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Wintergen is known for its jagged, rocky Kilikas Sea coastlines; the extinct volcano in the western third of the island; the heavily forested interior; picturesque waterways; and its wild lowbush blueberries and seafood cuisine, especially lobster and clams. Santmai has emerged as a {{wp|Creative economy}} hub for [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]], [[Vithinja]]n, and [[Faneria]]n yuppies. As a result, Santmai is experiencing a high degree of gentrification while Hivernille and Volcamor are considered grubby working-class towns.
Wintergen is known for its jagged, rocky Kilikas Sea coastlines; the extinct volcano in the western third of the island; the heavily forested interior; picturesque waterways; and its wild lowbush blueberries and seafood cuisine, especially lobster and clams. Santmai has emerged as a {{wp|Creative economy}} hub for [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]], [[Vithinja]]n, and [[Faneria]]n yuppies. As a result, Santmai is experiencing a high degree of gentrification while Hivernille and Volcamor are considered grubby working-class towns.
==History==
[[Wintergen]] is not known to have had a permanent population prior to the year 1000 ''anno Domini'', though the Finnic peoples of [[Koskenkorva]] were aware of its existence and visited it sporadically for fishing purposes. It became known to [[Coscivian civilisation]] when it was sighted by Keður Valēkas' flagship during the return voyage of his first expedition to [[Great Kirav]]. A subsequent [[Coscivian]] expedition established a small settlement on the islands.
By the 19th century AD (XXXth century CC), most of [[Wintergen]]'s small population lived in a handful of timber camps harvesting wood, most of which was exported to [[Burgundie]] to supply its prolific shipyards. Supplementary economic activities included fishing and subsistence farming, though the island suffered from poor soils and weather and a scarcity of arable land. Though some Coscivian families had lived on [[Wintergen]] for generations and spoke a unique (and now extinct) Coscivian dialect, most of the population were transient workers from [[Koskenkorva]] and the [[Great Kirav#Far Northeast|Far Northeast]] who lived on the island as fishermen and woodcutters for three or four seasons at most.
The 1820s a devastating bark beetle blight that almost eliminated the remaining forests on [[Burgundie]]. Desperate for more wood as the demand from timber-producing areas outstripped the local's ability to harvest it, some enterprising [[Port Diteaux|Port Diteauxoise]] shipwrights convinced the [[Burgoignesc North Levantine Trading Company]] (BNLTC) in [[1823]] to occupied the timber camps of [[Wintergen]].
In [[1836]] the [[Golden Council of Ten]] decreed the Act of Economic Union, claiming that [[Wintergen]] was forevermore an integral part of [[Burgundie]].
Following the island's capture and formalization into [[Burgundie]], the [[Kiravia]]n government and population were expelled. However, the conflicts with [[Burgundie]] bore on and [for some reason that I will maybe add here if applicable] were ultimately resolved in [[1896]] without settling the island's legal status.
==Geography==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Portland, Maine, aerial photograph.jpg
File:Maine Maritime Academy.jpg
File:Dark Harbor, Islesboro, Maine image 1.jpg
File:-Users-ddb-Desktop-maine-Maine - 11 - Flickr - ddb and kdw.jpg
File:Grafton Notch State Park - Maine - 8170927659.jpg
File:Grafton Notch State Park - Maine - 8170922555.jpg
File:Camden Hills State Park - Maine - 8165927034.jpg
File:Shoreline between Gorham Mountain trailhead and Sand Beach (6598fb47-208e-4940-a5fa-8f8b000b14ee).jpg|Rocky shores that endemic to most of Wintergen's coast.
</gallery>
===Climate===
Wintergen has a subarctic, {{wp|Hemiboreal}} climate attributable to its proximity to the waters of the [[Kilikas Sea]].
