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Kemahanacommacah | Grand Confederacy of Kemahana

 * Government: Absolute monarchy with characteristics of authoritarian military dictatorship
 * Supreme Leader: 
 * Wokoto Saashiil (1448/1457-)
 * Heir: Kunu Saashiil
 * Weroance (historical):
 * Moskatachaw (1384-1421; Pocahontid Dynasty)
 * Sikankanna (1421-1448; Pocahontid Dynasty)
 * Thosoye (1448-1457*; Pocahontid Dynasty)
 * 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
 * Summer Capital: Dilyacoma
 * Demographics (includes all areas part of Kemahana circa 1448):
 * Population: 71,350
 * Tanacoma: 9,000
 * Pocahontocoma: 2,500
 * Utemaca: 2,300
 * Nisinima: 2,000
 * Kanatsasipi: 3,000
 * Iyi Sipi: 1,500
 * Dilyacoma: 2,000
 * Wakiigi: 1,000
 * Other settled towns and villages: 24,625
 * Nomadic population: 22,825
 * Religion: 61.2% Pocahontist (43,666 ppl), 49.3% other (mainly assorted Native American beliefs; 27,684 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.
 * Cult of the Fifth Wheel: A new and quickly-rising sect of Pocahontism greatly influenced by Anti-Pahanist and Wechugist thought, the Cult of the Fifth Wheel teaches that the gods are divided into good and evil forces, which have been fighting a war against each other for all eternity, using our world as their turf. The Cult of the Fifth Wheel teaches that the "peoples of the center of the world" (i.e the natives of the southern tier of the OTL continental US) are the chosen people of the righteous gods, and that the "peoples of the fringes of the world" (i.e peoples of the far north, south, east, and west) are servants of the gods of evil. Additionally, the Cult of the Fifth Wheel preaches that humanity lives in the penultimate age, known as the Fourth Wheel; an age of death, disease, and great suffering, and only by eradicating all the "peoples of the fringes" can they usher in the era of the Fifth Wheel, an era of peace, prosperity, and bliss.
 * Other religions: Many native traditions and faiths continue, especially amongst the Miskawen population.
 * Ethnicity: 34.9% Wisawen (24,904 ppl), 63.4% Miskawen (45,236 ppl), 1.7% Dinawen (1,220 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 most of the western areas directly adjacent to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
 * Dinawen: The Navajo, known as the Dinawen in the Kemahanan tongue, are the only other agricultural peoples the Kemahanans have regular contact with. As a result, they are considered separate to the primarily nomadic Miskawen tribes. The term "Dinawen" would eventually outgrow the Navajo ethnic group, becoming a blanket term for all established agricultural peoples of the American Southwest (incl. the Pueblo and Anasazi). Currently, the Dinawen make a small minority in Kemahana, mainly consisting of aspiring merchants, almost 100% of which are Navajo.
 * Askakwen: The term "Askakwen" refers to all indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica (including ethnic groups like the Nahua, the Mayans, the Purepecha, the Huastecs and the Chichimecs). The (admittedly small) Askakwen minority in Kemahana, previously consisting almost entirely of Nahua or Huastec traders, have been entirely liquidated during the Great Lynching, along with other scapegoats.
 * 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, known simply as Kemahanan is used in non-formal conversation. Kemahanan is 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. However, we are beginning to get some bronze and even iron weapons made, due to access to plentiful mines in Lepai-controlled territory.
 * Kemahanan Military:
 * Loyalist-aligned:
 * Infantry: 1100 (800 reserves)
 * Archers: 800 (700 reserves)
 * Cavalry: 1500 (600 reserves)
 * Kemahanan Ginimowin: The Ginimowin are specially trained troops tasked with internal security in Kemahana (a proto-police force). They deal with internal conflicts, civil disputes, and sporadic raids, as opposed to full-blown military ventures. They have also become a form of secret police under Wokoto's rule.
 * The Ginimowin currently have 300 personnel.
 * Wars and Conflicts: N/A
 * Diplomacy:
 * Events:
 * The Fifth Wheel Ascendant: High Priestess Nanshato, the foremost power behind Kemahanan Pocahontism and commonly regarded as the reincarnation of Pocahontas, has died peacefully in her sleep in January of 1478, calling for a convention of all the priests and priestesses of all the temples in Kemahana into the Fifth Holy Council in order to determine who Pocahontas has reincarnated into next. After weeks of deliberation, Alshi Giisitii, a priestess in a rural community around 30 miles east of Utemaca, would be determined to be the new High Priestess. Alshi was the first High Priestess who belonged to the Cult of the Fifth Wheel, and would make shure that Fifthist doctrine was taught at all Pocahontist temples in Kemahana and beyond, even further propelling the sect into supremacy over the other sects.
 * ​​​​​​​The Great Lynching: The Great Lynching was an ad hoc public execution of over 100 people (including the entire Mesoamerican community in Kemahana, numbering a full 34 souls) believed to either be Fringe Peoples or to have fraternized with Fringe Peoples in the central plaza of Tanacoma. The Great Lynching would spur on a reign of extragovernmental religious terror across Kemahana, commonly known as the Kemahanan Inquisition.
 * Rebuilding: The reconstruction of the devastated nation continues, as infrastructure is repaired and depopulated areas are resettled with willing immigrants.
 * To Retire or Not to Retire: Wokoto Saashiil has won the Kemahanan Civil War for the Loyalists. He has crushed the hordes of the enemies of Kemahana. He has turned away the Akechetan hordes with the sheer power of his words. He has made Kemahana a nation for every Kemahanan to be proud of. But he is growing old. As he ages, Wokoto has begun withdrawing from ruling, and has begun delegating more power to his firstborn son and apparent heir, Kunu Saashiil. As ambitious as his father, even more headstrong, and a devout (even ravenous, at times) believer in the Cult of the Fifth Wheel, it remains to be seen whether he will lead Kemahana into a brighter future or to make it come crashing.
 * To Retire or Not to Retire: Wokoto Saashiil has won the Kemahanan Civil War for the Loyalists. He has crushed the hordes of the enemies of Kemahana. He has turned away the Akechetan hordes with the sheer power of his words. He has made Kemahana a nation for every Kemahanan to be proud of. But he is growing old. As he ages, Wokoto has begun withdrawing from ruling, and has begun delegating more power to his firstborn son and apparent heir, Kunu Saashiil. As ambitious as his father, even more headstrong, and a devout (even ravenous, at times) believer in the Cult of the Fifth Wheel, it remains to be seen whether he will lead Kemahana into a brighter future or to make it come crashing.