08-07-2023, 01:53 AM
A Quick Summary of my Ideas 
Sunil Shi, the mythological founder of the nation, arrived to the land many years ago, discovering what she described as an untouched paradise of the earth. According to legend, she came from a far-away tribe on a journey to seek out a new land away from the constant floods and disasters of their own land. Some modern bits of culture would support this theory including advanced flood barrier technology and alarm systems. That being said, despite there being no doubt that the woman herself existed (her journal entries are quite well documented), there is a considerable amount of argument over the validity of what was contained within her story. Her descriptions of the land and its inhabitants seem mostly accurate, many of them being linked to documented creatures and landmarks today, but her mental health continued to deteriorate as the journal went on and many of her entries become less and less based in reality. At one point she claims that she has reproduced asexually in her sleep without pregnancy or a male member of the species. She speaks of herself repopulating the island with people created from her own essence. The general theory surrounding this is that in fact her asexual reproduction was simply the arrival of the rest of her tribe, having been forced from their homeland waiting for the return of Sunil. One of the more recent proponent arguments in favor of Sunil’s journals centered around genetics and the historical record of early peoples of the land, a group that was entirely women. If each historical event, election, and obituary was centered around a woman, perhaps that was due to asexual reproduction and a dominant gene. Historians and anthropologists however believe otherwise, claiming that the cultural gender roles of the tribe that arrived on the island likely simply regarded everyone as women, regardless of sex. Several sculptures and drawings from old society depict male genitalia nearly as prominently as they depict female genitalia. Of course, further rebuttals have been cast between the believers and the non-believers, but to write out the whole argument would be unnecessary and convoluted.
Instead, we should move on to the land itself. Sunil’s early theory of a land untouched by man was accepted for many years. The creatures and animals were of a kind not documented or seen by anyone in the nation before. Even once contact had been re-established with exterior nations, the living things of Thousand Branches were in a class entirely their own. In addition, the habitat seemed perfectly balanced and devoid of human structure. That theory prevailed until just the last hundred or so years when a foreigner had arrived in the land and was shocked to discover high levels of radiation across the entire country and even into the woods beyond. The question became: how can such levels of radiation exist in a land that was thought to be never habited? An early theory was that deep veins of radioactive material existed beneath the land but nuclear scientists brought in from outside the nation quickly dismissed that theory as impossible. The radioactivity present in the nation clearly had enough power once upon a time to mutate the creatures and plants of the land. Some trees had even evolved to use radiation as part of their photosynthesis process. That kind of radiation could only be caused by fallout and fallout necessitated the existence of some nation before this one many years ago. As the nuclear scientists explained the effects of nuclear fallout on a region, more parts of the story clicked into place. The psychological and biochemical effects on bodies, brains, and hormones could have been a partial cause of the insanity that grew in Sunil’s journals and the mental health issues that have plagued the nation for many years. The mutations and odd creatures had evolved and changed over many years in a unique environment. The long-time presence of cancers and thyroid problems that had baffled medical scientists for years could finally be explained.
A launch in nuclear research began in the nation, young and old being sent to foreign schools across the world in search of more research into fallout. Some wanted to know where the fallout had come from and instead opted to become foreign historians or diplomats. Others wanted to test the radiation and whether it was still affecting the population today. Even the ones who disagreed with many of the radioactive theories wanted to prove it was wrong and ventured out to schools of often dubious credibility. Today, a lab exists in the capital dedicated entirely to a cure for radiation sickness and to mitigating and blocking the risks associated with living in a land fraught with a new danger. And tomorrow, citizens of Thousand Branches look to a brighter future and further cooperation with outside nations, if they could only get people to come visit.
Obvs seeking any sort of critique or ideas from folks ^^ Always looking for ways to improve upon my ideas! Also want to know if this idea is acceptable/approvable by the folks in charge. Thanks all!
Sunil Shi, the mythological founder of the nation, arrived to the land many years ago, discovering what she described as an untouched paradise of the earth. According to legend, she came from a far-away tribe on a journey to seek out a new land away from the constant floods and disasters of their own land. Some modern bits of culture would support this theory including advanced flood barrier technology and alarm systems. That being said, despite there being no doubt that the woman herself existed (her journal entries are quite well documented), there is a considerable amount of argument over the validity of what was contained within her story. Her descriptions of the land and its inhabitants seem mostly accurate, many of them being linked to documented creatures and landmarks today, but her mental health continued to deteriorate as the journal went on and many of her entries become less and less based in reality. At one point she claims that she has reproduced asexually in her sleep without pregnancy or a male member of the species. She speaks of herself repopulating the island with people created from her own essence. The general theory surrounding this is that in fact her asexual reproduction was simply the arrival of the rest of her tribe, having been forced from their homeland waiting for the return of Sunil. One of the more recent proponent arguments in favor of Sunil’s journals centered around genetics and the historical record of early peoples of the land, a group that was entirely women. If each historical event, election, and obituary was centered around a woman, perhaps that was due to asexual reproduction and a dominant gene. Historians and anthropologists however believe otherwise, claiming that the cultural gender roles of the tribe that arrived on the island likely simply regarded everyone as women, regardless of sex. Several sculptures and drawings from old society depict male genitalia nearly as prominently as they depict female genitalia. Of course, further rebuttals have been cast between the believers and the non-believers, but to write out the whole argument would be unnecessary and convoluted.
Instead, we should move on to the land itself. Sunil’s early theory of a land untouched by man was accepted for many years. The creatures and animals were of a kind not documented or seen by anyone in the nation before. Even once contact had been re-established with exterior nations, the living things of Thousand Branches were in a class entirely their own. In addition, the habitat seemed perfectly balanced and devoid of human structure. That theory prevailed until just the last hundred or so years when a foreigner had arrived in the land and was shocked to discover high levels of radiation across the entire country and even into the woods beyond. The question became: how can such levels of radiation exist in a land that was thought to be never habited? An early theory was that deep veins of radioactive material existed beneath the land but nuclear scientists brought in from outside the nation quickly dismissed that theory as impossible. The radioactivity present in the nation clearly had enough power once upon a time to mutate the creatures and plants of the land. Some trees had even evolved to use radiation as part of their photosynthesis process. That kind of radiation could only be caused by fallout and fallout necessitated the existence of some nation before this one many years ago. As the nuclear scientists explained the effects of nuclear fallout on a region, more parts of the story clicked into place. The psychological and biochemical effects on bodies, brains, and hormones could have been a partial cause of the insanity that grew in Sunil’s journals and the mental health issues that have plagued the nation for many years. The mutations and odd creatures had evolved and changed over many years in a unique environment. The long-time presence of cancers and thyroid problems that had baffled medical scientists for years could finally be explained.
A launch in nuclear research began in the nation, young and old being sent to foreign schools across the world in search of more research into fallout. Some wanted to know where the fallout had come from and instead opted to become foreign historians or diplomats. Others wanted to test the radiation and whether it was still affecting the population today. Even the ones who disagreed with many of the radioactive theories wanted to prove it was wrong and ventured out to schools of often dubious credibility. Today, a lab exists in the capital dedicated entirely to a cure for radiation sickness and to mitigating and blocking the risks associated with living in a land fraught with a new danger. And tomorrow, citizens of Thousand Branches look to a brighter future and further cooperation with outside nations, if they could only get people to come visit.
Obvs seeking any sort of critique or ideas from folks ^^ Always looking for ways to improve upon my ideas! Also want to know if this idea is acceptable/approvable by the folks in charge. Thanks all!