Farmandie

Farmandie, officially the Kingdom of the Isle of Farmandie (Burgoignesc: Le Royaume de l'Ile de Fiærmandie, Coscivian: Xūrokuv Ion Fyærmandiv) is an independent post-colonial located on the Isle of Farmandie. The kingdom consists of the main landmass - the Isle of Farmandie - and numerous smaller islands. Farmandie's capital and largest city Kæn was established in 1748 on the mouth of River Vænd on the northern coast of the Isle of Farmandie. The Isle of Farmandie is located southeastern Ocean of Cathay ????km (?,???mi) north of Australis polar continent, ????km (?,???mi) northwest of island_name, ????km (?,???mi) south of Jinju, 2084,1km (1,295mi) southwest of Stenzan_island_name and ????km (?,???mi) west of island_name and Freda Island across the Bay of Diamav.

Etymology
The origin of the islands name is not completely clear but it is known to be of very old origin and is believed to come from old seaman saying "Further than a man has sailed to die." referring to the remoteness of the island and its disconnection from the rest of the world.

Pre-history (before the 17th century)
Despite that historically the Isle of Farmandie was extremely hard to find, since all of the early charting was off for a farely large margin, the northern coast of the Isle of Farmandie was known as an interim trading post, resting point and shipyard by Daxian, Kiravian and Bergendii sailors long before the islands first charting in 1616. Fleets trying to navigate to the island often would sail past the island without being able to locate it while some fleets would encounter the island without knowledge of any existing land mass on their course, sometimes causing entire fleets to run ashore and get shipwrecked on the islands jagged and rocky coast. Several times the island was believed to have drowned or shifted. It was also speculated that the island had just been a massive floating ice mass changing its location with the currents and melting away.

Early colonisation (1700-1742)
In 1705 Kiravian Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company (NAAC) received an order to establish a permanent colony on the on the northern coast of the Isle of Farmandie. The assigned fleet arrived to the island in late 1707 and got ashore by the mouth of River Vænd. Soon after the Burgoignesc government learned about the freshly established Kiravian colony on the island and urgently placed an order to establish a competing colony on the island. A fleet from the Bourgondii Royal Trading Company (BRTC) stationed on the island of Submoll got assigned for the task and arrived to the northeastern coast of Isle of Farmandie in early summer of 1712. The fleet anchored near Point St. Matheus on 15th of May 1712 and got ashore. The immediate territory around the peninsula of Point St. Matheus was declared to be under Burgundie rule as a satellite colony of Sud Moll Colony. After 6 days of traveling and scouting the area surrounding the Kiravian_settlement_name on the mouth of River Vænd the commander of the BRTC fleet ordered a settlement to be built on the opposing bank of the River Vænd. The sudden appearance of Burgoignesc made the Kiravian settlers very suspicious of the Burgoignesc and sounded alarm. The Kiravians stayed on the heightened state of security for two weeks straight after which the commander of the BRTC fleet Hercule Bahanor demanded to have a meeting with the commander of the Kiravian_settlement_name. He succeeded in persuading the the peaceful nature of Burgoignesc intentions and concluded an agreement of non-aggression with the Kiravian_settlement_name's commander commander_name. For months the relations between the two colonies stayed peaceful and included mostly trading of goods. Language barrier induced disagreements and distrust between the two ethnic groups caused the relations to turn hostile and after certain_escalation_event freguent and deadly skirmishes and ruthless competition of the islands scarce resources between the two colonies were common. Referred as the Trade War of Farmandie.

Role of Farmandie in the Kiro-Burgoignesc Wars
The Trade War of Farmandie spanned from 1713-1748 and was the precursor to the era of neglect (from 1745) and self goverment (from 1748 to 1788). The seas around the island were rich in, , and but the cost and expense to extract, process, and transport the goods safely was not worth the price. This was especially true of Kiravia whose nearest colony was Sarolasta through the Polynesian Sea leaving them vulnerable to Burgoignesc commerce raiding before they came into the protection of their own fleets protective range. Alternatively, the Burgoigniacs could hug the coast until they reached Sud Moll Colony then Equitorial Ostiecia and their respective colonial fleets. Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company didn't fully abandon their colony on Farmandie until both nations were forced to focus elsewhere in the 1740s but the NAAC put less focus on the island than the BRTC. Both colonies forming naval militias but the BRTC garrisoned 100 troops and a small permanent naval presence on the island in 1719, a cost the Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company did not feel to be justified.

