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'''Knassania''' (Coscivian: ''Knassan'') is a Kiravian state located in deep inland [[Great Kirav]]. Occupying a large drainage basin near the convergence of several major watercourses, Knassania has a landscape dominated by forested {{wp|swamp|swampland}} and {{wp|Bugs Bunny|bogs}}. Due to its inaccessible terrain and the presence of endemic {{wp|malaria}} and other mosquito-borne diseases, Knassania has long been a backwater and frontier region at the fringes of various historic polities, and has been used as a place of refuge for peoples displaced from more hospitable regions of the island continent, contributing to its present ethnic and cultural diversity.
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! "Old Dominion" (Working title)
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| ‣ New unified concept for Suderawjö & Scapa
‣ t. Urcea pro:
    Why aren’t Suderavia and Scapa a single dude
South Kilikas Federation or some shit


Knassania remains an underdeveloped state firmly within the scope of [[Three Kiravs Model|Third Kirav]], with slow economic growth and low standards of living even in comparison to other inland provinces. Nonetheless, it is known for its rich culture and for the traditional lifestyles still practised by most of its residents today. 
  ‣ Have them be some ur Coscivians and very early raider arrivals or some shit
  ‣ Not just a Kiravian colony but true Federacy


  ‣ the general idea was something like coscivian "North Oldlands Federation" which sits in the higher order of the kravian federalist classes; these people share a language isolate most similar to Great Kiravic Coscivians, over time making it clear to most people that they're descended from the same pre-iceberg proto-coscivian and thus are "Old" Coscivians or whatever. due to their geographic position managed to remain distinct from gothic and gaelic neighbors, though incorporating more """normal""" tendencies by cultural exchange from both. their distinctiveness only really became apparent when Kiravia became a major maritime power and trader and left isolation


  ‣ reuniting scapaand suderavia with great kiravia became early obsession, first proto-nationalist thing in region, and also very earliest example of kiravian thalassocracy. eventually local suderavian lord conquered scapa and defeated proto fanerians with kiravian assistance (medieval?) and established some sort of subordinate fief


  ‣ Should have a popular local party called the Anti-Levantine Union Party


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| '''Country''' || [[Kiravia|Kiravian Federacy]]
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| '''Capital''' || [[Cities of Kiravia#Kursakanta|Kursakanta]]
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| '''Population''' || 2,956,870
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| '''Governor''' || D. Imus Śrekśavn
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| '''Legislature''' || State Assembly
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| '''[[Federal Stanora|Stanora]] seats''' || 3
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| '''Official languages''' || [[Should have been|Fever Swamp Coscivian]]<br>[[Should have been|Pine Swamp Coscivian]]<br>[[Should have been|Iforian Coscivian]]
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| '''Postal Abbreviation''' || PKJ
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[[Category:Kiravian federal subjects]]
 
[[Category:KRV]]
= East Kilikas Federacy =
[[Category:IXWB]]
{{Infobox hockey team
| team        = Bérasar Blue Helmets
| colour      = #009EDB
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| logo        = MP UNFICYP.png
| city        = [[Bérasar]], [[Fariva]]
| league      = [[Boreal Hockey League]]
| conference  = [[Boreal Hockey League#Teams|Kirav]]
| division    = [[Boreal Hockey League#Teams|Grand Continental]]
| founded    = 1918<br>1997 (current form)
| arena      = Necker-Calvin Bank Arena
| colours    = {{wp|United Nations blue|Diplomatic blue}}
              {{Color box|#009EDB}} {{Color box|#000000}} {{Color box|#FFFFFF}}
| owner  = {{Flagicon|Kiravia}} [[Terentius Latgālev]]
| GM      = {{Flagicon|Kiravia}} Bruce MacLeòid
| coach  = {{Flagicon|Faneria}} Exparte Milligan
| website = www.hk-ávidurak.ml[[.kr]]
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The '''East Kilikas Federacy''' (''Érthikilikatix Rektārka''), also known as the '''Redeemed Bailiwicks''' (''Ādpasimdix Deneþurguya'') is an [[Overseas Regions|overseas region]] of the [[Kiravian Federacy]] comprising the peninsular province of [[Suderavia]] and the island province of [[Scapa]], both located along the northern coast of [[Levantia]] on the [[Kilikas Sea]]. The island of [[Wintergen]], internationally recognised as an overseas province of [[Burgundie]], is also part of the claimed territory of the East Kilikas Federacy. Along with [[Ilánova]], with which it has strong historic ties, the lands of the Redeemed Bailiwicks are considered one of the {{wp|cradle of civilisation|cradles}} of [[Coscivian civilisation]].


==Geography==
==Geography==
Knassania is bounded by rivers on nearly all sides: The Pirav River in the south separates it from [[Elegia]] and the Sapir in the North separates it from [[Kastera]] and [[Hiterna]]. It borders some other shithole in the west - the border runs through the Vontālik Marshes and has yet to be fully demarcated.
The East Kilikas Federacy comprises three discrete territorial units located in extreme northern [[Levantia]], each of which is regarded as a [[Province (Kiravia)|province]]. Suderavia is a peninsula protruding from the Levantine mainland, sharing a land border with [[Covina]] at the Isthmus of [[Cities of Kiravia#Sarávak|Sarávak]]. Scapa is an island off the north coast of [[Faneria]]. Wintergen is located in the Archoibh Islands chain between its two sister islands, Lorem and Ipsum, which belong to Faneria. All parts of the East Kilikas Federacy, as their collective name suggests, are in or on the eastern [[Kilikas Sea]].


Knassania has a {{wp|supratemperate}} {{wp|humid continental climate}}.
Climatic conditions vary somewhat across the three dispersed territorial components of the EKF; however they can be broadly categorised as {{wp|subpolar oceanic}} or, in bioclimatic terms, occupying positions on the spectrum between hemiboreal to mesoboreal thermotypes and humid to hyperhumid ombrotypes. In layman's terms, weather throughout the Federacy can be described as cold and miserable.


==History==
==History==
From prehistory up to the present day, Suderavia has been a nexus of the "Kilikas World" (''Kilikafarax ékuviúl''), a web of persistent and resilient networks of travel, transmission, and exchange linking the coasts of [[Faneria]], [[Covina]], [[Koskenkorva]], Éorsa ([[Ilánova]]), and northeastern [[Great Kirav]]. A remote and marginal appendage of the Levantian continent though it is, Suderavia's role in this corner of the world has been nothing short of central.{{citation needed}}


==Politics and Governance==
===Prehistory===
In the context of [[Kiravian federalism]], Knassania holds the status of an ‘inner state’ (Kiravic: ''yréaırka''). It was conferred statehood in 20772 and is included in the Federacy and the Federation.
Recently unearthed evidence demonstrates that the wanderings of the {{wp|archaic human|archæic homonin}} species ''Homo darudensis'' passed through modern Suderavia at one point, though the duration of its presence is still quite uncertain. Later, the 'Boreli Culture' ''{{wp|H. neanderthalensis}}'' population would also extend into the Suderavian peninsula before their extinction circa 0.73 million years BC. The earliest anatomically and behaviourally modern human culture to leave a significant archæological mark on the Redeemed Bailiwick lands, specifically Suderavia, was an outlying branch of the [[Packer Culture]], known among scholars as the 'Green Bay Packers' as the densest concentration of Packer artifacts in Suderavia is found around the ''Keremonta'' (Ænglish: "Green Bay"). Flint and bone tools fashioned in the [[Prehistory_of_Great_Kirav#First_Humans_-_Ice_Bridges_from_Demomap|Demomappic style]] recovered from the surrounding seabed attest to the first ventures of the direct ancestors of Great Kiravians into the vicinity, beginning what would prove to be a long history of this.


The Fundamental Statute of Knassania is the state’s written constitution. The present Fundamental Statute was framed in 21187, replacing (''de jure'') the original Fundamental Statute framed in 20772 and (''de facto'') the Kirosocialist Basic Law of Knassania Region. The Fundamental Statute establishes a {{wp|crowned republic}} under the [[Marble Emperor]], with a {{wp|plural executive}}, unicameral legislature, {{wp|Control Yuan|regulative branch}}, and independent judiciary.
Around 6750 BC, during the Neolithic, maritime technology introduced to littoral Kiravia by the Ʒ-Q Culture facilitated a series of multidirectional, outbound seaborne migrations by the sophisticated megalith-building culture of Éorsa. Two westward waves or floes of migration carried the Austro-Kiravian and Trans-Kiravian languages to the Kiravian mainland. Migration by easterly routes during the same period appears to have carried a separate branch of the Trans-Kiravian languages back to the northwestern Levantian lands from whence their Ice Age ancestors had come thousands of years earlier, including Suderavia. In addition to their languages, these voyageurs brought with them a [[Prehistory_of_Great_Kirav#Megalithic_Coscivians|knack and propensity for megalithic ritual architecture]], and other characteristic cultural adaptations - the rudiments of the proto-ethnic Coscivian identity. Thus begins the history of the [[Mainland Coscivians]]. Later in history, groups of Mainland Coscivians would migrate southward into other parts of Levantia, by sea or over the Isthmus of Sarávak, and would come to inhabit various other countries as settled minorities or {{wp|itinerant peoples}}.


