Overview

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Satellite Map of Thelenassy

The Borunate of Thelenassy, commonly referred to as just Thelenassy, The Borunate in reference to its government apparatus, and by its formal union-name with its brotherly confederation with Hignausea, Borunkogausea*, is an autocratic state governed by the Borun, who holds holy right to rule and nearly supreme executive authority. "His Domain" lays at the very southern lands on the East Osean Subcontinent, bordering the Solarian Alliance to the northwest, bordering its union-state brother of Hignausea to the northeast, and the Emerald Ocean to the east, south, with the continued Sahaldna Gulf to its west. The nation is famous for its longstanding and complex political structure, its national religion, Zyfaqir, its desert and maritime histories, and ways of life and specialties of its regions. It is home to many distinct peoples and languages that inhabit the countryside's and remain within populous urban centers. The Government is build around facilitating, amending, and creating the desires, laws, and wants of the Borun and Thelenassy. It's many Councils and Concerts create a web of influence and power that remains in check by the Borun Nadir Nasrallah II. The nation's population of 143.85 million inhabitants live in general decency however in strife by desert scarcity, isolation, and poverty. Alfaziria stands as the nation's most populated and renown city as its capital, and acts as a testament to Thelenassian Culture, History, Affluence, and Resilience.

S U M M A R I Z E D H I S T O R Y

Thelenassy has roots dating back all the way to 210 B.C. with the rise of the First Borunate that spanned much of the Subcontinent and laid the foundations for the contemporary Thelenassy State. It was a Tatar-like state, with a Tribal King that ruled through a wide range of connections and resources. For Hundreds of Years it's leaders, known as Boruns, reigned as kings over vast kingdoms, which went through cycles of excess and also collapse that ended up picking apart the Ancient Borunates until the last Great Borunate fell in 752. Cities and fiefdoms broke their pledges to the Sovereign and started the long cycle of competing for resources and trade between each other. With the onset of modern naval technology in the 1400s and explosion of mercantilism, the Outer Gulf Coast was a hotbed of activity, laying in the middle of several different major trade routes. City-states along the Coast flourished, with long caravans and routes winding through the desert laid the foundations for the cities that slowly lead deeper into the Zaragosyan. The larger cities sparked the rise of the Gulf States, factions that expanded beyond the home city's walls. Alfaziria, a dying city along the Inner Gulf Coast was revived and became a hub of early Thelenassian Art, Design, Culture, and Trade.

A longstanding ancient status quo was installed throughout the latter half of the 1000s, with the Teliquinnen, a formerly nomadic society that settled on the inner gulf coast during the early 1200s, expanding in power and in dominance over the southern coast of the subcontinent. Having a kinder climate and vast agricultural harvests, their population exploded and go on to use modern equipment and ways of life to subjugate the other peoples of the desert. The Nomadic Hayimbic people were shepparded into a southern expanse of the Zaragosyan with many assimilating into the Nasitelic Gulf State. While the northern reaches of the desert were shielded by impassable rough mountains, the southern parts were more docile and taken upon. A proclamation of a new Divine Borunate with an explicitly religious undertone was formed, with many of its earliest decades spent wiping out insubordination across the Lower East Osean Continent and invading once Borunic lands.

It's new venture in conquest for the sake of uniting lands of the former Borunates saw it fight harsh wars through the northern mountains and more or less ended with the installment of a fake king over the Aphrani people and longstanding . Despite its hard-fought conquest elsewhere fitting of a healthy empire, the nation itself, it went through times of malnutrition and crisis, and prosperity and exigence. Nasitelic rule was christened by Religious Paranoia and fevorance, the Rise of the Merchant / Trader Class in Society, Technological keep-up with more affluent states of the world, and the creation of the Thelenassian National-Image, separate from the Ruling Nasitelics; an identity that could claim to be something despite ethnic backgrounds. Thelenassian travelers traveled across the world and returned home in a single lifetime, and kept pace with the world as technology progressed. The Nasitelic Borun lived in luxury and grandeur. However with the discovery and explosion of oil in the late 1800s the country fell by its own hand into explosive greed with oil barons lighting ablaze conflict in the streets. The last decades were spent with social strife and ideological conflict, with the Jurarara Rebellion tearing the Nasitelic Borunate down in 1908, once more splitting the cities into local fiefdoms with widespread chaos.

