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| '''Capital''' || [[Aldēmar]]
| '''Capital''' || [[Canova]]
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| '''Largest City''' || [[Valēka]]
| '''Largest City''' || [[Valēka]]
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| '''Population''' || 125,376,000
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| '''Chief Executive'''<br>  <small>''(Acting)''</small> || Marcus Árelius Irastonen (EXP)  
| '''Chief Executive'''<br>  <small>''(Acting)''</small> || Marcus Árelius Irastonen (EXP)  
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| '''Chancellor''' || Tarcisius A.D.V. Akriśenton (JDP)
| '''Chancellor''' || Tarcisius A.D.V. Akriśenton (JDP)
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| '''Legislature''' || Republican Assembly<br>
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| '''Official languages''' || [[Kiravic Coscivian|Kiravic]], Sedhan
| '''Official languages''' || [[Kiravic Coscivian|Kiravic]], [[Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian|Kilikas-Valēkas]]
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[[Category:Kiravian federal subjects]]
[[Category:Kiravian federal subjects]]


'''Kiygrava''', often referred to in Ænglish as '''the Kiygrava''' is the most populous state of the [[Kiravian Federacy]], located in the northeastern region of [[Great Kirav]]. Home to [[Valēka]], the Federacy's largest city and economic and cultural capital, Kiygrava has long been at the centre of Kiravian history, with its economic, political, and cultural influence stretching far through time and space. The Kiygrava rose to great prominence during the Viceregal period of Kiravian history, became a major node of the [[Kilikas Enlightenment]], and played a pivotal role in the [[Republican Revolution]]. It was the first area of Kirav to industrialise, and its merchants and mariners led the rise of Kiravia as a maritime and mercantile power.
'''Kaviska''' is the most populous state of the [[Kiravian Federacy]], located in the northeastern region of [[Great Kirav]]. Home to [[Valēka]], the Federacy's largest city and economic and cultural capital, Kaviska has long been at the centre of Kiravian history, with its economic, political, and cultural influence stretching far through time and space. Kaviska rose to great prominence during the Viceregal period of Kiravian history, became a major node of the [[Kilikas Enlightenment]], and played a pivotal role in the [[Republican Revolution]]. It was the first area of Kirav to industrialise, and its merchants and mariners led the rise of Kiravia as a maritime and mercantile power.


==History==
==History==
''Iaspara Peninsula''
''Iaspara Peninsula''


===Colonial Period===
===Imperial Era===
Emperor Iavorius II separated the office of Grand Admiral of Ixnay from that of Viceroy of Kiravia, and reorganised the Coscivian colonies in Great Kirav into several smaller viceroyalties. The reduced Viceroyalty of the Kiygrava originally extended from the northeast border of Hanoram to the southeast border of [[Harma]], with undefined boundaries to the north and west. The Viceroy was relieved of responsibility for relations with the Gaelic polities of the Far Northeast, while remaining responsible for the ground defence of the northern and western frontiers. In 20324, all lands south of the Bay of New Hope were assigned to the Viceroyalty of Middle Kiravia. Now more closely resembling its modern shape, Kiygrava now included the Dominion of Iaspara (centred on Valēka), the Dominion of Kanda (centred on Evira), the Dominon of Róvidrea, the Realm of Sedhedan, the Intendancy of the Upper Kiygrava, and 2-5 shifting military districts covering outlying highland and northern areas, with their sparse populations of Gaels, Aboriginals, and a few Sedhem Coscivian homesteaders.
Emperor Iavorius II separated the office of Grand Admiral of Ixnay from that of Viceroy of Kiravia, and reorganised the Coscivian colonies in Great Kirav into several smaller viceroyalties. The reduced Viceroyalty of the Kaviska originally extended from the northeast border of Hanoram to the southeast border of [[Harma]], with undefined boundaries to the north and west. The Viceroy was relieved of responsibility for relations with the Gaelic polities of the Far Northeast, while remaining responsible for the ground defence of the northern and western frontiers. In 20324, all lands south of the Bay of New Hope were assigned to the Viceroyalty of Middle Kiravia. Now more closely resembling its modern shape, Kaviska now included the Dominion of Iaspara (centred on Valēka), the Dominion of Kanda (centred on Evira), the Dominon of Róvidrea, the Realm of Sedhedan, the Intendancy of the Upper Kaviska, and 2-5 shifting military districts covering outlying highland and northern areas, with their sparse populations of Gaels, Urom, and a few Sedhem Coscivian homesteaders.


===Viceregal Period and the United Provinces===
===Viceregal Period and the United Provinces===
During the Viceregal Period, the Viceroyalty of the Kiygrava and Dominion of Ventarya were the two most powerful Coscivian polities in Great Kirav, more or less evenly matched in terms of population, wealth, and clout. However, the Viceroys of the Kiyrgava struggled to assert their authority against the various subregional assemblies outside of the Kiygrava Valley, and to defend their disputed territorial claims in the Iravokan region, [[Serikorda]], Íarthakelva, and elsewhere against breakaway frontier republics and settlers from neighbouring Coscivian and Gaelic states.
During the Viceregal Period, the Viceroyalty of the Kyigrava and Dominion of Ventarya were the two most powerful Coscivian polities in Great Kirav, more or less evenly matched in terms of population, wealth, and clout. However, the Viceroys of the Kiyrgava struggled to assert their authority against the various subregional assemblies outside of the Kyigrava Valley, and to defend their disputed territorial claims in the Iravokan region, [[Serikorda]], Íarthakelva, and elsewhere against breakaway frontier republics and settlers from neighbouring Coscivian and Gaelic states.


From [decade] until the Republican Revolution, Kiygrava and Niyaska were in a state of {{wp|personal union}}. In the [decade], the Viceroyalties of Kiygrava, Niyaska, and New Korsa (modern-day Etivéra and [[Váuadra]]), formed a military alliance and loose political union called the United Provinces to counter the influence of Ventarya and expand past the Aterandic Mountains into modern-day Hiterna and Kastera.
From [decade] until the Republican Revolution, Kaviska and Niyaska were in a state of {{wp|personal union}}. In the [decade], the Viceroyalties of the Kyigrava, Niyaska, and New Korsa (modern-day Etivéra and [[Váuadra]]), formed a military alliance and loose political union called the United Provinces to counter the influence of Ventarya and expand past the Aterandic Mountains into modern-day Hiterna and Kastera.


Valēka-based intellectuals took part in the [[Kilikas Enlightenment]]. This movement, which began in Kiygrava, spread among the educated classes of the eastern Kiravian port cities, and brought renewed interest in the {{wp|Renaissance humanism|humanist}} arts and sciences, and new developments in political philosophy. Notable among these was the work of Kálastuv Vindarin, whose writings revisited the Shaftonist concept of ''kéarita'' (usually translated as "republic", though not entirely congruent in meaning with the Western term), which provided much of the ideological foundation for the Republican Revolution.
Valēka-based intellectuals took part in the [[Kilikas Enlightenment]]. This movement, which began in Kaviska, spread among the educated classes of the eastern Kiravian port cities, and brought renewed interest in the {{wp|Renaissance humanism|humanist}} arts and sciences, and new developments in political philosophy. Notable among these was the work of Kálastuv Vindarin, whose writings revisited the Shaftonist concept of ''kéarita'' (usually translated as "republic", though not entirely congruent in meaning with the Western term), which provided much of the ideological foundation for the Republican Revolution.


===Confederal Period===
===Confederal Period===
West Valēka gradually came to the fore as the ''de facto'' administrative capital of the Confederate Republics. Although the [[Federal Stanora|Confederal Stanora]] in its early form convened for its biannual sessions on the [[Hanoram]] riverbank that would later become [[Kartika]], that area's lack of infrastructure led to most government agencies being located in West Valēka. The Stanora itself moved to West Valēka after becoming a permanent body.
West Valēka gradually came to the fore as the ''de facto'' administrative capital of the Confederate Republics. Although the [[Federal Stanora|Confederal Stanora]] in its early form convened for its biannual sessions on the [[Hanoram]] riverbank that would later become [[Kartika]], that area's lack of infrastructure led to most government agencies being located in West Valēka. The Stanora itself moved to West Valēka after becoming a permanent body.
   
   
During the mid-confederal period, proto-industrialising Kiygrava came to surpass Ventarya in population and economic output. Along with Etivéra and Kastera, it became the main desination for Coscivian immigrants, who saw little opportunity in Ventarya and the other states of South Kirav and Míhanska Bay, which offered few opportunities for land ownership and relied heavily on indentured labour. Although Eriadun was the largest city in the Confederate Republics of Kiravia for much of its existence, Valēka remained unchallenged as its commercial and cultural capital.
During the mid-confederal period, proto-industrialising Kaviska came to surpass Ventarya in population and economic output. Along with Etivéra and Kastera, it became the main desination for Coscivian immigrants, who saw little opportunity in Ventarya and the other states of South Kirav and Míhanska Bay, which offered few opportunities for land ownership and relied heavily on indentured labour. Although Eriadun was the largest city in the Confederate Republics of Kiravia for much of its existence, Valēka remained unchallenged as its commercial and cultural capital.
 
