Jaragua

For most of Jaragua’s (ha-RA-gwa) history, Rahuri chiefdoms squabbled over the fertile island’s best fishing, mining, and agricultural sites. One hundred years ago, Théan ambition covered the island with profitable plantations and crowned them with a handsome port town, crowding the local Rahuri into the mountains. But when the Atabean Trading Company seized control of those plantations through lies and treachery, the Company added an ingredient crucial to realizing the island’s true productive potential: slavery.
The Company’s greed and violence worked countless Ifrians and Rahuri to death making Jaragua the Company’s single most profitable possession. Yet these captives, the most disenfranchised and vulnerable humans alive, developed an indomitable spirit which inspired many to mastermind daring escapes, then found runaway communities and support networks to extend freedom to their downtrodden comrades.
Before long, these Mawons—escaped slaves who declared war on the Company—organized an island-wide revolution, using superior numbers, brilliant strategy and raw determination to overwhelm Company security. An island of broken and beaten workers united to become one of the world’s most unlikely Nations, an Ifrian and Rahuri cultural crossroads and an incipient agricultural powerhouse guarded by an army which accomplished the impossible.
The Company doesn’t want you to know about Jaragua and its history. They’d have you believe slavery doesn’t exist in the Atabean, there was no revolt, and nothing of import happens on Jaragua. But the truth is that Jaragua is the Company’s greatest failure, a failure they will stop at nothing to tear down.

“Make no mistake, we are now in greater danger than ever. For now, we have something to lose.”

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Demonym

Jaraguan