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'''Malentina''' ([[Maalit language|Maalit]]: ''Mááleen'ti''; [[Qabóri language|Qabóri]]: ''Mâlintunóc''; [[Tiiu language|Tiiu]]: ''Amtàà'uska''), officially the '''Presidential Confederacy of Malentina''' (Maalit: ''Mááleen'ti Uqaalatikis Aptúúnala''; Qabóri: ''Tascena'ató Kuscant Mâlintunóc''; Tiiu: ''Poha'abíísdataabus Amtàà'uska''), is a country in southern [[Crona]] in the western parts of the [[Songun sea#North Songun Sea|North Songun sea]]. The nation is made up of as a set of three larger islands just of the coast of [[Istrenya]]. Beyond it's closest neighbour Malentina also has maritime borders with [[Kelekona]] and [[Arcerion]]. While Malentina is connected to the rest of the world through the ocean, this is at great risk to the nations sovereignty as the nation is by far the weakest of those bordering the Songun Sea. Especially [[Arcerion]] and [[The Cape]] both hold immense influence thanks to the [[Warrington Strait]] and the [[Songun Straits]] forming natural chokepoints when exiting the Songun Sea.

Malentina was historically a notable [[North Songun civilization]] before their collapse. Although severely hurt by the collapse, Malentina came out of it in better shape than most others, in large part thanks to it's relative security from [[Zurgite Varshan|Varshani]] [[The Hunt (Varshan)|Hunts]]. During the 18th century Malentina became a somewhat important colony for the [[Ardmori people#Ænglo-Ardmori|Ænglish]]-descended settlers from [[Ardmore]] as they settled the mostly unsettled, or some argue abandoned, island of [[Hileenkop]]. This would lead to numerous conflicts between the Ænglo-Ardmori settlers and the [[Maaleen People|Maaleen]] and [[Tinuud People|Tinuud]] natives known as the [[Canoe Conflict (Malentina)|Canoe Conflict]].

The many islands that the make up the Malentine archipelago are dominated by the three main islands of [[Tikaandu]], [[Hileenkopp]] and [[Wolviikipp]], in order of size. These three islands have mostly quite similar features although Tikaandu features by far the most fresh water making it the centre of the Malentine part of what was once the North Songun civilization. One of the most notable features of the island is that the islands are incredibly flat with only short hills cut by shallow valleys. Except for several smaller regions in the northern-most and southern-most parts of the islands. This made the islands ideal for plantation agriculture, before the earth of it's vast plains were eroded by years of exploitation.

While the nation still largely relies on hydrocarbons for energy generation thanks to it's very flat geography improved further by the reduction in forested areas the islands are perfect for wind-power turbines. At this point they have successfully implemented enough turbines to make up 17% of their electrical output, with plans laid to double this by the end of 2040.

The Malentinan military is a shadow of it's former self. A nation who ones heavily focused on their ability to project naval power and punch enough above their weight to actually have the ability to contest other nations in their region now only maintains a pretty basic land military force with a complete lack of military tradition and suspected of large-scale corruption.