===Federal Period===
 
===Socialist Period===
Under the unitary state framework of the [[Kiravian Union]], Kaviska became the Kaviska Region. The Svéaran Peninsula was detached from the Kaviska Region and merged with the former state of Bissáv to form the Kohokas Region, and the Ispahar Peninsula was detached to form the Kiygrava Region. Valēka was further separated from Kiygrava Region, becoming a directly-administered Union Municipality.
 
===Post-Reunification===
The Articles of Reunification agreed to by the Kiravian Remnant, Kiravian Union, and state governments (both free and exiled) affirmed that pre-Sunderance provincial boundaries would be restored, but required the restored federal and provincial governments to "enact such affirmative measures as necessary to preserve the special status of autonomous territorial units." The Reunification Council held that this clause did not apply to the areas partitioned from Kaviska, and that reïntegration of Svéara, Ispahar, and Valēka into Kaviska State would be automatic. Nonetheless, in the democratic spirit of the time, the restored Kaviska legislature presented the two peninsular regions with a referendum with two options: 1. Begin a process to seek admission to the Federacy as a separate state with the consent of the Kaviskan legislature and Federal Stanora; and 2. Remain part of Kaviska and commence a process to [the other thing]. The results were 78% Remain to 20% Leave in Ispahar and 63% Remain to 34% Leave in Svéara. There number of invalid ballots was unusually high. In Valēka, where the Kaviskan administration was not confident in a clear result for Remain, a different referendum was presented, with three options: Leave, Remain, and Neither.


==Geography==
==Geography==
[[File:Chicago Skyline from John Hancock 96th floor.jpg|thumb|Valēka, the largest city in Kiygrava and all of Kiravia]]
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Kiygrava occupies a roughly wedge-shaped territory in the Kiravian Northeast. It borders the states of [[Livella]] and [[Eredlina]] to the east, the Íravokan Sea (a margin of the [[Kilikas Sea]]) to the north, the Aquaric Ocean to the southeast (sharing maritime boundaries with [[Niyaska]] and [[Etivéra]]) , and [[Arkvera]] to the west. The Kiygrava River, for which the state is named, is fed by mountain springs just north of the state's geographic centre, and flows toward the southeast through the Kiygrava River Valley, ultimately bisecting the Iyaspala Peninsula before emptying into the Aquaric Ocean at Valëka.
[[File:Night in Shinjuku 2013-11-05.jpg|thumb|Valēka, the largest city in Kaviska and all of Kiravia]]
[[File:Ithaca, NY 01.jpg|thumb|Temperate mixed forests cover most of Kiygrava]]
<strike>Kaviska occupies a roughly wedge-shaped territory in the Kiravian Northeast. It borders the states of [[Livella]] and [[Eredlina]] to the east, the Íravokan Sea (a margin of the [[Kilikas Sea]]) to the north, the Aquaric Ocean to the southeast (sharing maritime boundaries with [[Niyaska]] and [[Etivéra]]) , and [[Arkvera]] to the west. The Kaviska River, for which the state is named, is fed by mountain springs just north of the state's geographic centre, and flows toward the southeast through the Kyigrava River Valley, ultimately bisecting the Iyaspala Peninsula before emptying into the Aquaric Ocean at Valëka.</strike>
The state is quasi-officially divided into five geographic and economic regions: the Estuary-Insular region or Lower Kiygrava (comprising the Valēka metropolitan area), Upper Kiygrava (the northern Iyaspala peninsula and the heavily-populated Kiygrava River Valley), Northern Kiygrava (encompassing the area between the source of the Kiygrava River and the Íravokan coast), and Aterandic Kiygrava (the mountainous regions on either side of the River Valley). Lower Kiygrava is heavily urbanised and highly developed, owing to the concentric rings of sattelite cities and suburbs radiating outward from Valēka, though areas of the northern shore of the Iyaspala peninsula and the outer islands are more exurban. Though less extensively developed than Lower Kiygrava, Upper Kiygrava is characterised by exurban and rural areas of smallholds, poultry farms, and dairies, punctuated by medium-sized industrial cities such as Traur, Xéuleva, and Evira. Moving northward along the Kiygrava River, the cities give way to large towns and finally to smaller towns of 1-5,000 people, with the state capital of Alëdmar (population 212,000) being by far the largest city in the region.
[[File:Ithaca, NY 01.jpg|thumb|Temperate mixed forests cover most of Kaviska]]
[[File:Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid Airport.JPG|thumb|Mt. Karáuna, Upper Kiygrava]]
<strike>The state is quasi-officially divided into five geographic and economic regions: the Estuary-Insular region or Lower Kaviska (''Yanxékiygrava'') (comprising the Valēka metropolitan area), Upper Kaviska (''Ixtékiygrava'') (the northern Iyaspala peninsula and the heavily-populated Kaviska River Valley), Northern Kaviska (''TuśkaKaviska'') (encompassing the area between the source of the Kyigrava River and the Íravokan coast), and (''NáriKaviska'') Aterandic Kaviska (the mountainous regions on either side of the River Valley). Lower Kaviska is heavily urbanised and highly developed, owing to the concentric rings of sattelite cities and suburbs radiating outward from Valēka, though areas of the northern shore of the Iyaspala peninsula and the outer islands are more exurban. Though less extensively developed than Lower Kaviska, Upper Kaviska is characterised by exurban and rural areas of smallholds, poultry farms, and dairies, punctuated by medium-sized industrial cities such as Traur, Xéuleva, and Evira. Moving northward along the Kyigrava River, the cities give way to large towns and finally to smaller towns of 1-5,000 people, with the state capital of Alëdmar (population 212,000) being by far the largest city in the region.</strike>
While Lower Kiygrava and the southern portions of Upper Kiygrava are ethnically diverse, Northern Kiygrava and the northern reaches of Upper Kiygrava have remained predominantly Sedhem since colonisation. Though there is some industry in Northern Kiygrava, concentrated along the Íravokan coast, the hilly uplands are more agrarian and markedly less populated than either the estuary or river valley. Still, the region is more densely populated than the Aterandic mountain areas, which are home to small, scattered hamlets and isolated dwellings inhabited by Sedhem and Kiravite Aboriginals.
[[File:Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid Airport.JPG|thumb|Mt. Karáuna, Upper Kaviska]]
<strike>While Lower Kaviska and the southern portions of Upper Kaviska are ethnically diverse, Northern Kaviska and the northern reaches of Upper Kaviska have remained predominantly Sedhem since colonisation. Though there is some industry in Northern Kaviska, concentrated along the Íravokan coast, the hilly uplands are more agrarian and markedly less populated than either the estuary or river valley. Still, the region is more densely populated than the Aterandic mountain areas, which are home to small, scattered hamlets and isolated dwellings inhabited by Sedhem and Kiravite Urom.</strike>


Temperate mixed forests historically covered most of the state's area, owing to a Laurentian climate. However, moving north and west, the vegetation becomes more hemiboreal-coniferous in accordance with a gradual transition towards a Köppen Dfb continental climate. Forests in the Aterandic highlands also become more coniferous as altitude increases.
Most of Kaviska has a supratemperate, humid continental climate, moderated by the influence of the East Sea. The more northerly cantons, such as Kanda, Duniver-Kinnírēdan, and Svéara, have a {{wp|hemiboreal}} climate, and some mountainous areas in the northern and western parts of the state experience an orotemperate climate. Winters are harsh, but less so than in inland states of comparable latitude, and the Aterandic Mountains help to shield most of Kaviska from the {{wp|lake-effect snow}} fomented by the [[Fresh Seas]] to its west.


Most of Kiygrava has a supratemperate continental climate, moderated by oceanic influences, with some mountains in the northern and western part sof the state having an orotemperate climate.
Temperate mixed forests are the predominant pattern of native vegetation in Kaviska and covered most of the state's area until the late mediæval period, appropriate to its Laurentine climate. Moving northward and upward (altitudinally), the coniferous component of the species mix progressively increases as bioclimatic conditions shift toward the hemiboreal and orotemperate. Before the early modern era, the landscape of the Kaviskan lowlands was mostly a field-forest-wetland mosaic similar to that of the Kirish Plain (North Kiravian Plain) and [[Sēora]], albeit punctuated by fewer glacial lakes. Beginning in the 17th century AD and peaking in the late 19th, Kaviska underwent major {{wp|deforestation}} and {{wp|wetland loss}} as industrialisation and urbanisation drove up demand for wood and peat, and the introduction of {{wp|guano}} fertilisers enabled the agrarian sector to pursue {{wp|extensive growth}} by bringing previously inarable land under cultivation, clearing woodland and draining wetland in the process. By 1912 AD only a few discontinuous pockets of the traditional landscape remained (mostly in Duniver-Kinnírēdan), with most of the lowlands converted to arable cropland and open wool and dairy pasture, interspersed with much smaller zones of new-growth forest. Since reunification, there have been moderately successful initiatives to restore and conserve the state's terrestrial ecology as part of broader national land rehabilitation/reclamation policies intended to mitigate the environmental impact of Kirosocialism on Great Kirav. Incentive programmes encouraging {{wp|reforestation}}, {{wp|silvopasture|silvopastoralism}}, and {{wp|agroforestry}} have significantly increased the state's forest cover, as has the passive rewilding of former smallholds due to agrarian contraction. Over the same period, however, the landscape of Kaviska has also been transformed by extensive suburban development radiating outward from its major cities into previously agricultural tracts, inviting a new suite of conservation concerns.