Neglect and self goverment (1743-1788)
The extremely long sea voyages in often unpredictably harsh and cold weather conditions resulted in that both colonies got deemed a waste of time and resources by their colonial overlords and the colonies got sent fewer and fewer resupply shipments until they were completely forgotten and neglected. This led the two colonies to get almost completely isolated from the rest of the world by 1745. The colonies realised their neglegted state on winter of 1748 after not receiving any shipments for 3 years straight. The two colonies agreed to settle their differences and merge together as one larger settlement in favour of working together to survive on the island. This is often referred as the establisment of the capital Kæn, the first town on the Isle of Farmandie. In the beginning the former hostilities still fresh in memory complemented with language barrier, food shortage and the punishing conditions led to settlers developing heavy drinking habits and grudges between the two ethnic groups. Disagreement especially between individuals of different ethnicities often led to violent escalations on a major scale after a heavy night of drinking. These drunken group fights were often referred as the small civil wars.

Kæn
The town of Kæn was established on the mouth of River Vænd in late winter of 1748 after the signing of the treaty of River Vænd that ended the 35 year long Trade War of Farmandie between Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company and Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company. The commanders of both settlements agreed to sign the peace treaty after learning that neither of them had not received any resupply for almost 3 years. The agreement concluded that the settlements would cease all and any offensive actions against each other and work together to survive. The agreement also stated that the already extremely low stocks would be combined and rationed carefully and equally. After the agreement the staff of both settlements started planning on a combined settlement (Kæn) spread across the Vænd connected by a bridge. The first buildings of the town of Kæn were built out of repurposed lumber from the fortifications that protected the both sides settlements from hostile actions.

Fort of Kæn
The Fort of Kæn is a sea fortress guarding the entrance to the port of Kæn, protecting the port and the city of Kæn from invasions launched from the sea. The fortress is located on the Fortress Island in the Gulf of Kæn and it is a part and the headquarters of the Farmandies chain of coastal forts and coastal artillery/missile stations. The plan to design and build the Fort of Kæn to protect the Gulf of Kæn was decided on 1792 by the Counsil of Elders and the fort started as a small wooden defensive position armed with several artillery batteries to engage ships entering the gulf.

Recolonisation attemp (1789-1812)
In summer of 1789 a small Bourgondii Royal Trading Company fleet arrived on the eastern coast of the Isle of Farmandie and was the first Burgoignesc trade fleet in 43 years after the previous fleet had sailed from the island never to return. Because of the extremely bad weather conditions around the northern and northeastern coast at the time the fleet was forced to achor on the eastern coast and get ashore at place_name instead of their intended destination on the northern coast of the island.

After few days of travel by foot to the northern coast and the former settlements they arrived to the outskirts of the town of Kæn. The Burgoignesc were supprised to find an unknown settlement in place of the two settlements they were looking for. As soon as they arrived to the town the commander demanded to see the head of the settlement. He was guided to the town hall and placed in front of the town counsil made of the most elder men and women on the island. After brief introduction the commander declared being the legitimate governor of the colony appointed by the Bourgondii Royal Trading Company and demanded the Farmen to hand over all of the valuable resources they had in their possession and make them ready for loading on to his fleet arriving in few days. The counsil declined his demand and reminded him that the Burgoignesc and Kiravian had abandoned the island over 40 years ago and do not have any legitimate claims over the island anymore. This angered the BRTC commander and he demanded the Farmen to comply his orders claiming the Burgoignesc colony on the island being still legitimately under BRTCs rule. He gave the people of Kæn five days to comply after which he would take hostile action and take what he wanted by force.

