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Kemahanacommacah | Grand Confederacy of Kemahana

 * Government: Pseudo-feudal elective monarchy
 * Weroance: Moskatachaw
 * Economy: Our economy is divided between a subsistence farming and a nomadic hunter-gatherer economy, mainly based on ethnic divisions. However, the introduction of horses (brought during the Exile) has revolutionized the process of hunting game, and cattle ranching and pastoralism has also begun to take shape, especially in rural peripheral regions. We are also beginning to see the very beginnings of urbanization, although much of the population is still nomadic or lives in villages with less than 200 people.
 * Capital: Tanacoma
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 32,554 (Census of 146/1402 AD)
 * Tanacoma: 5,126
 * Pocahontocoma: 2,233
 * Utemaca: 1,475
 * Other settled towns and villages: 8,264
 * Nomadic population: 15,456
 * Religion: 16.2% Pocahontist (5,274 ppl), 83.8% other (mainly assorted Native American beliefs; 27,280 ppl)
 * Pocahontism: Born during the devastation of the Accursed Plagues (most likely smallpox, typhus and other Old World diseases) in the early and mid-1200s AD, which killed up 70-80% of the population of the Powhatan Confederacy, Pocahontism is an offshoot branch of the Hellenic pagan religion (with ample amounts of influence from Christianity and Native American traditions). The main difference between Pocahontism and the Greek pantheon is the equation of Pocahontas, a Powhatan chief-turned-deity, with Zeus, Athena, and Aphrodite.
 * Orthodox Pocahontism: This sect of Pocahontism purports to be the sect which preserves the original theology of early Pocahontism the most. Orthodox Pocahontists believe that Pocahontas is the godhead and ruler of all the gods (a mix of ancestral spirits and Hellenic gods). Orthodox Pocahontists hold that Pocahontas and her spirit has, upon death, forever left the realm of the living, and only by praying through a weroance (chief) or a shaman shall Pocahontas hear your prayer. Orthodox Pocahontists teach that the Accursed Plague is punishment for a sinful society, and to avoid disease, one must live a virtuous and pious life. Orthodox Pocahontists are by far the most numerous and established of the Pocahontists, and Orthodox priests control almost all of the Pocahontist temples and shrines in Kemahana.
 * Incarnationism: Incarnationism holds that the Spirit of Pocahontas lives on in each and every human, living thing, and inanimate object (in effect a form of pantheism). Incarnationism diverges from the other Pocahontist sects in that it denies the existence of other gods and ancestral spirits as distinct entities, merely suggesting that they, too, are concentrations of the Spirit of Pocahontas. They are a small but growing minority amongst Pocahontists, and are mostly prevalent in the ranks of scholastic types.
 * Trialism: Entrenched within Kemahanan military families, Trialism teaches that the Accursed Plague (which they call the Plague of Judgement) is a tool to "judge" whether a man is pure of heart and of sin or not. They have become known for subjecting their children to a rite of passage where they are locked in a room with the corpse of a person (usually a family member) who died of the Accursed Plague, with enough food and water for a week. In Trialism, the eternal Spirit of Pocahontas is present in the Plague of Judgement. Other gods and ancestral spirits are acknowledged here, although only Pocahontas has the authority to forgive all a man's past and future sins via the Accursed Plague.
 * Other religions: Many native traditions and faiths continue, especially amongst the Miskawen population.
 * Ethnicity: 12.6% Wisawen (4,101 ppl), 87.4% Miskawen (28,453 ppl)
 * Wisawen: The Wisawen (lit. yellow men) are the descendants of the Powhatan Exiles led by Usquehannatoco. A mix of several different ethnic groups from across the OTL US East, South and Midwest, as well as minuscule amounts of white European admixture, the Wisawen are the noble ruling class of the Kemahanacommacah. They are almost uniformly settled agricultural peoples, and form a majority in certain areas of the Front Range.
 * Miskawen: "Miskawen" (lit. red men) is a blanket term for all the ethnic groups indigenous to Kemahana. These include the Ute, Shoshone, Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, amongst other groups. Many of these peoples remain nomadic, although there has been increasing pressure for them to adopt settled agricultural or pastoral practices.
 * Languages: Although most people continue to speak their ancestral mother tongue at home, and Literary Powhatan continues to be used as the official language of administration, a creole language has begun to be used in commercial instances, based heavily on Powhatan, Cherokee, Ute, Shoshone, Comanche, and Arapaho.
 * Military: The Kemahanan military is mainly a levy-based system, although minuscule standing armies are used as garrisons in frontier areas to protect against raids. As the Miskawen become more integrated into Kemahanan society, our military has also begun recruiting them as quality horsemen. Most of our weapons are stone weapons due to the lack of iron and bronze in the region, with our only bronze and iron weapons being extremely prized heirlooms dating back all the way to before the Exile.
 * Infantry: 1,000 (3,000 reserves)
 * Archers: 750 (2,000 reserves)
 * Cavalry: 500 (1,500 reserves)
 * Wars and Conflicts: N/A
 * Diplomacy:
 * Lepai: Ah, fellow cultured people. We would like to propose a trade deal with you. We ask for allowing our prospectors access into your mines in exchange for you gaining some of our marvelous horses.
 * Events:
 * Manifest Destiny Before It Was Cool: In order to encourage settlement in our vast and sparsely populated territories, the Kemahanan government divided up the entirety of the mostly empty eastern plains into plots of land 3 stadion by 3 stadion (566.4m by 566.4m) wide, and provided permits to anyone wanting to settle on the vast plains for an incredibly small pittance. A string of outposts and forts would also be constructed, in order to monitor raids by outside nomadic tribes, as well as to protect the settlers should they come into confrontations with nomads in the area.
 * Gold!: Large gold and silver deposits recently having been found in the western mountains. It may not be the desperately sought-for iron and bronze for making better quality tools and weapons, but it is shiny and flashy, and soon, the royal residences are covered in gold flakes, and it has become increasingly common for local lords and priests to cover their palaces and temples with gold and silver flakes.
 * The Nomads Must Be Ruled: The nomadic hunter-gatherers of Kemahana are also offered the opportunity to partake in the settler policy, and land portions were offered for a minuscule amount of gold. However, most nomads did not have any gold whatsoever, and thus very few of them managed to buy any land plots. However, in order to avoid any potential nomad rebellions, as well as to rule the nomad population more efficiently, Kemahanan authorities devise the Miskawencommacah policy: in an effort similar (albeit much less restrictive) to OTL Native American reservations, any nomadic clan or tribe wanting to continue their way of life will be given vast self-governing Miskawencommacah territories (large enough to continue to support their way of life indefinitely) where settlers are not allowed to settle, provided they pay a tax of 3% of their catch to the authorities in Tanacoma every year. Although under the oversight of the central government at Tanacoma, the Miskawencommacah would function as independently as any of the pseudo-feudal lands of any noble, and would also be subject to preferential taxes (by which we mean the comparative lack of them).
 * Infrastructure: In order to connect the vast country together, roads are built to every major settlement in the Kemahanacommacah, and streets are paved in any major cities.