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'''Suderavia''', officially the '''Suderavian People's Republic''' (''Suderaviax Plānokéarita'') is an overseas state of the [[Kiravian Federacy]] occupying a peninsula in northwestern Levantia.
'''Suderavia''', officially the '''Suderavian Woqalate''' (''Suderaviax Vuokalağuv'') is an overseas state of the [[Kiravian Federacy]] occupying a peninsula in northwestern Levantia.


==Georgraphy==
==Georgraphy==
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==History==
==History==
The earliest human culture to leave a significant archæological mark on Suderavia was an outlying branch of the [[Packer Culture]], known among scholars as the 'Green Bay Packers' as the densest concentration of Packer artifacts in Suderavia is found around the ''Keremonta'' (Ænglish: "Green Bay"). Subsequent inhabitants of what is now Suderavia included pre-Japhetic Levantine peoples such as the Lzveizish and Skithanawites, and the Impaxi.
From prehistory up to the present day, Suderavia has been a nexus of the "Kilikas World" (''Kilikafarax ékuviúl''), a web of persistent and resilient networks of travel, transmission, and exchange linking the coasts of [[Faneria]], [[Covina]], [[Koskenkorva]], Éorsa ([[Ilánova]]), and northeastern [[Great Kirav]]. A remote and marginal appendage of the Levantian continent though it is, Suderavia's role in this corner of the world has been nothing short of central.  


Coscivian settlements on Suderavia were founded early in the history of Coscivians in Ixnay, around the same time as in Koskenkorva.  
===Prehistory===
Recently unearthed evidence demonstrates that the wanderings of the {{wp|archaic human|archæic homonin}} species ''Homo darudensis'' passed through modern Suderavia at one point, though the duration of its presence is still quite uncertain. The earliest anatomically and behaviourally modern human culture to leave a significant archæological mark on Suderavia was an outlying branch of the [[Packer Culture]], known among scholars as the 'Green Bay Packers' as the densest concentration of Packer artifacts in Suderavia is found around the ''Keremonta'' (Ænglish: "Green Bay"). Flint and bone tools fashioned in the [[Prehistory_of_Great_Kirav#First_Humans_-_Ice_Bridges_from_Demomap|Demomappic style]] recovered from the surrounding seabed attest to the first ventures of the direct ancestors of Kiravians into the vicinity, beginning what would prove to be a long history of this.


<!-- At some point in time, Suderavia came under Covine rule. Under Covine administration, Suderavia occupied a peripheral position in the Covine state, characterised by economic exploitation and political marginalisation. An underdeveloped and deprived province, it was valued by the government mainly for its strategic location on the [name of body of water], its mineral resources, and as a site for state dachas and weapons testing. Perceived mistreatment by the régime stoked the flames of competing Skithanawite and Sudercoscivian nationalisms on the peninsula, which would boil over into armed insurgencies during the [X decade], when Skithanawite and Coscivian nationalists opened campaigns of bombings, mortar attacks, and small-arms attacks on military targets, Covine civilians, and sometimes one another. The militants received backing from the Kiravian Union and from Nahe, the former looking to support Coscivian national liberation and gain a proxy on the Levantian continent and the latter seeking to maintain its own security against Covina by leveraging minority separatist movements in the country.
Around 6750 BC, during the Neolithic, maritime technology introduced to littoral Kiravia by the Ʒ-Q Culture facilitated a series of multidirectional, outbound seaborne migrations by the sophisticated megalith-building culture of Éorsa. Two westward waves or floes of migration carried the Austro-Kiravian and Trans-Kiravian languages to the Kiravian mainland. Migration by easterly routes during the same period appears to have carried a separate branch of the Trans-Kiravian languages back to the northwestern Levantian lands from whence their Ice Age ancestors had come thousands of years earlier, including Suderavia. In addition to their languages, these voyageurs brought with them a [[Prehistory_of_Great_Kirav#Megalithic_Coscivians|knack and propensity for megalithic ritual architecture]], and other characteristic cultural adaptations - the rudiments of the proto-ethnic Coscivian identity. Thus begins the history of the [[Mainland Coscivians]].


The anti-Covine agitations and foreign interference campaigns culminated in the 211XX Suderavia War, in which a united front of the Suderavian Republican Army and Royal Skithanaw Army launched a series of mass-casualty attacks on Suderavian military installations that invited heavy-handed reprisal from the government, precipitating a bloody asymmetric conflict in the peninsula’s interior accompanied by urban guerrilla activity in the cities. The repressive measures taken against the native civilian population by the Covine state was condemned by the Kiravian Federacy, Nahe, and [X other country]. -->
The narrow isthmus and the peninsula's inaccessible terrain likely provided a natural {{wp|refugium}} from the sweep of Japhetic peoples across the Levantine continent, allowing the Ur-Coscivian society there to survive intact, escaping the fate that presumably befell most [[Paleo-Levantine peoples|Palæo-Levantine peoples]] now lost to history. The sea routes connecting Suderavia with Éorsa and [[Penthebhra]] would allow for knowledge of important agricultural breakthroughs such as and {{wp|buckwheat}} cultivation and advanced {{wp|apiculture|apicultural}} techniques to reach Suderavia, spurring population growth.  


