Pulau Keramat-Tyreseia relations

Relations between the nations of Pulau Keramat and Tyreseia and their respective predecessor states have existed since well before the two modern states came into being.

Pulau Keramat-Tyreseia relations

Pulau Keramat	Tyreseia
Diplomatic mission
Pulaui Embassy, New Tyria	Tyreseian Embassy, Kopiona Poi
Envoy
Ambassador Muhur Kuswoyo	Ambassador Noam Perru

Country comparison

	United Confederacy of Pulau Keramat	Workers' Federation of Tyreseia
Populations	83.5 million (2022)	33.3 million (2020)
Area	594,880 km2	527,552 km2
Population density	140.28/km2	63.1/km2
Capital	Kopiona Poi	New Tyria
Largest city	Tau Harimua	New Tyria
Government	Confederated oligarchical constitutional republic	Federal syndicalist directorial council republic
Current Leader	Dewan Emas Council (both head of state and government)	Council of State (corporate body) (both head of state and government)
Official languages	Birha, Mataram, Raji, Tuganani, Ahlranese	Tyreseian Latin, Takelat, Hebrew, Tamashek
Main religions	N'nhivara (44%) Bulanan Asalism (20%) 'Iifae Azdarin (8%) Margaya (5%) Panonpoé Asalism (5%) Other (21%)	Irreligious (41%) Coptic Nazarism (27%) Massanism (15%) Judaism (7%) Azdarin (6%) N'nhivara (2%) Neo-Aradian (1%) Other (1%)
GDP (nominal) (2020)	$1.9 trillion ($23,951 per capita)	$714 billion ($21,468 per capita)
Military expenditures

History

Mosaic portrait of Ahumm Bōdashtarti, Museu djas Bejas Arzas, New Tyria

The first recorded diplomatic relations between Tyreseian and Pulaui peoples were cemented in the 11th century CE. During this period, what is now Tyreseia was a collection of merchant-dominated city-states under the suizerainty of the Caliphate. Modern-day Pulau Keramat was the homeland of the Tahamaja Empire, a seafaring collection of coastal trade posts and mercantile centers that spanned the Ozeros Sea. Thanks to the Caliphate's dominance of most of the entirety of northern Scipia, the Tyresene merchants within were granted newfound access to far-flung markets away from the Periclean. Several merchants from places like New Tyria and Coptia (now Oyat) formed the League of the East in 947 CE to exploit the Ozerosi market. Their first project was to found the city of Xidunadast (now the town of Sayduna, on the Nalmoriyyah Archipelago off the east coast of Fahran), which grew over the intervening centuries from a trade outpost into the beating political and economic heart of the Tyresene trade network in the region. Not long after the Tyresene commercial expansion into the Ozerosi region did the merchants begin hearing of, and later interacting with, the rising Tahamajans. The Empire was actively expanding its own trade network in the region, and the two quickly established trade bonds in the early 11th century. The Tyresene arrival proved fortuitous for the Tahamajans; not only did they have a new trade partner that could bring them goods from Belisaria and the Periclean, but the religion of the Tyresene traders made them particularly useful. Many communities in the Caliphate and other Yen-dominated religions were opposed to trade with the N'nhivara traders of the Tahamaja. Most Tyresene traders at the time practiced either Coptic Nazarism or Judaism. The monotheism inherent to these religions made them more amenable to Yen communities, and the Tahamaja were willing to accept a middleman in order to grant them access to previously-inoperable markets. Thus, soon after the establishing of ties in the 1010s CE, by the 1020s and 1030s the Tyresenes out of Xidunadast were constructing large numbers of trade outposts across the Ozeros in tandem with the Tahamajans, reaching as far south as modern-day Pulacan. Many of these outposts shared power between the Tyresenes and Tahamajans. Often, a large cothon, or enclosed harbor, would be constructed with a Pulaui-style pelabuhan, or symbolic lighthouse-cum-government office, residing on the central inner military island. From within this spacious building, both the panguwasa (Tahamajan harbormaster and overall chief political official of the city) and the šūfeṭ (consul in charge of Tyresene mercantile affairs and reporting back to the adon or doge in Xidunadast) would govern the city and consult with each other. This blended "mandala" system of power allowed both the Tyresenes and Tahamajans to prosper for centuries under the former's ambiguous status of subservience. Unlike the Tahamajans, the Tyresenes never made as significant of an effort to impress cultural diffusion or assimilation on most of its foreign populations. As a result, they made much less of a lasting impact on the region than their colleagues. Much of the evidence of their presence is therefore archaeological, such as the restored Tyresene Gardens and cothon in Mabesekwa, Pulacan; the city of B in modern-day Bemirmitra; and the medieval warehouse ruins in Nalmoriyyah. Nevertheless, persistent communities of Tyresene descendants existed across the Ozeros, even into the modern day, at places like Sayduna and Mabesekwa.