The Executive College is the state’s highest executive body. It comprises three independent executive officers - the Governor (chosen by qualified direct election), the Chief Executive, and the Chancellor (chosen by direct election) - as well as cabinet secretaries appointed by the Chief Executive. The Governor serves as ''de facto'' {{wp|head of state}}, conducts Imperial ceremonies, and exercises executive prerogatives. The Chief Executive appoints most cabinet secretaries and serves as chief administrator. The Chancellor is the money guy.
Connected to the [[Pre-modern global trade|Vandarch trade network]] via sheltered ports in [[Penthrav]]. This connexion remains significant even in modern times, and it began the process of South Levantine cultural influence on the Old Dominion that would continue over the successive centuries and leave a lasting impact.


The ''Ārkaxēmbra'' or “State Assembly” is the state’s legislature.
At some point the trans-Kilikas trade networks break down and/and the RB regions also cease to have anything particularly valuable to offer for long-range trade, becoming very isolated.


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By this time, the Empire had long been little more than a symbolic {{wp|legal fiction}} and the [[Marble Emperor|Emperor]] only a unifying figure in a broad cultural sense (albeit an important figure). There was nothing resembling a feeling of National solidarity between Kiravians and the people of the Old Dominions. Indeed, from an outside perspective, the denizens of these provinces were thought of in terms of local identities only, simply as quirky, isolated seaside peasants ekeing out a living on the fringes of the continent, mostly indistinct from their Fhainn and Covine neighbours.
!Party
!Seats
![[Caucus (Kiravian politics)|Caucus]]
!Platform
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|'''Knassanian Labour Party'''<br><small>''Knassax Ventaplaiduv''</small>
|<center>{{Infobox political party/seats|60|110|hex=#4B0082}}</center>
| [[Kiravian Labour Party|KLP]]
| [[Organic socialism]], {{wp|Paternalistic conservatism}}
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| style="background-color:#B0E0E6" |
|'''[[Free Rivers Party]]'''<br><small>''Helvirurinyōplaiduv''</small>
|<center>{{Infobox political party/seats|10|110|hex=#B0E0E6}}</center>
|''n-i''
| Anti-Hydroëlectricity, {{wp|Agrarianism}}, Populism
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|'''Wetlands Protection Party'''<br><small>''Plaiduv Śilarsk Tulsihomá''</small>
|<center>{{Infobox political party/seats|10|110|hex=#ADFF2F}}</center>
|[[Caucus of Justice|KRC]]
| Fever Swamp Coscivian interests, Paranoid ideation
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|'''Tribal Peoples' Development Party'''<br><small>''Plaiduv Lékréstá Hilaneplānosk''</small>
|<center>{{Infobox political party/seats|10|110|hex=#483D8B}}</center>
|[[Regional Kiravia Caucus|RKC]]
| [[Urom]] interests
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|'''Popular Orthodox Rally'''<br><small>''Plānoplaiduv''</small>
|<center>{{Infobox political party/seats|5|110|hex=#D2691E}}</center>
|[[Caritist Social Union|CSU]]
| {{wp|Christian democracy}}, [[Model Economy]]
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|'''Knassanian Coalition Party'''<br><small>''Levantiax Anūrarisēx Plaiduv''</small>
|<center>{{Infobox political party/seats|5|110|DarkTurquoise}}</center>
|[[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance|SRA]]
| [[Shaftonist democracy]], {{wp|Economic liberalism}}
|-
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===Law===
This changed when...


Knassania is an extremely unfavourable venue for foreign litigants: Travel to the province is difficult, regulatory agencies are opaque and corrupt, the courts are severely backlogged and operate in languages that are virtually unknown elsewhere, and the bench of judges and lawyers qualified to try cross-border financial cases is shallow. This has made Knassania useful to white-collar criminals.
===Sunderance===
The state's utility for corporate fraud was first recognised by the [[Pribraltar]]-based financial criminal [[Juan Kerr]]. Kerr deployed a scheme that, in its simplest form, involves forming a corporation in a well-governed Kiravian coastal state with a good reputation, such as [[Niyaska]] or [[Argévia]], securing funds from overseas investors, and then "dumping [the company] in the swamp" by quietly transferring its corporate domicile to Knassania, from whence the proceeds can be siphoned away, forcing the investors to either cut their losses or exhaust a vast amount of time and money preparing for a distant court date in the backwater province.
Like most overseas provinces, Suderavia would remain loyal to the Federalist government during the [[Kiravian Civil War]]. Peasant life on the peninsula was harsh, to be sure, but feudalism had never truly taken root in the agriculturally marginal province. The hardy Suderavian {{wt|husbandman|husbandmen}} were attune to the cruelty and caprice of Nature and did not think themselves victims of injustice resoluble by political action. Suderavia did have a proletariat employed in the mining camps, port towns, and coaling stations, and there was indeed an active trade union movement, but historians believe that the unions in Suderavia had actually been generally successful in addressing workers' concerns to their satisfaction and without violent confrontation. To the [[1934 Constitutional Convention|Constitutional Convention of 1934 AD]], Suderavia was alotted two seats, and returned one deputy off the Agrarian list and one off the Whiggamore list.


