Älemsi Negdel
Älemsi Negdel is a large island nation in northern Novaris. It is located nearest to Kuthernburg to the southeast and Cryria's Duchy of Tynam to the west. Its long coastlines run along the Salish Sea, the Nosalis Sea, the Loopian Sea, and the Barrington Strait. It has a population of twenty-million, and its capital and largest city is Amrakh Gazarvh.
Älemsi Negdel | |
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| Capital and largest city | Amrakh Gazarvh |
| Official languages | Too Many |
| Demonym(s) | Älemsi |
| Government | Semi-tribal confederacy with a restricted monarch |
• Yul | Yul Saran |
• Speaker of the Grand Mazhilis | Torbiashi Tuyuideger |
| Legislature | Grand Mazhilis |
| Formation | |
• Formation of the Line of Yul | 700 BC |
• Initial Unification | 1200 AD |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,852,908 km2 (1,101,514 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 20,000,000 |
• Density | 7.01/km2 (18.2/sq mi) |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $600 billion |
• Per capita | $30,000 |
| Currency | Tenge |
| Driving side | left |
| Internet TLD | .an |
History
Ancient History
The island of Älemsi is believed to have first been settled by human hunter-gatherer groups from Novaris some 3.3 million years ago. Many of these early tribes survived as subsistence nomads in the vast interior steppes, while others eventually established sedentary settlements based on fishing and limited agriculture along the coastlines. These groups were fiercely independent of each other, and where sheer distance and harsh wilderness could not separate them, wars over herds and grazing lands were a common affair. For much of Älemsi history the sole unifying factor was in the form of their shamanic religious traditions. A rudimentary priesthood played an important role in the early governance of and diplomacy between tribes, aided by the fact that it was commonly held anathema to harm or hinder such figures. At the center of these early religious traditions was the Line of Yul, which ruled over the first fixed settlements on the island which served as neutral grounds and early centers of urban services for those travelling the wilds. Though the actual origins of the Yul and of Älemsi shamanism as a whole extend to beyond the first written histories on the island, the dynasty served as the primary religious figures on the island, and were at least nominally owed a measure of obeisance from the various Älemsi polities.