The first Japhetic peoples to come into contact with Suderavia were presumably the Celtic ''Impaxi'', possibly progenitors of modern Culriochans - or not? The nature of their interactions with the Proto-Coscivians and any long-term impact on Suderavia are not known at this time.
With the arrival of another Celtic people, the technologically sophisticated [[Fenni]], rond' 6000-5000 BC, [[Pre-modern global trade|patterns of regular trade]] was/were established among Suderavia, Penthebhra, Culriocha, Covina, Kirav, et al., and would later accelerate as the Fenni became better-established in the region and as the [[Prehistory_of_Great_Kirav#Age_of_Blood|Age of Blood]] wound down in Great Kirav.
===Literally the rest of history===
===Sunderance===
===Sunderance===
Like most overseas provinces, Suderavia would remain loyal to the Federalist government during the [[Kiravian Civil War]]. Peasant life on the peninsula was harsh, to be sure, but feudalism had never truly taken root in the agriculturally marginal province. The hardy Suderavian {{wt|husbandman|husbandmen}} were attune to the cruelty and caprice of Nature and did not think themselves victims of injustice resoluble by political action. Suderavia did have a proletariat employed in the mining camps, port towns, and coaling stations, and there was indeed an active trade union movement, but historians believe that the unions in Suderavia had actually been generally successful in addressing workers' concerns to their satisfaction and without violent confrontation. To the [[1934 Constitutional Convention|Constitutional Convention of 1934 AD]], Suderavia was alotted two seats, and returned one deputy off the Agrarian list and one off the Whiggamore list.
Suderavia's involvement with the Civil War was minimal until its closing stages as the major eastern ports fell one by one to the Red Army. Initially few (but some) refugees fleeing the mainland arrived on Keremonta's wharves, with most seeking haven on Ilánova or Koskenkorva instead. However, when ''these'' islands came under threat from the Socialist forces, Suderavia found itself taking in more and more refugees and playing host to considerable quantities of evacuated Federalist troops, ships, and matériel. With the eventual loss of Koskenkorva, Suderavia was left in an unenviable position: Far from the nearest Federalist stronghold ([[Eusa]]) across dangerous waters, far removed from the main body of Federalist forces who were [[Farravonian Counterrevolution|then fighting on Great Kirav's west coast]], and much farther still from the Federalist government-in-exile in [[Sirana]]. Thanks to the [[Kiravian_Civil_War#Wrecking_of_the_Fleet|Wrecking of the Fleet]] by retreating Federalists, the Red Navy could not threaten Suderavia ''for the time being''. However, Suderavia had been incontrovertibly left to fend for itself - and for nearby defenceless [[Scapa]].
TO BE CONITUED
On September 9, 1936, Commodore [[Leonoix family|Palteran III Leonoix]], Prime Commissioner ("Commish") Kil Kamban of Suderavia, Chief Torcuil McRaven of Scapa, and Kormákur Bonîver - the {{wp|town drunk}} of Karharrak and a fourth-generation descendant of Wintergen expellees chosen<sup>[by whom?]</sup> to represent [[Wintergen]] - signed the Karharrak Compact, which established the '''South Kilikas Federacy''' as a wartime provisional government to undertake and direct all activities necessary for defence of the three<ref>But really just two</ref> provinces from external aggression in the absence of effective federal authority. The Compact was then ritually presented to a megalithic Emperor statue half-buried in the woods outside of town for approval.
In 1941, the Kiravian Remnant concluded an agreement with the [[New Ardmore|Ardmori Republic]] to lease the land on two of the latter's islands for use as military airfields in order to help maintain flights to Suderavia and Scapa, reëstablishing a reliable logistical line between the South Kilikas Federacy and the Remnant.
[Suderavian Missile Crisis]
[Suderavian Missile Crisis]
Once the Remnant acquired long-range/intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, it set some of those bad boys up on Suderavia and aimed them right at [[Kartika]]. The [[Kiravian Union]] was, in the words of People's Rocket Force Captain Karl Levi Åbvius, "not amused". This precipitated a deeply unsatisfying international passive-aggressive bitchfest in which no one got nuked in the end.


===Post-Reunification===
===Post-Reunification===
In the decades since [[Kiravian reunification]], Suderavia's growth and development trajectory has been reliably positive. Unlike many (most) parts of the former [[Kiravian Remnant|Remnant]], Suderavia did not experience an economic downturn as a result of reunification, as it had not really gained a position in the Remnant's internal market and production chains that it stood to lose, nor was its economy especially dependent on defence activities and expenditure.<ref>In any event, no military installations in Suderavia faced closure after reunification.</ref> 
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==Politics & Government==
==Politics & Government==
[[File:Kamenny Island Palace.jpg|thumb|Cabinet Secretariat, Xromîda]]
[[File:Kamenny Island Palace.jpg|thumb|Cabinet Secretariat, Xromîda]]
Suderavia is a {{wp|semi-presidential republic}}. Executive power is exercised by the Governance Commission (''Āritakirstuv''), or “Cabinet”. Members of the Governance Commission are appointed by the Chief Executive, except for the Prime Commissioner, who is elected by the People’s Soviet. The People’s Soviet may dismiss the Commission or any of its individual members by a vote of no confidence.  
Suderavia is a {{wp|semi-presidential republic}}. Executive power is exercised by the Governance Commission (''Āritakirstuv''), or “Cabinet”. Members of the Governance Commission are appointed by the Chief Executive, except for the Prime Commissioner ("the Commish"), who is elected by the Gnarls Barliament. The Gnarls Barliament may dismiss the Commission or any of its individual members by a vote of no confidence.  


