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'''Nama''' is the name of a state in the Poswob Empire (Pusapom).  It is different from the other states because Nama is a very old state consisting of an alliance of absolute monarchies that were historically independent nations, but agreed to join the empire as just a single state in return for military protection. The central Blop government largely leaves Nama to itself and doesn't even collect taxes from the common people (though they do take taxes from the kings). In some ways Nama is thousands of years behind the rest of the empire and the people who live there blame the kings for keeping them locked in the past. Nevertheless, the quality of life is better than many other areas, and few Namans are interested in immigrating elsewhere.
:''Note, this page refers to Cosmpolitan Nama. For the earlier empire, see [[History of Nama]].''
[[file:Nama.png|thumb|right|247px|Nama (green) admist surrounding states.]]
Nama is sometimes considered the Poswob homeland even though it contains neither their origin nor their capital. It merely is the area that has the least cultural influence from outside, and therefore best preserves the original culture of the Poswobs. It is also the only state in Pupompom (where Pupompom is defined as "the north") that has coastline on the tropical Raba Ocean. (the rest of the Raba ocean is considered "the south").


Nama's capital is Pworše; not a true capital in the sense of administering the territory it's in, however. It is merely the most convenient stopover for people traveling between Nama and Blop since it is the northernmost settlement in Nama.
'''Nama''' is the name of a state in the Poswob Empire (Pusapom). It is different from the other states because Nama is a very old state consisting of an alliance of absolute monarchies that were historically independent nations, but agreed to join the Empire as just a single state in return for military protection.  This was because they had proven themselves militarily helpless and chose to ally themselves with the gentlest of the many outside powers they had interacted with. At first, the central Blop government largely left Nama to itself and didnt even collect taxes from the common people (though they did take taxes from the kings).


Although the word ''nama'' means "nipple" in both Poswa (Nama's official language) and Pabappa (a runner-up), the people of Nama do not generally consider it an embarrassment to live in a place named The Nipple.  However, nipples are commonly spoken of in the dual number, and for this Poswa has a suppletive form, ''mumbop''.
As the Empire matured, however, various other territories within the Empire chose to join Nama, and Nama came to be known as a region within the Empire rather than a single state.  All of these areas had been part of Nama at some point in the distant past but had been wrested away from Nama by one of the many aggressive outside powers.


Nama's motto is '''Pwopup rybaebum pembap buswawa; taep rybaebum foppap buswawa.''' Translated, this means "For wisdom, look to the elders; for faith, look to the children."
==Early history==
:''See [[History of Nama]].''
[[file:Greater-Nama.png|thumb|right|247px|Nama (green) with its 8773 borders.]]
Nama early on outlawed agriculture within its borders, stating that agriculture led to famines and was not healthy.  They benefited from agriculture indirectly, however, because they traded with allies in which agriculture was allowed.


Nama is over 95% Poswob, but these Poswobs are mostly Poswobs due to cultural assimilation, rather than immigration.  Thus they have distinct racial types, more different from each other than even many recent immigrants into Pusapom are from the Poswobs.  Nearly every racial type is represented, from dark-skinned aboriginals along the south coast to dark-skinned immigrantsfrom other countries, to Paba-type people in the northeast and Khulls-type people in the mountainous west.  The two dark skinned races are more different from each other than the eastern one .
==Language and ethnic groups==
===History===
Present-day Nama is uniformly [[Poswa]]-speaking, with only 5% of Namans preferring to speak any language other than Poswa.  This is the strongest expression of the so-called Poswob pattern of settlement: religious and linguistic homogeneity amidst racial diversity.  Nama is very racially diverse, and in most of its territory, the many historical racial groups are isolated from each other, with intermediates found mostly in cities.  Along the south coast, one finds the blonde, blue-eyed '''Maba''' people living just across the bay from the dark-skinned '''Waru'''<ref>Fulloh</ref> people; while in the mountains immediately north of these peoples one finds the very tall [[Ihhai]] people living just a few valleys away from the very short people of [[Gala language|Gala]].  
''See [[History of Nama]].''
===Borders and government===
Despite being positioned along the south coast, Nama is considered a northern state.  Nama's northern border does not generally end at a natural boundary such as a river.  This is unusual for Pusapom.  Instead it ends on flat land with the mountains about 50 miles away.  This formed as the limit of settlement of people who oriignally lived in the mountains.


