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[Shalotte]

Nation Name: The Royal Isles of Shalotte
Official languages: Hebrédan
The name of the country in the official languages: naeHiorag Domrigád Shalotte
National religion: Shalotte Polytheism

Most popular film: There are no 'films' in Shalotte popular culture. The most popular plays, however, are a series of performances that portray the exploits of their gods, known collectively as the Sagas of the Illuoch-taer. Those performed by the famous Domnaeni's Actors troupe are particularly lauded.
Most popular song: Unknown. Folk songs are popular, but the most popular would be difficult to determine.
Most popular music artists/band: Performances by travelling musicians known as the col'tir-daen are popular.
Most popular (video)game: Not applicable.
Most popular book: Almost certainly the religious canon (which has no formal name) of the Shalotte Pantheon. There is a historical fiction novel about (and named) The First Domnaeni, which is probably the most widely-read non-religious book in Shalotte. First published in around 1750, it is considered to be the 'finest example of Hebrédan prose in existence' by scholars.

Fashion trends: Shalotte clothing is practical, rather than fashionable. Having said that, whatever the Domnaeni is seen wearing tends to be adopted quite quickly by the women of the country. She is thought to be responsible for the current tendency for women to wear predominantly white and loose clothing in warm/indoor conditions.

Most popular pastime: During winter, any Shalottes invariably spend a lot of time indoors to escape the harsh weather. During this time they will socialise with family and friends, sharing stories or singing songs over drinks. In the summer months, what little recreational time there is may be spent on rowing contests or laethar aéni games. Festivals often feature performances by visiting col'tir-daen, while travelling actors may sometimes put on plays in some of the larger settlements.
Highest selling Food item: Flatbread and goat's cheese are widely eaten in Shalotte, as are the eggs of sea birds. Lamb and mutton are the most widely-consumed meats, though they are rarer and saved for special meals.
Highest selling beverage: Other than water and goat's milk, Shalotte is famous (well, unique) for bérin. Bérin is a light, barley malted, wheat-based beer that is traditionally served warm in large pottery mugs. Bérin is drank with most meals, as Shalottes believe it warms their bodies.

[Bolkenia]

Nation Name: Imperial Federation of Bolkenia
Official languages: French, German (Keizrevyne region), Polish (Varslevia region) and Japanese (Hokaida Islands)
The name of the country in the official languages: Fédération Impériale de Bolkénie
National religion: Volgaulisme

Most popular film: Et le vent soufflera sur nos plaines, a war drama taking place during the 1960 Invasion of J'dagar
Most popular song: Some weird experimental metal song that were sampled in a rap album and became a big hit for reasons currently unknown
Most popular music artists/band: SOULsociety, an experimental electronic music band, famous for its aesthetics and its mask-wearing dancers during the live performances.
Most popular (video)game: Beyond The Line, a tactical FPS taking place in a near future, featuring large battlefields and a dramatic story about multiples characters trying to get out of the "Zone" alive
Most popular book: Plague Utopia, a surrealistic horror story taking place in a strange city during an outbreak, famous for its three protagonists and its extravagant author

Fashion trends: Winter fashion ; oversized hoodies, trech-coats, winter dress, with a sudden fashion for "catsuits"

Most popular past time: Soccer, concert
Highest selling Food item: Bun and frangipane patty
Highest selling beverage: beside water, cherry-liquor and green-tea

[Besmenien]

Nation Name: Federal Republic of Besmenien
Official languages: German
The name of the country in the official languages: Besmenien
National religion: Homerism

Most popular film: Die Flucht von Vincent Holstein (eng: The escape of Vincent Holstein) This is a movie which was first seen in cinemas in 1985 in Besmenien. The film is about the criminal Vincent Holstein, who breaks out of prison and tries to leave the country, which is difficult in some situations. The film is based on the novel "Vincent Holstein" which was first published in 1978.
Most popular song: Rockstar by Everclear
Most popular music artists/band: Everclear
Most popular (video)game: Duke Nukem 3D
Most popular book: Vincent Holstein

Fashion trends: Colourful

Most popular past time: Surfing the Web
Highest selling Food item: Pizza
Highest selling beverage: Timber Woodchapping

