Hesperia

Location from The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The western colonial power — technologically advanced, racially supremacist, and arriving in Nikara with trade agreements, missionaries, and the unshakable belief that they're doing you a favor.

Also known as: Hesperia, The West, The Hesperian Empire

What They Know

• Western colonial power with technological superiority over the Nikara Empire — advanced medicine, firearms, mechanical prosthetics, and naval power
• Operates in Nikara through the Gray Company (missionary-diplomatic order), trade agreements, and strategic alliances with Nikara warlords
• Explicitly white supremacist in worldview — considers Nikara people racially and culturally inferior
• Allied with Yin Vaisra's Dragon Republic — providing technology and military support in exchange for trade concessions that amount to colonial control
• Never invades militarily — achieves colonial goals through economic dependency, technological leverage, and manipulation of internal Nikara conflicts

Connections

• colonizes — nikara
• allied_with — vaisra
• represented_by — petra

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