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto;"
|+Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for Wintergen
|-
!Location
!July (°C)
!July (°F)
!January (°C)
!January (°F)
|-
|Hivernille || 20/11 || 68/52 || −1/−9 || 30/16
|-
|}
====Natural Hazards====
*[[Kilikas_Sea#Kilikas_Storm_Belt|Kilikas Storm Belt]]
==Politics and government==
{{Further|Government of Burgundie}}
Wintergen is part of the [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly]]'s [[Geography_of_Burgundie#Wintergen|Polar Burgundies]] geographic designation. [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|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 Wintergen.
Wintergen is a province within [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly]] with its own semi-elected {{wpl|Governor}}-{{wpl|Epistates}}, representative legislative body, and court system.
Ouintergens 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 language|Burgoignesc]] is the official language but {{wpl|Coscivian language|Coscivian}} and [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] are both in use.
===Provincial executive===
The provincial executive is the {{wpl|Governor}}-{{wpl|Epistates}}. Three candidates are elected by a {{wpl|single transferable vote}} election held every 5 years, the three candidates are presented to the [[Government_of_Burgundie#Executive_Branch|Court of St. Alphador]] and the next {{wpl|Governor}}-{{wpl|Epistates}} 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 [[Government_of_Burgundie#Legislative_Branch|Citizens Court of the National Assembly (Burg. La Assemblee de Ciutadans de l'Assemblee Nacional, ACAN)]], The Ouintergen 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 [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly]]'s Wintergen 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.
===Administrative divisions and local governance===
{{Further|Government_of_Burgundie#Provinces|Government_of_Burgundie#County_Government|Government of Burgundie#Municipal Government|Cities of Burgundie}}
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Picture
!Population
!Municipal classification
|-
!Hivernille
|[[File:Portland from peaks.jpg|200px|center]]
|247,639
|Capital of Wintergen
|-
!Santmai
|[[File:A643, Bar Harbor and Cadillac Mountain from Bar Island, Maine, United States, 2009.jpg|200px|center]]
|83,721
|Market town
|-
!Volcamor
|[[File:City Hall Biddeford, ME 2005.jpg|200px|center]]
|55,426
|Large settlement
|}
===Emergency response and healthcare===
====Law enforcement====
=====National Gendarmerie=====
{{Further|National Gendarmerie of Burgundie}}
Wintergen is under the jurisdiction of the Wintergen Battalion of the Borealis Brigade of the Overseas Gendarmerie Division. The Wintergen Battalion has 4 companies and an HQ section.
*A Company is assigned to the Joint Agency Taskforce Wintergen Rangers West, with an area of responsibility of the hills and forests on the western third of the island, with the Wildland Management Service. They are based in Volamor. A Company specializes as a mountain rescue team, they cover the three skiing/hiking/mountain biking reactional resorts on the western parts of the island.
*B Company is assigned to the Joint Agency Taskforce Wintergen Rangers East, with an area of responsibility of the hills and forests on the eastern 2/3rds of the island with the Wildland Management Service. They are based in Santmai.
*C Company is assigned to Hivernille proper.
*D Company is assigned to the Port of Hivernille.
*The HQ section is also based in Hivernille.