With the Abdication of Usef, the Last Nasitelic Borun, the House of Nasrallah's Abil took the mantle of power in Alfaziria and brutally established his firm grasp on the capital. From that, his State reconquered land with no regard under ideas of reestablishing the Borunate. In 1921 he led the a great incursion and conquest of the Northeast Borderlands where tense relations last to this day with the native peoples like the Aphran and Gorjibal, retaking many lost states that formed the former mountainous cresent of the First Borunate's Border. Thelenassy saw a period of great reconstruction and the restoration of the natural order of life through desperate means, using marshal law and an iron fist to clamp down on dissent. After the Heavy Decades he ruled as a benevolent tyrant well into the 1950s before being replaced by his second son, Nadir, who further strengthened the crown but sought much-needed social and infrastructural reform. Bringing life and connection to the sands of the Zaragosyan and across the Coast better cement the shaken Borunate. Nadir ruled until the two-thousands where he left the throne to his son Nadir II: a devout traditionalist with good ambition and a healthy mindset.

Since the turn of the century, Nadir II has led the nation with confidence, maintaining the status quo and bringing down upon his power in the time that it was needed. Thelenassy has seen an emergence in some regard, having joined the Sibylline Confederacy, an alliance spearheaded by the local hegemon, Gothgraff and Lilium, and soon found itself conjoined with the State of Hignausea as Brotherly States in Borunkognausea. The government is well regulated and kept in order, with Agents of the Borun and Ceremonialists in mind. Eagerly so he lead a conquest of the Greater Qitoum region beyond the Crescent Border, who range far from the deserts of the Zaragosyan in an attempt to bring much needed resources into the drying palms of the Thelenassians.

G E O G R A P H Y

From west to east, Thelenassy consists of a plethora of climate and topographical zones. From deserts to mountains, the physical geography has grown to encompass swathes of land throughout the very southern tip of East Osea. Although variation exists throughout the Borunate, Thelenassy is known for its arid landscapes and lackluster precipitation. In the very west stands the Mediterranean-like highlands of the Inner Gulf with is the birthplace of the Borunate. Its arid-resistant temperate grasses allow for the harvesting of some crops and sprouting of more varieties deciduous fauna and flora thats the population centers of the west. While this arid but temperate zone carries south along the coast, the inner portions delve into the similar high plateaus, which act as a natural border to the sandy winds of the Zaragosyan desert to the east.

The arid Emerald winds batter the edge of the subcontinent, and have torn the landscape to ruin, withering it into a sandy desert filled with everchanging sun scorched dunes that can tower tens of meters tall but never more. The vast interior of the Zaragosya is far isolated from the rest of the country, while the southern bank and its coasts offer near-ocean habitability. In total, the desert and its surrounding airlands make up over half of the nation's total landmass. In the very north of the desert and reaching around to the high plateau near the Solarian border is the Aphrikii mountain range with its arid slopes and vast deposits of year-round glaciers. As the Zaragosyan can be said to be isolated, the northern Aphrikii's are said to be impassable. Flattening out as it stretches south near the coast, eroded by the Arid Emerald Wind, the eastern side of the Aphrikii's shares some similarity with the lands of the west.

The very south of the Hygiri peninsula consists of rocky dunelands, and gets more soiled and temperate as it heads north into higher altitudes. A band of Mediterranean climate-lands wraps like a band over a flattened plateau, before dissipating higher into more wooded and colder areas that sprout more deciduous and soon boreal trees. The lands of the Thelenasstic northeast are the most foreign to the rest of the nation, with green mountain slopes and similarly rough terrain. Coniferous forests conver much of the distant territories, with the Yazline peninsula and its decidious forests remaining barely connected to the rest of the Borunate through the city of Xhisil. Off the coast, The Fallahwa'haren Islands consist of three islands that lay eeriely similar to the western Gulf and the similar disconnected island of Mustanqalea.

