Vixati
Vixati (or Vixatia) was my first big fictitious country. I devised it when I was around twelve years old. When I left the house to live on my own, I weighed the amount of paper I had filled writing about the country. It was forty kilos (including some cardboard boxes).
Much of all this information about Vixati however is now unreadable, because I used Vixati to shape my ideas about politics and religion and to try and force that down the throats of my readers. That is why it has become necessary to write a new introduction about the country here (which isn't easy, because it's all a quarter of a century ago now).
Map of Augisti.
Vixati had neighbour-states, and so shortly after I had drawn the map of Vixati I also drew a map of the continent Augusti. Back then I wasn't very interested in how beautiful a map would be. Its main purpose was to be practical. A more beautiful map of Augisti than the one you see above does not exist.
Map of Vixati.
Above you see a photocopy of the map of Vixati, coloured by hand, which is one of the best examples of my efforts to draw a map in those days. The map is dated February 1987, a little over a year before Vixati officially ended. So the original map must have been even simpler still.
For almost three years, from when I was sixteen until when I was nineteen, I wrote a magazine with news from Vixati, called the Post uit Vixatië. I sent it to around ten people I knew were interested.
Vixati was a relatively small country. The biggest distance within its borders was about 100 kilometers from the north to the south, and the country had about one million inhabitants. The capital was Marbs, but Mantrio was the biggest and most important city in the country.
Here follow some pages about Vixati:
