland and Saint-Alain respectively. Pitrou is sparsely populated, mostly comprised of a bleak white shield. Pitrou can be remembered as the most diverse confederate, a product of a harmonious union between Rutherish and Alainois settlers. It is also beloved for its worldwide sweetheart, the **Mlijeko corporation**.

Pitrou's capital is **Illiar**, located on the Athillian coast in the far east of Pitrou, The farther west you go, the less people you will find. Other notable cities may include the former capital, Hoover, and the Alainois outpost in the far north, Barelle.

Pitrou is home to the Pitrouese people, ethnically either Rutherish or Alainois. However, unlike anywhere else in the confederation, Rutherish and Alainois people do not see the other as a rival, nor seclude themselves from one another. Pitrou is a nearly entirely bilingual nation, the marriage between the two historical enemies creating one of the continent's most peaceful lands. The area is also part of the historical home of the Norgon people, a nomadic tribe which inhabited the cold winters of the Nordun region. Since the arrival of Rutherish and Alainois settlers to Pitrou, the Norgon populations have lessend, and native norgon life can only be found in Pitrou's northernmost reaches, although many have assimilated into Hegiite culture. Today, Pitrou enjoys being the corporate centre for Great Hegi, with nearly all of the largest Hegiite businesses rooting back to Pitrou in some way.

## History

### Colonization (1596-1614)

Pitrou, up until the Colonial age, was an indistinguishable part of the Nordun region inhabited by the ruthless nomadic tribes of the Norgon people. These tribes barred the Rutherish and Alainois peoples from expanding into the area, killing and raiding any civilization they came across. Their eventual downfall was caused due to their lack of solid culture, unity, and technological innovation, allowing them to be defeated once the Rutherland and Saint-Alain forced their way into their territories in the late 16th century. During this Race for Nordun, both kingdoms were severely brutal to the native Norgon populations, until the Alainois recruited them onto their side to fight the Rutherish. They used their advantage and head start into the area to ambush the Rutherish’s Nonoi Outpost, defeating them easily with the Norgon forces' knowledge of the landscape. This started the **Alainois and Norgon War of 1596**, which saw the quick defeat of the Rutherish in Nordun. With this victory, Saint-Alain settled their newly acquired land, while driving out the Norgons that lived there. The territory, which occupied the northern part of the Nordun region, was named Pitrou.

This, however, was not to last long, and in 1611 after increasing tensions between the two nations, war erupted following the castration of an eldery Rutherish man who had mistakenly wandered across the border at Pego. The king of the Rutherland was so cross that he sought to avenge the man, Benedict, by taking the Pitrouese territory. With that, **The War of Benedict’s Testicles** began. The Norgons, upset over the Alainois colonizing their land, chose to support the Rutherish attackers, flipping the strategy used a decade before. With this advantage, Saint-Alain was swiftly defeated in just 3 years, leaving the territory as a new part of the Rutherland’s growing empire. The Rutherish then began to settle Pitrou themselves, and founded the city that stands as the capital today, Illiar.

### Territory of the Rutherland (1614-1958)

For the coming 2 centuries, not many important things happened. The Rutherland divided Pitrou into a different territory from Nordun due to its Alainois population, leaving it as a distinct region in Riperio. The Rutherish allowed the Alainois to remain there, due to the large amount already living there. As the years went by, both races grew their populations and mingled with each other. Over time, a unity between both peoples formed as life in the harsh, cold climate brought them together. Meanwhile, Norgons continued to be driven out of their native land and their numbers began to dwindle.

During the 1900s, the Alainois and Rutherish people had come to respect each other, treating the people who were once a rival as an equal. This, along with the corrupted monarchy of the Rutherland that ruled over them, started a spark of separatism within the people who inhabited the territory. This new idea was not explored until the **Chunglegrad Revolution** of 1956 inspired people all around Pitrou to begin their very own independence movement. By 1958, major movements for freedom appeared in the Rutherland’s headquarters of control, Illiar, and the city of Hoover. While protests in Illiar were at first cracked down on, the Rutherish were too overwhelmed with the independence movement in Donat, which by then had evolved into a violent revolution, and did not want to spend the resources needed to quell the Pitrouese. Subsequently, Pitrou declared independence from the Rutherland in the same year. Not bothering to fight back, the Rutherland, frustrated with its increasing instability, allowed them to be independent. With that, Pitrou had peacefully become its own country.

### Independent (1958-2022)

With its new found statehood, Pitrou decided to become a republic, stepping away from the monarchy that had ruled it for many years. It quickly got to starting its first elections, with the result being that Cora Tilaska, a popular norgon figure during the independence movement, would become the first president. At this point, Pitrou was divided into four provinces, one for each region of Pitrou, each with one major town.

Over the next decades, Pitrou focused on establishing itself and where it stood in the world. Mostly focusing on its industrial and commercial side, it eventually became a fairly wealthy country. That is, until a line of disappointing presidencies and instability caused the Pitrouese to become unhappy with their government. At this time, the population was ready for a fresh candidate that could fulfill the role of president and get the country back on track. When Chungy emerged and announced his desire to be elected, his reputation as the highly successful CEO of **Mlijeko Enterprises**, who brought the company to worldwide success, made him a prime option to vote for. His promise to bring Pitrou back on the economic stage and restore the industries. All of this made the election of 2013 an easy victory for Chungy, giving him a safe spot in the government as president.

Chungy, using his new power, slowly reformed the government, changing it to become a de facto dictatorship, and stripping away the democracy the country had enjoyed for so long. He stayed under the radar by keeping his policies moderate and keeping the country extremely isolationist, but used his power to satisfy his promise and revive the Pitrouese economy. Alongside this, he also used his deep pocket to take advantage of his position and bring Mlijeko up alongside him, making the company even more large and valuable than it was before. Under his government, the Pitrouese lived fairly happy lives despite the obvious corruption that was happening. He renamed the country to Chungy Area, and moved the capital from Illiar to Huvaros, as it held the headquarters for Mlijeko.

It was only when his husband, NCR, randomly disappeared, that his reign began its slow dissolution. Chungy began to become increasingly unstable mentally, and allowed democracy to begin to open up once more so he could step back away from politics. Eventually, he opened up the position of Vice President, and popular liberal politician Aubergine Tilaska, descendant of Cora Tilaska, was quickly voted into it. Using his power, he began the push for the republic to join the Confederation of Great Hegi, which had formed in 2016. Even though the country strived for democracy, the prospect of joining a Confederation alongside the countries which had once ruled over it was frowned on by many. Despite this, in 2022 Chungy Area officially ascended into the Confederation.

### Constituent (2022-present)

Being the newest member of Great Hegi, Chungy Area had to undergo many changes to fit in with the others. First of all, the government structure switched to the parliamentary system mirrored in the other confederates. With this, Chungy lost his position as president and disappeared to live in a resolute Chunglehood vault. As Chungy left, the newly reformed government changed the name of the country back to Pitrou, adopted a flag with the Hegiite standard style, and moved the capital back to Illiar. Aubergine Tilaska became the Prime Minister, starting the age of the Constituent Republic of Pitrou.