Sudmoll

Sudmoll, officially the Burgoignesc Trade Island Province of Sudmoll, is an island in the western Okatian Sea. It shares a maritime border with Stenza which has often led to complications with that nation (Sudmoll Island Conflicts).

It has a small population of 87,956 residents, outside of the Naval/Revenue Guard station and Foreign Legion outpost, but temporary population during holiday season can greatly affect the islands population. On average there are approximately 50-100 Revenue Guardsman, 3-5,000 naval personnel, and 3,500-4,000 legionnaires stationed on the military facilities on Sudmoll. The capital and largest town on the island, Oparo Nui, is home to around 4,730 people in it's city limits, which spans 12.6 sq km. The metro area consists of two villages, Pasquavil with 1,748 people, and Oparo Iti with 1,329 people. The remainder of the population lives in a rural environment.

Late modern period
Main article: Burgoignesc Colonial Empire

The island of Sudmoll was first visited and recorded by Occidentals when it was recounted by Pelaxian or Cartadanian fishermen in the late 1480s. It remained obscure to them fro the next 100 yrs as it was beyond reasonable travel and the tribes were hostile to foreigners.

During the Daxian subjection of Stenza in the 17th century, the island obstenibly fell under Daxian control, but it was not central to the colonization efforts of the South Seas Development Company. It was used as a stop over point by Gabo de Pogiano, during his exploration of the Pelaxian discovery of the sea route to Alshar, also known as The Southern Route, wherein it was charted for the first time on an Occidental map, in 1613.

The island fell once again into international obscurity until Burgoignesc ships of the Bourgondii Royal Trading Company fighting a Daxian fleet during the Alshar Quasi-Wars, in 1701, where chased all around the northern coast of Stenza. They took refuge on the island after the Daxian fleet gave up the chase. They navigated to the Carto-Pelaxian Commonwealth and resupplied, took on some settlers and laborers and returned 4 months later to establish a fort and dockyard. This complex was called Le Sud Moll, the south dock, by the enterprising crew.

Colonial Period
From 1702-1876 the Colonie Sud Moll was administered by the Bourgondii Royal Trading Company (BRTC). They set up Fort St. Matius which served as a trading post and garrison post for soldiers and a small naval contingent.

They were unmolested by the natives for the first few years as they remained focused on the one fort and some modest agricultural fields to supplement their fishing. In 1709, three villages banded together and assaulted the crop fields, burning them down. In retaliation the garrison started a pacification campaign. The Coastal Clearances of 1710 were a violent period of pillaging and raiding the native Austal Vallois fishing villages on the coast and forcing them to submit to a tribute system or vacate the coast. 7 villages were "pacified", 3 submitting to tributary status, two moving inland, and two particularly resistant villages being burned and its inhabitants hunted down.

In 1722, a new magistrate arrived who was charged with incorporating the whole of the island. He held a Gran Promenade and all the leaders/elders of the villages on Sud Moll were invited to hold council. Each attendee was given a robe and a headress that was made for the ceremony and fine foods from both local and Levantine cuisines were prepared. The two week long feast was punctuated by both group and individual negotiations and by the end of time the magistrate had orchestrated a compex web of interlocking treaties and agreements that brought all of the villages on Sud Moll into the fold as either tributaries, protectorates, or colonial settlements. This massive success was touted across the Kingdom of Dericania as a model of colonial expansion, but it was not without its critics.

By 1732 the colonial administration had truly mapped, censused and envoloped the whole of the island. Forts St. Giles and Fort St. Aumand were established as fortified towns for Occidentals but the remainder of the territory was reserved and protected for the native Austal Valloise population.

On January 4th, 1763, a typhoon hit the island and killed about 75 people, over 50 pf them native. The towns folk of St. Giles and St. Matius gathered to help the natives rebuild their villages and the natoves in turn helped the Bergendii rebuild the damaged buildings in those towns. The denizens of the impacted occidental towns and the native villages gathered on February 20th and held a feast of gratitude for each other. The day has since become a holiday in Sudmoll called Jour de fraternitee (Ænglish: Fraternity Day) and celebrates the unity of Vallosoise and Burgoignesc culture with pageants and recitations held in both languages in the town squares and then families retire home to have a family meal and share what they are grateful for.

