Rumas (EthanConquistador's AHOW)

This page is about Rumas in Ethan's AHOW, for Spyro.con's version, see Rumas.

''It also contains some of Ethan's AHOW topics, specifically prehistoric, settings for the world, the wolf race, it should be moved to a new page. Some may even have content that will not appear in Ethan's AHOW and may be subjected to change.''

Rumas (Ruman: Rumae, Italian: Rumas/Ruma), officially called Kingdom of Rumas (Ruman: Rumae Kilvesche, Italian: Regno di Rumas) is a nation situated in Italy and South France (Occitania) (this will change over time as this is a rough concept). It is a highly developed nation and plays a role in the Congress of Rome and United Nations.

The nation spans over most of the Italian peninsula as an unified Italian nation but entirely not based off Italian culture. (WIP)

The Germanic Rumas was formed at the 6th century, made by an Ostrogoth named as 'Alaric' who refuses to be part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and sets up his own nation, then it conquers Italy and calls it Rumas. The Carolingian Empire tries to conquer Rumas, splitting Rumas again to Sicily or Sardinia. It plays a role of the First Crusade during 1002, taking over Tunis (Carthage). It's also responsible to have a pope inside the nation without being a theocracy.

It fell under Hungarian personal union, and then united into the Ruman-Hungarian Empire and collapsed after having a struggle with administration across most of Middle East and Caucasus. Rumas lost most of North Italy (until Genoa) to HGE (including the Archduchy of Austria), and slowly being influenced by Germans. In the Fourteenth century, the Ruman conquest of Austria and Switzerland starts as the Ruman-Austrian War, where they have created a duchy named as the Ruman Kingdom of Austria.

Etymology
The word Rumas deprives from the Ruman word Rumae which literally meant to be 'Ruman'. Rumae Kilvesche would've known as 'Ruman Kingdom'.

History
Main article: History of Rumas

Prehistoric
Main article: Prehistoric (Rumas)

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Roman Empire
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Early Years
Main article: The Dark Ages (Rumas)

During a rebellion in 513, a group of poor people led by a militia attacked the Ostrogoths while the Byzantine Empire invades the Ostrogoths, due to poor defence in North Italy, they gain their independence by 529 after the Ostrogoths are exhausted from the war with lack of soldiers to fend off the rebellion. The militant is named Alaric who died in 529, converted to Chalcedonian Christianity during his death, his son was Arian and Arianism took over Rumas until he converted to his father's religion in 531.

Religion was still a problem, there has being many Germanic followers, until 570, where they were converted to Chalcedonian. Order was slowly being restored and all Arian traces were brought down.

Union with Hungary
Around 1140-ish, they formed Ruman-Hungarian Empire that is almost similar to the Roman Empire with additional parts of Arabia and Persia in it's extent. It was then dismantled after cultural uprisings in provinces but retains the union until 1282. For the map (spoilers): http://i.imgur.com/Ske6q4v.png

Sibegol Invasion
Rumas has no intervention of this such invasion, while helping Hungary in a war. The Sibegol Horde then collapsed by around the end of the 13th century, with the Baltorusian Khanate (a Balto-Mongol ethnicity who overrun most of the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine and some of Russia), The Golden Horde, Changatai, Ilkhanate and Yuan (or possibly another one, still a rough concept). (WIP)

Rise of Rumas: Part I
Contains information that might not be implemented in AHOW

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Flora and Fauna
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Provinces
Rumas is divided up to 28 mainland administrative regions (39 if it has all of their claimed territory, which is called 'Greater Rumas') and 8 municipalities (including the capital). Each is led by a Kausche (for administrative regions) which acts similar to dukes as if the nation was feudal. This includes, note that the table is somehow a WIP and the map:

Climate
The climate has being cooler than our timeline, winters are longer in North Rumas, not even the Sahara desert is hot enough. In the north, the average temperature is around 8°C in summers and -18°C in winters, this was due to lesser industries, which causes the dominant species in Europe, North Africa, North America and Asia more comfortable.

The capital has lesser rainfall because of cooler temperatures during winters, means that the temperature in Rumas is around 15°C in summers and -7°C in winters.

