Rumahoki

Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki Five official names Latin: Serenissima Dominatio Rumahociae Pelaxian: Serenísima Soberanía de Rumajoqui Reform Tainean: Serenisim Sauberanetas des Roumahauki Cartadanian: Sereníssima Soberania do Rumáhoque Insuo Loa: Hadijida'ari Jomiria'ari Rumahoki
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: ¡Patría o Muerte, No Pasarán! ("Homeland or Death, They Shall Not Pass!")
Anthem: Rumahokian March Royal anthem: Mine Shield for Thee
National emblem
Location of Rumahoki (dark green)
Capital	Santa Maria
Largest city	Adouka
Official languages	Latin Pelaxian Reform Tainean
Recognised regional languages	Cartadanian Insuo Loa
Unrecognised regional languages	Bahiais Outer Rumais Upper Inner Rumais Lower Inner Rumais Bariano
Ethnic groups	By race: 61.6% Delepasian 20.7% Tainean 9.2% Loa 7.2% Cartadanian 1.3% Other By origin: 69.1% Sarpedon 20.7% Crona 9.2% Polynesia 1.0% Other
Religion	88.5% Christianity 64.8% Catholic 20.7% Protestant 17.2% Reform 3.5% Collegiate 3.0% Other Christianity 9.2% Marian Kapuhenasa 2.3% Other
Demonym(s)	Rumahokian
Government	Federal Velvetine parliamentary socialist semi-elective semi-constitutional monarchy
• Emperor	Maximilian I
• Prime Minister	Francisco Carvalho
Legislature	National Assembly
• Upper house	Congress of the Peerage
• Lower house	Congress of the Commons
Formation
• Pact of Eighteen	21 May 1976
• First Constitution	1 May 1977
• Democratisation	30 April 1994
• Current constitution	31 December 1996
Area
• Total	1,409,057 km2 (544,040 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	53,515,729 (2034)
• Census	52,887,592 (2032)
• Density	37.14/km2 (96.2/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2031 estimate
• Total	$4.711 trillion
• Per capita	$90,028
GDP (nominal)	2031 estimate
• Total	$2.474 trillion
• Per capita	$47,284
Gini (2031)	31.5 medium
HDI (2031)	0.796 high
Currency	Peseta (RUP)
Mains electricity	230 V–50 Hz
Driving side	right
Calling code	+422
Internet TLD	.ru

Rumahoki (Latin: Rumahociae; Pelaxian: Rumajoqui; Reform Tainean: Roumahauki), officially the Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki (Latin: Serenissima Dominatio Rumahociae; Pelaxian: Serenísima Soberanía de Rumajoqui; Reform Tainean: Serenisim Sauberanetas des Roumahauki), is a sovereign country located in eastern Vallos. It shares a land border with Takatta Loa in the southwest, Vallejar in the south, Almadaria in the west, the Caphirian exclave of Vespera in the north, and it shares a maritime border with the Cartadanian state of Porta Bianca in the northeast and Puertego in the southeast. Its coastline runs throughout the Taínean Sea. Like its neighbours, Rumahoki is a megadiverse nation boasting one of the highest biodiversity across the biomes within it.

The Rumahokian economy is a mixed economy with elements of tripartism and dirigism with most public services (most notably healthcare, electricity, and mass public transport) being controlled by the government. However, private industries are permitted to operate in most other sectors such as telecommunications, shipping, and retail. Uniquely, the Rumahokian government is a semi-elective semi-constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary system with a democratic dominant-party system and a fusion of powers with a powerful head of state.

From 1976 until 1994, Rumahoki was under a regime greatly inspired by conservative and authoritarian ideologies complete with a sham democracy. This regime was known as the Delepasian Commonwealth, using the former Pelaxian name of the nation. This all changed with the Velvet Revolution in 1994 when left-wing factions of the Rumahokian Imperial Armed Forces overthrew the government and sparked a brief civil war period, eventually pushing through a series of sweeping democratic reforms which culminated in the Rumahokian Constitution of 1996.

Rumahoki is a member of the League of Nations, though it maintains a non-interventionist stance in international peacekeeping efforts.

Etymology

"Rumahoki" originated from antiquity as a term meaning "earthly paradise" in the eastern dialects of the Tainean language. The meaning behind this term is currently debated upon, but it may have had its origins in the Heaven Ships which has been noted to be how the Taineans migrated to Vallos after being forced out of Crona by the North Songun civilisation. Much like Arona, the name may be in reference to the favourable sea and weather conditions enjoyed by the people living there.

