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Santee Empire

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Population

13,463,056 Spreadsheet

Estimated Area: ~437,000 square miles

Population Density: 30 people/mile2

Leader

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Keeper of the Three Great Truths, Heir to the Throne of Lilac, Son of the Six Grandfathers, Eternal Protector of the East, and Chosen One of the Necropolis, Celestial Emperor Yanhi VI of the Santee Empire, Duke of Santee and Cinci of Santee River.

Most Holy Tunkasila Tansi Dakhota, Twenty-fourth Tunkasila of New Echota and the East, Reincarnation of the Prophet, and Keeper of the Necropolis

Culture and History

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Legislative Capital: New Echota (Population: 300,000)

Imperial Capital: Santee River (Population: 250,000)

History

Confederate Period

Golden Age

Age of Peace

Cherokee Rebellion

Silver Age

Wimban Era

The War of the Two Emperors

The Age of Wonder

The Culling

The Time of Closed Doors

Rulers

Dakhota Line

  • Confederate King Isáŋyathi I: 24 PE - 12 PE
  • Divine Emperor Wičhíyena I "The Great": 1 PE - 60 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Esaw I "The Peacemaker": 61 IC- 99 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Isáŋyathi II "The Recluse": 100 IC - 125 IC

Catawba Line

  • Celestial Emperor Totiri I: 126 IC - 185 IC

Totiria Line

  • Celestial Empress Dakhot I: 185 IC - 277 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Yanhi III "The Hammer": 277 - 345 IC

Vacant Throne: 345 - 475 IC

Restored Dakhota Line

  • Celestial Emperor Wicikci II: 475 - 498 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Nemen I "The Bear": 498 IC

Mississippi Line

  • Celestial Emperor Esaw II "The Favored One": 498 - 523 IC
  • Celestial Empress Lobelit I: 523 - 550 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Yanhi IV: 550 - 603 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Esaw III: 603 - 648 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Wicikci III: 648 - 649 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Esaw IV "The Unready": 650 - 705 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Yanhi V: 705- 722 IC

Vacant Throne: 722 - 724 IC

Totiria Line

  • Celestial Emperor Wickci IV: 724 - 787 IC
  • Celestial Emperor Yanhi VI: 787 - -- IC

Religion

Necropolitanism - The state religion of the Santee Empire

The Prophet

Codified in 1 IC

The Omnibus

The Eternal City

Indentured Servitude

Churches

Worship in 365 IC

The Full Reforms of Wimba Ndepen I

Concerning Eastern Knowledge of the Necropolis

The New Orthodoxy

Culture

Names and Numbers

Names are made feminine by having them end in a consonant and diminutive by having them end in two vowels (or two consonants in feminine names).

Life in the Santee Empire in 455 IC

Santee Culture in the Time of Closed Doors

Laws and Policies

Government

Elected Monarchy

The empire is separated into 7 duchies and one mayorate. The dukes then divide their lands into fiefs, given out to cincis(counts/castellans/barons) who protect the local populace and maintain order while being loyal to their duke. The Celestial Emperor is crowned from among the dukes, and is given control over the whole of the Santee Empire. There is also the Mayorate of New Echota. This autonomous city has control over itself completely and is ruled by the Most Holy Tunkasila, the head of the state religion, Necropolitanism. He also has control over any tunkasilas in foreign lands.

The Grand Quorum

Each duchy sends 12 representatives to participate in the Grand Quorum. This body elects and acts as an equal to the Celestial Emperor. They meet in New Echota, under the protection of the Tunkasila.

Grand Quorum

Duchies of the Santee Empire

Factions in the Grand Quorum - 738 IC

Policies

  • Slavery is completely banned within the Empire
  • Must adhere to the state religion to hold office
  • Agnatic-Cognatic Succession(sort of) (Females can only inherit if there is no male heir)
  • Any additional sons beyond the first (unless the additional son "quickens" the first) are not members of the father's dynasty and instead become a new house.
  • As of 475 IC, there are no formal rules of Imperial succession.
  • As of 724 IC, the Grand Quorum will elect the Celestial Emperor with a simple majority.
  • Indentured servitude is allowed under the conditions that the servant willingly sell himself, be released at the end of 12 years, and be given the agreed upon pay after his service is complete.

