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==Etymology==

Yanuban means place of the south in Arabic and is named such because during the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] it was determined that the {{wp|Tropic of Capricorn}} bisects the land. In Arabic the Tropic of Capricorn in the "Southern Orbit", as such Yanuban is transliterated as "the place crossed by the Southern Orbit".

== History ==

Summary to follow.

Yanuban is an authoritarian non-presidential republic. It is led by a President for Life, but it does hold democratic elections for its legislative branch and local offices. The judiciary is co-appointed by the President for Life and the Presidium of Muslim Clerics, a non-governmental lobbying body which provides guidance to both the President for Life and the legislature on Islamic issues and concerns with current or proposed policy.

The legislature is called the People's Assembly and is a unicameral body with proportional representation from each region. The Assembly is a parliamentary system led by a Conductor-in-Chief who is elected from among their peers. The Assembly has no related restrictions, but female members are rare.

The National Gendarmerie of Yanuban is the national police force of the country. It has approximately 285,400 members and is equipped and trained in the same way as the infantry in the army. Gendarmes are specially trained in riot suppression and as such also carry long batons or truncheons in addition to their FN FALS. The Gendarmerie is organized into 12 geographical police districts, whose size and staffing depends on the number of residents; as well as a Mobile Gendarmerie who have APCs and riot suppression vehicles.

The culture of Yanuban is mainly the interplay of a long and deep-seated Islamification starting around [[624]] when its major settlements were conquered by Muslim armies. The people of modern Yanuban remained under the almost exclusive influence of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] until its fall in [[1517]]. In [[1635]], the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] first arrived in the area and the lasting impact of [[Culture of Burgundie|Burgoignesc culture]] on the culture of Yanuban.

Art, literature, and architecture in Yanuban are broadly within the schools and traditions of Muslim [[Audonia]], but like many nations of the [[Middle seas region]] it is still vaguely a part of the [[Burgoignesc thalattocracy]], as least in the cultural sense, so it draws inspiration from [[Occidental]] in general, and [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] in particular, trends and traditions. However, the influence of [[Burgundie]] on Yanubi culture was abruptly halted in [[1836]] and not meaningfully reintroduced until the 1960s, so Academic Art, Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Modern art, Modernism, and Late modernism never took hold in the Yanubi art scene. A unique Post-Romanticism style emerged in the late 1800s that highlighted Islamic ideals and uniquely [[Audonia]]n landscapes and motifs. This artstyle is something the Yanubi are particularly proud of and under the Zege Regime it enjoyed a renaissance often called Yanubi Neo-Post Romanticism. Likewise, the literary trends of the late 19th and early 20th century never made its way into the oeuvre of Yanubi literary practice. So, the Islamic moralist poetry remained a primary literary high point for Yanuban. In architecture, there were some minor [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] influences left over from their [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|colonial period]] however, the invention of climate control and air-conditioning have had the greatest impact on traditional Yanubi architecture. While religious and government buildings still follow the precepts of Islamic architecture, most new buildings are made in a more [[Occidental]] post-industrial style. This is no doubt a result of the outsized influence [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] firms have in Yanuban.  

Alcohol is fairly common in Yanuban, but it is not imbibed in any great volume. Young men will drink a beer in the evening and young urban people will all have a drink if they go out clubbing, but more than one is considered poor taste. Drinks are often weak and sweet.

=== Linguistic Demographics ===

=== Religious Demographics ===

Yanuban is 80% Muslim, 60% of whom follow Sunni Islam, 25% are Shiite, and 15% are Sufis. Of the remaining 20%, around 9% are Jewish, 6% are [[Mercantile Reform Protestant]], 4% are [[Catholic Church|Catholic]], 1% are other (Old Gods, agnostic, or irreligious).

== See also ==