The Chief Executive is elected every five years by {{wp|instant-runoff vote}}. The Chief Executive presides over meetings of the Governance Commission and signs its decrees and orders into effect. Independently of the Commission, the Chief Executive is the supreme commander of the Suderavian Defence Force and Suderavian People’s Police, and holds a number of other prerogative powers, such as to make judicial appointments and issue pardons.
The Chief Executive is elected every five years by {{wp|instant-runoff vote}}. The Chief Executive presides over meetings of the Governance Commission and signs its decrees and orders into effect. Independently of the Commission, the Chief Executive is the supreme commander of the Suderavian Defence Force and Suderavian People’s Police, and holds a number of other prerogative powers, such as to make judicial appointments and issue pardons.
[[File:Simferopol, State Council of Crimea, 2016.06.20 (01) (29577734262).jpg|thumb|People's Soviet, Xromîda]]
[[File:Simferopol, State Council of Crimea, 2016.06.20 (01) (29577734262).jpg|thumb|Gnarls Barliament, Xromîda]]
The legislative organ is the People’s Soviet, which is elected every two years. Suderavia’s countyships and independent city (Keremonta) serve as its electoral constituencies, and seats are allocated among them with reference to population. Elections to the People’s Soviet are by instant-runoff vote in single-member constituencies and by {{wp|single transferable vote}} in multiple-member constituencies. X number of special seats are reserved for the Skithanawite people, who elect their representatives by [general-ticket vote probably]. Skithanawite citizens also vote in the geographic constituencies in which they live.
The legislative organ is the Gnarls Barliament, which is elected every two years. Suderavia’s countyships and independent city (Keremonta) serve as its electoral constituencies, and seats are allocated among them with reference to population. Elections to the Gnarls Barliament are by instant-runoff vote in single-member constituencies and by {{wp|single transferable vote}} in multiple-member constituencies.


===Political Landscape===
===Political Landscape===
The political culture and party-political landscape of Suderavia are rooted in its revolutionary history but have evolved since the peninsula's integration with the Kiravian Federacy. Today, the two most consequential political parties in the state are the '''Unionist Party''' (affiliated with the [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]]) and the '''Suderav Republic Party''' (affiliated with the [[Coscivian National Congress]]). Both draw support mainly from the Coscivian population and descend from the pre-liberation Suderav Republic Party, which was the banned political wing of the Suderav Republican Army. The Unionist Party split from the SRP soon after liberation, over the question of accession to the Kiravian Federacy. The Unionists favoured speedy admission to the Kiravian Federacy as a full state, while the remnant SRP preferred a looser form of association or to remain an allied but independent republic. After accession became a *fait accompli*, this distinction lingered for some time, with the UP being the more resolutely federalist party and the SRP espousing [[Kiravian Federalism#Soft|soft antifederalism]] and localism, but both parties have since dropped strong commitments to either position. Today, the Unionists are mainly understood as the more {{wp|economic liberalism|economically}} and {{wp|Constitutional liberalism|constitutionally liberal}} party, inspired by [[Shaftonist democracy]], whereas the SRP are understood as more {{wp|statist}} and influenced by Capetian-style [[Restarkism]]. Nonetheless, both are Coscivian-nationalist, socially conservative, and claim to uphold the Shaftonist-republican tradition. Both parties compete for overlapping voter demographics and frequently form coalitions with (or against) one another. The SRP holds an advantage among ethnic Suderav Coscivians and Unionists hold an advantage among voters from other Coscivian groups, whether more recent immigrants from other parts of Kiravia or longer-established communities that have not adopted a Suderav Coscivian national identity. Gaelic voters are a loyal base of support for the Unionists, as are Finno-Koskenkorvans and Burgittans with Kiravian citizenship. Voters with Wintergen refugee ancestry strongly favour the SRP.
The '''Skithanawite People's Party''' is consistently the third-largest party in the People's Soviet, enjoying near-total support from ethnic Skithanawite voters. Its strategy is to advance the interests of the Skithanawite people by always being part of the governing coalition, and most governing majorities since the UP-SRP split and the dawn of competitive elections have been either UP-SPP or SRP-SPP coalitions. However, customarily, even when the SPP is not part of the majority caucus in the Soviet (e.g. UP-SRP/SRP-UP or SRP-DA coalitions), the Chief Executive has nonetheless appointed SPP members or nominally-independent ethnic Skithanawites to cabinet posts as a gesture of inclusion. In keeping with the culture and values of its voter base, the SPP is ultraconservative, fiercely traditionalist, and protective of Skithanawite customs and institutions. It opposes Coscivian nationalism in favour of an {{wp|ethnopluralism|ethnopluralist}} arrangement with separate cultural and political autonomy for Skithanawites. The SPP rejects formal affiliation with any interstate groupings of political parties and SPP Delegates to the [[Federal Stanora]] officially sit as ''non-inscrit''. However, in practice the SPP has a close working relationship with the [[Authentic Historical Caucus]].
The '''Democratic Alliance''' is the smallest of the major political forces in Suderavia, being an electoral alliance and legislative caucus composed of several small left-leaning parties with disparate identities and agendas. The Socialist Party of Suderavia is [[Kirosocialism|Kirosocialist]] and pan-ethnic, whereas the Coscivian Socialist Party is Kirosocialist but Coscivian-nationalist. The Communists of Suderavia are Marxist–Livasist and pan-ethnic, and the Democratic Party in Suderavia is a nominally communist party that mainly represents the interests of the ethnic Covine population. The Saresian Workers' Party is notionally [Saresian Juche or whatever] and represents the Saresian minority community. The DA is usually left out of the governing majority but has on one occasion been a junior coalition partner to the SRP. It often joins with SRP legislators to oppose economic liberalisation. Overall the DA draws most of its support from miners, industrial workers, ethnic Covines, and fishermen. The DA is affiliated with the [[Popular Democratic Front]] federally. The '''[[Party of Kiravian Democrats|Party of Suderavian Democrats]]''' is not associated with the DA, but has exploited voters' confusion of its name with that of the Democratic Party in Suderavia to win seats on a number of municipal councils.
More minor parties include the Christian Democratic Party, the ecologist Mountain Party, the Gaelic People's Party, and the Justicialist Party. The '''[[Levantian Union Party|Levantian Union Party]]''' is especially active in Suderavia, as it is the Kiravian state with the strongest connexion to the Levantian mainland and the largest ethnic Levantine population by percentage. Though it has yet to gain sufficient electoral traction to win seats, the LUP is gaining interest among voters with proposals to fashion Suderavia into a {{wp|special economic zone}} and {{wp|customs area}} that might serve as an economic and political bridge between the Kiravian Federacy and the [[Levantine Union]] and bring economic growth to the peninsula in the process.
===Skithanawite Institutions===
The Skithanawite community has its own institutions, which are recognised by state law. The King of the Skithanawites (referred to in state laws as Chief of the Skithanawites, a point of contention) is the hereditary head of these institutions. There is an elected advisory Skithanawite Parliament, as well as a Skithanawite Privy Council which acts as the executive branch for most purposes, though the King continues to exercise many powers personally. The Skithanawite community funds Skithanawite-language schools, libraries, and language revitalisation programmes, the Skithanawite Conclavist Catholic Church, development and social assistance programmes, and other services. The Privy Council administers the Skithanawite Trust Lands, which are owned by the King for the exclusive residential, economic, and cultural use of Skithanawites, and the community is in a decades-long negotiation with the state government and federal attorneys over the demarcation of an autonomous Skithanawite Crown Autonomy within Suderavia. There is a continuing legal debate as to whether the status of the Skithanawite Crown under the Suderavian Constitution violates the Kiravian Fundamental Statute's requirement that states have a republican form of government, and this is a sticking point in discussions about greater autonomy in the future.