[Mansuriyyah Islamic State]

Nation Name: Mansuriyyah
Official languages: Arabic, Persian (official), Kurdish, Turkish, Chechen (co-official), other recognized minority languages
National religion: Islam

Most popular film: “When Flowers Whither”. A tale of two orphaned siblings trying to survive 1940’s Siduri War.
Most popular song: The Shimmering Light (a religious litany in praise of Prophet Muhammad)
Most popular music artists/band: Ahbab al-Mustafa, a religious singing group (although Gylean rock bands are also popular)
Most popular (video)game: Call of Jihad 4: Yalunji’s Liberation. The latest installment of a very popular FPS game, it’s set in the near future during a hypothetical Mansuri military action to retake territories lost during 1981’s with with its southern neighbor.
Most popular book: The Koran is by far the most popular, with millions of Mansuris having committed it to memory. Other than religious books, the most popular literary work is “Fitrah”. It narrates the story of a petty criminal of loose moral standing whose only apparent quality was loving his family, that has to look after his only child after the untimely death of his wife. The book covers themes like moral ambiguity, criminality and fatherhood and is deemed to have opened a new chapter in Mansuri literature.

Fashion trends: Mansuri society is both culturally diverse and socially conservative, and it reflects on peoples’ dressing style. Most people prefer to stick with traditional (or modernized traditional versions) fashions. That include, in the eastern and northern provinces, different styles of shalvar (loose-fitting pants), shirts and jubbas (a knee to calf length coat) for men, and a variety of jilbabs and scarves for women. In southern and central provinces, long robes (thawb) for men and embroidered abayas for women are favored. Head coverings are a big thing, with virtually all women covering their hair (and some 25 percent also the face), while men also traditionally always wear some kind of headgear, ranging from simple knitted caps to carefully hand wrapped turbans. Modern urban youth, however, often tends to eschew traditional styles. The current trend is to wear baggy sportswear, like tracksuits, with t-shirts (for males) or covered with a matching abaya and a colorful scarf (for females)

Most popular past time: The family is the heart of Mansuri social life. Frequent visits and exchanges of invitations for meals among family members are integral to daily living as well as family outings to favourite picnic spots by streams or to mountain resorts.
Highest selling Food item: Bread. There are many regional varieties, and it’s eaten in virtually every meal in every Mansuri household. Flatbreads are the most common, with pita, tandir and naan being particularly popular. Following that, kebabs (in many regional varieties) are the most popular food product.
Highest selling beverage: Tea, in many varieties

[Maizan]

Nation Name: Empire of Maizan
Official languages: Maizanese
The name of the country in the official languages: Tso'umiwa yo Maizan
National religion: Fatarago

Most popular film: Jester: A film about a radio-comic in run-down early-1980's Zaendonei who slowly goes insane and becomes a prolific serial killer and inspirer of class unrest.
Most popular song: Varies by region, but folk music is still popular
Most popular music artists/band: The Zaendonei Traditional Maizanese Orchestra
Most popular (video)game: Climbing Tide: A realism-focused large-front FPS game based on the events of the War with the United Provinces of Hawthornia in the 1950s
Most popular book: Little Marin and the Sailor

Fashion trends:Robes remain almost as popular as shirts and pants, and are usually just as welcome at a formal occasion for either gender as a suit or dress.

Most popular past time: Drinking Tea and chatting with friends, fencing.
Highest selling Food item: Rice is the staple of the Maizanese diet, and it can be prepared in a number of different ways. Pork is the most popular land meat and Halibut the most popular fish.
Highest selling beverage: Tea

[Syndicania]

Nation Name: Syndicania
Official languages: None
The name of the country in the official languages: N/A
National religion: None

Most popular film: Adventures of Sabotabby, a childrens movie about a cat named sabotabby and their friends on an adventure to defeat an evil, fat, ugly monster known as "Bosh"
Most popular song: Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel
Most popular music artists/band: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Most popular (video)game: Break Your Chains, a game which takes place in a fictional revolution
Most popular book: The Syndicanian Revolution, a book about, you guessed it, the Syndicanian Revolution

