Demonym: Raginheimer
Capital: Biaumont
Key cities: Vauclegne and Burgon
Official language: Grotthain
Total population: 72,432,467
Total land area: 632,237 km²
Currency: Chassel
Government: Unitary affective-harmony state
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Ontological status (Post-Great war): A weak signal has been received from the former state. Additional contact is expected in the near future
About Raginheim:
Raginheim was never loved - only tolerated at best, feared at worst. Across the region, it was known for calculated diplomacy, opportunistic statecraft, and an unflinching willingness to betray any partner once its objectives were secured. It possessed no true allies, only temporary arrangements. Even Toutanglom and Draviskas kept their distance, cooperating with Raginheim only when necessity outweighed caution, bound not by trust but by the brief alignment of enemies.
On paper, Raginheim's military strength appeared unremarkable. Its conventional forces were slightly weaker than those of several neighboring states, yet this imbalance was offset by one of the most feared arsenals in Eldervale: chemical weapons capable of erasing entire zones of habitation, leaving landscapes silent and uninhabitable. Often, the mere implication of their use was enough. Raginheim did not rely on overwhelming power - only on reminding others what it was willing to do.
Relations with neighboring states were almost uniformly strained, shaped by contested borders, economic rivalry, lingering grievances, and old humiliations that never quite faded. The founding of the Thauris Republic marked one of the few moments when Raginheim chose unity over isolation, but the alliance ended in betrayal, reinforcing its reputation and permanently poisoning regional trust. Its rivalries with Lepondunon and Morthen endured for centuries, driven by mutual insecurity as much as ambition. There was a time when Raginheim ranked among Eldervale's dominant powers; during Ornazia's many conquests, it was often deliberately bypassed - not out of mercy, but caution. The cost of provoking it was judged too high.
That calculus changed during the Fall of 203. As neighboring states united, Raginheim was overwhelmed. Cities burned, landscapes were scarred beyond recognition, and the state collapsed under the weight of coordinated assault. The devastation of this period remains the darkest chapter in Raginheim's memory, a wound never fully healed. Recovery was partial and fragile. In the centuries that followed, regimes rose and fell with alarming frequency, few surviving longer than five decades. External ambition gave way to internal instability, and political unrest became endemic. Yet by the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Raginheim grew quieter. Stability returned cautiously, not through dominance but through refinement. The state rebuilt and extended its influence through subtler means, learning that power did not always need to announce itself.
In the far north of Burgon stands the Mirror House, a low, stacked brutalist mass that appears cracked open under pressure. Its facade combines matte violet panels with deep-set mirrored strips, subtly angled so that festival lights fracture across the surface in broken ribbons of reflection. Entry is gained through a tall vertical slit leading into a short, compressed tunnel that forces visitors to slow and adjust. Inside, the structure unfolds in three emotional acts: a narrow mirrored corridor where reflections fragment and violet floor lighting pulses hypnotically; wider pathways where mirrors curve, fog gathers, and motion triggers distant reverbs and whispering chimes; and finally a tall circular chamber where distortion recedes, lunar light fills the space, and a single undistorted Truth Mirror stands at the center. After prolonged fragmentation, clarity becomes confrontation. Pathways loop gently, each containing small breathing pockets for rest, while concealed staff corridors allow unseen control. Lighting shifts subtly every few minutes, never abruptly, always perceptually.
Beneath this architecture lies a deeper capability. Raginheim developed psychological and neurological techniques capable of inducing reduced-awareness states in which subjects would follow commands immediately. Effects could last from an hour to an entire day, with more advanced methods allowing emotional manipulation and selective memory erasure. These techniques were later taught to Ventrois, extending Raginheim's influence beyond its borders. On the global black market, Raginheim also became infamous for narcotics of exceptional quality - potent, precise, and remarkably low in side effects - further entrenching its shadow economy. Raginheim learned long ago that control need not be loud. Sometimes, the most dangerous power is the one that feels almost gentle.
