Mirei
Mirei (also spelled Mireyi) is a founding member state of Sokoku. It is by far the smallest member state by size and population, encompassing nothing more that three island groups in eastern Sokoku between mainland Shaaniaah and the island state of Shuuen. Despite its small population it is the most ethnically and culturally mixed region of Sokoku, with Hueiwei, Iztomal, Kakuri and Dölmer populations. It is the only state with a native Kakuri population, as well as a recognised status for Anarian settlers from the 76th century.
Before the name change in 7670, the state was known as the Fisks-Kakuri Cooperation, or more shortly Fika. It was renamed in honor of the late statesperson and founding mother of Sokoku, Exemplar Chika Mirei, herself half Kakuri and half Dölmer. The name was also considered more neutral, since the equally large Hueiwei and Iztomal communities were not represented in the state name.
History
As a political entity, the state of Mirei dates back to the 7520's, when traders from Talpå (current day Vittmark) established settlements on three island groups without a clear administrative status. Askers was disputed territory between Hallish Bowersland and Helreich's Schangtienrand, while Carls de jure belonged to Bowersland but did not have a colonial presence or settlement. Villes was hardly populated before settlers sat foot here. The settlers of Fisks could themselves be seen as refugees of the ongoing Three Ways Conflict going on between the predecessor states of Vittmark. The settlers should therefore not be labeled as imperial styled colonists, since they lacked a connection with an Anarian (or any other) homeland. For decades they served as an autonomous entity with an unclear geopolitical status.
Carls was used as home base for the Fisks stim's merchant fleet with floating docks and company headquarters. Through these headquarters, administration of the more northerly islands of the Fisks settlements in current day Kamura was managed as well. Where the northern islands functioned as manufacturing territories, Carls was more in use as staple port and logistics hub for trade between The Bind and Kamura on one side, the archipelago forming Sokoku today in the middle and Anarian states further to the west. Askers and Villes were used for agricultural produce, providing food for the settlers on the southern islands.
Due to the lack of formal, internationally recognised status of Fisks on these islands, many nations in the region considered Fisks more or less a piracy activity, trading and dealing regardless of international boundaries or established custom duty routines. What Fisks considered as trade was seen as smuggling activities by neighbouring nations. During the first 4-5 decades, Fisks treated the Hueiwei population as second rate residents, not even registering them as such and employing them in return for food, lodging and protection. The Iztomal population, who were more or less hunter-fisher-gatherers with limited agriculture at that time, were left alone and largely ignored.
In the 7560's the Fisks traders
Government
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