Fashion trends: Overalls are becoming very popular

Most popular past time: Reading
Highest selling Food item: Vegetable soup
Highest selling beverage: Juice (Mostly apple juice)

[Deacarsia]

Nation Name: Deacarsia
Official languages: English, Irish, Latin
The name of the country in the official languages: Deacarsia
National religion: Catholicism

Most popular film: Gone with the Wind
Most popular song: “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby
Most popular music artists/band: Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
Most popular video game: Pac-Man
Most popular book: The Bible

Fashion trends: Preppy

Most popular past time: Baseball
Highest selling food item: Potato
Highest selling beverage: Milk

[Enso and Mu]

Nation Name: Imperial Community of the Enso and Mu
Official languages: Mugo
The name of the country in the official languages: Mujinsangha
National religion: Rinzai Zen Buddhism (other sects in common practice - religious freedom under law)
(All answers to follow were prepared at the time of writing. Describing a culture is shooting at a moving target with outdated windage information)

Most popular film: Romancing the Stones - The story of a young go champion who falls in love with his rival. One of the first mainstream gay romance stories in Mujin cinema, with a typical pun-title which in no way connects it to the movie of a similar title. It had an all-star cast and has been made absurdly popular through the use of Sentai-style over-the-top action sequences in some of the Go matches depicted.
Most popular song: Accelerate - a likely soon-to-be-forgotten intro for a popular mecha anime, which was recorded by:
Most popular music artists/band: The Silent Revolution - a long-standing M-Pop band that's centered around their frontperson, nonbinary musician Seiko "Gettz"
Most popular (video)game: Labarynth L is a popular home console and PC-platform game (supported on most OSes), which uses an advanced logic engine to generate a roguelike escape-the-room experience, with a unique dungeon layout and puzzle structure each time. New expansions are routinely released. With video gaming arcades still being popular, the most popular cabinet game is Akira Sharpe a four player light-cycle rhythm game available at three different cabinet price points - a two-player version, 4 players with LCD flat-panel display, and a VR headset option. Tournaments around this game are often livestreamed and incredibly popular.
Most popular book: By raw sales, a print edition known as the "Imperial Sutra Book" is the sales leader, having sold more than enough copies to have one in every home and hotel room. The book comprises a collection of sutras and commentaries on sutras from several temples in the Imperial Quarter of Kyoto. A popular "Travellers Edition", found in hotels, has a foreward by Shodo Harada Roshi on a basic introduction to the practice of Zazen.

Fashion trends: Foreign-folk hybrid fashions, on the out during a fashion-foreign period in the 70s through early 00s, are starting to make a comeback, particularly in upper-middle-class office settings and among merchant types across the entire middle class. This style involves taking elements of "traditional" mujin dress (yukata in particular), along with some other iconically Mujin but not-entirely-traditional fashions (particular styles of school uniforms), and merging those with popular fashions from around the world.

Most popular past time: Video Games and Reading are in competition for the best sales, though some surveys suggest that Go, Shoji, and Majong still command a reasonable trade in terms of hours spent.
Highest selling Food item: Ruling out a very popular sector in staple foods (rice, in that case) and traditional "cuisine" (regional), the most popular mass-market food item in terms of units sold are convenience store boxed lunch (bento)
Highest selling beverage: Green Tea, followed in a close second by Coffee, and third by soft drinks (of which cola and lemon is the most popular flavour)

[Wochaystein]

Nation Name: Wochaystein
Official languages: Diarcesian Latin, Diarcesian English, German
The name of the country in the official languages: Dc. Latin: Hagiautocratoria tes Vochegenstain, Dc. English: Holy Rick of Wicegenstan, German: Heiliges Reich von Wochegenstein
National religion: Christianity

Most popular film: W6 the Movie, about one of the local comic book characters
Most popular song: "Zuidren", a folk song
Most popular music artists/band: Coil, a band
Most popular (video)game: Breakout of Friction game series
Most popular book: Escape the Animals (Sci-Fi)

Fashion trends:

Most popular past time: Big game hunting
Highest selling Food item: Jaggery salad with allspice dressing
Highest selling beverage: Coca Cola

