The Jauvukry (Origo Mundi Map Game)
The Jauvukry | |||||||||
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Iron saeka of the Jauvukry | |||||||||
| Capital and largest city | Jagurra | ||||||||
| Official languages | Jauvuk, Javuk, Jauvukid | ||||||||
| Religion | Zaukadism | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Jauvuk | ||||||||
| Government | Theocratic stratocracy | ||||||||
• Supreme Warmaster | Mugennu Jasurruhuk Vaehu'Fanauyyau | ||||||||
| Legislature | War Council | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1040 estimate | 138,000 | ||||||||
• 1000 census | 122,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Template:Collapsable list | ||||||||
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The Jauvukry is a theocratic stratocracy which dominates the region of the Jauvuk Basin. It government is headed by a powerful warrior noble known as the Supreme Warmaster, who speaks on behalf of the entire nation based upon the religious authority granted them by the Jauvukid deity, Zaukad.
History
Origins
The Javuk are surmised to have originated from another landmass away from the current continent of TBD, migrating to the mainland and settling within the southern desert regions. The region did once host a native population of hunter-gatherers hugging the oases and fertile mountain passes in the desert, but these were all exterminated in what was once of the first genocides in record history. There are no clear estimates as to the number of people who died in the wave of Javuk migrations, but researchers believe the death toll to be in the low thousands, roughly around the housing capacity of the desert the Javuk moved into. Mass graves continue to be discovered to this day, mainly holding men of fighting age, the elderly, the infirm and disabled, children who were likely killed to prevent them from becoming a burden on the limited food resources of their killers, and women who had either resisted rape or were too old to bear offspring.
The migratory patterns of the Javuk were for a long time believed to be based on a cycle of infighting between the Supreme Warmaster and his or her war council, with all jockeying for power and influence via conquests and slave trains. However, recent discoveries in the ancient movements of the Javuk have unveiled another more startling hypothesis. The majority of the regions targeted by the Javuk bore large native peoples who had grown considerably in their relatively peace and prosperity. The lands the Javuk left were almost always barren, lifeless, and devoid of human inhabitants. It has been theorized that the Javuk behaved in a highly parasitic manner, moving from “host” to “host” as it were, feeding off of the food and wealth of a native population, propagating their numbers, and moving on to greener pastures, repeating the cycle as they went.
It is now believed that the Javuk migrated to TBD in the wake of a cataclysmic Malthusian disaster in their original homeland, where their numbers had grown so vast, that ultimately exterminated all other civilizations and had begun to devour one another. This competition for the remain resources on the continent resulted in the devastation of the Javuk population, and saw many fleeing the continent for other lands. The current population of Javuk residing within TBD are believed to be the offspring of those refugee Javuk. Unfortunately, the violent and parasitic nature of Javuk civilization meant that they would continue the cycle in their new adopted homeland; raping, killing, and pillaging as they went. This would ultimately be the fate of those desert nomads who first encountered the brutal Javuk people, leading to their violent demise.
Geography
The Jauvukry's geography is dominated by the vast red deserts of the Ruja Desert, which spans from the city of Mugedarra in the north, to the lands of Zasana in the south.To the east of the basin lays a mountain range which serves as the primary delimitation to major Jauvukid expansion deeper into the Ruja Desert. Within the desert itself are numerous oases which house the few existing locations of human habitation in the region. Numerous valleys known as wadis are located throughout the country, providing respite from the heat of the desert and fresh water for those traveling through the region. The largest such wadi, the Jauvuk Basin, comprises the central region of the Jauvukry and dominates the surrounding landscape there. A single permanent stream of water flows through the center, providing the bulk of the water needs for the largest cities in the nation, the capital city of Jagurra and the port city of Nauwarru.
