Republic Owl / Pecпyбликa Филин / République Hibou / 共和国 ワシミミズク
History

Foundation of the city of settlers:
While the wider continent was undergoing large change, many new settlers from across the land were looking up to the settling of the great north once again, a land abandoned by previous empires and left to develop on is own. The settlers came from many places across the continent, and using the pathway from Hoshiyomia and the mountains they arrived to form the city of settlers, there many new peoples were conflicting with each other and religious disputes were forming, it is said, that the formation of the common religion came from multiple religious leaders observing owls hunt pests around the newly forming city. From this point onwards, the religious temples and leaders agreed to the worship of owls to cleanse the city of pests.
This is, of course, a myth, no one is quite sure on how the religion formed, and there are multiple stories on how it did, but it is one corroborated by history. The formation of the religion managed to unite the splintered city into a single political entity, as it was divided into multiple political factions wishing to expand their own influence into the new lands.

As the city had been formed by circumstance it suffered from the issue of having no central authority to govern itself by, leading to a large boom in trade and movement of money in the city.
Large scale conflict with outside tribes and enemy groups in the region brought an end to this arrangement, the growth of the city had inflicted upon the previous status quo and forced the region into wars, the first institution by which the city had arranged itself was not a religious temple, as was expected by the citizens of the city, but by a coalition of the postal workers working under the "Delivery and Retrieval Office" and various manufacturers that used the chance to strangle the power out of the religious temples.
This effectively formed the first "Postal State" in the history of the world, this "Postal State" Reorganized all armed forces in the city and its outsides to wage the first siege war, forceful recruiting of neutral parties and aggressive expansion fueled the postal state until a peace could be achieved against the inmediate neighbours, such a peace came at the cost of these neighbouring states and their lands were annexed into the city.

By now, the Postal State was too big for it's own good, so the decision to reorganize the government came by popular demand and the Postal State being overstreched in its administration, this incredibly violent period in history was blurry, many records were erased and the religious temples began aiming to obtain power once again, this messy and relatively unrecorded part of history resulted in the formation of the presidential agreement, where the leader of the nation would be elected by popular demand, and his actions would then be approved by a council, this council was originally made up of important sponsors of the nation, and it would take a long way for it to become representative of the regions and the people in it.
Upon the formation of the Presidential Agreement, the new reorganized state began the preparations for the invasion to the east, where multiple enemy groups often planned their raids and border clashes were common. This "March to the East" was bloody and suffered from many issues, mainly logistical ones until the complete elimination of the enemy presence, a similar "March to the West" was planned but suffered from many setbacks, mainly the tiredness of the population from constant war and economic issues from having to reorganize the political structure of the Eastern Hills and mountains.
Political development was mainly characterized by the temples trying to gain influence over the government and the people of the nation seeking further representation other than by means of the Presidential Agreement, before the new "March to the West" was fully prepared the Legislative office separated itself from the military and forced itself under civilizan leadership, done in part to ease the logistical burden upon the military and in part to weaken the presidential office by the temples, this structure would eventually end up out of the control of the Temples too.

The history of the temples was one of embracing humanist rethoric to further goals of the expansion of the new agreement, those that were not human were seen as lesser and a common philosophy was that of Human Supremacy over the world, it is one that belongs to humans. This made the Religious temples quite belligerous, but it was seen as convenient by every other influential power in the State, especially due to the wars that were going on, so it was allowed to be born and embraced by many.

Finally, the time for the march to the west had come, and a lightning campaing was done over the regions using the experience gained in the bogged down wars to the east, the wars were decisive in their nature and simply seen as a duty that must be completed by the State.
The economic situation improved thanks to the mass planting of potatoes in the east and the usage of wheat in key parts where not much food could be grown, saving the nation from various potential starvations and gaining a surplus in food.
Once the March to the west was completed, it was time for a national reorganization, ending in the formation of the current Republican structure, the temples were completely removed from positions of power and heavily decentralized, instead displaced into places where they'd serve the population much more directly. Since the march to the west, a long peace was established and the nascent Republic was allowed to further its economic goals for the first time, and for its population to grow large and request for the expansion of their rights. What follows the future of this nation is still unsure to many.