[Haeresia]

Nation Name: Haeresia
Official languages: Haeresiac Latin
The name of the country in the official languages: Axis Hæresiacus
National religion: Transcendental Nihilism (Nihilismus Trânscendêns)

Most popular film: Urbs Mâtrâlis (lit. "Maternal City"), a love-story about the son of an aristocrat and a working-class doomsayer in a futuristic dystopia.
Most popular song: Omnês rês es (lit. "Be All Things"), a dark folk-pop song by singer-songwriter Celaena Lupa (true name: Celæna Ulpiana Incrêta)
Most popular music artists/band: Celaena Lupa (as mentioned above), Redêmptor Dêstruêns (alternative rock), Montês Aureî Franciæ (experimental jazz-pop), and Sarcophagoi Thusiæ (the most popular metal band, industrial)
Most popular (video)game: Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto V; most popular domestic video game, however, is Astria Ultima, a strategy game about space-colonization and civilization-management.
Most popular book: Sublûnium (English: "Under the Moon") by the Haeresiac thinker and economist Psaumis Opsidius Teutonicus (1878 - 1960). It is a fiction novel used by Psaumis to illustrate his philosophy in an entertaining fashion, and has shapen Haeresiac thought for the generations to come.

Fashion trends: Black never went out of fashion. Sleek, elegant, and dark minimalism.

Most popular pastime: Shopping, irony
Highest selling food item: Carbonara
Highest selling beverage: Coffee

[Imperial Fascist States]

Nation Name: The Unification of Imperial Fascist States
Official languages: German, English, Russian
The name of the country in the official languages: Die Vereinigung kaiserlicher faschistischer Staaten (German) , The Unification of Imperial Fascist States (English) , Объединение имперских фашистских государств (Russian)

National religion: Christianity

Most popular film: Ein Tag im Licht, a war/romance film.
Most popular song: Heiliges Feuer
Most popular (video)game: N/A
Most popular book: The Holy Bible

Fashion trends

Men: Often men can be seen in clothing in the style of 1940s Germany and Russia.
Women: Most women wear similar clothing to men, with only the more effeminate wearing dresses.
Other: Another common sight, in both men and women, are the uniforms of active military personnel.

[The Kiiyash Criminal Guild]

Nation Name: The Kiiyash Criminal Guild, the Kiiyash Guild
Official languages: Keegrayak is a liturgical or ceremonial language of sorts, but there is no guild-wide law on language.
The name of the country in the official languages: Kiiyash Vestas Vee
National religion: There is no official religion in the Kiiyash Guild, though some within the Guild venerate the ATIVLOTA, the legendary founders of the Kiiyash Guild, Atyak, Ivashak, Lorogai and Tatimai

Most popular film: The different chapters of the Guild tend to enjoy different films, as there are major cultural divides there.
Most popular song: Likewise with songs.
Most popular music artists/band: All members of the band "Miktyo and the Three Phonists" are also members of the Guild, and so they are quite popular and often play in Guild venues.
Most popular (video)game: Generally something with action.
Most popular book: Most members of the Guild have a copy of "The Kiiyash Guild Handbook", which has sections on history, politics, language, as well as a copy of the Eight Kiiyashee Tenets, though how many have read the book from cover to cover is unclear.

Fashion trends: A lot of Guild Members have the Kiiyash grapheme symbol which acts as the name of the Guild as some form of personal affect, though this is not required nor universal.

Most popular past time: Crime of some kind, generally.
Highest selling Food item: The Guild has a heavy black market presence, so you can be pretty sure if a food's illegal, it's eaten in copious amounts by the Guild.
Highest selling beverage: Similarly with beverages.

