Samaland

Samaland, officially the Empire of Samaland, (Sammese - Sama Heimve, Spanish - Imperio de la Sama) is a sovereign state in continental Moremania, located to the west of northern Jacobopolus and Jermannia and east of the Tritonic Ocean. Samaland shares a land border with Jacobopolus, Jermannia, the American Republic and Ania, and a maritime border with the United States, Canada, Greenland and Iceland. Samaland has a total land area of 8,317,756 sq.km and a population of 238,699,451 people, narrowly surpassing Jacobopolus in total area while falling slightly short of it in population. The capital is Fransheliege while its largest city is Costarica. Samaland has three official languages: English, Spanish and Sammese; it also has several recognized minority indigenous languages, most notably including Chippewa, Steppi, Beochuk, Decot and Fiqwam.

Samaland has a diverse climate, ranging from tropical weather in the southern regions of Sodsim, the Trophego Islands and the Santana Islands, to the temperate midlands of Minon, Black Forest and Fisheo, to the frigid north of Chippeo, Tiptree and Upper Sama.

Originally inhabited by indigenous people descended from the Inuit of North America, the land surrounding the Sama River would come to be a cradle of civilization much like the middle-east. Expanding through trade and diplomacy utilizing Mooremania's complex river system, the Sama people built an empire greater and vaster than any in Eurasia from 4500 BCE to 1500 BCE. During the Bronze Age Collapse in 1100 BCE, however, it was also hit much harder, with no recovery being made until first contact with the Europeans.

Nordic exiles from the island of Skania off the coast of Denmark fled to the sea following the invasion of their homeland by the Saxons, the Angles and the Jutes in the mid-4th century during the Migration Period of Europe as the Roman Empire began to collapse. Drifting around at sea for a while, they eventually settled in northern Mooremania in 450 AD, establishing the city of Daenlaegen. After another hundred years of war with the Sama people who originally inhabited the land, a Skanian leader, Karl Murav, made peace with the Sama and founded the High Kingdom of Samaland. The Skanes eventually assimilated with the natives forming the unique mix between Nordic and Indigenous cultures. The European past became abstract to the Skanes and was nothing but a distant relic of the past. They were no longer "Skanian" but rather Sammese.

Eventually worn down by invasion by the other indigenous tribes and infighting, the High Kingdom was fractured by the time modern Europeans arrived in 1431. First, the Italian navigator Francisco Costello flying under the Aragonese flag discovered the Santana Islands south of Mooremania and established the colony of Costello. Later, he and the Aragonese admiral Diego Rivera discovered the western coast of Mooremania and exchanged goods with Samaland in 1433, establishing the trading post of Costarica.