==Government==
==Government==
[[File:Vancouver school of theology (UBC-2009).JPG|thumb|Cabinet Secretariat building in Aldēmar]]
[[File:Vancouver school of theology (UBC-2009).JPG|thumb|Cabinet Secretariat building in Aldēmar]]
The State of Kiygrava is a constitutional republic with a tricameral legislature <strike>known as the Republican Assembly. The lowest house of the Assembly, known as the Assembly of Delegates, is elected at-large by proportional representation, while the middle house (Legislative Congress) is elected by single-transferrable vote from municipal constituencies and twelve arbitrary electoral districts covering unincorporated areas, and the upper house (Council of State) comprises one Councillor for each countyship, regardless of population, elected by plurality vote.</strike>
The Commonwealth of Kaviska is a {{wp|crowned republic}} with a tripartite legislative process and an independent executive led by an elected Governor.
 
The purpose of this uorthodox arrangement derives from the divergent interests and uneven population spread among Kiygrava's geographic regions and the special constitutional status of the Sedhan ethnic group.<sup>''(unclear if still canon)''</sup>


===Political Landscape===
===Political Landscape===
While Kiygrava's voting habits in federal elections have become rather consistent (see below), its internal politics are rather competitive, reflecting the interests of a large and diverse population. The State Electoral Commission reports that the state has 24 registered parties, 20 of which have won at least one seat in any chamber of the Republican Assembly during the past decade. There are currently fifteen parties represented in the Legislative Congress and Council of State. Since the end of Kirosocialism, the major contenders in Kiygravan politics have been the Civic Institutional Party (centrist), the Democratic-Republican Party (Third Way, Christian left), and the Renewal Party (succeeded by the Excelsior and Justice & Development parties since 21193). These major parties typically rely on the support of smaller parties, many of which represent communal, sectional, or local interests, to form majorities and pass legislation. The Civic Institutional Party dominated Kiygravan politics in the decades leading up to Kirosocialism, and though it remained the second-largest party thereafter, it was generally unwilling and unable to serve as a meaningful opposition to the Socialist Party. The Renewal Party, which, led by [[Andrus Candrin]], defeated the Kirosocialists in the gubernatorial election of 21183, remained similarly dominant for another decade, before disputes over leadership caused it to splinter into five successor parties in 21193.  
<!-- The Renewal Party, which, led by [[Andrus Candrin]], defeated the Kirosocialists in the gubernatorial election of 21183, remained similarly dominant for another decade, before disputes over leadership caused it to splinter into five successor parties in 21193.  


In Kiygravan politics, personality and sectional interests are typically more important than ideology. Many voters have strong loyalties to individual politicians or cliques, and will follow them even as they switch parties and platforms. Parties both large and small devote much of their efforts to securing the loyalty of particular ethnosocial, occupational, and geographic communities, and constituencies are often won and lost by shifting one or two key voter blocs. Members of the Lusem Coscivian ethnic group, for example, are highly loyal to the DRP, and the ''sirētur'' class of exurban and {{wp|Periurban|periurban}} investor-farmers (''see [[Kiygrava#Economy|Economy]]'') have their interests represented by the Caritist Democratic Union. Since its 21193 schism, the rump Renewal Party has survived by cultivating the loyalty of [[Ensciryan Coscivians]], Fiannrian-Kiravians, and residents of central Tanðurin Island in Valēka. The city of Valēka itself has a two-party system controlled by the Azure Civic Union and Emerald Civic Alliance, whose respective voter bases largely correspond to the fanbases of the city's two Federal Fieldball League teams, the Valēka Emperors and Valēka Metropolitans. Kiygravan cities outside the Valēka commuter belt often play the major parties off one another to obtain the best policy considerations for their areas. Ēvira and its environs have formed a party of their own, the Civil Union Party, dedicated to promoting the region's interests.
In Kaviskan politics, personality and sectional interests are typically more important than ideology. Many voters have strong loyalties to individual politicians or cliques, and will follow them even as they switch parties and platforms. Parties both large and small devote much of their efforts to securing the loyalty of particular ethnosocial, occupational, and geographic communities, and constituencies are often won and lost by shifting one or two key voter blocs. Members of the Lusem Coscivian ethnic group, for example, are highly loyal to the DRP, and the ''sirētur'' class of exurban and {{wp|Periurban|periurban}} investor-farmers (''see [[Kaviska#Economy|Economy]]'') have their interests represented by the Caritist Democratic Union. Since its 21193 schism, the rump Renewal Party has survived by cultivating the loyalty of [[Ensciryan Coscivians]], Fiannrian-Kiravians, and residents of central Tanðurin Island in Valēka. The city of Valēka itself has a two-party system controlled by the Azure Civic Union and Emerald Civic Alliance, whose respective voter bases largely correspond to the fanbases of the city's two Federal Fieldball League teams, the Valēka Emperors and Valēka Metropolitans. Kaviskan cities outside the Valēka commuter belt often play the major parties off one another to obtain the best policy considerations for their areas. Ēvira and its environs have formed a party of their own, the Civil Union Party, dedicated to promoting the region's interests. -->


===Federal Politics===
===Federal Politics===
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As the Federacy's leading economic engine, international port of entry, and financial centre, Kiygrava is a stronghold for the pro-business, ordoliberal [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]]. The leading parties in the Republican Assembly are affiliated with the Shaftonist-Republicans on the Federal level, reflecting Kiygravan political culture's strong affinity towards free enterprise, public institutions, and political moderation capable of accommodating people of diverse views and backgrounds.
As the Federacy's leading economic engine, international port of entry, and financial centre, Kaviska is a stronghold for the pro-business, ordoliberal [[Federalist Republican Alliance]]. The leading parties in the Republican Assembly are affiliated with the Shaftonist-Republicans on the Federal level, reflecting Kaviskan political culture's strong affinity towards free enterprise, public institutions, and political moderation capable of accommodating people of diverse views and backgrounds.


As the most populous state, Kiygrava holds the largest number of {{wp|electoral vote|electoral votes}}, and has often been a critical battleground in elections to the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy|Prime Executure]]. In the 21200 Prime Executive election, Kiygrava native and former Governor [[Andrus Candrin]] won Kiygrava with 67% of the vote.
As the most populous state, Kaviska holds the largest number of {{wp|electoral vote|electoral votes}}, and has often been a critical battleground in elections to the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy|Prime Executure]]. In the 21200 Prime Executive election, Kaviska native and former Governor [[Andrus Candrin]] won Kaviska with 67% of the vote.


===Local Government===
===Local Government===
As with most northeastern states, the majority (88%) of Kiygravans live in an incorporated municipality of some sort. Five classes of municipalities exist in the state: Grand City, City, Town, Township, and Hamlet. While hamlets and (to a lesser degree) townships are less autonomous vis-à-vis countyships than cities or towns, the classes are differentiated primarily by the internal structure of their governments. Countyships have less legislative power in Kiygrava than in most states and are primarily responsible for providing public services, such as utilities, libraries, vocational schools, prisons, and tertiary roads. Education, land-use regulation, and community services (e.g. parks) are largely the domain of municipalities, and municipalities wield comparatively strong legislative and revenue powers.
As with most northeastern states, the majority (88%) of Kaviskans live in an incorporated municipality of some sort. Five classes of municipalities exist in the state: Grand City, City, Town, Township, and Hamlet. While hamlets and (to a lesser degree) townships are less autonomous vis-à-vis countyships than cities or towns, the classes are differentiated primarily by the internal structure of their governments. Countyships have less legislative power in Kaviska than in most states and are primarily responsible for providing public services, such as utilities, libraries, vocational schools, prisons, and tertiary roads. Education, land-use regulation, and community services (e.g. parks) are largely the domain of municipalities, and municipalities wield comparatively strong legislative and revenue powers.


Local elections are nonpartisan in all Kiygravan municipalities except for the Grand City of Valēka, which operates under a two-party system.
Local elections are nonpartisan in all Kaviskan municipalities except for the Grand City of Valēka, which operates under a two-party system.


===Law===
===Law===
Kiygravan law is derived from the law of the Coscivian Empire, and has been influenced by Sedhan {{wp|customary law}} (especially in property law) and by [[Burgundie|Burgundine]] commercial law.  
Kaviskan law is derived from the law of the Coscivian Empire, and has been influenced by Sedhan {{wp|customary law}} (especially in property law) and by [[Burgundie|Burgundine]] commercial law.  


