Speckmena

The Flamingo Republic of Speckmena, also known as The Flamingo Republic is a nation located in south-east Terra Dexter. It is home to roughly 700 million Speckmenans, with it's capital at Vallia.

Etymology
In the religion of Menanism, they have a main god, the river god Speck, and mena means city, as it was the original name of Vallia.

City-States
Around the year 600 BC, floods of people migrated to what is now Speckmena from the Xoli steppes. They would eventually found lots of city-states along the River Speck. While sharing the same culture, they all had different religions. The most prominent was Mena, which also had a coast on the Bay of Onferet. It worshipped the River Speck as a god, and held flamingos as sacred. Around the year 400 BC, Mena conquered the rest of the city-states, forming the Menan Empire.

Menan Empire
The Menan Empire imposed the Menan religion on the other city-states, but let them worship their own gods. Eventually, these gods came to be added to Speckism as minor gods, so the religion was renamed to Menanism. When Agnarida formed, the two nations established good relations. However, in 500 AD, a new dynasty came to rule in Agnarida, and they attacked the Menan Empire and annexed part of it, splitting up the rest.

Pre-Geonanian Era
The nations formed out of the collapse of the Menan Empire were Speck-Mena (an Agnaridan puppet-state), and Speck-Menne. Their borders were very similar to the borders of Speckmena and Spemenee. Speck-Menne then migrated slightly north to be further away from Agnarida. In 868, Speck-Menne was conquered by Geonan, forming the province of Spemmeniw. In 1021, Speck-Mena and Agnarida were conquered by Geonan, forming the provinces of Speckmeniw and Hanitiw.

Provinces of Spemenniw and Speckmeniw
The Menans in the two provinces were treated with high respect, as the first people group conquered. Unlike most other cultures, who were forced to marry Geonanians, the Menans were only forced to move their homes to make way for Geonanian settlers, leaving the Menan culture fully intact. Not a lot happened here while they were under the control of Geonan.

Modern Speckmena
Eventually, Geonan tried to conquer Enadia again, but was nuked and failed. Speckmenniw and Spemenniw became independent as Speckmena and Spemenee, after their original names. Mena was renamed to Vallia. Speckmena re-established good relations with the Agnaridan state of Hunetia. They joined the Mosii-Niwaeño War and Mosii-Illirican War to gain victories to appease the people, and Speckmena has some of the best living conditions in the world.