Though the Poswobs have long been welcoming of ethnic minorities, the need for a large and strong Poswob-majority state led the governors in the capital city to draw the boundaries of Nama and exclude the areas within it that were mostly home to non-Poswobs.  This meant that neither Sarapom nor Pallupubom, both cities which had long been important in the empire, would be located in Nama.  But Nama has many cities of its own which, though of lesser importance than those others, are still valuable to the economy.  Its wide variety of climates means that many types of food can be grown.
North of the mountains, the population density is lower and people are less isolated from each other. Here, people are a blend of all four of the racial types found further south, plus a fifth group consisting of tall, dark-skinned people not closely related to the dark-skinned people found in the southwest. Here, there is a gradient with the dark-skinned people found near the eastern border with [[Tarwas]] and the smaller, lighter people found further west where they border the rest of the Empire.  However, all of these peoples consider themselves Poswobs and do not think of themselves as minorities.


Pine trees are the most common type of tree, even in the warmest areas; this is because it is difficult for palm trees from other tropical areas to reach the Naman coast. Early settlers had attempted to bring over fruit trees and animals from the tropics of Laba, but found that few of them could survive here even though the climate was almost as warm.  As is the case elsewhere, this is largely because the planet only recently left an ice age in which the climate even at 30N was subpolar.
In some ways Nama is thousands of years behind the rest of the empire and the people who live there blame the kings for keeping them locked in the past. Nevertheless, the quality of life is better than many other areas, and few Namans are interested in immigrating elsewhere.


Nama is one of the most rural states, and in some ways resmembles the ancient homeland of the Lagi where every village is different and the central government is extremely weak.  Since Nama is majority Poswob, and the local governments of many ethnostates are seen as being largely about interpretation, the Naman government is seen as largely unnecessary to the national government in Blop, "because they're basically just us" and the Blop government can rule the people directly.  But for lack of transportation there would probably be no Naman government at all.  Nama has for a long time participated in the "Naman Dissenter Union" ('''Bybabumbem''') where different governments that disagree about politics are still allied with each other and will cooperate militarily.


====The Mirror Project====
Nama is sometimes considered the Poswob homeland as it has the least cultural influence from outside, and therefore best preserves the original culture of the Poswobs. It is also the only state in Pupompom (where Pupompom is defined as "the north") that has coastline on the tropical Raba Ocean. (the rest of the Raba ocean is considered "the south").
Even before the immigration of Labans, Nama had repurposed itself to mirror the world.  What this meant, when immigrants from Laba came to settle areas near Nama, is that Nama would offer each new immigrant nation a piece of Naman land to call their own, and a voice in Nama's government.  For example, Paba created the mirror nation of Pubapi in northern Nama and helped control traffic from Paba to the northern regions of the continent. The governments of the mirror nations could be of any type, whether democratic or not, but at Nama's level they all had one vote regardless of what their population was.  In many ways it resembles the United Nations on Earth except that entire nations have moved themselves over to Nama to participate in their government.  These nations could even divide amongst themselves, gaining more territory in the process. Nama promised to continue the Mirror Project at least until they ran out of land to give, after which they planned to divide up the existing communities.  They figured that this would not be a problem because the world population would eventually top out and therefore Nama would reach its carrying capacity only when the rest of the world did.


Even though Namans had to remove their own people to make room for the incoming nations, the mirror nations were primarily in areas where the natives were nomadic, so this did not disrupt their way of life very much, and some of them even chose to stay in the new nations even though those nations were not compelled to accept them as citizens.
==Climate and geography==
Very diverse.  The hottest, coldest, wettest, driest, and windiest climates in Nama are found in the south.  The northern areas can be thought of as an average of all of the other climate types, and even in the far north, winters do not become as cold as those in the mountains of the south.