Four appellate courts, the Xéuleva High Court, the Evira High Court, the Ruastron High Court, and the Aldēmar High Court. Capital Court of the Republic (state supreme court). Kiygrava's state court system is the busiest and most expensive in the entire federation, and is known for its experienced judges and extremely competitive legal profession. More attorneys are licensed to practice law in Kiygrava than in any other federal subject, but the state's bar examinations and professional regulations are notoriously difficult.  
Four appellate courts, the Xéuleva High Court, the Evira High Court, the Ruastron High Court, and the Aldēmar High Court. Capital Court of the Republic (state supreme court). Kaviska's judiciary is the busiest and most expensive in the entire federation, and is known for its experienced judges and extremely competitive legal profession. More attorneys are licensed to practice law in Kaviska than in any other province, but the state's bar examinations and professional regulations are notoriously difficult.  


[Insert outline of some actual laws here]
[Insert outline of some actual laws here]
Kaviska has an actively enforced {{wp|seatbelt laws|seatbelt law}}. It requires vehicle registration plates on both the fore and aft of four-wheeled motor vehicles, and on the aft of two-wheeled motor vehicles.


==Economy==
==Economy==
[[File:People's Bank of China.jpg|thumb|Reserve Bank of Kirav, West Valēka]]
[[File:People's Bank of China.jpg|thumb|Reserve Bank of Kirav, West Valēka]]
Kiygrava has the largest economy of any Kiravian Federal subject, and contributes over 15% of the Federacy's total GDP. The Kiygravan economy is extremely advanced and highly diversified, with major sectors including finance, manufacturing, biotechnology, information technology, international trade, insurance, publishing and media, consulting, land development, retail, agriculture, and tourism. Many of the nation's key economic and financial institutions ate based in the state, including the Federal Reserve Bank (the Kiravian central bank), Valēka Stock Exchange, and all five Kiravian credit rating bureaux.
Kaviska has the largest economy of any Kiravian Federal subject, and contributes over 15% of the Federacy's total GDP. The Kaviskan economy is extremely advanced and highly diversified, with major sectors including finance, manufacturing, biotechnology, information technology, international trade, insurance, publishing and media, consulting, land development, retail, agriculture, and tourism. Many of the nation's key economic and financial institutions ate based in the state, including the Federal Reserve Bank (the Kiravian central bank), Valēka Stock Exchange, and all five Kiravian credit rating bureaux.


Major business concerns operating out of Kiygrava include
Major business concerns operating out of Kaviska include
*Alterion Group (investment banking, Valēka)
*Alterion Group (investment banking, Valēka)
*Imperial Bank of Kiygrava (banking, Valēka)
*Imperial Bank of Kaviska (banking, Valēka)
*Konterra ÁLO (investment banking, Valēka)
*Konterra ÁLO (investment banking, Valēka)
*ÁLO Dókáreum (oil, gas, and petrochemicals; Valēka)
*ÁLO Dókáreum (oil, gas, and petrochemicals; Valēka)
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*Macrhéa-Marín Computing (information technology, Esdrasar)
*Macrhéa-Marín Computing (information technology, Esdrasar)


As with the other Mid-Oceanic states, an important component of the Kiygravan middle class is the ''sirēvturya'' class of investor-farmers. The ''sirēturya'' are small- and meadium-scale landowning farmers who continue to live on and cultivate their ancestral holdings but now derive most of their income from investments. The investor-farmer class first emerged during the later viceregal period (20670-20710) with the growth of the Kilikas Sea trading network. Valēka-based merchants looked to the farmers of Lower Kiygrava and Raxinidan Island as investors in their mercantile enterprises. The ''sirēturya'' experienced a resurgence after Kirosocialism with the implementation of ordoliberal "Clarendonomics" policies that encouraged savings and small-and-medium enterprises. As multigenerational landowners, the ''sirēturya'' had weathered the Kirosocialist economic collapse better than the urban population, and were better disposed than most other Kiravian households to invest in capital markets.
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===Economic History===
[Imperial Era]<br>
[The Canal]<br>
[Age of the Sail]<br>
[Industrial Revolution]<br>
====Market Transition====
Kaviska was uniquely well-positioned to prosper from the end of Kirosocialism and consequent transition toward a market economy. The legal groundwork for Kaviska's market-driven economic reconstruction was already being laid before Kiravian Unification by the exiled state legislature, which enacted the [[Index of Kiravian Legislation#Provincial|Securities Exchange Act]] and related statutes to ensure that Kaviska had a well-crafted, modern regulatory framework in place to enable Valēka to retake its place at the head of the Mainland financial industry.
 
Other events also happened during this period that are worth describing.
 
===Agriculture===
Despite the urban and semiurban character of much of the state, Kaviska has a fairly vibrant and productive agricultural sector. The main crops are potato, rye, Coscivian cuckwheat, rapeseed, and cruciferous vegetables.


==Society & Culture==
==Society & Culture==
Due to its large, extremely diverse population and central economic position in the federation, Kiygrava has come to be regarded as a fountainhead of Kiravian and Coscivian culture. The southern and eastern portions of the state are the heartland of the Northeastern cultural region of great Kirav, which extends into neighbouring [[Niyaska]], [[Róvidrea]], and [[Etivéra]]. Centred on the [[Valēka|Valēka Metropolitan Area]], this region is home to its own distinctive [[Kiravic Coscivian#Dialects|Kiravic dialect]], customs, cuisine, and cultural ethos influenced by the numerous Coscivian ethnic cultures that have settled there over the centuries. This region often acts as the cultural "face" of Kiravia abroad, from which foreign perceptions of Kiravia and Kiravians tend to be generalised.
Due to its large, extremely diverse population and central economic position in the federation, Kaviska has come to be regarded as a fountainhead of Kiravian and Coscivian culture. The southern and eastern portions of the state are the heartland of the Northeastern cultural region of great Kirav, which extends into neighbouring [[Niyaska]] and [[Etivéra]]. Centred on the [[Valēka|Valēka Metropolitan Area]], this region is home to its own distinctive [[Kiravic Coscivian#Dialects|Kiravic dialect]], customs, cuisine, and cultural ethos influenced by the numerous Coscivian ethnic cultures that have settled there over the centuries. This region often acts as the cultural "face" of Kiravia abroad, from which foreign perceptions of Kiravia and Kiravians tend to be generalised.


More inland and upland regions of the state preserve a more traditional, rural culture dominated by the [[Sedhan Coscivians|Sedhan Coscivian]] ethnic group, while some communities in the Aterandic Mountains are better placed in the Eastern Highlands cultural region.
More inland and upland regions of the state preserve a more traditional, rural culture dominated by the [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Sedhan Coscivians|Sedhan Coscivian]] ethnic group, while some communities in the Aterandic Mountains are better placed in the Eastern Highlands cultural region.


===Ethnic Groups===
===Ethnic Groups===
Paisonic Coscivians are the largest single ethnic group in Kiygrava, followed by Sedhan Coscivians, [[Ensciryan Coscivians|Æran Coscivians]], [[Taństem Coscivians]], and Gaels, but the state is home to members of virtually every Coscivian ethnic group, as well as many non-Coscivian peoples, ranging from Gaels to [[Azikorians]] to the indigenous Tapkek.
Paisonic Coscivians are the largest single ethnic group in Kaviska, followed by [[Kir people]], [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Sedhan Coscivians|Sedhan Coscivians]], [[Ensciryan Coscivians|Æran Coscivians]], [[Eshavian Coscivians|Eshavian Coscivians]], and Gaels, but the state is home to members of virtually every Coscivian ethnic group, as well as many non-Coscivian peoples, ranging from Gaels to [[Azikorians]] to the indigenous Tapkek.


There are two socially distinct populations of [[Taństan Coscivians]] in Kiygrava: The Green Taństans, who have deeper roots in Kiygrava, usually pre-Kirosocialist, and the Blue Taństans, who are the product of more recent waves of migration from the Northeastern states and elsewhere. The two groups are so named for their alignment in [[Intracity Sporting Rivalry in Valēka|Valēka's intracity sporting rivalry]]: older Taństan families in Valēka mostly support the Valēka Metropolitans (who wear green uniforms), while newer arrivals mostly support the Valēka Emperors or the Béyasar Blues (both of whom wear blue uniforms).   
Traditionally a Kir-majority state, large-scale migration from elsewhere in Kiravia and abroad since industrialisation has given modern Kaviska a highly multiethnic character. Many Kaviskans today are described (or describe themselves) as ''Úramdikir'' (roughly "hyphenated Kir") who speak Kiravic as their mother tongue and live in a primarily Kirish cultural context but also owe ancestry and affinity to other (mostly Coscivian) ethnic groups. Numerous (mostly perjorative) terms exist for the converse phenomenon of upwardly-mobile people who identify affirmatively as non-Kir but use Kiravic as their main language and do not live in a compact ethnic community.
 
There are two socially distinct populations of [[Eshavian Coscivians]] in Kaviska: The Green Eshavians, who have deeper roots in Kaviska, usually pre-Kirosocialist, and the Blue Eshavians, who are the product of more recent waves of migration from the Northeastern states and elsewhere. The two groups are so named for their alignment in [[Intracity Sporting Rivalry in Valēka|Valēka's intracity sporting rivalry]]: older Eshavian families in Valēka mostly support the Valēka Metropolitans (who wear green uniforms), while newer arrivals mostly support the Valēka Emperors or the Bérasar Blues (both of whom wear blue uniforms).   