[Ivory Coasts]

Nation Name:
Official languages:
The name of the country in the official languages: Slingpra Sulla
National religion:

Most popular film: Swing Kids
Most popular song: Obsession
Most popular music artists/band: EXO
Most popular (video)game: Fortnite
Most popular book: Indeterminable

Fashion trends: Tight multi-layered clothes with breathable cotton fabric

Most popular past time: Listening to music
Highest selling Food item: Hotdog
Highest selling beverage: Water

[Lanoraie II]

Nation Name: The Most Serene Republic Of Lanoraie
Official languages: Lanomiran
The name of the country in the official languages: La Elvi Serini Repluva Do Lanoraie
National religion: None

Here's where it gets interesting. When people fled from Earth to our new home, they brought with them millions of songs, movies, video games, even e-books. Up until very recently, the films and songs most popular were from Earth. As people found more songs (for example) from the archive compiled by both the government and independent parties, songs would skyrocket to stardom and slowly fade. Nowadays, Lanoraie's own creative industries are booming, but I'll go ahead and list the media most popular from old Earth as well, in italics.

Most popular film: Amélie | Rei Dou (Go Do, named after a Sigur Rós song, a film about a group of 5 children who struggle to keep each other afloat during a turbulent wintertime, as their families and friends undergo tragedies)

Most popular song: Chicago by Sufjan Stevens was a song I struggled to go a day without hearing, whether on podcasts, in convenience stores, on web shows...It's similar to the type of music Lanomirans typically like; soft spoken, with uplifting overtones, but perhaps about something not so happy? | Lux Novida (Lux Novida, "maximum overdrive" is the name of the first street drug ever made in Lanoraie, and the song--a rock ballad--is subsequently about the singer's painful love for a classmate who is addicted to it) by UNCOOL was the most-listened to song on MimiTube this year.

Most popular music artists/band: Sigur Rós is still more popular than any Lanomiran artist. | UNCOOL, headed by eclectic pianist/guitarist Nyoy

Most popular (video)game: Katamari Damacy | Where The Book Ends Meet, an incredulously detailed multi-ending video game centering around you, the protagonist, and how you shape the landscape of a quaint little farming village in northern Lanoraie. The game has over 48 endings, and according to my more gaming enthusiastic coworkers, some are rather...absurd. Apparently if you leave a faucet running in the fields for a week straight, a flash flood will occur in the river and wash the entire village downstream into the ocean, where you all are forced to dance for eternity for the entertainment of sea creatures.

Most popular book: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the first book to ever be fully translated into Lanomiran, has stuck around as a classic. | Pa De Deux by Onnis LeTourneau. Don't let the dainty French title run you amok; the story is about a nosy longshoreman and the utterly wild conversations he overhears from patrons in his favorite lounge. This story is not for children!

Fashion trends: I went through the trouble of consulting our local fashion police, and the madame informed me that the currents have ushered in a long-standing, possibly stagnant era of fashion that is very similar to fashion from east Asia on old Earth during the 2005 - 2011 eras. I can see the comparison. There is much emphasis on looking youthful.

Most popular past time: Spending time with loved ones, so it seems.

Highest selling Food item: Instant ramen has taken the country by storm, with black bean "Korean-style" noodles and "song of the sea" (composed of native fish, vegetables, and grains) flavors being the most popular.

Highest selling beverage: Hahaha. I looked this up for posterity's sake, but I didn't have to. Gallante Petal is a, ahem, "flower flavored honey and milk boba drink so dainty and feminine, it feels like true love's kiss!" ...Their marketing words, not mine. The citrus and bussbuss (similar to lemongrass) variant is also very popular.

[Texas Triangle]

Nation Name: The Texas Triangle Wasteland
Official languages: Texan English
The name of the country in the official languages: Texas, Y’all
National religion: Doomsday Christianity

Most popular film: No film industry anymore
Most popular song: Anything country
Most popular music artists/band: God
Most popular (video)game: Video game industry collapsed after the wars
Most popular book: The Bible

Fashion trends: vintage military uniforms adorned with scrap metal and giant powerful rifles

Most popular past time: Hunting
Highest selling Food item: Radrabbit legs
Highest selling beverage:beer, corona, really anything that survived the war

[Autolyco]

Nation Name: The Imperial Colony of Autolyko
Official languages: Esperanto, Icelandic, Scots Gaelic, Dutch, and Autolykan
The name of the country in the official languages: La Imperia Kolonio de Aŭtoliko (Esperanto), Bresku Nýlendu Autolyko (Icelandic), Coloinidh Ìmpireil Autolycho (Scots Gaelic), De Keizerlijke Kolonie van Autolijko (Dutch), De Keyserlige Koloni var Autolyko (Autolykan)
National religion: Vikkism

