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.

14287 BC to 1400 AD

Nama's territory was within the range of the Repilian aboriginal people. Thus the only true aboriginals in Nama are Repilians. However, around the year 10,000 BC, pirates from Laba crashed into Nama and began enslaving Namans. At ifrst, they picked some Namans to rule the others, and blended with them to create a new ruling class. Even this, though, did not destroy Nama.

Much later, 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, preferring books and songs to spears and swords. 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. These people were not simply being virtuous: some really were malicious all along ,but figured if the soft, weak Repilians were at least given weapons, they would be far stronger than the colonists and any colonists who sided with them when they were weak would be given the most enviable rewards.

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.

1400 to 1989

Around the year 600 the boats arriving from Laba stopped. Intermittent settlement continued until around 1400, but by this time almost all of the settlers were from other areas of the continent of Rilola, not from Laba. The settlers had not actually defeated Nama; they had merely assimiliated culturally. The prehistoric government of Nama remained intact, which meant that Nama was still open to even more settlement from outside and was still a generally peaceful nation. They created the "Naman Dissenter Union" where different governments that disagree about politics are still allied with each other and will cooperate militarily.

Nama invites peoples from all around the world to move to Nama and participate in their government. They want to hear all points of view on all issues and become the best educated country in the history of the world. They have no ethnic majority and never have (the aboriginal Repilians did not consider themselves to be one tribe.)

Slavery still existed in Nama during this time, as it had for the least 11000 years. However it was mostly in the rural rolling hills of the far north, not the south coast where most of the civilization was.