Sanmra

Sanmra (IPA: /ˈsan.mɾa/), officially the Nation of Sanmra (Adıfas ni Sanmra /ˈa.d̪ɪ.fas ni ˈsan.mɾa/), is one of the largest and most influential dalar-dominated nations, with its enclaves located primarily in Asia and North America. While small compared to most human nations, Sanmra is the second-largest dalar nation (behind Tuanmali), with approximately 1.6 million inhabitants. An additional 50,000 Sanmra citizens live outside its borders, primarily in human nations.

The capital and largest city is Elten, located in the US state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with over 160,000 inhabitants. Elten is also one of the largest Sanmra enclaves, at 24.7 square miles. Sanmra has 96 other enclaves, for a total of 97. All enclaves are independently governed and typically consist of a single municipality, but a small number have separate communities outside the central settlement. Each enclave sends a pair of nuoda to the Leten ni Nuoda. These nuoda also participate in less-formal regional councils based on primarily on geographic location.

Sanmra is connected by a network of portals leading between enclaves. Most enclaves have permanent portals to at least one other enclave, although nineteen only have temporary portals and five have no portals at all. Twenty-five enclaves, including eight of the ten largest, cannot access the outside world directly, but only indirectly through other enclaves.

Over two thousand years ago, a large number of dalar lived in independent villages in Central Asia. Several banded together to form the Garsenian Confederation, which expanded under the leadership of Tirina to encompass several thousand dalar. While it did not come to be known by the name "Sanmra" until several centuries later, Tirina's ascension to become the sole ruler of the Confederation is widely considered to be the origin of the modern-day nation. The current political system, consisting of two sarda and an independent legislature (the Leten ni Nuoda, made up of the nuoda), developed gradually over time. It reached its current form in 1095 after the disastrous century and a half of assassinations and near-civil war known as the Kirapail ni Ato Enkarua (Great Warring Period), with ten sarda and three purges of the nuoda.

Etymology
The etymology of "Sanmra" is unclear. It almost certainly derived from one of the now-extinct Garsenian languages, but likely not Tirina. A large number of folk etymologies have been proposed, many involving the Old Tirina words sama 'my' and rama 'land', but are not seriously believed by modern linguists. The earliest recorded use of the modern spelling dates to the 1100s, but earlier forms with a wide variety of spellings (and, presumably, pronunciations) are attested to at least the 600s.