The Nation

4/14/1037 AF

The Nation: a conglomeration of small townships, cities, outposts, and forts. There is a war happening, the Nation is being attacked and invaded. The central government is called the Core, which consists of a Commander (the leader of the Nation) and the WASPs (which are government officers and officials.) The Core is to be respected and revered as the highest authority. The more central you go into the Nation, the more devoted the people are to the Core (and the more money they all have.) The Nation came into being when the villages first banded together to protect themselves from the wilderness. Explorers from the old countries came to seek freedom and refuge and formed the Nation. Many generations later, the Nation has developed into a large country of separate villages combined under one leader. The Commander was originally more of a village leader but as the population grew, so did their power. You rarely see the Commander. You see their staff, their ministers, but never them. They are merely a figurehead with all the power that us mortals are not supposed to see. Everything seemed to be okay until the Siege. A group of rebels started a revolution that tore a few townships from the grasp of the Core. It seemed to be a valid threat to their power. The WASPs were scared, the villagers could only watch and see what happened next. It started in the outermost townships before spreading more inland. It seemed that the Siege was a war the Core could not win. They were faced with the Outer Wars from the beasts surrounding the Nation and an uprising of their own people. But when all seemed lost, the Siege ended. There was no more fighting. No one knew where these rebels came from or where they went. The Core tried to ignore it and push it all under the rug but the villagers started to call it the Siege and talk about it in hushed tones inside their own homes. Suddenly, the Core was even more present than before, as if they were scared of more outbreaks of revolution. There have been small riots or protests but nothing to the level of the Siege. It was the revolution that failed, the revolution that should’ve won. But no one knows anything about it. It’s been almost twenty years since the Siege and it’s not taught officially in schools but we all learn over the years, especially in the outer townships, what it was and what it could’ve been.