The Ranamemi

The Ranamemi originated in the Indus valley region of Zyem. They were displaced West and North during the Udank migrations of the first centuries of the first millenium, our reckoning. They regained much of their original territory from the Udank over the course of the centuries, and today are found in a belt stretching across the southern part of Eurasia from the Mid-East to the Indian subcontinent.

As part of their migrations, they entered the African continent and took it from the Thisbo, who fled from them across the Atlantic Ocean to South America. However, the conquerors and conquered merged so completely there that they are no longer considered Ranamemi any longer, in culture or language.

The Ranamemi possess the most highly developed technology on Zyem. Long world leaders in scientific and philosophical inquiry and indefatigible explorers and traders, they initiated Zyem's industrial revolution about 100 years ago. Their civilization has been settled and prosperous for a long time, and education, science and the arts are well-developed. By dint of all this, they have been big influences on the world scene throughout almost their entire history, but especially in the last centuries. Yet they seem to have no impulse toward conquest. Their hegemony in the world is entirely through their economic and technological influence. They have fought no wars for territory in over 500 years, and founded no empires or colonies.

The Ranamemi lead the world in secondary industries, manufacturing and technology. They are the world's source for aircraft, electronics and complex machinery. The vast oil fields of the Middle East are theirs, and they export its products throughout the world.

The Ranamemi are organized into a single vast nation, subdivided into states or provinces. They consider themselves one people, wherever they dwell, united by language and culture. The Ranamemi are the most democratic of Zyem's societies, with the least interference in citizen's private and commercial affairs.

Ranamemi language is lightly inflected. It features adjective agreement with the noun and a subject-object-verb word order. Its orthography is syllabic, yet has been adapted for use by the Dunnek into a true alphabet, and from them it has been adopted by the Kadanë and the Saambu.

The religion of the Ranamemi is polytheism, like that of the Kadanë, and concerned primarily with rituals. It does not contain the dichotomy between good and evil spirits found in the latter system, however. Ranamemi practice sometimes seems to be solely concerned with divining or creating auspicious days. The Ranamemi are inveterate gamblers, which they sometimes term 'worshipping the goddess Fate'.

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