Steloj

Flag of Steloj

Steloian Coat of Arms

### Demonym

Steloj (most common), Sunoj (more often referred to for regional demonyms), Étoiles (French) Estèla (Cantéradian)

### Creator

Noah (aio\_Bahn)

**The Federal Republic of Steloj** (Steloian: La Steloj de la Respubliko, Scotian: Gweriniaeth y Sêr Uchod, Orléanian: République Fédérale des Étoiles), commonly known as **Steloj** is a federal constitutional parliamentary republic located in the continent of Linarus, consisting of 8 prefectures. The mainland borders Fredonia to the north, and Altclyde to the south. The country's official languages are Steloian nationally, and Scotian mainly spoken in the south. Recognized minority languages include Anglish, Soqëts Rïmân, Russian, Bosnian and Orléanian.

The five largest cities in the country are Uniport (capital), Port au Prince (sub-capital) Porto Uxan, Amsterberg and Foorden. Porto Uxan is the largest and most populous city in the nation, home to the largest sporting park in Linarus while Uniport is home to the parliament and all blood members of the royal family. Port au Prince is home to the royal Pétit Orléanie family. Amsterberg is the capital of the Neskauseyri prefecture, home to the Nacia Transporta Branĉo . Foorden both the capital of the Holland'ùr prefecture and the home to the Konsilio de Eksterlandaj Aferoj.

### Name & Etymology

Steloj is the Steloian word for "Stars (plural)", due to the country's traditionally religious connection with the stars historically. The name was chosen during the inception of Steloj by one of the founding fathers, Hugo Botler. He was quoted in Maltof Stolojan's *La Ampleksa Dokumentado de la Mod'rn-Tagaj Steloj.*

### Flag

The flag of Steloj is made up of 3 colors, Butch Red: #a62101, Nokta Black: #010100, and Peace White: #ffffff, all with different symbolism. Butch Red is responsible for the representation of blood spilt during the war between the nomads and natives in Kelta, before the independence and inception of the modern state. The Peace White, like the name suggests, represents the peace after the battle, and finally the black represents the dark, jet-blacks skies of the valleys of Steloj.

The strips of colors are also representative of the horizon, with the blood at the bottom as the ground, the place of bloodshed and battle, the white in the middle symbolizing both the middle ground of peace and the peace after the fallen, and the black is the night sky. The vertical black strip represents the coastline at night by imagining looking out to the ocean into the horizon.

### History

#### Pre-Steloj

Steloj was founded after the end of a fight between the nomads of northern Linarus who had migrated south for the less-harsh weather that the tribes had to suffer for hundreds of years, a highly historical movement. Following the rocky shoreline of modern-day Fredonia to what is now the Steloian coastline, stopping in modern-day Ibera and Goskovec before continuing on to Uxan. During that period in Kelta, the immigrants sought permission to settle on the area as long as they did not interfere with the indigenous Gaels; but, as the groups proceeded down the coast and interior, the Gaels became concerned that their sacred territory would be taken over. However, the indigenous tribes eventually allowed the Soqëts Rïmâns the opportunity to reside on the coast. This was never an issue until the invasion on the medieval Scottish stronghold of Tilmuiden sparked a battle between the two tribes. The invasion was carried out by rogue Soqëts Rïmâns from the Ciobanu tribe, who thought that not enough territory had been awarded to their faction, which was one of the state's smallest at the time. The Gaels, understandably, took offense and charged at all previously nomadic villages, resulting in a year of fighting and slaughter. The most noteworthy attack that happened during this battle was the Goskovec offensive, which had a high unknown number of casualties and was thought to have resulted in over 30,000 dead on both sides. *Ewan O'Neill*, head of the O'Niell tribe, a Scotian tribe from Steloj's northern hinterland, led the attack. The army, consisting of around 12,000 soldiers, stormed the village in the middle of night, completely catching the Soqëts Rïmâns off guard. Soon after the disaster, the ill-prepared Vécans held off the O'Niells until retreating farther north to Ibera, leaving both sides entirely shattered and the town in ruins. After both sides were defeated, the factions gathered together after 300 years of neighboring to debate the future of the then Soqëts Rïmâns in the state of Kelta. After two years of deliberation, a deadlock was broken and the coastline was awarded to the people, now known just as Iberans, after their main town, and so Šiaulšniai was founded.