Cosco-Ciattomi, Cosco-Yetruenes, Castics
Cosco-Ciattomi, Cosco-Yetruenes, Castics
====Immigration====
====Immigration====
Because it contains the Federacy's economic capital and primary port, Kiygrava has long been a gateway for immigration to Great Kirav.  
Because it contains the Federacy's economic capital and primary port, Kaviska has long been a gateway for immigration to Great Kirav.  


The main cities where immigrants have settled in post-Kirosocialist times have been Valēka, [B], [C], and [D]. The largest post-Kirosocialist immigrant groups have been Alkharvis, Slakoscivians, Kulukusi refugees from Varshan, [[St. Kennera|St. Kenneran]] and [[Pribraltar|Pribraltarian]] Coscivians during their islands' independence struggle, Echoese, Beryllians, and {probably Cartadanians n' Kommenorenes n' stuff}.
The main cities where immigrants have settled in post-Kirosocialist times have been Valēka, [B], [C], and [D]. The largest post-Kirosocialist immigrant groups have been Azikorians, [[Sydona#Ethnic_groups|Thrakoscivians]], Kulukusi refugees from Varshan, [[St. Kennera|St. Kenneran]] and [[Pribraltar|Pribraltarian]] Coscivians during their islands' independence struggle, Echoese, Beryllians, and {probably Cartadanians n' Kommenorenes n' stuff}.


===Language===
===Language===
The official and primary language of Kiygrava is [[Kiravic Coscivian]]. There are several traditional areal variants and dialects of Kiravic native to the Kiygrava, including Róvidrean Kiravic (spoken in Róvidrea), Estuary Kiravic (spoken on the lower Iaspara Peninsula and the South Bank), [Eviran Kiravic], and Svéaran Kiravic (spoken on the Svéa Peninsula and influenced heavily by Taństan Coscivian). In addition to these areal dialects, newer local dialects have developed in the state's larger cities since industrialisation, often quite distinct from the dialect of the surrounding countryside. Due to the eclectic mix of ethno-linguistic groups in the largest cities and strong neighbourhood effects, the population of Valēka and [other city] exhibit a diverse array of speech patterns, including many accents and sociolects identifiable with a certain part of the city or a particular social group.
The primary and first official language of Kaviska is [[Kiravic Coscivian]]. There are several traditional areal variants and dialects of Kiravic native to Kaviska, including Róvidrean Kiravic (spoken in Róvidrea), Estuary Kiravic (spoken on the lower Iaspara Peninsula and the South Bank), Kandan Kiravic (in the environs of Evira), and Svéaran Kiravic (spoken on the Svéa Peninsula and influenced heavily by Eshavian Coscivian). In addition to these areal dialects, newer local dialects have developed in the state's larger cities since industrialisation, often quite distinct from the dialect of the surrounding countryside. Due to the eclectic mix of ethno-linguistic groups in the largest cities and strong neighbourhood effects, the population of Valēka and [other city] exhibit a diverse array of speech patterns, including many accents and sociolects identifiable with a certain part of the city or a particular social group.
 
[[Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian]], which is spoken by the Sedhans, Kerēgulans, and a few smaller Coscivian ethnic groups, also has official status in the state. In localities where its speakers predominate, Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian is the primary language of public administration, and other communities where Kilikas-Valēkas speakers are a substantial minority (≥25% of the enumerated population) are obliged by state law to provide bilingual services and facilities.
 
According to the Census Bureau, all Cosco-Adratic and Elutic languages with at least 10,000 speakers in the Federacy had at least one speaker recorded as living in Kaviska on the AD 2010 census, reflecting the scale of internal migration to Kaviska (mainly the Valēka metroplex) from the rest of Kirav. Excluding Kiravic and Kilikas-Valēkas, the languages with the most speakers in Kaviska are Paisonic Coscivian, Ensciryan Coscivian, Gaelic, Antaric Coscivian, Erasan Coscivian, Eshavian Coscivian, Ibarran Coscivian, Lusonic, Síkutran Coscivian, Siderean Coscivian, Eskean Coscivian, Austral Coscivian, and Melotic Istroyan.


After Kiravic, the languages with the most speakers in Kiygrava are Paisonic Coscivian, Ensciryan Coscivian, Gaelic, Antaric Coscivian, Erasan Coscivian, Taństan Coscivian, Hesperan Coscivian, Lusonic, Síkutran Coscivian, Eskean Coscivian, Austral Coscivian, and Melotic. However, according to the Census Bureau, all Coscivian and Elutic languages with at least 10,000 speakers in the Federacy had at least one speaker recorded as living in Kiygrava on the 21200 census.
{{wp|Language policy}} frequently surfaces as an issue in Kaviskan local politics, typically in connexion with the communitarian political mobilisation of Coscivian "ethnics" and non-native "regional Coscivian" diasporas, minorities, and immigrant groups where such people form concentrated populations. Kaviska's general approach to language policy since Reunification has been characterised by accomodation and subsidiarity, with lower levels of administration such as Valēka Metropolis, [[countyship]]s, municipalities, election boards, and school boards given significant latitude to adopt language policies and services according to the needs and demands of their constituencies. For example, all election boards in Kaviska must provide ballot papers and other voter materials in both of the state's official languages, but the vast majority of them also provide such documents in additional languages. In the working-class, immigrant-heavy Aspihar canton of Valēka, the standard-issue election ballot is quadrilingual (Kiravic, Kilikas-Valēkas, Paisonic, Gaelic) and alternative ballots are routinely printed in 24 other languages for registered voters indicating a preference for that language, utilising 7 different scripts (Coscivian, Kyrillic, Latin, Istroyan, Odunaïc, Daxian, and Metzgul). At the statewide level, there have been numerous campaigns to obtain official status for other major languages - most frequently Paisonic, Ensciryan, Gaelic, and Eshavian - and to secure special recognition for the divergent Svéaran Kiravic dialect. These campaigns have been unsuccessful due to lack of support from outside any particular language's speech community, opposition from [[Kir people|ethnic Kir]] and Sedhans, and the widely-shared concern that conferring official status on any one ethnic vernacular would necessitate extending the same status to many others and result in an expensive and cumbersome policy of hyper-multilingualism.


===Religion===
===Religion===
The [[Roman Catholic Church (Ixnay)|Catholic Church]] is the largest single religious body in Kiygrava. Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries established their earliest beachheads among Kiravia's Coscivian population in Valēka, and urban Kiygrava would go on to become the main base of the Coscivian Catholic Church in northern and eastern Kirav.  
The [[Catholic Church|Catholic Church]] is the largest single religious body in Kaviska. Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries established their earliest beachheads among Kiravia's Coscivian population in Valēka, and urban Kaviska would go on to become the main base of the Coscivian Catholic Church in northern and eastern Kirav.  


[Patriarchate of Valēka/Othercity and All Kir']
[Patriarchate of Valēka/Othercity and All Kir']
   
   
The city of [[Cities of Kiravia#Xanten|Xanten]] is the seat of the Coscivian Orthodox Church. Coscivian Orthodoxy is the traditional faith of Kiygrava's largest ethnic group, the Paisonic Coscivians, as well as of other ethnic groups with large populations in Kiygrava, such as the Kālatans, Ardónians, {etc.}
The city of [[Cities of Kiravia#Xanten|Xanten]] is the seat of the Coscivian Orthodox Church. Coscivian Orthodoxy is the traditional faith of Kaviska's largest ethnic group, the Paisonic Coscivians, as well as of other ethnic groups with large populations in Kaviska, such as the Kālatans, Ardónians, {etc.}


Over three quarters of Kiravians who profess the Jewish faith live in Kiygrava, with most belonging to the Avramem Coscivian ethnic group and practicing {{wp|Orthodox Judaism}}. The Avramem population is concentrated in Canova, West Valēka, County Ālkūdan, County Tapanin, and County Séarlas.
Over three quarters of Kiravians who profess the Jewish faith live in Kaviska, with most belonging to the Avramem Coscivian ethnic group and practicing {{wp|Orthodox Judaism}}. The Avramem population is concentrated in Canova, West Valēka, County Ālkūdan, County Tapanin, and County Séarlas.


===Literature===
===Literature===
===Architecture===
===Architecture===
[[File:Fost areal image007.jpg|thumb|Colonial star-forts are found in many older settlements in the Kiygrava River Valley]]
[[File:Fost areal image007.jpg|thumb|Colonial star-forts are found in many older settlements in the Kaviska River Valley]]
[[File:Wp12 77 Rekonstruktion.jpg|thumb|A {{wp|tower house}} in rural County Lirannon, built in the Coscivian colonial style]]
[[File:Wp12 77 Rekonstruktion.jpg|thumb|A {{wp|tower house}} in rural County Lirannon, built in the Coscivian colonial style]]
The cities of Kiygrava bear witness to over eight-hundred years of architecture, reflecting such diverse stylistic influences as Coscivian classicism, the vernacular architectures of northern and western Éorsa, the building traditions of the Celts, and more recent imports from [[Levantia]] and further afield, as well as centuries of changing functional demands as the state has developed and urbanised. Coscivian Modernist architecture, known for its geometrically variegated high-rises and "semi-open" approach to interior space, was born in response to the high population densities that accompanied economic modernisation in Valēka. Kiravia's first skyscrapers were built in Kiygrava, as were its first suburban housing estates, office parks, and shopping malls.
The cities of Kaviska bear witness to over eight-hundred years of architecture, reflecting such diverse stylistic influences as Coscivian classicism, the vernacular architectures of northern and western Éorsa, the building traditions of the Celts, and more recent imports from [[Levantia]] and further afield, as well as centuries of changing functional demands as the state has developed and urbanised. Coscivian Modernist architecture, known for its geometrically variegated high-rises and "semi-open" approach to interior space, was born in response to the high population densities that accompanied economic modernisation in Valēka. Kiravia's first skyscrapers were built in Kaviska, as were its first suburban housing estates, office parks, and shopping malls.


