OOC: Introducing Saeard

[Raz]

The Kingdom of Biyra is that nation across its Sea from Saeard. For the past 14 years it has been ruled by a Nationalist Queen and her preferred parties. Biyra is relatively hostile to its neighbors for various reasons. In its east it hates Severyane and all of the splinters of the USR as the USR had invaded and almost conquered Biyra, Biyrans have a notoriously long societal memory. Besides the former USR, Biyra sees the Biyran Sea as its own private area and the nations who border it have either stolen the land or are wayward Biyrans who rebelled against Biyra and need to be reclaimed at some point. Biyra has been militarily on high alert for the entirety of the Queen's rule as it distrusts or hates all of its surrounding neighbors.

The above is the general stance of Biyra's populace under the current regime. In more liberal times Biyrans still held a distrust of the former USR, but the general tone was decidedly less extreme. The view of Biyrans in those times of their neighbors outside of the former USR was more kind. While the Vostic peoples around the Biyran Sea were still viewed as wayward Biyrans, generally it was accepted that those people were independent cousins. The non-Vostics were viewed favorably while still being definitely foreign and to be treated warily unless they had proven friendly or useful.