Thel DRan
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| Motto: "The only raw material required to make hope is time." | |
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| Region | Lemuria |
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| Population | 2 - 3 billion |
| Currency | Bartering |
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The nation of Thel D'Ran entered the world stage on March 25, 2004 — at the behest of The Theocracy of Nandemo. Within two days, Magicality invited Thel to join the North Pacific forum and extended the first endorsement to the fledgling country.
Within the first three months in TNP, Thel D'Ran gained quite a bit of notoriety due to efforts to start an Olympic Games, offers to create member-level icons and a forum banner, and the still widely known (but temporarily halted) mapping project.
The map and efforts to assist Magicality's advertisement of the Constitution had raised Thel's endorsement tally to about 300 by mid-June. There were at that time no ambitions to try for the delegacy of TNP but the actions of UPS Rail and Great Bight changed the equation.
During July, Thel and others organized the Government-in-Exile (or GiE) and attempted to organize the wide variety of maverick efforts and quixotic charges at retaking the delegacy from Great Bight. Simultaneously, a coalition of defender organizations were arranging the Puppet Attack.
While in exile, in the region Avengers Assemble, Thel established a list of a few objectives to accomplish if the North Pacific should be restored to the "native" population. After the Liberation, Thel was made the delegate and served in that office for 42-days. Upon addressing all of the items on the objectives list, Thel retired from office and began working on the region Lemuria (which was established by the puppet nation — Federal Lemuria — on April 21, 2004).
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Thel has been the D’Rani word for hope for over two thousand years and – for nearly as long – it has been the name of its people’s oldest settlement. The land that would one day be host to the headquarters of the North Pacific Geographical Society was discovered by Europeans in 1595.
Debate remains to this day whether Alvaro Mendana y Neira intended the Spanish appellation for the tribelands as a play on his own family’s name or as a bid to impress a certain woman of good breeding in the Basque Country. Nuevo Mendata was also never officially colonized, according to recently found documents, but it nevertheless became and important hub of the silk and silver trade – in the provisioning of convoys. Beginning in 1606, as a near direct result of the rebellion in the Netherlands, Spain enacted laws and restrictions in the Mendata of the Pacifics that would forever instill in the D’Rani a remarkable resistance to meaningless or inexplicable acts of authority. Owing to this and the cousin tribes on the rest of the island of Mu – in conjunction with Dutch and Scottish (q. v.) presence in Lemuria – wide-spread abuse of Spanish power in the North Pacific was significantly curtailed.
And by the time of Colonel Leon Garcia Herrero was appointed governor to the territory, the old methods were already giving place to an unusually progressive relationship with the native population. Herrero, during much of the 1730s, is said to have studied the region’s culture and is now believed to have resorted to primitive witchcraft to foresee the Russian and Spanish wars over the Pacific territories (1743-49, 1756, 1774-1781). By the third and last of these conflicts, Herrero was still quite involved in the regular organization of D’Rani tribal bands into true battalions. The last of the Europeans to hold an office in Thel was Arias Herrero de Reyes – Leon Garcia’s grandson.
On May 6, 1830, Governor Arias granted provisional independence to D’Rani indigenes and within a generation they had become a legitimate and self-sustaining republic – as some would say it has been in ancient times. On this same Independence Day, in 1899, the nation adopted the name The Most Serene Republic of Thel D’Ran.
