Category:Nationality: Difference between revisions

For the purpose of nationality, each domain is deemed to be a separate nation regardless of the condition of its state apparatus.

Nationality is understood to concern the nation of origin, regardless of whether or not that is the current domain of residence. Alanik Ray is Darkonian and that does not change when he emigrates from Martira Bay in Darkon to Port-a-Lucine in Dementlieu. Instead his situation is described as follows: Darkonian, Former Inhabitants of Martira Bay, Former Inhabitants of Darkon, Inhabitants of Port-a-Lucine and Former inhabitants of Dementilieu.

Nationality is slightly broader than state of birth/domain of creation. While the assignment of double nationality should usually be avoided, individuals who are born/created in one state but who are quickly taken to another to be raised are potential candidates for double nationality. Babies born in Darkon who emigrate with their parents to Lamordia should be assigned double nationality for the reason that they will not be subject to the memory altering effect of the Book of Names should they ever return to Darkon. Equally, individuals who are essentially reborn or recreated in an other state in a way that strongly identifies them in the eye of the average observer with that state are candidates for double nationality. The Slain are overwhelmingly Darkonian and Necropolitan. This may be the case with some dark lords.

Nationality and ethnic group are not to be confounded. In domains where there are two or more significant ethnic groups, nationality and ethnicity are very different. Being Hazlani and being Rashamani are two related but different things. In domains where nearly all the inhabits belong to the save ethnicity, nationality functions for many purposes as a proxy of ethnicity. Nonetheless, every last individual with the nationality will not necessarily belong functionally and as a pure matter of fact to that ethnic group. A stolen baby may be Tepestani in terms of his birth but be raised as a Nova Vaasan, learning next to nothing of the ways of the Tepestani. Note that the Vistani are a stateless ethnic group. Individual Vistani are not assigned a nationality even if the state of their birth is known. A Vistani baby adopted by a family of giorgio or one raised by its parents within the confines a single domain would, however, be assigned a nationality

Note that most Vistani, an ethnic group, are stateless. They are not assigned a nationality even if the state of their birth is known. A vistani baby adopted by a giomora or one raised by its parents within the confines a single domain would be assigned a nationality.

Nationality is to be assigned to people first and foremost. It may be assigned to monsters that are unique (or very nearly so) to a given land such as illithids or the wolfweres. The former are Bluetspurean and the latter are Kartakan. It is also assigned to items and societies that are unique to a given land. Thrall clasps are Bluetspurean and the Eternal Order is Darkonian. Finally, nationality is a assigned to the categories that gathers up the individual places within a domain, but is not assigned to the individual places themselves. Locations in Port-a-Lucine and Locations in Dementlieu appears under Dementlieuse whereas the Great Library of Port-a-Lucine and Port-a-Lucine itself do not.