Yetosan

The flag of Yetosan

Location of Yetosan

Yetosan /e.to.sɑn/ is a country in northwest Makohekai, taking up a large majority of the Eteku Peninsula. It has an area of 1,305,545 km². Its largest cities by population include the capital, Santana /'sɑn.tɑ.nɑ/, and the port cities of Sanmaku /'sɑn.mɑ.kə/ and Panmasora /pɑn.'mɑ.so.ɾɑ/.

## Government

At the federal level, Yetosan is ruled by a president and the 24 members of parliament. The parliament has a limited role at the federal level, though, and can only propose bills for the president to decide on. When bills are proposed, the president can either accept them, veto them, or leave them for each governor to decide upon.

The president serves a term of 5 years and has a two term limit. The members of parliament serve a term of 2 years and can only run for office 5 times. The current president, Mipulen Panize, has served for 6 years as of 2021.

### Provinces

Main article: *Provinces of Yetosan*
Yetosan has 12 provinces, each ruled by a governor. All but the Santana Province's ruler are chosen by the parliament and serve for 10 years; in the Santana Province, the vice president is in charge and serves for 5 years. However, citizens still cannot vote for governors and the parliament's decisions are still influenced by the candidate's wealth, so many governors are corrupt.

Most recently, people have been upset with the corrupt nature of governors. wishing they could vote for governors rather than letting the often uninformed parliament vote. This has sparked some small revolts, though these have gone nowhere so far.

## Culture

### Housing

Traditional rural communities had large farms and plantations. Each household comprised of a lord’s extended family as well as a couple peasant families who tended to the farm so they could eat the lord family’s food. Usually the oldest man under 50 in the lord family was in charge of finances for the entire household. Peasant families were treated as good friends who lived together.

However, this gradually shifted in rural communities due to greed. Today, many larger communities have a single family in a household, often being only a nuclear family. These people are usually very rich due to having a large amount of surplus food that they sell for profit.

In cities, it is commonplace for three nuclear families to live in a four story house. The first floor is for dining and chilling (couches and tvs), while the upper floors are for each family’s bedrooms.

## History

### Founding of Yetosan

Semayakaule Settlers, in search of better land, sailed to the island of Nokunwetu. They settled down for a bit before some of them decided to continue their search for land. These defects quickly discovered Makohekai. Some of these defects decided to go to the westernmost tip and discovered Maqero, a large savannah inhabiting the majority of the Eteku Peninsula.

Makofine Sonwaki is the founder of Yetosan. She inhabited Maqero and started a farming community after others noticed the large amount of livestock she had. Overtime this settlement grew and her people began uniting with nearby towns; the common mutualistic goal of this union was feeding everyone in each settlement.

Sonwaki's first settlement was known unofficially as Etusoan, which meant "this town" in the Semayakaule Language. This rather improper name for the town stuck and it eventually became the name of the entire country. Due to sound changes , Ralanmi Engona speakers knew their home nation as Etosan. While trading with other countries, some foreigners misheard this name as Yetosan; this eventually became the common exonym for the nation.

### Colonization

Yetosan was an aztec-like union of cities that traded as one whole unit. They had a lot of ships and resources to trade so they quickly became one of the main trading countries. Eventually the mayor of the most populous city, Sanmaku, centralized the government and became the king.

A colonial power decided about 400-300 years ago to colonize Yetosan as they wanted the riches for themselves so they declared war on Yetosan and took a majority of coastal Yetosan. When Sanmaku was captured, the government fled to the more inland southeastern city of Santana. Yetosan and the conqueror signed a treaty allowing the conqueror to have all of Yetosan land within 200ish miles of the shore. This colonized part of Yetosan was known as Copca Etusan /tsɒptsʌ etʊsɑn/ after the Teiko word for shore.

However, natives of Copca Etusan had a different religion compared to their colonizers. Colonized people began to be killed so they fled to the non-colonized Yetosan.

Eventually Yetosan recaptured Copca Etusan in a series of coups. This was led by King Caña Panuta.

### The Yetosanā Revolution

King Caña Panuta decided to reward his 12 top commanders with control over their own province. However, these provinces were given too much autonomy. This was known as the Ralanmo Era; Ralanmo is the Middle Engona word for "seperate."

This issue skyrocketed when the now defunct Lapatonana Province declared independence and was subsequently occupied by the neighboring Mapaleku Province. This showed the nation they were no longer unified.

This caused the Yetosanā Revolution, led by Inango Anoki. After five commanders died, all but one surrendered. The province surrounding Santana tried to execute all rebels but this ended when Caña Panuta was assassainated.

Anoki, after securing the nation's stability, held elections for 24 parliament members who would help him with suggesting laws and such. Once he wrote a constitution and everything was stable, he held presidential elections and won many more terms. The second president created a two term limit to prevent corruption.

Today there are still people in charge of provinces, known as governors, but their power is now limited. However, the governors have scuffed elections because they are all elected by the parliament. Since the parliament suck at researching candidates, only the rich people become governors usually. This has caused the business-oriented coastal provinces to be quite corrupt.

## Religion

There are two religions practiced in Yetosan. The first is Heracana /he.'ɾɑ.cɑ.nɑ/. This is a fairly old religion originating from certain Semayakaule people and those who practice it today believe the following:

* The Earth is a deceased goddess known as Shurataki - the oceans and rivers are her blood and wounds while the land is her skin.
* The fish originated from the Earth goddess’s organs. The animals originated from the Earth goddess’s hair. The flora originated from the Earth goddess’s clothes.
* The sun god, known as Engi, created the first humans. When he's awake, he feeds all of Earth’s children with energy. When he sleeps, the world sleeps with him and night falls.
* The sky demigod, known as Topangonā, plays in the ocean, causing rain and waves. It is believed that he purifies water (so it doesn't sound gross to drink the earth goddess's blood). He is the son of Engi.
* When someone is bleeding out, it is believed that if they die in the ocean, they will join the Earth goddess in heaven. This has created many rituals in which the elderly go into the ocean and stab themselves in an attempt to get to heaven.

The second religion practiced is Sigicism, which originated from Cuite colonizers. There are only slight differences between regular Sigicism and Sigicism practiced in Yetosan.

* Meuki / Muc, Pepaeuki / Aboc, and Snieuki / Enoc are all worshipped, though their names have been translated as Muchi, Apochi, and Enchi.
* Muchi depictions vary from being an addo to a cow. It is usually up to the town for which interpretation is celebrated, with more coastal cities seeing Muchi as a cow rather than an addo.