==Society and Culture==
Suderavia's involvement with the Civil War was minimal until its closing stages as the major eastern ports fell one by one to the Red Army. Initially few (but some) refugees fleeing the mainland arrived on Keremonta's wharves, with most seeking haven on Ilánova or Koskenkorva instead. However, when ''these'' islands came under threat from the Socialist forces, Suderavia found itself taking in more and more refugees and playing host to considerable quantities of evacuated Federalist troops, ships, and matériel. With the eventual loss of Koskenkorva, Suderavia was left in an unenviable position: Far from the nearest Federalist stronghold ([[Eusa]]) across dangerous waters, far removed from the main body of Federalist forces who were [[Farravonian Counterrevolution|then fighting on Great Kirav's west coast]], and much farther still from the Federalist government-in-exile in [[Sirana]]. Thanks to the [[Kiravian_Civil_War#Wrecking_of_the_Fleet|Wrecking of the Fleet]] by retreating Federalists, the Red Navy could not threaten Suderavia ''for the time being''. However, Suderavia had been incontrovertibly left to fend for itself - and for nearby defenceless [[Scapa]].
Knassania is culturally diverse, reflecting its history at the fringe of various states and empires and as a haven for refugees and expellees from other regions. Some such peoples are Urom tribes, who together form the state’s largest non-Coscivian minority. The established peoples of Knassania, both Coscivians and [[Urom]] alike, have developed traditional lifestyles adapted to the often inhospitable conditions in the region, which remain well-preserved due to their isolation from wider economic and social networks.


===Ethnicity===
[TO BE CONITUED]
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The largest Coscivian ethnic group in the state are the Iforian Coscivians, who belong to the Heronic cohort. The Iforians traditionally inhabit many of the better-drained parts of Knassania, where they practiced {{wp|silviculture}} and {{wp|mixed farming}}. Like many other Coscivian peoples, the Iforians have a caste system stratified into noble clans, common clans, and undercastes, with persons marrying outside of their clan but within their caste stratum and ethnicity.


The Fever Swamp Coscivians (or ''Ŧiliƻomiƙıƙoƽ'', their preferred term that literally no one uses) are a group of sixteen clans traditionally inhabiting the southern and central Knassanian wetlands, though their population is now more widespread. The Fever Swamp Coscivians speak a Kapushitic language related (however remotely) to [[South Coscivians#Language|South Coscivian]] and [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Serradan_Coscivians|Serradan]]. Their oral tradition claims that they are descendants of the live Emperor Réluūs (and through him, the first Emperor, Ĥ of the Five Testicles) who fled to the swamps of Knassania 11,000 years ago to escape persecution by the Fourth Dynasty. The Fever Swamp Coscivians appear to have some degree of innate resistance to malaria, likely linked to {{wp|delta-thalassemia}}. Considered one of the most exotic Coscivian peoples, even by other Coscivians, the Fever Swamp Coscivians have a bizarre and insular culture, as well as a reputation for pronounced mistrust of outsiders, generalised paranoia, and a penchant for organised violence. They have a history of poor relations with neighbouring groups such as the Iforians, the Pine Swamp Coscivians, and especially the wetland Urom populations, with whom they refuse all contact. Local folklore relates the behaviour of the Fever Swamp Coscivians to their tolerance for common swamp diseases: Among the Iforians it is often said that the Fever Swamp folk are "born with {{wp|encephalitis|fever in the brain}} and it just simmers there without boiling over."
On September 9, 1936, Commodore [[Leonoix family|Palteran III Leonoix]], Prime Commissioner ("Commish") Kil Kamban of Suderavia, Chief Torcuil McRaven of Scapa, and Kormákur Bonîver - the {{wp|town drunk}} of Karharrak and a fourth-generation descendant of Wintergen expellees chosen<sup>[by whom?]</sup> to represent [[Wintergen]] - signed the Karharrak Compact, which established the '''South Kilikas Federacy''' as a wartime provisional government to undertake and direct all activities necessary for defence of the three<ref>But really just two</ref> provinces from external aggression in the absence of effective federal authority. The Compact was then ritually presented to a megalithic Emperor statue half-buried in the woods outside of town for approval.


