[Aber] Antarctica Q&A

[Aber Antarctica]

...because, my God, it's become very clear that I'm not gonna consistently and effectively build up my nation's lore if I'm not being constantly asked questions.
In addition, keep in mind that
much of the lore already written within currently-existing 'factbooks' (for a lack of a better word) is NOT set in stone.
...thus, there's virtually no such thing as 'stupid questions' when it comes to Antarctic lore.
Plus, seeing as this lore contains almost ten thousand years of history, challenging me to brainstorm and think smarter (as well as harder) is HIGHLY suggestible.

So...

[Maniaca]

What does "Aber" mean? Is it an allusion to the German word for "but" ?

What's the story of your nation's founding?

[Californa state]

What does "Aber" mean? Is it an allusion to the German word for "but" ?

What's the story of your nation's founding?

My country is young. It broke away in the 2008 financial crisis and now is a leading country is democracy and freedom

[Aber Antarctica]

What does "Aber" mean? Is it an allusion to the German word for "but" ?

The ‘Aber’ originally comes from the proto-Antarctic Abha'ai'r̥̄'ē, meaning ‘high place’, due to most of the country’s ethnic groups being descended from the mountainous regions at the center of the continent, most in the middle of the Adzjagrisdath (known internationally as the Trans-Antarctic) mountain range. They are a highlands people, similar to the Sherpas (the Himalayan people living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet, renowned for their skill in mountaineering), and like the Han Chinese, is the majority of the country's population, the dominant ethnic majority.

Their decrees of isolationism and cultural secrecy have given them the 'Aber' moniker by the Germans in the late-19th to early-20th century, as, yes, an allusion to their word for 'but', a word synonymous with uncertainty -- which, in my opinion, suits the Aber Ants because even discussion of their history, norms, and society from them themselves have been minimal, giving people very little certainty about who they are, how they function, how they survive, and such, for thousands of years...until 1991 AD.

What's the story of your nation's founding?

...which brings me to their origins (or at least the origins of the modern system of HRE-style kingdoms).

To keep a long story (relatively) short: the multiple lower minorities (those that thrived in lower elevation tribes, especially near the coasts) co-mingled with the small number of higher elevation peoples (primarily the Aber), and unified their tribes as individual 'proto-kingdoms', each lead by a king and their wife (the queen). The Aber majority sorted these kingdoms, each into congregates (which later on would be duchies lead by, well, dukes, and their wives, the duchesses), dividing each of those into 'proto-principalities' lead by a prince (which, I guess you can say, it was to teach the older princes how to become rulers, thus they were given very limited rulership over small strips of land early on). Of course, the future Empire as a whole would be run under a diarchic system, an elective diarchy of where the people (yes, the common folk) convene a type of moot to elect who would lead each of these subdivisions, based on skill, honor, personality, and goals made prominent through studies, tests, and trials.

Each early-aged king (18 to 30) or older prince (13 to 18 years old) would search for and build a relationship with a lady-in-waiting of the same age range (who also goes through the same process), where the more compatible woman would, through trials and tribulations, hopefully marry and rule side-by-side as an equal (a regent, in her own right).

Mock trials with early proto-kingdoms began sometime in the early 10th century BC, and an overall management and improvisation of the system was put in stone circa 9917 BC, during what was archaically coined the Jivnumjelaqme, the 'Freedom of the Waters of Life' (which is theorized, based on the same, to be the seasonal period between late-mid Spring to early Summer, so hypothesized between April 20th to August 5th -- a broad estimate).

[Rylland]

Is there a time where your country is a dictatorship?

[Aber Antarctica]

Is there a time where your country is a dictatorship?

It depends on your definition of a dictatorship. Did Irae Blood Era Antarctica (1928 - 1945) make life a living Hell for its own citizens? No. In fact, the whole point was to make it much better and rebuild after the Great Cataclysm of 1918 - 1922.

Now, did Irae Blood Era Antarctica (1928 - 1945) make life a living Hell for its other countries' citizens? Absolutely, specifically the Soviet Union's. As the Ants in general hated Soviets as much as Germany did (perhaps, arguably, much, MUCH more), it was 'dictatorial', but not in the sense of 'having or showing a tendency to tell people what to do in an autocratic way'. They didn't want to rule over the Soviets. They wanted the Reds to suffer extreme humilation though ungodly amounts of Jigsaw (Saw franchise)-approved war crimes, to the point where the Reds would have to cave into the Ants' demands of dismantling the communist government. The Ants attacked the Soviet Union in 1930 not for resources, land, or domination over the Soviet people, but to spite them, to terrify them.

[Skorpiie]

What does "Aber" mean? Is it an allusion to the German word for "but" ?

What's the story of your nation's founding?

My country is young. It broke away in the 2008 financial crisis and now is a leading country is democracy and freedom

This thread is about Aber-Antarctica?

[Maniaca]

What does "Aber" mean? Is it an allusion to the German word for "but" ?

The ‘Aber’ originally comes from the proto-Antarctic Abha'ai'r̥̄'ē, meaning ‘high place’.

Great post. Is there war or peace between the tribes?

[Aber Antarctica]

The ‘Aber’ originally comes from the proto-Antarctic Abha'ai'r̥̄'ē, meaning ‘high place’.

Great post. Is there war or peace between the tribes?

Before 1928? Constantly. There's often a saying in the Empire: 'Civil wars make for good population control'. Seriously. Royal civil wars often had millions of people fighting for opposing standards, with civil wars lasting for years, upwards to two decades. Multiple civil wars have been documented, up to 142 civil wars, four of them major. Because of these wars, they're part of the region why the population barely makes it past 250 billion.

The good news (I guess) is that Ants get plenty of combat experience out of this. Yeah. Who knew spending the past ten milennia ripping each other apart is great for war against other sovereignties?