[The bridges of Trár should be in here]
[The bridges of Trár should be in here]


===Film, Television, and Radio===
===Film, Television, and Radio===
The Kiravian domestic motion picture industry was born in Southeast Kiygrava and North Niyaska, and remained centred on this general area until the Kirosocialist Era, when the state-approved film studios and government investment in new lighting and imaging technology were directed toward [[Escarda]], while a new market-driven film industry grew up in [[Sirana]] under the Federalist rump republic. and The contemporary hub of Kiravic-language mainstream film production is now [[Argévia|Pontevedra, Argévia]]. However, in the new capitalist era, Valēka has reëmerged as a major centre for the production of vernacular language films (particularly Paisonic Coscivian, Æran Coscivian, Kaśuvan Coscivian, and Gaelic), independent films, and - most importantly - television. [Elabourate more on TV]
The Kiravian domestic motion picture industry was born in Southeast Kaviska and North Niyaska, and remained centred on this general area until the Kirosocialist Era, when the state-approved film studios and government investment in new lighting and imaging technology were directed toward [[Escarda]], while a new market-driven film industry grew up in [[Sirana]] under the Federalist rump republic. and The contemporary hub of Kiravic-language mainstream film production is now [[Argévia|Pontevedra, Argévia]]. However, in the new capitalist era, Valēka has reëmerged as a major centre for the production of vernacular language films (particularly Paisonic Coscivian, Æran Coscivian, Kaśuvan Coscivian, and Gaelic), independent films, and - most importantly - television. [Elabourate more on TV]


[Radio - Big radio and audio industry]
[Radio - Big radio and audio industry]
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===Cities===
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Kaviska
Kígraskjön (Sedhan)

Flag
Country Kiravian Federacy
Theme Federation
Capital Canova
Largest City Valēka
Population 52,376,000
Chief Executive
(Acting)		 Marcus Árelius Irastonen (EXP)
Chancellor Tarcisius A.D.V. Akriśenton (JDP)
Legislature Trilateral Congress
  • Council of State
  • Legislative Congress
  • Congress of Delegates
Stanora seats 5
Official languages Kiravic, Kilikas-Valēkas
Other Languages Paisonic Coscivian
Time Zone Valēka Standard Time
Postal Abbreviation KAV

Kaviska is the most populous state of the Kiravian Federacy, located in the northeastern region of Great Kirav. Home to Valēka, the Federacy's largest city and economic and cultural capital, Kaviska has long been at the centre of Kiravian history, with its economic, political, and cultural influence stretching far through time and space. Kaviska rose to great prominence during the Viceregal period of Kiravian history, became a major node of the Kilikas Enlightenment, and played a pivotal role in the Republican Revolution. It was the first area of Kirav to industrialise, and its merchants and mariners led the rise of Kiravia as a maritime and mercantile power.

History

Iaspara Peninsula

Imperial Era

Emperor Iavorius II separated the office of Grand Admiral of Ixnay from that of Viceroy of Kiravia, and reorganised the Coscivian colonies in Great Kirav into several smaller viceroyalties. The reduced Viceroyalty of the Kaviska originally extended from the northeast border of Hanoram to the southeast border of Harma, with undefined boundaries to the north and west. The Viceroy was relieved of responsibility for relations with the Gaelic polities of the Far Northeast, while remaining responsible for the ground defence of the northern and western frontiers. In 20324, all lands south of the Bay of New Hope were assigned to the Viceroyalty of Middle Kiravia. Now more closely resembling its modern shape, Kaviska now included the Dominion of Iaspara (centred on Valēka), the Dominion of Kanda (centred on Evira), the Dominon of Róvidrea, the Realm of Sedhedan, the Intendancy of the Upper Kaviska, and 2-5 shifting military districts covering outlying highland and northern areas, with their sparse populations of Gaels, Urom, and a few Sedhem Coscivian homesteaders.

Viceregal Period and the United Provinces

During the Viceregal Period, the Viceroyalty of the Kyigrava and Dominion of Ventarya were the two most powerful Coscivian polities in Great Kirav, more or less evenly matched in terms of population, wealth, and clout. However, the Viceroys of the Kiyrgava struggled to assert their authority against the various subregional assemblies outside of the Kyigrava Valley, and to defend their disputed territorial claims in the Iravokan region, Serikorda, Íarthakelva, and elsewhere against breakaway frontier republics and settlers from neighbouring Coscivian and Gaelic states.

From [decade] until the Republican Revolution, Kaviska and Niyaska were in a state of personal union. In the [decade], the Viceroyalties of the Kyigrava, Niyaska, and New Korsa (modern-day Etivéra and Váuadra), formed a military alliance and loose political union called the United Provinces to counter the influence of Ventarya and expand past the Aterandic Mountains into modern-day Hiterna and Kastera.

Valēka-based intellectuals took part in the Kilikas Enlightenment. This movement, which began in Kaviska, spread among the educated classes of the eastern Kiravian port cities, and brought renewed interest in the humanist arts and sciences, and new developments in political philosophy. Notable among these was the work of Kálastuv Vindarin, whose writings revisited the Shaftonist concept of kéarita (usually translated as "republic", though not entirely congruent in meaning with the Western term), which provided much of the ideological foundation for the Republican Revolution.

Confederal Period

West Valēka gradually came to the fore as the de facto administrative capital of the Confederate Republics. Although the Confederal Stanora in its early form convened for its biannual sessions on the Hanoram riverbank that would later become Kartika, that area's lack of infrastructure led to most government agencies being located in West Valēka. The Stanora itself moved to West Valēka after becoming a permanent body.

During the mid-confederal period, proto-industrialising Kaviska came to surpass Ventarya in population and economic output. Along with Etivéra and Kastera, it became the main desination for Coscivian immigrants, who saw little opportunity in Ventarya and the other states of South Kirav and Míhanska Bay, which offered few opportunities for land ownership and relied heavily on indentured labour. Although Eriadun was the largest city in the Confederate Republics of Kiravia for much of its existence, Valēka remained unchallenged as its commercial and cultural capital.

Federal Period

Socialist Period

Under the unitary state framework of the Kiravian Union, Kaviska became the Kaviska Region. The Svéaran Peninsula was detached from the Kaviska Region and merged with the former state of Bissáv to form the Kohokas Region, and the Ispahar Peninsula was detached to form the Kiygrava Region. Valēka was further separated from Kiygrava Region, becoming a directly-administered Union Municipality.

Post-Reunification

The Articles of Reunification agreed to by the Kiravian Remnant, Kiravian Union, and state governments (both free and exiled) affirmed that pre-Sunderance provincial boundaries would be restored, but required the restored federal and provincial governments to "enact such affirmative measures as necessary to preserve the special status of autonomous territorial units." The Reunification Council held that this clause did not apply to the areas partitioned from Kaviska, and that reïntegration of Svéara, Ispahar, and Valēka into Kaviska State would be automatic. Nonetheless, in the democratic spirit of the time, the restored Kaviska legislature presented the two peninsular regions with a referendum with two options: 1. Begin a process to seek admission to the Federacy as a separate state with the consent of the Kaviskan legislature and Federal Stanora; and 2. Remain part of Kaviska and commence a process to [the other thing]. The results were 78% Remain to 20% Leave in Ispahar and 63% Remain to 34% Leave in Svéara. There number of invalid ballots was unusually high. In Valēka, where the Kaviskan administration was not confident in a clear result for Remain, a different referendum was presented, with three options: Leave, Remain, and Neither.

Geography

Valēka, the largest city in Kaviska and all of Kiravia

Kaviska occupies a roughly wedge-shaped territory in the Kiravian Northeast. It borders the states of Livella and Eredlina to the east, the Íravokan Sea (a margin of the Kilikas Sea) to the north, the Aquaric Ocean to the southeast (sharing maritime boundaries with Niyaska and Etivéra) , and Arkvera to the west. The Kaviska River, for which the state is named, is fed by mountain springs just north of the state's geographic centre, and flows toward the southeast through the Kyigrava River Valley, ultimately bisecting the Iyaspala Peninsula before emptying into the Aquaric Ocean at Valëka.

