Republic of Inner Benacia
| Refublik fun Iner Benasia (Republic of Inner Benacia) | |||
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| Motto: Eyner far Ale, Ale far Eyn | |||
| Anthem: A Saduc amongst the Dolmens | |||
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| Map versions | – | ||
| Capital | Bagegeniśort (Stonetree) | ||
| Largest city | –
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| Official language(s) | Yehudi, Mishalanski, Tellian, Laqi | ||
| Official religion(s) | Siyachism, Church of the Patriarchs, Qara'ut | ||
| Demonym | Inner Benacians, RIBs | ||
| - Adjective | RIB, Inner Benacian | ||
| Government | confederal | ||
| - Dolmensaduc | Pśəmədă Təiim Tăźśăcaquhamća | ||
| - Legislature | Dolmen | ||
| Establishment | 1659 | ||
| Area | – | ||
| Population | 336,185 | ||
| Active population | 148,821 Yehudi 120,000 Laqi 48,239 Tellians 19,125 Mishalanski | ||
| Currency | Dram
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| National website | – | ||
| National forum | TBE | ||
| National animal | Black Eagle (Yehudi & Tellian) White Eagle (Laqi) Brown Bear (Mishalanski) | ||
| National food | Boiled sheep's head with dumplings | ||
| National drink | Pomace brandy | ||
| National tree | – | ||
| Abbreviation | RIB | ||
The Republic of Inner Benacia (also known as RIB) is a recently established country in the previously Green area between Kalgachia, Mishalan and Lywall. Established as a peace agreement by various ethnoreligious fractions in 1659, the new government hopes to establish a peace between the different ethnic groups of the troubled area, so as to allow them to better resist the repeated incursions of their rapacious neighbour.
Geography
History
- Ashkenatza
- Collapse
- Minarboria
- Collapse
- Kalgachi razzias to secure heavy machinery and capital assets followed by brief occupation of Sansabury to secure international recognition.
- Three Shirerithian invasions, Lywall occupied.
- Defence of the last commune (Stonetree) by all the free peoples of Inner Benacia
- Confederal treaty
Politics and Government
Dolmen
The Dolmen, a ruling council composed of delegates from each of the major ethnic groups in the RIB, acts as a combined executive and legislative body. The number of delegates per group roughly corresponds with the proportional size of each faction.
The current leader of the Dolmen, the Saduc, and thus the head of state for the Republic of Inner Benecia, is Pśəmədă Təiim Tăźśăcaquhamća. Each year, after the spring equinox, the Dolmen chooses one of their number to serve as a peacekeeper and arbitrator, called the Sasos. The sasos for 1659 AN is Elior ben Oni.
The Dolmen received its name from the ruined mausoleum where the various factions first met and swore their oaths. The mausoleum has since been crudely rebuilt and used as a burial site for clan elders of the different ruling groups.
The names of the various institutions and offices of the Republic tend to reflect which ethnicity managed to stake their claim first during the carve up of the government.
The Minutes of the Dolmen meetings are published on a semi-regular basis and provides an indication of the Republic's policy as well as a source of droll commentary for those Inner Benacians blessed with the singular gift of literacy.
| Faction | Component Clans | Delegates | |
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Łă 'ăm Iśăhă
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| Bandiere Onorate | Sorvolesi | ||
| Luinali | |||
| Palmati | |||
| קוסט וואַך | |||
| Tăźśăcaquha | |||
| Товарищество Mолота | |||
| Ethnicity | |||||
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| Red Laqi | Yehudi | Mishalanski | |||
| Black Laqi | Tellian | ||||
Difens Lige fun Benasia
The Difens Lige fun Benasia (Defence League of Benacia) was formed by the confederal clans in the aftermath of the Shirerithian invasion and the occupation of Nackholm to support the surviving fighters loyal to the Stonetree Pact. Officers were primarily drawn from Yehudi community displaced from the western pocket, now falling under Batavian occupation, as they lacked territorial aspirations that might affect the eastern clans.
Society
The confederal movement, born under the pressure of unrelenting Shirerithian aggression, brought together the four principal ethnic groups of Inner Benacia, hitherto rather antagonistic of one-another, and forced them into the rough semblance of an alliance in order to defend hearth and home against the gravimetric hordes of the Imperial Republic. Lacking the sophistication and capacity of their Kalgachia neighbours, the unity of the Inner-Benacians is of a rather more trucial nature. Quite a few suspect that if the Shirerithians ever eased off the pressure, these disparate groupings would quite happily forswear the oaths given by their leaders before the Dolmen and revert back to slaughtering each other with gleeful abandon.
It should be noted that Lywallers and Froyalaners tend not to feature very much in the society of Inner Benacia, mostly on account of the Laqi and Mishalanski propensity for slicing open the stomachs of strangers and rifling around in the spilled entrails whilst searching for swallowed coins and jewels.
Yehudi
Laqi
In the ninety-three years since the collapse of the ephemeral Laqi Free Republic in southern Shireroth, the Laqi somehow went from being an obscure tribal grouping within Modan-Lach to the ubiquitous scourge of the steppes, forests, and foothills of central Benacia. The most succinct explanation is that, with the collapse of Ashkenatza, followed at an interval by the rise and fall of Minarboria, a vacuum opened up in the heart of the continent, and nature - abhorring a vacuum - had the Laqi ready at hand to step into the void. Laqi brigands, in the profit-motivated service of the so-called Perfecti, were instrumental in the foundation of Kalgachia whose mountain fastness was secured with armaments and workers snatched from the collapsing edifice of Minarboria by their roving bands. Other Laqi hosts, arriving late for the party, settled for despoiling columns of refugees, raiding into the tenuous Shirerithian occupation of Lywall, and living well on the mangled carcasses of Tee-als felled by Shirerithian airstrikes into the graveyard of empires.
Laqi clans are divided between the Red Laqs, who had made incursions into the Ashkenatzi frontier first, and the Black Laqs, who migrated into the area at the behest of their lich masters. Red Laqs see the Black Laqs as corrupted by influence from the undead, while they themselves continue an unadulterated form of the Laqi Tradition; some Red Laq clans have, however, adopted worship of The Name from their neighbors.