=====National Constabulary=====
=====Revenue Guard=====
{{Further|Revenue Guard}}
=====Vice=====
====Firefighting====
{{Further|Fire Seneschalcy of Burgundie}}
====Ambulance====
====Sociolance====
{{Further|Royal Sociolance Service of Burgundie}}
====Healthcare====
===Military installations===
{{Further|Burgoignesc Security Forces}}
=====Joint Base St. Christophe=====
{{Infobox military installation
| name                  = Joint Base St. Christophe
| ensign                = File:Drapeau des Huguenots du Maine.svg
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*{{naval|Burgundie}}
*{{coast guard|Burgundie}}
*{{air force|Burgundie}}
| controlledby          = TBD
| open_to_public        = <!-- for out of use sites/sites with museums etc -->
| site_other_label      = <!-- for renaming "Other facilities" in infobox -->
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| code                  = <!--facility/installation code, applies to US -->
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| used                  = <!--{{End date|1946}} -->
| builder                =
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| length                = <!-- for border fences or other DMZs -->
| fate                  = <!--changed from demolished parameter-->
| condition              = Operational
| battles                =
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*{{navy|Burgundie}}
**Boreal Joint Task Section
**Kilikas Maritime Patrol Joint Group
*{{coast guard|Burgundie}}
**TBD
**Kilikas Maritime Patrol Joint Group
*{{air force|Burgundie}}
**Boreal Task Section
| designations          =
| website                =
| footnotes              = <!-- catchall in case it's needed to preserve something in infobox that doesn't work in new code -->
}}
Joint Base St. Christophe is a combined [[Navy of Burgundie|navy]], [[Revenue Guard]], and [[Royal Air Service of Burgundie|Air Service]] base complex with 5 berths for large ships and a small airstrip for [[Navy of Burgundie|naval]] and [[Revenue Guard]] reconnaissance and maritime patrol aircraft.
*Boreal Joint Task Section-Fighter section
*Kilikas Maritime Patrol Joint Group- maritime patrol group
==Controversy==
*[[Flags_of_Burgundie#Controversy|The Flag Controversy]] and [[Stewardship_of_Wintergen_(government-in-exile)|conflicting claims]].
*Despite being illegal in [[Kiravia]], abortion tourism is quietly on the rise. Because it is prosecutable under both [[Kiravia]]n passport law (in federal court) and extraterritorial jurisdiction for Kiravian nationals (federal or provincial court) great pains are taken to conceal the true reason for the visit, and it has led to a rise in human smuggling in the [[Coscivian Sea|Coscivian]] and [[Kilikas Sea]]s. The [[Government of Burgundie]] has come out strongly against this practice and the [[Revenue Guard]] has increased its presence and anti-smuggling patrols in Wintergen and [[Nauta Normand]] as a result.


==Society==
==Society==
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Religion, ethnicity, language, education, attitudes and worldview, kinship and family, cuisine, arts, literature, architecture, sports, symbols
Religion, ethnicity, language, education, attitudes and worldview, kinship and family, cuisine, arts, literature, architecture, sports, symbols
The 319,990 who live permanently on Wintergen are primarily [[Catholic]] [[Bergendii]] with growing population of other [[Occidental]]s from [[Faneria]] and [[Vithinja]]. There is a small community of Finna Urgic natives who still remain on the island as well, but they have long been integrated into the [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc way of life]].
The language of Wintergen is the [[Burgoignesc language]] but due to its proximity, many people also speak some of the [[Coscivian language]] and [[Fhasen]].


==Economy==
==Economy==
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====Paper milling====
====Paper milling====
Paper, cardboard, newsprint
Paper, cardboard, newsprint
====Mining====
====Drilling====


===Fishing===
===Fishing===
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The two largest fleets are owned by the Havremaitre family and the Reauchfavle family, both operating out of Santmai.
The two largest fleets are owned by the Havremaitre family and the Reauchfavle family, both operating out of Santmai.


===Fishing and fisheries===
====Distant-water fishing fleet====
====Local commercial fishing====
====Aquaculture====
Main article: {{wp|Aquaculture}}
Aquatic life farming, in general
*{{wp|Pisciculture}}- fish farming
**{{wp|Mariculture}}- Saltwater fish farming
*{{wp|shrimp farming}}
*{{wp|oyster farming}}
*{{wp|algaculture}}
===Artisanal/heritage industries===
===Science and research===


===Manufacturing===
===Manufacturing===
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}}
}}
Port Hivernille was built in initially built in [[1884]] as part of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] attempts to legitimize their claim to the island in the aftermath of the [[First Fratricide]] as a fishing and whaling port. Since the end of the [[Kiro-Burgoignesc Wars]] and the [[First Great War]] at the dawn of the 20th century, [[Burgundie]] and [[Kiravia]] normalized relations and began to trade. The port expanded a number of times throughout the 20th century, most notably during the [[Second Great War]] when the port doubled in size to accommodate naval ships. Parts of the new port facilities were destroyed by a series of [[Faneria]]n naval and bomber raids. After the war, the port languished for a time until the advent of [[Containerization]] in the 1960s and 70s. The port was rebuilt from [[1968]]-[[1973]] to accommodate a container terminal. With the collapse of [[Kirosocialism]] in [[1984]], the port became an important hub of the new trade between capitalist [[Kiravia]] and [[Burgundie]].