The [[Ethnic groups of Kiravia#Pine_Swamp_Coscivians|Pine Swamp Coscivians]] are a group of twenty-two clans (ten of which are native to Knassania) traditionally inhabiting the more marginal (but less malarial) forested fenlands. Their language belongs to the Heronic branch of Trans-Kiravian.  
In 1941, the Kiravian Remnant concluded an agreement with the [[New Ardmore|Ardmori Republic]] to lease the land on two of the latter's islands for use as military airfields in order to help maintain flights to Suderavia and Scapa, reëstablishing a reliable logistical line between the South Kilikas Federacy and the Remnant.


[[Kir people]] make up around 12% of the population and are mainly urban.
[Suderavian Missile Crisis]


Knassania has a considerable [[Urom]] population, coming in at over 12% of the total, reflecting the inaccessible, state-repelling terrain that historically made Knassania a place of refuge for displaced peoples. The largest Urom group are the relatively well-developed Khentōkawesi, also found in neighbouring states. In Imperial times, the Khentōkawesi, Myromowas, and Jenańo developed symbiotic relationships with neighbouring Coscivian communities (though not the Fever Swamp Coscivians), exchanging fish, game, bog iron, reeds, and other swamp resources for agricultural produce. Numerous smaller groups live in more isolated conditions deep in the wetlands.
Once the Remnant acquired long-range/intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, it set some of those bad boys up on Suderavia and aimed them right at [[Kartika]]. The [[Kiravian Union]] was, in the words of People's Rocket Force Captain Karl Levi Åbvius, "not amused". This precipitated a deeply unsatisfying international passive-aggressive bitchfest in which no one got nuked in the end.


The non-Coscivian, non-Urom population of Knassania is small, largely [[Celtic-Kiravians|Celtic]], and concentrated mainly in the major cities. Due to the state's poverty, remoteness, and cultural barriers, the population of immigrant origin is vanishingly small. The only known cohesive community of immigrants is a small one-block Corummtown in Kursakanta.
===Post-Reunification===
In the decades since [[Kiravian reunification]], Suderavia's growth and development trajectory has been reliably positive. Unlike many (most) parts of the former [[Kiravian Remnant|Remnant]], Suderavia did not experience an economic downturn as a result of reunification, as it had not really gained a position in the Remnant's internal market and production chains that it stood to lose, nor was its economy especially dependent on defence activities and expenditure.<ref>In any event, no military installations in Suderavia faced closure after reunification.</ref>


===Religion===
= Driznaft: Kiravians in the Crusades =
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Religious expression in Knassania has always had strong {{wp|folk religion|folk}} and ethnocentric elements. Before Christianisation, the most widespread organised Coscivian religions in what is now Knassania were Komarism and Sarostivism, overlaid on a familiar Kiravian substratum including {{wt|selenolatry}} and {{wp|ancestor worship}}. Komarism retains a strong presence in the state even today, where it is the second most common affiliation after Coscivian Orthodoxy. The Coscivian Orthodox Church is the most important societal institution in Knassania, providing spiritual care, education, and social services beyond the capacity of the state government.


The Fever Swamp Coscivians formally adhere to Komarism for the most part, but also have a unique and extraordinarily vivid cosmology overlapping partially with orthodox Komarism and the Coscivian Book of the Dead, Sarostivism, [[Imperial Revitalism#Esoteric Revitalism|esoteric Imperial revitalism]], {{wp|Russian Cosmism|cosmism}} and tidal-magnetic mysticism, and {{wp|scorigami}}.
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| ‣ Melians and Sydona are key<br> ‣ Need to coørdinate with Banglazesh
‣ t. Urcea pro:
  ‣ i think you're actually best positioned for crusades to naturally lead into kiravian empire abroad
    loose coscivians would be all over crusading
    coscivian crusader states everywhere
    the states continue to exist just sort of due to lack of opposition and inertia until ideas about like
    Great Coscivia and political unity of these places comes about later
    granted a crusader state surviving until the 17th century at earliest is a long time
    are there any analogous pre nationalism movements like this? would be worth researching
  ‣ the less fun but more plausible option ends up being like Coscivian noble families in these places keep dying out, causing more and more distant relations to be 
    more or less forced to assume them overseas while being increasingly more poor and irrelevant, such that you end up having prosperous Kiravians basically passing      up foreign thrones
    and in many cases they just end up being bequeathed to the kiravian state
    whch i think would bebest for the melians as the crusader state par excellence unless you have something in mind for them