===Kingdoms and cities===
The northern part of Nama is called '''Pupompom'''. The borders of Pupompom are not strictly defined, but they include the mountains and usually also the small strip of land along the southern coast that is part of the Naman state of '''Dživžwata'''.<ref>Pempanada.</ref>
'''[[Kava]]''' is the name of a kingdom in the far southeast of Nama.  '''Pavbwa''' is the name of a city settled by Subumpamese and Andanese-type people during a time in which Nama did not have control of the area.  Its etymology is similar to "Baeba Swamp" and indeed it is a mostly a swamp.  But it was the capital of a very powerful nation, Kava, during its time. Its people called it "Lun" rather than Pavbwa; their descendants embraced Naman culture when they were eventually overhwlemed, and then later on, Poswob cutlure when Poswobs began taking over Nama.  They existed as Kava for a short time, roughly 3125 to 3348.


From the time of its founding in c 3125, the nation of Kava stood out from its neighbors.  They were far more militaristic and their soldiers were individually far more brutal than those of other nations.  They launched a genocidal war against the defenseless aboriginal Repilian people, who had been their traditional allies for over a thousand years.  They promised protection for anyone of either the Andanese or the Subumpamese tribes, and held true to that promise: they conquered vast territories of land in the far north, massacring entire populations as they replaced them with themselves, but they never harmed any of the smaller, weaker nations on their way that were of the same races as the Kavans.  They encouraged all Andanese and Subumpamese to simply join forces and call themselves Kavans, which many did.  The Kavan army won many battles against impossible odds.  When they finally went down, they were defeated by a power several hundred times what they themselves had been 200 years earlier.  This set off a wave of militarism in the area that lasted another 1400 years.  Kava remained a fairly militaristic culture during this 1400 years, but they had submitted to their conqueror, Nama, and were thus on the opposite side of their ancestors.  However, Nama was in a state of rapid decline as a world power now, because the population density had shifted further northward, and Nama was walled off from the north by the world's tallest mountain range.  Instead Nama remained essentially a regional power, controlling at best only itself and the trade that went through its sea from the two empires on either side of Nama. Surrounding empires began biting off pieces of Nama, eventually leaving only a rump state comprised of the most inaccessible parts.  They retained more than half of their coastline, however, so even Nama at its worst was still in a fairly advantageous location.
===Climate===
Nama has a variety of climates.  It is the most climatically diverse state, per unit area, in the Empire.  However, this is mainly just because it has the highest mountains, so temperatures can range from subpolar to tropical in a shorter distance than anywhere else.  Even so , the climate northj of the mountains is very different from the climate to the south.  Northern Nama (which is where ther capital is, and is the part that borders the rest of the Empire) is like Nebraska or eastern Wyoming, though it does not have Nebraska's leeside low phenomenon, because the mtn range is primarily east-west.  Thus storms cant appear "out of nowhere" the way they do in the Great Plains.  Even so, the ocean is not all that far away, so the precipitation is moderate and peaks during winter.  On the other hand, because the mtn range is east-west, cold waves can't just skip over Nama the way they skip over the area imeddsiately east of the Rocky Mtns. (e.g. Cheyenne WY is warmer than Des Moines e3ven though its 6000ft up, and "should" be about the same temp as Fairbanks Alaska.) Thus northern Nama is temperate despite being at about 30N.


Today Kava considers itself to be just another Poswob district, though with a traditional Naman type of government, and its people are just as pacifistic as other Poswobs.  It has a multiparty government, with minority parties being given extra power to oppose the majority.
The south coastr is about 150 miles long.  Though its inhabitants consider it to be tropical, and tropical plants such acoconuts fgrow there, it is the coldst "tropical" coastline in the woirld because it is the futherst north.  Thus, pine apples will not grow here; they myst be imp[otted from nearby lands that do not have freak cold spells in winter.  


It should be noted that even at the hight of its power, Kava was not universally seen as evil.  Even its enemies admired the fact that children in Kava voluntarily went to school, rather than having to be held there by the cooperation of their teachers and their parents.  One incident recalled thousands of years later commemorates a group of children about 5 years old who walked to their school, found it closed, and walked three miles downhill through the woods to a school in another town so that they could complete their schoolwork.  All of this happened with pre-modern technology which was primitive even compared to the other nations around them.  Kava today strives to still be a place where children go to such lengths when necessary to get their education, and wholesome enough that children can walk through deep woods without fear of being adbucted.