History

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Early Vallosi settlements and Glaistic culture

Main articles: Vallosi people and Glaistic civilisation

The first human settlements on the Vallosi subcontinent has been dated to the year 12,000 BC based on archaeological evidence. This makes Vallos one of the last parts of the Occident to have been initially settled. Material culture suggests that these settlers may have migrated from what is now Pelaxia. Society for the early Vallosi who have become sedentary was primarily agricultural, reaching to about forty percent by the year 2000 BC. As indigenous Vallosi society developed, they would eventually reach their apex with the rise of the Glaistic civilisation, so-called due to ancient Istroyan texts about the supposed hostility and savagry of the Vallosi people. Some of the more well-known examples of Glaistic culture include so-called "shark pottery", named as such due to the use of shark teeth and bones as a crafting material while at the same time depicting shark-related motifs on pottery, and their widespread usage of masks, one of the most common archaeological finds across Vallos from that time period. The Glaistic civilisation reached its peak at around 1800 BC, not long before the arrival of the Polynesians and later arrival of the first Heaven Ships from Crona. However, the Glaistic civilisation, at this point classified as 'later Glaistic civilisation' due to foreign innovations, co-existed with these groups for centuries to come.

Archaeological evidence aside, virtually nothing is known about the indigenous Vallosi or the Glaistic civilisation. Thanks to the lack of technological development and the lack of a proper writing system, the indigenous Vallosi culture was eventually lost through assimilation, intermarriage, and colonisation, thus leading to a near-total displacement. The average Rumahokian may have as much as less than ten percent DNA from the indigenous Vallosi according to genetic studies made in the year 1997.

Heaven Ships and the Loa

Main article: Heaven Ships

Sometime before 1000 BC, some strange ships would land on the northern shores of Vallos, carrying multitudes of passengers from Crona with most of them having been criminals and other undesirables. These ships arrived at very irregular intervals, often with multiple centuries between successful landings. Many of these passengers would typically go on to intermarry with the indigenous Vallosi, often taking on many cultural aspects of the Glaistic civilisation initially, but subsequent arrivals of Cronan peoples would soon lead to the Glaistic cultural traditions being largely supplanted by the traditions that the newly-arrived Cronans would bring with them alongside entirely new traditions. Nonetheless, the descendants of the Cronans who have arrived to Vallos from before 1000 BC until around 100 BC would become the ancestors of the Taineans, with the first instances of what could be recognised as an early form of Tainean culture emerging at around 500 BC.

On the southern shores of Vallos at around 1500 BC, groups of people would arrive having been the result of many years of essentially island-hopping from Peratra to their new homes. According to legend, these people had found the local agriculture of the Glaistics to be very suitable and began to harvest some for themselves only to be met with intense hostility from the Glaistics who promptly forced the newcomers to flee. This incident and rather violent form of first contact describes the origins of the hostilities between the Polynesian ancestors of the Loa and the indigenous Glaistics. The Polynesians would soon return in greater numbers and conducted a raid on coastal Glaistic settlements before finally establishing the first permanent Polynesian settlements in Vallos which in turn became the largest Polynesian settlements outside of their homeland of Peratra, taking up the southernmost third of mainland Vallos.

Early Latinic settlements

The first Occidental people to have settled in Vallos were the Latins from the Adonerii, a pre-Caphiric Latinic civilisation which had originated from the island of Urlazio. Due to the distance between Vallos and Urlazio, however, the Latins would not arrive on Vallos until 650 BC after Adonerii settlements in what is now Cartadania were of a sufficient enough size to send colonists. These first Latinic colonists would land on Porta Bianca, introducing the earliest instances of "true cities" to Vallos from which further colonial ambitions were fueled. Though early Latinic involvement in Vallos was relatively sparse at first, it would soon expand greatly at around 500 BC as refugees from Urlazio would migrate to Porta Bianca before migrating to mainland Vallos. This was further spurred on by the prospect of owning relatively fertile soil, many of which would be farmed by hired Tainean farm labourers further inland. It was also with the arrival of the Latins that the Glaistics would soon face eventual extinction, but not through conflict. Instead, the remaining Glaistics would simply have moved to Latinic urban areas for employment where they would gradually assimilate into the culture of their new overlords as they abandon their previous nomadic lifestyles in favour of a more sedentary way of life.

Warring periods and Caphiric domination

The emergence of three major cultures in Vallos was largely met with a long period of skirmishes between multiple polities throughout the first half of the first millennium. The Polynesians largely stayed in the southern areas of mainland Vallos while the Taineans and the Latins were much more likely to fight against each other as various disputes would arise. This was especially noticeable in Latinic polities where Tainean labourers would often dispute various agreements made with their overlords, and in the southernmost parts of the subcontinent as Tainean and Latinic polities were often at odds with the seemingly rapidly-expanding Polynesian entities. As skirmishes would flare up, so too did overtures in foreign outreach as many Vallosi polities sought alliances with powerful nations on mainland Sarpedon. The most notable being the First Caphiric Imperium when, starting in 600, diplomats were sent to the various entities throughout Vallos in hopes of securing the loyalty of any polity through promises of alliances in exchange for tributes to the Imperator. This series of affairs would continue for about a century until the Imperium, already making lots of money through these tributes, began to launch a series of interventions to establish an imperial hegemony over Vallos that was to be carved into eleven vassal states.