Many rivers wind through Thelenassy but wane, wax, and can entirely disappear as the state goes through the seasons of a year. Unlike higher-latitude nations that experience four seasons, Thelenassy's equatorial climate gives it two; a dry season and a wet season. The wet season can bring about torrential rain and can last anywhere from five to six months, but is overshadowed by the dry season, where no rain can fall at all throughout the half-year period; which is particularly brutal with the Borunate's desert climate and zoning. In the Northeast, this problem is nonexistent, as they remain damp in continental boreal forests and in the fertile peninsulas.

Satellite Map of Thelenassy with an overlay of Provinces and Province Capitals

G O V E R N M E N T

The Borun, Nadir Nasrallah II, was born by the former in 1979, and ascended to the mantle of Borun at the young age of 21 at the turn of the twenty-first century by his rapidly unhealthy father. He is a man of normal build, with tanned desert skin, and strong facial hair. Although he is seen exclusively in a positive light by the adorned people of his country, he remains a figure with a hidden totalitarian fist within his many Concerts and Councils, and has a retained eye for the occult.

The Borunate is a collective term in regards to everything under the rule of the Borun; the name given for a Ruler of the particularly arid Southern tip of East Osea throughout history. Since as far back as two-thousand two-hundred years ago, the mantle of Borun has been passed from father to son and dynasty to dynasty. The most recent of which dynasty comes from the Nasrallah family, who ascended to the position shortly after the Juraara Rebellion, where Abil Nasrallah, Grand Father of the current Nadir, led a detachment of Borenial Forces to the capital; long having took part in the background schemes of the Nasitelic Borunate. The Position of Borun itself holds near-absolute power within the dominion of the Borunate, and is only limited by a few motions that lay vested in the powers the Golden Court. At his word, he may create or change any law that he sees fit, although extensive networks of Congresses, Councils, and Concerts fill in the gaps left in a government absorbed into its Executive position of power.

The Role of the Borun is one of supreme exigence. The current, Borun Nadir Nasrallah II, remains highly elevated in the eyes of the public as a religious, cultural, and political icon and figurehead, he remains closely tied to the wellbeing of the country whether it be in spirit or in civil support. In such, he balances everchanging scales of fortune as he continues to push Thelenassian and Borunkogausean power forward while ensuring the safety, security, and success of his people. The Borun has a surrounding Concert of High Viziers, whom act as his personal hands in tying the nation together as a lineage of advisors, a Concert of High Ministers, whom preside over their delegated ministries and adjacent affairs, and the Concert of the Militarum, who oversee the maintaining of the Borenial Shield that is the Thelanassian Borenial Armed Forces. Within the vanguard that is the Golden Court, who's members are elected by an undauntable Concert of Low Viziers from across the Pillars of Governance, it acts as a last-stand against Borenic decision making that could be integrally harmful to the state and its people. Although able to be Veto'd by the Borun, it draws the process into a long review and allows for ample reconsideration.

Although an extension of the Unitary power installed within the Borun, the nation is carved into twenty four separate Provinces* that make up the Borunate. Ranging from deserts to boreal mountains, these subdivisions act as regional organizers of the nation's territory. They are presided over by Rabrads, who are handpicked by the Borun himself. They maintain the power to install small regional changes but otherwise bend the knee to the rhetoric and legislature coming out of the center of Borenic Governance in the Capital, Alfaziria.

C U L T U R E

Demographic Chart of Thelenassy

Green - Teliquinnen
Cyan - Hayimbic
Khaki- Aphrani
Orange- Mezojybi
Purple- Gorjani
Red - Rosmani
Yellow - Qitum
Gray - Other

The Thelenassian Culture is one hard to define, with a plethora of differences, regional discrepancies, and mediums of culture varying across Thelenassy and the Zaragosyan. Urban and Rural ways of life cut deep in defining interaction, with the urban and populated cities of the Emerald Coastline creating a greater blend of ethnicities, mediums, and practices that conglomerate to create an individualist urban setting; most people being considered cold and uncaring, those roads that aren't explicitly marketplaces and abustle of traffic found quiet and filled with glares. Nonetheless hospitality shortly after becoming acquaintances is a common-custom, so too is the bringing of foods and luxury goods to friends in any case of venturing over. Many festivals and events are held throughout the year that draw people from their homes and into the streets with live partying, sales, feasts, and games. Urban life is described as crowded, with massive favellas and apartments smushed together in effort to limit travel times under the blazing East Osean Sun. In the nicer and temperate countryside, you can find the purest form of the Teliquinnen people, some of which maintain customs dating back to their pseudo-nomadic days. These people are described as hardy, but friendly.

