Nations in the World of Amahara

List of the various nations in World of Amahara from various possible timelines with quick and rough blurbs for important ones.

Lotus Asia

Amahara

The Dominion of Amahara is a Shinto civilization existing in various forms supposedly from 660BC and is described by writers as the Country Closest to Heaven. As the designated protagonist nation most of the time, the world narrative generally revolves around and radiates from them. Although dominated by the samurai class for over eight centuries, theocratic tradition and devotion to Shinto have been the main characteristics of Amaharan culture throughout its existence. Its head of state is the Apostle.

Ezo Republic
A possible state including only the northernmost island of the Amaharan Home Islands in divergent timelines where Amaharan state authority becomes divided. In such cases it is the poorest of the lot and the one most likely to engage in and be successful at morally questionable research. May or may not be a catgirl majority state.

Despite its official name, it is not actually a republic since it continues to recognize the Apostle and would be run by the equivalent of a Prime Minister.

Ryunan
A peninsula protruding from southeast Lotus Asia, Ryunan was conquered and briefly became a colony of sorts during the Kagamine shogunate after which the Yanari shogunate ignored it until the Steam Era. It continues to be an integral part of Amahara territory after the Sixty Years War in the main timeline.

Ryunan People's Republic
(see below)

Middle Empire

The Middle Empire is the equivalent of China in World of Amahara and is described as the Empire at the Center of the World. Its own historic period goes back much longer than Amahara's and it would have been civilized for centuries or millennia before that. Owing to great size, the Middle Empire was the de facto superpower of Lotus Asia for over two thousand years during which time it was ruled by the Supreme Emperor. Following the Sixty Years War, the imperial institution was dismantled for good and the Middle Empire was divided into separate countries in the north and south. Depending on timeline, the imperial line's descendents may be alive and/or in exile.

Yu Dynasty
The main civilizing influence that drove the development of Amahara during its Classical Era. It was founded and consolidated in the late 3rd and early 4th century. After resolving much of its border concerns on land, it became free to trade and extend cultural influence overseas at a greater level compared to previous dynasties.

Yang Dynasty
The dynasty in power when the Rouran hordes first rose. It was militarily weak but notable as Amahara became a tributary of the Middle Kingdom via the Nanri clan during its time.

Yan Dynasty
The dynasty of the realm for the period leading up to the Steam Era during which it fell into a massive civil war and collapsed.

Lian Dynasty
The Lian dynasty emerged from a morass of warlords by the 1940's or 50's, brought about a brief imperial revival and gathered strength through rapid industrialization and economic development through the period. They eventually become the main antagonists in the final stages of the Sixty Years War. Depending on the timeline it either coerces Amahara into an alliance or invades the Home Islands during the 1970's and its new imperial family are either the masterminds of renewed Middle Empire hegemony or simple figureheads to a fascist government. It is finally brought low by spin bombs, resulting in immense damage to core territories. The Middle Empire ceases to exist in 1978.

North Middle Republic
The declared successor of the Middle Empire in all timelines with the imperial system abolished for good. The NMR controls some 70% of the former Middle Empire's territory (as defined by the late 19th century borders of the Yan dynasty post-war) but only 35% of the population. It is nevertheless more populous than a all of its allies in NEET combined. A poorly managed and corrupt state, its rebuilding programs failed compared to those effected in the Middle People's Republic by the PCLA.

Middle People's Republic
(see below)

North Ectasian Economic Treaty

These are the more minor members of NEET, an alliance formed near the end of the Sixty Years War. The great powers in the alliance are the Albish Union, North Middle Republic and Dominion of Amahara who all have their own sections. Some of these nations have influences from all over the place from as far as northern Rose Europe. The most recent migration of people arrived across the arctic rim following the wars in Rose Europe in the 17th century. Although most term themselves republics, many of these countries are in fact constitutional monarchies or aristarchies.

For the WARP Zones timeline, Amahara's membership in NEET is an unofficial though well understood political reality. Excepting the North Middle Republic, these countries are also the launch territories of the VRMMO Hisa Online in WARP Zones 2020.

Silla Republic
The most populous of the minor powers, Silla is a traditional friend of Juri but has been invaded at some point in the past by almost everyone else, including Amahara.

Juri Principality
The matriarchal pacifist victim country, but also a survivor on the world stage. The current dynasty has a history of some five hundred years of pacifism and surrendering.

Amur Republic
Almost landlocked. Not prosperous. A bit snappy. It gained its only port in a confrontation with Juri Principality during the Steam Era.

Dalian Republic
A bit of a mismanaged tinpot with Sunflower Asian, Middle Empire and Amaharan influences but generally never as good at being any of them as the real thing. Most recently got rolled for the upteenth time by the Rourans in the last leg of the Sixty Years War.

Syrno Republic
The only country in the region with a significant proportion of christians. Very much a cultural melting pot over the last few centuries.

