Threazari

Threazari, officially the Unitary Threazari Republic, is a country in southwest Alutra. It lies on the north coast of the Abiyadi sea bordering Watan and Ovezia to the south and Ventora to the west. It has a densely populated arable south coast and eastern plateau and a large arid area in the central and north of the country, however it is split down the middle by an arable strip through the Tuthdijsa river and Tuthdijsa river valley running through the entire length of the country. It receives a large amount of precipitation year round and has therefore grown to throughout the centuries to become an lesser breadbasket of the north Abiyadi coast. It was late but did eventually industrialise and has since become a manufacturing hub and living standards have risen to one of the highest in the world.

Threazari has existed in some form for almost two thousand years, but only in its modern form for a thousand years, and even then the nation of Threazari was fundamentally altered in the 17th and 19th centuries so all and all Threazari could be considered a young nation or one of the oldest in the world depending on who you ask. It has been a been republic since 1699 and a socialist one since 1886. It faced hardship throughout the world wars but eventually rose to be a notably good place to live and work in the present day.

Prehistory
Humans most likely appeared in modern-day Threazari around 58 - 70 000 years ago. They were nomad hunter-gatherers living in the Tilargi mountains up until agriculture was introduced about 10 000 years ago. Most people stayed nomads while some moved to the edges and valleys inbetween the mountains, and they soon became the majority not through more people converting to stationary lives, but because of rapid population growth.

The first records of an entity similar to Threazari describes a loosely connected nomadic federation that existed in Tilargi mountains of modern day [PROVINCE]. The people who lived there were the Tilargi peoples, and they either formed small farming villages or they lived as nomadic hunter gatherers throughout the region. This country was more of a branch of Tilargi culture up until about 200 BC, when larger towns formed and spread out over modern day Threazari, with some city states even being formed on the coast.

City states
Some of these city states became quite rich and powerful through trade, due to the large amounts of crops that could be grown in the region. The large amounts of precipitation received year round and the fertile regions around the Tuthdijsa river made for beautiful conditions for crops such as wheat, beans or in some places rice.

The kingdom of Chararuz
Around this time (100 AD), some city states merged to form a small federation, called Chararuz, derived from “Coast of Rice”. The name was likely given to them by the still nomadic culture that existed in the mountainous eastern region. These nomads also formed small armies, to conquer smaller city states in the north, and these nomads would eventually merge with some of the Chararuz states, and later they would go on to form the predecessor to modern day Threazari. Most of these nomads eventually moved to the more mountainous eastern region, or they moved into the southern cities to lose their nomadic culture altogether. The ones who moved back to the mountains grew patio farms and lived largely independently from the new government, even while technically still being in the new kingdom's borders.

Eventually, Chararuz became a regional powerhouse, even rivalling the early Coastal federation of Ventora in trade and prosperity, and at this time, the Kingdom of Chararuz covered large portions of the modern day Threazari coast, large bits of the Tilargi mountain range, and a sizeable chunks of land on and around the Tuthdijsa river. The kingdom now gained large riches due to its advantageous trade position and ability to grow wheat and even rice along the coast and rivers. The people of Chararuz still held onto the belief that they were the true civilised descendants of the Tilargi, which wasn’t that extreme at the time, since many people still held firmly with the ancient Tilargi cultures.

First Challuyo - Threazari war
In an attempt to firmly ground this belief with the rest of the world, the kingdom set out to conquer more of their historic homeland of the Tilargi mountain range. During this time, many forts were built on the southern sides of the Tilargi mountains, even in parts of the mountains that the Coastal Confederation laid claim to at the time. This sparked the first Challuyo - Threazari war, and it went on from 281 to 282, and it resulted in a minor Chararuz victory, with them gaining a small mountainous province, north of modern day Watan, another small mountainous province on the modern day Ventoran border, as well as monetary compensation.

The first Challuyo - Threazari war wasn't a grand Chararuz victory, but the nation still went into a period of relative peace over the next three hundred years, and instead focusing on expanding northwards into the more mountainous plateaus of the northern bits of the Tuthdijsa River. To settle this land and claim them as their own, the kingdom recruited poor Tilargi people to settle the land, and thereby own it. This led to an influx of Tilargi imigration from their homeland, out to the rich arable plateaus. The Chararuz power in the region grew, until they could properly integrate it into the kingdom. By this time, some settlements grew as large and rich as the cities in the south, becoming the backbone of the Chararuz economy, supporting it via exports of crops from the plateaus and copper from the now Tilargi heavy northern mountains. The mountains of the north gained a substantial Tilargi population, as they liked the similarity to their homeland of mountains, and they still have a sizeable population there to this day.

Second Challuyo - Threazari war
When the 600:s came around, many of its neighbours had established themself as prominent powers, and Threazari had less control of their geopolitical situation. To compensate for this, the kingdom funded large territorial expansion on the plateau and the Tuthdijsa river. People flocked at the opportunity to gain cheap land, so the kingdom eventually ran out of money. This spiralled into a complete financial crisis, as the people of the north wouldn’t export crops if they didn’t get paid, and therefore export to the outside world halted.

The crisis diminished the kingdom's power over its lands, and the Coastal Confederation saw this as an opportunity to gain back their lost land. They ignited the second Challuyo - Threazari war. The war was a stalemate, and it didn’t help the economy one bit. It was a stalemate due to the fact that Challuyo dragged the federation into it, but they still didn't get the support they wanted. As the coastal federation had no interest in the lands the war concerned, they simply didn’t bother to reinforce Challuyo, henceforth the stalemate.

Collapse of Chararuz
A famine killed a large portion of the country’s southern population, and the kingdom fell into shambles. At this point of the 900:s, the country exploded into hundreds of small champion ruled principalities in constant war over land and resources. All champions wanted to be the one to take control of all the others, and while a lot of the smaller ones perished, a key few conquered. While all this waring happened, the kingdom essential paused in technological advancement, and due to this it stumbled behind for a while, even after the kingdom was reunited. One of the most powerful principalities was the Champion realm of Threazari. They originated in the mountainous [PROVINCE] province in the east, and they used the nomadic Tilargi to their advantage, and recruited them as warriors, and they steamrolled over their competition. Eventually, after 100 years of perpetual war, by the year 1022, the country had been reunited as the new Kingdom of Threazari. The warlord-period substantially changed Threazari beliefs and culture, making it more religious, peaceful and more Tilargi friendly. Unfortunately, much of these 100 years of war stagnated cultural, technological and economic progress in the nation, so for some years after the war life was bleak for the people of Threazari.