Formerly known as the Kingdom of Kliška, the Socialist Republic of Perunovska and Kamenika (Socijalistička Repubblica di Perunovska e Kamenica) is found nestled in the Adriatic sea as an isolated and insular example of Mediterranean culture blending. Embodying a unique mixture of Italian and Croatian tradition, the locals live and represent the habits of their ancestor Dalmatians and Venetians, giving birth to their local Vene-Dalmat language and heritage.

Referred to as Isolano by the Italians and the Mleto-dalmatinski by the Croats, Vene-Dalmat has in the five hundred or so years since its birth become a fully realized language and is believed to be the result of their relative isolation in the center of the southern Adriatic sea. Merchants and travelers in this area (and many others) tended to travel along coastlines for the sake of safety and navigation, meaning that the islands of Perunovska and Kamenika never became a popular stop for the average sailor moving into or out of the Mediterranean. Despite this some did visit, bringing with them their knowledge and eventually even their families.

Perunovska and Kamenika would slowly become known for their lack of a properly enforced state religion, drawing ire from their local Renaissance contemporaries, but never posing either enough value or significance to truly justify interdiction on the part of the Vatican and the Catholic church. As a result they would at first become a melting pot of separate religions, and eventually an attractive location for those irreligious and atheist inhabitants of the Mediterranean.

Their Kings, validated by the grace of their quiet rule and ability, absent serious theological backing, were never particularly accepted by their mainland peers, resulting in an even more isolated people, who in this distaste failed to secure foreign marriages.

By the late 1950's the Kingdom would undergo the beginning processes of shedding their now esoteric governmental system, donning the newly popular and attractively authoritarian oligarchic socialist structure of many burgeoning Communist states, foregoing any dedication to this larger political body and instead reinforcing their own isolationism. Borders would be closed, travel would be monitored, and the centralization of resources would begin to look more like a military Junta as opposed to a socialist state in the common Soviet fashion. Nevertheless the 150,000 inhabitants of the two islands would remain largely content, perceiving no less lack of agency than when they were subjects in a Kingdom.

Save for the export of their local wine industry and certain fish-based sauces, and the import of critical resources and necessities, the Perunovac-Kameničanin people would go largely unnoticed by the world until the late 1990's, when travelers to the island (a rare legal occurrence) reported an extremely laissez-faire attitude towards sex and sexuality, evidenced by a proliferation of casual encounters, a nationalized and extremely permissive pornography industry, and an unusually normalized acceptance of paraphilic interests. The scandal was sudden, loud, but short-lived, with foreign actors and businessmen very quickly becoming interested in the Adriatic islands as a potential tax-haven and vacationing stop.

The former Kliškans now in the late 2020's enjoy the fruits of an economic boom brought on by their curious and hyper-sexualized culture, seeing thousands of requests a day for traveler's visas and the presense of newly formed foreign investment banking firms that markedly contradict their supposed antithetical views of capitalism and private enterprise. Entrance is heavily screened and subject to intense medical examination (there are no known sexually transmitted diseases on the islands, a curious fact that hints at a private genocide) and visitors are expected to leave any and all recording devices at the Kamenikan airport, where they offer state regulated dumb phones, self-identifying clothing (red shoes, bracelets), and other minor conveniences for foreign visitors.

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The SRPK is my first alternate history endeavor and a contribution to the lore of dracenmarx and his unique Modern World setting (you can see here the homeland of his characters Jace and Lewis, The Balklands) and can be taken as existing in his lore, Hollarackie and perhaps even an alternate history timeline that (with permission) you would like to include it in.

I plan to build much greater detail into this and will be expanding on it through text, artworks and other creative means.