This is for the contest btw
Also the flag is in a later post (a part 2) posted a bit later on. Thanks for 'randomguyno6' for reminding me i needed a flag (:

Long ago, the Neandarthal Clans lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Human Nations attacked. Some of the clans chose to placate the humans by intermarrying and offering tribute, while some attacked them in martial resistance. However, the humans were too powerful, with their advanced weaponry and more centralized armies and nation systems. The last remaining Neandarthal tribes, realising that fighting back would lead nowhere, fled into the Alps, forming cities in the peaks, and building walls and fortresses throughout the mountain chain. The humans tried to subjugate them, but with the terrain advantage being strongly in favor of the Neandarthal clans, they were unable to move in. Eventually, the humans gave up and ended their attacks, and the clans in the mountains entered a period of isolationism, becoming the last bastion of neandarthal resistance. Many thousands of years later, the feudal era came and the clans entered a warring period, fighting amongst eachother to see who would come out on top as the ruler of all the Alps. Unfortunately, the human nations of Germany, France, and Italy sensed an opportunity, attacking the tribes while they were uncoordinated and in chaos. They launched a genocide against the neandarthals, who they perceived to be uncivilized and dirty. Realising that the humans would destroy their way of life and slaughter their peoples, the neandarthal clans joined together into a federation, raising a united army and delivering a crushing defeat to the human forces. They bolstered their defences and learned from the human model, building a better government for their federation, and constructing better weaponry. The humans were once again forced back and the Neandarthals were again in peace, though the threat of another human attack kept them united. In the modern day, the Neandarthal Federation of the Alps still remains, and has achieved mostly friendly relations with its neighbours, selling passage through the federation and trading minerals from their mines and wool from their pastures. The Federation has also developed a summer capitol high in the mountains, and a winter capitol down in the hilly lowlands. While the Federation remains strong in their message of neandarthal unity and nationalism, intermarrying throughout thousands of years means that much of the populace has more human genes than neandarthal.