Brief modern history:
I. THE THAURIS REPUBLIC AND THE ZETA FLU (1172–1195)
Thauris was formed in 1172 through the unification of Hleidisland, Morthen, and Raginheim to counter Ornazian expansion. After more than twenty years, Raginheim - fearing Hleidisland's growing dominance - secretly orchestrated Thauris's collapse. With assistance from Toutanglom and Draviskas, Raginheim developed a man-made influenza strain. The Zeta Flu was released in 1195, striking Hleidisland severely and Morthen moderately. Raginheim's own limited exposure (fewer than 2,000 deaths) avoided suspicion. Thauris dissolved.
II. THE TRICHORYNE OPERATION AND THE STILAFARAN NARCOTICS REGIME (1199–1200)
Under mounting public pressure, head of state Gundemar Hrodwulfing resigned on 8 January 1199, appointing Sigiric Baldthar as successor. Within two months, Gundemar initiated release of Trichoryne - a chemical airborne agent designed to calm the population, dull emotions, and foster obedience. The initial formulation remained active for approximately two hours.
Under the Stilafaran Operation (started 1200), authorities introduced these compounds into food and water supplies. After six years, narcotics became embedded in daily life. The illicit drug trade became a central pillar of the state's economy.
III. THE BATTLE OF THE REDS AND THE WAR WITH MORTHEN (1222)
Between 1215 and 1221, numerous skirmishes occurred between Morthen and Raginheim. Raginheim declared war on Morthen on 20 February 1222 - the immediate cause being a soldier who overslept and missed duty, mistaken for a hostage.
Raginheim launched rapid offensives deploying Dautumistus (red-colored chemical agent). Within two months, Raginheim captured most of western Morthen. Morthen proposed peace; treaty signed on 15 March 1222. No territorial changes. Primary objectives: cease border threats and test chemical weapons.
IV. THE LEPONDUNON WAR AND THE UINDOBRIGA ANNEXATION (1234–1240)
War broke out on 3 June 1234. Raginheim deployed Nachtwehen and Schwarzbrand-IX across Lepondunon territory, causing mass civilian casualties and forcing Lepondunon into full-scale war. Raginheim advanced deep into enemy territory.
Stalemate (1237–1239). Raginheim suffered significant losses at Dubrona, Segomagos, and most critically at Uxella (three months, continuous assaults, psychological warfare).
Early 1240: Raginheim exploited a weakened northeastern sector. Peace treaty signed 18 March 1240 - Raginheim gained approximately 13 percent of Lepondunon territory and substantial reparations. Decisive victory.
V. THE MARKTOFFEN POLICY AND THE ALARIC ASSASSINATION (1244–1251)
Under the Marktoffen Policy (1244), most common narcotics became openly available in regulated markets. The Ruhehalle - public chambers with calming gases - were constructed.
On 6 December 1251, head of state Alaric von Eisenwald was assassinated by a gunman. The Niwamarka Wegun der Gemeino Folkarbeit (NWGF) and Folkwartun Fridamacht des Landis (FFL) - reactionary groups seeking to restore Thauris - emerged.
Armed clashes concentrated in northern regions. The Skeldmark Blackout (8 April 1252) - five days of fighting in total darkness. Reactionary forces retreated. Within five months, most leadership was captured and executed. Stricter regulations followed.
VI. THE UINDOBRIGA WAR AND THE TRG UPRISING (1268–1274)
On 3 October 1268, Touta Rigos Uindos (TRG) emerged in annexed Lepondunon territories, assassinated an official, and demanded reunification with Lepondunon.
TRG relied on guerrilla warfare in mountainous terrain. Siege of Segomagos (6 November–20 December 1269) - devastating rebel casualties. Raginheim failed to capture key strongholds (Nerios, Brigantion, Brigilos). The most brutal engagement was Albiiona (August 1272) - nearly the entire town destroyed, population annihilated. TRG refused to capitulate.
Continuous guerrilla attacks and harsh environment led to sustained attrition. In 1274, after immense expenditure with no strategic benefit, Raginheim agreed to transform Uindobriga into an autonomous zone - political and strategic defeat.