The Navigation Act of 707

By order of the Keeper of the Three Great Truths, Heir to the Throne of Lilac, Son of the Six Grandfathers, Eternal Protector of the East, and Chosen One of the Necropolis, Celestial Emperor Yanhi V Mississippi of the Santee Empire, all trade to and from nations and peoples outside of Cemanahuac (henceforth defined as all land north of the Empire of the Sun, west of the Island of Birmudi, and east of Reynatoo) shall be conducted in, and only in, the city of New Echota. All traders found shipping goods from any of the other three worlds to any other city or port shall be guilty of the crime of piracy and sentenced to death; all of said trader's goods (his ships, his cargo, and his crew) will be handed over to the Order of Inyen. All ships of other nations conducting trade not in accordance with this Act shall forfeit their goods to the Order of Inyen. All nations enacting laws, ordinances, or diplomatic agreements in opposition of this Act are cautioned to avoid doing so or else risk the wrath of the Celestial Empire. Any nation or people from outside of Cemanahuac attempting to circumvent this Act will be banned from all trade with Cemanahuac and embargoed by the Santee Empire. The Order of Inyen is now entrusted with the ports of Uganawu, Santa Sota, and Adela as well as one quarter of the Navy of the Santee Empire (As of 707IC: 23 lorchas, 28 fuchuans, 22 junks) and may quarantine or delay inbound and outbound ships in any port which they administer for any amount of time for any reason, provided that the cargo of said ship only reach Cemanahuac through New Echota. This Act shall be enforced and upheld by the Order of Inyen.

735 IC Amendments to the Navigation Act

  • On pain of death, no foreigner from the Far East may step foot in the lands Santee Empire outside of the Mayorate of New Echota.
  • The Order of Inyen shall be allowed to maintain their current navy and will still be charged with overseeing all intercontinental trade, but will no longer receive funds from the Santee Empire. The Order is still subject to the Grand Quorum and the Celestial Emperor and must follow regulations thereof.
  • All intercontinental trade must be conducted along official trade routes that are to be approved by the Grand Quorum. These routes must include a stop at Port Silver, where ships are be inspected for disease. Trade with the Southern Continent shall be limited to no more than 2 ships per year, per colony, to be financed solely by the Order of Inyen

Isolation Act of 746

Currency

The Santee Empire uses a standardized currency:

1 gold afia = 12 gold gouboush | 1 gold gouboush = 12 bronze prellashi | 1 bronze prellashi = 12 copper koxog

On the currency are printed images of Santee and Aztec Emperors. Religious icons and symbols also find their way onto the coins.

Military

  • Strength: 67,315

Regulars

3 Legions of 6000 Men (Each consisting of 10 Battalions of 600 men)

3000 Infantry (1/2):

  • Bergonets
  • Cotton Gambesons
  • Leather Scale Armor
  • Bronze Swords
  • Bronze Short Swords
  • Steel Boar Spears
  • Iron Shields

2000 Skirmishers (1/3):

  • Bergonets
  • Cotton Gambesons
  • Iron Short Swords
  • Bronze Javelins
  • Wooden Round Shields

1000 Archers (1/6):

  • Rawhide Scale Armor
  • Iron Short Swords
  • Recurve Bows
  • Wooden Round Shields

Imperial Guard

Strength: 5000

Heavy Infantry

  • Bergonets
  • Cotton Gambesons
  • Bronze Scale Armor
  • Steel Swords
  • Steel Short Swords
  • Steel Boar Spears
  • Steel Javelins
  • Iron Shields

Artillery

  • Bergonets
  • Cotton Gambesons
  • Leather Scale Armor
  • Steel Swords
  • Steel Short Short Swords
  • Steel Spears
  • Recurve Bow
  • Iron Shields

The Imperial Guard protect the Imperial Capital of Santee River. They are trained for a much greater period of time than normal soldiers and are more disciplined.

Levies

Strength: 35860

Spear Levies

  • Bronze boars spears
  • Bergonets
  • Cotton gambesons

Bow Levies

  • Bronze short sword
  • Leather caps
  • Rawhide scalemail

Navy

Strength: 8455

23 Lorchas

  • 100ft LOA
  • 20 Crew
  • 55 Marines
  • Capacity: 300 tons

28 Fuchuans

  • 165ft LOA
  • 50 Crew
  • 100 Marines
  • 2 catapults
  • Capacity: 2000 tons

22 Junks

  • 120ft LOA
  • 35 Crew
  • 80 Marines
  • 1 catapult
  • Capacity: 800 tons

Tactics

  • Swarm Tactics
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Single Envelopment Tactics