This group of eleven Vallosi vassal states is known as the Undecimvirate and was largely group based on geography instead of cultures. Due to the distance between the Undecimvirate and Caphiria, however, the vassal states were mort akin to highly autonomous kingdoms for the most part so long as they kept paying their tribute to the Imperator. Punishment for defaulting on a tribute was severe as the Imperium would send an invasion force to depose the offending vassal monarch and replace him with a hopefully more compliant king. As none of the eleven vassal states wanted to be on the receiving end of an imperial invasion, all them at one point or another during the hegemonic period would conduct raids against their neighbours in hopes of extracting just enough for their tribute to Caphiria. This practice would greatly expand once tributes became a flat rate. Of course, this would effectively guarantee that at least one vassal state was going to be invaded by the Imperium. Despite the raids, the four centuries of Caphiric hegemony was largely noted for its relative stability compared to the preceding and succeeding warring states periods, with Christianity being introduced into Vallos for the first time, with almost all of the Undecimvirate, save for the Polynesian vassal states, adopting Christianity as the state religion.

The Undecimvirate would only collapse once the Second Imperium collapsed and there was no longer a major power to keep Vallos in line. The immediate effects began with the collapse of many of the former vassal kingdoms into smaller local polities under regional factions with nearly half of the eleven vassal dynasties extinguishing violently while the remaining dynasties would find themselves ruling over far smaller realms than what their ancestors had ruled over during the Undecimvirate.

Colonial era

Main article: Pelaxian colonisation of Vallos

The centuries of Caphiric hegemony, although greatly impactful to the history of Vallos and Rumahoki, was not considered a colonial era on account of the largely autonomous nature of the eleven vassal states. Instead, the earliest colonies came from the arrival of the Isurian captain Mauricio Delepas under the patronage of the King of Pelaxia. The nascent kingdom, itself a vassal state of Caphiria, had already established a viceroyalty in what is now Puertego in the 1480s, but the real prize was mainland Vallos and Delepas would embark on his first expedition to mainland Vallos in 1497. Upon landing on mainland Vallos, the area now known as the coast of Bahia, Delepas would establish the Viceroyalty of Los Rumas in the name of King Jeronimo I. It was through the viceroyalty that Vallos would be introduced to the episcopal hierarchy of the Catholic Church for the first time shortly after the arrival of Delepas, with the establishment of the Diocese of Los Rumas in 1498.

The new viceroyalty had expanded greatly throughout the 16th and 17th Centuries, with expansion greatly increasing after the Great Schism of 1615 when Pelaxia became independent. The schism led to the arrival of Latin Catholic refugees who have fled Caphiria once the Imperium began to persecute Catholics who did not join the Imperial Catholic Church. The most high-profile of these refugees was the Isurian Knights of Saint James whose banner would go on to become a popular military symbol for the viceroyalty. The viceroyalty would also serve as a strategic outpost for protecting Pelaxian interests in the Southern Route and battles between Pelaxia and Burgundie and Kiravia became relatively frequent. However, despite the prestige and autonomy the viceroyalty had held due to its wealth and distance from Albalitor, the rise of the Carto-Pelaxian Commonwealth during this time would force the viceroyalty to take a backseat, with the Pelaxian Crown seemingly snubbing them throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries.

The Commonwealth would eventually collapse in the latter years of the 18th Century, and the Pelaxian monarchy would collapse for the first time just a few years later. The collapse of the monarchy would play a huge role in the change in status for the viceroyalty, which by then had already established a new national identity in retaliation to the perceived neglect and snubbing that the Pelaxian Crown had given them. Such a change in status would ensure that the viceroyalty would be given precedence and even preference when the monarchy was restored in 1814 with the aid of the viceregal government which had already overthrown republican rule in 1806. During the remaining years of the Pelaxian monarchy, the Pelaxian monarchs would promise that plans were being drafted that would turn the viceroyalty into an independent nation under a real union with the Pelaxian Crown. However, new evidence that have emerged in 2014 would reveal that although there were plans being drafted that would change the status of the viceroyalty, these plans called for the integration of the viceroyalty into Pelaxia proper rather than granting independence for the viceroyalty.

Delepasian Kingdom and the end of Pelaxian rule

Main article: Delepasian Kingdom

When the Pelaxian monarchy was toppled in 1852, much of the nobility have fled to the colonies which still pledged loyalty to the Girojón monarchy wherein they united the colonies into a monarchy serving as the pro-Girojón government-in-exile in opposition to the Pelaxian republic. However, tensions soon arose as three major factions were formed. There was the Royalists who hoped to overthrow the republican regime in Pelaxia with the help of the colonies and in return establish a dual monarchy in which the Delepasians would be of equal status to the Pelaxians. In opposition to the dual monarchy idea was the National Constitutionalists who, while they remained loyal to the crown, would rather that the kingdom drop the pretense of being a government-in-exile and instead become an independent Delepasian monarchy under the Girojóns. Lastly, there was the National Republicans who wanted nothing to do with the deposed Pelaxian monarchy nor with Pelaxia in general.

Because these three factions were unable to find a suitable compromise, the Delepasian Kingdom was racked with instability and chaos as the inland-coastal divide led to a few of the states within the kingdom to outright declare war on one another. Within three months, the kingdom was dissolved and each state was free to do as they please. Some of the same nobility who have came up with the dual monarchy idea in the first place decided to attempt to strong-arm the state governments into becoming monarchies with themselves as the monarch. These were only successful in Bahia and Rios Gemelos with the rest settling for various flavours of republican governance.