Temperate mixed forests cover most of Kaviska

The state is quasi-officially divided into five geographic and economic regions: the Estuary-Insular region or Lower Kaviska (Yanxékiygrava) (comprising the Valēka metropolitan area), Upper Kaviska (Ixtékiygrava) (the northern Iyaspala peninsula and the heavily-populated Kaviska River Valley), Northern Kaviska (TuśkaKaviska) (encompassing the area between the source of the Kyigrava River and the Íravokan coast), and (NáriKaviska) Aterandic Kaviska (the mountainous regions on either side of the River Valley). Lower Kaviska is heavily urbanised and highly developed, owing to the concentric rings of sattelite cities and suburbs radiating outward from Valēka, though areas of the northern shore of the Iyaspala peninsula and the outer islands are more exurban. Though less extensively developed than Lower Kaviska, Upper Kaviska is characterised by exurban and rural areas of smallholds, poultry farms, and dairies, punctuated by medium-sized industrial cities such as Traur, Xéuleva, and Evira. Moving northward along the Kyigrava River, the cities give way to large towns and finally to smaller towns of 1-5,000 people, with the state capital of Alëdmar (population 212,000) being by far the largest city in the region.

Mt. Karáuna, Upper Kaviska

While Lower Kaviska and the southern portions of Upper Kaviska are ethnically diverse, Northern Kaviska and the northern reaches of Upper Kaviska have remained predominantly Sedhem since colonisation. Though there is some industry in Northern Kaviska, concentrated along the Íravokan coast, the hilly uplands are more agrarian and markedly less populated than either the estuary or river valley. Still, the region is more densely populated than the Aterandic mountain areas, which are home to small, scattered hamlets and isolated dwellings inhabited by Sedhem and Kiravite Urom.

Most of Kaviska has a supratemperate, humid continental climate, moderated by the influence of the East Sea. The more northerly cantons, such as Kanda, Duniver-Kinnírēdan, and Svéara, have a hemiboreal climate, and some mountainous areas in the northern and western parts of the state experience an orotemperate climate. Winters are harsh, but less so than in inland states of comparable latitude, and the Aterandic Mountains help to shield most of Kaviska from the lake-effect snow fomented by the Fresh Seas to its west.

Temperate mixed forests are the predominant pattern of native vegetation in Kaviska and covered most of the state's area until the late mediæval period, appropriate to its Laurentine climate. Moving northward and upward (altitudinally), the coniferous component of the species mix progressively increases as bioclimatic conditions shift toward the hemiboreal and orotemperate. Before the early modern era, the landscape of the Kaviskan lowlands was mostly a field-forest-wetland mosaic similar to that of the Kirish Plain (North Kiravian Plain) and Sēora, albeit punctuated by fewer glacial lakes. Beginning in the 17th century AD and peaking in the late 19th, Kaviska underwent major deforestation and wetland loss as industrialisation and urbanisation drove up demand for wood and peat, and the introduction of guano fertilisers enabled the agrarian sector to pursue extensive growth by bringing previously inarable land under cultivation, clearing woodland and draining wetland in the process. By 1912 AD only a few discontinuous pockets of the traditional landscape remained (mostly in Duniver-Kinnírēdan), with most of the lowlands converted to arable cropland and open wool and dairy pasture, interspersed with much smaller zones of new-growth forest. Since reunification, there have been moderately successful initiatives to restore and conserve the state's terrestrial ecology as part of broader national land rehabilitation/reclamation policies intended to mitigate the environmental impact of Kirosocialism on Great Kirav. Incentive programmes encouraging reforestation, silvopastoralism, and agroforestry have significantly increased the state's forest cover, as has the passive rewilding of former smallholds due to agrarian contraction. Over the same period, however, the landscape of Kaviska has also been transformed by extensive suburban development radiating outward from its major cities into previously agricultural tracts, inviting a new suite of conservation concerns.

Government

Cabinet Secretariat building in Aldēmar

The Commonwealth of Kaviska is a crowned republic with a tripartite legislative process and an independent executive led by an elected Governor.

Political Landscape

Federal Politics

Federal Stanora Delegation
Member Party First Elected
  Fíodur Ivrameĥtin Excelsior Party (FRA) 21185
  Deridan Vóstigarvan Republican Moderate Party (FRA) 21196
  Alastur Tellūrid Excelsior Party (FRA) 21196

As the Federacy's leading economic engine, international port of entry, and financial centre, Kaviska is a stronghold for the pro-business, ordoliberal Federalist Republican Alliance. The leading parties in the Republican Assembly are affiliated with the Shaftonist-Republicans on the Federal level, reflecting Kaviskan political culture's strong affinity towards free enterprise, public institutions, and political moderation capable of accommodating people of diverse views and backgrounds.

As the most populous state, Kaviska holds the largest number of electoral votes, and has often been a critical battleground in elections to the Prime Executure. In the 21200 Prime Executive election, Kaviska native and former Governor Andrus Candrin won Kaviska with 67% of the vote.

Local Government

As with most northeastern states, the majority (88%) of Kaviskans live in an incorporated municipality of some sort. Five classes of municipalities exist in the state: Grand City, City, Town, Township, and Hamlet. While hamlets and (to a lesser degree) townships are less autonomous vis-à-vis countyships than cities or towns, the classes are differentiated primarily by the internal structure of their governments. Countyships have less legislative power in Kaviska than in most states and are primarily responsible for providing public services, such as utilities, libraries, vocational schools, prisons, and tertiary roads. Education, land-use regulation, and community services (e.g. parks) are largely the domain of municipalities, and municipalities wield comparatively strong legislative and revenue powers.

Local elections are nonpartisan in all Kaviskan municipalities except for the Grand City of Valēka, which operates under a two-party system.

Law

Kaviskan law is derived from the law of the Coscivian Empire, and has been influenced by Sedhan customary law (especially in property law) and by Burgundine commercial law.

Four appellate courts, the Xéuleva High Court, the Evira High Court, the Ruastron High Court, and the Aldēmar High Court. Capital Court of the Republic (state supreme court). Kaviska's judiciary is the busiest and most expensive in the entire federation, and is known for its experienced judges and extremely competitive legal profession. More attorneys are licensed to practice law in Kaviska than in any other province, but the state's bar examinations and professional regulations are notoriously difficult.

[Insert outline of some actual laws here]

Kaviska has an actively enforced seatbelt law. It requires vehicle registration plates on both the fore and aft of four-wheeled motor vehicles, and on the aft of two-wheeled motor vehicles.

Economy

Reserve Bank of Kirav, West Valēka

Kaviska has the largest economy of any Kiravian Federal subject, and contributes over 15% of the Federacy's total GDP. The Kaviskan economy is extremely advanced and highly diversified, with major sectors including finance, manufacturing, biotechnology, information technology, international trade, insurance, publishing and media, consulting, land development, retail, agriculture, and tourism. Many of the nation's key economic and financial institutions ate based in the state, including the Federal Reserve Bank (the Kiravian central bank), Valēka Stock Exchange, and all five Kiravian credit rating bureaux.

Major business concerns operating out of Kaviska include

  • Alterion Group (investment banking, Valēka)
  • Imperial Bank of Kaviska (banking, Valēka)
  • Konterra ÁLO (investment banking, Valēka)
  • ÁLO Dókáreum (oil, gas, and petrochemicals; Valēka)
  • Overlin Engineering (electronic equipment, Valēka and Xéuleva)
  • SAK Þermidor-Āra (steel, Valēka)
  • Stesixorea United (shipbuilding, Valēka)
  • CPK Kōlixon Holdings (diversified investments, Valēka)
  • Ansulatus-Ruon Corporation (network infrastructure, Tháspelan)
  • SAK Ovestatarlum (Valēka)
  • Ecuniversa International (insurance, Valēka)
  • Crepuscula MT (insurance, Valēka)
  • Kiravian Broadcast Systems ÁLO (television and radio, Valēka)
  • ÁLO Mediarán (multimedia, Valēka)
  • Targevran Corporation (manufacturing, Valēka)
  • Iribisun Industries (manufacturing conglomerates)
  • Archer-Garaí PLR (marketing)
  • Seaborne Corporation (shipping)
  • Eastern Semiconductors ÁLO (Computer hardware, Evira)
  • ÁLO Vertex Atomcraft (atomic energy, Trár)
  • Federated Financial (banking, Xéuleva)
  • Macrhéa-Marín Computing (information technology, Esdrasar)


Economic History

[Imperial Era]
[The Canal]
[Age of the Sail]
[Industrial Revolution]

Market Transition

Kaviska was uniquely well-positioned to prosper from the end of Kirosocialism and consequent transition toward a market economy. The legal groundwork for Kaviska's market-driven economic reconstruction was already being laid before Kiravian Unification by the exiled state legislature, which enacted the Securities Exchange Act and related statutes to ensure that Kaviska had a well-crafted, modern regulatory framework in place to enable Valēka to retake its place at the head of the Mainland financial industry.

Other events also happened during this period that are worth describing.

Agriculture

Despite the urban and semiurban character of much of the state, Kaviska has a fairly vibrant and productive agricultural sector. The main crops are potato, rye, Coscivian cuckwheat, rapeseed, and cruciferous vegetables.

