Veikan quakaliqs

The Veikan Quakaliqs are a distinct ethnic group within the Council Republic of Veikaia composed by a mix of direct immigrants from Thuyiquakliq and the descendants of slaves and servants imported from Gardarike and nearby regions. They exist as a relatively insular group, having maintained their original traditions and beliefs mostly intact for centuries with only a small amount of cultural assimilation from the Veikan majority at large. Quakaliq slaves, notably, were allowed to keep their religious and cultural traditional beliefs even as slaves by their Veikan masters as a form of reward for their generally above average skill in the field. In the modern day, many Quakaliqs have emigrated across Anterra, several of them arriving in Veikaia due to its already existing minority. Quakaliq minorities are somewhat marginalized, with the poorer sectors of Veikan Quakaliq society resorting to organized crime and joining local Savamiuqa mafia groups. Veikan Quakaliq groups can be found in all major cities of the country and some towns in the countryside, with the majority of them living within the capital city of Oztov.

Introduction to Veikaia
Quakaliqs were first introduced to Veikaia in the year 14xx by traders from Gardarike, which sold them as slaves to Veikans with the goal of being used as naval slaves and hard laborers in resource extraction and farming operations within the country. As naval slaves, Quakaliqs consistently showed great expertise in the maintenance and navigation of ships, generally believed to come from the Quakaliq people's traditions of whaling and fishing in the frigid seas surrounding modern day Thuyiquakliq. Due to their great expertise and labor they were generally afforded many liberties and better treatment than other types of slaves across Anterra, being allowed to eat, sleep and overall live alongside the rest of the crew as a normal crew member. Still, they were generally not allowed to leave their ship at any point by their captains and were subject to corporal punishment in rare occasions; It was, nevertheless, seen as poor etiquette to mistreat a Quakaliq slave too severely. Many Quakaliq slaves were given freedom after a certain threshold of work for their masters, and many of them continued to work alongside the rest of their ship's crew even after they were given freedom. Other slaves purchased their own freedom, though this was rare and took a considerable amount of time.

Quakaliq women and children were also imported into the country, albeit more rarely. They were generally bought alongside their husbands or fathers as it was also seen as bad etiquette to separate slave families. Women and children were generally subjected to work as servants, many working as chefs and deckhands. On land they were also generally servants or worked in lighter manual labor positions such as sewing.