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The Democratic Island Federation of Frieden-und Freudenland

Frieden-und Freudenland was Commended by Security Council Resolution # 316

“United for Peace and Joy”

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From Intelligent Stone Age Nomads to Sophisticated Modern-Day Citizens

Modern Frieden-und Freudenland has a quite short history. However, the archipelago on which this serene country is located has been inhabited for over 25,000 years according to the archaeological evidence available.

Today Frieden-und Freudenlandian anthropologists and archaeologists collaborate to unearth the stunning history of this beautiful archipelago. Their findings suggest that the first humans in the archipelago were nomads who arrived from East Africa with canoes thanks to their superb nautical skills. The first nomads were hunter and gatherers, and were a preliterate society; as a result, not much has remained of them, except for occasional fish hooks made of bone, stone tools, carved wood that has been fossilized, ornamental beads made of barnacles, cave paintings, and flute-like instruments made of ostrich bones. In addition, some altar-like basins have been discovered on the top of the Mount Serendipity, and the archaeologists have been able to excavate some female figurines around the same site. It is conjectured that this ancient matriarchal hunter-gatherer community venerated a goddess and the remnants of goats' and cows' bones found in and around the altars suggest that these people most probably sacrificed these animals for the goddess. But the material legacy of our ancestors is unfortunately very limited. These are the comparatively ''dark ages'' we do not know much about.

The first written documents that we have are the so-called Mutinka inscriptions found on a big rock on the Sumbundin beach north of the Mount Serendipity. It is estimated that these inscriptions are around 4.500 years old and they are called the ''Mutinka inscriptions'' because they were created by the first literate society on the territories of modern Frieden-und Freudenland, and these people called themselves ''the Mutinkas'' - which has been revealed to mean ''The Whale People'' in the local language ''Mutinosan'' by our great linguists.

The inscriptions are about the history of the Mutinkas. They narrate in an enchantingly lyrical language how the good king Thinwukantinga defeated the barbarian king Osinbunpolis with the help of the goddess Ching-ol-krask. (It is believed that this goddess may be the same goddess worshipped by the first residents of the archipelago, but there is no solid evidence for this claim yet.) However, the inscriptions also say that there were things that even such a brave and smart king as Thinwukantinga could not defeat. The legend talks about ''a curse that relentlessly descended upon the Whale People like a black fog''. It appears that the people were first struck by a natural disaster - presumably a volcano eruption, as the text reads ''the mountain was spitting fire and ashes'' - which resulted in a significant number of casualties. Later, the text says that ''and all warriors returned home with red-spotted skins and died'', which our historians think refers to a smallpox epidemic. It is possible that the warriors went to a different country to conquer it and were infected with smallpox there and when they returned home, they brought the disease with them. This also explains why there are no further documents left to us from the Mutinkas and why there were no indigenous people when the modern intellectuals arrived at the archipelago and founded Frieden-und Freudenland. It is very probable that the whole population of Frieden-und Freudenland was exterminated by these two ''catastrophes'' and these disasters have wiped a great civilization off the face of the earth.

However, modern-day Frieden-und Freudenlandians are determined to preserve whatever is left of the first inhabitants of this paradise-like archipelago. There is a big language revitalization project led by our pre-eminent linguists, our linguists are trying to reconstruct the ancient ''Mutinosan'' language and to teach it. In fact, one of the most popular hobbies of our citizens is to learn Mutinosan and to speak it. Mutinosan is also taught in schools and is recognized as an official language.

All findings that shed a light upon our history are kept and exhibited at the ''National Museum'' and attract many visitors. Archaeologists and anthropologists continue to work in order to uncover our mysterious history, and our knowledge of these great people grows day by day.

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