This is Yuzoa.
It is a planet populated by basically all the same kinds of life that populate Earth
(in terms of basically everything other than culture and history, just pretend that it’s
Earth, but with arbitrarily different landmasses).
Of course, one glaring difference from our Earth is that most of Yuzoa’s land is made
up of one continent, that being the supercontinent of Ukes, all surrounded by the Ofaran Ocean.
Ukes is home to 7.2 billion people, with only 200 million living on the other islands.
Also, here’s a Köppen climate map for all you nerds out there (thanks to Sam Aronow
for that by the way, go subscribe to his channel).
There are also other smaller landmasses, including the island of Saeoria, the Kamana Archipelago,
and the pretentiously-named island of Grand Zavira.
Of course, just because the world is now a supercontinent doesn’t mean that there aren’t
huge geographic divides.
For geographic simplicity, Ukes is traditionally divided into three regions: Drua, the Ikuni
Plains, and the Tari Peninsula, with these regions being separated from one another by
mountains and deserts.
Starting in Drua, we see the Nulunian nations, Fostaria, Ukraystrus, Libion, Khavaria, Gochtaria,
Ghawasanea, Grayia, and Cyrwthye.
In the far northern reaches we see the five Nulu Republics of Nulunia, West Nulunia, Odenheis,
Krigeria, and the city-state of Fja.
These five countries all have a more or less similar history and culture to each-other,
starting as a group of fur hunters on the Great Northern Lakes, though have never been
truly under one united government, at least not if you count the Great Northern Economic
League, a trading bloc established between the five.
The big power on Drua however is the Federation of Libion, a multicultural federation established
around 800 years ago as a union of several different city-states within the area.
Nowadays, Libion is the dominant power of Drua and is arguably a world superpower.
Ikuna-- separated from Drua by the Sura Mountains-- is the biggest and by far most populous region
on the planet.
Within Ikuna are the Maximedian Lakes, them being Lakes Illus, Kuzyl and Tarea, and the
Mazan Sea.
These lakes virtually changed the face of the Ikuni Plain civilizations, and have been
a hotspot for civilizations since the dawn of agriculture.
Much of the region was once under the control of many different empires, the most prolific
of which being the Kori Empire, which thrived for over 1,000 years before coming to an abrupt
ending in the early 2nd century (yeah by the way, we’re just going to use Gregorian dates
to keep things simple.
Assume it’s also 2019 on Yuzoa).
The Kori Empire was centered in the capital city of Korsus, which is now the capital city
of Ebrua, a nation relatively recently formed out of Suseva, today often said to be one
of the most highly advanced cultures in the world, with a long history of exploration
and technological development.
East from them is Rekkia, the kingdom which ended the Kori Empire before themselves being
split up and put back together.
The Pataga Republic, Greater Palantinian Republic, Artegia, and Krapati to the north are all
part of the Alliance of the Orient, an economic/political alliance formed in 1895 as a kind of mutual
defense and trade bloc.
Ebrua and Silang’guba are also observer states of the Alliance.
They even have their own currency, known as the Oriental Jade.
To the north of the Maximedian Lakes is Ahtalstan, a massive desert nation home mainly to the
Ahtal and also to the Trakhan, a horseback culture indigenous to the steppes of their
own homeland, Trakhaniye.
The Most Serene Republic of Barrion once had a small colonial empire, having reached its
territorial height in 1890, though nowadays mostly remains neutral and non-confrontational
in their actions.
Moving to the northwest and toward the coast on the Markazi Sea, we see Greater Ohuryean
Technocracy, nestled within the Sura Mountains.
Now a technocracy refers to a republic in which representatives are selected primarily
through their expertise in particular fields (namely science and technology), thus in the
GOT the right to vote is only given to those deemed knowledgeable in a particular field.
To the south of Ohuryea is Bazia, a nation which has very closely clung to the culture
of the Kori Empire, often liking themselves as a successor to the Empire.
Now we reach the Tari Peninsula, home to just five nations: Danellia, Situresk, Chayan,
and Carparia.
Danellia is a coastal nation made up of several different sections dotting the West Ikuni
coast.
The nation was once a colony of the nearby island nation of Saeoria, which itself was
settled in the 4th century BC by refugees from the Markazi Empire in its final days,
during the Siege of Iskandar by the Kori Empire.
Once there, they assimilated with the natives and eventually created their own, quite isolatory
nation.
Well, except for the Saoerian Reconquista which created Danellia in the first place.
Situresk is a somewhat newer nation founded by the Situresks, a formerly tribal country
who developed into a kingdom of their own in the last 500 years, eventually being granted
their own sovereign country after the Nine Years’ War, a major war fought throughout
the whole world (yeah, it’s basically both world wars put into one.
There are a lot of parallels here, you’re not just seeing stuff).
Carparia is a massive and powerful nation which commands a lot of power over their corner
of Ukes, being one of the world’s superpower nations.
Their capital city is Wila, and the country of Carparia was founded in the 1750’s actually
by a group of colonists from the Metillic Empire.
Through years of war and conquest, Carparia eventually grew to encompass most of the Tari
Peninsula and today is a very diverse federation, mainly consisting of Carparians, Situresks,
and Tui-La, a largely tribal culture that lives off the Southern Ocean, frequently establishing
bases in the southern ice caps.
They’re totally schooling the government-funded scientists in their space-age bases.
The one place Carparia was never able to incorporate however was Chayan, a small yet highly divided
and often unstable country kind of jutting off from the Tari Peninsula.
Previous attempts from Carparia to conquer Chayan have ended… less than fortunately.
Chayan is quite culturally different from the rest of the Tari Peninsula too, and their
origins have been somewhat of a mystery to anthropologists.
Lastly, just so we don’t leave them out, we also have the island nations of Kamanaia
(Kamana’aora), Dafabid, and the Grand Zaviran nations of Tir Zavira and Barkalor.
Kamana’aora is a nation based on the Kamana archipelago, often hailed as the descendants
of the Palagan Empire, which thrived at around the same time the Kori Empire did, and should
not be confused with Pataga.
Dafabid is a country not far off the coast from Drua whose culture largely stems from
the ancient Dafabs.
Finally, Tir Zavira and Barkalor are two quite culturally similar nations who share the island
of Grand Zavira like two conjoined twins who don’t really want much to do with each-other.
So please let me know what you all think about this!
If you want to find out more about this world, and maybe even contribute to the project,
feel free to check out the wiki in the top of the description.
This isn’t going to become a worldbuilding channel any time soon, but I’m personally
having a lot of fun with this project, and would really like to move it further, especially
as a way to talk about how different aspects of geopolitics work in the real world.
I’ll be making a follow-up video about the history of Yuzoa in a couple weeks, though
I might even make it next week if this video does well enough (keep in mind, these videos
pay for my bills, so if too many videos tank in a row, I’m kind of screwed.
Sponsors, please get in touch [also, did you know I have a Patreon?]).
Also, do not be surprised if this video gets outdated pretty damn quick, it’s an evolving
scenario that we’re all still working on.
Thanks for watching, and once again if you want to be a part of this project, do be sure
to check out the wiki and join the KhAnubis Discord server, which is where all the planning
is really taking place.
Man, I really haven’t given them a shout-out in a while.
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