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In northern Kurvokia, a group of Kursk families decided to embrace the Sanguis Catholic faith, preached by the Althusian missionaries who frequented the region of Western Yastreovakia. These families had to pay tribute to their Muslim lord, but they, following a radical vision of Christus, refused to pay an infidel, so their lord ordered them to leave their lands, or they would be executed. The families, who lived in the small town of Browanska, decided to abandon their lands towards Astovich, further north, in 1509. However, the Browanska families also suffered great persecution due to their Kursk origin and being Sanguis Catholics, so they decided flee to better lands, towards Nonscio. They boarded ships and fled like a northern tribe for better lands and opportunities to the south.

The Browans (or Bromeks, as their name was later corrupted), were a wandering people who settled in various places such as Kurikia, Illiricium, Malvekia, Kampf, Kaonas, Nui'ao, among others, searching for a homeland to call home. The Bromeks, in 1743, lived somewhere in Goiás, Estandé, and served the King of Altusia. Their number barely reaches a thousand people, but they always traveled the world together. Due to their geographical knowledge, an Althusian merchant took the Bromeks and several Estandérs to Solitas, in the vast colonial domain, to work the fields and ports. The Bromeks then traveled far south, to a Peninsula called La Plata. The La Plata Peninsula already had about three Altusian ports, and many Estandérs working in them, as was the norm in almost all of Domingo and Éden. The Bromeks arrived in a climate more similar to those their ancestors had, so they adapted quickly.

In a Germanic pirate attack towards the port of Pedroza, on the Peninsula, the Bromeks defended the city when the Altusian armies were mobilized in Marcanova, putting down a revolt. Their heroic defense caused Altusian governor of the Southern Provinces of Domingo, Álvar de Gómez, to give them the entire La Plata Peninsula as their new home, and they were given legal privileges and noble titles. The Bromeks, about 1,420 people in the year 1805, became an upper social class in the colony, compared to the 50,000 Altusians and Standards who inhabited the Peninsula.

In February 1822, Sir John Hathaway, a disgraced Cardonian nobleman who turned privateer, along with militants from Anglostia and from parts of Cardonia and Hevaria, who called themselves the “British,” came to explore southern Solitas. Alone and they founded the colony of British Valsora. The British Archduke managed to take the La Plata Peninsula from the Altusians in the 1850s, with the help of the Bromeks. In gratitude, the Bromeks were given two States, Firodia (a small agrarian town) and Pedroza. The Bromeks then began a system where only they had power and the Altusians and Estandér were limited to being the working class of the Peninsula.

Subsequently, three British vassal states emerged on the Peninsula: Ferud, Petrovac and Turvac, each led by a prominent Bromek family who vie to unify the domains into one. The Bromeks began to rename places with the names of their language, and due to their great servility to the British Valsora government, minority rule and an apartheid system of administration were tolerated.

In 1892, in Owelac, a city in Petrovac, a compromise was signed between the three vassal states that made up the United Principality of Brome, established throughout the Peninsula and under the protection of the Archduke of British Valsora. The Bromeks continued to have the power, the monarchy and the government, even though Altusian and Estandér descendants were the majority, and were exploited by the crops and commercial production that the Brome gained.

However, the system could not work forever. In 2007, the British Valsoran Government terminated the protector status of the Principality of Brome, and Brome gained absolute sovereignty. But the small Bromek economy could not support the expenses of defense and the monarchy, so it had to take out loans. In 2016, Brome requested a loan of USD 15 million from Silvamar, in 2022 from Arvorenia a loan of USD 60 million, and from Atrocha between 2019 and 2030, a loan of USD 145 million. Brome could afford only the basics for its population, and most worked in the rest of the island of Domingo, as they had more job opportunities than in Brome.

Quickly, the La Plata Action Movement, which called for political vindication in the midst of the apartheid system exercised by the Bromek ethnic group, began to gain popularity due to the looming economic crisis, since a large part of the expenses went to the Prince and his family. The purchase of a battleship from Kaonas in 2029 made the situation worse, as it sank, and the purchase had cost 8% of Brome's GDP.

In the midst of the situation, a revolution was orchestrated, in 2031, with the coronation of the Prince of Brome, Daniel, where a worker, Ronaldo Alves, attempted to assassinate the Prince. Alves' death in strange circumstances raised the discontent of the majority of the population. The Prince and his family fled Brome, towards Atrocha, where they were welcomed as political exiles, while in Polska the Bromek elite found themselves dealing with a burning country.

In 2033, the Brome Parliament allowed anyone other than Bromek to become a civil servant. However, this was not enough: the Altusians and Estandér, the majority of the population, asked for annexation to Atrocha as best, since this guaranteed them protection and political freedoms. After a period of negotiation between Prince Daniel and the Government of the Republic of Atrocha, it was agreed that the Brome annexation referendum would be held on January 14, 2034, in addition to the creation of a fund to recover the nation from 2 billion USD, triple the nation's GDP.

The referendum was overwhelming: 92% supported annexation to Atrocha, and the Bromeks were reduced to a minority ethnic group. Because of this, the Atrocha Self-Defense Forces were welcomed into Petrovac, renamed by its original name, Pedroza, with cheers among the population.

Due to its political importance and population, the Parliament of Atrocha approved on February 1, 2034 the creation of the Federal Province of La Plata, recovering the old name of the Peninsula before Bromek domination. Despite everything, the Bromeks had a seat in the Council of State, as a minority in the province of La Plata, where their legacy of apartheid was abolished, as well as the Principality, and Prince Daniel lives as a civilian in the Atrochan province of Valle del Noria, on a private property.