| Sunly Elekonetadom of Onchera | |
|---|---|
| Ontsserako Demeta (Oncheran) Demeat Uncera (Great Tambuli) | |
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| Capital | Amallu (by law) Rabekareta (by truth) |
| Official languages | Oncheran, Great Tambuli |
| Religion | 72.1% Aidegani, 20.0% Tanism, 5.9% Havimism, 2% others |
| Government | |
| Type | Federal theocratic parliamentary monarchy under a ceremonial hereditary military dictatorship |
| Elekoneta | Taneta |
| Legislature | Nafura Ballada |
| Area & Population | |
| Total area | ~361,321 km² |
| Population | ~100,000,000 |
| Currency | Tssanpon |
Onchera, officially the Sunly Elekonetadom of Onchera, is an archipelagic country in West Hashir. Located in the Ouken Ocean, it consists of 3,213 islands, with a total area of roughly 361,321 kilometres squared. The islands are broadly grouped into provinces based on the seven largest islands and their periphery: Eroairalu, Ossela, Maera, Kureta, Tarkolu, Kizga, Nasseta, and Tssobura. The archipelago is protected from Ouken blood algae by the West Onchera Reef. With a population of 100 million, it is the world's thirteenth-most-populous country.
Waves of early Iratssat settlement is evidenced to have started around -11th century EC, followed thousands of years later by further arrivals from West Hashir, and finally, in 1st century EC, by the Batea people. The Batea were Mira in origin, and brought with them a form of the Mira languages that would later develop into Oncheran. Around the 15th century EC, Batea societies started regularly trading with Tambuli merchants and interacting with Tambuli scholars, who had begun settling in colonies across the archipelago. Extensive contact from these trade posts transformed the Oncheran people from a tribal society into a patchwork of early states.
In 1821, the various kingdoms of Onchera were unified under the first Elekoneta, Aide the Sun, in Amallu. This unification established the theocratic foundations that would characterise the Oncheran state for centuries to come. Beginning in the 20th century, Onchera became a regional power with an empire that threatened even the hegemony of the Tambulian Hadashule dynasty. Natural disasters such as the Ouken Algae Flood (2259), rebellion in Melcharia, and the collapse of the Hadashule dynasty — Onchera's largest trading partner — caused the feudalisation and eventual collapse of the centralised Oncheran state.
The growing trend for hereditary titles among the elite of the standing army spread downward, and the Oncheran military became more akin to landed nobility. By the 24th century, the Oncheran army was indistinguishable from hereditary aristocracy. Power was concentrated in the Rabeaneta (Supreme Commander), who resided in the theocratic capital of Amalur. After rule by the Tiburu, Legarra, and Arizmea commands, followed by two centuries of warring states, Onchera was reunified in 2810 by the Ebaralo command. The Ebaralo began fracturing in the mid-30th century, and power was finally seized by Mitale Tiguzo in 2994.
Contact was made with the outside world in 2960, after ~600 years of relative isolation, by Nilscoddi circumnavigation through the Ouken Ocean with iron-hulled ships. The immense upheaval this caused in Onchera led to the Forty-year fall. Izaro the Great, at the time a general of Mitale Tiguzo, came to power and unified the modern state of Onchera in the early 31st century, ending the command system entirely. Under Izaro's forty-seven year reign as rabeaneta, the country was transformed from a fractured feudal society into a centralised, industrialising state.
History
Early settlement to classical history
The first settlement of humans to Onchera started in around -11,000EC, constituting the Oncheran Stone age. Around -8,000EC, the first notable elements of hunter-gatherer proto-Iratssat culture appear, with pit dwellings, primitive agriculture, and clay vessels. Around -5,000EC, further hunter-gatherer peoples from West Hashir would arrive, and introduce algae harvesting.
The first waves of Batea settlement almost certainly began around 100EC, with the first evidence of fungal cultivation and different styles of pottery dating to around the time. Ancient Tambuli military records also note large depopulations of Mirish frontiers in 112EC. The agriculturalist Batea largely demographically replaced through outbreeding and intermarriage, large Iratssat populations. Iratssat holdouts remained in area unsuitable for Batea agriculture, or in instances of Iratssat adopting Batea agricultral practices.
Tambuli records show contact with Onchera in 483EC, noting them as 'civilised barbarians' ruled by dozens upon dozens of kingdoms. The expansionist Gamadi dynasty neglected funding for counter-piracy, making trade between Onchera and the Tambuli difficult. Late Gamadi records note the almost industrial production of blood algae wines in southern Onchera.
In 1432EC, the Hadashule dynasty issued charters for the establishment of colonies and trade settlements across the Oncheran archaepeligo.
Imperial era
Feudal era
Modern era
Geography
Government and politics
Demographics