The inhabitants of Šiaulšniai continued to enhance their fishing and porting abilities for the following 60 years, until the collapse of Kelta followed, opening up vast tracts of territory now divided into several states known as Keiltiruitea, however the cluster of states was usually referred to as Nouakelta (New Kelta). Altclyde took up a considerable amount of coastline and inland in the south throughout the whole collapse that saw all of the former Keltan boundaries dissolved until being politely interrupted by the Ravadiasnk state, a Scotian and Soqëts Rïmân faction. Nathe, a northern Scotian faction home to the erstwhile O'Niells and other significant clans, was the final state founded amid the devastation.

#### Orléanian Settlers

Following the end of the conflict in Šiaulšniai, Kelta, and Altclyde, Orléanian settlers made sail from their homeland, passing through Nova Brittanica, Vallenada, and Suthangland, where they stayed for three years in 1526-1529. Then, in the summer of 1540, several more Orléanian pilgrimages met with their brethren in Suthangland before heading east to the south-Kelta Ravadiasnk shoreline (now what is Ravadiansk and Port au Prince). The parties were not well received by the Scotian people, but they were allowed ports and harboring licenses in the south in exchange for not making any advances on Soqëts Rïmân or Scotian land. When the Orléanians moved deeper into Kelta's interior (today's Crotalin), they found themselves at the foot of a small regional mountain range. A group of men from the Ravadiansk sub-faction of Stoenescu discovered glistening pebbles in the ruins of a controlled avalanche shortly after the organization was completed; jewels. To be more specific, quartz, amethysts, and fluorite.  These were predominantly found in the mountain range which the Orléanians called *Colline'ommet Noir*. The natives of Soqëts Rïmâns and the new Orléanians worked together to gather the gemstones, which were then treated in Orléanie. After reaching an agreement, *Dominik Popa*, the Šefe (chief) of the Ravadiansk Stoenescu at the time, and *Hervé Cordonnier*, the leader of the Orléanians, went to work harvesting the pre-jewels from the mountains with willing labor. The 500-year-old mining tunnels developed during this time are still open to the public today.

The Urchadainn, a Scotian Ravadiansk sub-faction, believed that the land they had held for ages was now being exploited to the point that they would not receive a share of profit, despite the fact that it was now populated by Orléanians and Soqëts Rïmâns. The Orléanians declined to accept handing a share of the gemstone revenues resulting in strife. The Urchadainns, dissatisfied, chose not to fight and instead passively pushed the Orléanians further north, seizing control of parts of the original mining tunnels and enterprises. The Soqëts Rïmâns agreed to continue working on these (and future) mining tunnels if the Gaels were given a portion of the earnings from the jewel trade, with the caveat that the Urchadainns also offer labor. The southern Crotalish Urchadainns and Stoenescus now controlled the mining tunnels and operations in the south, taking their bounty from the mountains and providing it to the Orléanians to be shipped back to Orléanie for a profit, while the new Orléanians took control of the larger and newer mining tunnels to be shipped back to their homeland as well.

Back on the coast, the Orléans built a great port known as *Port del Príncep* (Cantéradian, which was spoken in Steloj before more Orléanian immigrants arrived in the 1800s speaking conventional Orléanian). This harbor, on the country's south lip at Altclyde, was home to 60 Orléanian ships (the most famous of which was *l'Orléanien Volant*) and Kelta's main Orléanian population. Uniport, the Soqëts Rïmân port unique to the coastal Ravadiansk sub-faction the Iliescu, was sustained almost entirely by the gem trade aided by the Orléanians, so when the new settlers cut off the Iliescus for their prolific and frequent needs of steadily growing profit cuts, a dispute erupted. This was the start of the Revolt of Uniport.

A painting of Port del Príncep by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, 1545

### Government & Politics

Steloj has been a federal constitutional parliamentary republic since the 1548 after the military funded coup of 1745 where a constitution was written and monarchy was formed in an attempt to keep the country under the rich's control. This ultimately proved to be successful for the first few hundred years, but farther into the modern age the less the monarchy has had control and say in the laws and legislations of the state, and today the Prime Minister is the most powerful political position in the country. The country has had a tumultuous history in social tolerance, having legalized women's suffrage in 1897 then criminalizing soon after in 1901 before finally legalizing it again in 1907. Same-sex marriage was also legalized in the country in 2010, although it was regularly done under "illegal" conditions since the 1910s. Public showings of sexuality related to the LGBTQIA+ community were also allowed in 2015.

