House of Furukanne

The House of Furukanne is a political party that rose to power in the city of Furukanne after a military humiliation saw them forced to settle in the Sine continent. It is the biggest nation in terms of landmass and population and this has aided their wealth and military prosperity. Furukanne have been attempting to distance themselves from the theatrics of the Sine continent in pursuit of their current goal of world domination. The Furukanne possess little power in the continent of Sine due to their uncaring nature and prefer it that way, even if Rokalian royalty has been attempting to include them.

They will keep trying to establish a foothold in neighbouring continents in order to gain power over weaker nations. Despite this somewhat petty agenda, the House of Furukanne is ruthless and powerful. It is only a matter of time until they achieve this in which they will then look to the Sine continent. Outside nations have called upon Rokalia to make attempts to stop Furukanne hostility. Furukanne leaders consistently make references to the 'Furus Castle', with the word 'Furus' meaning 'capital', they one day wish to make Rokalia their Furus.

## **Society**

The new leadership of the Furukanne has developed the already militarist society into an even more military-focused society where power and strength is the primary focus in terms of one's reputation. Despite this, Furukanne has plenty of non-military focuses, as any nation would.

Despite this militarist society, Furukanne has long been democratic. If one leader fails, another is elected. Elections are not typical political campaigns however. The vote is on which of each contesting leader is the best through a **"Dueling Series"** - a series of dueling, strategic battles and agendas. All contests are televised to Furukanne, but with back-end technology, other nations are able to view. Therefore by accident, a huge market for Furukanne entertainment through their political race has been generated.

### **Furukanne**

Furukanne is the second-largest city in Sine and is based in the northern deserts of the continent. Furukanne is an old and over-industrialised city with a sparse populus living in destitute conditions with the best way of raising one's quality of life being army enlistment. The city of Furukanne houses 7% of the population.

Statistically, the city ranks lowest in the categories of life quality, happiness and life expectancy. This is because the most of the city is similar to that of modern slums. Those who refuse to engage in military or similar related endeavours are not deemed useful by Furukanne society and are usually banished to random areas of the desert or used as test-subjects in military or scientific experiments.

## **Military**

Whilst other countries state that Furukanne's military is built to *'bully the weak'*, it is still extremely powerful. Furukanne are healing, they are currently building their army to take on neighbouring continents. Furukanne's army is typically quantity-over-quality, with large hordes of well-trained, but not so well-armed soldiers being sent into conflicts, resulting in interesting outcomes.

   Furukanne's fighting style is preferably melee based, and even with their overwhelming numbers will usually attempt guerilla warfare. This is because an army as big as theirs taking on smaller nations is bound to result in being countered by guerilla warfare, therefore becoming adept at it themselves, are able to effectively counter them.

The House of Furukanne possesses multiple elite military battalions. The top fighters of the Furukanne are allowed to trial for an elite platoon known as the Furus Elite. The Furus Elite are the most competent, adept and best-of-the-best. The Furus Elite are feared not only outside the Sine continent, but within as well.

#### ***The Furus Elite***

The Furus Elite are the best-of-the-best of Furukanne society. Not only are they expert soldiers, but are masters of all military-related categories, even espionage.

An excelling soldier is able to trial for the Furus Elite. Held every five years, the trial is a series of fighting, proving and outwitting. The final act is to challenge a current member of the Furus Elite to a dueling series to the death. If the trialist wins, they take the spot of the one they chose.

Due to the planet's climate, Furus Elite are survival experts, even better than the likes of Jesnara. A typical strategy utilised by fighters is hiding deep inside sand and shifting their way around underground.

## **Geography**

The Sine region of Furukanne is almost all desert. There is a small section of flat grassland to the south-east. The north-east is deep desert and not habitable. The city of Furukanne is based in an oasis. Furukanne imports almost all of its goods with extremely high prices due to their militarist ways. Furukanne believe all their money will return to them anyway because the seller is likely to be invaded soon.

## **Historical Events**

The most prominent historical event in recent times is the humiliation that caused the Furukanne to settle in Sine. A neighbouring continent consisting of fourteen nations banded together and against the odds, defeated the Furukanne who were not taking them seriously. The Furukanne at the time were too lax in their approach, believing the continent to be weak and hesitant. Even though Furukanne are quantity based, they were overwhelmed. The Furus Elite did not partake in the war. This is because the leaders and military at the time were considered beyond good enough to succeed.

Next time, the Furus Elite will no doubt be involved. Outside countries continue to plea to Rokalia for assistance.

## **Agenda**

The House of Furukanne's current agenda is to take the rest of the world one continent at a time. There are four continents for them to contest with. Three of the four nations are only half habitable and fairly weak. The Furukanne believe that with the rest of the world on their side, taking Sine will be easy.

If Furukanne were to succeed in their plan, they will seek to establish a militarist planet but also begin to massively boost space-based research in hope of colonising other planets, exploring the void and instill the belief of achievement via the whole world uniting, rather than just select rich nations leading the way, and they will do this all with their trademark ruthless efficiency.

## **Nation Opinions**

What does the House of Furukanne think of the Sine nations?

###### **Isoira**

*Religious fanatics that will be the first casualty upon our eventual Sine conquest.*

###### **Furukanne**

*The might of the House will be known throughout the world. They say we're 'too scared' of the likes of 'Jesnara' and the 'Islanders'. Now let's say we have an entire planet behind us, how do you reply?*

###### **Kodra**

*The Kodra splinter nation is doomed to fail. They lost their only support and rely on religious pacifism to stay afloat.*

###### **Sylxa**

*Rich hoarders with no morals that might come in useful for our spies and leaders.*

###### **Jesnara**

*Powerful southern nation in a perfect climate that can essentially hold the world hostage with their angel of a Queen. Would be our biggest challenge to date.*

###### **Rokalia**

*The place everyone wants to be. We will make 'Rokalia' our Furus in time. For now, we need more power. That is what the likes of Reides do not see.*

###### **Reides**

*Are you trying to tell me this little peninsula is trying to overthrow Rokalian authority? Whilst calling everyone else egomaniacs?*

###### **Kely-Halia**

*An interesting island nation that can compete with the best. For such an exquisite set of islands, their residents seem pretty on-edge and insecure.*

## **Candidate Opinions**

###### **Jemi Kalla-Haliojun**

*We have a vote, so we might as well use it to our advantage. We don't want a Queen who will interfere with our plans. Jemi and Izra unfortunately both intend on it however. Jemi is not Izra, she's a little girl who seems stressed. Izra on the other hand is an outstanding soldier of Reides. Ultimately, Jemi will take our vote as we believe she is the weaker candidate. A weaker Sine benefits us.*

###### **Izra Sens-Rei**

*Izra is a powerful soldier of Reides, the stability nation. That sounds perfect for Sine, which is why we will not vote for her.*