VII. THE HLEIDISLAND WARS (1277–1282)
First War (1277–1279): Hleidisland concluded the Zeta Flu originated within Raginheim. Declared war on 7 November 1279. Raginheim aligned with Toutanglom and Draviskas (the Coalition). Raginheim's forces were decisively outmatched. Western–northern front collapsed. Battle of Richenvalde (20 January 1280) and Battle of Kaltenbourg (6 February 1280) - Raginheim suffered near-total destruction (fewer than 200 survivors from approximately 40,000). Chemical weapons proved ineffective. Fall of Grotthain marked final collapse. Peace treaty signed 12 September 1280: substantial reparations, cession of approximately eight percent of territory.
Second War (1281–1282): After eight months, Raginheim - alongside Toutanglom and Draviskas - executed terrorist attacks within Hleidisland-controlled territories. Hleidisland declared war on all three. Coalition initially pushed Hleidisland out of several regions, but internal disagreements weakened the front. Hleidisland counterattacked.
The Long Watch (from 26 June 1282): Defense of four strategic locations: Montbreche, Clairvold, Dornemarc, and the Ragfluss River line - final gateway to the capital. Defenders endured continuous artillery, starvation, medical shortages. Reinforcements traveled through tunnel networks used as makeshift medical facilities. Soldiers fought for days without sleep. Hleidisland breached the line but was driven back. The battlefield was entirely saturated with blood. Raginheim held.
Second treaty signed 3 October 1282: Raginheim recognized Hleidisland's annexation of occupied territories and paid additional reparations. Raginheim was defeated, but the Long Watch became a defining national legend.
VIII. INTERWAR RECOVERY AND MILITARY MODERNIZATION (1283–1291)
30 February 1283: Montbreche, Clairvold, Dornemarc, and Ragfluss River recognized as national historical heritage sites.
New chemical agents developed: Morndrauch (respiratory failure, stroke-like symptoms) and Ulmar (severe corrosive skin damage). Himmelspeer - high-speed aerial dispersal device - engineered.
IX. THE SECOND GREAT WAR OF ELDERVALE - RAGINHEIM THEATRE (1291–1294)
28 October 1291: Raginheim declared war on Hleidisland. Operation Dämmerkranz - sustained offensives. Raginheim reclaimed most lost territories within weeks, advancing to within kilometers of Hleidisland mainland. Raginheim sought peace; Hleidisland rejected.
Hleidisland counteroffensives recaptured Stainaburgs Fortress (19 February 1292). One year later, Hleidisland reclaimed Grotthain. Raginheim committed substantial resources to capital defense. Hleidisland ultimately could not sustain further advances.
5 May 1293: Lepondunon, united with the autonomous zone, declared war on Raginheim. Raginheim successfully halted initial advances but was forced into defensive posture - more than half its forces remained engaged against Hleidisland. Two-front stalemate.
Raginheim intensified chemical weapon use. Gundarvik Massacre (6–9 March 1293) - Hleidisland forces committed massacres in occupied territories, provoking outrage.
Operation Schattensaat (one week after Gundarvik): Counteroffensive against both Hleidisland and Lepondunon. Recaptured approximately forty percent of lost territories before stalling.
Liquid-based agent Varn introduced - green corrosive liquid causing extremely painful deterioration, deployed via aerial dispersal as corrosive rainfall. Lepondunon forces were halted at the Rheinfahl River.
Pax of Seraphic (5 July 1294): Raginheim signed. All lost territories restored. Uindobriga permanently ceded to Lepondunon. War portrayed as victory in official propaganda.
X. POST-WAR RECOVERY AND THE LEX BRUNATH TREUVOR PURGE (1294–1312)
Postwar reconstruction focused on reintegrating returned territories. In 1301, the Brunvar Khemnora Complex - underground facility (approximately 4 km x 4 km, depth nearly 1 km) - was established for narcotics and chemical agent production.
1305–1310: Raginheim adopted a more open diplomatic posture emphasizing narcotics and chemical trade.