Five days later the BRTC fleet arrived to the mouth of River Vænd with all of its ships. The BRTC commander demanded again the recources to be handed over but the Farmen declined his demands once more so the fleet fired a warning shot at the Farmen. This sprung up anger towards the BRTC and the Farmen rose to major opposition and defiance against the BRTC driving the BRTC off the island. The incident resulted in 14 year long small scale conflict between the BRTC and inhabitats of the Isle of Farmandie.

Declaration of independence
On the grounds that the Isle of Farmandie would have a better standing on the global market and political scenes, alongside the chance of receiving foreign military aid as an independent country, instead of being a neglected and extorted rebel colony, the town counsil of Kæn declared Farmandies independence on the 14th of March 1813 and appointed a regent to rule over the newly founded kingdom in the absense of a king. The legitimacy of the declaration was immediately disputed by Burgundy and resulted in furious military response by the BRTC. The aggressive military action taken against the Farmen people by the BRTC tipped the previously fairly insignificant small_scale_conflict_name into a full blown war of independence between the newly founded Kingdom of the Isle of Farmandie and BRTC.

War of Independence (1813-1824)
The Farmandie War of Independence is a series of battles fought on and around the Isle of Farmandie during 11 year period starting from April of 1813 and ending in June of 1824. Most of the battles were fought by the forces of the Kingdom of the Isle of Farmandie against the Bourgondii Royal Trading Company forces. There was no real fixed frontline during the war.

(1825-1899)
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(1900-1999)
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Nature
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Geography
The Isle of Farmandie is a mountainous, cold and barren island with very rocky coast in the south X sea. The most northern point of the island is 57°12'0"S 73°6'0"W and the most southern point is 62°34'19"S 71°42'0"W. The first settlers brought sheep, goats and chicken with them to the island and later brought sled dogs which were used to pull sleds on expeditions towards south.

Soil of the island is rich with many minerals which are an important export product.

These days the island is popular base of operations for many scientists working on Australis polar ice cap.

Climate and environment
The climate on the coast of Isle of Farmandie is. Sub-Australic? Inland is submontane to montane climate.

Fauna and flora
Native species recorded in the wild on the Isle of Farmandie include Farmandie reindeer, Farmandie lynx,, , , Farman sea eagle, , , and.

The Farmandie reindeer is a smaller distinct deer subspecies native to the Isle of Farmandie.

The Farmandie lynx is a medium-sized wild cat native to the Isle of Farmandie.

Farmandie sea eagle
The Farmandie sea eagle is the iconic symbol of the Isle of Farmandie and Kingdom of the Isle of Farmandie. It is a large sea eagle native to the Isle of Farmandie and surrounding islands. Plumage of an adult eagle is light golden brown while juveniles being dark brown with lighter gold accents. Peak and eyes are light golden yellow. Adult Farmandie sea eagle measures from 64 to 102cm in total lenght with a typical wingspan from 1,72 to 2,70m the weight varying from 4kg to 8kg. Females being larger than males. It is an apex predator in its range with no natural predators. The eagles diet is highly varied and seasonal, warm months being heavily favoured on fish, birds and small mammals while in colder months it usually turns to preying on larger mammals and even behaves as opportunistic scavenger. Altho the diet mostly consists of smaller animals there has been reported cases where eagles have preyed even on the Farmandie lynx. In Farman folk lore, to scare the children to not go wandering off alone, it’s been told that this huge bird of prey can lift a child off of their feet and will catch them as its prey if such opportunity ever raises.

Flora on the Isle of Farmandie ranges from birtch and pine forests to  and.

Executive
''Who is responsible for making high level choices in your country? Does it have a President or King?'' Monarch King Iohan IV. The current prime minister of Farmandie is Mitæ Hyelv Nut.

