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|conventional_long_name = Sovereign and Independent People's Republic of Kandara
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Religion in Kandara is a complex reflection of the nation's violent and colonial history. The majority adhere to Shia Islam, a vestige of the area's domination by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. Mosques, serve as centers not just for prayer, but also for education and social gatherings, especially in the interior. However, a significant minority practices [[Mercantile Reform Protestantism]], a faith introduced by the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|colonizers]]. Simple white clapboard churches, testaments to a bygone era of colonial dominance, stand as stark reminders of a troubled past, and stand in direct contrast to the massive and opulent mosques. While religious tolerance is generally practiced, tensions occasionally flare, particularly in competition for influence within the government or control of resource-rich areas.
Religion in Kandara is a complex reflection of the nation's violent and colonial history. The majority adhere to Shia Islam, a vestige of the area's domination by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. Mosques, serve as centers not just for prayer, but also for education and social gatherings, especially in the interior. However, a significant minority practices [[Mercantile Reform Protestantism]], a faith introduced by the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|colonizers]]. Simple white clapboard churches, testaments to a bygone era of colonial dominance, stand as stark reminders of a troubled past, and stand in direct contrast to the massive and opulent mosques. While religious tolerance is generally practiced, tensions occasionally flare, particularly in competition for influence within the government or control of resource-rich areas. Almost 6% of the population are members of the [[Audonian_Christianity#Patriarchate_of_Marand|Patriarchate of Marand]] a uniquely [[Audonian Christianity|Audonian Christian sect]]. 13.8% practice animism or shamanism, especially in the northern areas where the Queendom of Santasi was strong.
 
[[Audonian Christianity]] ([[Audonian_Christianity#Patriarchate_of_Marand|Patriarchate of Marand]])


===La Sape===
===La Sape===
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File:Avenue_Amilcar_Cabral_Nord.jpg|Occidental-influenced urban architecture
File:Avenue_Amilcar_Cabral_Nord.jpg|Occidental-influenced urban architecture
File:Boulevard_Plateau.jpg|Many buildings in Kandara are built of cinderblock construction with a stucco exterior
File:Boulevard_Plateau.jpg|Many buildings in Kandara are built of cinderblock construction with a stucco exterior
File:Ex siège du Fespam à l'enceinte de l'Ecole Normale d'Administration de Magistrature.jpg|Remnants of the communist regime remain, especially in the universities built during their short reign
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Much of the ancient surviving architecture in Kandara is comprised of the {{wp|Islamic architecture|Islamic architectural style}} brought by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. Much of these are religious buildings like mosques and masjid and other are government buildings primarily in the large urban settlements that would become the cities along the coasts. In the [[Timeline_of_major_world_events#Early_modern_history|early modern period]], architectural influences came primarily from the [[Occidental world]], especially the styles in [[Burgundie]]. These [[Levantia|Levantine]] styles persisted and even after the collapse of the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire]] and a resurgence of [[Occidental]] architectural motifs became the norm, especially in the late 20th century, after [[Operation Kipling]]. However, in the 1990s until now there has been a revival of more classical building methods, local building materials, architectural motifs reminiscent of both Afro and {{wp|Architecture_of_Africa#Modern_Islamic_African_Architecture|Islamic}} styles of the past. While most urban cores reflect the more [[Occidental]] styles of the late 20th century and early 21st century, other less densely populated areas are much more visually reminiscent of historical African architectural styles.
Much of the ancient surviving architecture in Kandara is comprised of the {{wp|Islamic architecture|Islamic architectural style}} brought by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. Much of these are religious buildings like mosques and masjid and other are government buildings primarily in the large urban settlements that would become the cities along the coasts. In the [[Timeline_of_major_world_events#Early_modern_history|early modern period]], architectural influences came primarily from the [[Occidental world]], especially the styles in [[Burgundie]]. These [[Levantia|Levantine]] styles persisted and even after the collapse of the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire]] and a resurgence of [[Occidental]] architectural motifs became the norm, especially in the late 20th century, after [[Operation Kipling]]. However, in the 1990s until now there has been a revival of more classical building methods, local building materials, architectural motifs reminiscent of both {{wp|African|Siphosti}} and {{wp|Architecture_of_Africa#Modern_Islamic_African_Architecture|Islamic}} styles of the past. While most urban cores reflect the more [[Occidental]] styles of the late 20th century and early 21st century, other less densely populated areas are much more visually reminiscent of historical {{wp|African|Siphosti}} architectural styles.


