Vaipura Queendom

## Vaipura Queendom of Snowbrines and Spores

The Snowbrines as of 2022. Note that many of these are recent gains; Gammerian Greenland, which consisted of Sylena and the western Federal Territory was annexed. The Arians still occupy part of it until 2024. Additionally, the entirety of Greenland is free for international mining companies to extract glacier crystals; however, they are still subject to Vaipuran working laws which are relatively strict.

### Ethnic groups (2018)

63% Arctine Snowbrine17% Magmose Snowbrine
14% Western Greenlandic Spore
5% Eastern Greenlandic Spore
1% Other

### Religion (2018)

76% Abstentious/Irreligious (includes Spore Atheism)18% Snowbrine Paganism
5% Grystallicism
1% Other

### Demonym(s)

Vaipura, Snowbrine (not recommended due to the high presence of Spore minorities.)

### Constituent countries

**Vaipurosia** *(Federal Territory)*, Sylena, Juloria, and Zephoritia

### Government

Devolved semi-constitutional monarchy under a magocracy

### Monarch

Queen Laine Niemala Laurila Soinanen von Ghas'turas

### Currency

Snowbrine pyrcoid

The **Vaipura Queendom**, officially the **Vaipura Queendom of Snowbrines and Spores** *(Vaipura Queendom of Snowbrines until 1892)*, is a monarchy located in the Arctic region. De-facto, it borders the Arian Federation, but de-jure it is one of the only countries not to border another country on land. However, it shares maritime borders with Sporia, Albion and Aria. It is notable for several things, such as being one of the only properly magocratic states left on Earth, one of the few races mostly unrelated to any other race (besides the Toolmaks), having the most progressive gender and LGBTQ+ rights in the world, having one of the longest living monarchs in the world, and having one of the longest living periods of a single person's reign. The Queendom is also known for having Vaipuran martial arts as a sport on par in popularity in the country with hockey (its most popular). Both of them are the most popular sports in the Queendom by a long shot, even surpassing football which is the most popular sport worldwide. The Queendom is one of the least populous, as well as one of the least dense (only 0.41 people per square kilometer, most [784,000] of whom are in Iceland which has a density of 7.6 km2) countries in the world, having a population of less than 1 million. This is mostly due to its far northern climate, and though its primary race the Snowbrines are adapted to such a harsh climate they have low fertility rates (1-2 historically, which is unchanged). The Vaipura Queendom is also a culture isolate, owing to its isolation. However, they did interact significantly with the Spores during the Spore Golden Age, leading to the foundation of cities like, most notably, Kyrima, the 3rd most populous city in the Queendom. 2,300 Vaipurans, predominantly Spores in the northwest, are under Arian military jurisdiction. Besides Snowbrines and Spores, the third most dominant culture is Gammerian, primarily consisting of Gammerian workers and capitalists who were there for glacier crystal mining but chose to settle in Vaipuran Greenland. There are also around ~21,000 foreign workers from other glacier crystal mining companies, primarily those from Erwinia, Francia, Albion, Aria, and Sporia. These are not, however, counted as part of the Snowbrine population unless they naturalize as permanent residents.