Society & Culture

Due to its large, extremely diverse population and central economic position in the federation, Kaviska has come to be regarded as a fountainhead of Kiravian and Coscivian culture. The southern and eastern portions of the state are the heartland of the Northeastern cultural region of great Kirav, which extends into neighbouring Niyaska and Etivéra. Centred on the Valēka Metropolitan Area, this region is home to its own distinctive Kiravic dialect, customs, cuisine, and cultural ethos influenced by the numerous Coscivian ethnic cultures that have settled there over the centuries. This region often acts as the cultural "face" of Kiravia abroad, from which foreign perceptions of Kiravia and Kiravians tend to be generalised.

More inland and upland regions of the state preserve a more traditional, rural culture dominated by the Sedhan Coscivian ethnic group, while some communities in the Aterandic Mountains are better placed in the Eastern Highlands cultural region.

Ethnic Groups

Paisonic Coscivians are the largest single ethnic group in Kaviska, followed by Kir people, Sedhan Coscivians, Æran Coscivians, Eshavian Coscivians, and Gaels, but the state is home to members of virtually every Coscivian ethnic group, as well as many non-Coscivian peoples, ranging from Gaels to Azikorians to the indigenous Tapkek.

Traditionally a Kir-majority state, large-scale migration from elsewhere in Kiravia and abroad since industrialisation has given modern Kaviska a highly multiethnic character. Many Kaviskans today are described (or describe themselves) as Úramdikir (roughly "hyphenated Kir") who speak Kiravic as their mother tongue and live in a primarily Kirish cultural context but also owe ancestry and affinity to other (mostly Coscivian) ethnic groups. Numerous (mostly perjorative) terms exist for the converse phenomenon of upwardly-mobile people who identify affirmatively as non-Kir but use Kiravic as their main language and do not live in a compact ethnic community.

There are two socially distinct populations of Eshavian Coscivians in Kaviska: The Green Eshavians, who have deeper roots in Kaviska, usually pre-Kirosocialist, and the Blue Eshavians, who are the product of more recent waves of migration from the Northeastern states and elsewhere. The two groups are so named for their alignment in Valēka's intracity sporting rivalry: older Eshavian families in Valēka mostly support the Valēka Metropolitans (who wear green uniforms), while newer arrivals mostly support the Valēka Emperors or the Bérasar Blues (both of whom wear blue uniforms).

Cosco-Ciattomi, Cosco-Yetruenes, Castics

Immigration

Because it contains the Federacy's economic capital and primary port, Kaviska has long been a gateway for immigration to Great Kirav.

The main cities where immigrants have settled in post-Kirosocialist times have been Valēka, [B], [C], and [D]. The largest post-Kirosocialist immigrant groups have been Azikorians, Thrakoscivians, Kulukusi refugees from Varshan, St. Kenneran and Pribraltarian Coscivians during their islands' independence struggle, Echoese, Beryllians, and {probably Cartadanians n' Kommenorenes n' stuff}.

Language

The primary and first official language of Kaviska is Kiravic Coscivian. There are several traditional areal variants and dialects of Kiravic native to Kaviska, including Róvidrean Kiravic (spoken in Róvidrea), Estuary Kiravic (spoken on the lower Iaspara Peninsula and the South Bank), Kandan Kiravic (in the environs of Evira), and Svéaran Kiravic (spoken on the Svéa Peninsula and influenced heavily by Eshavian Coscivian). In addition to these areal dialects, newer local dialects have developed in the state's larger cities since industrialisation, often quite distinct from the dialect of the surrounding countryside. Due to the eclectic mix of ethno-linguistic groups in the largest cities and strong neighbourhood effects, the population of Valēka and [other city] exhibit a diverse array of speech patterns, including many accents and sociolects identifiable with a certain part of the city or a particular social group.

Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian, which is spoken by the Sedhans, Kerēgulans, and a few smaller Coscivian ethnic groups, also has official status in the state. In localities where its speakers predominate, Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian is the primary language of public administration, and other communities where Kilikas-Valēkas speakers are a substantial minority (≥25% of the enumerated population) are obliged by state law to provide bilingual services and facilities.

According to the Census Bureau, all Cosco-Adratic and Elutic languages with at least 10,000 speakers in the Federacy had at least one speaker recorded as living in Kaviska on the AD 2010 census, reflecting the scale of internal migration to Kaviska (mainly the Valēka metroplex) from the rest of Kirav. Excluding Kiravic and Kilikas-Valēkas, the languages with the most speakers in Kaviska are Paisonic Coscivian, Ensciryan Coscivian, Gaelic, Antaric Coscivian, Erasan Coscivian, Eshavian Coscivian, Ibarran Coscivian, Lusonic, Síkutran Coscivian, Siderean Coscivian, Eskean Coscivian, Austral Coscivian, and Melotic Istroyan.

Language policy frequently surfaces as an issue in Kaviskan local politics, typically in connexion with the communitarian political mobilisation of Coscivian "ethnics" and non-native "regional Coscivian" diasporas, minorities, and immigrant groups where such people form concentrated populations. Kaviska's general approach to language policy since Reunification has been characterised by accomodation and subsidiarity, with lower levels of administration such as Valēka Metropolis, countyships, municipalities, election boards, and school boards given significant latitude to adopt language policies and services according to the needs and demands of their constituencies. For example, all election boards in Kaviska must provide ballot papers and other voter materials in both of the state's official languages, but the vast majority of them also provide such documents in additional languages. In the working-class, immigrant-heavy Aspihar canton of Valēka, the standard-issue election ballot is quadrilingual (Kiravic, Kilikas-Valēkas, Paisonic, Gaelic) and alternative ballots are routinely printed in 24 other languages for registered voters indicating a preference for that language, utilising 7 different scripts (Coscivian, Kyrillic, Latin, Istroyan, Odunaïc, Daxian, and Metzgul). At the statewide level, there have been numerous campaigns to obtain official status for other major languages - most frequently Paisonic, Ensciryan, Gaelic, and Eshavian - and to secure special recognition for the divergent Svéaran Kiravic dialect. These campaigns have been unsuccessful due to lack of support from outside any particular language's speech community, opposition from ethnic Kir and Sedhans, and the widely-shared concern that conferring official status on any one ethnic vernacular would necessitate extending the same status to many others and result in an expensive and cumbersome policy of hyper-multilingualism.

Religion

The Catholic Church is the largest single religious body in Kaviska. Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries established their earliest beachheads among Kiravia's Coscivian population in Valēka, and urban Kaviska would go on to become the main base of the Coscivian Catholic Church in northern and eastern Kirav.

[Patriarchate of Valēka/Othercity and All Kir']

The city of Xanten is the seat of the Coscivian Orthodox Church. Coscivian Orthodoxy is the traditional faith of Kaviska's largest ethnic group, the Paisonic Coscivians, as well as of other ethnic groups with large populations in Kaviska, such as the Kālatans, Ardónians, {etc.}

Over three quarters of Kiravians who profess the Jewish faith live in Kaviska, with most belonging to the Avramem Coscivian ethnic group and practicing Orthodox Judaism. The Avramem population is concentrated in Canova, West Valēka, County Ālkūdan, County Tapanin, and County Séarlas.

Literature

Architecture

Colonial star-forts are found in many older settlements in the Kaviska River Valley
A tower house in rural County Lirannon, built in the Coscivian colonial style

The cities of Kaviska bear witness to over eight-hundred years of architecture, reflecting such diverse stylistic influences as Coscivian classicism, the vernacular architectures of northern and western Éorsa, the building traditions of the Celts, and more recent imports from Levantia and further afield, as well as centuries of changing functional demands as the state has developed and urbanised. Coscivian Modernist architecture, known for its geometrically variegated high-rises and "semi-open" approach to interior space, was born in response to the high population densities that accompanied economic modernisation in Valēka. Kiravia's first skyscrapers were built in Kaviska, as were its first suburban housing estates, office parks, and shopping malls.

[The bridges of Trár should be in here]

Film, Television, and Radio

The Kiravian domestic motion picture industry was born in Southeast Kaviska and North Niyaska, and remained centred on this general area until the Kirosocialist Era, when the state-approved film studios and government investment in new lighting and imaging technology were directed toward Escarda, while a new market-driven film industry grew up in Sirana under the Federalist rump republic. and The contemporary hub of Kiravic-language mainstream film production is now Pontevedra, Argévia. However, in the new capitalist era, Valēka has reëmerged as a major centre for the production of vernacular language films (particularly Paisonic Coscivian, Æran Coscivian, Kaśuvan Coscivian, and Gaelic), independent films, and - most importantly - television. [Elabourate more on TV]

[Radio - Big radio and audio industry]

Music

Cities

Cities

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Rank Countyship Pop.
Valēka
Valēka
Evira
Evira 		1 Valēka Imperial 17,308,201 Trár
Trár
Xéuleva
Xéuleva
2 Evira Léithram 4,451,040
3 Trár Trár 14,205,000
4 Xéuleva Kalmastra 870,000
5 Aldēmar Ekenuv 850,000
6 Caridosar Branigan 782,892
7 Dannemóra Tapanin 764,137
8 Duniver Vann-Múir 420,492
9 Thūrathorn Astorin 242,305
10 Karvidan Lánhîluv 160,711

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