Vasterians

Vasterians are an umbrella term for people who associate with the country of Vasteria. The national population is 8,430,918 as of 2020.

Vasteria is a multi-ethnic society with seven classes of ethnic groups: Amerindians, Africans, Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Indonesians and Levantines. However, its inhabitants associate their citizenship not with nationality or ethnicity but with patriotism.

Europeans
Forming 35% of the population of Vasteria, European Vasterians are the largest ethnic group in the country.
 * Scots Vasterians are the largest European group in Vasteria. Forming 39% of the European population, they are descendants of slave owners, farmers and fishermen and soldiers from the Scottish Highlands, Cumbria, the Isle of Man, Southern Scotland and Ulster.
 * Dutch Vasterians, which constitute 22% of all European Vasterians, form the 2nd largest European group. They are descendants of farmers and bankers from the present-day regions of Groningen, Noord-Brabant, Friesland and Zuid-Holland.
 * Anglo-Vasterians, originating mostly from Southwestern and Northern England, Wales and the Channel Islands, form 21% of the European population.
 * Hispano-Vasterians form 11% of European Vasterians. Their origins are traced to the present-day regions of Leon, Andalusia, Extremadura and the Canary Islands in Spain, as well as the present-day Republic of Catalonia and the Basque Country.
 * Other Europeans form 7% of the national European population. Their ancestries are traced to the following countries: Germany, Switzerland, Danuvia, Portugal, Italy, France, Sudetia, Czechia, Greece, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Kerkimenia and Norway. A sizeable majority of Kosovo Albanians from neighboring Dardania live in Vasteria.

Afro-Vasterians
African Vasterians form 28% of the national population. They mostly retain their traditional cultures, however with some influences from African-American culture, and have influenced Vasterian culture greatly.

Most Afro-Vasterians are of Akan and Zulu ancestry, but there are also Kongo, Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo populations.

Amerindians
18% of the population are Amerindians. The aborigines of the country are Ngabe and Taino, but Caribs, Guarani and Wayuu have significant minority populations. They live mostly in reserves in the country's rainforests and mountains, although they have significant minorities in New Aberdeen.

Asians
The three Asian groups in Vasteria constitute Chinese, Indians and Tenggarans. Together they form 6% of the population of Vasteria.
 * Chinese Vasterians form 48% of all Asian Vasterians. They are descended from indentured workers of Hakka and Cantonese ancestry. Nowadays, most of them have their populations in Surrey or New Aberdeen.
 * Indo-Vasterians form 32% of the Asian population, and are descended from slaves shipped from the British Raj, specifically from the present-day states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
 * Tenggarans (derived from the Indonesian word tenggara representing southeasterner), constituting 20% of the population of Asian Vasterians, are descendants of 19th century slave workers from the islands of Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

Levantines
Levantine Vasterians form 5% of the national population, descended from Jewish and Christian missionaries sent on slave ships by the Dutch. They are divided mainly into two categories:
 * Vasterian Jews, divided into Dutch Ashkenazis, Spanish Sephardis, and Karaims, mostly living in New Aberdeen.
 * Lebanese Vasterians, who are mostly ethnically-homogenous but nevertheless multi-religious, practicing Maronitism, Sunni, Shia, Eastern and Greek Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism and Druzeism. They have majority populations in New Aberdeen and Surrey.

Multiculturals
Multiracial or "colored" Vasterians form 3% of the national population. Some examples include:
 * Dougla (Afro-Indians)
 * Chindians
 * Peranakans (Chinese Tenggarans)
 * Afro-Asians
 * Cocoa Panyols (Spanish-Afro-Amerindian)
 * Miskitos (Amerindian-Dutch)
 * Garifuna (Afro-Amerindian)