Xtapolopaqetl

Xt'Tapolopaquetl, most commonly called Xt'Taps, are the indigenous peoples of the continent of Ameranta. (The name of the people is actually Xt'Tapolataquetl -- much as "Nebuchadnezzar" is actually Nebuchadrezzar and "Montezuma" is actually Moctezuma -- but old habits are hard to break.) They were the natives first encountered by the Kennyites when the latter settled Ameranta in the 1780s. Early historical accounts portray the Xt'Taps as a rather mischievous bunch of tricksters, but the Kennyites, lacking any sense of humor, got sick of all the penis jokes and decided to overthrow their little empire in 1785 and declare the whole nation the Federal Republic of Omigodtheykilledkenny. Since then, the Xt'Taps have traded their harmless mischief for untempered malice, and their unrest is responsible for much of the violence in Omigodtheykilledkenny's major cities.

Culturally, Xt'Taps resemble the Aztecs, but they'll haul you up their sacred pyramid and slice out your heart as an offering to the sun god if you bother pointing that out. Also, in this version of "Aztec" history, the natives gladly converted to Christianity in the sixteenth century when Spanish missionaries introduced it to them, but then got fed up with the missionaries' hypocrisy and had them all burned at the stake, and sent the conquistadors crying back to their king. (They haven't had as much success with the Kennyite invaders, who arrived two and a half centuries later.) Also, there were Moorish invaders who tried to overrun Ameranta at some point -- probably before the Spaniards' arrival -- and the Xt'Taps sent them packing as well, but not before adopting many of their customs, such as saying "Allahu Akbar" a lot and blowing up the infidels.