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Full name: Merchant Republic of Segalimia
Type: Territorial state. A “republic of the estates”, mercantile republic.
Demonym: Segalimian, Seg
Description: A region with a unique history. One of
the smaller historical and natural regions of the local landmass, it
alternates between wind-swept coastal archipelagos and cold grassy
beaches and gently elevating hills and uplands with meadows and thick
forests in the interior. Sandwiched between Ursania, Lengelia and Metsämaa
and the seas to the east, modern day Segalimia has always been a
curious crossroad of several disparate ethnicities and language groups,
not to mention political power plays of surrounding mightier nations.
Though it had earned its independence in the preceding 250 years, it was
formerly the playground of virtually all its neighbours, from courting
by Metsämaan and Ursan nobility and traders, the efforts of Lokytian
knightly orders to keep their local fiefdoms and footholds in the region
on a tight leash, to avid “proclamations of cooperation and protection”
by Lengelia.
Real world frame of reference: The Baltic states, East Prussia
and all their historical antecedents from the Middle Ages to the
present day. Ironically enough, Segalimia also has a bit of a “Republic
of the United Netherlands from the 17th century” vibe to it, albeit with
a Baltic/Ugrofinnic (and occassionally vaguely-Slavic) flavour. Oh, and
yes, “Segalimia” is a play on OTL Semigallia.
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