Visionavia

The Kingdom of Visionavia is a large country on the Southwest bay of the Northern section of the Eastern continent of the Orange Isles. The country is known to be unpredictable in many ways.

Visionavia is ruled by a pirate king.

Visionavia contains a moderate population of 9.8 million people, spread throughout its 623 thousand square miles. The geography is rather diverse, as the northern central and eastern regions alone contains taiga, glaciers, tundra, wetlands, temperate deciduous forrest, deserts and tropical seasonal forrest, while the northeastern coast is primarily savanna and tropical seasonal forrest, and the Southern region contains temperate deciduous forrest, tropical seasonal forrest, and taiga. In roughly the center of the country rises Mount VanGale, and it defines much of the country's geography. A second much smaller, but similarly tall mountain, Mount Dicotis rises along the eastern boarder.

The primary cultures in Visionavia are Romian with small portions of Elladin culture near the mouth of the bay.

The primary religion on Visionavia is Romian Shamanism, though a large population on the northwest coast follows the Word of Binh with a small section of the Elladin culture following their Elladin Spiritual practices.

Visionavia shares a boarder with Lasigum to the North, and a slight boarder with Jostam on the Northwest. It shares a boarder with Bushia to the east and south, as well as Nghia to the east. The Western boarder is primarily coast as there are seas surrounding Visionavia on the Southwest.

Visionavia is currently allied with Lasigum in a war against Jostam and it's vassal states, Eklatrium and Cadosia in hopes of resisting conquest by Jostam. Visionavia's boarder with Jostam has become brutal, as both sides have committed violet terrorist attacks across each other's boarders.

History

The country started as seafarers banding together to protect their work from an overreaching government and form their own sovereign state. Where you find seafarers, you find pirates. Within 30 years of establishment a pirate had worked his way to be on top of the government and took control through legitimate means. Exploiting the systems that had not been formed well, he transformed the government to a dictatorship where he ruled as pirate king until he passed the title down to his first mate. Today the government has expanded to include a a ships worth of positions, some elected some appointed. The pirate king title has been passed down for over 500 years and no coup to take it from the standing member has ever succeeded, though some coups to get into the position of first mate have.

After the 15 year war of Divine Ash

Visionavia both gained and lost territory in the war. The country was able to hold Bushia back, but not entirely. But with the losses came the victories to the north. The country expanded northward into Lasigum and managed to end the war with 669 thousand square miles. During the war the country was cunning and won many victories both on the battlefield, as well as through hostages, bribes, and bargaining.

Six months before the end of the war, the first ever coup for the pirate king's title was successful, and the leadership changed hands into a young half phoenix half dryad. With new leadership and the first successful coup, there was a short period of unrest before people got a feel for the new pirate king and began to take a liking to their leadership.