Haibnetalmh

The Province of Haibnelann is an administrative region within Faneria, bordering Lyukquar and Connsmonan to the east, Vrael to the west, the Kilikas Sea to the north, and Gleathan and Fhainnholdt to the south. it is inhabited by roughly eighteen million people and is the largest Province in Faneria by landmass. Its environment is chilly but warmed by ocean currents and its economy is based in manufacturing and mining.

Geography
The region's terrain, similarly to Lyukquar, is divided between a low-lying belt of grasslands and occasional swamps along the coast and the incredibly wide Deamhainn mountains, though Haibnelann's borders extend considerably further into the mountain range and its coastal flats are much more constricted. The major watersheds of the province are the Haibne River, the Gheal (White) River, and the Bronn River basins. Of these, the Haibne and Gheal are by far more important, and their riverbanks house most of the province's major settlements.

Economy
Raw materials mining, timber cutting, and smaller fishing, manufacturing, and services industries form the majority of the area's economic strength, though the local economy is relatively diverse unlike its sister province Lyukquar. Iron, copper, zinc, tin, and bauxite make up most of the valuable materials mined in the area, but stonecutting for export, as well as peat and a small but growing set of nickel veins make the Haibnelann branch of the Deamhainn ranges particularly valuable to industrial production. This wealth was the original reason for granting such a wide tract to the provincial government to begin with, encouraging development of the area and drawing immigrants from the Vandarch Basin; in previous centuries, the area was more sparsely inhabited and poorly developed.

Politics
Increasingly, the Starkist and Futurist wings of the Central Republican Party have battled for legislature seats allocated to Haibnelann, with the Starkists remaining the majority but losing ground to the Futurists. The New Way party also plays a role in local politics but is overshadowed, as religion plays an important part in the existing communities but not as much in the boom towns.

Demographics
Haibnelann is predominantly Catholic in spite of sizeable pagan and irreligious minorities, with a slight decrease in religiosity due to increased immigration from the south. The province is roughly four-fifths ethnic Fhainn with Coscivian and related Gaelic minorities, which largely were intermarried with Fhainnin peoples prior to the land's integration into the Kingdom of the Fhainn. The local tongue is effectively indistinguishable from common Fhasen and was reclassified as a dialect rather than a separate language in 1714.

The local capital is Braigscirit, and its largest city is Port na Habhainnsk, on the mouth of the Haibne River. Other major cities include Banagher and Ballysadare.

Antiquity
Archduchy of Reothadt

Vicarial Era
Main Article: Tundra Wars

Haibnelann was created after the 1690-1691 invasion of Reothadt by the Vicariate of Gleathan, supported by the Rih of Fhainnlannachaeran and troops supplied by the Vicar of Connsmonan. Peace negotiations occurred after the Grand Duke was killed by one of his sons, (name here), who was given rulership of the Vicariate of Haibnelann in the throne's name and spent the next twenty years piecing together the remaining areas of Haibnelann to enforce that legal fiction as a de-facto king in his own right. Haibnelann was a battlefield for most of this time as the continuing war in neighboring Lyukquar and peasant uprisings and resistant local lords made pacifying the area difficult. During the Sutharine Succession Crisis, he was a staunch supporter of the Suthar-Màrtainn line, converted from a local pagan sect to Catholicism, and ensured his Vicariate was awarded with trade and legal privileges beyond most Vicariates and dubbed a 'subservient state' rather than a formal territory of Faneria. The initial claim from Gleathan's Vicar was sold to (name here) in exchange for parcels of land within the Deamhainn Mountains and a generous grant of land from Vrael following the First Kin War.