The closer to the equator, the more hotter it gets to around 25°C, the most hottest recorded area is around 38°C in 1961. Europe, Siberia and Canada experiences the coldest weather in the northern hemisphere and South Argentina, New Zealand and Tasmania in the southern hemisphere. North Europe has winter temperatures of -31°C and summer being -12°C, as global warming continues, the temperatures will rise and the winter will push into the poles, but less industrialisation means it would take a long time to heat Earth and wait for hundred millions of years.

Laws
It does not have any laws of other ideas, instead they rely on their own laws. The country should only allow permament residents and citizens to speak Ruman, many language schools have being closed, foreigners (excl. tourists) are forced to speak Ruman or get fined for 200 fraci.

Elections
It may seem to have little or no election to the head of state, but there is an election on regional areas of Rumas. The elections are almost predominantly elected by few families, with 21% of the candidates being not part of those families. (WIP)

Foreign Relations
Rumas had maintained some relations to fascist governments, it still maintains relations with almost all of the countries (except Muslim ones as they think Rumas is a terrorist organisation) and 30 embassies established in foreign nations at a slow rate. Some nations terminated the diplomatic relations with Rumas because they have being designated as a terrorist organisation or fearing that they will take over the world.

It is part of the Pact of Christiania (also known as the Pact of Oslo or the Alliance of Autocratic Nations [AAN] since it has fascist totalitarian nations). It's members are the Norse Kingdom, Rumas, Kingdom of Arabia, Germany (until fall of Third Reich), Kingdom of Hungary (until 1954), Russia and some Asian nations (not described) (unconfirmed), it's also the leader of this. Also the one who controls the United Nations (The Global Council of Earth [GCE]) and founding member but it lost control after the fall of fascism with most nations (but some) are becoming democratic and 3/4 are kingdoms.

Name Dispute
The adjective Ruman is referred to Romanians if someone says Rumanian. Rumas would call Romania as 'Dacia' to avoid dispute with the name, but most of the world (80%) use the name Romania and Romanian as the people and adjective, even very few fascist nations. Rumas claim that Romania is a name that Dacians want to become more 'Roman' and started establishing information to cover up the name.

Most of the nations deny any claims made by Rumas. Some nations even suggest their people named as Rumasian, Rumas denies any such renaming. (WIP)

Military
The military is split into four forces, the main ones are the land, navy and air. The other one is for space, since technology in AHOW has advanced faster than usual starting from 500 AD, although they have 70 of those ships for defence in colonies, there hasn't being a conflict in the solar system, meaning it is useless to some. Currently they are used for finding people who attempt to do drug trafficking and piracy.

There are around 3,200,000 active soldiers and 4,900,000 for the reserved, Rumas also allows conscription, only allows people aged 18, above to join and lasts around 10 years, while the ones below are forced to do labour and learning some military tactics, shootings, but this is optional to some but the military wants to maintain it's strong forces for offensive and defensive, they also deployed to the muslim nations to prevent their religion to become more radical. Some of their soldiers has distrupted the Muslim nations rather than bringing peace to become even more unstable due to Rumas believing the religion Christianity is the true religion.

The Ruman military spending is huge for maintainence and even more higher than any nation in Europe (excl. Russia). Their industry on military has created some of the powerful weapons in AHOW, their suppliers are mostly from the Autocratic Alliance, former Ruman colonies, Russia and Hungary, but most of the time they are dependent on their own industry, since they have manufactured their own weapons, equipment and transport by themselves and has some weapons that were sold in other countries.

People
They claim to be descandant of the Romans which is false, but the Ruman government deny any claims to this. They seem to have Germanic origins since the Ostrogoths are Germanic.

Economy
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Science and Technology
Since the 11th century, Rumas has changed science, they created plans and concepts but most were not used by Rumas until the 17th century. The emperor also supported some ideas that would strengthen Rumas' military and begins to prioritise science. They were able to change the mechanics how space actually looked like by knowledge.

It also played a role on inventing flight, theorised some particles, discovery of ancient creatures, creating more formulas (mathematics) and lasers. They also opened a university in Rumas since 1720.

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Transport
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Infrastructure
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Energy
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Internet
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Demographics
Main article: Demographics of Rumas

The demographics are said to be having a high population of 129,200,000 people (this changes later) and is still growing. It is said to be rising due to increased fertility and a program set up in Rumas to gain more children which meant to increase manpower. The eight municipalities are the most populous than any other territory with Rumas having around 4,320,000 people.

