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| | | name = Kaviska | ||
| longform = Sublime State of Kaviska | |||
| flag = File:KaviskaFlag.png | |||
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| mapcaption = Location of Kaviska in Great Kirav | |||
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| | | countrycode = KF | ||
| | | country = [[File:KiravFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] [[Kiravia|Kiravian Federacy]] | ||
| | | theme = [[File:Ancient Flag of the Cook Islands 1973.svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] [[Kiravian Federalism#Themes|Federation]] | ||
| capital = [[Cities of Kiravia#Canova|Canova]] | |||
| largest = [[Valēka]] | |||
| | | population = 52.376 million | ||
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| class = State | |||
| | | govtform = {{wp|Semi-presidential republic}} | ||
| governortitle = Chief Executive | |||
| | | governor = Marcus Árelius Irastonen (EXP) | ||
| leader2title = Chancellor | |||
| | | leader2 = Tarcisius A.D.V. Akriśenton (JDP) | ||
| legislature = Trilateral Congress<br> | |||
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*Council of State | *Council of State | ||
*Legislative Congress | *Legislative Congress | ||
*Congress of Delegates | *Congress of Delegates | ||
| | | seats = 7 seats in the [[Federal Stanora]] | ||
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| | | grade = A+ | ||
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|- | <!-- Other Information --> | ||
| | | area = 83,237 mi² | ||
|- | | langclass1 = Official languages | ||
| | | languages1 = [[Kiravic Coscivian|Kiravic]], [[Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian|Kilikas-Valēkas]] | ||
|- | | langclass2 = Other languages | ||
| | | languages2 = Costratic Coscivian | ||
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| postalabbrv = KAV | |||
| timezone = Valēka Standard Time | |||
| kolor = #87CEEB | |||
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[[Category:Kiravian federal subjects]] | [[Category:Kiravian federal subjects]] | ||
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===Viceregal Period and the United Provinces=== | ===Viceregal Period and the United Provinces=== | ||
During the Viceregal Period, the Viceroyalty of the Kyigrava and Dominion of | During the Viceregal Period, the Viceroyalty of the Kyigrava and Dominion of Province №7 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 {{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 | 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 Province №7 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 {{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. | ||
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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 Kaviska came to surpass | During the mid-confederal period, proto-industrialising Kaviska came to surpass Province №7 in population and economic output. Along with Etivéra and Kastera, it became the main desination for Coscivian immigrants, who saw little opportunity in Province №7 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=== | ===Federal Period=== | ||
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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
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[[File:Night in Shinjuku 2013-11-05.jpg|thumb|Valēka, the largest city in Kaviska and all of Kiravia]] | [[File:Night in Shinjuku 2013-11-05.jpg|thumb|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. | <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> | ||
[[File:Ithaca, NY 01.jpg|thumb|Temperate mixed forests cover most of Kaviska]] | [[File:Ithaca, NY 01.jpg|thumb|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. | <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> | ||
[[File:Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid Airport.JPG|thumb|Mt. Karáuna, Upper Kaviska]] | [[File:Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid Airport.JPG|thumb|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. | <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> | ||
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. | |||
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== | ||
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| [[Fíodur Ivrameĥtin]] | | [[Fíodur Ivrameĥtin]] | ||
| style="text-align:center;" | Excelsior Party ([[ | | style="text-align:center;" | Excelsior Party ([[Federalist Republican Alliance|FRA]]) | ||
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| Deridan Vóstigarvan | | Deridan Vóstigarvan | ||
| style="text-align:center;" | Republican Moderate Party ([[ | | style="text-align:center;" | Republican Moderate Party ([[Federalist Republican Alliance|FRA]]) | ||
| style="text-align:center;" | 21196 | | style="text-align:center;" | 21196 | ||
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| Alastur Tellūrid | | Alastur Tellūrid | ||
| style="text-align:center;" | Excelsior Party ([[ | | style="text-align:center;" | Excelsior Party ([[Federalist Republican Alliance|FRA]]) | ||
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As the Federacy's leading economic engine, international port of entry, and financial centre, Kaviska is a stronghold for the pro-business, ordoliberal [[ | 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 {{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. | 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. | ||
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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== | ||
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===Ethnic Groups=== | ===Ethnic Groups=== | ||
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]], [[ | 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. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||
The official | 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. | |||
{{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=== | ||
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===Cities=== | ===Cities=== | ||
==Cities== | |||
{{Largest cities | {{Largest cities | ||
| name = Largest cities of Kaviska | | name = Largest cities of Kaviska | ||
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|pop_10 = 160,711 | |pop_10 = 160,711 | ||
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}} | |||
==Notable Kaviskans== | |||
''The many notable people from Valēka are [[Valēka#Notable_Valēkans|listed separately]].''<br> | |||
*[[Partholón Térunbuir]] - [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]] | |||
*[[Kirpol#Cinnéad, Máire|Máire Cinnéad]] - Administratrix of the [[East Arctic Mandate]], from [[Cities of Kiravia#Trár|Trár]] | |||
==Notes== | |||
[[Category:KRV]] | [[Category:KRV]] | ||