Valkyr Principality
A blend of local shamanism and valkyries. It has repulsed all invaders for the past six and a half centuries.

Baikal Republic
A landlocked, historically obscure country, the Baikal Republic leapt onto the world stage with the invention of the spin bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that changed the face of war and the world.

Sairaag Republic
A country with significant traditional energy reserves, the country's fortunes have declined since the 1980's as the world switched to spin power.

Madagan Republic
A kemonomimi majority state that has accepted immigration from oppressed kemonomimi around the world.

Kamchatka Republic
A large country with varied climates, some of which are outright unreasonable. Reglaciation trends have left it the only country in the world with a functioning capital beneath an ice sheet.

Bering Republic
A strategically important country in control of access to the Arctic Ocean via the Bering Strait.

People's Confederacy of Lotus Asia

A communist supernational superpower formed at the end of the Sixty Years War. Though hardly allied, the rest of the world is arrayed against it to a somewhat greater extent than they are arrayed against each other.

Kushara People's Republic
The India analogue of World of Amahara, Kushara was once the largest of several former Britannian colonies in southern Lotus Asia that combined its caste system with communism and went on to convert its neighbours. It is the dominant member by far of the PCLA.

Middle People's Republic
Composed of the southern part of what was the Middle Empire. It is, despite its slightly greater population, very much a subordinate of Kushara. Its program of rebuilding has been more successful than that of the North Middle Republic, however.

Rouran People's Republic
A communist takeover of the Lian aligned Rouran Khanate that exists in some timelines. The alternative is an independent Rouran.

Ryunan People's Republic
A member of the People's Confederacy of Lotus Asia formed by communist occupation of Amaharan Ryunan following the end of the Sixty Years War in the WARP Zones timeline and possibly some others as well.

Rose Europe

Francia
The Francian Empire rose to superpower status following the Francian Revolution starting 1793 which led to the rise of Napoleon. The Napoleonic Wars ended in 1818 with the Francian dominance of Rose Europe and the world. Its chief enemies, Britannia and Rossiya were dealt crushing blows from which neither recovered. The Britannian homeland was conquered. Rossiyan control of the Arctic Rim was broken and the independence of minor powers across the Asias was confirmed. Francia entered a century of golden age as sole superpower throughout the Age of Steam.

Old Britannia
Britannia emerged as a prominent power in Rose Europe and across the globe following the Romantic Wars, generally at the expense of Uragos and Ezpana. From there, it expanded the reach of Rose Europe even further, creating an empire that remains unparalleled in size and spreading its cultural and linguistic legacy. At the start of the Age of Steam, it engaged in a titanic war with Francia for the fate of the world and lost. Old Britannia was conquered and its royal family was forced to flee to the colonies where New Britannia was declared.

Karlsland
A new state formed following Napoleon's conquest of continental Rose Europe after Francia annexed major areas in the region and creating a territorially large but less populated state in the north of Rose Europe. Starting as a Francian puppet, Karlsland grew apart decade by decade and became a rival of Francia by the late 19th century.

Danuby
A large and populous state in eastern Rose Europe that has existed since at least the fall of Constantinople. It was late to the imperial race due to poor access to the ocean but was a fierce opponent of all its enemies on land.

Ezpana
One of the two great powers of the Age of Discovery, Ezpana was the sponsor of Cthlumbus and created a large and wealthy overseas empire. Devoutly catholic, Ezpana suffered the worst of the Romantic Wars.

Uragos
Rossiya
Like Britannia, Rossiya's Czars rose to power in the wake of the Romantic Wars and was brought low by Francia in the early 19th century.

Etruria
The Sonic Provinces
The Papal States

Iris America

Albish Union
The Albish Union takes up the better part of the Iris American continent and lies in the north. It broke off from Britannia following the conquest of the homeland by Francia. It is today one of the three great powers of the North Ectasian Economic Treaty.

New Britannia
New Britannia remains a reasonably powerful state. Though its new core region in Iris America is much smaller than the Albish Union, it still controls Austral Oceania and some other colonies.

Rafflesia America

Seventh Alliance of the Children of the Skyborn

Sunflower Asia

Sunflower Asia is the northern part of Asia, being north and west of Lotus Asia which borders on southern and eastern oceans, and northeast of Jasmine Asia which abuts Africa and Europe. It includes the Arctic Rim which has historically supported settlement and migration in between periods of glaciation. The last such movement occurred during the 17th century in response to the Romantic Wars in Rose Europe.

Rouran Khanate
Mongol equivalents. The Rouran are a wolf-eared ethnicity and are likely the most populous kemonomimi ethnicity surviving into the Modern Era. The inheritors of countless steppe traditions before them, the Rouran went on a conquering spree during the 13th and 14th centuries.

Orchis Oceania

Menden
Emirate of Midena
Celebes Republic
Jura Megalopolis