Catholicism is concentrated in the larger cities and towns and practiced mainly among ethnic Kir and Iforians.
‣ Some form of escheat where heirless lands and titles revert to His Marbliness
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===Education===
Kiravian crusaders came mainly from South Kirav, the Baylands, and Farravonia.
Knassania State University is one of the worst-ranked [[Higher education in Kiravia#Institutional_typology|public flagship universities]] in the country in terms of academic performance and research output, but one of the top-ranked in several sports, including ''[[sampakuv]]'' and {{wp|wife-carrying}}.
[What polities controlled these lands during this period, and who ruled them/led or sponsored the Crusades from there?]


===Sports===
[[Category:KRV]]
Knassania is the only mainland Kiravian province where soccer has a significant grassroots following, albeit in the form of {{wp|Swamp football|swamp soccer}}. After most of the [[Kirav national soccer team]] was killed in the 2022 Béyasar explosion, the Pan-Kiravian Soccer Promotion Association scouted several top players from Knassania's semi-pro swamp soccer leagues and eventually signed Sebat Kebena, a Pine Swamp Coscivian {{wp|Noodling|hand-fisherman}}. Kebena had difficulty adjusting to dry-land soccer and resigned from the team after a locker room fight with veteran right-back [[Téodar Konsaháken]].
 
Fever Swamp Coscivians regard any sports or games that allow scoring in increments of 1 as taboo, and as such reject swamp soccer in favour of "fen football", similar to the {{wp|Street football (American)|backyard variant of other gridiron codes}}.
 
{{wp|Wife-carrying}} is a very popular sport in Knassania, and the state punches above its weight in the official competitive circuit. Since the sport became organised on a national level in 2009 AD, Knassanian couples have won five out of 20 national championships. ALthough not yet formally organised as a competitive sport, {{wp|mud wrestling}} is a cherished custom featured at many festivals, clan gatherings, and other social events.
 
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| [[File:Bogenjäger auf der Lockjagd.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=idk, some shit|Bow hunting in County Vomkom]]
| [[File:Rider mud track 2.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=idk, some shit|Mud biking in Tannabiruk State Park]]
| [[File:Three camouflaged hunters on waterfowl.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=idk, some shit|Duck hunters in County Rodmîr]]
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As hunting and fishing are important subsistence, recreational, and cultural activities for a great many Knassanians, freshwater {{wp|sport fishing}}, archery, and shooting sports are also major fixtures of Knassanian culture.

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"Old Dominion" (Working title)
‣ New unified concept for Suderawjö & Scapa
‣ t. Urcea pro:
   Why aren’t Suderavia and Scapa a single dude
South Kilikas Federation or some shit
  ‣ Have them be some ur Coscivians and very early raider arrivals or some shit
  ‣ Not just a Kiravian colony but true Federacy
  ‣ the general idea was something like coscivian "North Oldlands Federation" which sits in the higher order of the kravian federalist classes; these people share a language isolate most similar to Great Kiravic Coscivians, over time making it clear to most people that they're descended from the same pre-iceberg proto-coscivian and thus are "Old" Coscivians or whatever. due to their geographic position managed to remain distinct from gothic and gaelic neighbors, though incorporating more """normal""" tendencies by cultural exchange from both. their distinctiveness only really became apparent when Kiravia became a major maritime power and trader and left isolation
  ‣ reuniting scapaand suderavia with great kiravia became early obsession, first proto-nationalist thing in region, and also very earliest example of kiravian thalassocracy. eventually local suderavian lord conquered scapa and defeated proto fanerians with kiravian assistance (medieval?) and established some sort of subordinate fief
  ‣ Should have a popular local party called the Anti-Levantine Union Party

East Kilikas Federacy

Bérasar Blue Helmets
CityBérasar, Fariva
LeagueBoreal Hockey League
ConferenceKirav
DivisionGrand Continental
Founded1918
1997 (current form)
Home arenaNecker-Calvin Bank Arena
ColoursDiplomatic blue      
Owner(s)Kiravia Terentius Latgālev
General managerKiravia Bruce MacLeòid
Head coachFaneria Exparte Milligan
Websitewww.hk-ávidurak.ml.kr

The East Kilikas Federacy (Érthikilikatix Rektārka), also known as the Redeemed Bailiwicks (Ādpasimdix Deneþurguya) is an overseas region of the Kiravian Federacy comprising the peninsular province of Suderavia and the island province of Scapa, both located along the northern coast of Levantia on the Kilikas Sea. The island of Wintergen, internationally recognised as an overseas province of Burgundie, is also part of the claimed territory of the East Kilikas Federacy. Along with Ilánova, with which it has strong historic ties, the lands of the Redeemed Bailiwicks are considered one of the cradles of Coscivian civilisation.

