Intania

## Country

The current flag of Intania

**Intania**, officially known as **The Intanian Republic** is an island country with an area of around 340,000 km2. The country itself is not near other bodies of land, yet Intania focuses a lot on cooperation with other countries especially in regards to tourism, and education.

### Culture

#### The Intanian stereotype

The most common stereotype that is brought up in regards to Intanian culture is their obsession with sexuality. Ironically enough, only after said stereotype was popularized, have some Intanians taken steps to live up to said stereotype. Still, people who match the stereotypes and clichés remain a relative minority.

The origin of the stereotype stems from the extensive research and openness with matters of masculinity, femininity, sexual and romantic nature. Many traits of Intanians as a consequence are often considered hyper-liberal. Such as a higher prevalence of feminine men and masculine women.

#### People

Intanians are often considered as quite friendly and open, but also extremely self-conscious and conscientious. Most Intanians carry an altruistic mindset and morals. Due to the Intanian nature, close friendships are relatively common, and even if friendships are not that close, people still have a tendency to support and encourage their acquaintances to pursue what is meaningful and best for them.

On the flip side, there as also quite a big part of the population (mostly in youth) that suffers from social-anxiety and depression as a consequence to their high self-consciousness. It can often result to social isolation, envy and crippling loneliness. Which is determined to be the leading cause of suicide across 16-26 year olds.

### Cities

Siegfreid (Capital)

Firnulfir

Fata Morgana

Silverspeare

### History

#### St. Anhalts Intania

The flags first iteration was adopted while St. Anhaltianism was the main religion of Intania. In many depictions and murals, St. Anhalt bears a staff with a white, four pointed star.

#### Monarchist Intania

While Intania was still a monarchy while the previous flag was used. During this time a new kings reign started. Said king wanted to create stricter rules and guidelines for Intania, strenghtening his position of power, and practically 'tying a noose around the peoples necks'. The guidelines went against St. Anhaltian principles, but through years of phasing out the religion, eventually banning it outright, the king managed to convince the people that these changes were for the greater good. The changes plummeted Intania into a dark age, where Intanian culture suffered and the livingstandards/quality of life of the normal people dropped drastically. After decades of oppression, a resistance movement was started.

#### Intanian resistance

The universal flag for the Intanian resistance was radically different from the original flag. It bore the symbol later being named "the Intanian eye", with a black or dark green background. The resistance movement grew quickly in western Intania, quickly freeing the cities there. A headquarters was even establised. The uprising quickly turned into a civil war. The war would go on longer than expected, and the Monarchist side of the war had plenty of bombers, which were used liberally. Many of the free cities were bombed to bits. Only a few buildings and structures like Himmelsdorf Castle, the S&H Café and Anhalt station survived the bombings. The resistance headquarters was obliterated during one of the attacks, which forced the resistance movement to move their headquarters over seas, to the island of **Snailtopia**. Through relentless counterattacks and defenses, free Intania survived. The longer the war went on, the more the people on the monarchist side started to question their own motives and the wars worth. The kings image was quickly tarnished and a faithful day he was finally found dead, sitting on his throne. He had seemingly been tortured unbeknownst to anyone. The killer, or killers were never found.

#### Post-Intanian war flag

As monarcist rules were torn down, the old Intanian coat of arms were removed. At this point all of St. Anhaltianism had been forgotten, so a new flag was created. A red sun with two swords, symbolising the conflict, the victory, and a new dawn; a new age for Intania. While the people were tired and starved from poor conditions and conflict. With their last gasps they quickly strived to rebuild and improve what had been destroyed.

#### Intanian Cultural Reform flag

Many years later, as Intania had started to prosper again, under the leadership of Quercus Mephisteufel, a cultural reform was put into action with focus of reviving and developing the culture that had been lost or underappreciated. In celebration of this, the Intanian flag was once again modified to add in the characteristic G-clef.

#### Modern Intania

After many years, Q. Mephisteufel would remove the Intanian eye from the flag, replacing it with a folksymbol symbolising the newly re-discovered Oldfolk culture. No elaboration has been given for said change, but it is theorised that the removal of the symbol symbolised finally leaving the tragedy and trauma from the Intanian wars behind. Others believe there are more sinister reasons however.