Politics
Sudmoll is part of the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Polar Burgundies geographic designation. Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly is a constituent country equivalent of Burgundie with its own assembly, prime minister, budget, and laws. Burgundie's national governmental influence is limited to subsidies, education, and security, however, its financial and cultural institutes cast a long shadow across Sudmoll.

Sudmoll is a province within Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly with its own semi-elected -, representative legislative body, and court system.

Sudmollians are Burgoigniacs/Burgoignix with complete civil and economic rights, and citizenship (political rights) under the same federal service criteria as all residents of Burgundie. Burgoignesc is the official language but and Burgoignesc are both in use. However, there was a time during the 1960s and 1970s when children were forbidden to speak in schools. is now taught in schools; it is sometimes even a requirement for employment.

Provincial executive
The provincial executive is the -. Three candidates are elected by a election held every 5 years, the three candidates are presented to the Court of St. Alphador and the next - is chosen from these candidates. If the citizenry rejects the selection, a run-off election is held with the remaining two candidates.

Provincial legislature
Like the Citizens Court of the National Assembly (Burg. La Assemblee de Ciutadans de l'Assemblee Nacional, ACAN), The Sudmollian Citizen's Court of the Provincial Assembly is a unicameral legislator. It makes provincial law, has the power of the provincial purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the provincial government. The Assembly has three seats for each province, one for the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Sudmoll liaison, 3 for the clergy, 3 seats reserved for municipal leaders, and 3 for a rota of private business leaders. On 6 occasions throughout the year 3 more seats are opened to the public to debate topics that are not on the annual legislative agenda.

Religion
Sudmoll enjoys complete religious freedom and is a thriving polity of religious observation. The most common religions practiced in Sudmoll are reported to be Catholicism at 35%, Protestantism at 28%, Masa Church at 15%, agnostic or nonreligious at 18%, and other/animist at 4%.

Economy
Tourism is a significant industry.

The main trading partners are the Burgoignesc Metropole for about 40% of imports and about 25% of exports. The other main trading partners are Stenza, Caphiria, and Takatta Loa.

Unemployment affects about 13% of the active population, especially women and unqualified young people.

Tourism
Sudmoll has, in recent years become known for : s come and reproduce here between July and October within easy sighting distance from the beaches.

The island's unspoiled nature in the form of its lush forests and numerous wildlife, its Daxian and Loa ruins and various extravagant villas constructed on the island by rich Burgoigniacs have drawn visitors to the island since the 19th century, with various writers, poets and painters bringing the island to the public eye over the years.

Criticism
Permanent inhabitants of Sudmoll have spoken against the increased tourism in the recent decades due to the risk the expanded tourism industry might bring to the unspoiled nature of the island.

Agrinergie
Main article:

Since 2014 Sudmoll has seen rise in the interest in. There is a 1MW solar installation with agriculture activities on 2 hectares (5 acres) of land owned by a local cooperative that was funded by a grant from the Royal Academy of Sciences. The farm grows melons, chilies, and cucumbers which are sold at the local market. In 2019, an agrivoltaic system was built on a shrimp farm, funded by a local block grant. According to data collected by the Ministry of Energy's Department of Sustainability's Office of Energy Resiliency's Local Initiatives Branch, the results of their pilot project indicate that water consumption has been reduced by 75% and other benefits such as shading for workers as well as a lower and stable water temperature for better shrimp growth.

In 2024, a subsidy program was established for participants who can provide 1 hectare of undeveloped, arable, and viable land and a business plan to farm/ranch on the land with shade-tolerant crops can receive up to $150,000 towards the installation of a solar array.

Aquaculture
is a new aspect for the economy of Sudmoll. The commercialization of the pearl and nacre industry was first attempted in the 1990s and met with stiff resistance by the cottage industry that existed around it. The final push was in 2014 when conservation groups succeeded in getting the local legislature to put a 10-year moratorium on "wild", , and other forms of.

