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Full name: TBA.
Type: Territorial states and very rarely city states, various types of regimes (usually constitutional or absolutist monarchies, with some small republics and special status territories in a few locations).
Demonym: Lokytian, Lokytic, Lokyt
Description: Long a place of inner political struggle
and failed attempts at unification, the Lokytian realms remain divided
to this very day. But they have always been tied together by a shared
language (though with many dialects and accent variations), shared
cultural aspects, shared economic ties, shared bloodlines of their
nobles and monarchs, and often even shared political interests - over
here, alliances form, thrive and fall apart in a matter of decades.
Nowadays, the ancient Lokytian region has been firmly growing apart into
two dominant groupings, each distinguished as a power bloc with a
somewhat different ideology and approach, though ultimately not so
really different from its silent rival. The names of these power blocs -
Upper and Lower Lokytia - might be misleading to a person who doesn't
share the domestic understanding of traditional Lokytian geography. As
the Lokytian coastline is to the north and the uplands and mountains
keep rising as one goes south, Upper Lokytia is actually located in the
south, while Lower Lokytia is the one closer to the coast, located in
the north. Geographic and climatic differences have left a mark on
Lokytian historical, cultural and economic customs, with the south seen
as a birthplace of great scientists and thinkers*, but more laid back
and traditionalist, in contrast to the north, with its more collective
approach to research and development, more lively (some would say rabid)
fixation on trade and earning money, as well as a “what's modern and
progressive is good” attitude. Like Karantia, the specific regions of
the two Lokytias can vary wildly in development - from industrially
booming metropolises to almost fairytalish villages and towns where time
seems to have stopped centuries ago. The Lokytian realms are simply one
of the many places where chain mail and declining knighthood currently
coexist with primitive ironclads and frantically-drilled musketmen.
(* - yes, some of them were instrumental in the co-invention of the first practical aeronavs, together with their colleagues-engineers from Karantia)
Real world frame of reference: Think of Lokytia as
the lands of “Germany proper”, and period-wise, as being somewhere
between the early modern era (16th/17th century) Holy Roman Empire and
the Confederation of the Rhine or German Confederation
of the 19th century. Upper Lokytia is basically the southern and more
traditionalist/Catholic Germany of our world, while Lower Lokytia is
more open to massive reforms and development (both liberal and
authoritarian) and has a bit of a Protestant-style or Hansa-style work
ethic. Lower Lokytia also shares some elements with the real world's early modern Netherlands/Frisia/East Frisia and the Danish Empire at its height, as well as these same countries during the early 20th century.
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