==Society & Culture==
==Society & Culture==
The culture of Suderavia is shaped by its Coscivian heritage, its geographic and environmental conditions, the legacy of Covine rule, and foreign influences absorbed from neighbouring countries or received from further abroad through the Kilikas Sea trade.
The culture of Suderavia is shaped by its ancient Coscivian heritage and Fhainn contributions, its geographic and environmental conditions, and foreign influences absorbed from neighbouring countries or received from further abroad through the Kilikas Sea trade.


===Ethnicity===
===Ethnicity===
====Coscivian peoples====
====Coscivian peoples====
The founding Coscivian settler population of Suderavia was generally similar in profile to that of Kaviska, Fariva, and Ilánova, with most settlers belonging to Akúvaric Coscivian or Northern Coscivian ethnic groups, such as the Sedhem, Eshavians, and Kaltem. Multigenerational Suderavian Coscivians retain an awareness of their different Coscivian ancestral origins, but among them ethnic identity has been for the most part subsumed into clan identity, with individual clans claiming a Kaltem heritage or Sedhem heritage, etc. On the 21200 Kiravian Census, 70.5% of Coscivians in Suderavia entered their ethnosocial identity as “Suderavian Coscivian” while 29.4% entered other designations. A great deal of the ancestral admixture of Suderavian Coscivians comes from Skithanawite, Gaelic, and Burgundois sources, and a significant number also have recent Covine ancestry, though this is now seldom discussed.
Other Coscivian ethnic identities reported by significant numbers of Suderavians were Eshavian Coscivian, Sedhan Coscivian, Ĥeiran Coscivian (and subgroups), Arnórian Coscivian, [[Kir people|Kir Coscivians]] (and subgroups), Kelnordan Coscivian (and subgroups), Skōrdan Coscivian, Sea Coscivian, Féinem, Ilánovan Coscivian, Fulmarine, North Coscivian (and subgroups), and Wintergen Coscivian.


====Celtic Peoples====
====Celtic Peoples====
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There is reason to believe that the ethnic Covine population of Suderavia is deliberately undercounted by the authorities and could number as high as one fifth of the total population. The General Council of [[Covinian-Kiravians|Covine-Kiravians]] is the leading interlocutor on behalf of this minority group's interests.
There is reason to believe that the ethnic Covine population of Suderavia is deliberately undercounted by the authorities and could number as high as one fifth of the total population. The General Council of [[Covinian-Kiravians|Covine-Kiravians]] is the leading interlocutor on behalf of this minority group's interests.


====Skithanawites====
====Kiravite Minorities====
Skithanawites settled in Suderavia in significant numbers during the [CENTURY]. After the [[Kiravian Civil War]], they were joined by a much larger swell of Skithanawite refugees from the Kiravian Mainland, as Skithanawites experienced especially harsh oppression by the Kiravian Union. Skithanawites speak what is believed to be a pre-Japhetic [[Paleo-Levantine peoples|Palæo-Levantine]] language and have their own customary monarch, who resides in Suderavia during the warmer months and is actively involved in the island's affairs.
The main Kiravite Minority communities in Suderavia are Skinanawites and Kópistonians, with smaller numbers of Érhuans.