===Climate===
Pine trees are the most common type of tree, even in the warmest areas; this is because it is difficult for palm trees from other tropical areas to reach the Naman coast.  
Nama has a variety of climates.  It is the most climatically diverse state, per unit area, in the Empire.  However, this is mainly just because it has the highest mountains, so temperatures can range from subpolar to tropical in a shorter distance than anywhere else.  Even so , the climate northj of the mountains is very different from the climate to the south.  Northern Nama (which is where ther capital is, and is the part that borders the rest of the Empire) is like Nebraska or eastern Wyoming, though it does not have Nebraska's leeside low phenomenon, because the mtn range is primarily east-west.  Thus storms cant appear "out of nowhere" the way they do in the Great Plains.  Even so, the ocean is not all that far away, so the precipitation is moderate and peaks during winter.  On the other hand, because the mtn range is east-west, cold waves can't just skip over Nama the way they skip over the area imeddsiately east of the Rocky Mtns. (e.g. Cheyenne WY is warmer than Des Moines e3ven though its 6000ft up, and "should" be about the same temp as Fairbanks Alaska.)  Thus northern Nama is temperate despite being at about 30N.


The south coastr is about 150 miles long.  Though its inhabitants consider it to be tropical, and tropical plants such acoconuts fgrow there, it is the coldst "tropical" coastline in the woirld because it is the futherst north.  Thus, pine apples will not grow here; they myst be imp[otted from nearby lands that do not have freak cold spells in winter. 
Nama is   the most mountainous region of the empire, and in some ways resmembles the ancient homeland of the Lagi where every village is different and the central government is extremely weak.   


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| Pubiapep || 84 || 36 || 28 || 63 || 51 || 80 || 67 || gmneerally warmer than that during winter ... the avg is due to cold spells
| Pubiapep || 84 || 36 || 28 || 63 || 51 || 80 || 67 || generally warmer than that during winter ... the avg is due to cold spells
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| Pworše || 4391 || 38 || 32 || 39 || 23 || 83 || 55 || wet due to upslope snow, but not leeside low
| Pworše || 4391 || 38 || 32 || 39 || 23 || 83 || 55 || wet due to upslope snow, but not leeside low
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===Geographical influences on culture===
Nama's motto is '''Pwopup rybaebum pembap buswawa; taep rybaebum foppap buswawa.'''  Translated, this means "For wisdom, look to the elders; for faith, look to the children."
Since Nama is majority Poswob, and the local governments of many ethnostates are seen as being largely about interpretation, the Naman government is seen as largely unnecessary to the national government in Blop, "because they're basically just us" and the Blop government can rule the people directly.    Nama has for a long time participated in the "Naman Dissenter Union" ('''Bybabumbem''') where different governments that disagree about politics are still allied with each other and will cooperate militarily.
==Notes==
[[category:Teppala]]
[[category:Teppala]]

Latest revision as of 15:04, 15 November 2019

Note, this page refers to Cosmpolitan Nama. For the earlier empire, see History of Nama.

Nama is the name of a state in the Poswob Empire (Pusapom). It is different from the other states because Nama is a very old state consisting of an alliance of absolute monarchies that were historically independent nations, but agreed to join the Empire as just a single state in return for military protection. This was because they had proven themselves militarily helpless and chose to ally themselves with the gentlest of the many outside powers they had interacted with. At first, the central Blop government largely left Nama to itself and didnt even collect taxes from the common people (though they did take taxes from the kings).

As the Empire matured, however, various other territories within the Empire chose to join Nama, and Nama came to be known as a region within the Empire rather than a single state. All of these areas had been part of Nama at some point in the distant past but had been wrested away from Nama by one of the many aggressive outside powers.

Early history

See History of Nama.
Nama (green) with its 8773 borders.

Nama early on outlawed agriculture within its borders, stating that agriculture led to famines and was not healthy. They benefited from agriculture indirectly, however, because they traded with allies in which agriculture was allowed.

