Verissi

Verissi, officially known as the Sovereign Verissi Republic (translation) is a country located in the West-Keshi river basin, also know as Sameoelama. It borders Heiban to the south, Siwi West Kesh to the west and Paseiwa, Jagani and Naxe-Eosha in various points, and covers an area of roughly 280,000 square kilometers, which include 4 exclaves in the Sameoelama area. It also posses a coast facing the Iapetus Ocean.

Verissi is a democratic republic, enstablished in 2000 after a sequence of civil wars and coup attemps that have made the young country one of the most violent areas in Anterra throughout the 70s and the 80s.

The area today known as Verissi has been continously inhabited since prehistoric times, with semi-nomadic tribe groups being the dominant forces in the area. With the enstablishment of the Eume Kingdom in 109 BC, the political landscape of the area turned into a constellation of little city states fighting for local resources, while some nomadic groups remained and were often engaged as mercenaries. This system was broken with the arrival of the Zahavan conquerors in the 15th century, which colonized Paseiwa and various areas of Verissi (at the time still known as Eume). Many attempts at rebellion were made, but none of them would force the Zahavans out of the area, who would leave at their own volition in the late 1780s. With a power vacuum to be filled, Mero-Curgovina enstablished a trading colony which would form the Eume Coast Dominion in 1834, and would help the Zee Kingdom (under King Olue II) unify the rest of Eume under a single flag, as to exert more control over the trade of important natural resources, such as textiles, steel, coffee and rare minerals.