This was considered an Occidentalization of the cottage industries, concentrating power in hands of a few people who were friendly to the Governor-Epistates at the time. Two court cases have been brought against the law banning "wild" marine capture. In both cases the locals lost to overwhelming evidence that the new approach was much better for the environment and since the supply of aquaculture products was most consistent and forecastable much better for exporting concerns.

In the 2020s aquaculture exploded as the pristine attracted millions of dollars of investment from the Burgoignesc Metropole and the Levantine Union. The aquaculture sector employs about 250-300 people directly and brings in about $55-65 million a year not including ongoing investments.

Mariculture
as a commercial effort is a growing business sector in Sudmoll. There are now two artificial reefs or sea ranches farming  farms that produce Paua flesh, pearls and nacre (mother of pearl). Other mollusks are farmed here and sold as a local food source.

There is a fish oil extraction and fishmeal production ship that processes all of the leftovers or unsellable fish and exports fish oil and fish meal. It circles the fish farms and collects it's load for an "offloading fee".

There is also a seaweed forest and an oyster farm both owned by Raimana et Fils Inc.

The sector generates around $18 million a year and employs about 50 people directly.

Pisciculture
in Sudmoll is focused mostly on the raising of, ,. is the only allowable form of pisciculture in Sudmoll and theey produce about 3-400 tonnes of fish each year.

There are also two smaller fish farms that specialize in reef fish for aquariums and cleaner fish production.

The Pisciculture sector brings in about $35 million each year to the island and employs 173 people directly.

Trade
Port Nova Martillia is a small that can accommodate two  at once. It is used to export the agricultural goods from the island but also to supply the locals with sustenance since the island is not self-sufficient. Since opening relations with Stenza the port has increased its activity almost twofold. Smaller packet freighters are a much more common sight. Almost all of the meager exports from Sudmoll now go to markets in Stenza.

Trade is handled throught the Okatian Island Trading Company (OITC), a joint stock company that is owned 20% by Caphiria, 20% by Burgundie, 20% by O’Shea Container Shipping, and the remaining shares are publically traded. The OITC handles the imports and exports from Sudmoll and Caphirian Escal. It runs a regular route from Port Lacomopoles in Burgundie, Sybaesa Port in Caphiria, Port Bianca in Cartadania, Port TBD, Burgoignesc Equitorial Osteiecia, Ku'umata, Takatta Loa,....tbd.

Energy and electricity
Sudmollians consume 41,499,420 kWh of electricity each year. Per capita, this is an average of 2,242 kWh. Sudmollians consume 188,681,640 kgs of oil equivalent each year. Per capita, this is an average of 10,194 kgs of oil equivalent.

Sudmoll imports its petroleum and has no local refinery or production. Civilian daily consumption of imported oil products was 5,430 barrels in 2025, which constitutes 70% of energy generation for the island's inhabitants. A was constructed in 2003 and provides the remaining 30% of power generation. It also consumes about 83% of the waste generated on the island. The byproduct is increasingly becoming one of Sudmoll's most valuable exports. There is a rising interest in {{Sudmoll#Agrinergie|Agrinergie]] but a study found that the total potential of the island could only offset the need to meet the current energy consumption, which will never be realized. There has been a mild interest, in residential and commercial solar energy but there isn't a financial capability by the vast majority of residents and businesses to make the initial investments even with current government subsidies. It is estimated that the total solar energy generation capacity on the island is about 4KWs and there is no expectation of that drastically increasing in the next 3-5 yrs.

Through an infrastructure investment grant, the Levantine Union has committed ₮8 million to construct tidal power generators, but the project is currently stalled by local fishermen who are concerned about the disturbances the generators will cause to their livelihood. The project is still expected to move forward and the projected completion date is 2029. A feasibility study was conducted and determined that solar would be unreliable due to the long monsoon seasons, and nuclear was too expensive for the demand.

Military presence
Sudmoll is home to two military bases, Fort St. Amaund, jointly operated by Navy of Burgundie and the Revenue Guard, and Fort St. Giles, operated by the Foreign Legion.

Demographics
Demographics of Sudmoll do not typically include those stationed at the military bases.