Pact of Eighteen and Delepasian Commonwealth

Main articles: Pact of Eighteen and Delepasian Commonwealth

See also: Estado Social (Rumahoki) and Navidadian System

The newly-unified nation was a continuation of the Estado Social regime that was installed in 1938 in Rosaria and governed by Fernando Pascual who subsequently became the first Delepasian prime minister from its formation in 1976 until 1988 when he was succeeded by Nicolas Torres after a stroke. The Estado Social also made the institutional system of racial segregation known as the Navidadian System nationwide, barring non-Delepasians from participating in politics as well as closing down immigration to all but a select amount of Pelaxians.

The Estado Social regime in Delepasia was characterised by a gradually-liberalising economy, sham elections, prime ministerial supremacy, pelaxianisation policies, and National Catholicism. Pelaxian was the sole official language during this era, and all minorities were put through brutal cultural suppression and assimilation measures. Even during the Torres reforms of the early 1990s, pelaxianisation remained as official government policy, and public opposition rose sharply as an increasingly significant element of the population grew up having had no memory of the disastrous years of economic and political turmoil that preceded Pascual's regime and most especially when the reformist experiment was put to an end by hardliners in the Armed Forces who felt that reforms should be up to the commander-in-chief and not the prime minister, a departure from the autonomy that Pascual had during his tenure.

Diplomatically, the regime was a member of LOTA, Rosaria having been a member since 1945, two years after the Second Great War had ended, to the detriment of whatever relations the new country may have had with Caphiria. Membership would end in 1991 as a part of the Torres reforms, aiming to move the nation torwards a more neutral stance after the end of the Occidental Cold War.

Velvet Revolution and democratisation

Main articles: Velvet Revolution, Rumahokian transition to democracy, and Democratic Salvation Period

The Delepasian government and army resisted any attempts at dismantling the Estado Social regime until April 1994, when a left-wing military coup in Santa Maria, known as the Velvet Revolution, led the way for the establishment of a multi-party democracy after two years of a transitional civil war period known as PDS (Período de Salvación Democrática). This period was marked by constant social turmoil and a power struggle between left- and right-wing political forces, with the most prominent factions being the Delepasian Federacy, an authoritarian democratic government filled with Estado Social reformists and Pascualist counterrevolutionaries led by Raul Quintero and headquartered in the conservative stronghold of San Joaquin in the state of Homberia, the United Federative Councils of Vallos, a revolutionary Marxist workers' confederation led by popular far-left military commander Vito Borbon and headquartered in the forests of Inaua, and the rump faction of the Junta for the Salvation of Civility, which was headed by the Group of Nine and consisted of moderate socialists and liberal democrats who held a distrust for Quintero's faction and headquartered in Santa Maria.

Through the first several months of the civil war period, Quintero's faction was able to win decisive victories in many battles against the two other rival factions; the split between the two socialist factions were able to weaken the revolutionaries enough for the more professional and well-organised conservative forces to prevail to the point that by early 1995, many nations began to extend diplomatic relations to Quintero's government. In an effort to form a united front against the seemingly-victorious conservatives, the Borbonist faction opted to join forces with the Junta, forming the Council of the National Revolution in August of 1995. With that, the tide of war turned so quickly that by December of 1995 Quintero and much of the leadership of the conservative faction had fled the country; the last pockets of the conservative faction would be defeated in January of 1996.

By July of 1995, the tension between these was so high, that international observers were predicting that a civil war was imminent. Forces connected to the far-left launched a further coup d'état on 3 December, but the Group of Nine, a moderate military faction led by Emperor Maximilian himself, immediately initiated a counter-coup. The main episode of this confrontation was the successful assault on the barracks of the far-left dominated Santa Maria Lancers Regiment by the moderate forces of the Commando Regiment, resulting in three soldiers killed in action.

The Council had emerged victorious, thus preventing the establishment of a conservative strato-democratic regime in Delepasia and ending the period of political instability in the country. The Council of the National Revolution governed Delepasia until just a couple months after the Rumahokian legislative election of 1996. During that time, the junta drafted a new constitution, formally naming the new state the Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki, it established a federal state, it abolished Catholicism as the state religion, it empowered the Emperor in recognition of his role in the civil war period, it established Pelaxian, Latin, and Reform Tainean as the state's three official languages, established provisions committed to the realisation of the socialist revolution through a constitutional framework as well as through a designated vanguard party, and it forbade any systems of racial segregation, thus putting a permanent end to the Navidadian System.

The 1996 elections resulted in a coalition government between the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Christian National Party (PNC) with Fernando Carvalho, PDP's leader, becoming Prime Minister of the first civilian government since before the Velvet Revolution on 21 January 1997. In this capacity Carvalho had initiated the process of accession to the Vallosian Economic Association (VEA) by starting accession negotiations as early as February that same year.

