Yenoan

The Sand Men

Around the great yenoan desert, in the city-states based around the rivers flowing down the mountains, a new culture developed, completely distinct from the rest of the world. Isolated by geography, and shaped anew by their environment. These people developed as a desert people, trading with each other, and growing food in the most impossible of circumstances, and while all logic and reason would call it impossible to thrive in a place such as this, the Yenoees did so anyway.

Ethnicities

There are five groups in the yenoan culture. The main three are western, eastern and northern Yenoan.
Western Yenoan Culture originated from a population of humans who migrated to the desert basin through the mountains, during the stone age, and then settled around the rivers.
Eastern Yenoan Culture originated from a population of humans who migrated here via the northern marshes, roughly around the same time.
These two groups developed independently for many centuries, until the bronze age, when they first made contact and started the trade between them, which eventually led them to becoming a true trade confederacy. This caused cultural mixing, and the Ryendu language became dominant, after first becoming the trade language, and while now they all speak the same language, and have roughly the same culture, there is still an ethnic difference between Westerners and Easterners. Westerners have tight curly hair, and Easterners have straight hair, the shape of the face is also slightly different, although they all have almond-shaped eyes, and black hair, with the rest of their bodies being very low in hair, and the men often have trouble growing facial hair.
Northern Yenoan Culture developed when these lands were conquered from the Aneirnian tribes, and settled by a mixed population of western and eastern yenoans, these populations also include a smaller amount of Aneira genes, which makes their eyes rounder, and their faces hairier, the people here can have hair types ranging from curly to straight, depending on the exact makeup of their DNA.
The Onyef Culture developed when the Yenoans discovered the island, this island was uninhabited when they got to it, and thus, they were the first to settle it, and the population that emerged here is the most mixed of all, with a small amount of Aneira mixed in. Most people here have wavy hair and can grow beards, with their faces being distinctly Onyef-like, although more similar to the Eastern visage.
The Vilyanor Culture is the most recent, as this region was conquered from the Aneira rather recently, and although it was settled thoroughly by the Yenoans, there are still large native populations here, and they have not yet been fully mixed, those that are mixed have large amounts of Aneira DNA, and therefore look distinctly Vilyanorian. The even the language here has felt the Aneira influence, a many words for local things come from the local language.

Nation:
Yeno

Encompassed species

• Humans

Society

Due to their location, they have always had to work together to survive, to grow food, to trade with each other, so they have developed a culture where the group is always more important than the individual. Everyone has to do their part for the survival of the city, and neglecting your duties, either for petty of selfish reasons, or any other reasons for that matter, is considered greatly shameful.
It is also because of this that the Yenoees are very industrious. They work hard to produce and make things, and they are very good at coordinating these efforts for maximum efficiency. However, they are not the most mercentile of people, and most of what they make is traded in between city-states.
However, what is exported, is done so for a great price, because their unique and high-quality porcelain, and rare silks, are highly coveted by nobles from all over the world. 

Governmental History

They used to be a confederate republic of sorts, but somewhere along the line they were forced to integrate their institutions for the sake of survival, and they have been ruled as a single entity ever since, every now and then there is a revolution that overthrows the current dynasty, but they always energy united and stronger than ever, just with a new dynasty.