====Levantine Peoples====
It is known that a small community of [[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Skithanawites|Skithanawites]] already existed by the time of their mysterious 1847 religious schsim. It is unknown precisely when or why Skithanawite appeared on the peninsula, but the most likely theory seems to involve the dispatch of Skithanawite warriors as shock troops for a past attempted expansionist campaign in Levantia. After the [[Kiravian Civil War]], these established ''colons'' were joined by a much larger swell of Skithanawite refugees from the Kiravian Mainland, including their reigning {{wp|ethnarch}}, as Skithanawites experienced especially harsh oppression by the Kiravian Union. The Skithanawite customary monarch resides in Suderavia during the warmer months and is actively involved in the peninsula's affairs.
Most of the non-Coscivian, non-Skithanawite population are of mainland Levantine origin, whether Covines who settled on the peninsula during the period of Covinan rule, or migrants from neighbouring Levantine countries ([[Burgundie]], [[Faneria]]) and their descendants. In Keremonta and a few larger towns there are neighbourhoods populated by Saresians and other minority peoples of Covina. Some of these people arrived as ordinary internal migrants during Covine rule, and others came to the peninsula as refugees and political asylees after the peninsula's liberation. The government of Covina has accused the Kiravian Federacy of harbouring wanted terrorists on the peninsula and providing them training from former Suderavian Republican Army guerrillas and Kiravian military advisors, which the Kiravian government denies.


The Kópistonian presence in Suderavia dates at least as far back as the 1400s AD, perhaps as early as the 1200s.


====Levantine Peoples====


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===Language===
===Language===
The major languages of Suderavia are Suderavian Coscivian, [[Fhasen]], Covine, Skithanawite, and Kiravic Coscivian. Suderavian Coscivian is the state's official language, and the rest of the aforementioned languages, plus Culriochan, have official recognition and are accommodated by state institutions.
The Suderavian Coscivian language belongs to the Northern family within the Transkiravian language stock. It is closely related to [[Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian]], and the two languages are {{wp|mutually intelligible}}.  
The Suderavian Coscivian language belongs to the Northern family within the Transkiravian language stock. It is closely related to [[Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian]], and the two languages are {{wp|mutually intelligible}}.  


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===Religion===
===Religion===
Suderavians are predominantly Christian, though among the Coscivian population many maintain Læstorian, Rurican, and Sarostivist traditions as a “background religion” of sorts. Most Coscivian-Suderavians are either Catholics worshipping according to the Coscivian Rite or belong to the [[Insular Apostolic Church]]. The Coscivian Orthodox Church had a significant presence earlier in the peninsula’s history, but by the mid-19th century the last Coscivian Orthodox parishes had either entered communion with Urceopolis or disbanded. It would later be revived during the Sunderance by refugees from other Kiravian states.
Suderavians are predominantly Christian, though among the Coscivian population many maintain Læstorian, Rurican, and Sarostivist traditions as a “background religion” of sorts. Most Coscivian-Suderavians are either Catholics worshipping according to the Coscivian Rite or belong to the [[Insular Apostolic Church]]. The Coscivian Orthodox Church had a significant presence earlier in the peninsula’s history, but by the mid-19th century the last Coscivian Orthodox parishes had either entered communion with Urceopolis or disbanded. It would later be revived during the Sunderance by refugees from other Kiravian provinces.


The Skithanawites are conclavist Catholic {{wp|sedevacantists}} with their own antipope. The Latin Rite Catholic population is made up mainly of Covines and other Levantine residents.  
Suderavia is important in the history of the Insular Apostolic Church, as it became a safe haven for Gaelian dissenters fleeing persecution in the aftermath of the [[Crusades#Tonsure_Wars|Tonsure Wars]]. While most of the Pilgrims of the Kilikas - as they are called in the Insular tradition - only made port in Suderavia before making the long and dangerous crossing to [[Ilánova]], some put down permanent roots on the peninsula, establishing monasteries on remote promontories where they would conserve their suppressed rites and minister to nearby lay populations. The province is home to over a dozen Insular Apostolic shrines dedicated to saints who carried out their vocations there, most of them Kilikas Pilgrims or later abbots.
 
There is a strong {{wp|eremitic}} tradition in Suderavian spirituality that may date as far back as the Lunar Monotheism of the primitive Coscivians. The State Forest Service reckons that there are anywhere between twenty and forty hermits living in the mountains and woodlands of the Suderavian interior at any given time, whether Apostolic, Catholic, or even from the Abrigalast tradition.
 
The Latin Rite Catholic population is made up mainly of [[Levantia|Levantine]] people.
 
The Skithanawites are conclavist Catholic {{wp|sedevacantists}} with their own antipope. They have been in schism since before it was cool, since 1847 AD.  


Small numbers of Lutherans, Mercantile Protestants, and [[Kiravian Sectarians|Kiravian Sectarian]] denominations such as the Reformed Orthodox Church and Trinitarian Universalist Church are found in urban areas.
Small numbers of Lutherans, Mercantile Protestants, and [[Kiravian Sectarians|Kiravian Sectarian]] denominations such as the Reformed Orthodox Church and Trinitarian Universalist Church are found in urban areas.
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Suderavia is home to a considerable population of [[Abrigalasts]], representing one of the largest and oldest Abrigalast communities in Ixnay. The Abrigalasts of Suderavia arrived fairly early in the history of their faith, having fled persecution in South Levantia and been welcomed by the Covine government of the time to cultivate its more marginal lands. Most Suderavian Abrigalasts do not respond to the Federal Census, but there are estimated to be about 5,000, with around 60% living in Abrigalast settlements, though figures for urban Abrigalasts are likely underreported. Although they are mainly of Levantine ancestry, Suderavian Abrigalasts have spoken Suderavian Coscivian as their native language for centuries.
Suderavia is home to a considerable population of [[Abrigalasts]], representing one of the largest and oldest Abrigalast communities in Ixnay. The Abrigalasts of Suderavia arrived fairly early in the history of their faith, having fled persecution in South Levantia and been welcomed by the Covine government of the time to cultivate its more marginal lands. Most Suderavian Abrigalasts do not respond to the Federal Census, but there are estimated to be about 5,000, with around 60% living in Abrigalast settlements, though figures for urban Abrigalasts are likely underreported. Although they are mainly of Levantine ancestry, Suderavian Abrigalasts have spoken Suderavian Coscivian as their native language for centuries.


