History of New Endralon

The Republic of New Endralon (Republica Nou Endralon) has existed as a recognized sovereign entity for over seven centuries, although it has had real self-rule for only a fraction of that period.

Pre-Colonial History
The region now comprising New Endralon was first settled by the Kerisana peoples, whose prior migration pattern is unknown, but believed to have entered New Endralon in Tiania, from either Dolgaria or Egelion. From Tiania, the great Keris plains to the north were quickly occupied by hunter-gatherers.

Civilization first came to the region centuries later, via the Gao-Showa peoples of modern Greater Hulstria or Sekowo. It is believed that an expedition sent to Keris found rich mining and farming in the area now known as Kuzaki Province, and established a colony there. It is unknown why the colony lost contact with the greater Gao-Showa society, but the Kuzaki colony ultimately formed a tenuous civilization in New Endralon, and began a nervous co-existence with the native Kerisana, with the former slowly growing, and enslaving, the latter, mostly by playing Kerisana tribes against one another.

Colonial Era
Unlike the other Keris nations, New Endralon was relatively underdeveloped and primitive even as Dolgaria, Egelion and Trigunia were unifying and forming their distinctive societies. By the time the first Endralon explorers arrived, the land then known as Kerissa was subject to a small Kuzaki state, and areas of influence by traders and rogues from the three Keris nations. Endralonians established their own colony in Sodali, and slowly eliminated Trigunia, Egelion and Dolgaria from their chosen domain, and forced Kuzaki to swear loyalty to the distant Endralonian Empire without a fight, dominating the Kuzaki state economically and politically.

Independence and the Socialist Republic
By the 21st century, divisions between conservative and leftist forces in the Endralonian Empire reached a breaking point. The leftist forces, who controlled the distant colony, were either pushed, or left in an exodus, from the homeland, to form what they believed would be a true socialist utopia, on the backs of the Kerisana "savages." Although in theory a classless society, only those of Endralonian blood and speech could participate in the government; the Kerisana and Kuzaki were limited to being the working class for decades.

Nou Endralon
Ultimately, liberalization of Party Membership by some Endralonian factions led to Kerisana participation, and increasing dominance. While the Kerisana language had always been co-official with Endralonian, it slowly began to be used in the halls of governance, and Endralonian faded gradually. When the Kuzaki tongue claimed ten times the number of native speakers that Endralonian had, Kuzaki became co-official, but it was not for another century before Endralonian lost its privileged statuses entirely - by which time there were almost no native Endralonian speakers, and none who could not also speak Kerisana fluently.

In the past, renaming the nation to Kerisana (or something similar) has been considered, but the name of Nou Endralon has been a part of the nation for so many centuries now that the motivation to change the name is minimal.

Ethnic composition today;

Kerisana - 84% Kuzaki (Gao-Showa) - 11% Endralonian - 3% Other - 2%

Linguistic composition:

Kerisana fluency - 97% Kuzaki fluency - 14% Endralonian fluency - 4% Others - 4% (Numbers exceed 100% due to bilingual persons)

Religious affiliation

Endralon Orthodox Church-62.5% Protestant-13.3% Catholic-4.7% Kuzaki Shinto-3.9% Other-2.0% Atheist-14.5%