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Kingdom of Ruam 咸國
Capital	Valchram (Winter) Saojion (Summer)
Largest	Valchram
Official languages	(Classical Chinese)
Recognised national languages	Xi Che Ksangsak
Recognised regional languages	Beng Da'ek Jheng
Religion	Vrahism
Government	Confederal absolute monarchy
Area
•	1,123,552 km2 (433,806 sq mi)

Ruam, officially the Kingdom of Ruam (咸國, Che: /ha:m˨ kʷɔːk˧/, Ksangsak: /tət.ɗaːk kuə̯ βuə̯.luə̯m/ Xi: /ɕjɛn˩ kuə̯˩/), is a confederal absolute monarchy in Ajax. Positioned along the southeastern coast of continental Ochran and outlying islands, it borders Uluujol to the north and Jhengtsang to the west. As of 2020, it has an estimated population of about 50 million, divded among its constituent states as a composite monarchy under the eponymous dynasty.

The land now known as Ruam has been continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic age. It is believed that the first inhabitants of the land migrated to the coastal area by land and sea alike, relying on the relatively less forested coast to traverse the tropical environment, before eventually settling around the wetland estuaries dominating the coastal regions. Located at the peripheral of Ochran and covered in dense tropical rainforest, Ruam has been the destination of multiple waves of migration and refugees, the most prominent of which being the conquest of the Bayarid Empire, where refugee from Xi Wangguo comprised the first centralised monarchy of Ruam and continued to rule the country to this day.

A composite monarchy, the government considered itself defined by the shared alligiance of constituent polities towards the Ruam monarchy. Tracing its roots back to the conglomerate of refugees, native chiefdoms and merchants seeking protection in exchange of alligiance, the Kingdom of Ruam officially retained its bilateral nature to this day, in a decentralised system that some political theorists had described as a feudal or neo-feudal system.

Etymology

The name Ruam is an exonym first introduced by merchants from Mutulese Ochran, with whom the kingdom had extensive trade. While the word Ruam itself was derived from the Multi word ru-a-ma, its ultimate etymology is ultimately unknown. Currently, the most widely-accepted hypotheses regarding the origin of the word consider it to be derived from entonym of one of the languages spoken in the country. Potential candidates of it include proto-Ksangsak *ruam for "put together" or "unite" (cf. Norok proom "togetherness"), and Old (Classical Chinese) *grəm "complete" (transcribed as ᡴ᠌ᡝᠷᠠᠮ kəram in Thuwachi text), with some linguists suggesting that the similar meaning being an indication of either cognate or early loanword between the language families.

In (Classical Chinese), and other languages heavily influenced by it, the entonym of the country is written as 咸 (Che: /ha:m˨˩/, Xi: /ɕjɛn˩/). According to official history, the name ultimately stemmed from the 31rd hexagram from ancient East Ochran divination, which was made by Fiyangqu Cigaya, the legendary founder of the Ruam monarchy on the eve of Bayarid conquest of Xi Wangguo. Interpreting it as a bad omen, Fiyanggu was said to have gathered all his followers and fled towards the southwest in accord to the divination result. As words of Xi falling to the Bayarids reached the entourage, another divination was made, and Fiyanggu decided to settle in a nearby wetland near modern Valchram. Believing himself to be the only survivor of his clan and, by extension, the Mankut-Xi rulers, Fiyanggu proclaimed himself to be King of Ruam, in deference to the divination result that saved him and his followers. The authenticity of the legend, however, was questioned by many, with opponents usually leaning towards it being a later invention after the Thuwachi Mankut monarchy had assiminated many of the native population, including the loanword that would become Ruam.

History

Main article: History of Ruam

Culture

Cigaya Qi Kei Ki Ki គិ

Valchram (晟藍)

Saojian (霞江)

𡐙渃𧵑𢂜咸

Geday/Gedayo or Belw

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