Geography

The East Kilikas Federacy comprises three discrete territorial units located in extreme northern Levantia, each of which is regarded as a province. Suderavia is a peninsula protruding from the Levantine mainland, sharing a land border with Covina at the Isthmus of Sarávak. Scapa is an island off the north coast of Faneria. Wintergen is located in the Archoibh Islands chain between its two sister islands, Lorem and Ipsum, which belong to Faneria. All parts of the East Kilikas Federacy, as their collective name suggests, are in or on the eastern Kilikas Sea.

Climatic conditions vary somewhat across the three dispersed territorial components of the EKF; however they can be broadly categorised as subpolar oceanic or, in bioclimatic terms, occupying positions on the spectrum between hemiboreal to mesoboreal thermotypes and humid to hyperhumid ombrotypes. In layman's terms, weather throughout the Federacy can be described as cold and miserable.

History

From prehistory up to the present day, Suderavia has been a nexus of the "Kilikas World" (Kilikafarax ékuviúl), a web of persistent and resilient networks of travel, transmission, and exchange linking the coasts of Faneria, Covina, Koskenkorva, Éorsa (Ilánova), and northeastern Great Kirav. A remote and marginal appendage of the Levantian continent though it is, Suderavia's role in this corner of the world has been nothing short of central.[citation needed]

Prehistory

Recently unearthed evidence demonstrates that the wanderings of the archæic homonin species Homo darudensis passed through modern Suderavia at one point, though the duration of its presence is still quite uncertain. Later, the 'Boreli Culture' H. neanderthalensis population would also extend into the Suderavian peninsula before their extinction circa 0.73 million years BC. The earliest anatomically and behaviourally modern human culture to leave a significant archæological mark on the Redeemed Bailiwick lands, specifically Suderavia, was an outlying branch of the Packer Culture, known among scholars as the 'Green Bay Packers' as the densest concentration of Packer artifacts in Suderavia is found around the Keremonta (Ænglish: "Green Bay"). Flint and bone tools fashioned in the Demomappic style recovered from the surrounding seabed attest to the first ventures of the direct ancestors of Great Kiravians into the vicinity, beginning what would prove to be a long history of this.

Around 6750 BC, during the Neolithic, maritime technology introduced to littoral Kiravia by the Ʒ-Q Culture facilitated a series of multidirectional, outbound seaborne migrations by the sophisticated megalith-building culture of Éorsa. Two westward waves or floes of migration carried the Austro-Kiravian and Trans-Kiravian languages to the Kiravian mainland. Migration by easterly routes during the same period appears to have carried a separate branch of the Trans-Kiravian languages back to the northwestern Levantian lands from whence their Ice Age ancestors had come thousands of years earlier, including Suderavia. In addition to their languages, these voyageurs brought with them a knack and propensity for megalithic ritual architecture, and other characteristic cultural adaptations - the rudiments of the proto-ethnic Coscivian identity. Thus begins the history of the Mainland Coscivians. Later in history, groups of Mainland Coscivians would migrate southward into other parts of Levantia, by sea or over the Isthmus of Sarávak, and would come to inhabit various other countries as settled minorities or itinerant peoples.

Connected to the Vandarch trade network via sheltered ports in Penthrav. This connexion remains significant even in modern times, and it began the process of South Levantine cultural influence on the Old Dominion that would continue over the successive centuries and leave a lasting impact.
At some point the trans-Kilikas trade networks break down and/and the RB regions also cease to have anything particularly valuable to offer for long-range trade, becoming very isolated.

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By this time, the Empire had long been little more than a symbolic legal fiction and the Emperor only a unifying figure in a broad cultural sense (albeit an important figure). There was nothing resembling a feeling of National solidarity between Kiravians and the people of the Old Dominions. Indeed, from an outside perspective, the denizens of these provinces were thought of in terms of local identities only, simply as quirky, isolated seaside peasants ekeing out a living on the fringes of the continent, mostly indistinct from their Fhainn and Covine neighbours.

This changed when...