### Transport

#### Cars

##### Panepole Motors

Panepole Motors was founded by Angus Douglas. Angus was born in 1904 in the small village of Panepole, having lived with his mother, father, two sisters, and uncle for the majority of his childhood. He was always fascinated by the concept of automobiles from a young age, and, at 17 him and his father scraped up enough savings to buy their first ever automobile. It was enthralling, captivating the engineer that was Angus’s father Alistair. After a year of tinkering and reverse engineering they decided to modify the car to their liking, and, seeing as Alistair was the engineer and metalsmith of Panepole, he was able to create the first ever recorded flat 6, taking inspiration from the *\_\_\_\_\_\_\_*’s motor. After their completing of what they dubbed the “Kudrilo”, it was decided that the both of them would create an automotive repairs and modifications garage in Uniport, the largest city at the time. They would name it Panepole Motors after their minuscule hometown, which at the time had a population of 1500 people, mostly farmers. This would not come without sacrifice, however; the Kudrilo would need to be sold, but this turned out not to be too much of a loss, as the buyer ended up being the curious brother of the Prince of Porto, Tudual Déguignet. Being of extreme wealth, he took no consideration in a “reasonable” price, and offered a hefty sum for the vehicle, being one of the first real automobiles, let alone modified in **Steloj**. He offered the two Ɇ1,000,000 or $750,000. This allowed them to find the perfect spot in Uniport to live *and* start their garage. After the *automobile boom of Steloj* in 1922, the two, along with the rest of the family aside from Angus’s uncle (who stayed back in Panepole to tend the family farms and cattle) found great business as the number of cars grew in Uniport. In June of 1925, Alistair’s brother, Angus’s uncle Gabriel Douglas was murdered in the night while herding cattle. This was a huge blow to Alistair, who left the family to grieve in his hometown. A few days later, the rest of the family closed the shop to go and spend time in Panepole. After 8 months, in march of 1926 the garage was opened again, only this time Angus would be working alone, as he made an agreement to work solo as the rest of his family stayed to live in Panepole. In 1927 another young entrepreneur named Dominik Hughes, who came from Orléanie to live in the Orléanian speaking region of Port au Prince in Steloj, also took an interest in automobiles, and thus found Panepole Garage in Uniport, aiming to find work. Angus was glad for the offer of help, and immediately hired him. They both lived together in the flat above the garage in separate rooms and grew strong friends. After closing the garage for WWII, both came back in 1934 with an idea: race. They started to take spare car part and unused chassis from leftover autos to create their own “Frankenstein” vehicle to enter into the 24 Heures de Porto with a group of friends. Angus would be the engineer, Dominik would be the starting driver, and the rest of the friends would follow. They ended up winning the race against much more polished vehicles, cementing their name on the **Steloj** hall of motorsport fame. In the summer 1937 Angus and Dominik were married, and in the spring of 1938 they had a child (through surrogacy of course) named Maulde Le Quellec Douglas. Throughout the next three decades the “Panepole Project” as it was now dubbed, claimed many accolades, including being 12-time Uniport Rally and 7-time Porto Rally winners, along with 10-time 24 Heures de Porto winners, down to not only the cars, but also the drivers, with one of the original drivers for Panepole, Antón Perera, becoming the most acclaimed Steloian driver in history, being 17 at the time of his racing debut. Maulde would become head of Panepole Motors after his father’s retirements in 1969. The pair ended up mysteriously passing in the fall of 1978, with forensics not finding any unusual death cause, just old age (however some people speculate that because it was the ‘70s there was a death that was undetectable at the time). Maulde, being married since 1955, retired in 1981, leaving his daughter Argane Le Houérou Douglas to take control of the company. She ended up expanding from just a small auto-repair company in Uniport and a massive motorsports division, having setup their headquarters in Panepole, to the largest auto-repairs and parts company in **Steloj**, and, although not the largest production *auto* brand in **Steloj**, it remains the largest auto company, with an extremely successful motorsports division. Today Argane is still the head of Panepole, but rumors are spreading that she will announce her retirement soon, and seeing as she is married, the company could see the first ever non-Douglas leader of Panepole Motors.

#### Railways

##### Nacia Transporta Branĉo and Steloian Public Transport

The Steloj Nacia Transporta Brano, or Steloj National Transportation Branch, was a government division established in 1948, following the success of the Federacia Registara Partio's coup d'etat in 1947. Its goal was to build a vast, dependable, and popular transportation network that included everything from high-speed trains to domestic trams.