==Government and politics==
==Government and politics==
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Traditional state military with traditional weapons and equipment contracts with respected overseas countries, namely [[Burgundie]], [[Urcea]], and [[Yonderre]]. Mixed of mechanized and unmechanized forces with some air support. Fully logistically supplied by the state.
Traditional state military with traditional weapons and equipment contracts with respected overseas countries, namely [[Burgundie]], [[Urcea]], and [[Yonderre]]. Mixed of mechanized and unmechanized forces with some air support. Fully logistically supplied by the state. It has 17,000 full time soldiers and a ready reserve of 68,000. It is divided into the 1st Armored Division (active), 2nd Infantry Division (Reserve), 3rd Infantry Division (Reserve), and the ''Force Publique'' (a division level unit that serves as the state gendarmerie). The 1st Armored Division is comprised of the 3rd Regiment Hussars, 1st Regiment of Foot, 9th Regiment of the Line, and the Grand Garrison Artillery Battery. The ''Force Publique'' is a 27,000 strong mobile gendarmerie that serves to maintain public order and to patrol the highways.
=====Force Publique Kandara=====
 
State gendarmerie
The Army also maintains an air contingent with a fighter-bomber wing, a transport wing, and a reconnaissance/{{wp|COIN}} wing.
 
====Maritime Gendarmerie of Kandara====
The Maritime Gendarmerie of Kandara ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: ''Gendarmerie Maritime de Kandara'' (GMK)) operates 3 frigate divisions each consisting of one frigate and 3 smaller craft, typically patrol boats or missile boats. The country operates one diesel electric submarine, but it is more for show then a combat capable warship. The GMK also operates 6 independent littoral patrol boats for search and rescue, harbor patrol, and drug interdiction.


====Warlord forces====
====Warlord forces====
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{{wp|African Pygmies}} until 1500 BCE
It's estimated that the first settlements of {{wp|African Pygmies|pygmies}} in present-day Kandara were settled around 12,000 BCE. These settlements were primarily in the interior of the Arumami River Plains. Some 5,000 years ago, the area was not so semi-arid and the vegetation might have been closer to a {{wp|savanna|savanna woodland}}. However, desertification set in around 2500 BCE, and the desert became much like it is today. This desertification pushed the {{wp|African Pygmies|pygmy}} people into the mountain regions by 2000 BCE. The interior had become mostly uninhabited by 1500 BCE, and the mountains had become the primary areas of both settlement and cultivation of crops. There were still bands of {{wp|African Pygmies|pygmy}} nomads in the desert coastal plain but not nearly to the same extent that there had been two or 3,000 years prior. Coastal settlements became more and more settled as the cultivation of grains and the raising of goats and sheep in small semi-arid pockets became more sustainable for the larger populations around 40 BCE, by non-{{wp|African Pygmies|pygmy}} Kana people.


===Classical Antiquity===
===Classical Antiquity===
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In the southern part of the present-day Kandara the expansion of the [[Arunid Empire]], starting in 183 BCE, through [[832]] CE, spread the concepts of monotheism to the Kana people. The trade routes of the empire made the small settlements larger and the meager salt cultivation that the Kana engaged in became a critical resource of the [[Arunid Empire]], and the Kana population boomed. In the northern mountainous regions the tribes who have left the coasts began to create unique cultures and customs that would become the ethnic groups that make up Kandara today. They mined precious gems and gold that they traded with the [[Arunid Empire|Arunid Kanans]] but the harshness of the desert made it impossible for the empire to expand further. As the [[Arunid Empire]] was conquered by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] throughout the 800s, their influence in the lands of the Kana waned until, in [[832]] it seems to have disappeared altogether. For 100 years the Kana ruled themselves and built a salt trading empire that would become their downfall and bring the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] to their doorstep.
[[Arunid Empire]]
183 BCE - [[832]] CE


====Oduniyyad Caliphate====
====Oduniyyad Caliphate====
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[[931]] - [[1383]] the provinces of the ''Sudanieen'' (Arabic for "of the black people")
The [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] ruled most of present-day Kandara from [[931]] - [[1383]], calling the provinces the ''Sudanieen'' (Arabic for "of the black people"). They were brutal in their rule, enforcing strict Sharia law and demonizing and belittling the Kanans. They enslaved most of the population and forced them to work the salt mines or sold them to other powers in [[Audonia]] as part of the [[Pre-modern_global_trade#Oduniyyad_chattel_network|Oduniyyad chattel network]].