The fertility rate is around 2.9 children per women in average and is declining due to health improvements, however the program is said to be run until the end of the 21st century where it will stagnant, the human population will drastically increase by the end of the 21st century but ends in some point, but the wolves will still outrun humans in their territory.

The ethnicity is predominantly Ruman and has small minorities that are unrecognised by any people in Rumas, with 1.1% of the minorities (most of them are migrants from Africa or East Europe) making up the population itself.

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Education
Education is usually only available to males as they want to know basic things, such as writing and so on. However, females can join if they have a large form to sign. However, very poor people can't afford to join since they require money to pay (most of them were Muslim and some are Rumans) this results a literacy of males about 93.5% and females around 45%, average is 69.25%.

Poor people usually resign at ages 9-10 to learn writing. Rest can move on to learn mathematics, science, history and subjects.

Religion
The government is not secular or at least claimed to be since 2011 AD, with a catholic majority and 1.4% being non-Catholic or non-religious (with the non-religious being the majority). The muslim population is persecuted for no reason since 1950 AD, shrinking the Muslim population by percentage from 3.4% to 0.2%.

It banned religious practices on Islam in 1987 AD as a fear that it would create another Muslim state or attempt a terrorist attack, while terrorism and unstability arises, refugees and migrants are moving to Rumas and Mediterrean nations everyday, causing problems to Rumas. They decide to publicly execute Muslims in response to immigration and enforces strict immigration laws, which deem to violate human rights.

In 2005 AD, houses inhabited by religious foreigners were demolished in Rumas. This angers most of the Jewish and Muslim population and caused a massive riot in Rome. In Pavia and Salona (a colony), protests came along as well. Around 2006 AD, a small group created a neopagan faith on Romans. The Ruman government finds this as an act of offence to such Muslim population.

In 2011 AD, the Ruman government imposes reforms on religion, making it more secular, however there is still public executions in Rumas.

They also imposed a religious tax on non-Christians, an extra 10% tax, while being non-Catholic gives an extra 2.5%, being a non-Catholic and a non-Christian is around 12.5% in total, so most of the immigrants from the Balkans and in Muslim nations prefer going to Western Europe (without Italy) and colonial nations (wealthy ones to be precise)

It is also home to the Holy See (Vatican City), but it isn't independent but has an autonomous status.

Languages
Main articles: Ruman language (Rumas), Languages of Rumas

The official language is Ruman, however the Italian language is still being used in some areas notably in South Italy, only by 9,771,000 people, has it as a first language or mother tongue.

There are two varients of the Ruman language being written, one is the widely used dialect (from 8th century) and one made by a 19th century person who only changed city names and some words. However there is no spoken language in Rumas nor the whole wolf realms, but it is considered incorrect towards humans. (WIP)

Music
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Media
Main article: Media of Rumas

Rumas started broadcasting radios since 1899. They were broadcasted throughout only in the capital city of Rumas and the rest of it wasn't heard until 1923, the media department in Rumas establishes a station that is used for propaganda and later expanded and created more of it. There is around 23 radios that are purely propaganda, mainly stationed in the capital city, major municipalities and some major cities.

The Ruman media is strict, almost similar with DPRK (North Korea) except they do it in a different way. Films were usually banned made by foreign media, setting in Rumas' controlled territory and it's sites, except their own media, where they are not banned and is only used for propaganda, in some occasions they allow some documentaries set in Rumas as long they follow their 'rules' such as not showing anything that Rumas lost any of the historical wars or discriminating the Ruman emperors, etc.

The press freedom is often limited. The press requires praising the emperor, the party and so on, however they provide some freedom in some places.

All of the television and radio is restricted to Rumas and some nationalist/fascist nations. The foreign radio stations and television are often limited due to the attempts to jam anything from television to radio and only allows Ruman ones.

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Sport
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Wolves
This section needs to be a separate page.

The Luepuse-Candalien or simply called the wolf (lupesche in some human languages in AHOW) are descended from the grey wolf (or gray wolf), they separated themselves from them as a subspecies in 300000 BCE. They weigh similar to their descandant and is more heavier but is slightly lesser than humans (uses the one in North America in average) or at least the same. It is estimated to have their weight around 57-80kg.