From 1951 until 1966, a tram system was created in Uniport and Port au Prince, which proved to be tremendously popular, with approximately 600,000 people using it every day. The SNTB soon chose to accomplish their vision of a high-speed, international rail network capable of connecting not just neighboring countries like Altclyde and Fredonia, but also the UNR and other eastern nations, after completing tram networks in Porto Uxan and Arden. The system was not implemented for internal usage (city/region to city/region within Steloj) until 1978, after a public exhibition of a concept Steloian rail system at the Uniport Atomobila Spektaklo in 1949. During that time, the SNTB used government funds to build a more traditional high-speed rail network that would connect not just Linarus but also neighboring countries to the east. However, these plans never materialized since internal regional flights appeared to be far more appealing at the time.

This network, known as the Steloj Internacia Trajno Reto, was never able to complete its original goal. The updated SITR, now a speed-train network that could only be boarded through a select group of cities within Steloj, was expected to be less successful, than the tram networks for obvious reasons. In 1977 the SNTB unveiled their domestic maglev train network, known as the Steloj Nacia Maglevret. This project met the same fate as the SITR Maglev, which never saw the light of day. The SITR, on the other hand, was a huge success, with 460,000 daily users by 1979, one year after the network's formal launch. The SITR and city-based tram networks are still in extensive use today, with 490,000 and 4.5 million people using the respective modes of public transportation on a daily basis.

### Motorsport

##### Elteniva Prototipa Vetkurserio

The Elteniva Prototipa Vetkurserio was formed as a last-ditch effort to combat the growing success and popularity of football in **Steloj** being carried on from the ‘90s. The EPV Project, as it was known, was funded and backed by billionaire Malcom Van Der Weide, a native Foord. Malcom was the head of VDW, a customer racing corporation with great success in regional rallying. He felt that motorsports was dying in **Steloj** after the collapse of F6000 in 2001, and wanted to show off his new prototype series in collaboration with Hartley Motorworks, in accordance with P3 regulations. Panepole Motors wanted in on this new series too, and soon enough the series was launched in 2005, after contracting and vehicle development was completed for the newcomers.

### Aviation

#### Aviation Manufacturers

Although **Steloj** has never had any successful aircraft manufacturers outside military purposes, the nation has had an extensive history in aviation with the FAEkAD project now known as CRÊTE, and the oldest aircraft manufacturer in the country <text>

##### CRÊTE

Formerly known as FAEkAD (Federacia Aviado Eksperimenta kaj Armea Dividado), the once government-division-turned-government-funded-private-company started life as the **Steloj**’s engineering group looking to expand on the every-lucrative jet age, as it was seen at the time (1945). After several failed endeavors under the name FAEkAD, the engineers and CEO behind all the projects sought to create a new, private aviation company in the small Orléaniean settlement of Venitas in the \_\_ mountains, northwest of **Steloj**. The group silently became known as CRÊTE Aviation. After a few years of small-low budget projects, the government finally rebooted the original aviation division, not as a fully-fledged extension of the government, but rather through privately funding CRÊTE. In 1949 the first ever flight of an Steloian high-budget military aircraft was successfully completed, with the second prototype Intercepteur-Type I-01 “Avus”. Today the aviation group is responsible for 100% of Steloian military aircraft and is widely open to inter-country purchasing/agreements

### Sport

#### Football

##### **La Ligo and Steloian Football**

After the establishment of the Nacia Sporta Organizo kaj Financa Asocio in 1911, the first official Dòchas Football league, known simply as Las Dòchas Futballigo or Lìog Ball-Coise Dòchas was immediately formed, kickstarting inter-city and interstate-state rivalries. By 1913 over 70 clubs were formed, and, after an organized qualification league that was held in 1915, GFL1, 2 and 3 were subsequently established. The lower the number following the abbreviation, the higher the league. Towns and states from the south quickly grew reputations for extremely skilled players, and, by 1917, with GFL1 now being renamed to Prìomh Lìog, the clubs of Arden Urbo and Foorden Aonaichte were dominating the tops of the leagues.

Newer, more skilled clubs joined in on the ARU and FOA glory in the late ‘30s, such as Baile mòr Venitas a Deas (BMV) and Schornstien Uniport (SUN), and by the 1950s Scotian football was and still is an extremely well-respected sport of Steloj, however, with the growing understanding that the country was on its own in the alternative football-expanse, no Steloian Scotian player has ever reached worldwide recognition.