There are several bodies of water located throughout the Jauvukry, primarily subterranean cisterns and oases in the desert, both dependent upon the infrequent rainfall in the region or underground streams which keep them full. There are no major rivers in the country aside from the one flowing through the Jauvuk Basin. It is in this region where the only fertile land in the general area can be found, with the sole exceptions being the land to the south of Saihenna, and the peninsular regions of Haebadarra outside of the contiguous regions of the Jauvukry in the desert. Other fertile land within the Jauvukry consists of alluvial deposits new the coastline, major oases, and the many wadis of the interior where water can be found in great quantity. As a whole, the Jauvukry occupies a rugged terrain which terminates in the east before breaking off into a flat desert region.
Politics
Government
List of Supreme Warmasters
- Jaejunnau Jabunnuhuk Saeja'Yilaerrau (871-927)
- Dailizza Nuzunnuhuk Veli'Fumaekkae (927-952)
- Nauhezza Maegennauhuk Sehu'Henaukku (952-993)
- Mugennu Jasurruhuk Vaehu'Fanauyyau (993-Present)
Military
The military of the Jauvukry is composed of a force of citizen-warriors who entered military life around the age of six, and trained throughout their youth until the age of 21 to be recognized as citizens of the state. The requirement of all citizens is mandatory service in the state military forces, a tradition brought from the Jauvuk homeland far beyond the continent. The Jauvuk are unique among the nations of the world in that both male and female Jauvuk were required to undergo the training to become warriors under the same demanding physical and mental conditions. Consequently, the Jauvukry could call upon a vastly large force of soldiers during wartime as needed. Both sexes live, work, and fight in the same units, with both males and females serving in the same capacity throughout the military. Likewise, women are just as free to climb the ranks as their male counterparts, and many have and currently do lead entire units of warriors into battle.
Those Jauvuk who failed to attain citizenship are sent into slavery, with the men gelded and the women branded, and both sent to work into the farmlands and economic centers of the Jauvukry, freeing up the citizenry of the state to serve as full-time military personnel without burdening the economy with a lack of skilled labor at home. These same slaves serve in the logistical units of the many juyun, allowing the state to focus its troops on combat operations while leaving the army slaves to fulfill the vital rearguard work which allows the Jauvuk to dominate on the battlefield. Both men and women of the Jauvukry are required to serve the state as warriors until the age of 50, after which they spend the next 15 years as reservists. Upon reaching the age of 65, Jauvukid citizens are free to leave their military lives behind them and focus on purely civilian life. During times of peace, Jauvukid citizens may pursue civilian lives, but are liable to be called to service with the rest of their unit at a moment's notice.
The Jauvukid military was originally divided into permanent units known as juyun, each of which consisted of a fixed number of warriors and support units, typically slaves or non-combatant citizens. The army was reorganized under the Jaejun-Dailizzid reforms spearheaded by Supreme Warmaster Dailizza Nuzunnuhuk Veli'Fumaekkae in 933. A juyun was organized into ten hosts, followed by five bands each, with a band itself consisting of ten rings each. The overall size of a juyun thus consists of approximately 5,480 troops at full-strength, with additional support and logistical units attached to them as required. All such units operated out of permanent garrison bases which dotted the territory of the Jauvukry, and cycled between them on a rotational basis with other juyun as required by the state. Every juyun was led by a warmaster appointed from the War Council of the Jauvukry with the approval of the Supreme Warmaster. Each of the vaukid of the Jauvukry were required to provide at least one juyun to the state from its members; at the height of the system, there were eight juyun in service.
During the reign of Ta'Zhadak Mugennu Jasurruhuk Vaehu'Fanauyyau, the military was reorganized for the second time in 1047. The new Mugennic system broke the army down into 1,000-man units known as zhidin, which were broken down into four vakudin of 250 warriors, and farther down into five dakin of 50 warriors each. All citizens of the Jauvukry regardless of their vauk are allowed to join any of the existing units, a radical shift from the uniform vauk-based juyun of the Jaejun-Dailizzid period. The self-contained nature of these units allowed for more manpower to be deployed into more regions of the growing empire of the Jauvuk people, and permitted a swifter response to invasions from neighboring states. These units were divided into infantry and cavalry forces, with citizen and slave support troops in the rear to provide for the army's logistical needs. The Jauvukry employed a total of 30 zhidin – 20 infantry and ten cavalry – or approximately 30,000 troops.