Korsic-Phong
Koric-Phong, on Pem Farheuill, is often called "The last Great Hold-out of the Earth-Sphere Confederation". A nation of some sixty million people, they retained sovereignty and were able to remain independent when the Confederacy fell. As they were well outside draconic territory, their war industries were not affected by the devastating battled with the Trans-Draconic Federation.
Early History
Like most ConFed states, Korsic has it's roots in the Long Night. The island is comprised of fourteen Kantons covering an island of 80,000 square miles. During the Long Night, twelve of the cantons were controlled independently by loyalists and proved productive farming and mining communities. By the end of the Long Night, some 95% of the population were slaves. As the Confederacy solidified, the twelve cantons quickly took control of the remaining two, and fought a brief civil war, which ended in all fourteen cantons being controlled by just five families. The old boarders were maintained for organizational purposes.
Korsic-Phong was quick to industrialize, rapidly building advanced technologies and beginning a war of conquest on every region it could reach. By the time the confederacy was officially founded, the five families controlled an empire of several hundred million square miles. While most of the new territories had abolished slavery with the end of the Long Night, under Confederate rule it qas rapidly brought back. The seat of power on the isle of Korsic grew exceptionally wealthy and became and economic and technological power-house.
End of Confederate Rule
When open war began between the ConFeds, the Foundation, and the Trans-Draconic Federation, most of Korsic's territories were lost in a matter of months. The home island, however, was safely far away from the front; and when the Confederation collapsed, they were able to keep a working economy. Officially, slavery had to be abolished, but most of the "freed peoples" or Korsic were able to keep their property under terms of indentured servitude.
As an independent nation, Korsic flourished thanks to a wealth of natural resources and a labor force able to turn those into finished products at very competitive prices. Their exports were many, and their imports were mostly technological. Korsic had a very good track-record for bringing in technologies developed elsewhere, backwards engineering them, then building more advanced and cheaper variants. While the proportion of slaves did shift down under 70%, indentured labor was still the backbone of their economy.