La Ligo, or La Ĉefranga Ligo was established in 1971, exactly 60 years after Lìog Ball-Coise Scotian’s inception, the aim to find the best Steloian players in within the country to finally achieve the country’s lasting ambition for world-wide sporting recognition outside its car manufacturers’ success in motorsports during the “golden age of racing” between 1966 and would end in 1999 after the fatal crash in the Testudoj 500. Many Scotian clubs, having seen success in their own respective leagues thought of the new sport’s national inception as an opportunity to make their mark in the unknown territories of “modern” football. Clubs like Uniport Urbo (UPU), Raysor Korvoj (RYK) and Okcidenta Oudenbeek Unuiĝinta (OOU) or West Oud for short, offered excitement outside of motorsports, and thus, for the next to years, new stadiums along with the use of older Scotian ones ended up skyrocketing in entry, with over 90 million tickets sold in that period of time. The leagues were known was La Ĉefranga Ligo, La Ligo 2, La Ligo 3 and La Ligo 4.

The “golden age of football” was kickstarted by the 1989-90 season, where the newly relegated Cinebury Unuiĝinta (CBU) left a slot open for the LL2 champions Astyn Mills (ATM) to slide into LCL. The club then had sudden immediate success, challenging the likes of UPU and Panepole Unuiĝinta (PPU) in the sport. During the first half of the season, they had a win streak of 5, having won 8 games and drawn 3, only losing to a UPU rematch in the penultimate game of the first half of the season. Their start player, Sven Rapidaglo having scored 17 goals in the year 1989 backed an almost cult-like following of fans. The team ended up second to RYK after their own comeback during 1990. This newly found excitement in Steloian football ended up skyrocketing all franchises in popularity and, as said, kickstarted the “golden age of football”, lasting until the 2002-03 season.

##### Nacia Provinca Pokalo

The Nacia Provinca Pokalo is an annual inter-provincial football cup between the 8 prefectures of **Steloj**. The cup existed long before the La Ĉefranga Ligo’s inception, with the origins of the cup dating back to the city-states of Kelta, the Scottish state that existed before the creation and independence of **Steloj**. All city states would compete in what is now commonly known as Dòchas Football with their strongest men. Towards the beginning of the 20th century, during the industrial revolution of Steloj, the cup was resurrected as a staple annual cup to commemorate the best traditional football players from every prefecture before the franchise was later adopted by the Nacia Sporta Organizo kaj Financa Asocio three years after it’s inception (and the creation of La Ĉefranga Ligo) in 1914. Today it traditionally takes place after the official Steloian Football season is complete in April (from April 1st to June 31st), with all eight current prefectures continuing to compete with strictly only players from their respective regions.

##### The Great Sporting Investment of 1991

In 1989, the Federacia Registara Partio in collaboration with the Nacia Sporta Organizo kaj Financa Asocio decided upon the revamping of nearly every stadium and sporting center in the entire country to prepare for the proposed revamping of Steloian football for the early 2000s, the projected time that the stadiums would be fully renovated or completed. After an initial Ɇ112 billion proposal, the project was largely abandoned due to the growing realization that the projected deadline of September 2001 nothing suspicious here would not be met, most stadiums were never completed until years later or were rushed into completion, leading to shoddily-built all-purpose stadiums with three major accidents documented in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

#### Dòchas Football

Dòchas Football, or Dòchas is a form of football that originates from the southern parts of modern-day **Steloj**, in the province of Holland'ùr. The earliest known records of the sport being played date back to the early 1700s, where the resembled more rugby than football, as form of brawl that the city states of Kelta used to assert dominance and superiority over each other. The modern rules to the sport are somewhat complicated and are a little more difficult to understand than football, with the game being played with a round football which can be caught, kicked and hand passed. The ball used in Dòchas Football is round, slightly smaller than a soccer ball. The primary objective is to score by driving the ball through or over the goals. If the ball is sent over the bar of the goals (like rugby), this equates to one point. If it goes under bar, into the goalmouth, this equates to three points. The team with the highest score at the end of the match wins. Essentially, it’s like a cross between, soccer and rugby and is closely associated with Vuzenican Football rules. Dòchas Football is played with a ground ball, slightly smaller and heavier than a soccer ball and played against rugby-style "H" shaped goal posts.