Noreskian Federation

The Noreskian Federation is a federation comprising different states and dependencies located throughout The Shire. Because of its geographical dispersion and the vastness of its territory, it is home to many different cultures, peoples and languages.

The official languages used for official communication are Shirefrench, Shirenglish and Norgenese, in that order, with Shirefrench and Norgenese being privileged for internal communication, and Shirenglish being privileged for communication towards foreign officials. However, the languages spoken amongst the Noreskii are more varied : in addition to Shirefrench, Shirenglish and Norgenese, there are communities that speak Oranjestadish, Venetian and Athitican.

Although the countries composing the Federation all date back to different periods, the Noreskian Federation takes root in the former Noreskian Empire, which was established in 978 by the King of the Franklands, Gabrielius the First (which had the same name when he was Emperor of the Noreskii), after he inherited from several territories across the Shire during his reign, because he had a political union with the leaders of these territories, but because of the famines and plagues having occurred at that time, their dynasties came to be extinct. The Noreskian Empire came to an end in 1870, when decades of civil unrest had created what is called now the Democratical Process, where the people and the intellectuals from all parts of the Empire had advocated for the transformation of the Empire in a less autocratic, and rather free constitutionnal federation, which is the one that we know today. At the end of the Democratical Process, the Principalties, Duchies and Counties of the Noreskian Empire became Municipalities and Constituent Countries of their own right.