REPUBLIC OF PERILO DEMOGRAPHICS

RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS

The following racial and ethnic groups are identified by the census:

• European White - including settlers from the prior colonial powers, England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
• Indigenous Peoples - descendents of the Ossippee (still resident in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain) and Smoke Valley peoples (still resident along the north side of the Northern Massif, the Valley of Smoke, and the Sangre de Cristo mountains).  Several small aboriginal tribes maintain traditional civilizations in the Great Forest, and the Totem people still maintain a nomadic existence in the Great Waste.
• African-Perilan - black African peoples brought to Perilo as slaves in the 1600s and 1700s.
• Tri-Racial - people of mixed ancestry.  Small, old communities of tri-racial peoples which may have originated in the late 1600s and early 1700s are located in the Northern Massif region.
• Asian Pacific - largely refugees from conflict in Southeast Asia who arrived subsequent to 1973.  Settlement has primarily been along the coast.
• South Asian - professional and commercial immigrants from Pakistan and India who have settled in the major cities.

LANGUAGES

Official Languages:

• English
• Glosa - an international auxiliary constructed language (IAL or conlang)

Other Languages with significant numbers of speakers:

• African American Vernacular English
• American Sign Language
• French
• Hindi
• Khmer
• Ossippee
• Punjabi
• Spanish
• Tagalog
• Totem
• Vietnamese