May 1312: Lex Brunath Treuvor - intensive investigative and judicial campaign prosecuting corrupt officials. Most comprehensive political purge in Raginheim's history. Many received life sentences; limited number executed.
XI. THE POLITICAL VACUUM AND THE GUNDRELTHA VARNEHILD REGIME (1352–1355)
5–16 August 1352: Following the death of Leothar de Virebourg, political vacuum. Leothar appointed Waldric Treuvane as successor, but Treuvane proved weak. Remor Klarstein declared himself head of state. Gundreltha Varnehild ordered Remor's assassination and seized control.
Gundreltha detained political opponents. Under her leadership, Raginheim entered rapid development. Lex der Erneuerten Krone introduced a civic contribution credit system (welfare benefits for verified community service). State care houses were established in every district.
XII. THE PRELUDE TO THE THIRD GREAT WAR (1355–1369)
From 1355, Gundreltha heavily invested in experimental chemical and narcotic technologies - many previous agents significantly enhanced and rendered more lethal.
In 1369, Gundreltha collapsed one morning from prolonged overwork and severe sleep deprivation. Following recovery, she adjusted her routine and continued to lead the state until the onset of the Third Great War.
Ideology: La Doctrine de la Visage Donnée
In Raginheim, emotion has never been regarded as a natural or sacred human response. Rather, it is understood as a contingent phenomenon—a mutable state that arises only when conditions permit. Given sufficient structure, suppression, and guidance, emotion can be produced, diminished, or reshaped at will. What others mistake for spontaneity, Raginheim recognizes as a failure of regulation.
From this premise emerges the core purpose of the state: to achieve absolute social harmony and operational efficiency through the systematic regulation, standardization, and, when necessary, suppression of disruptive private emotions. The state does not exist merely to govern territory or law, but to curate a stable and predictable public affect in service of the collective good. Emotion, left unmanaged, introduces volatility; volatility produces inefficiency; inefficiency breeds conflict; conflict culminates in suffering. Thus, emotional governance is not oppression in Raginheim's philosophy—it is prevention.
The ideology holds that public emotional expression must conform to state-sanctioned scripts calibrated to each social context. The correct performance of emotion—precise, legible, and appropriate—is regarded as a higher civic virtue than authentic but unpredictable feeling. Societal peace is not built upon the celebration of personal passion, but upon its removal. Individual volatility is replaced with a managed, shared emotional landscape in which no citizen's inner turbulence is permitted to destabilize the whole.
In this framework, the ideal citizen does not experience emotion passively. Emotion is instead treated as a tool—to be deployed deliberately when required, and set aside when not. For every social situation, there exists one correct emotional response; it is the citizen's duty to learn this response and perform it flawlessly. A citizen's face, posture, and tone must remain publicly legible, clearly reflecting the sanctioned emotion of the moment. Emotional inscrutability is considered antisocial, as it obstructs collective coherence. In matters of public importance, the officially decreed collective emotion is the only legitimate sentiment; any private feeling to the contrary is politically null. Emotion is not a right—it is a responsibility.
Raginheim's political philosophy treats human emotion as inherently chaotic, selfish, and socially destabilizing. Unchecked, it drives individuals to privilege personal desire over collective need, producing disorder. Therefore, emotion is considered malleable, requiring clear external guidance to shape individuals into a harmonious collective whole. Emotion, in its ideal form, is a blank medium—a perfected tabula rasa upon which the state may inscribe function, restraint, and purpose.
In its ideal expression, the state designs and disseminates official emotional scripts for all public life and for many private life events. Citizens are trained in emotional performance from an early age, learning a standardized canon of facial expressions, vocal tones, and gestures corresponding to each sanctioned emotion. To maintain systemic stability, the state operates specialized facilities for citizens suffering from overwhelming or non-conforming emotions. These institutions do not punish; they correct. Through therapeutic suppression and guided recalibration, individuals are returned to a neutral, compliant baseline from which they may once again function harmoniously within society.
Addition:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/618752436373464353/ (The national flag)