Parmankjapoi

The **Kingdom of Pärmakjapoi** is a fictional country.

Its dilapidated rival, Ruotan, is located to the northwest of it; and it is located to the east of the continents of Darros and Laron/Esami, and to the west of Daleskarnia.

Its capital is Parnenjarīja, on the northeastern slopes of the island of Parenia. Among its skyscrapers, the palace of the King and the royal *vihāra*-academy stand in the vast complex pf Samadhipura (samadhi + pura, "concentration-city"), built from the cannibalised remains of its founders' flying cities that crashed unto Parenia's plateau while they fled their empire's defeat during the Sixteenth Age.

## Flag

The purple side represents righteousness and nobility, and the pink side symbolises love for everything that is good and right. The lighter lines in the middle symbolise innovation, and the star stands for either the monarchy or the Noble Eightfold Path of the Buddha.

The national animal of Parmankjapoi is the tiger.

## History

Parmankjapoi was founded by several Tuksharan flying cities that crashlanded on the island, who elected one of their rulers as the first of their kings. Initially, it turned towards mysticism to do penance for its empire's sins, and later Buddhism.

3000 years after the fall of the Gauvajut Empire, Parmankjapoi housed hundreds of refugees from distant Tuksharan colonies, most of which were known for their romantic lifestyle. These new arrivals, the Ubhayalingamas (or Ubhailingas), later intermarried the royal house of Parmankjapoi and influenced it into being a haven for bisexuals from all over the world.

Many years later, it competed against the corrupt kingdom of Ruotan to the south. It housed many Ruotanese when the latter's kingdom was conquered and bombed by the Pratighan Empire, and under its king Cinyake it led a counterattack that seized its northern territories.

### List of rulers

#### Grusaru Dynasty

* Dushandari
* Sabargryhana - married Pincalya of Kaumecce, an Ubhailingi princess

#### Kaumeciya Dynasty

* Akashmadhura - third bisexual king of Parmankjapoi, married a man and a woman to state his point to his amused officials.

#### Ryktha Dynasty

* Raktapanni - third queen regnant. Known for promoting scientific advancement.
* Lohottamar - second son of Raktapanni. Known for devising powerful laser weapons and cannons.

#### Pheinari

* Phendarshana - wrote "Ode of the Two Forks of Love", a lengthy poem praising Brahma for creating bisexuality and how the male and female sexes are attractive to him.
* Cinyake - led Parmankjapoi to war against the Pratighan Empire to the southeast, in retaliation to the latter's raids and bombardments.

#### Urusallar

* Hantadasar
* Surabhi

## Geography

See also: Provinces of Parmankjapoi

* Parenia Island
	+ A windswept island of grasslands that is the seat of Parmankjapoi's government.
* Surabhi
* Agnipura Daksinja
* Trisula Islands
* Mount Samjnya
	+ A large mountain with great caves, filled with deep pools and ponds. Also the home of a monastery.
* Sadbhāvnāpura
	+ Contains a portal to other universes and dimensions, built with Celestial technology.
* Sanvāditā
* Dakshina Ocean
	+ The ocean surrounding Parmankjapoi that goes far south.
* Sanvādasya Ekasya
	+ A large spaceport surrounded by temples and ceremonial plazas, located at the southern edge of the empire.

## Government

Parmankjapoi is ruled by a King, and everyday management of the government is run by the Prime Minister. By law, that king is known as a "Raja" or a "Dharmaraja" (lord of law), and he must have a male and a female spouse.

In some works, Parmankjapoi is ruled by an emperor known as a "Kamaraja" (lord of desire), who is attached and obsessed with his male and female spouses as "a harmonious balance in nature".

Every prince and princess of Parmankjapoi's royal house, and every child of a noble who might rule over an area, is required to learn the Sabha Parva and the Shanti Parva to guide them in their future reign and administration. The copies of these books in the Royal Palace are studded with diamonds and sapphires: the royal copy of the Sabha Parva is accompanied by two white lions with swords, and the royal copy of the Shanti Parva is accompanied by two white tigers with scimitars.

## Military

Parmankjapoin soldiers wear white and blue armour, and they use flying white vehicles. Their guns fire blue lasers.

## Economy

This kingdom prides itself in its retention of ancient technology that its Tuksharan relatives had left behind, innovating and conserving them into a more efficient form. It is also a haven for education -- not only in the Dharma, but also in many other fields, like mineralogy, agriculture, and marine biology -- that is widely lauded by its neighbours.

## Culture

Parmankjapoi's people practice a culture similar to that of their Tuksharan ancestors. However, Sanskrit is also learned by many Parmankjapoins as a formal or religious language.

Like their Ruotanese rivals, most Parmankjapoins are bisexuals, although they prefer monogamous relationships. Nonetheless, other countries tend to depict Parmankjapoins as obsessed with romance and dating.

Parmankjapoins greet each other by putting their hands together and saying, "Om svasti astu", which means "blessings to you in all directions". It can be shortened in casual situations as "svasti".

## Religion

See also: Parmankjapoin mythology

Parmankjapoi's national religion is Buddhism. In fact, Parmankjapoian Buddhism is more devoted to the teachings of the Dharma than its polytheistic Tuksharan counterpart, even though it also has its own pantheon of folk deities. Parmankjapoin Buddhism focuses more on good deeds instead of mantras and ceremonies, like the Prisapuran teachers that they consulted; therefore, its practices Theravada Buddhism, like most of Prisapura and southern Laron.

