People's Republic of Kajistan

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## About

The Fourth People's Republic of Kajistan is a nation located within the continent of Oceania.

## History

### Prehistory-1499

The island of Kajistan was first populated by migrating Austronesian people which moved through the Philippines to the island likely around 3,400 BP. Evidence of tools and remnants of bodies have been found on Western Kajistani beaches and scattered throughout the mainland in caves and in primitive bamboo huts found deep in the Kajistani jungles. The language and culture was originally Western Malayo-Polynesian as exemplified through endangered languages still spoken in the country such as Proto-Kaji and Inru. The mysterious people known as the Inru were the first to develop a centralized civilization on the island. The leading theory is that they either arrived through Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China or they were carried on from the Indian Subcontinent through Southeast Asia. They quickly picked up the sailing technology the Malayo-Polynesian people had and improved on it.

The Inru quickly populated the island, cross-populating or outnumbering the Polynesian population on the island. A trade route that carried through the Indonesian Archipelago and up through present-day Vietnam was established, which carried rice and also Chinese culture. As Malayo-Inru civilization grew and became a more defined culture that was eventually turned into the Ancient Kaji time period. The island was never unified under one kingdom under the other but most governed large parts of it at a time. So-called “rice kingdoms” became the start of these empires, and only one was able to own de facto control overseas. As time progressed, Chinese monks and scholars arrived in Kajistan presenting new language, lifestyles and religions, all which were absorbed into the Ancient Kaji culture.

### 1500-1899

In the 16th century the arrival of Europeans had begun the process of modernization for Kajistan. The arrival of Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch settlers had initially been met with violence, but after initial exchanges there were several who had gained the trust of the Kajistani. One man, Saint August, had even learned the Kaji language and began to convert the natives to Christianity. This, however, marked the beginning of the hostilities.

When various colonies were set up on the shores of the island, making trades with the local kingdoms(of which there were three on the island), disease began to spread among the Kajistanians. King Bōshu of Naipan, one of the three large kingdoms, had studied the King James Bible that was gifted to him by British colonists and reached the assumption that the arrival of the Europeans signified Revelation, or some force from God. Therefore it was natural that they were harbingers of doom and destruction to the Kajis. Over the next ten years the three kingdoms, as well as small isolated chieftains nestled in between, united and raided every European outpost on the island after an ironic declaration of Christian Holy War against the settlers. They burned missionaries, stole food and guns, and killed the settlers and their families barbarically. From this came the story of a survivor, who’s name was Alejandro. He told that on his escape from the Kaji raid on his colony he found a waterfall that contained mounds of treasures and knowledge known to nobody until now. Therefore after the raids on the first colonies the British and French, who had the manpower necessary, came to colonize the island further. By the end of their “race”, however, the British had subdued all three kingdoms and colonized the entire island.