Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia | |
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| Capital and largest city | [[]] |
| Official languages | English |
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| Demonym(s) | Nova Scotian |
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• Founding of Nova Scotia | 17 May 2022 |
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| Driving side | left |
Nova Scotia is a country.
History
The Nova Scotians have a long and complex history which has now passed into myth for the people themselves. Their only knowledge of their ancient history comes from the 'Cult of Mouth-Smile', whose esoteric translations mystify Nova Scotian scholars. What actually happened is that some time in late twenty-first century Earth, Scotland became independent from the United Kingdom, and amidst political and economic instability, increasingly became influenced by China. To Nova Scotians, Scotland and China now seem to have always been the same thing -- a great polity they call Old Glasgow. Their flag, adapted from the logo of the Glasgow Subway, is believed to be the imperial standard of the Wallace Dynasty, whose great leader, Wallace William, united heaven and earth in Old Glasgow.
After many years of cultural integration between China and Scotland, a group of Scots on a trading mission through the Northwest Passage found themselves lost in a storm and then suddenly transported to another world. Plummeting to the snowy peaks of the Air Nation, they discovered that in this world they could control the air, and so they flew to safety. Soon, these early Nova Scotians came to love their airbending abilities and enthusiastically took up the local Empyrean religion. However, they would take the religion in strange directions, probably influenced by Old Glaswegian philosophy. The dichotomy between Open Sky and Substance was very important for the Nova Scotians, who connected it with heaven and earth and the authority of the monarch. The monarch's legitimacy came from their role as Child of Heaven and ability to unite Open Sky and Substance, but increasingly Open Sky was seen as mysterious and complex. This led to a class of priests called Kenners who claimed to be able to interpret the Open Sky, particularly as it manifested itself in the monarch's unconciousness. The early practice of confession, inherited from some Old Glaswegian cults, became the principal way of interpreting the will of the monarch, rather than the monarch's explicit statements. Soon the Kenners became the most powerful members of society, amassing personal wealth through their abillity to manipulate the monarch, whose role was pushed into a ceremonial one. Whilst only a few Kenners were able to influence the monarch, their brand of Empyreanism influenced the whole local clergy. Confession spread to the whole of society, particularly nobles and landowners, and this highly divergent strand of Empyreanism was dubbed Kennism. The influence of Kennism continued to grow, and a complex religious bureaucracy began to control more of Nova Scotians.
After a few generations like this, the ambitions of the Kenners exceeded the tolerance of the Air Nation, whilst all acknowledged the great divergence between Empyreanism and Kennism. It was therefore lucky that their differences could be resolved amicably, as the Nova Scotians went into voluntary exile to the far west of the world. The monarchy was set up on the towering islands west of Ratzores, whilst the most powerful Kenners, calling themselves First Ministers after an Old Glaswegian custom, carved out the rest of the lands into personal fiefdoms. The First Ministers also created a parliament on the the other mountainous island where they would hear the monarch's confessions and then decide policy amongst themselves. Despite the great ambition of the First Ministers, strict taboos on grabbing power exist amongst them, which, along with a rigid bureaucracy, keep Nova Scotia in a comparatively stable domestic situation.
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