Kurui

Kurui

Flag of Kurui
Motto: "Enjoy your independence whilst our leader can spell it"
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Region	Common Realms Alliance Pacific
Capital	Kyoukurui
Official Language(s)	English
Leader	IdioC
Population	5.00 million
Currency	Tibaag
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Kurui

Kurui is a small volcanic mountain island in the Pacific. http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=58619

History

The island of Kurui itself came into being through volcanic processes - the Kasankurui erupted many kilometres underground, and as the magma cooled in the pacific, the hardened rock formed the small island of Kurui. In terms of peoples on the island, there are two main groups that now co-exist. The indiginous peoples, the Konin ("old people"), must have settled on the island many centuries ago - something had to explain the lack of bathtubs on the island. They did however possess other, somewhat original, talents, such as mudbaking fish (still the national dish to due lack of creativity), weaving rushes to make protective shoes, shipbuilding and regular free diving contests in the beaches near where modern Gake ("Cliffs") is today (in attempt to inpress their water god into rising to prevent the fire god (who supposedly lived in the volcano) from burning their backsides with molten lava). The Konin were discovered in 1942 by Japanese expansionist forces who, having been torpedoed by US ships, could no longer change their bearings. They disembarked and set up a port with their limited supplies at Konlage ("Old Landing"). They saw several of the old tribal peoples and decided that killing the somewhat primitive and underarmed Konin would be dishonourable. Besides befriending them would be best in order for them to get food and actually stand a chance of living. Some of the Konin castes assaulted Konlage with spears and whilst this habit didn't sour the relations too much, the Konin soon began to appreciate that firearms weren't really worth messing with. That said, the Japanese did take casulties themselves. Spears pierced the simple huts, shower blocks, bar, and small casino that the Japanese had set up. The senior Konin visited the stranded Japanese in early 1944 having just received word of the assaults by his tribe (36 carrier birds had been sent up to this point, but 12 got lost, 3 decided to go on strike via the unions and a further 20 were shot down by the Japanese for food(this is of course, not counting the one who made it, who was ceremonially clay baked on his success)). The somewhat reduced Japanese (who were only 50 strong at this point due to diseases, spears and starvation) accepted a peace offer from them, and on a tour of the makeshift camp, the indiginous peoples first saw commerce. On a tour of the island, the Japanese were taken around the coastlines, treated with remedies of the Konin (some of which, sadly were poisonous) at Himori ("Fire Forest", the old capital) , and with their combined knowledges and decline of the Japanese expansion due to WW2 changing direction, the two people formed a new state. Some say the reason the Japanese agreed so willingly was because of the tactical position the trees provided for mortar shelling random passing US destroyers. Over the next decade, the Kuruinin established the basis for the system of government, and founded the 2 remaining major settlements on the island (Gake, and the new capital Kyoukurui.). The Konin built several boats in 1953 and arranged to take the Japanese home to their lands using maps left behind from their landings. This caused problems due to the annexing of Japanese islands by the Americans, Chinese and Chinese, and was a long and very indirect journey. Flying the naval ensign from the old ship, they encountered a small destroyer heading for Kobe and so let them depart to see their loved ones. The Konin, using more modern exploratory techniques acquired from the ship, encoutered another tribe around the lake on the river having followed it from the Kasankurui. The other tribe were never given a name by the Konin and their own name not recovered. When the other tribe assaulted the Konin with old stone hand tools and arrows, the Konin were at first driven back and afraid of these new technologies. Another search of the Japanese boat revealed several automatic weapons, which pushed the other tribe back into their "Key point community" (Misokyokyou), which was conquered in 1957 and became an excellent fishing centre. The old tribe's domain formed the border of the Misokyokyou regional border. Mudbaking trebled almost straight away. Unknown to the Konin at the time, the Japanese whom they had helped returned to the island in 1963 had returned with building materials for what the senior administration had hoped would become a Japanese colony(having caught wind of the island first, all the names on the island are known to the world in Japanese), and had forced the helped naval crew into navigating them there. Whilst the initial expanse into Kurui was quick, the Konin held them back using the weapons abandoned earlier, preventing them from entering the Himori itself using stealth tactics in the woodland. Several months of Japanese repeated assaults on the Himori only pushed them back slightly, even though the Himori had long run out of ammunition and had resorted to tribal spears. Taking the archery technologies from the tribe at Misokyokyou, and developing them in terms of range and accuracy helped the sheltered Himori take out Japanese invaders on the grasslands around Konlage. The attition ended later the same year when the Konin took uniforms and took military installations by stealth and cover of night, and hence the ammunition present as well. Konlage fell soon after, and the building supplies and the Japanese crewmen from '42 were found. With all the new materials of the "Japanese tourist" industrial expansion, the island's infrastructure was upgraded and more modern settlements built. Kurui has not been assaulted with military force since, and with co-operations and open commerce since, Japanese-Kurinin relations have been somewhat repaired. The isle of Atacama (of no relation to the desert) was discovered to the Kurui in 1981 by shipping trawlers and having been ravaged by the eruption of a different volcano, the Kuruinin provided supplies and shelter for the island's citizens until the island was safe to re-inhabit. As a payoff, the Kuruinin placed mudded fish around the warm magma after it had began to solidify - whilst the Atacamans still got some of the food to start off afresh, the Kuruinin still regard the Atacaman earths as producing a better mudbake. The Atacamans have acquired Kuruinin ideas since, but still refuse to accept commerce, and all financial goings on are controlled centrally. Technologically, the Atacamans have been restricted by this and so are more-or-less dependant on Kurui for supplies. Kasankurui erupted in 1992, but only singed trees because not many settlements exist out of the main ones. 1995 saw the worst diving disaster off of Gake during the traditional contest when a walkway collapsed, sending 30 to their deaths. In 1998, Radio was introduced to Kurui, and Atacama accidentally at the same time. The media changed hereonin to satify news on both nations. In 2000, nothing much happened. In 2004, the Common Realms Alliance Pacific was formed between the two nations as a mutual defence pact. Japan is yet to be approached on joining, as are several over nations in the Pacific.

Culture

Kurui as a nation is a very liberal and relaxed nation with excellent civil rights and political freedoms. The Economy is still developing due to the relatively new infrastructure. The country has no official state religion. Kurui's military exists almost purely for national defense and the very pacifistic nature of the nation could be related to it's very recent discovery compared to other countries, old spiritual ways or simple absence of desire to invade. The national dish is the claybaked salmon, although since 1981 the country has been swayed towards Atacaman earths for their better suitablility for mudbaking.