After the transition to democracy, Rumahoki quickly embraced tripartism and dirigism as the nation's primary economic policies, fostering in a mixed-market economy. Land reform and nationalisations were enforced; the constitution (approved in 1996) includes accommodations to socialist principles, complete with numerous references to socialism, the rights of workers, and the desirability of a socialist economy.

Diplomatically, Rumahoki has pursued the thawing and eventual warming of relations with Caphiria as a means to further distance the nation from the Estado Social's warm relations with Urcea, though relations with the Urcean protectorate of Arona have remained warm and cordial nonetheless.

Geography

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  View of Lake Astolia from an observation aircraft

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  Base of a ceiba pentandra tree near the Old Astol River in Auxana

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  Canopy walkway for seeing the diverse tropical rainforests of Rosaria

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  View of the Sierra Guerrero mountain range from Rios Gemelos

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  View of Santa Maria's Resort Area from Saints' Rest Beach

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  View of Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia's coast from Lake Remenau

Rumahoki is situated with the Tainean Sea to its east, with a small bit of coastline in the southeast nearing the Kindreds Sea, and is bordered by a few freshwater lakes, most notably Lake Remenau, which since the 1970s is shared between Rumahoki and its neighbour Almadaria. Rumahoki's neighbours by land are the before-mentioned Almadaria, Takatta Loa, and the Caphiric exclave of Vespera, with maritime borders being shared with Cartadania's Porta Bianca, Puertego, and Vespera. The Niscamanta Range is located to the nation's west, enclosing both sides of the Remenau River Valley. The smaller Lake Astolia is located up north and is also shared with Almadaria.

The seven geographical regions of Rumahoki.

LR (Loru)	LD (Lade)	TL (Tilo)
NR (Nuru)	TDL (Tridesu)	GDN (Gedeno)
NM (Noma)

The Rumahokian Bureau of Statistics and Censuses, in cooperation with the Rumahokian Environmental Agency, have classified the nation as having seven natural regions in 1998: Those being Los Rumas, Lago Delepas (a continuation of the Remenau region in Almadaria), Tierra Loa, New Rumas, Trillizos del Sur (a continuation of the Niscamanta region in Almadaria), Gemelos del Norte (arguably a continuation of the Astol Plains in Almadaria), and Norte Maritimo.

Gemelos del Norte is a tropical grassland much like Astol, and is surrounded by the Astol Mountain Range in the north and east, and the Old Astol River in the south. Trillizos del Sur is the largest geographical area in Rumahoki, and is bordered by Old Astol in the north, and the Sierra Guerrero mountain range, which boasts the highest point in Rumahoki, Mount Sebastian, at 3,623 metres (11,886.48 ft) above sea level.

A majority of Rumahoki's population is concentrated within the regions of Los Rumas (where the nation's largest city of Adouka is located at), and Trillizos del Sur, mostly due to the two regions being among the largest in the country, and the existence of commercially-important rivers which ensures the economic livelihood of many of the states within them via trade with Almadaria.

Climate and environment

Rumahoki's climate is broadly tropical throughout much of the year, though the existence of geographical nuances has allowed for a variety of biomes and climate zones to crop up. Trillizos del Sur and Gemelos del Norte, surrounded by the mountain ranges of Astol and Guerrero, have a more temperate climate in the interior before gradually transitioning towards an alpine climate as one gets closer to one of the mountain ranges, or towards a tropical rainforest climate as one gets closer to the river up north. Near the coast, the regions of Los Rumas and New Rumas have a warmer and more humid climate, often with tropical rainforests. Lago Delepas is a tropical savannah near Lake Remenau, but soon transitions towards temperate grassy plains as one gets closer to Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia before transitioning towards a cooler climate in Tierra Loa.

Being just south of the equator and within one of the tropics, average temperatures remain mostly constant throughout the year, with average highs going up to 30 degrees Celsius, and average lows going down to 15 degrees Celsius. The big distinguishing feature between Rumahoki's geographical areas is the amount of rainfall a given area gets rather than temperatures.

There is no such thing as a vernal or autumnal season in Rumahoki; there is only a dry season, or cosecha (harvesting), and a wet season, or floración (flowering). Typhoons are most common in the wet season, bringing forth heavy amounts of precipitation of up to 350 mm; the dry season sees as little as 10 mm on average. Los Rumas and the interior of Trizillos del Sur and Gemelos del Norte each receive the highest amounts of rainfall on average.

Government and Politics

El Escorial de Gama, the official residence of the Rumahokian Emperor

The Residence of the Edifier, the official residence of the Rumahokian Commander-in-Chief

El Quexigal del Rincon, the official residence of the Rumahokian Prime Minister

The National Assembly building, where the nation's legislature is headquartered

The Supreme Court building, home to the highest court in Rumahoki

Main article: Politics of Rumahoki

Rumahoki is a federal parliamentary semi-elective semi-constitutional monarchy governed under a dominant-party system by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which adheres to the fundamental principles of Velvetine Socialism. Thus, Rumahoki is one of the few countries that happens to be governed by an explicitly socialist party. The Rumahokian constitution states that the nation "is governed by the fundamental principles of socialism as determined by the Velvetines after the Revolution in 1994; the defining feature of which is the role of the People's Democratic Party as the vanguard party designed to develop the conditions needed to properly transition the nation towards a post-capitalist society."

