I am Queen of a Federation which can trace its founding clansman back to the soils of Dal Rathia. As such I take no pleasure in announcing that like our Celtic cousins of Ui Cenneslaig and Arcaibh we shall in three days time halt direct transport between the two Federations. While we do not share a land border this will mean flights will not permitted to fly directly nor shall we permit their ships to dock unless in case of emergencies.

We believe that the plan put forward by King Finley should be the path followed to find a resolution that allows those of us with Celtic blood to return to a kind and loving relationship towards each other.

Queen Talulla of Cónaidhm na Ruasliabh

The National University for Science has today confirmed that the series of small tremors in the region of Mount Ardagh suggest that the mountain is likely to erupt in the next few weeks. The volcano is central to the nations folklore and records show that it erupts roughly every 200 years. With the last eruption coming in 1798 it is overdue. The Aos Si faith believe that volcano is a way for the spirit world to enter our world and that an eruption is usually an omen for great change within the world. Experts have for decades now monitored a series of seismic sensors in the region to monitor its behaviour and that of several other small volcanoes across the nation. While most are classed as "highly unlikely" to erupt scientists have warned those visiting the region, which is mainly upland cattle grazing, to be prepared to take precautions.

Edward Finn is one of those sheep farmers who live close to Ardagh. "In the back of your mind its always been thought we might have to do something but you always believe that perhaps it will have erupted its last. Now we're likely going to see it for ourselves. Most farms have various defences that date back hundreds of years, ditches, barriers and the like. We've been told that if an eruption takes place it is likely to mainly just cover the ground with some ash and be an extremely slow lava flow that will not be a threat. Our biggest concern is what impact it could have on the feed for animals."

The government have prepared the military to step in should circumstances demand it with them already beginning to stockpile animal feed at various depots.

A week ago Chulalok had been Prince of one half of the Lan Na people of Ardia. Now he was King of all of them, granted his power was much less than that of his fathers and he would have to defer to President Varit Sodsri on many matters but he would still have a chance to help his people. The week since unification had been a whirlwind. First his own coronation, a much less grand affair than his fathers but still a happy one. Then he had a series of meetings with Sodsri to put this together. Beyond the Alanders and the odd informal connection with Lijiang the nation had next to no real relationships , at least not in their new guise. With that in mind they had put a call into the Alanders to request some introductions and the first was the suggestion of meeting the Morelanders, a nation well established in international diplomacy and one of the more stable nation on the globe.

It was for that reason the new King and Vice President Sunthorn Panyarachun had flown to East Moreland in hopes of establishing some form of friendship with the East Moreland Kingdom.

There has been evidence of continious habitation in the area today known as Lan Na since 20,000 years ago with evidence of organised rice farming going back to around 2,000 BCE while Bronze tools have been found from around 1,500 BCE onwards. The region saw the raise of various Kingdoms and Empires over the years until the Khmon people began stamping their authority over the region. This is largely due to the fact that in around 600 BCE they seemed to master iron production and controlled the coastal regions. Lots of the inland regions however were home to the Tambra people who lacked the same access to resources were soon brought under the authority of the Khmon monarchy and utilised as slave labour.

The Khmon utilised their new slave labour force to build impressive settlements and temple complexes. The Khmon believed in the faith that is largely still followed in Lan Na today known as Yaśodism. This faith holds central the belief that a God known as Yaśod created all things and gave humanity a set of rules to follow. By obtaining mastery over these rules a person could ascend to a paradise in a spirit world. The faith also believes in reincarnation and the Khmon believed that they were the group as close to paradise as any other on Mundus and so by "allowing" the Tambra to carry out the menial work of the Khmon. This created a two tier society that allowed the Khmon to further entrench their authority because of religious dogma. They focused on academic works, scholarship, theology and various other pursuits they believed would get them into paradise.

This system fell apart in the 1350's when one of the key Khmon cities, Ayuttha, was abandoned. A disease, today thought to be the Bubonic Plague, however at times of great hardship the Yaśodist faith carry out animal sacrifices, with the situation getting more and more desperate the priesthood permitted human sacrifice and when this still did not work a young Prince called Ramesuan was even sacrificed. This still did not get rid of the plague and so people fled the settlement and this caused a chain reaction seeing the Khmon network of settlements to essentially collapse. This saw the emergence of a few Tambra commanded regions as the area split into several kingdoms.

In the 1620's a Khmon King known as Mangrai Kanarot married a Princess called Phra Mueang of a Tambra Kingdom. The two hatched a plot to seize both Kingdoms and form a single nation. Over the next few years the two lead armies across their land which they named Lan Na and formed the borders of the modern day nation. The Kanarot dynasty lasted for the next 300 years until the nation division of the nation.

