The Anrise Republic, name derived from a corruption of the old popular term for the nation, "a newly risen republic" which refers to how the republic rose from the ashes of the old monarchy, is a fairly religious, isolationist, and libertarian nation of relatively youthful age but of unfathomable history. The current state of the nation, the so-called Anrise Republic, is but a single chapter in an anthology of older nation-states that have dared to encapsulate the eclectic and wary peoples of the land it calls its own. The nation's leader is Rychro Anrise, an enigmatic figure whose name, although clearly influenced by the name of the republic itself, remains an unexplained mystery. Considered simultaneously a genius, a fool, a sage, a fool again, a prophet, still a fool, and a psychotic by