Their life expectancy would be similar to a human, with the lifespan being around 100.8 years in early 21st century. This can be obtained by inputing a number and multiplying by 1.5. A typical wolf lifespan would've been 18 years (most likely natural death or somewhere), this species may have survived longer due to it's ability to allow them to survive in other methods, and a gene that makes them similar to a human. This may indicate it is some sort of a hybrid.

Etymology
In some human languages in AHOW, the word 'lupesche' deprives from a Latin word 'lupus' as a corrupted word. The full name of that species has no meaning, except the word wolf, where it has an origin of word that can be found in a dictionary.

Origin
The original wolf's intelligence isn't high enough to able to do any tasks, this might either result some genetic changes with their ancestors so that they can outrun humans. The humans evantually were pushed back from the northern hemisphere, and the temperatures reduced in both hemispheres, this continued until 1000 BCE (with an increase by 7-15°C every 20000 years), with slight decrease of the temperatures, gradually the decrease turned into an increase due to increased emissions.

Distribution
The distribution (including colonised and natural) is in North America (except South Mexico, Central America), Europe, most of Asia, North Africa. The colonised ones are parts of Sub-Saharan territory (Central Africa and Southern Africa), Australia, Central America and South America, where most of them are settlers or immigrants. This has already started since the beginning of colonisation, the wolves colonised everywhere in the human distribution but more further into cold land, most likely the coastline of Antarctica since 1910.

Culture
The wolves are basically warlike creatures, with some sort of a strcture that includes some sort of a different social structure that differs from any canine packs.

Society
The pack retained few features (or simply one), the females stay in such packs and is similar to human society. It was probably thought that those packs are lead by a leader (or simply called an alpha), which makes republics less likely during the beginning of the species to 1500 CE. (WIP)

Other Stuff
Things that are unrelated to Rumas or stuff related to Rumas that doesn't fit into one of those sections. They should be moved to another page either related to Rumas or AHOW, with some exceptions.

List of Cities
Here is a simple list of cities for Rumas for now (only Italy). All of those cities don't have any meanings but have analogues to each of those cities or towns. WIP
 * Rumas (Roma) (Capital city of Rumas and the province of Ladizio [Lazio/Latium], also a major municipality)
 * Venezizo (Venezia) (Also called Meneco in another form in Ruman, a major municipality)
 * Napoli (Capital city of the province of Napoli, a major municipality)
 * Genete (Genova) (WIP)

Settings for Ethan's AHOW
The world starts off somewhat historical with mistakes and turns unstable with nations change borders in just around five to ten years during Episode Three. There might be some events that still be analogues to the real life events such as the Sibegol for the Mongol invasion. Cultures in the northern hemisphere uses some sort of different names, usually split into three or more cultures for one terran culture.

North and South Hemispheres are divided into two races, the wolves at the north and the humans at the south, with the sentient wolves inhabiting similarily to the wolf's historical range and more into the south. They seem to be hostile to each other, since they want the whole world. The world's temperature is quite low as 4°C in average, likely due to lesser sun activity or further from the sun, making humans struggling for heat, so most of them live in the equator where it has more light (means temperatures are higher unless there has being mountains).

The wolf-controlled nations are more developed (in North America, West Europe and some nations in East Europe) than human-controlled nations.

List of Emperors
'Main article: List of emperors in the Kingdom of Rumas

From the Hurdicing dynasty to where the House of Dessinetcara was. Note that most of the dynasties other than the Hurdicing Dynasty are not final and is expected to change, depending how the language shifted that effects the dynasty names itself. Most of the leaders would take a regular name like any other leaders, if it follows what Spyro.con did, then every nation would end up with a long ruling length (average 90-200 years) leaders and lots of repetitive names in a row.

Hurdicing Dynasty

 * Alaric I (WIP)

House of Cadzintingi
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House of Funich
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House of Dèchazzio
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Sztődezsek Dynasty
(Union with Hungary)

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House of Srowchgyzn
(During the unification of Hungary and Rumas under the Ruman-Hungarian Empire and after)

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House of Araludici
(Breakup of Hungarian Union)

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Welpertinian Dynasty
(Overthrow of the Araludici Dynasty and also more nationalist and less friendly towards Hungary)

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House of Dugcpriovic
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House of Siaevino
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300000 BCE to 40000 BCE
There has being lack of data before 4000 BCE despite that there has being arguments for the 'evolution from wolves' or 'humans have caught a disease that the carrier is the grey wolf'. The most widely accepted theory is being evolved from the wolves. One study said that there was once neanderthals living in most of Europe and suddenly gone extinct due to predators and poor skills in 250000 BCE to 45000 BCE, with humans taking over their territory, by 40000 BCE, most of the humans are pushing south towards Africa or moving towards the Americas and Oceania mainly because of the temperatures are decreasing during the Ice Age.