Language and ethnic groups

Present-day Nama is uniformly Poswa-speaking, with only 5% of Namans preferring to speak any language other than Poswa. This is the strongest expression of the so-called Poswob pattern of settlement: religious and linguistic homogeneity amidst racial diversity. Nama is very racially diverse, and in most of its territory, the many historical racial groups are isolated from each other, with intermediates found mostly in cities. Along the south coast, one finds the blonde, blue-eyed Maba people living just across the bay from the dark-skinned Waru[1] people; while in the mountains immediately north of these peoples one finds the very tall Ihhai people living just a few valleys away from the very short people of Gala.

North of the mountains, the population density is lower and people are less isolated from each other. Here, people are a blend of all four of the racial types found further south, plus a fifth group consisting of tall, dark-skinned people not closely related to the dark-skinned people found in the southwest. Here, there is a gradient with the dark-skinned people found near the eastern border with Tarwas and the smaller, lighter people found further west where they border the rest of the Empire. However, all of these peoples consider themselves Poswobs and do not think of themselves as minorities.

In some ways Nama is thousands of years behind the rest of the empire and the people who live there blame the kings for keeping them locked in the past. Nevertheless, the quality of life is better than many other areas, and few Namans are interested in immigrating elsewhere.


Nama is sometimes considered the Poswob homeland as it has the least cultural influence from outside, and therefore best preserves the original culture of the Poswobs. It is also the only state in Pupompom (where Pupompom is defined as "the north") that has coastline on the tropical Raba Ocean. (the rest of the Raba ocean is considered "the south").

Climate and geography

Very diverse. The hottest, coldest, wettest, driest, and windiest climates in Nama are found in the south. The northern areas can be thought of as an average of all of the other climate types, and even in the far north, winters do not become as cold as those in the mountains of the south.

The northern part of Nama is called Pupompom. The borders of Pupompom are not strictly defined, but they include the mountains and usually also the small strip of land along the southern coast that is part of the Naman state of Dživžwata.[2]

Climate

Nama has a variety of climates. It is the most climatically diverse state, per unit area, in the Empire. However, this is mainly just because it has the highest mountains, so temperatures can range from subpolar to tropical in a shorter distance than anywhere else. Even so , the climate northj of the mountains is very different from the climate to the south. Northern Nama (which is where ther capital is, and is the part that borders the rest of the Empire) is like Nebraska or eastern Wyoming, though it does not have Nebraska's leeside low phenomenon, because the mtn range is primarily east-west. Thus storms cant appear "out of nowhere" the way they do in the Great Plains. Even so, the ocean is not all that far away, so the precipitation is moderate and peaks during winter. On the other hand, because the mtn range is east-west, cold waves can't just skip over Nama the way they skip over the area imeddsiately east of the Rocky Mtns. (e.g. Cheyenne WY is warmer than Des Moines e3ven though its 6000ft up, and "should" be about the same temp as Fairbanks Alaska.) Thus northern Nama is temperate despite being at about 30N.

The south coastr is about 150 miles long. Though its inhabitants consider it to be tropical, and tropical plants such acoconuts fgrow there, it is the coldst "tropical" coastline in the woirld because it is the futherst north. Thus, pine apples will not grow here; they myst be imp[otted from nearby lands that do not have freak cold spells in winter.


Pine trees are the most common type of tree, even in the warmest areas; this is because it is difficult for palm trees from other tropical areas to reach the Naman coast.

Nama is the most mountainous region of the empire, and in some ways resmembles the ancient homeland of the Lagi where every village is different and the central government is extremely weak.

Cities
Cities
City elev Lon Lat H L H L Comments
Pubiapep 84 36 28 63 51 80 67 generally warmer than that during winter ... the avg is due to cold spells
Pworše 4391 38 32 39 23 83 55 wet due to upslope snow, but not leeside low


Geographical influences on culture

Nama's motto is Pwopup rybaebum pembap buswawa; taep rybaebum foppap buswawa. Translated, this means "For wisdom, look to the elders; for faith, look to the children."

Since Nama is majority Poswob, and the local governments of many ethnostates are seen as being largely about interpretation, the Naman government is seen as largely unnecessary to the national government in Blop, "because they're basically just us" and the Blop government can rule the people directly. Nama has for a long time participated in the "Naman Dissenter Union" (Bybabumbem) where different governments that disagree about politics are still allied with each other and will cooperate militarily.

Notes

  1. ↑ Fulloh
  2. ↑ Pempanada.
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