Following the eruption of the Siriwang volcano in 1353, the Tahamajan Empire collapsed and the Tyresenes in the Ozeros found themselves stranded. Irrevocably tied to the collapsing old order, many of the Tyresene merchant settlements on the periphery either collapsed, saw invasion and conquest for their dwindling riches, or simply assimilated into the surrounding communities. The northern settlements, farther from the volcano, held on longer than those on the southern fringes and those closer to the Pulaui islands. Famed Tyresene ethnographer and medieval author Ahumm Bōdashtarti was in the midst of the Tahamajan court when Siriwang erupted, and was left to write extensive chronicles and literature based on his experiences in the Ozeros. These works both singlehandedly formed the medieval Tyresene literary tradition, independent from the previously-domineering Latin Empire, and defined what was to become the standard dialect of the Tyreseian Latin language.

The next substantial Tyresene presence in the Ozeros came many centuries later, after both the formation of the modern states of Tyreseia and Pulau Keramat. In 1955, the two states signed the Cooperative Maritime Security Compact, a legal document which set aside land outside the Pulaui city of Pasuruin Poi on the island of Birhanu for a naval base operated jointly by personnel from the Tyreseian Workers' Navy and the Pulaui Navy. The base, which came to be known as Joint Naval Base Birhanu, began life as an outpost for corvettes engaged in anti-piracy exercises and policing operations against smuggling and illegal overfishing in the Ozeros Sea. Over the decades, JNB Birhanu ballooned in size; today, the base supports naval air operations, larger ships, drydock facilities and a small community of Tyreseian civilian guest workers working alongside Birhanu's locals.

In the 1960s, following the generational trauma of the loss of the Social War and the subsequent decade of paranoia and fear of invasion, many young Tyreseians began dropping out of their mainstream society in protest. Seeking respite from their parents' generation of paranoia and fear, many turned to spirituality, in particular the N'nhivara faith native to the islands. Elements of N'nhiva faith and wider Pulaui culture were appropriated and filtered into this new "counterculture" over the next decade or so. The ritual use of mind-altering drugs was particularly appealing to many Tyreseian "hippies." Those hippies who had money, or people willing to pay for them, would embark on a form of "spiritual tourism" to commune with N'nhiva religion at the source. A budget cruise line was began by X Lines known as the "!Sea Hippie Trail," which took passengers either from New Tyria or Leonopolis, Perateia to sites of Tyresene and Tahamajan historical importance across Fahran, Kembesa, Pulacan and Pulau Keramat. Following the introduction of cheap air travel, much passenger ocean travel became for luxury cruises, which fell outside of the interest of most Tyreseian holidaymakers. The !Trail proved to be the first Tyreseian-based cruise line to be profitable outside of the Periclean Sea, with millions traversing along it in the decades to come. The line gradually became less profitable as the counterculture waned, but the line persisted in modified form until it was dissolved following political instability in Fahran, which rendered the destinations inaccessible.

Military and security

Border controls and immigration

Visas to travel are required by both states for periods of stay longer than 30 days.