Medtremar

Medtremar, officially the State of Medtremar (Mari: Odogos Medtremar, Lo'Oi: Otogos io Medtremar) is one of four integrated states in the United Socialist States of Eldham. Its capital city is Liberatum, and its largest city by population and size is Akaishiro.

It is the largest integrated state in the USSE by both population and geography. The state is mostly populated by the Mari people, which primarily speak the Mari language and its several dialects. Other languages like Lo'Oi are frequently spoken as a secondary tongue and are the predominate language in places like Kereshin. Its largest religious base is practitioners of Mari Paganism, but other religions like Makerism are also prominent.

It was initially founded as the People's Republic of Medtremar, which became an autonomous state of the USSE shortly thereafter for their mutual Xeroist ideology. In the 230's TE, the state became a standard integrated state within the USSE. It was the final of the four current integrated states to become part of the USSE.

It borders the state of Adalor to its Southwest, Atoxa to its Southeast, and Noskye to its Northwest. It also borders the independent countries of Azryal to its Northwest and Nazarin to its East.

Prior to foundation
Prior to the contemporary creation of nations like Kaladinia, Xeka, and Liberum, modern Medtremar largely was populated by maritime nomads who had dotted settlements across Northern Serrona. The ethnic group is collectively called the Mari today, a part of where the name 'Medtremar' derives from.

Things would change rapidly with the Rathnirian discovery of Eldham. The first nation to colonize the area and make a formal state or colony of any kind in Northern Lausá was the Grand Union of Sørgliste, who created a colony named the Grand Colony of Xeka shortly after Eldham's discovery by Rathnirians. The colony was soon sold to Tortuga, before Xeka became independent as the Grand Republic of Xeka.

Autonomous state
Before the creation of Medtremar, there were four independent states in the region now known as Medtremar; Kaladinia, Xeka, Liberum, and Ambrosia. All were quite weak on their own and that region of Serrona at the time was arguably the most inactive. As such, the Socialist Union of Medtremar, eventually renamed the People's Republic of Medtremar, was founded on January 26th, 2022 in an effort to unite Northern Lausá in the event of Barbossan invasion, fears of which were surplus. Ambrosia was not a part of this initial uniting of countries into Medtremar, but Ambrosia was eventually annexed by Medtremar anyways hence its inclusion. Several days after Medtremar's formation, Barbossa and the USSE went to war in a series of conflicts known today as the Red Wars. Barbossa would come out victorious as a consequence of their strong mercenaries and would forcefully annex territory from the USSE. Due to Medtremar's involvement in the war, a large amount of Medtremari land would be conquered by Barbossa; the land ultimately coming under the power of a group known as the Vrijmasten Raden. As part of this, the USSE managed to negotiate that Medtremar would be given a one-block section of coastline where socialist Kaladinian refugees could escape to, as a means to retain what the USSE called the 'Donut', or socialist control of the Haxhoit Sea. This is how the city of Ythmyrr Beach came to be established originally on a series of artificial islands off of this one block coastline. To this day you can still see the exact borders where this coastline once stood, as a small series of channels and canals exist which formerly used to tell where the border stopped and began between the Vrijmasten Raden and Medtremar.

The Medtremari land that was conquered by Barbossa and eventually reunited with the USSE was known as Andrimar. Today however, the term 'Andrimar' refers exclusively to former Medtremari and USSE land on the continent of Leifmyrr, namely the Sylvanian province of Andrimar. As such, modern Medtremari land such as Kaladinia is sometimes called Andrimar which it was formerly a part of despite being a part of Serrona. After further diplomatic crises in the aftermath of the Red Wars, Kaladinia, which was previously annexed and was part of Andrimar, rejoined Medtremar as a state. Eventually the remaining parts of Andrimar were annexed by Sylvania.

Integration into the USSE
in April of 2023, the People's Republic of Medtremar was dissolved as the autonomous state joined the USSE as an integrated state. It then became the State of Medtremar. In the following months, the population of the state would surge massively as migration and new settlements like Akaishiro and Kereshin would be founded. This changed the primary population centers of the USSE from the South towards the North.

Medtremar quickly began to industrialize, specializing in the fishing industry which produced goods such as ghast tears and gunpowder, and other industries like honey-farming and experience-farming. Other cities had important gear-production smiths. This rapid industrialization in light of Medtremar joining the USSE as an incorporated state and the foundation of new cities allowed Medtremar to become the largest state by population.

During the Sylvanian Cold War in mid-to-late 2023, the capital city of the USSE was temporarily moved to Akaishiro on multiple occasions after the occupation of Kazkaya. Eventually the capital was moved back to Kazkaya after the liberation of the city from the Sylvanians.

Vexillology
The flag of Medtremar features a red field, with two yellow lengths spanning the top and bottom of the flag. Inside of these yellow lengths are a floral pattern with circles; referencing traditional Mari pottery and textile design. There are then two cyan bands running along the width on both the fly and hoist sides of the flag. This references the systems of rivers that run through Medtremar and the flow of commerce and people to and from the region.

In the center of the red field lays a yellow emblem/charge. This features a wreath of oak leaves, referencing the wildlife and national forests in Medtremar. There is then three stars, referencing the former nations of Xeka, Kaladinia, and Liberum which united to form Medtremar. Finally, there is a 'Pick and Hoe', a well known Xeroist symbol referencing labor unity and rights.

The contemporary flag of Medtremar was only formally established in November of 2023, prior to this a separate flag was used.