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CULTURE
Flag
The flag, which was introduced in 1837, is a vertical
tricolore green-black-orange, with two upside down gold
stars in the black part. The two stars represent the two
parts of the former Kingdom of Both Glasters and they are
upside down because that kingdom doesn't exist anymore.
It is said that if the kingdom is restored, the stars
will be turned upside up. In a sense, the kingdom was
restored when Glaster was annexed after ending up on the
losing part of the civil war of 1921-1927, but although
several discussions to change the flag have been started
since then, no serious steps have been taken to do so.
Religion
Wyster's main religion is Ortholic Christicism, organised
as the Ortholic Archdiocese of Hreawirc (Wystrian:
Arcudaesus Ortholeh ta Hreawirc), comprising the
entire kingdom. The seat of the Archdiocese is the Cathedral
of Saint Alicus of Hreawirc (Catheedrol Seenth Alicus
sie Hreawirc).
Language
Wystrian is the national language of Wyster and the
native language of almost all Wystrians. Wystrian dialects
are still spoken in the north of Glaster. Originally not
limited to the island and kingdom of Wyster, linguists
suspect that (variants of) the language were once spoken
in a broad region along the south-eastern Ulethan coast
from Darcodia to Neberly and possibly even further. Not
many written sources have been found however to confirm
this theory.
The following text example is the opening paragraph of the
bestselling novel Moocstat ('The Change'), written
in 2005 by the Wystrian author Vallys Leagin (*1977):
Moocstat gèf ere ganeasyn. Er reaf moocstat, negh reaf
ceatùgyn, earre reaf sienne weas genheavynne, fa sie weas
sculceesse, ceuden bùgynne vee reaf roberynne fa castat
dhoot sculceus, irhith, ym banccasse ym cehceesse menne.
Moocstat tamòc blocstat sisin, gapo ryf iddedhyn, ym co
er leth wersen’er, gacac est givyrt reaf gu mysmeuc er.
Ceuos ym hinnervarhhith yscuf, ym emercas daecenu meuc
po sla ym ryf hodhe ear. Gacac bist ryfes inid.
("The change arrived quite unexpectedly. It was the change
that had been predicted by some scolars a couple of decades
before, but whose findings were dismissed by the great
majority of experts, the government and leading bankers and
business men. The change entered society silently, without
being noticed, and when it started to manifest itself,
there was nothing that could be done anymore to prevent it.
Chaos and revolution followed, and everyone was forced to
go with the flow and be a part of it. Nothing would remain
the same.")
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