Skjopian

Skjopians (pronounciation: Skopians) are a cultural group of Humans native to Planet Skjope. Similar to The Naboo people, they appear to value their culture in a very strong way, having colourful and artistically rich cultural attire. Similar also to Mandalorians Skjopians appear to have their own distinct language simply known as Balkanian which is the official language spoken among all inhabitants of Planet Skjope.

History
Not much is known about the Skjopians, other than that at one point nearly 13,000 years ago they appeared to have colonized Skjope. Skjope appeared to have no other native intelligent Species other than the animals/fauna that inhabited the planet such as Headcrabs. Skjopians have a similar gene pool to Mandalorians and around 14% of their vocabulary is influenced and or directly intelligible to Mandalorian.

Culture
Similar to the Mandalorians and The Naboo, Skjopians have strong and rich culturally artistic dresses. Their music appears to also be a strong aspect of their rich illustrious culture. Skjopian music typically sounds Eastern European mixed with Middle Eastern instruments, weddings typically include nearly 4,000 people there.

Separatist Crisis
During the Separatist Criss, the Skjopian people were some of the very few Humans to side with the CIS and later enter in as a beligerent in the Clone Wars, whom they fought alongside Genosians, Umbarans, Numodians and Battle Droids.

Galactic Communist Alliance
Eventually the Skjopians would see themselves becoming the primary front line army when they formed the Galactic Communist Alliance, the People's Army is made up of 98% Skjopian fighters, with the few exceptions of Chiss and Zabrak minorities that joined the Army.



Trivia
Skjopians are heavily based off Albanians - and South Slavs with some influence from Russians