However, Parmankjapoi's culture also adopted some Hindu elements as the scholars became obsessed with the Sanskrit language, such as some devotees refusing to eat beef or garlic.

### Deities

* Sri Lashvansh Lashkara - god of the sun, thunder, and rain. Patron of the king or emperor.
* Srimati Lurisha - goddess of the moon, stars, art, and music. Patron of the queen or empress.
* Kalshoroi - god of the stars, fire, and war. Patron of the armed forces.
* Sanvāda - god of order and balance, represented as a purple spiral cloud of eight burning arms. Supposedly the ruler of the realm of Akshi Sanvādasya ("Eye of Harmony"), a sort of paradise.
* Menicha and Manicha - the god and goddess of dreams. A third figure, Maniches, is either their lieutenant or their spouse.
* Askiya - space goddess that opens portals to the Void with her screams. While feared as a threat to civilisation, sometimes invoked in prayers when crossing portals between dimensions.
* Balthadi - god of the forge and engineering.
* Apākärtse, Apākärche - god of science and research.
* Vasantraja - spring god
* Grishmapati - summer goddess
* Sharadari - autumn and harvest goddess
* Himavanta - winter and snow god, ruler of the southern ice wastes
* Pratyoshta - north wind, a hot deity and the god of anger and rage
* Vibhutivardha, Vibhutira - east wind, the goddess of wealth, cattle, bats, good luck, and trade
* Kroshari - south wind, the goddess of ice and snow
* Ksaisama - west wind, the god of death
* Pradhana - the first man
* Pratigha - the demon god of wrath and destruction

### Syncretised deities

See also: Hindu divine beings

* Shiva Mahakala - god of liberation, regeneration, time, change, wisdom, and eternity
* Parvati - goddess of freedom, love, creation, beauty, understanding, and justice. As Kali, she is also the goddess of time, destruction, justice, and power.
* Ganesha - god of wealth and overcoming
* Murugan - god of war and growth
* Jambavan - guardian of children
* Yamaraja - god, king, and judge of the deceased

## International relations

Due to its oceanic location between the superpowers of Laron and Freyrgard/Daleskarnia, the Parmakjapoin government maintains a degree of isolation to avoid provoking the mighty nations of those two continents and exposing the nation's advanced technology for their ulterior motives. However, they are eager to establish diplomatic relations with the distant Republic of Porashon (for its amusingly similar flag and their flying tanks) and its allies in the sdachel nation of Umbirab ("the most open-minded nation on Earth").

Another close ally of Parmankjapoi is the more powerful and diverse Republic of Gdjestrana, renowned for its industry and sdachels' superpowers. In fact, Gdjestrana's few outposts to the east of the continent of Darros were set up just to keep in touch with Parmankjapoi's affairs. Sometimes, both countries are also rivals who compete each other in seeing which of the two is the more powerful or technologically-advanced.

Parmankjapoi's greatest competitor is the magical realm of Kogdoza. Although both countries are not at war against each other, they just want to see which of the two realms is the better at a certain aspect, such as technology, space or dimensional travel, or writing an epic. In fact, both Parmankjapoins and Kogdozans would work together should either one of their countries get attacked.

Aside from the Pratighan Empire, Parmankjapoi is at war against the Wannaenid Empire, as the latter attempted thousands of terrorist attacks and invasions of the isolated archipelago and its allies.

## Trivia

* Parmankjapoi was created by a bisexual Porasonid artist as his response to the caricatured dystopia of Ruotan. At first, Ruotan became more popular and well-known, but in later times it was eclipsed almost entirely by Parmankjapoi because of the latter's technological advancement. Parmankjapoi has been "sanitised" in later depictions as just a technologically-advanced realm that competes against the magic-wielding realm of Kogdoza. In later times and as Zvesta became more influential, its rival was changed to the industrial thalassocracy of Gdjestrana.
	+ Its flag is more similar to that of Porashon's flag.
	+ Parmankjapoi was inspired by the author's amusement in that Porashon's flag coincidentally resembled the bisexual flag.
	+ In other countries, Parmankjapoi has been sanitised, with many references to bisexuality removed in favour of depicting its futuristic technology or Hindu-influenced culture.
	+ In Porashon, bisexuals are associated with romance.
* An inhabitant of Parmakjapoi is known as a "Parmankjapoin".
* Parmankjapoi's name is pronounced as "pear-MAHN-kyah-poy" ([ˈpærmaŋkʲapoɪ̯]). It was derived from the Tuksharan words "pärmank" ("hope") and "japoi" ("country"). In Porasonid, its name could "Darî-lauraz", and its capital and royal palace would be "Azaidaron" and "Sôrandatar", respectively.
* "Ubhayalinga" is a Sanskrit word that means "bisexual", although it also means "bigender".

### Why is it "peculiar"?

* Parmankjapoi (if it exists) would be one of a few nations on Jerde with a bisexual majority, if not the only one.

## See also

* Gdjestrana, its biggest ally and rival to the southwest of Darros
* Kogdoza, its magical rival to the west of Darros
* Tuksharan glossary, if you want to start a conversation in Parmankjapoi