Calipolis

The Promised Land Of The Calipolis is a country on the GOGMC server. It is one of the oldest countries on the server overall and is the oldest country with a population still active to this very day.

Political Geography
Calipolis is an absolute monarchy ruled by Her Frickin' Majesty Queen Of The Promised Land Of The Calipolis, Universal Mother Of All Baby Yodas, Queen Daddy Noscope Kill-eope Caleopemeraki Loki I since the very start. Despite being the leader of the country she has received a lot of help from Villnark who's been given the title "Master Carpenter" and holds semi authoritative status within the Calipolis. Villnark has also given Cal a map for the proposed subdivisions of the country.

Physical Geography
The country is predominately a Giant Tree Taiga but the western and northernmost parts feature more variation with taigas, roofed forests, plains and marshland.

The Nation
Four thousand years ago, a civilization in the northern parts of modern day Calipolis was thriving. They are known as the Kalu-Palu people and their culture showcased a unique set of customs and traditions. Most of the history of the Kalu-Palu civilization has been recovered and most of, if not, all of it can be read about in the upcoming Kalu-Palu Historia set to release in separate volumes. The books will chronicle their arrival and rise on the ancient trade scene, their culture and their eventual fall.

The Kalu-Palu people founded the grand city of Gada-Sita, which served as the trade hub of the ancient world. People from all sides of the world went there in hopes of either selling or purchasing goods.

The People
The Kalu-Palu were seafarers and were said to have pioneered navigation techniques that we still use to this day. They traded many goods. Because of their beliefs, they refused to build huts out of wood and chose instead to carve into large boulders. They believed that the Earth Maiden would be fine with it. The people were also phenomenal carpenters, turning stones into huts, roads, pillars. Some logs occasionally floated in the sea, these were picked up by the people and converted into rafts. Because these logs were floating in the water and not stuck to the ground with roots, the people thought of it as dead. Another life lesson they were taught as children went; “Even in death, all things find new purposes". They believed that once a living thing had perished, the Maiden had no more use of the animal, plant, or person. It is because of this belief that their clothes were of leather from cows that had passed from natural causes, and leaves that fell onto the ground. Later on, they used spider web to weave clothes efficiently. Their diet consisted mostly of anything that could be easily grown. Things like berries, potatoes and carrots. It is also speculated that they perfected the recipe for a loaf of bread, widely used all over the world to this very day.

The Palu-Kita Language
Spoken as the main language in the old Kalu-Palu nation and as a lingua franca in the neighboring areas. Palu-Kita serves as one of the most important languages in ancient times, it was the dominant language for trade, education, politics, and religion. The name "Palu-Kita" comes from the two words "Palu" meaning ground/world and "Kita" meaning tongue/language, literally, "Tongue of the World". Many words that exists in modern-day English come directly from Palu-Kita.

Grammar
The Palu-Kita language was made to be as simple and as intuitive as possible, as it was a common bridge tongue for foreigners to communicate with.

It's syllable structure is usually CV meaning that every consonant is immediately followed by a vowel, and thus, forms no consonant clusters (the term used to describe a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups /gl/ and /mps/ are consonant clusters in the word glimpse)

To go along with this, most of the vocabulary in Palu-Kita is disyllabic (most words have two syllables) forming a pattern of CVCV. For example, the word fina [ɸinɑ] (End) is exactly two syllables long; fi and na. Another example would be the word moda [mɔdɑ] (Mother), the two syllables are mo and da.

The Rise and Fall
Kalu-Palu were

GOG Era
The exact moment given for the founding of the country is the completion of the Treehouse.

By the end the only place that had been built in the country were a few houses in the top of Calhattan.

Dark Ages
It started with October Bay, named after the month it began. Villnark singlehandedly built a horse-friendly ring-road around the coast of Calhattan, Most of this event can be seen in a small edited clip on Villnark's primary Youtube channel The Secret Suspects (you can find that video here!)

Toward the end of the dark ages Vill started going ham on Calipolis,

Civilization Era
The civilization era was birthed when Cal and Vill built the city of Calumbia, it's a town filled with houses and shops open to everyone regardless of their passport information.

On July 10, 2021. Cal ascended the throne to officially declare herself queen of Calipolis in the biggest ceremony in the server's history, about 20 people showed up to witness the coronation ceremony. Guests arriving were given the Victoria brew by Villnark.

Flag
The flag of the Calipolis consits of a yellow flag with a lime-green cross.