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==History==
==History==


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Before the second century AD, the land of modern-day Lufasa was sparsely populated by various nomadic tribes and few Maponic communities belonging to chiefdoms, that occasionally tried to extend themselves to cover it, but usually gave up it up again soon after due to it being difficult to hold on to, consisting mostly of plains with several rivers flowing through it, but little other natural defenses. At the beginning of the second century, fleeing Juteans land on Ystel and establish themselves there, making the region surrounding the lower part of the Hatariew river. While many remain close to its mouth, founding the town of Laina and several small villages in varying distances from it, other ones travel further east alongside the river, and by 150 AD had reached the site of modern-day Aušaj.
Settlements and hamlets founded in this region saw a big increase in population around 475 AD, when Laina and its surrounding lands suffered an epidemy and most of the town was destroyed in a huge fire, leading many to flee east and southeast. A generation later, in the first half of the sixth century, they had formed a first larger settlement resembling a protohistoric urban center that later came to be known as ''Xanapeshua'', Middle Jutean for 'Place of benevolent spirits'.


100 AD: Middle Juteans reach Ystel
150 AD: First descendants reach modern Lufasa
475 AD: Large exodus from Laina in South Jute following a epidemy and a huge fire, many of which migrate southeast, to modern day Gfiewistan or Lufasa
500-550 AD: First major settlement develops from farming hamlets, later called Xanapeshua (Middle Jutean for 'Place of benevolent spirits')


700 AD: Becomes a tributary of Hatariew, alongside other settlements (Weapons and other items from Hatariew found across Lufasa, unlikely to be trade)  
700 AD: Becomes a tributary of Hatariew, alongside other settlements (Weapons and other items from Hatariew found across Lufasa, unlikely to be trade)  

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Republic of Lufasa
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Lufasa (Ohnaucan: Lufòasa [lufɔasa]), officially the Republic of Lufasa, is a landlocked country located in Northern Ystel, neighboring South Jute and Gfiewistan.

Descending from the same refugees as South Jute, this country is still speaking a Jutic language, but due to losing contact to the homeland relatively quickly and the proximity to Gfiewistan and Hatariew in particular, it was ‘Gfiewised’ over the centuries, which has left marks in both its language (in the form of numerous loanwords) and its culture, which is markedly less traditionalist and more open to commerce and technology, not to mention industry, as well as being a unique mixture of Jute’s dominant collectivism and Gfiewish individualism.

Like Gfiewistan, from which it took its current-day political institutions after far-reaching reforms in the 19th century, it is a non-partisan representative democracy with a bicameral legislative; however, its president is limited to representative functions owing to the political heritage of Jute and its strong popular assemblies.

Its main economic sectors are agriculture, which above all produces fruits and vegetables for Gfiewistan that are unable to grow there, and the commerce sector, with the country functioning as an important gateway for trade between the neighbour in the south and East Mermelia in the north as well as north-eastern Ystel in general.

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History

Before the second century AD, the land of modern-day Lufasa was sparsely populated by various nomadic tribes and few Maponic communities belonging to chiefdoms, that occasionally tried to extend themselves to cover it, but usually gave up it up again soon after due to it being difficult to hold on to, consisting mostly of plains with several rivers flowing through it, but little other natural defenses. At the beginning of the second century, fleeing Juteans land on Ystel and establish themselves there, making the region surrounding the lower part of the Hatariew river. While many remain close to its mouth, founding the town of Laina and several small villages in varying distances from it, other ones travel further east alongside the river, and by 150 AD had reached the site of modern-day Aušaj. Settlements and hamlets founded in this region saw a big increase in population around 475 AD, when Laina and its surrounding lands suffered an epidemy and most of the town was destroyed in a huge fire, leading many to flee east and southeast. A generation later, in the first half of the sixth century, they had formed a first larger settlement resembling a protohistoric urban center that later came to be known as Xanapeshua, Middle Jutean for 'Place of benevolent spirits'.


700 AD: Becomes a tributary of Hatariew, alongside other settlements (Weapons and other items from Hatariew found across Lufasa, unlikely to be trade)

1210 AD: Becomes subsumed entirely by the chiefdom of Hatariew (more typically northern Gfiewish buildings start appearing)

1436 AD: first documented mention of Xanapeshua and its assemblies (that now serve more as an advisory body)

1574 AD: first documented mention of Xanapeshua as "Aušaj" (after the Ohnaucanized version of the Gfiewish name of the river flowing along it which came into use with Gfiewish settlers and nobles)

1700-1710 AD: Conversion to Iovism, together with Hatariew now part of the Kingdom of Gfiewistan

1852 AD: Independence following the Republican Revolution in Gfiewistan, nobility abolished

1853 AD: Assemblies regain most of their previous power, however the system is strongly modernized and a president takes over from the king, the office now having only representative functions

1905 AD: Rejection of reunification proposal with Island Jute and South Jute

1930s AD: Industrialization sets in, mostly with investment from Gfiewistan, but also from local richer farmers

1948 AD: Defense and free trade pact signed with Gfiewistan after almost a century of at times heated debate in the upper bicameral assembly and long negotiations

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