Vaipuran history has been largely isolated. Due to the difficulty in actually invading the Queendom, due to the Great Snowstorm (most races, except for northern European Spores, some Noobs, and of course Snowbrines cannot even *live* in Vaipurosa due to the extremely inclement climate) no one has actually tried since the Spore attempts in the Second Coalition War, and no one has succeeded in fully conquering Vaipurosa itself since the *Sunglow Empire*. Snowbrines migrated to Vaipurosa from Doggerland around 6,400 BD as their communities were slowly being washed up by warming seas, and before that they were in the furthest northeast reaches of Siberia, alongside with the Siberians themselves and a race known as the Prybythians, who went extinct in 310,000 BD, for about 2 million years (during the Stone Age) before migrating to Doggerland around 23,000 BD. Once in Vaipurosa, they established minor clans and tribal governments, however their civilization did not even have writing and by the time it was discovered by the Nishimarian Empire in 723 AD, only around early Iron Age level technology (though this widely varied, it was still to the Spores like discovering Native Americans). Thus, on 728 AD, the Nishimarians established the city of Kyrima in the west as a port for trade with the natives. This resulted in the spread of writing to Vaipurosa, as well as its modernization according to Spore technology (which was among the best in the world at the time; this is what made them so fearsome in the Golden Age, their ability to synthesize nature and technology into a very fearsome combination) and the formation of the first qaxivates, the Vaipura word for 'principality'. Thus, the time period after the Nishimarian modernization of 723-823, which is known as the Century Modernization, with a split in the Sunglow period of 951-989 but before the start of the unification by Fyrzonia in the 1300s is known as the 'Age of the Principalities'. In late 950 AD, the Sunglow Empire would invade Vaipurosa, subjugating the island in the matter of a few months. It was turned into the Satrapy of Karliva, typically considered the first unified and independent Snowbrine state, as the Sunglows mostly left them to do what they wanted (de-facto independence) while they focused on mainland Europe. During this period, the Snowbrines began to coalesce into a unified identity, which continued even after the peaceful renewal of the qaxivates when the Sunglow Empire collapsed. Trade with the Spores persisted until the 1100s, when the Nishimarian Empire's terminal decline led to the permanent loss of Kyrima, ceded to the natives due to significant upkeep. This led to another period of isolation, where the Snowbrines developed technology roughly at a rate equivalent to Europe, though at a different path and level. However, unification would not begin until the 1200s, when the Fyrzonian Qaxivate unified with the Viipuran Qaxivate, forming the Qaxelivate of Viipura. This led to a sort of cold war with the Bazalian Qaxivate, now in modern-day Basaltina (Magme'soro), which lasted until the island was peacefully unified under Pesonen of the Psarcane dynasty in 1365. In 1371, the Viipura Kingdom. While most other languages refer to it as the *Vaipura* Queendom now, the local name for it is still *Qysh'kanova Viipura*. Regardless, Pesonen's death led to a string of short-lived monarchs Sulevi and Henrikki, and then a civil war between the Pesonen and the Virolainen family, a distant noble relative of the Pesonen family. This war lasted for eleven years, and resulted in a Virolainen victory and the accession of Queen Sointu in 1412, the first female monarch of the Kingdom. In 1417, the Kingdom was named the *Queendom* for this instance, which is still customary today; if Laine were to pass away then it would be renamed a kingdom if the new monarch was male. Thus most scholars on Vaipuran history, due to these name changes, refers to the overall monarchy as the Vaipura Monarchy (Myt'kerga Viipura). Queen Sointu is known as one of the best monarchs in the country (behind Laine, Pesonen and Nestori) for her significant reforms societally, and for creating the groundwork for much of the modern traditional systems such as mandatory conscription. She died in 1430, which led to the Attami Conspiracy and the Second Vaipuran Civil War, which lasted for fifteen years. This led to King Raino winning, but two noble families, the Fyr'frustas and the Ghas'turas, began to gain increasing influence in the Vaipuran government. In 1458, then-nobles Laine and Nestori would marry, thus forming a branch of a merger of the two families which still exists today. Laine's only children would be in 1467 and 1481, named Santeri and Raine, both males. Their descendants are still around today. Raino's reign was relatively weak, and he died in 1461 without accomplishing much and with no heirs. This led to a brief succession crisis where King Nestori, typically considered to be the second best of the Snowbrine monarchs, took power. He was the one who established much of the foundations for the modern Vaipuran state, such as conscription, the deep-rooted magic culture of Snowbrine society, but he was also a xenophobe who didn't want foreign influence in Snowbrine politics (especially as Albion and Sporia were begin to reestablish connections with the Vaipura kingdom) which led to rifts with his wife. These growing tensions culminated in a duel to see 'who should really rule' in 1499, which Laine won, becoming the longest-lasting monarch of Snowbrine history. Nestori went to Magme'soro, and created the Grand Tower in the center of the city, which became a major tourist attraction. Laine's rule stretched through practically the entire modern period, take around 50 years, and was shaped by it; she would establish the Reimala in 1532, inspired by law codes from the Albionese and would begin the colonization of Greenland in 1549, which proved slow but effective due to the Vaipura Queendom's peaceful methods of integrating the Spore states in the region. Most other countries (prior to the discovery of lucrative glacier crystals in 1921 by the Snowbrines in northeastern Greenland) did not bother with colonization, due to the distance and extremely cold nature of Greenland. This trend continued in the 1600s and 1700s; the Queendom gradually embracing new enlightenment ideals and the like (as well as pioneering some; Laine decriminalized homosexuality in 1612, centuries before other countries started doing so) since it had a very progressive population and met very little opposition doing so. The Snowbrines were largely uninvolved in most sagas up to the Second Lunar Invasion. Allying with the Arian Federation early on in the country's existence, the Queendom started industrializing in the 1840s, though even in the modern-day factories outside of service and electronic goods are very limited (the Snowbrines did not industrialize much, as it was not necessary if they could just purchase goods from the much stronger Arian Federation, and they have a large enough stockpile of self-made military goods regardless for their miniscule army. They produce just enough goods for their very small population with the current level of industry they have. However, they DID modernize). After the Coalition Wars and Prisarian Wars, which the Vaipura Queendom was only superficially involved in (mainly the Prisarian Wars; the Spores attempted to invade the Vaipura Queendom on multiple occasions on both coalition wars, but the only seriously threatening invasion happened in the second, which was repulsed within four months when Arian reinforcements arrived).

The Snowbrine Queendom has mandatory conscription; for both genders it is for atleast 3 years. This is done mostly out of tradition (they have done something like the sort since 1451, during King *Nestori's* reign, simply by levying able boded males (and females, after Laine's takeover and the 1502 edict) that become adults. Note that Snowbrine adults are typically considered to be 16 or older as that is when their bodies mature. In 1856, this traditional method of feudal levying was switched to traditional conscription). The country actually maintains a very tiny armed forces, most of which is used for assisting with recovery from disasters and large crimes and actual defense is handled by their closest ally the Arian Federation (with their army assisting the Arians, of course). The Snowbrine Queendom pursues a mostly defensive foreign policy, solely joining all Arian defensive wars (and some offensive, though it depends, most Arian proxy wars in the Cold War were not supported by the Queendom). It is a founding member of the International Council of Nations, a bilateral partner of the Arian-Vaipuran alliance, and an observer of the Confederation of Spore States.

1. ↑ Queen Laine was born in 1437 (Nestori in 1435), making her 585 years old. Her reign started in 1499, making her queen for 523 years.
2. ↑ greater qaxivate