A group of Reisläufer Swiss mercenary soldiers, the Stallia were commissioned in Bern in 1450, and served in the Burgundian Wars.
After the Battle of Nancy in 1477, the Stallia company served in the Burgundian Netherlands under Maximilian I for several years. This was followed by several years in service in the Kingdom of Hungary under Matyas.
The company then passed into Asia, serving in the Ottoman Empire until 1520, when they accepted a commission under Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad (Babur) in Afghanistan and Northern India. This was followed by a fairly long period service in the Gorkha kindgom. From 1620, the company took service in Tibet. In the late 1630s and early 1640s they were in service to the Manchu.
All through this period, the company retained it's Swiss heritage and largely Swiss ethnicity, through recruitment efforts and connections in the Swiss Confederacy. This was largely helped by the Reformation period.
Finally, in 1650 the company retired from military settled on the islands now known as Bintan, Batam, and Singapore, claiming them as "the Stallia Colony, a Colony of the Swiss Confederacy" (a claim that the Swiss Confederacy did not recognize).
The Stallia Republic made a treaty with the Whilan states in the interior in 1667. The original contact was hostile, and the two states were soon at war. However, the Whilan state was quickly overwhelmed. However, the Gorrk warrior caste, desendants of the Gorka, made a grave impression on the militant Stallia, and garnered a great deal of respect. It was due to this that the Treaty of Imoman Hoa was signed, unifying the two states and establishing the Stallia-Whilan Republic in 1600. The treaty strips the Whilan Lama of all temporal power, leaving him to concentrate on spiritual matters. This closeness begins the conversion of many Stallia to Buddhism.
The first group of Chinese to arrive were lost sailors from Asia. A large part of these sailors were from Zheng He's fleet in 1407. Mixed in with these, over time, were Malays, Vietnamese, Thais, and Koreans. These sailors all managed to find themselves completely lost at sea. These peoples settled in a large deltaic plain of what is now known as Bangladesh as well as across SE Asia. The area had also been a traditional pirate haven for ages. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Malay pirates abounded during this period, preying on the increasing merchant trade between East Asia and Europe. They quickly mixed together, becoming known as the Dai and established several city-states across the Daels.
In 1802 a group of six Dai city states in the Daels signed a confereration treaty. Three years later, the remaining city states co-join a similary treaty. The two treaty organizations begin making claims of unfair trade against each other. In 1818 the War of Two Treaties breaks out between the Dai city-states. The war lasts 9 years, and involves a great deal of treachery. Many mercenary units from the Stalli-Whilan republic take part. 1827 The Treaty of Baing ends the war and establishes the Dai Union, an all Dai trading union.
Also in 1827 the pirate Jean Lafitte secretly retired to this island paradise. Over the next fifty years, several thousand Cajuns, Texans, West Indians, Western sailors, and Polynesians settled in the area. These people were mostly retired pirates, escaped slaves, and others seeking to escape the confines and restrictions of their societies.
After the War of Two Treaties, cultural and economic contact between the Dai cities and the Stalli-Whilan Republic increased dramatically. In 1855 a propsed merge of the Dai Union and The Stalli-Whilan Republic is approved by all members. The country then becomes the Incorporated States of Daistallia. In 1895, under The Baing Treaty of Dai Stallia Union, the Dai clans and the Stallia Colony formed a single nation, to be known as Daistallia.