Most popular film: “Tynde Jongens” (Autolykan; “Lost Boys”) [3170 A.D., 161 P.A.], directed by Henning Fiedler, written by Maeve Dalgaard, starring Batu Davaa and Bryn Kermit. Not to be confused with 1987 American film, “Tynde Jongens” follows two teenagers (a Mongolic boy and Welsh-Manx demiboy) skipping school and taking a spur-of-the-moment adventure into Autolyko’s untamed wilderness. Along the way they meet many strange characters until their adventure becomes overwhelmingly fantastical. It is a famed black comedy, poking fun at many political ideologies of the time and preaching anarchism and free thought. It spawned many MANY sequels, spin-offs, and reboots, none of which have reached this particular story’s glory.
Most popular song: “Marbh an Righ” (Scots Gaelic; “Kill the King”) by Edna mac Diarmaid [released in 3121 AD, 135 PA]. An incredibly popular folk ballad written by the singer in the later years of her life in her native tongue of Scots Gaelic, the song is heavily based off of the corrupt Fransisko Atalanto (a notorious Imperialist governor), his reign, and his later assassination. The song sparked many covers in the decades and centuries to come, one by famous band “Tuutati”. The song title has inspired the common phrase “Marvan Ryg”, which is often used when talking about governmental tyranny.
Most popular music artists/band: “Tuutati” [est. 3202-3239 AD, 179-199 PA]. A rock band consisting of Scots Gaelic, Icelandic, Finnic, Mongolic, Maori, and Slavic identifying peoples, they are well-known for their multitude of sounds. It was well-known that band members were extremely proficient in a multitude of instruments, and would often switch positions and sing songs in many different languages. Their genre changed from alt-rock-punk, to alt-rock-grunge, to psychedelic rock, to pagan-folk-historical, to folk-punk over the many years of their existence.
Most popular (video)game: “Villta Veiði” (Icelandic; “Wild Hunt) [released in 3192 AD, 173 PA]. A Bronze Age simulator rpg. Players join a “tribe” consisting of other players and have to ensure the survival of their tribe in a randomly generated wilderness, all the while competing for resources and land with NPC enemies and other player-run tribes. The game is mass-multiplayer and updates in “seasons”. A season ends when a tribe has incorporated all other tribes into its land. The game is in its 35th season.
Most popular book: “Den Egreka” (Autolykan; “The Historian”) by Inka Pajari [published in 3023 AD, 82 P.A.]. Based on the book “La Balado de la Unua Vintro” (Esperanto; “The Ballad of the First Winter”) by Lauchlan Cadwallader [published in 2898 AD, 18 PA]. The source material was written over the course of the first couple of hard years of colonization known as the Ash Winter, by a Scots Gaelic cultural anthropologist and historian, and is an autobiographical non-fiction collection of short stories and novellas telling the stories of individual first colonists, their lives before migration, and their lives on their new home. “Den Egreka” is a fictional retelling of that historian’s (Lauchlan Cadwallader’s) journey of collecting these stories, and his personal struggles during the time period, compressed into a single winter. The book has inspired an incredibly popular stage play of the same name, and several TV series and movies.

Fashion trends: Tartan and plaid patterns of vibrant and differing colors have been common on the colony since its inception and are often displayed on different pieces of clothing. Men and women typically dress similarly, with pants, long-sleeved wool shirts, and working boots. Hair styles change with every 4 decades or so, but currently it is popular for women to wear their hair in pixie cuts, and men to have mohawks, with older and more important men wearing theirs in long ponytails. Locals often wear many tattoos and piercings.