Port Hivernille was built in initially built in [[1884]] as part of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] attempts to legitimize their claim to the island in the aftermath of the [[First Fratricide]] as a fishing and whaling port. Since the end of the [[Kiro-Burgoignesc Wars]] and the [[First Great War]] at the dawn of the 20th century, [[Burgundie]] and [[Kiravia]] normalized relations and began to trade. The port expanded a number of times throughout the 20th century, most notably during the [[Second Great War]] when the port doubled in size to accommodate naval ships. Parts of the new port facilities were destroyed by a series of [[Faneria]]n naval and bomber raids. After the war, the port languished for a time until the advent of [[Containerization]] in the 1960s and 70s. The port was rebuilt from [[1968]]-[[1973]] to accommodate a container terminal. With the collapse of [[Kirosocialism]] in [[1984]], the port became an important hub of the new trade between capitalist [[Kiravia]] and [[Burgundie]].
====Transshipment====
Main article: {{wp|Transshipment}}
====Customs and tariffs====
Main article: {{wp|Customs}}




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There is also a [[Global Maritime Distress and Safety System]] repeater and beacon on the island.
There is also a [[Global Maritime Distress and Safety System]] repeater and beacon on the island.
==Politics and government==
{{Further|Government of Burgundie}}
Wintergen is part of the [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly]]'s [[Geography_of_Burgundie#Wintergen|Polar Burgundies]] geographic designation. [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|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 Wintergen.
Wintergen is a province within [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly]] with its own semi-elected {{wpl|Governor}}-{{wpl|Epistates}}, representative legislative body, and court system.
Ouintergens 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 language|Burgoignesc]] is the official language but {{wpl|Coscivian language|Coscivian}} and [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] are both in use.
===Provincial executive===
The provincial executive is the {{wpl|Governor}}-{{wpl|Epistates}}. Three candidates are elected by a {{wpl|single transferable vote}} election held every 5 years, the three candidates are presented to the [[Government_of_Burgundie#Executive_Branch|Court of St. Alphador]] and the next {{wpl|Governor}}-{{wpl|Epistates}} 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 [[Government_of_Burgundie#Legislative_Branch|Citizens Court of the National Assembly (Burg. La Assemblee de Ciutadans de l'Assemblee Nacional, ACAN)]], The Ouintergen 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 [[Government_of_Burgundie#Constituent_Countries|Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly]]'s Wintergen 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.
===Administrative divisions and local governance===
{{Further|Government_of_Burgundie#Provinces|Government_of_Burgundie#County_Government|Government of Burgundie#Municipal Government|Cities of Burgundie}}
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Picture
!Population
!Municipal classification
|-
!Hivernille
|[[File:Portland from peaks.jpg|200px|center]]
|247,639
|Capital of Wintergen
|-
!Santmai
|[[File:A643, Bar Harbor and Cadillac Mountain from Bar Island, Maine, United States, 2009.jpg|200px|center]]
|83,721
|Market town
|-
!Volcamor
|[[File:City Hall Biddeford, ME 2005.jpg|200px|center]]
|55,426
|Large settlement
|}
===Emergency response and healthcare===
====Law enforcement====
=====National Gendarmerie=====
{{Further|National Gendarmerie of Burgundie}}
Wintergen is under the jurisdiction of the Wintergen Battalion of the Borealis Brigade of the Overseas Gendarmerie Division. The Wintergen Battalion has 4 companies and an HQ section.
