[b]Nation Name:[/b] The Long Grass Confederation (Often called the Buffalo or Cow Tribes by outsiders) 
[b]National Flag:[/b] 
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(The people of the Long Grass do not use flags, but rather painted buffalo skulls, to tell each other apart.)
[b]Location:[/b] Their unofficial capital is Yellowstone Park, which serves as a spiritual center.  
[b]Land Owned:[/b]
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[b]Population:[/b] Roughly 1 million, though it is difficult to count since the government is so loose. 
[b]Language Spoken:[/b] English and bad English.
[b]National History:[/b] The Great Plains is a poor location for farming, but the sudden drop in human population caused the cattle population to expand and mix with the rebounding American Bison. With very little else to interest the outside world in this region, people fleeing the violence of more crowded areas mixed with surviving natives and created small, peaceful communities of hunter-gatherers. Inter-tribal war has been scarce, mostly consisting of small honor-feuds that smoulder over the years in small skirmishes rather than explode in true wars.

A mix if peaceful close-to-nature spirituality and vestigial Christianity defines the peculiar religion of these people. They believe in the skeleton of the christian myth, but with an added emphasis on simple superstitions and strange proto-pagan nature rituals. It is through their belief that God is alive in their land and way of life that they have been brought together into a simple proto-nation, bound by honor to each other and the knowledge that all who encroach or offend on their collective way of life are employed by the forces of demons and deserve no mercy. Those tribes that live further to the east know this the most, and often raid the neo-industrialist nations and city-states when they sense weakness. 
[b]Leader:[/b] Father Boiled-Beef
[b]Describe the Govt.:[/b] Tribes are allowed to handle their own affairs. The "Father" is a position more akin to a religious patriarch or Pope. It is the duty of the tribes to make sure that their religious father is taken care of, and they carry out his will so long as it seems reasonable and just. The only way their religious father can collect anything at all is through voluntary tribute, meaning that there is no tax code or even feudal contract. 

The tribes prefer their autonomy, but it is widely accepted that any attempt from the outside world to bring their people to heel would result in a temporary unification of all tribes. 
[b]Technological, Cultural, and Military Overview:[/b] Their love of nature makes them technologically simplistic. They have modern convienences but rarely have the means to properly use them. Guns are kept for the purpose of warfare, and gunsmithing is considered a sacred art. It is considered inappropriate and wasteful to use firearms on other members of their Confederacy, however. Guns, in the eyes of the People of the Long Grass, are for slaying demons and their servants. When hunting or fighting among each other, they use bows and hand-crafted weapons. 

Agriculture is rare, though farming communities have sprung up along the Missouri River. These constitute small towns who's lifestyle blends the ways of the Long Grass with sedentary city-state lifestyle. These places are the most powerful amongst these people, though they are not particularly common. 

An early belief among these people is that the heavy technology of the outside world caused the devestation, so they not only avoid pointless convienences like cars and electricity, but they have actively set out to destroy the remaining oil-producing facilities in their lands that they can find. Cars are only ever seen rusting on the praerie, or part of make-shift fortifications.