There are two mosques in Suderavia, one [[Qustanti Islam|Qustanti]] and one non-denominational but of Sunni provenance, both in Keremonta. The Bahá’í Local Spiritual Assembly is based in Xromîda and claims 500 adherents, 105 of which are active.
There are five mosques in Suderavia: Two {{wp|Twelver Shi'a}}, one {{wp|Ismailism|Sevener Shi'a}}, one [[Qustanti Islam|Qustanti]] and one Sunni. The Sevener and one Twelver mosque are in Xromîda; the rest are in Keremonta. The Bahá’í Local Spiritual Assembly is based in Xromîda and claims 500 adherents, 105 of which are active.


===Architecture===
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===Cuisine===
Traditional Suderavian cuisine is quite similar to that of neighbouring and nearby regions on the Kilikas. It makes much use of seafood and seabirds.
As Suderavia is not suitable for the cultivation of {{wp|hops}}, its inhabitants traditionally used other botanicals, principally {{wp|spruce}} and {{wp|Pine-Sol|pine}} buds and {{wp|Ericaceae|heathers}}. Suderavia shares this tradition with similarly situated regions of Great Kirav, such as the [[Coscivian Sea]] coast and Far Northeast. Although hops and beers brewed with hops are now commercially available thanks to {{wp|trade}}, Suderavians still have a taste for the olde style, and home-brewed spruce or heather beer is preferred for ceremonial uses, such as {{wp|betrothal}}s.
Distilled liquor is highly important to the regional diet and to its repertoire of {{wp|traditional medicine}}. The standard products are {{wp|whiskey}} (inc. its {{wp|Poitín|potent derivatives}}), {{wp|Akvavit|herbal spirit}}, and {{wp|Vodka|white spirit}}. Historically, most Suderavian beer was domestically produced as {{wp|table beer}}, a soft drink for general nutrition, whereas distilled liquors were the preferred libation for driving and [[spórvulnar]].


==Economy==
==Economy==
[[File:A short hike on Blackcomb Mtn, as a day trip from Kamloops via Duffy Lake road - look for the tiny Red Gondal cabins (28 passengers each) crossing the Fitzsimmons Creeek valley over to Whistler Mtn - (28509089310).jpg|thumb|Ski slopes in the offseason]]
[[File:A short hike on Blackcomb Mtn, as a day trip from Kamloops via Duffy Lake road - look for the tiny Red Gondal cabins (28 passengers each) crossing the Fitzsimmons Creeek valley over to Whistler Mtn - (28509089310).jpg|thumb|Ski slopes in the offseason]]
[[File:At Purcell Lodge…head of the Spillimacheen Riv. (8002163628).jpg|thumb|Mountain lodge]]
[[File:At Purcell Lodge…head of the Spillimacheen Riv. (8002163628).jpg|thumb|Mountain lodge]]
Suderavia's is an economy in transition. Extractive industries - mining, forestry, fisheries, and a small agricultural sector - have always been the mainstay of the Suderavian economy. The transition away from communist state-ownership of mines, factories, and timberland under Covine rule and toward a market-based system of private ownership has been a slow and difficult one. Nonetheless, Suderavia has benefitted greatly since its extrication from the sagging Covine planned economy of the 1990s AD. The opening of new markets for its resource exports - primarily the Kiravian market - and greater access to capital from Kiravia and elsewhere has buoyed economic growth.  
Suderavia's is an economy in transition. Extractive industries - mining, forestry, fisheries, and a small agricultural sector - have always been the mainstay of the Suderavian economy.  
 
Tourism has been an important pillar of the Suderavian economy for quite some time. Since the 1990s, a burgeoning private tourist industry has emerged, catering to enjoyers of winter and outdoor recreation from Levantia and the Kiravian territories. An attendant real estate industry specialising in vacation properties, second homes, and service-oriented development has also taken root, and the accompanying boom in construction jobs has helped smooth over unemployment resulting from the restructuring of industrial and mineral enterprises.


Tourism has been an important pillar of the Suderavian economy for quite some time. Under Covine rule the peninsula was home to many dacha estates and well-appointed state dachas visited by the country's governing élite. Since liberation, a burgeoning private tourist industry has emerged, catering to enjoyers of winter and outdoor recreation from Levantia and the Kiravian Federacy. An attendant real estate industry specialising in vacation properties, second homes, and service-oriented development has also taken root, and the accompanying boom in construction jobs has helped smooth over unemployment resulting from the restructuring of industrial and mineral enterprises.
==Notable Suderavians==
*Go fuck yourself.


