Land of Silence

The is a nation introduced in Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness and its respective anime-only adaptation. It is also featured in the Kara Actuation Arc in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

Overview
The land is a small samurai-led country on a distant continent, that is beyond the reach of shinobi authority. It is surrounded by mountains with a rural economy by the standards of the Land of Fire. At some point the previous daimyō was overthrown by the revolutionary Gengo and his Enlightened Ones: a group of indoctrinated shinobi under Gengo's voice-induced genjutsu into deserting their villages after the Fourth Shinobi World War. The Shinobi Union had then issued a conjoined alliance of Konohagakure and Sunagakure shinobi to remove Gengo from power and free the indoctrinated shinobi under his control. A decade later after Gengo was overthrown, the country fell into poverty and lawlessness, where fugitives and criminals from the Bingo Book had gathered in refuge. Shinobi from the Five Great Shinobi Countries also became widely ostracized and hated by the citizens as well.