Legislative
''Who decides the laws for your country? Is there political parties and a legislature?'' Farmandie Parliament. Minister of Justice. Minister of Defence. Chief of Justice is the commander of the police force and responsible for the matters of policing and internal security. Chief of Defence is the commander of the armed forces and responsible for the matters of defence and external security.

Federal subdivisions
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Politics
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Law
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Demographics
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Kæn
The city of Kæn is the oldest and largest city on the island. Kæn is located on the mouth of the River Vænd on the northern end of the Isle of Farmandie. Established in 1748, originally on the river island of X, the modern city of Kæn is divided into three separate districts by the River Vænd; the former Kirovian_settlement_name on the western bank, the former Burgoignesc_settlement_name on the eastern bank and the Old Town of Kæn in the middle on the river island, the administrative center of the city as most of the governing bodies are located in the Old Town. The Fort on the Vænd is also located on the river island enclosing the King's Castle, city council and parliament house among other governing bodies inside.

Ethnicity
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Language
Majority of Farmen are bilingual and speak Burgoignesc and Cosvician, both with distinct Farman dialect. The languages are often used interchangeably.

Religion
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Education
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Culture and Society
Romantic-Coscivian culture.

Education
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Attitudes and worldview
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Kinship and family
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Cuisine
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Religion
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Arts and Literature
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Sports
''Does your country have any major sports leagues? What types of sports are played, both professionally and for fun by your country's people?"''

Symbols
The Golden Griffon is a powerful legendary creature that was believed to be native for the Isle of Farmandie by the early Farmen settlers. It is generally thought that sightings of a Farmandie sea eagle carrying lynxes corpse in its talons might have been the reason for the tales about the Griffons which acted as the inspiration for the Farmandie coat of arms. Griffon is the nickname for the armed forces utility helicopter, the HUM-99 Griffon.

Economy and Infrastructure
The infrastructure and public services of the Kingdom of the Isle of Farmandie are funded by moderate income and high export taxation.

Industries and Sectors
Farmandie has an experienced and large fishing, sealing and whaling industry which was established way back during the colonial era along with Farmandies shipyard and naval architecture industry. The Isle of Farmandie has abundant natural resources like handwavium, lithium, manganese (including alabandite) and coal which are the most important source of income for the coutry through exports. Farmandie is active in the research of naval architecture technology and medical technology and science and has a thriving phamaceutical and medical industry.

Currency
The currency of Farmandie is Farman Kingdom Mark (FKMk).

Healthcare
Farmandies citizen have acces to high quality and yet cheap public healthcare system which is funded by the governments social services.

Labor
Every labor sector has its own guild set by the law on labor and workers rights. The guilds oversee and enforce the implementation of the regulations on their own designated sectors.

Transportation
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Energy
Farmandies government and energy sector have been supporting and encouraging development of cheap, clean and renewable energy sources by investing heavily into carbon neutral energy sources since 1995 while at the same time pushing hard on strong alignment on growing the export of coal and oil. After 2010 most of the Farman energy companies have already been developing solar, wind, wave and nuclear energy production and storage. The Farmandie energy sector made switch to completely carbon neutral energy sources on January 1st 2020 when the law about carbon free energy sources was implemented.

Technology
''How advanced is your country? Is it an innovator, or does it largely import new developments?'' Farmandie science sphere is one of the most innovative and advanced on medicine and energy field.

Military
Farmandie's military spending is 3.7% of GDP (as of 2030). The Armed Forces of the Isle of Farmandie consists of two separate entities, a well funded and equipped, intensively trained reserve forces consisting almost completely of volunteers and highly professional enlisted forces. Both men and women are required to serve for minimum of 18 month military conscript service after which they are allowed to volunteer to the part time Farmandie Reserve Forces or enlist in the Farmandie Armed Forces. The Farmandie Reserve Forces are formed of reserve and conscript personnel and their enlisted officers while the Farmandie Armed Forces is formed of highly professional enlisted personnel. The Farmandie Armed Forces took active part in the Deluge with 2 hospital ships attached to a small missile cruiser fleet with force protection and ship boarding groups among other supporting elements.