Onchera, officially the Elekonetadom of Onchera, is an archipelagic country in West Hashir. Located in the Ouken Ocean, it consists of 3,213 islands, with a total area of roughly 361,321 square kilometres. The islands are broadly grouped into provinces based on the eight largest islands and their periphery: Eroairalu, Ossela, Maera, Kureta, Tarakolu, Kizuga, Nasseta, and Tssobura. The archipelago is protected from Ouken blood algae by the West Onchera Reef. With a population of 100 million, it is the world's thirteenth-most-populous country.
Onchera was first settled by the Iratssa around −11,000 EC, followed millennia later by further hunter-gatherer arrivals from West Hashir, and finally, in the 1st century EC, by the agriculturalist Batea people. The Batea were Mira in origin, and brought with them a form of the Mira languages that would later develop into Oncheran. Tambuli merchants traded with the archipelago from at least 483 EC, and in the 15th century EC the Tambuli city-states founded colony-cities across it; sustained contact through these settlements transformed Oncheran society from a tribal patchwork into a landscape of early states, the most sophisticated of which was the Kyanbul-influenced Southern Court of the southern islands.
In 1821 EC, the various kingdoms of Onchera were unified under the first Elekoneta, Aide the Sun, at Amallu, establishing the theocratic foundations that would characterise the Oncheran state for centuries to come. From the 20th century EC, the Elekonetadom rose to become a regional power resting on a maritime-commercial economy. The Ouken Algae Flood of 2259 scoured the western coasts, while the spread of blood algae across the Ouken progressively strangled the seaborne trade that funded the central state, precipitating the feudalisation and eventual collapse of centralised rule.
Unable to sustain a standing army, the crown ceded power to land-holding commanders, and by the 24th century EC the military had become a hereditary landed nobility headed by the Rabeaneta (Supreme Commander). Two centuries of warring states under the successive Kiburu, Lekara, and Arimea commands ended when the Evarasso command reunified Onchera in 2810. The Evarasso regime fractured within a century, and power was finally seized by Mitale Tikuso in 2994.
History
Early settlement to classical history
The first settlement of humans in Onchera began around −11,000 EC, constituting the Oncheran Stone Age. Around −8,000 EC, the first notable elements of hunter-gatherer proto-Iratssa culture appear, with pit dwellings, primitive agriculture, and clay vessels. Around −5,000 EC, further hunter-gatherer peoples from West Hashir arrived and introduced blood-algae harvesting.
The first waves of Batea settlement almost certainly began around 100 EC, with the earliest evidence of fungal cultivation and new styles of pottery dating to around that time; ancient Tambuli military records also note depopulations of the Mirish frontiers in 112 EC. The agriculturalist Batea, through higher birth rates and permanent settlement, largely absorbed the Iratssa population by intermarriage. Iratssa holdouts persisted in areas unsuitable for Batea agriculture, or where Iratssa communities adopted Batea agricultural practices.
Tambuli records show contact with Onchera in 483 EC, describing its inhabitants as "tolerable barbarians" ruled by dozens upon dozens of kingdoms. Neglect of counter-piracy in the period made trade between Onchera and the Tambuli difficult; later Tambuli records nonetheless note the almost industrial production of blood-algae wines in southern Onchera.
In 1432 EC, the Tambuli city-states founded colony-cities and trade settlements across the Oncheran archipelago. Established as equal-status colonies rather than subject outposts, they were gradually absorbed into the early Batea states, giving Onchera its urban and civic tradition and a lasting prestige-language layer. In the southern islands, the Southern Court, heavily influenced by Kyanbul civilisation, developed a sophisticated literate bureaucracy and dominated the region.
Imperial era
In 1821 EC, Aide the Sun, a Tambuli-educated Batea of the mid-northern tribes, unified Onchera. Having won over a coalition of Tambuli colony-cities, she conquered the Southern Court and adopted its bureaucracy for the governance of the new state. Aide became the first Elekoneta, founding the theocratic Elekonetadom with its seat at Amallu, and over the following centuries Onchera rose to become a regional power resting on a maritime-commercial economy.
The Ouken Algae Flood of 2259 EC scoured the western coasts of the archipelago. In the same period, the spread of blood algae across the Ouken progressively strangled wooden-hull commerce, and the trade revenues that funded the central Elekonetadom withered. Unable to sustain its standing army, the crown ceded power to land-holding commanders, and the state slid into feudalisation.
Feudal era
By the 24th century EC, the standing army had become a hereditary landed nobility, the Rabeaneta. From around 2600 to 2800 EC, Onchera was consumed by a warring-states period under the successive Kiburu, Lekara, and Arimea commands, which gutted the imperial bureaucracy and the remaining influence of the Southern Court. The Arimea command launched a catastrophic arquebus-era invasion of the mainland during this period. In 2810 EC the Evarasso command re-unified Onchera, but its regime fractured within a century, and in 2994 EC Mitale Tikuso seized power. Throughout the era, Onchera's isolation deepened as trans-Ouken trade became uneconomical for wooden ships, leaving the archipelago largely cut off from the wider world for some six centuries.
Geography
Climate
The climate of Onchera is predominantly mediterranean featuring mild to cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers. This climate occurs at most of the coastal locations, including Rabekareta, Amallu, Takupi, Gaizuka.
Government and politics
Onchera is a federal state and ceremonial monarchy in which the power of the Elekoneta is, while theoretically boundless, has been in a ceremonial role for nearly 800 years. Executive power is instead wielded by the prime minister and the Cabinet, who is appointed by the Elekoneta, after being proposed by election. Atssa is the Elekoneta of Onchera, having succeeded her mother Mizema in 3104.
Demographics
Languages
Oncheran and Great Tambuli are the two official of in Onchera.
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