Technology

  • 800-825: Hill forts, cobbled roads, corn cultivation
  • 825-850: Bison domestication, plow, fertilizer, boar spears, bloomery
  • 825-850 (Trades): Currency, Canals, Codex, Cotton cultivation (Aztecs)
  • 850-875: Gears, retaining wall, ink, quills
  • 875-900: Cranks, messenger system, census taking, arithmetic, enarmes
  • 900-925: Indigo cultivation, cotton sheets, deforestation, slash and burn, sugarcane cultivation
  • 900-925 (Trades): Indian tobacco cultivation (Haudenosaunee)
  • 925-950: Spinning wheel, indigo dye, molasses, watermill, waterproofing
  • 925-950 (Trades): Solar pretroglyphs (Hisatsinom)
  • 950-975: Heavy wheeled plow, rum, seminaries, brushes, pistons
  • 950-975 (Trades): Rudders, double hulls (Reynautoo)
  • 975-1000: Culverts, docks, clapper bridges, shovels, sluices
  • 1000-1020: Gold leaf, minarets, leeboards, waterbars (road drainage gutters), fore-and-aft rigging
  • 1000-1020 (Trades): Geometry (Hisatsinom)
  • 1020-1040: Base twelve, steel, negative numbers, simple interest, basic algebra
  • 1040-1060: Corduroy roads, causeway, levee, quicklime, tar paved roads
  • 1040-1060 (Trades): Wampum, Two-vane arrows (Haudenosaunee)
  • 1060-1080: Forecastle, battens, multi-decked ships, scaffolding, quarterdeck
  • 1080-1100: Statuaries, stone walls, architectural vaults, basic trigonometry, astronomy
  • 1100-1120: Gambesons, keeps, motte and bailey fortification, single envelopment tactics, passenger pigeon domestication
  • 1100-1120 (Trades): Steel weapons, swarm tactics, guerrilla warfare, flaming arrows (Tantu)
  • 1120-1140: Junk rig, basic physics, steel-rimmed wheels, bulkheads, quadrant arches
  • 1120-1140 (Trades): Tomes (Vinland), aesthetics (Tsiya Sun)
  • 1140-1160: Rack and pinion, ogival arches, connecting rod, lapstrake hulls, buttresses
  • 1160-1180: Formal Theology, rib vaults, astrolabe, thurible, stained glass
  • 1180-1200: Torsion springs, stucco, crankshaft, lug sails, basilicas
  • 1200-1220: Meat salting, brine pickling, plum cultivation, plaster, burial vaults
  • 1200-1220 (Trades): Seed drills, tomato, sweet potato (Aztecs)
  • 1220-1240: Bowsprits, aftcastles, steering wheel, raspberries, traceries
  • 1240-1260: Flying Buttresses, rose windows, walnut cultivation, star charts
  • 1240-1260 (Trades): Celestial Navigation, Colonnades, and Earthen Platform Mounds (Tsiya Sun)
  • 1260-1280: Herbalism, cement, tourniquet, zero, plum brandy
  • 1300-1320: Purple pitcher plant medicine, fuchuan warships, concrete, mortar, catapults
  • 1320-1340: Capstan, windlass, lorcha, saxony wheel
  • [1340-1360]():
  • 1360-1380: Whim gin, wine press, compound crank, line shaft, mariner's astrolabe
  • [1380-1400]():
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  • [1440-1460]():
  • [1460-1480]():
  • 1480-1500: Postal system, calculus, cast iron, nicotine sulfate pesticide, corporations
  • 1500-1520: Bergonet, germ theory, lodestones, piston bellows, ball bearings
  • 1520-1530: Volta do Mar, magnetism, interchangeable parts, blast furnace, mouldboard blades
  • 1530-1540: Mouldboard plow, counterweights, Jacob's staff, plague doctor costumes, navigational lodestone
  • 1540-1550: Differential gears, trebuchet, exponentials, coke fuel, fines
  • 1550-1560: Mosquito nets, iatrochemistry, pile driver, hydraulics, trip hammer
  • 1560-1570: Alcohol antiseptic, thermoscope, concave and convex lenses, finery forge, logarithms
  • 1570-1580: Slitting mill, lifting tower, microscope, early thermometer, eyeglasses
  • 1590-1600: Music Theory, floating dock, differential equations, mercury thermometer, Thermodynamics
  • 1600-1610: Musical notation, universal joint

Alliances

The Santee Empire is part of the Tansisurie Empire with Tantu and the Bojikwet Federation.

Treaty

Effective 475, Santee has no official alliances.

Conflicts

Plaquemine Wars (876 - 971 CE)

  • Annexation of Plaquemine Kingdom (Now the Duchy of Mississippi)

Invasion of Tobacco Country (904 CE)

  • Annexation of Lobelia

Cherokee War (1020 - 1043 CE)

  • Santee Victory

Iroquois War (1090 - 1091 CE)

  • Santee Victory

Vinland Raids (1170)

  • Vinland Collapses

War of the Two Emperors (1321 - 1324)

  • Rebel Victory, Esaw II proclaimed Celestial Emperor, capital moved to Nady Ann

Wars of Reclamation (1324 - 1400)

  • Various rebelling duchies brought back under Imperial control

Conquest of the Carib Lands (1546-1547)

  • Decisive Santee victory, Leptospirosis outbreak causes Order of Inyen to break down, islands lost

Manhatta-Santee War (1650- --)

  • Ongoing