===Medieval period===
===Medieval period===
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====Khandharan Caliphate and the Queendom of Santasi====
====Khandharan Caliphate and the Queendom of Santasi====
[[File:Queen Sjaro Santasi Kandara.jpg|thumb|right|CGI of Queen Sjaro, first and most powerful queen of Santasi, based on her DNA and of those buried with her.]]
[[File:Queen Sjaro Santasi Kandara.jpg|thumb|right|CGI of Queen Sjaro, first and most powerful queen of Santasi, based on her DNA and of those buried with her.]]
Even before the fall of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] after the Shia and Sunni ideological split in Islam, the foundations of the Khandharan Caliphate were laid as it became the theological and cultural capital of the {{Wp|Shia}} aspects of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. When the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] did eventually fall the Khandharan Caliphate immediately picked up the pieces of the Empire and maintained them in the northeast. It did lose some provinces in the far north and in the interior some to the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] and others to what would become the Queendom of Santasi. Santasi was strong in rural areas that had not been under the direct control of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] and had maintained a strong sense it's of its native culture and heritage. Free of the restrictions of Islam, the Santasi re-normalized {{wp|Pre-colonial_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Religion_and_Spirituality|shamanism}} and {{wp|Pre-colonial_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Cannibalism|ritual cannabalism}}. Therefore, Santasi eventually became an ethnic afro-state where anyone who opposed the Khandharan Caliphate, and Islam in general, could go to practice their traditional animist religion or also to join the army in opposition to the Khandharan Caliphate.
Even before the fall of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] after the Shia and Sunni ideological split in Islam, the foundations of the Khandharan Caliphate were laid as it became the theological and cultural capital of the {{Wp|Shia}} aspects of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. When the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] did eventually fall the Khandharan Caliphate immediately picked up the pieces of the Empire and maintained them in the northeast. It did lose some provinces in the far north and in the interior some to the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] and others to what would become the Queendom of Santasi. Santasi was strong in rural areas that had not been under the direct control of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] and had maintained a strong sense it's of its native culture and heritage. Free of the restrictions of Islam, the Santasi re-normalized {{wp|Pre-colonial_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Religion_and_Spirituality|shamanism}} and {{wp|Pre-colonial_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Cannibalism|ritual cannabalism}}. Therefore, Santasi eventually became an ethnic {{wp|African|Siphosti}}-state where anyone who opposed the Khandharan Caliphate, and Islam in general, could go to practice their traditional animist religion or also to join the army in opposition to the Khandharan Caliphate.


