Kzmr

Kzmr (Kzmr: Kzmr Smpn, pronunciation: [kəzamr̩ səmapn̩]), officially the Kzmr Autonomous Country, is an autonomous region located in western Baphia, having a land border with Jkawi to its south and a maritime border with the Union island of Sakle to its southwest. Its capital and sole permanent settlement is Srn.

Organized as a confederation of nomadic clans, of which there are currently seventy-four, the Kzmr Autonomous Country was formed when the former Kzmr Confederation joined the Democratic Union of Baphia in 1815.

History

Main article: History of Kzmr

Prehistory

The first inhabitants of modern-day Kzmr were most likely proto-Kaneeds who left the Jyosti Islands during the Third Ukilen Migration circa 2500 BCE. These early settlers eventually diverged genetically to form the xeric Kaneed subspecies.

The earliest artifacts whose date can be properly ascertained are those from the Mount Rknu archaeological site, which includes a variety of objects such as ceramics and jewelry dating to roughly 2300 BCE. This is the type site for the eponymous Mount Rknu culture, who unlike the modern Kkzmrri, are thought to have led a sedentary life at an extremely small population. Artifacts associated with the Mount Rknu culture are no longer attested after circa 2100 BCE, and some scholars propose that the sudden collapse of this culture resulted from a famine.

The nomadism of the modern Kkzmrri ostensibly began around 2000 BCE, as artifacts such as herder's crooks and tent stakes begin to become attested in this period. These proto-Kkzmrri eventually separated into the ancestral groups of the three modern morphs of xeric Kaneed, with the sophonts in the far northern tundra adapting as the Beringian Kaneeds and those in the desert and shrublands forming the Blanfordian and Karagan Kaneeds. In Kzmr oral traditions, the common ancestors of each of these groups are known as Mntmr, Þsnmr, and Fkshmr respectively.