Executive

The executive branch is headed by the Emperor and the Prime Minister. The Emperor, currently Maximilian I, is the head of state, elected indirectly by a group of 41 electors who in turn are elected through complicated electoral machinery alternating between sortition and miniature internal elections.

There exists the title of Commander-in-Chief, which is designated by the constitution as the chief executive. In theory, this means that the Emperor is in fact a ceremonial head of state, but in practice the office of commander-in-chief and the head of state have been in the person of the Emperor ever since the Velvet Revolution, thus making him one of the most powerful figures in the nation.

The Prime Minister, currently Francisco Carvalho, is the head of government, appointed by the Commander-in-Chief to lead the privy council. The Emperor may dissolve the National Assembly or circumvent it by submitting referendums directly to the populace; the Emperor also has the power to appoint justices and other civil servants, is in charge of foreign affairs, as well as serving as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The Prime Minister is in charge of domestic affairs in terms of public policy and providing oversight over the civil service. In the 2028 Commons elections, prime minister Carvalho, who first became Prime Minister in 1997 won another parliamentary majority.

Legislative

The legislature comprises of the bicameral National Assembly which in turn comprises of the Congress of the Peerage and Congress of the Commons.

The Congress of the Peerage is the upper house, consisting of 286 members split between the 266 Peers Temporal and the 20 Peers Spiritual. The former group is even split among the nineteen states of Rumahoki, and are elected indirectly usually from amongst the nation's peerage by the regional upper houses through a party-list proportional representation voting system. The latter group is chosen from the amongst the nation's clergy on the basis of seniority. Unlike the Peers Temporal, the Peers Spiritual are an entirely ceremonial group with little power unlike their secular counterparts.

The Congress of the Commons is the lower house, consisting of 500 members split between the states on the basis of population in an attempt to prevent urban overrepresentation. The members, known as Representatives, are elected directly by the citizens through a party-list proportional representation voting system. Of the two legislative houses, this is the more powerful of the two. Indeed, the Prime Minister needs to command a majority of the Commons whether through partisan majority or coalitions in order to not have a minority government.

Federal subdivisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Rumahoki

Rumahoki is a federal state with nineteen estados, including the Federal District containing the nation's capital of Santa Maria. The primary purpose behind these entities is to be the primary-level divisions, complete with their own constitution and form of government. These entities are delegated some autonomy and self-governance, thus allowing them to pass their own laws and policies, provided that it doesn't violate the constitution. The states are further divided into provincias, parroquias, cantones, and municipios. These divisions are responsible for certain functions, but most notably not the educational functions due to the highly centralised nature of the education system. The comarcas serve a dual-purpose, totaling to 500, not only do they serve as a common local government over multiple municipalities they also serve as a means for the apportionment of seats in the Congress of the Commons as a means to prevent the National Assembly from being dominated by the cities.

The government of Rumahoki also provides maps of the extent of the nation's four main cultures as well as the nation's regions. Three states are Tainean, three states are Loa, two states are Cartadanian, and twelve states are Delepasian. The state of Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia is the only state to have two major cultures, those being Loa and Delepasian. The largest state by area is Rosaria at 137,664.89 square kilometers (53,152.71 sq mi), while the Federal District is the smallest state by area at 1127.24 square kilometers (435.23 sq mi).

Five out of nineteen states are constituent monarchies, those being Bahia, Rios Gemelos, Portas Gemeas, Kalanatoa, and Na'aturie; the latter two being theocracies, and Portas Gemeas is an example of a more traditional elective monarchy. The rest of the states are republics. The states of Tescolinia, New Isuria, and Valio are also known as autonomous islands; islands on equal status to the rest of the states despite their small area.

Politics

The nation's dominant party is the left-wing People's Democratic Party which has had government since 1997 with Francisco Carvalho, who also has the honour of being the first Rumahokian prime minister of Cartadanian ancestry.

As Rumahoki is still a parliamentary democracy rather than a one-party state, opposition parties are allowed to openly run in elections without fear of reprisal. The nation's largest opposition party is the centre-right Christian National Party, followed by the right-wing Democratic Reform Party, the centrist Rumahokian Citizens' Party, the environmentalist Ecological Renewal Party, the agrarian Democratic Farmers' Union, the far-left Yes We Can!, and the far-right Delepasian Alternative.

Law

Main article: Law of Rumahoki

See also: Constitution of Rumahoki and Judicary of Rumahoki

The system of law used in Rumahoki is the system of civil law, a legal system that has its basis in the Caphiric legal system. Under the civil legal system, laws are determined by written statutes and not judicial precedents; a judge may not have the authority to make law, but they do have the authority to merely interpret the law. The only instance in which judicial authority has been used to change the law is when a given law is interpreted as being in violation of the Constitution, and even then that kind of authority is exclusive to either the Supreme Court of Rumahoki or any of the supreme courts of any of the nation's main subdivisions. In agreement with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which had emerged as a result of the Kilikas Enlightenment in the latter half of the 18th Century, freedom is the natural condition of society; any prohibitions to that natural condition can only be done in the name of keeping actions considered to be deleterious to society from destroying society altogether. Basically, the law can only establish prohibitions if it is needed, and said prohibitions must not cause inconveniences deemed to be greater than the societal inconveniences that a given law is trying to prohibit.