Sunderance

Like most overseas provinces, Suderavia would remain loyal to the Federalist government during the Kiravian Civil War. Peasant life on the peninsula was harsh, to be sure, but feudalism had never truly taken root in the agriculturally marginal province. The hardy Suderavian husbandmen were attune to the cruelty and caprice of Nature and did not think themselves victims of injustice resoluble by political action. Suderavia did have a proletariat employed in the mining camps, port towns, and coaling stations, and there was indeed an active trade union movement, but historians believe that the unions in Suderavia had actually been generally successful in addressing workers' concerns to their satisfaction and without violent confrontation. To the Constitutional Convention of 1934 AD, Suderavia was alotted two seats, and returned one deputy off the Agrarian list and one off the Whiggamore list.

Suderavia's involvement with the Civil War was minimal until its closing stages as the major eastern ports fell one by one to the Red Army. Initially few (but some) refugees fleeing the mainland arrived on Keremonta's wharves, with most seeking haven on Ilánova or Koskenkorva instead. However, when these islands came under threat from the Socialist forces, Suderavia found itself taking in more and more refugees and playing host to considerable quantities of evacuated Federalist troops, ships, and matériel. With the eventual loss of Koskenkorva, Suderavia was left in an unenviable position: Far from the nearest Federalist stronghold (Eusa) across dangerous waters, far removed from the main body of Federalist forces who were then fighting on Great Kirav's west coast, and much farther still from the Federalist government-in-exile in Sirana. Thanks to the Wrecking of the Fleet by retreating Federalists, the Red Navy could not threaten Suderavia for the time being. However, Suderavia had been incontrovertibly left to fend for itself - and for nearby defenceless Scapa.

[TO BE CONITUED]

On September 9, 1936, Commodore Palteran III Leonoix, Prime Commissioner ("Commish") Kil Kamban of Suderavia, Chief Torcuil McRaven of Scapa, and Kormákur Bonîver - the town drunk of Karharrak and a fourth-generation descendant of Wintergen expellees chosen[by whom?] to represent Wintergen - signed the Karharrak Compact, which established the South Kilikas Federacy as a wartime provisional government to undertake and direct all activities necessary for defence of the three[1] provinces from external aggression in the absence of effective federal authority. The Compact was then ritually presented to a megalithic Emperor statue half-buried in the woods outside of town for approval.

In 1941, the Kiravian Remnant concluded an agreement with the Ardmori Republic to lease the land on two of the latter's islands for use as military airfields in order to help maintain flights to Suderavia and Scapa, reëstablishing a reliable logistical line between the South Kilikas Federacy and the Remnant.

[Suderavian Missile Crisis]

Once the Remnant acquired long-range/intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, it set some of those bad boys up on Suderavia and aimed them right at Kartika. The Kiravian Union was, in the words of People's Rocket Force Captain Karl Levi Åbvius, "not amused". This precipitated a deeply unsatisfying international passive-aggressive bitchfest in which no one got nuked in the end.

Post-Reunification

In the decades since Kiravian reunification, Suderavia's growth and development trajectory has been reliably positive. Unlike many (most) parts of the former Remnant, Suderavia did not experience an economic downturn as a result of reunification, as it had not really gained a position in the Remnant's internal market and production chains that it stood to lose, nor was its economy especially dependent on defence activities and expenditure.[2]

Driznaft: Kiravians in the Crusades

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‣ Melians and Sydona are key
‣ Need to coørdinate with Banglazesh
‣ t. Urcea pro:
 ‣ i think you're actually best positioned for crusades to naturally lead into kiravian empire abroad
   loose coscivians would be all over crusading
   coscivian crusader states everywhere
   the states continue to exist just sort of due to lack of opposition and inertia until ideas about like
   Great Coscivia and political unity of these places comes about later
   granted a crusader state surviving until the 17th century at earliest is a long time
   are there any analogous pre nationalism movements like this? would be worth researching
 ‣ the less fun but more plausible option ends up being like Coscivian noble families in these places keep dying out, causing more and more distant relations to be   
   more or less forced to assume them overseas while being increasingly more poor and irrelevant, such that you end up having prosperous Kiravians basically passing       up foreign thrones
   and in many cases they just end up being bequeathed to the kiravian state
   whch i think would bebest for the melians as the crusader state par excellence unless you have something in mind for them

‣ Some form of escheat where heirless lands and titles revert to His Marbliness

Kiravian crusaders came mainly from South Kirav, the Baylands, and Farravonia. [What polities controlled these lands during this period, and who ruled them/led or sponsored the Crusades from there?]

  1. But really just two
  2. In any event, no military installations in Suderavia faced closure after reunification.