Taryte (Later)
Another state of Ogili that extends from about 13N to 32N and is mostly highlands, so although it ius warm, it is not as warm as Amade, which is further north. On the other hand, Amade has a more equal population distribution, whereas Taryte has most of its people in the lowland tropical rainforests.
Climate and geography
Taryte has a wide variety of climates. The northern area is a plateau where temperatures below 0°F are common in winter, both in the north and the south, because the land slopes downward as it rolls north. However, even with the effect of altitude, the climate is generally coldest at the northern border around 32N and milder, especially in winter, moving southward.
Outside the plateau the climate is hot and dry nearly everywhere. The mountains here face the wrong way to benefit from the monsoon rains coming from the tropics, so even areas at low latitudes where one might expect a strong wet season are deserts whose people rely on rivers flowing from the mountains for their water needs.
Demographics
Taryte is very racially diverse, as it has a long history of settlement and resettlement. Each of the three primary "new" races (Khulls, Poswob, Thaoa) are repsented, as are all of the "old" races except the paleo-Moonshines. However, like most places on planet Teppala, this is largely due simply to the large geographic extent, and there has not been a great deal of internal migration, nor of interracial mixing.
One thing that sets Taryte apart from other states, however, is that its subdivisions are not based on ethnic identity; i.e. they do not have the 100+ "colonies" of Pusapom wherein every ethnic majority has the right to secede from a larger state with a different ethnic majority. The subdvisions are based on geographiuc control only.
Races and Demographiuc groups
- Kxêl
THis is a xcover term for the aboriginals of the southern areas where most of popluation ,ives. They do not have a unified tribal identitiy of their own, nor a common language, so essentially anyone not descended from recent (<7000yrs) immigrants is called Kxêl. They have been enslaved for about 7000 years, but have recvently been fried. They took the lnaughae of their previous occupiers, Lobexoŋô, and became slavemasters themselves.
The Kxêl people dont believe in ethnic divisions, so they never created one of their own, and anyone can move from one state to another and become a member of a new "tribe". Additionally, imarriages from Poswobs, Tarises, and even Lobexoŋô all can live as Kxêls. This is one reason why therur population survived and even swelled as other aboriginal groups slowly became outnuberd. However another reason is simply that a tropical rainforest is difficult for outsiders to conquer because there is no way to dominate the economy via monopolizing food production.
- Tarise
Only about 6% is Tarise people. Their heyday was around the year 3700, more than five thousand years ago. They contracted to just an unreachable hjighland playeau but recently began to move southjwards . The Tarise people are actually descendants of Saks who migrated across the mounmtains from the east, never touchiung the tropical lowlands. They created a vicious empire and killed 80% of their own people before they were overthrown. They still survive, but like 3700, they stick to the highlands, mostly Nippon. Although the state of Nippon has much power in the lowlands, it is not the Tarises that are in charge any longer.
- Lobexoŋô
This is historically the ruling class above all the others. They enslaved Poswobs and Kxêls for thousands of years. When they finally relqinquished power, the Kxêl people took power and kept enslaving Poswobs, but did not harm the Lobexoŋô as the Lobexoŋô were still economically superior.
- Poswobs
Scattered throughout the empire,. In Nippon, they are a majority, but Nippon is so sparsely populated that the small Poswob minority in the tropical rainforest vastly outnumbers the Nipponese Poswobs.
- Pabaps
Unlike most places, Pabaps here kept their identity separate from Poswobs and still speak primarily in Pabappa. They live mostly in small colonies, but these are not politically recognized, so there simply exist towns along the coast that are mostly or entirely Pabappa-speaking.
The War
Taryte has fought in man ywars. The most recent was against Pusapom in the late 7700s, where they fought against Pusapomn. The cause of the war was that when the occupying power released them from slavery, the resulting new upper class did not unenslave the Poswobs, so the Pusapom army invaded to elesase them. They lost, because they were in a weak position, so Taryte counterinvaded Pusapom and occupied the southern coast of Nama. The Namas did not fight back since they had nothing to hain. They also did not help Taryte, however, because htey were weak in man yways and did not want the to lose help of the rest of pusapom. The Tarytean army did not invadcre north because the mountains were too didffficult to svale (the y couyld go south)
Districts
This is the term for the subdvisions of the state of Taryte. Though some are quite gigantic, they are governmentally small, having only the power of a subset of a state which is itself nominally subject to the Ogili Empire. Nippon is the northernmost district, inhabited mostly by Poswobs, but even the Poswobs only occupy a tiny part of the area. Most of it is desert with very little water or plant life. The lisptick red areas are those inahbited primary by Poswobs and Pabaps,
