“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow”

Dubbed "the Forgotten Land", the Holy State of Omashu is a small theocratic entity located in the Blessed Continent's northwestern region. Legend has it that when the Martial Way reached the Blessed Continent, Omashu became a powerful nation of the Arts and, while not becoming a hub for martial arts, was a well-respect community and martial arts authority in its own right. Once the Schism occurred, Omashu fell to the anti-martial religious leaders, who instituted the "Martial Reform Act of Unity", which prohibited any kind of martial thinking and action as a physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or intellectual pursuit. In fact, martial arts are still outlawed to this day, officially, though the military tends to turn a blind eye to the Arts unless one uses it to cause trouble.

Obviously, Omashu would be a conservative nation, being so religious. The priests and missionaries built it up after the war, and declared anything but their religion as being dangerous and inviting of another conflict. The religion? Shalism. Long ago, the Creator of the Heavens, Shal, made the Holy Realm, the Hellish Realm, and then Longzaru -- the world. It's said that he put the Omashites on the Blessed Continent and told them that they were his chosen, and then over the course of 100 generations, would take a human form and give them instructions they were to follow. Shalism seeps into all cultural aspects of Omashu, even bleeding into the originally agnostic indigenous culture of the region before the Schism. You will rarely find babies being had out of wedlock, nor will you hear talk of "contraception". While the ruling body is aware such things exist, promoting the populace to indulge may result in exile, or even worse...death.

Aesthetically, Omashu is a soft fusion of Japanese and Chinese culture, though with a heavier Japanese influence.