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Shangia

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Motto: We Are Tiny People
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Region	San Gabriel Valley
Capital	Shanghuang National Forest
Official Language(s)	Shangian, Eosimian, English
Leader	Alpha Male Shinooki
Population	3.197 billion
Currency	Seeds
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Shangia is a past tech nation. In fact it is very past tech in that the nation exists in the year 42 million BC. That is the time of the Shangians ancestors.

Natural Environment

Natural Environment: Shangia's terrain is entirely composed of tropical rainforest. In the east is Lake T'ai. In the north lays the Yangzte River. There are no large primate species here, but up to 16 different species of tiny primate competing in the same area.

People

People: The Shangians are tiny primates the size of the average human thumb. Each shangian foot is the size of a grain of sand. They walk on all fours and often leap from tree to tree. They were night creatures and very solitary. They had no time for useless socializing. They live in trees. Shangians have a very fast metabolism. They eat insects, fruit, nectar. They constantly live in fear of owls, who prey upon and eat unsuspecting Shangians.

Government

Government: No government, no political parties, no politics at all in fact. Shangian have no knowledge of politics.

Religion

Religions: There are no religions in Shangia. Shangians sometimes aren't even aware of their own existence, cause they are having so much fun hunting and consuming insects such as cockroaches, ants, grasshoppers, flies, etc.

Military

Military:Shangians have no military.

Ethnic Groups

Ethnic groups: Shangians, Omamyidae, Eosimians, Shoshonius, telanthropoids, haplorphines, tarsiidae. The Eosimians immediately broke off to make their own nation, right after the consolidation of Shangia into a nation.

Local Fauna

The fauna of Shangia are creatures that were around during the mid Eocene Epoch.

1. They included:

1. Uintatherium=ancient, distant cousin of horses, elephants and whales

10 -15 feet long and lived in North America and Asia Largest plant eater of in its time. It was small brained like the dinosaurs. Photo of Uintatherium:

2. Eobasileus cornuta =(horned dawn king)=rhino size, has saber canines, 6 bony knobs on its face, closely related to Uintatherium but a distinct animal.

3. The two birds in the photo above are Diatrymas. Six foot meat eating flightless bird which have been clocked at 45 miles an hour.

4.Mesonychids: Most mesonychids are the size and shape of large wolves or bears, although some are as small as foxes. Heavy robust skull armed with sharp canine teeth and huge round-cusped molar teeth, suitable not only for eating meat but also for crushing bone. The body is also very wolflike, with a long tail and limbs. Like many rl modern carnivores, mesonychids walk on the tips of their long toes, rather than flat-footed. Despite all these carnivorous adaptations, however, mesonychids are descended from hoofed mammals. The proof is in their toes, which have hooves rather than claws. They prefer dense forests. They catch their prey by ambushing it. They are not very fast predators and most modern mammals can easily outrun them. However, they are not specialized carnivores.

5.Andrewsarchus: In rl this was a whale ancestor. Four meters long, two meters high at the shoulder, and weighes almost four times as much as the largest known bear. It was carnivorous.

6.Brontotherium= 8 ft high at the shoulder. They are vegetarians who browse on vegetation.

7. Basilosaurus= The most common of the primitive whales. Has a streamlined body that averaged 45 to 70 feet in length. They remind people more of sea serpents than they do modern whales however. The head is five feet long. They use their front teeth to catch their prey. Basilosaurs prefer squid and fish. They are directly descended from the Mesonychids. They have well-defined incisors, canines, premolars, and multirooted molars. They have vestigial rear legs.

8.Palm trees and alligators, bats, fresh water fish like: Gars, Herring, and Sunfish)

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9.cattails grow in the shallows of all freshwater lakes.

10.Heptodon: An ancient tapir, its a vegie eater with a small snout. It lives near lakes.

11. Coryphodon= Short stocky limbs and 5-toed hoofed feet. It has a small brain but its tusks are big. Lives near lakes. Is a vegetarian.

12. Ants, cockroaches, fleas, beetles, dragonflies, mosquitos.

13. Hyracotheriums= small horses

14. Crabs

15. Cordylarths= a dog like mammal.

16. Walnut, elm and beech trees.

17. Diacodexis Rabbit-sized with longer limbs. The feet are very elongated, and the 3rd and 4th toes bear the most weight. In fact it has five toes. It can spread its hind limb out to the side. The ankle is reminds one of the modern hippos and pigs (of which it would become the common ancestor).

18. Helohyus= Larger than and similar to Diacodexis but relatively shorter & stouter limbs, with bulbous cusps on the molars.

19. Anthracotherium=dog sized ancestor of the modern hippo.

20. Propalaeochoerus= primitive piglike creature.

21. Homacodon= ancestor of the camel. Similar to Diacodexis.

22. Poebrodon= first camel in the world. Very primitive. A small, short-necked, four-toed animal with little hooves on each toe.

23. Indomeryx= Long- legged runners and bounders, with many primitive features, but with telltale transitional signs: Still 5 toes on front and 4 behind, but the side toes are smaller. Lower canine shaped like an incisor. The bone at the top of the skull is exposed above the skin.

24. Archaeomeryx=primitive rabbit sized creature.

25. Leptomeryx= rabbit sized creature.

26. Prodremotherium= primitive deer like animal.

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