Scrap metal - harvested mainly from disused Covine military installations and abandoned infrastructure, is an important export.
==Notes==


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Suderavian Woqalate
Suderaviax Vuokalağuv

Flag
Suderavia in dark green, other Kiravian territories in medium green, disputed Kiravian territories in lime.

Country Kiravian Federacy
Theme Overseas Regions
Capital Xromîda
Largest City Keremonta
Population 2,284,000
Chief Executive Karolyn Istraxan (UP)
Prime Secretary S.V. Erid (SPP)
Legislature Gnarls Barliament
Stanora seats 3
Official languages Suderavian Coscivian
Recognised languages Gaelic
Kiravic Coscivian
Skithanawite
Covine
Postal Abbreviation SUD
Time Zone West Levantine Time

Suderavia, officially the Suderavian Woqalate (Suderaviax Vuokalağuv) is an overseas state of the Kiravian Federacy occupying a peninsula in northwestern Levantia.

Georgraphy

Geographically, Suderavia is very mountainous and has a vast system of rivers, valleys, lakes, and mountains that span the region. Though the region is now ideal for many interested in winter sports, buying a cottage/vacation home, the mining business, and ecotourism, it was historically viewed as largely inhospitable land that limited colonial expansion.

— Diamavius Cronscovinus, Suderavia: Lore Once Forgotten

History

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

Prehistory

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

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

The narrow isthmus and the peninsula's inaccessible terrain likely provided a natural refugium from the sweep of Japhetic peoples across the Levantine continent, allowing the Ur-Coscivian society there to survive intact, escaping the fate that presumably befell most Palæo-Levantine peoples now lost to history. The sea routes connecting Suderavia with Éorsa and Penthebhra would allow for knowledge of important agricultural breakthroughs such as and buckwheat cultivation and advanced apicultural techniques to reach Suderavia, spurring population growth.

The first Japhetic peoples to come into contact with Suderavia were presumably the Celtic Impaxi, possibly progenitors of modern Culriochans - or not? The nature of their interactions with the Proto-Coscivians and any long-term impact on Suderavia are not known at this time.

With the arrival of another Celtic people, the technologically sophisticated Fenni, rond' 6000-5000 BC, patterns of regular trade was/were established among Suderavia, Penthebhra, Culriocha, Covina, Kirav, et al., and would later accelerate as the Fenni became better-established in the region and as the Age of Blood wound down in Great Kirav.

Literally the rest of history

Sunderance

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

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

TO BE CONITUED

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

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

[Suderavian Missile Crisis]

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

Post-Reunification

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


Politics & Government

Cabinet Secretariat, Xromîda

Suderavia is a semi-presidential republic. Executive power is exercised by the Governance Commission (Āritakirstuv), or “Cabinet”. Members of the Governance Commission are appointed by the Chief Executive, except for the Prime Commissioner ("the Commish"), who is elected by the Gnarls Barliament. The Gnarls Barliament may dismiss the Commission or any of its individual members by a vote of no confidence.

The Chief Executive is elected every five years by instant-runoff vote. The Chief Executive presides over meetings of the Governance Commission and signs its decrees and orders into effect. Independently of the Commission, the Chief Executive is the supreme commander of the Suderavian Defence Force and Suderavian People’s Police, and holds a number of other prerogative powers, such as to make judicial appointments and issue pardons.

Gnarls Barliament, Xromîda

The legislative organ is the Gnarls Barliament, which is elected every two years. Suderavia’s countyships and independent city (Keremonta) serve as its electoral constituencies, and seats are allocated among them with reference to population. Elections to the Gnarls Barliament are by instant-runoff vote in single-member constituencies and by single transferable vote in multiple-member constituencies.

Political Landscape

Society & Culture

The culture of Suderavia is shaped by its ancient Coscivian heritage and Fhainn contributions, its geographic and environmental conditions, and foreign influences absorbed from neighbouring countries or received from further abroad through the Kilikas Sea trade.

Ethnicity

Coscivian peoples

Celtic Peoples

The Gaelic population of Suderavia are mainly of Fanerian background, with a minority being Kiravian Gaels or Fiannrian Gaels. Suderavia hosts many Gaelic migrant workers from Scapa, a nearby Kiravian protectorate. [Fhainn subgroups]

[Culriochans]

There is reason to believe that the ethnic Covine population of Suderavia is deliberately undercounted by the authorities and could number as high as one fifth of the total population. The General Council of Covine-Kiravians is the leading interlocutor on behalf of this minority group's interests.

Kiravite Minorities

The main Kiravite Minority communities in Suderavia are Skinanawites and Kópistonians, with smaller numbers of Érhuans.

It is known that a small community of Skithanawites already existed by the time of their mysterious 1847 religious schsim. It is unknown precisely when or why Skithanawite appeared on the peninsula, but the most likely theory seems to involve the dispatch of Skithanawite warriors as shock troops for a past attempted expansionist campaign in Levantia. After the Kiravian Civil War, these established colons were joined by a much larger swell of Skithanawite refugees from the Kiravian Mainland, including their reigning ethnarch, as Skithanawites experienced especially harsh oppression by the Kiravian Union. The Skithanawite customary monarch resides in Suderavia during the warmer months and is actively involved in the peninsula's affairs.

The Kópistonian presence in Suderavia dates at least as far back as the 1400s AD, perhaps as early as the 1200s.

Levantine Peoples

Ethnocultural Breakdown of Suderavia

  Classical Liberals (38.4%)
  Other Conservative liberals (16.0%)
  Neoliberals
(18.8%)
  National Liberals (7.1%)
  Social liberals (4.4%)
  Geoliberals (15.3%)

Language

The Suderavian Coscivian language belongs to the Northern family within the Transkiravian language stock. It is closely related to Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian, and the two languages are mutually intelligible.

