Kalopia

Ancient Kalopia (Pre-1141)


In antiquity, Kalopia was considered one of the most advanced, enlightened civilizations of its age. Consisting of a league of loosely affiliated city-states, ancient Kalopia was not a state in the traditional sense, but was bonded together through connections in culture, language, and ideals. At certain points in history, Kalopian city-states are known to have controlled, settled, or otherwise heavily influenced the entire Majatran continent and parts of Seleya and Artania. The Kalopians experienced new heights in economic growth for their time, which resulted in previously unmatched cultural feats in architecture, drama, science, philosophy, and democracy. Though generally politically disunited, the cities of Kalopia were known to frequently band together when combating their rival tribes, the Minosasa, the Mossavi, the Sessold, the Siphina, and the Hondilton.

Eventually, Kalopian civilization gave way to the crushing military might of the early Deltarians. Though not at all times officially controlling the region, evidence supports the idea that Deltarian influence strongly affected the area. Under Deltarian leadership, Kalopians were expelled from their homeland, for fear that they might regroup and overpower the Deltarian presence in the area. As a result, Kalopians settled in nations across the world, such as Kundrati, Kazulia, and Kafuristan. Though separated from Kalopia for over one thousand years, in what became known as the Hellenic Diaspora, Kalopians strongly held on to and celebrated their cultural heritage.

With the Kalopians out of the way, Deltaria became the undisputed power in the region, politically controlling the other tribes of the region. Eventually the Minosasa, Mossavi, Sessold, Siphina, and Hondilton tribes grew to be the largest and most advanced of these groups, though still paying homage to the Deltarians. By the 12th Century, however, Deltarian control over Kalopia seems to have dwindled and finally having been removed by 1120. The absence of a notable power in the region created a vacuum which was soon filled by a newly dominant tribe, the Minosasa.

Ancient & Medieval Wantuni (1141-1270)
Traditionally, the beginning of Wantuni history begins with the birth of Chief Watumba in the year 1141. Born to the chief of the Minosasa tribe, Watumba had always been expected to inherit the rulership of the Minosasa people, but according to Wantuni myth, Watumba recieved a divine message that turned his course in a much more ambitious direction. Legend states that Watumba was approached by the Minosasa God of Nature, who instructed him to lead the warring tribes of the region to unity and prosperity.

The following year, Watumba came to rule the Minosasa after his father, Chief Oliki. Acting in accordance with his supposed vision, Watumba politically united the ruling dynasties of the Minosasa and Siphina tribes by marrying Kiri, the Princess of the Siphina. He then turned to the neighboring tribe of Sessold, crushing them in a two-pronged attack from both the Minosasa and Siphina tribes. Feeling threatened by Watumba's clear ambitions, the two remaining free tribes in the region, the Mossavi and Hondilton, allied to attack the Minosasa capital of Arx. A 30,000 strong Minosasan army met and defeated the combined 80,000 man army of Mossavi and Hondilton, through the strategic use of terrain by Watumba and his commanders, in the 1162 Great Battle of Arx. From there, Watumba and his armies mounted an eight year military campaign, finally declaring the tribes united in 1170. The next year, Watumba was declared the Great Chief of all tribes and formed the Wantuni dynasty.

Colonial Wantuni (1270-2000)
For hundreds of years, the ruling Minosasan tribe enforced a strict system of human tribute on the tribes it had conquered. By writ of the Great Chief, two young men per village in the Mossavi, Hondilton, and Sessold tribal areas, would be put into bondage every year. One man would be conscripted into the Great Chief's personal army and the other would be sold as a slave. This brought a newfound military strength and relative economic prosperity to the nation. Unfortunately for the Minosasans, the other provinces, oppressed and disgruntled, were made all too ready to seek out a new partner in governance because of these methods, and Wantuni became susceptible to the threat of colonialism.



Throughout the middle of the 16th Century, foreign powers established colonial settlements on the shores of Wantuni. By the 1560s, such cities as New Oldtown, Port Faraday, Queenstown, and Plentinburg Falls has become bastions of colonial power. Eventually, these powers faded away and were replaced by a strong, if understated, Deltarian presence. Preying on divisions within the nations, Deltaria maneuvered itself into a position of political importance in the nation and the Great Chief became a political figurehead, subject to the every whim of the Deltarian establishment. At points, as much as 40% of the population consisted of Deltarian colonists and over 20% of the population had been sold into slavery to fund the Deltarian Empire across the globe.

In 1750, Chief Mojeki, a descendant of a separate line of the Watuni dynasty living in exile in Solentia, raised a rebel force and, with the aid of the Solentian Empire, succeeded in driving out the Deltarian colonials, to the joy of much of the native populace. Celebrations of independence were short-lived, however, because Chief Mojeki soon declared his allegiance to the Solentian Empire.

Under Solentia, Wantuni was given a comparatively wider berth of sovereignty and saw a period of calm and economic growth. As demographics shifted, the Solentian colonists began to overshadow the native peoples and the remaining Deltarians. At first, ethnic Solentians enjoyed the protection of the Solentian crown in their new lands, but soon began to find their influence overreaching and heavy-handed. Native Wantuni people soon became hateful of the harsh tributes in currency and human capital that Solentia demanded and, allying with one another, the two groups rebelled against the Great Chief and declared Wantuni and independent republic in 1930.

Republican Wantuni (2000-2410)


For three decades, the Republic seemed a strong and independent state, committed to the value of liberty. But in the early 2030s, Solentia, bitter over its loss, orchestrated a coup d'etat, replacing the republican government with an Emperor as their figurehead, supported by Solentian military forces. Banding together, dissidents and members of political parties of the Republic formed a resistance movement. With support from Kanjor, the resistance movement forced Solentia into a war of attrition that it did not have the resources to cope with. In 2376, Mikael von Löwenberg family, noble descending from both the Wantuni dynasty and a prominent Solentian settler family, was elected to the position of Emperor, establishing a Second Wantuni Empire.

Homecoming (2410-2700)
By 2415, small waves of Kalopians had begun trickling in to their long lost homeland, sporadically and in some number. Eventually, a mainstream political movement developed in Kalopian communities across the globe, supporting the re-establishment of Kalopia as a nationstate. Citing their historical ties to the land the Wantuni now occupied, Kalopians began to see the region as their birthright. By 2620, the first attempts to re-occupy the nation and declare Kalopia reborn had been attempted but, without strong leadership, had failed. As the Kalopian demographic grew quickly, with swathes of the urban class immigrating from Kundrati and Kazulia, and intermarried with other segments of society, it soon became one of the dominant ethnic groups within Wantuni. Its growing political power was further cemented by the arrival of a Kalopian upper class, including such visionaries as the Kafuristani-Kalopian oil baron and businessman Theodoros Aristocrat, who leant economic support to the idea.



It was not until 2698, under the leadership of Kalopian aristocrats Nileas Metaxas and Aristotelis Sophus that the Independent Republic of Wantuni was declared the Aristokratiki Basileia of Kalopia. under the Metaxes and Sophus, in what became known as the Queens Government, the nation experienced vast liberal reforms, in the vein of Kalopian values. Their legacy today remains the sexual liberation movement which they pioneered in mainstream Wantuni. Kalopian politician Pornidious Aristocrat, of the Kalopian Regime Coalition, was elected to lead the first democratic Kalopian government and frequently sparred with the ethnically Wantuni Quasi-Libertarian Party. He is today remembered for his program, still in place today, which calls for the return of all Kalopians across the globe to the homeland. This resulted in a sudden rise in population, which has helped to propel Kalopia to become one of the world's largest nations.