The East is filled with a mesh of more abstract and foreign ethnicities absorbed into the Borunate. The once-vast Hayimbic people of the Zaragosyan Desert are a shadow of their nomadic past, with little remaining true tradition. The Aphrani's of the Aphrikii range call the mountains home, and have little material wealth but make up for it in resolute nature. The mountains shape their lifestyles, similar to the Mezojybi of the southern ranges, which rely off the watershed of mountains to support their population. The Aphrani's and Mezojybi's are famous for their storytelling and dawned and dead ancient histories. Lastly, the Gorjibal people and their alien culture reside in the Thelenassian northeast in much cooler climates and conditions. They speak an entirely different language, are a religious minority, and are fervent on being Gorjibal, and not Thelenassian, just like the Rosmani. Lesser so in the northeast corner, the Qitum people are a large and quiet minority within the Borunate, who exist in isolation in their quadrant of the region's boreal forests and have a favorable history with the Borenial Throne despite their recent acquisition. Together, the east of Thelenassy is a hotbed of both intercultural facilitation and xenophobia. One continuum across most cultures is the recognition and praise of the Borun, while in the mountains of Gorjibal he lays a heated figure.

Zyfaqir*, the belief that the prophet Mukhtaar received the holy word and scripture from Zuraara, remains highly practiced within Thelenassy; with its historical exportation to the region in the early 1400s as the Nasitelic Gulf State went through an early golden age. However special to the Emerald Ocean, is a particularly celestial and naturalistic take on Zuraara. Nonetheless, since the Rule of the Borun is of holy right, and by law, the religion plays a part in the law of the land, it has remained relevant and widely followed. Religious Zsari law, perception of phenomena, and culture carry through to daily life; from food limitations to sexist bans on clothing and lifestyles.

Other religions exist within the Borunate, which abides by Religious toleration for religions within its bounds as long as they pay the proper taxes. These religions include Tentsüüism, a bitheistic-balance religion hailing from Utociste-Zeme, where the Qitum people migrated from in their histories, the sister religion of Atmatism, the animist Faiths of the six Hayimbic tribes, the Orthodoxy religion of the Gorjani people; another Abrahamic religion cousin to Zyfaqir which holds a heated relationship with the dominant faith, and many other minority faiths and practices.

A R M E D F O R C E S

A squad of Thelenassian army forces on their way
to practice CQB training at Base Sumrad
in Western Khaediyra

A Thelenassian Aircraft carrier gets at-sea
replenishment from a tanker within
the Emerald Ocean

Three desert Thelenassian UK-26 Fighter Jets
stationed at Base Jurani in the Zaragoysan
prepping to take off

There to ensure the security and sovereignty of the Borunate is the Thelenassian Borenial Armed Forces* which act as the unified military branches. With the Borun as it's Commander-in-Chief and has the divine say, a hierarchical military structure works beneath him that guarantees smooth running and a hastily scrambled responses. The Thelenassian Borenial Armed Forces has characteristically known to be indifferent, with a heavy budget but decent force but limited by the nation's geography and inadequate infrastructure in far regions. In total it is comprised up of employed and active 655,000 soldiers between the current branches with around 3,150,000 total soldiers registered and available to be called up in times of true conflict. The Thelenassian Army, Navy, and Air Force are all equal in comparison, with professional training that compares to other neighbor's troops and expertise. The Thelenassian Navy is held in high regard, with the nation's historic ties to mercantilism and the wars fought over goods and Emerald Ocean dominance in the early Borunates. Utilizing it's geographic location, Thelenassy watches a sizeable portion of its greater region and especially the Strait headed into the Sahaldna Bay.

