History of Nama

Nama is a very large state in the Poswob Empire that arose from an agreement signed by the rulers of the many independent kingdoms within it to trade sovereignty for military protection and economic benefits. Nevertheless, people in Nama live the freest lives of anyone within the entire Poswob Empire and in some remote areas the people do not even know they are living within a larger nation.

AD 0 to 2000

Nama's territory was within the range of the Repilian aboriginal people. Thus the only true aboriginals in Nama are Repilians. However, with the arrival of the many boats of Tapilula people after the asteroid impact in the year 0, Nama was among the first areas to be settled.

The Namans invited the settlers to start up colonies within Nama, as they had always traditionally been welcoming of outsiders even though they had not seen a boat from the islands of Laba in the last 26000 years. (The outsiders they were welcoming of were almost always other Repilian tribes.)

But the Tapilula settlers soon discovered that aboriginal Namans were a very peaceful people, with a poorly developed military, and little experience with outsiders. This meant that the colonists who killed the most Repilians would be the ones with the most room to grow. In response, some colonists sided with the Repilians, holding back the efforts of the more aggressive settlers by causing settlers to fight each other.

Outside of Nama, the Repilian people were generally more militarized, and these areas did not fall to Tapilula settlers nearly as easily, and in some cases were only eventually convered after several thousand years of peaceful intimate relations. This is how it came to pass that an area with extremely difficult terrain was settled by colonists before the flat lowlands to the east.