Dominion of Alofi

"By the grace of the author, the land, and the seas, our nation is born. We we given a gift. Now let's use it to its fullest"

-Auctoris, Ali'ime'e of Alofi

History
The Dominion of Alofi may be a new nation, but its history is anything but new. It is the sucessor state of a much older nation whose name has long been forgotten. That nation's people were travellers, and they learned to read the seas like the modern alofians would a book. They traveled far and wide, and the modern Alofian people have a common ancestry with the people of The Valley, and potentially neighboring Kushana.

The modern Dominion of Alofi was founded by the Ali'ime'e, a semi-immortal hero and adventurer who after death is reborn with the same memories, personality, and soul of the previous incarnation. The nation's founding was actually sort of by accident. A small fishing village named Noku'Alofi managed to defend itself against another rival tribe with the aid of the Ali'ime'e. Afterwards, the people decided to reform themselves in order to better defend from outsiders. After countless debates and a new type of government, previously unseen on Sirius, was born. What resulted was a government structure know known as a republic.

Originally very isolationist, that tone quickly changed when Alofi realized that it could make bank with trade and tourism. Its tropical environment makes it the ideal vacation spot for tourists, and it is one of the few places where bamboo and sugarcane grow abundantly.

Its growing wealth drew in its neighboring tribes, and thus the nation grew from a small coastal city state, to a large nation that now stretches from The Spine in the north all the way to neighboring Kushana in the Fergana Valley.

Alofi Today
In modern times, Alofi is a trade republic known for its sale of paper products, bamboo, produce, and ink.

It is fairly modern compared to other nations of Sirius.

Alofi has no state religion has it believes that all religions are acceptable, but most citizens adhere to writherianism, which states that the world was created by a great author. After they wrote their work, they delegated the job of maintaining the story to other, in-universe gods.