These two nations occupied the western interior and coastal parts of modern Kandara. The Khandharan Caliphate remained connected to the [[Pre-modern global trade]] networks but the Queendom of Santasi did not and focused more on sustenance farming, herding, and some fishing. The Khandharan Caliphate conducted slaving raids into Santasi territory and sold the slaves onward, but also maintained and secured the [[Silk Road]] for tolls which were the primary large-scale economic drivers of the state. While both states were sovereign in their own right, neither was particularly centralized, powerful, or militarily capable, so when [[Occidental]] colonists showed up in the 16th century they were not prepared.
These two nations occupied the western interior and coastal parts of modern Kandara. The Khandharan Caliphate remained connected to the [[Pre-modern global trade]] networks but the Queendom of Santasi did not and focused more on sustenance farming, herding, and some fishing. The Khandharan Caliphate conducted slaving raids into Santasi territory and sold the slaves onward, but also maintained and secured the [[Silk Road]] for tolls which were the primary large-scale economic drivers of the state. While both states were sovereign in their own right, neither was particularly centralized, powerful, or militarily capable, so when [[Occidental]] colonists showed up in the 16th century they were not prepared.
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====Great Rebellion of Slavery Bay====
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On 6 March [[1757]] at the capital of the Kingdom of Fana, Fanoor, the King-in-exile of Santasi, raises a Third Coalition Army and prepares to wage a "Final War" to push the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] out of Kandara. Having realized the failure of many of his ancestors, he recruits as many Kanans from Kandoor as he can and promises them a free state under local control if they get the nation to rise against the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|Occidental colonists]]. They infiltrate into Kandoor and begin to stir up the local population.
In 1761, the Pukhtun Piracy and Smuggling Network (PPSN) joined the cause. The PPSN had always seen the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] as an unwelcome law enforcement presence into the region, which had cut into their profits heavily. The Santasi's and the leaders of the PPSN formed a pact whereby the Santsi Third Coalition Army would attack the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|Burgoignesc colonial]] infrastructure from the land and the PPSN would cut off the resupply routes in the [[Aab-e-Farus]]. In return the Santasi would transfer power over Foreign Affairs and Defence to PPSN. They formed a very close bond in the years to come.
In the 1760s and 1770s a series of pitched sea battles took place, eventually ending in the utter defeat of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]]'s navy. The colony was cut off. From 1778-1795 not a single resupply was attempted, and the colonial administration was left to their own devices.
In 1790, the King of Santasi had reclaimed most of the Kandooli states, with the exception of Kandooli. Ever grateful he reached out to the PPSN for aid. They sent 8,000 Pukhtun mercenaries. They made short work of the rest of the state but failed to capture Kandoor. A siege was put in place that encircled the city. After two years the city finally fell and in January the last of the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|Occidental colonists]] in Kandoor were captured and killed.
====Post-colonial 19th century====
====Post-colonial 19th century====
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====Roads====
====Roads====
Car ownership in Kandara is exceedingly rare with only the most elite government officials and corporate magnets owning cars. They typically own entire convoys of cars due to the volatile nature of inter-provincial travel under heavily armed guard. Because of this road infrastructure is not highly prioritized in the country with the exception of for commercial and industrial uses.
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Car ownership in Kandara is exceedingly rare with only the most elite government officials and corporate magnates owning cars. They typically own entire convoys of cars due to the volatile nature of inter-provincial travel under heavily armed guard. Because of this road infrastructure is not highly prioritized in the country with the exception of for commercial and industrial uses.
The majority of Kandara's roads are unpaved and many of them are just traditional tracks throughout the arid landscape. In the 1940s and '50s many main arteries were created and paved between oasises and communities across the desert and along some of the major river basins. However due to the extreme environment and current government system many of these roads have fallen into extreme disrepair or been completely comfort over by sands and no longer formally exist. However along the coastline there are two major arteries the first called Government highway 1 and the second is trunk road 985 which connects the major port cities and hubs along the coast these two roads run primarily in parallel about 50 km apart from each other one of them being reserved for truck traffic and the other being a military road that is used in peacetime by civilian and commercial traffic.
The majority of Kandara's roads are unpaved and many of them are just traditional tracks throughout the arid landscape. In the 1940s and '50s many main arteries were created and paved between oasises and communities across the desert and along some of the major river basins. However due to the extreme environment and current government system many of these roads have fallen into extreme disrepair or been completely comfort over by sands and no longer formally exist. However along the coastline there are two major arteries the first called Government highway 1 and the second is trunk road 985 which connects the major port cities and hubs along the coast these two roads run primarily in parallel about 50 km apart from each other one of them being reserved for truck traffic and the other being a military road that is used in peacetime by civilian and commercial traffic.
Because of the importance of the mining communities in the mountain areas, the mountain roads are typically better maintained due to foreign investment. These roads are typically paved with good drainage but are used primarily for commercial and industrial truck traffic. There are some civilian roads that can be used by commuters but they are often tolled and due to corruption usage can be fairly low because tolls can be exorbitant.
Because of the importance of the mining communities in the mountain areas, the mountain roads are typically better maintained due to foreign investment. These roads are typically paved with good drainage but are used primarily for commercial and industrial truck traffic. There are some civilian roads that can be used by commuters but they are often tolled and due to corruption usage can be fairly low because tolls can be exorbitant.
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