Celtic languages - Gaelic and Fhasen, Covine, and Culriochan - make up the second-largest language bloc.

Kiravic Coscivian is taught in secondary schools and spoken by many transplants from other Kiravian states, as well as in many business settings. It has official recognition from the state, and the state government will accept and process documents filed in Kiravic.

The Skithanaw language is spoken by the Skithanawite community.

The Wyunintran language of neighbouring Unintra is spoken by immigrants and expatriates of Unintran origin, and is widely understood in the isthmus towns. Wyunintran is the most commonly studied foreign language among Suderavian secondary school students (Fhasen is more commonly studied as a second language, but is not considered a foreign language).

Religion

Suderavians are predominantly Christian, though among the Coscivian population many maintain Læstorian, Rurican, and Sarostivist traditions as a “background religion” of sorts. Most Coscivian-Suderavians are either Catholics worshipping according to the Coscivian Rite or belong to the Insular Apostolic Church. The Coscivian Orthodox Church had a significant presence earlier in the peninsula’s history, but by the mid-19th century the last Coscivian Orthodox parishes had either entered communion with Urceopolis or disbanded. It would later be revived during the Sunderance by refugees from other Kiravian provinces.

Suderavia is important in the history of the Insular Apostolic Church, as it became a safe haven for Gaelian dissenters fleeing persecution in the aftermath of the Tonsure Wars. While most of the Pilgrims of the Kilikas - as they are called in the Insular tradition - only made port in Suderavia before making the long and dangerous crossing to Ilánova, some put down permanent roots on the peninsula, establishing monasteries on remote promontories where they would conserve their suppressed rites and minister to nearby lay populations. The province is home to over a dozen Insular Apostolic shrines dedicated to saints who carried out their vocations there, most of them Kilikas Pilgrims or later abbots.

There is a strong eremitic tradition in Suderavian spirituality that may date as far back as the Lunar Monotheism of the primitive Coscivians. The State Forest Service reckons that there are anywhere between twenty and forty hermits living in the mountains and woodlands of the Suderavian interior at any given time, whether Apostolic, Catholic, or even from the Abrigalast tradition.

The Latin Rite Catholic population is made up mainly of Levantine people.

The Skithanawites are conclavist Catholic sedevacantists with their own antipope. They have been in schism since before it was cool, since 1847 AD.

Small numbers of Lutherans, Mercantile Protestants, and Kiravian Sectarian denominations such as the Reformed Orthodox Church and Trinitarian Universalist Church are found in urban areas.

Suderavia is home to a considerable population of Abrigalasts, representing one of the largest and oldest Abrigalast communities in Ixnay. The Abrigalasts of Suderavia arrived fairly early in the history of their faith, having fled persecution in South Levantia and been welcomed by the Covine government of the time to cultivate its more marginal lands. Most Suderavian Abrigalasts do not respond to the Federal Census, but there are estimated to be about 5,000, with around 60% living in Abrigalast settlements, though figures for urban Abrigalasts are likely underreported. Although they are mainly of Levantine ancestry, Suderavian Abrigalasts have spoken Suderavian Coscivian as their native language for centuries.

There are five mosques in Suderavia: Two Twelver Shi'a, one Sevener Shi'a, one Qustanti and one Sunni. The Sevener and one Twelver mosque are in Xromîda; the rest are in Keremonta. The Bahá’í Local Spiritual Assembly is based in Xromîda and claims 500 adherents, 105 of which are active.

Architecture

Levantine influence on Suderavian architecture is strong and pervasive. Coscivian nationalists on the peninsula looked to Kilikas Brutalism for expression, and since liberation there has been a profusion of Kilikas Brutalist architecture all over the peninsula, especially for public buildings.

Cuisine

Traditional Suderavian cuisine is quite similar to that of neighbouring and nearby regions on the Kilikas. It makes much use of seafood and seabirds.

As Suderavia is not suitable for the cultivation of hops, its inhabitants traditionally used other botanicals, principally spruce and pine buds and heathers. Suderavia shares this tradition with similarly situated regions of Great Kirav, such as the Coscivian Sea coast and Far Northeast. Although hops and beers brewed with hops are now commercially available thanks to trade, Suderavians still have a taste for the olde style, and home-brewed spruce or heather beer is preferred for ceremonial uses, such as betrothals.

Distilled liquor is highly important to the regional diet and to its repertoire of traditional medicine. The standard products are whiskey (inc. its potent derivatives), herbal spirit, and white spirit. Historically, most Suderavian beer was domestically produced as table beer, a soft drink for general nutrition, whereas distilled liquors were the preferred libation for driving and spórvulnar.

Economy

Ski slopes in the offseason
Mountain lodge

Suderavia's is an economy in transition. Extractive industries - mining, forestry, fisheries, and a small agricultural sector - have always been the mainstay of the Suderavian economy.

Tourism has been an important pillar of the Suderavian economy for quite some time. Since the 1990s, a burgeoning private tourist industry has emerged, catering to enjoyers of winter and outdoor recreation from Levantia and the Kiravian territories. An attendant real estate industry specialising in vacation properties, second homes, and service-oriented development has also taken root, and the accompanying boom in construction jobs has helped smooth over unemployment resulting from the restructuring of industrial and mineral enterprises.

Notable Suderavians

  • Go fuck yourself.

Notes

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