Rumahokian law has four major subdivisions, with those being: private civic law, criminal law, administration law, and constitutional law. Private civic law encompasses non-criminal disputes such as contract law, family law, and property law; sentences under private civic law are typically monetary or compensatory in nature with punishments usually being minimal. Criminal law, as the name suggests, encompasses criminal disputes over matters such as thefts, assaults, and homicides; criminal sentencing can either be punitive or rehabilitative depending on the nature of the crime committed, the history of the accused, and the personal discretion of the judge presiding the case. Administrative law encompasses legal matters pertaining to the executive branch of government on both the national level and in the subnational level; administrative cases can usually mean instances of, for example, disputing fines levied due to a parking violation, but it can also mean determining the legal custody of a minor. Constitutional law, as the name suggests, exclusively encompasses not just the directly-codified provisions within the Constitution, but also documents that are considered to be highly important to the Constitution such as the Rights of Man; this typically arises over laws that are suspected, whether by an organization or a private citizen, of being unconstitutional.

All four realms of law have their own judicial hierarchies, but all of them end with the Supreme Court of Rumahoki as the highest court in the country as well as being the highest that an appeal can go; all decisions made by the Supreme Court are considered final and unappealable.

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Ethnicity

Main articles: Delepasians, Taineans, Loa people in Rumahoki, and Cartadanians in Rumahoki

Self-reported ethnicities in Rumahoki (2028)

  Delepasians (61.6%)

  Taineans (20.7%)

  Loa (9.2%)

  Cartadanians (7.2%)

  Other (1.3%)

Rumahoki's population is highly diverse, but research on Rumahokian ethnicity has felt the impact on nationalist discourses on identity. Ever since their independence from Pelaxia, the former Pelaxian colonies have all promoted the view that all Pelaxian-descended people in eastern Vallos are part of the Delepasian community, within which they were all considered indistinguishable from one another regardless of genealogy. This is the state of affairs that surrounds the Delepasians to this day.

The second-largest ethnic group is the Taineans, people who have descended from passengers of the Heaven Ships and have intermarried with the indigenous Vallosi people. In what's now Rumahoki, the Taineans have enjoyed more rights than the Taineans of Almadaria. Indeed, Rumahoki is one of the only two countries that actively preserves Tainean culture with the other being the Tainean-majority Arona.

In southwest Rumahoki, the Loa people constitute as the predominant minority group. The Loa of Rumahoki have fallen under Delepasian rule ever since the first settlements of Navidadia after the collapse of the Loa Empire. Historically, the Loa were actively discriminated by the Delepasians, most especially in Navididia from which the Navidadian System was first created in. It wasn't until after the Velvet Revolution in 1994 when the Loa were finally granted equal rights under the law.

Cartadanians in Rumahoki have always been a presence ever since the establishment of the Pirate Republic of Portas Gemeas in 1498. As a fellow Romance culture, the Cartadanians were largely treated as near-equals by the Delepasians with the only demerit being that they spoke Cartadanian instead of Pelaxian.

Race relations between the Delepasians and the non-Delepasians would not start to slowly improve until after the Velvet Revolution. Even to this day, a worryingly high amount of Delepasians still hold exceptionalistic views with varying degrees of Delepasian supremacy.

Language

Main article: Languages of Rumahoki

The Rumahokian vernacular of Pelaxian is the majority language in Rumahoki, having been introduced to mainland Vallos with the arrival of Captain Mauricio José Delepas on Bahía de Los Ruma in the year 1497 with elements of Isurian. Reform Tainean, an Occidental-influenced standardisation of the Tainean langauge, is the language of the Taineans ever since it start being taught in northern Rumahokian schools in 1911. The native Tainean dialects are still spoken in increasingly smaller numbers in northern Rumahoki, usually by older Taineans and isolated Tainean villages. Classical Latin has historically been used as a lingua franca by the Taineans when communicating with the Latinic peoples, the Bergendii, and the Delepasians. The Cartadanian language is almost exclusively spoken by the people of Portas Gêmeas and Trêscolinia as is Insuo Loa by the Loa people in Kalanatoa, Na'aturie, and Junu'úrinia Ba'andasi-Navidadía. Almadarian Pelaxian, Caphiric Latin, Burgoignesc, and various Occidental hybrid languages such as Bahiais are other known minority languages in Rumahoki.

