Cartadania

Cartadania, officially the Federative Republic of Cartadania, is a in Sarpedon. Located in the heart of the western world and along the southern Odoneru Ocean, Cartadania shares land borders with Pelaxia and Caphiria. Cartadania covers an area of 4,122,251 km2 (1,591,610 sq mi), making it the worlds fifth-largest country by area, and has a largely. With around 365 million inhabitants, it is the second-most populous nation in Sarpedon and ninth-most populous worldwide.

A highly developed country, Cartadania owes its development to its healthy mixed economy and strong economic growth over the years, and has used it's size to maintain stability in the region. It has a very high level of human development and enjoys the second highest life expectancy in the world. Cartadania plays a prominent role in regional and global economic, military, cultural and diplomatic affairs, with a number of academics considering the country to be both a regional power and a great power. Cartadania's economy is the world's fourth-largest by both nominal GDP and GDP (PPP) as of 2039. Cartadania until 2020 had one of the world's fastest growing major economies, with its economic reforms giving the country new international recognition and influence. Cartadania's national development bank plays an important role for the country's economic growth.

It is a founding member of the League of Nations, the now defunct Levantia and Odoneru Treaty Association, ARGUS, and the Community of Lusophone Nations. Cartadania is a great power in Ixnay and considers itself a great power in international affairs, while some analysts identify it as a great power with potential superpower status in the future. One of the world's major breadbaskets, it has also been the largest producer of coffee for the last 264 years.

Cartadania is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world, with its rich cultural heritage reflecting influences by indigenous peoples, Latin settlement, forced Punthite migration, immigration from Levantia and the Middle East. It is among the world's 17 megadiverse countries, and the most densely biodiverse per square kilometer; its territory encompasses Satherian rainforest, tropical grassland and coastlines along three major seas and the Odoneru Ocean.

Energy
Cartadania is one of the world's largest energy consumers with much of its energy coming from nuclear and renewable sources, particularly hydroelectricity and ethanol; the Granita Dam is the world's largest hydroelectric plant by energy generation. The governmental agencies responsible for the energy policy are the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, the Energy Commission, the Cartadanian Electric Reliability Corporation and the Congressional Energy Board.

The nation's power transmission grid consists of about 600,000 km of lines operated by approximately nearly 500 companies. The Cartadanian Electric Reliability Corporation (CICE) oversees all of them.