The emergence of the wolf species remains unknown, their brains are small and possibly can't do more complex tasks (human ones, wait what?), unless their evolution has being modified slightly twenty million years ago to contain increased brain size or somewhere. But how do they simply invent fire with such compression in under 300000 BCE? There will be no domestication to them since humans just try to find warmer places, or at least only survive until they die.

40000 BCE to 5000 BCE
Most of those sentient wolves would be hunters due to being carnivorous, it has then took over most of Eurasia, north Africa and most of the North America (specifically Canada, United States and North Mexico). Humans were then trapped in Africa, Australia and South America, they still have population in North Africa, Middle East, India and South East Asia until they die out by 12000-8000 BCE, that wasn't those wolves who want to eat their flesh, they simply die out because of such raids by packs, with lack of shelter, they are not able to survive for many years.

The races are now split into two, there is no dominant species. The south being predominantly human and the north being wolves (I'd rather want to call them werewolves but the word is pointless). Humans then develop agriculture in 10000 BCE in Africa, Mesoamerica (yes, maize/corn) and South America, Australia is well, has no specific resource to produce as 'agriculture', the north simply does not develop agriculture due to being carnivores and started fishing in 9000 BCE instead.

5000 BCE to 2200 CE
So during the beginning of the series, why would wolves be developing civilisations that are identical to our timeline? The reason is, no-one knows.

Humans have developed civilisations, but were colonised by European wolves during 1400-1900, who had razed cities and founded new cities. Many of the humans are sent to the Americas to work as slaves until the abolition of slavery in some nations that own the Americas. Still there has being discriminations and genocides in wolf-occupied territories, this still happens in present day.

Humans slowly become threatened (they are still at least concern) due to such abusive actions to humans until 1920 where humans demand rights, showing that both species are equal, by rights, this hasn't being implemented until 1935 in some nations, soon by 2000, most of the humans have almost same rights to the wolves in most of the nations. Increased immigration causes humans to immigrate to other nations for a better job, some of the statistics show that the current human population is around 340 million and still growing, with the dominant species having around 7.531 billion and is plateauing by around the end of 22nd century due to less birth rates. The human population would plateau by 2150, even in Africa, birth rates are decreasing to only two because of better health or some sort of control.

By around the end of 21st century, humans would inhabit almost all of the nations controlled by wolves.

Punishments and Executions
Most reasons about execution is treason, practising foreign religions or being homosexual. It is also responisble amputating hands when it comes to stealing, a year prison when making mistakes on the press even the tiniest mistake could make a worth of a year prison, breaking contracts and finally becoming a slave when someone becomes bankrupt.

The UN claims (which is actually true) that Rumas is violating human rights as other followers, homosexuals and poor people were innocent. The government of Rumas ignored the warning to abolish execution laws.

Travel Advice
For those who want to travel to Rumas might reconsider their travel.

Although Rumas have landmarks such as the Colosseum, the canals of Venice and the old Italian traditions, it is also advised to follow the regime of Rumas (the Emperor of Rumas), anyone who insults the country, people and the emperor will be sentenced to death, a year imprisonment or lifetime imprisonment. The ones matching above (the Punishment section) will either have a lifetime imprisonment or death penalty.

It is also seen that passports from muslim nations are not valid in Rumas unless a form is signed. Rumas does not recognise dual nationality, carrying two passports are illegal and will be second one will be confiscated if suspected to have another one.

Irredentism
Main article: The Third Roman Empire (Rumas)

Rumas wants all of Italy, West Austria, South Bavaria, most of Switzerland, most of Occitan lands, Catalonia, Albania, Greece and West Turkey. Some claim they want the whole of the Roman Empire's extent with Germany in it, they believe that they should restore the Roman Empire in it's former extent.

(Map WIP, this includes the road map, the cities, province names, etc for Rumas)