Weegies
People who inhabit The Weegies are known as Weegies, rather than the more commonly thought Weegians. The reason for this is due to the largest island of Weegia, which used the descriptive term of Weegians for those people who strictly come from Weegia far before the complete unification of The Weegies. In fact, due to various inter-island rivalries, mostly by held by the "Lesser Isles" against Weegia, it is a major faux pas for a native of the "Lesser Isles" to be referred to as a Weegian - it gets many of them very irritated. Old grudges die hard.
Most of the people of The Weegies are of Weegie origin, whose decendants can be traced far back into the islands' history. They are by far the majority, making up around three-quarters of the population. The rest are mostly Svea Rigan or have Svea Rigan descendants, although people from other CACE nations, economic migrants, asylum seekers, and other sentient species also make up a sizable minority, especially in the major cities.
While of course it is not always the case, Weegies are generally considered to be talkative, honest, compassionate, friendly, and open people, passionate about their beliefs, who will certainly talk for hours if you strike up a conversation with them, especially if it's some sort of debate, since they also find arguing a good way to pass the time. They also have a heavy disrespect for authority, and their tendency towards savage satire of authority figures (their friendliness does not extend to them, unfortunately), especially those who are pretentious, snobby, or patronising, have left many egos punctured once they have entered Mackintosh. Sometimes Weegie honesty goes beyond bluntness, however, and this combined with their love of irony and exceptionally black humour does leave some visitors wondering whether the Weegies like them and are merely kidding, or dislike them, and are going to confer upon the visitor some sort of personal injury. Don't worry - nowadays it's always the former. A tendency to hold a grudge, which has led to the various inter-island, inter-city, and inter-family rivalries that have sprung up over the years, is a more unfortunate trait of most Weegies.
Almost all Weegies speak Celdonian as well as the old language of the islands, although the way many Weegies speak it, many visitors would be hard pressed to understand any of the Celdonian the Weegies speak. Weegie Celdonian is a curious dialect, formed from the slang of the Svea Rigan workers most Weegies learned Celdonian from, corrupted forms of Celdonian words, celdonification of Weegie words to different meanings, and outright incorporation of old Weegie words into Celdonian. Which all adds up to a dialect where not even many of the small words like "and" or "all" are intact, and since it is often pronounced in a thick, fast accent, language problems for any visitors, even those for whom Celdonian is their first language, are painfully apparent. All Weegie diplomats do speak Celdonian "perfectly", as well as other major languages, to smooth communication, so it's quite likely that in most incidents the Weegie Celdonian dialect will be kept under wraps. Unless the diplomat gets angry. Or drunk.