*A Company is assigned to the Joint Agency Taskforce Wintergen Rangers West, with an area of responsibility of the hills and forests on the western third of the island, with the Wildland Management Service. They are based in Volamor. A Company specializes as a mountain rescue team, they cover the three skiing/hiking/mountain biking reactional resorts on the western parts of the island.
*B Company is assigned to the Joint Agency Taskforce Wintergen Rangers East, with an area of responsibility of the hills and forests on the eastern 2/3rds of the island with the Wildland Management Service. They are based in Santmai.
*C Company is assigned to Hivernille proper.
*D Company is assigned to the Port of Hivernille.
*The HQ section is also based in Hivernille.
=====National Constabulary=====
=====Revenue Guard=====
{{Further|Revenue Guard}}
=====Vice=====
====Firefighting====
{{Further|Fire Seneschalcy of Burgundie}}
====Ambulance====
====Sociolance====
{{Further|Royal Sociolance Service of Burgundie}}
====Healthcare====
===Military installations===
{{Further|Burgoignesc Security Forces}}
=====Joint Base St. Christophe=====
{{Infobox military installation
| name                  = Joint Base St. Christophe
| ensign                = File:Drapeau des Huguenots du Maine.svg
| ensign_size            =
| native_name            =
| partof                = <!-- for elements within a larger site -->
| location              =
| nearest_town          = <!-- used in military test site infobox -->
| country                = {{flag|Burgundie}}
| image                  =
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| image2                = US Navy 080907-N-0411D-043 The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team The Blue Angels perform for more than 100,000 guests during the Great State of Maine Air Show.jpg
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*{{naval|Burgundie}}
*{{coast guard|Burgundie}}
*{{air force|Burgundie}}
| controlledby          = TBD
| open_to_public        = <!-- for out of use sites/sites with museums etc -->
| site_other_label      = <!-- for renaming "Other facilities" in infobox -->
| site_other            = <!-- for other sorts of facilities – radar types etc --> 
| site_area              = <!-- area of site m2, km2 square mile etc -->
| code                  = <!--facility/installation code, applies to US -->
| built                  = [[TBD]]
| used                  = <!--{{End date|1946}} -->
| builder                =
| materials              =
| height                = <!-- height of tallest part, not above sea level -->
| length                = <!-- for border fences or other DMZs -->
| fate                  = <!--changed from demolished parameter-->
| condition              = Operational
| battles                =
| events                =
| current_commander      = <!-- current commander -->
| past_commanders        = <!-- past notable commander(s) -->
| garrison              = <!-- such as the 25th Bombardment Group -->
| occupants              =
*{{navy|Burgundie}}
**Boreal Joint Task Section
**Kilikas Maritime Patrol Joint Group
*{{coast guard|Burgundie}}
**TBD
**Kilikas Maritime Patrol Joint Group
*{{air force|Burgundie}}
**Boreal Task Section
| designations          =
| website                =
| footnotes              = <!-- catchall in case it's needed to preserve something in infobox that doesn't work in new code -->
}}
Joint Base St. Christophe is a combined [[Navy of Burgundie|navy]], [[Revenue Guard]], and [[Royal Air Service of Burgundie|Air Service]] base complex with 5 berths for large ships and a small airstrip for [[Navy of Burgundie|naval]] and [[Revenue Guard]] reconnaissance and maritime patrol aircraft.
*Boreal Joint Task Section-Fighter section
*Kilikas Maritime Patrol Joint Group- maritime patrol group
==History==
[[Wintergen]] is not known to have had a permanent population prior to the year 1000 ''anno Domini'', though the Finnic peoples of [[Koskenkorva]] were aware of its existence and visited it sporadically for fishing purposes. It became known to [[Coscivian civilisation]] when it was sighted by Keður Valēkas' flagship during the return voyage of his first expedition to [[Great Kirav]]. A subsequent [[Coscivian]] expedition established a small settlement on the islands.