Most popular past time: “Meley”, a mock melee fight played with wooden swords and melee weapons, often between teams two or more.
Highest selling Food item: “Kanka”, the Autolykan word for kankomar meat. A kankomar is a crustaceanoid that resembles a cross between a lobster and a crab, about twice the size of a house cat. Kankomar meat is not quite as delicious as crab or lobster meat, but kankomars are more than abundant on the planet, and unlike other white meats in can last for up to a month without being refrigerated. It is staple of many lower class diets and is instrumental in many cultural dishes such as “Kankabrod”, “Vleniki”, and “Eskorfost”. It has been called the Autolykan equivalent to the potato.
Highest selling beverage: “Suug” (from Scots Gaelic for “tree sap”), an alcoholic beverage diluted from the sap of the Everpale Tree. Unlike earth alcohols that incorporate tree sap, suug has a rather strong floral taste, much like a very high-quality gin. Adding or subtracting percentage of alcohol content-to-liquid ratio seems to have no negative effects on flavor. Low-alcohol versions are common throughout the colony, and high-alcohol versions are especially popular among the upper class.

[Venesso]

Nation Name: the United Venetian Republics
Official languages: Venetian and Greek (Arabic, Amharic, and Tamil to a lesser extent)
The name of the country in the official languages: Republice Venesiane Unite (Venetian), Ενωμένες Ενετικές Δημοκρατίες (Greek), جمهوريات البندقية المتحدة (Arabic), የተባበሩት መንግስታት ሪብሊክ (Amharic), ஐக்கிய வெனிஸ் குடியரசுகள் (Tamil)
National religion: None solidified by the nation, but Venetian Catholicism would be the closest.

Most popular film: "Crusade" (Venetian: "Crosiata"), directed by Benedeto Cambini, starring Reneer Holt, Kukulkan Tlopanec, Goland Sadik, and Antonio Abate. The story follows the 5th Foreign Legion (codenamed: "the Sphinxes") of the Lugani-Roosevelt Mercenary Company, as they participate in the early parts of the Second Great Mongolian War. The action centers on the Battle of Lhasa, one of the bloodiest battles of that war, which lasted almost over 3 months. In that battle, the entire 5th Foreign Legion was wiped out holding their ground, allowing the Zurich Pact forces to win the day. The film is both a profound meditation on patriotism and on the nature of war and violence. Extremely notable is Tuko-Mongolian actress Goland Sadik's portrayal of Khulan Batbayar, the real life captain of the Sphinxes, who was herself a Mongolian fighting against Mongolians.
Most popular song: "I Know Where the Birds Go" (Venetian: "So Dove Vano Gli Ucceli") by Australian-born soft-rock/acoustic artist Camaro Naggia, released with his 1988 album "Paradise" (Venetian: "Paradiso"). It was unique at its time, and echoes the peace-loving, steadily progressing views of the nation of the past few decades.
Most popular music artists/band: Galina, a gender-neutral neo-psychedelic rock artist from Sri Lanka, who has been making music since the early 2000s
Most popular (video)game: Zampia, a gambling card game. You can often see strangers playing it in any Venetian coffee house.
Most popular book: "Jaguar King" (Venetian: "Re Iaguaro"), written by Timoteo Francesco and published in 2008. The story takes place in the late 1700s during the Aztec-Iberian Wars, and followers the head of a fictional tobacco company trying to make a profit in the New World amongst all the carnage. It has been praised for mirroring the class struggles of today's time, and has caused a bit of a social uprising in the youth of the Republics.

Fashion trends: Gender norms have largely been done away with, and do to the assimilation of certain cultures over the centuries, body modifications like multiple piercings and tattoos are fairly common. Fabulous displays of wealth are also common.
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Women:

Most popular past time: Soccer
Highest selling Food item: Pizza, the Republics' national dish. Due to the variety of cultures throughout the Fraternity, pizza can take many MANY forms.
Highest selling beverage: Jurven, a Frisian soda

[The Master Primotav]

Nation Name: The Master Primotav
Official languages: Englsih, Primotavien
The name of the country in the official languages: Primotav
National religion: Darnocism

Most popular film: Avengers Endgame (2019)
Most popular song: Beer Can't Fix- Thomas Rhett (2019)
Most popular music artists/band: Thomas Rhett
Most popular (video)game: Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
Most popular book: Lord of the Rings

Fashion trends: A mix of Sci-fi and medieval clothing and armor

Most popular past time: Cross Country Running, Football and playing video games
Highest selling Food item: Cheesburgers
Highest selling beverage: Coca Cola