Under the Kanarot dynasty there was lots of attempts made to return to the glory of the time before the Bubonic Plague. The big difference however was the Kanarot Dynasty saw no division between Khmon and Tambra. Appointments to senior administrative positions came through rigourous exams carried out by the Royal Estate, criminals and their families were sentenced to slavery, sometimes for a number of generations. This lead to a system many would consider fuedal with a group of elite nobles, there was however mobility into this elite through service to the Priesthood, showing valor in battle or dedication to the civil service. The Kanarot's believed deeply in education as one of the cornerstones of their faith is to gain knowledge and read scripture. It is likely that Lan Na had one of the first nationwide educational systems for all by 1637 following the Decree of Wisdom.

Lan Na formally ended slavery in 1702 following the Gathering of the Robes, a meeting of the leading Priests of the Yaśodist, which had attempted to unify the main sects of the faith. One of the rulings they gave was that the monarch was selected by Yaśod and had a mandate to lead but the ruling stated only spiritually, it was this loophole that gave the uprsing in the late 1920's an excuse to remove the monarch as their governmental leader. The Gathering of Robes also outlawed the practice of slavery stating that it prevented an individual from following pursuits to gain paradise. Since then only criminals themselves were permitted to be sentenced to slavery, a practice that is still utilisied in a more modern form today. Under the Kanarot's the nation maintained significant internal stability until the early 20th Century.

In the 1920's the Kingdom of Lan Na found itself in a period of flux. What had once been a nation ruled over by the Kanarot dynasty with an iron fist found itself with an unusually weak monarch. King Tawan IV was 16 years of age when he inherited the throne and with six sisters making up the rest of the family many a adviser saw an opportunity to gain power themselves. Tired of seeing the rest of the world progress the Lan Naian's found themselves still yoked to a feudal style system. Under the influence of Nawat Pongpanu, a sympathetic tax collector, groups of peasants calling themselves "Mudboots" began an uprising across the nation. By 1934 the nation was ripped asunder, to the east the Democratic Republic of Lan Na was formed under the leadership of President Nawat Pongpanu, to the west the Kingdom of Lan Na clung to what power it still had thanks to the support of the religiously minded.

In 1993 this arrangement began to fall apart as a series of natural disasters hit the twin nations, floods, earthquakes, a tsunami and then a famine began to weaken both nations. It was then in 1997 that a virus spread killing around 2million people pushing the two nations into co-operation. In 2000 mediators from The Union of Nordic People intervened with the two as they began discussions and it was agreed that the two would begin working towards a possible reunification and in 2020 a referendum would be help as to whether the general public wanted to reunify under a draft constitution. This constitution had featured 1000 people from each nation being involved and when completed saw the monarchy of the Kingdom granted some sovereignty over the east of the nation however in return they would have little input into the nations foreign and economic policy.  The constitution was accepted 68% to 32% with a 78% national turn out. As a result it was agreed that  on the 31st August 2021 the two nations would reunite to form the United Tongxiao States.

	Democratic Republic of Lan Na	Kingdom of Lan Na	United Lan Na States
Population	38,500,000	33,000,000	71500000
Capital	Mueang	Songkhram	TBD
GDP per capita	$8,567	$6,435	$7,583
Main Industries	Heavy Manufacturing Food Processing Textiles	Agriculture Fishing Mining	N/A
Life Expectancy	76 years	71 years	73.6
Literacy Rate	89%	71%	80.6%

In the 1920's the Kingdom of Lan Na found itself in a period of flux. What had once been a nation ruled over by the Kanarot dynasty with an iron fist found itself with an unusually weak monarch. King Tawan IV was 16 years of age when he inherited the throne and with six sisters making up the rest of the family many a adviser saw an opportunity to gain power themselves. Tired of seeing the rest of the world progress the Lan Naian's found themselves still yoked to a feudal style system. Under the influence of Nawat Pongpanu, a sympathetic tax collector, groups of peasants calling themselves "Mudboots" began an uprising across the nation. By 1934 the nation was ripped asunder, to the east the Democratic Republic of Lan Na was formed under the leadership of President Nawat Pongpanu, to the west the Kingdom of Lan Na clung to what power it still had thanks to the support of the religiously minded.

In 1993 this arrangement began to fall apart as a series of natural disasters hit the twin nations, floods, earthquakes, a tsunami and then a famine began to weaken both nations. It was then in 1997 that a virus spread killing around 2million people pushing the two nations into co-operation. In 2000 mediators from (somewhere) intervened with the two as they began discussions and it was agreed that the two would begin working towards a possible reunification and in 2020 a referendum would be help as to whether the general public wanted to reunify under a draft constitution. This constitution had featured 1000 people from each nation being involved and when completed saw the monarchy of the Kingdom granted some sovereignty over the east of the nation however in return they would have little input into the nations foreign and economic policy.  The constitution was accepted 68% to 32% with a 78% national turn out. As a result it was agreed that  on the 31st August 2021 the two nations would reunite to form the United Lan Na States. 

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In reality I'm Ffion, 20 years of age from North Wales.

I've previously RP'd as fantasy stuff with elves and the like but wanted to try something different. My nation will be largely Thai based as I've family out there and feel in love with the culture. Having a peek at your region doesn't seem like you've any Thai stuff, so I'm claiming Pad see ew.