The Navy is held to subpar standards, with a prioritization of numbers and absolute firepower available over total discipline and effectiveness, and are known for brash and aggressive tactics like the wooden man-o-war's of old, however continue to harness their full capability with the influence of brotherly military strategicness and readiness, unofficially under the wing of the more proficient Hignausean Navy. The joint-nature of the Thelenassian and Hignausean fleets massively expand range, ship-count, and deployment capability, however docile in an attempt to keep trade flowing and lessen problems with outside powers to a minimum. Nonetheless intercontinental affairs lay freshly on the table with trouble rapidly abrew on other Emerald-Ocean continents.

The Army and Air Force have their own reservations, being ripe with favoritism, regional discrepancies, and corruption, yet function as normal despite the cracks in its armor. The Army is well trained and uses modern and late-20th century equipment and tactics, and have plenty of specialization and terrain awareness, with Thelenassy's gaping desert interior and more populous and rocky coastal regions. The effective use and escaping of mechanized and fast-moving warfare is key in Thelenassian defensive doctrine, as well as using the desert against the enemy in the way of starving them out and cutting important logistical lines while the nation itself is reliant on the coastal roadways. In recent decades the Special Forces branch has seen growth in expectation of greater action of clandestine fronts.

In opposition to abiding by the conventional laws of war, Thelenassy has reserves or more deadly and unconventional armaments, including effective uses and modes of carry of biological and pathological threats, poisons, and bombs to be used at the utmost need. Thelenassy is also in possession of nearly a hundred nuclear warheads born from the nation's continued Nuclearlization efforts that has blossomed under a joint-project with the Hignauseans that has grown the nuclear-military apparatus.

So too does the Borun's foreign diplomacy help aid the defense of the Thelenassian state, with his involvement in affairs that have established moderately warm relations and military ties with few nations across the local region. Importantly of all, the Hignauseans through the Unionstate of Borunkogausea, which over-doubles the available war command in surefire use. So too with strength comes enemies, and the deciding vote towards joining the Imperial Realm's 'Sibylline Confederacy' has opened up new avenues of power and opportunity, but brought nations into the fold that yet to have interest in the Borunate, but will have their time as the Gothilum Hegemon takes grasp of the subcontinent.

E C O N O M Y

The Rule of the Borun is guaranteed by his wealth and estate that act as the Great Fund behind his ambitions that expand beyond the ruling circles of the Thelenassian nation. The ruling Borun Nadir Nasrallah's vast oil estate is the main driving force behind his extragovermental ventures, yet has power of the nation's equally impressive treasury and a hand in the nation's well defined banking structure. Hundreds of Oil and Natural Gas pumps litter the impressive Zaragoysan Desert, with sectors of profit going to the betterment of the nation's infrastructure and people. However he has his hands in much more, such as the nation's formal and underground arms dealing, the drug trade, and everyday business like production of Iron, Nickel, and other mineral goods in the northern Aphrikii range, the Fishing industry across the coast, and more.

While long-standing economic relationships could be considered lacking to some, Thelenassy's few deep trade partners have stable, concrete connections to not only Thelenassian goods but Borenial Governance; the Borun always making sure that trade, especially it's lavish oil economy, remains a healthy and temperate source of money in the modern economy. The lesser economies of Thelenassy include Textile makings, the production of many glasses, exotic goods native to only Thelenassy, electronics, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, arid agricultural products, mineral goods, fishing, lumber, etc... The longevity of the nation's economy is of utmost importance, with the nation's currency, the Borunkogausean Balqis (BB') being valued near the Osean Standardized Unit at 1 BB' for .69 OSU. Hignausea, the other Brotherly State within Borunkogausea, phased out its native currency in favor of the stronger Balqis after a near decade of integration, Nonetheless opening avenues for expansive growth in Hignausean markets.

Thelenassy's placement along the southern coast of the East Osean Subcontinent has allowed for the relative growth of its mercantilism sector, which has been a historic luxury of the Borunates. As a stopping point amidst the far-spanning Emerald Ocean, its central locale allowed for goods to reach from far and wide and vice versa. As time has progressed, the mercantilism industry has remained important to the wellbeing of the Emerald Coast, but has faded as ships can reach further than before, expanding the cracks in the Thelenassian economy.