Jack of Harts

Lower Janga is a breakaway province of Atropia with three nations trying to take control of it. Limaria wants to protect the ethnic Limarians in the region from foreign oppression. They remember it happening for many years before they started the war to protect them, so to them it is a matter of fact and history. Atropia considers the land to belong to them, and they have 800,000 Atropian refugees who they still contend have a right of return to their lands. Their goal is to retake the region and rule it once more. And Ariana considers Lower Janga to be a great opportunity to expand their influence and export their militant version of Islam to other nations. Those are three conflicting goals for the region that have contributed to twenty years of hot and cold conflict within Lower Janga. And those three goals affect all international relations with any of those nations.

The Independent Republic of Lower Janga is another very interesting fictional battleground American troops train in. Older versions of the Decisive Action Training Environment included in the background a Limarian Genocide at the hands of the neighboring Kalarians. This is removed in more recent DATEs probably due to real life international politics and how closely that dovetailed into the real life history of Armenia and Turkey. But that gives valuable background on why Christian Limaria attacked Muslim Atropia over the persecution of Limarians in the mutual border region of Lower Janga. Or Artzak in earlier versions. It was a three year war, twenty years ago, that created over a million refugees, wrested control of an entire province from Atropia, and has defined relations between Limaria, Atropia, and anyone who deals with either of them. It is an important region and event.

South Ostremek has no cultural ties with the Gorgas people, and they don’t want any. They instead want to be reunited with their cousins in North Ostremek, one of the Donovian Republics. They took steps to do that nineteen years ago after the Gorgas/Donovian War weakened Gorgas. Gorgas attempted to reconquer them immediately, but the Donovians came to their long-lost cousins’ aid and helped them fight the conquers off. Gorgas came for them again three years ago, and the Donovians helped them once more. Their determined resistance weakened Gorgas enough that Zabzimek was able to push out the pro-Gorgas militias from their territory. Donovian peacekeepers now monitor the enforced cease fire between Ostremek and Gorgas, but there is still a great deal of chaos and crime in the area. That makes it another very interesting fictional place for American troops to train in.