By the 19th century AD (XXXth century CC), most of [[Wintergen]]'s small population lived in a handful of timber camps harvesting wood, most of which was exported to [[Burgundie]] to supply its prolific shipyards. Supplementary economic activities included fishing and subsistence farming, though the island suffered from poor soils and weather and a scarcity of arable land. Though some Coscivian families had lived on [[Wintergen]] for generations and spoke a unique (and now extinct) Coscivian dialect, most of the population were transient workers from [[Koskenkorva]] and the [[Great Kirav#Far Northeast|Far Northeast]] who lived on the island as fishermen and woodcutters for three or four seasons at most.
The 1820s a devastating bark beetle blight that almost eliminated the remaining forests on [[Burgundie]]. Desperate for more wood as the demand from timber-producing areas outstripped the local's ability to harvest it, some enterprising [[Port Diteaux|Port Diteauxoise]] shipwrights convinced the [[Burgoignesc North Levantine Trading Company]] (BNLTC) in [[1823]] to occupied the timber camps of [[Wintergen]].
In [[1836]] the [[Golden Council of Ten]] decreed the Act of Economic Union, claiming that [[Wintergen]] was forevermore an integral part of [[Burgundie]].
Following the island's capture and formalization into [[Burgundie]], the [[Kiravia]]n government and population were expelled. However, the conflicts with [[Burgundie]] bore on and [for some reason that I will maybe add here if applicable] were ultimately resolved in [[1896]] without settling the island's legal status.
==Geography==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Portland, Maine, aerial photograph.jpg
File:Maine Maritime Academy.jpg
File:Dark Harbor, Islesboro, Maine image 1.jpg
File:-Users-ddb-Desktop-maine-Maine - 11 - Flickr - ddb and kdw.jpg
File:Grafton Notch State Park - Maine - 8170927659.jpg
File:Grafton Notch State Park - Maine - 8170922555.jpg
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===Climate===
Wintergen has a subarctic, {{wp|Hemiboreal}} climate attributable to its proximity to the waters of the [[Kilikas Sea]].
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|+Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for Wintergen
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!Location
!July (°C)
!July (°F)
!January (°C)
!January (°F)
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|Hivernille || 20/11 || 68/52 || −1/−9 || 30/16
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====Natural Hazards====
*[[Kilikas_Sea#Kilikas_Storm_Belt|Kilikas Storm Belt]]
==Controversy==
*[[Flags_of_Burgundie#Controversy|The Flag Controversy]] and [[Stewardship_of_Wintergen_(government-in-exile)|conflicting claims]].
*Despite being illegal in [[Kiravia]], abortion tourism is quietly on the rise. Because it is prosecutable under both [[Kiravia]]n passport law (in federal court) and extraterritorial jurisdiction for Kiravian nationals (federal or provincial court) great pains are taken to conceal the true reason for the visit, and it has led to a rise in human smuggling in the [[Coscivian Sea|Coscivian]] and [[Kilikas Sea]]s. The [[Government of Burgundie]] has come out strongly against this practice and the [[Revenue Guard]] has increased its presence and anti-smuggling patrols in Wintergen and [[Nauta Normand]] as a result.
==Demographics==
The 319,990 who live permanently on Wintergen are primarily [[Catholic]] [[Bergendii]] with growing population of other [[Occidental]]s from [[Faneria]] and [[Vithinja]]. There is a small community of Finna Urgic natives who still remain on the island as well, but they have long been integrated into the [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc way of life]].
The language of Wintergen is the [[Burgoignesc language]] but due to its proximity, many people also speak some of the [[Coscivian language]] and [[Fhasen]].


==See also==
==See also==
Burgundie
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