Religion

Main article: Religion in Rumahoki

Religious affiliations in Rumahoki (2028)

  Catholic (64.8%)

  Reform (17.2%)

  Marian Kapuhenasa (9.2%)

  Other Christian (6.5%)

  Other (2.3%)

Catholicism is the predominant faith in Rumahoki with nearly all of its practitoners being ethnic Delepasians or Cartadanians. The second-largest religion, predominant amongst the Taineans of Rumahoki, is Mercantile Reform Protestantism, and thus is most common in the Tainean-majority states. Historically, this denomination has enjoyed greater tolerance in Delepasia mostly due to the Delepasian's hatred of the Loa. Marian Kapuhenasa, a syncretic faith combining elements of Loa Kapuhenasa with Delepasian Catholicism, is the third-largest religion, and is only practiced by the Loa people in Kalanatoa, Na'aturie, and Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia. Assorted Christian denominations not specifically listed above and other religions are the two smallest religious groups in the country, mostly practiced by minority groups.

Education

Due to compulsory enrollment and the highly centralised nature of the Rumahokian education system, with a basic literacy rate of 99%. The state of Auxana is noted to have the lowest basic literacy rate across all states. In secondary education, approximately 93% of the population having graduated any of the four paths of secondary education. Tertiary education is typically at the very least partially-subsidised by the government which has allowed for a rather huge portion of secondary school graduates to attend many of the nation's post-secondary institutions; the percentage of citizens who have graduated a post-secondary institution is currently at 62% with the percentage going even lower as not all post-secondary graduates pursue additional degrees or doctorates. Only 23% of the population hold a post-graduate degree, and only 16% hold a doctorate.

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Education

Main article: Education in Rumahoki

State education in Rumahoki is free, secular, and compulsory from the age of three until the age of sixteen. The current education system is regulated by the 1994 educational law, LOE (Ley Orgánica de Educación) or Fundamental Law for the Education, which permanently decoupled the Catholic Church from the public school system as well as establishing the school-leaving age at sixteen, something which was illegal under previous educational laws.

Rumahokian education is centralised and divided into three stages: Primary, secondary, and higher education. Government assessment has determined that school children perceive very low levels of support and feedback from their teachers, with many of them reporting great concern about the disciplinary climate and behaviour in classrooms.

Higher education is divided between public universities and the prestigious and selective Academias Coronadas, such as Ciencias Gu for political studies, ANR for economics, Politécnico, UMD for social studies, Escuela de Minería Santa María for high-profile engineers, or Academia Administrativa Burocrática for careers in the Gran Cuerpo of the state. The Academias Coronadas have come under criticism for their alleged elitism as many of Rumahoki's high-ranking civil servants, CEOs, and politicians were graduates of these institutes of higher learning.

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Religion

Further information: Twelve permil

Rumahoki has been a secular state since 1996 with the promulgation of its constitution. As part of the government's efforts to attain assurances of non-intervention from the Catholic Church, the Concordat of 1996 was signed between the Church and the Council of the National Revolution which detailed the exact relationship between both entities. It superseded the Concordat of 1976, itself a reaffirmation of the Concordat of 1948, which had given the Catholic Church a wide array of privileges ranging from censorship of blasphemous materials to clerical exemption from military service while granting the prime minister, which at that time was Fernando Pascual, the privilege of appointing clerical figures; the Pope at the time of the enactment of the Concordat of 1948 issued an encyclical which celebrated the 450th anniversary of the arrival of Mauricio Delepas and the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Los Rumas. The Concordat of 1996, on the other hand, established the Catholic Church and the Rumahokian government as two separate and yet equal entities that may not interfere in the affairs of one another while at the same time reaffirming that the Church would still be represented in the Congress of the Peerage.

The concordat also established the twelve permil law in which Rumahokian taxpayers are obligated to devolve 12‰ (1.2%) from their tax returns to an organised religion that has been officially recognised by the state, or to a state-run social welfare programme. According to statistics from 2032, 64.8% of the population had made a choice from amongst the recognised religions. This tax law has had the unintended effect of funding minority congregations which would not have had such a boost in funding through regular donations from their adherents. As of 2035, the current religious denominations that the Rumahokian taxpayer may choose from are as follows:

• Latin Catholic Rite
• Caphiric Catholic Rite
• Coscivian Catholic Rite
• Mercantile Reform
• Marian Kapuhenasa
• Assemblist
• Collegiate
• Vallejarian
• Judaism
• Qustanti Islam

The only extant religion in Rumahoki that has not requested recognition from the government is the Delepasian National Church which since the Velvet Revolution has refused to communicate with the government, believing that doing so would validate what they deem to be an anti-clerical socialist regime.

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Sports

Association football is one of Rumahoki's favourite pastimes, with the national team being a member team of the World Association Football Association, having competed in the WAFF World Cup multiple times. The nation's primary professional association football league is the UFR, which currently has thirty-two teams; twenty-seven Rumahokian teams and five Aronese teams. The UFR is organised into two main divisions: the Northern Division and the Southern Division, each with two additional divisions consisting of eight teams; a division consists of sixteen teams overall.

A UFR season has three main phases. The first phase is the preseason phase, which lasts from August until early September and is used for practice and to determine which players get to be on their team's UFR roster for the season with preseason games being usually held at a community stadium, but it is not entirely uncommon for a notable UFR team to play a preseason game on an international site. The regular season phase is the second phase in a UFR season; all teams play 90 regular season games with the amount played at home and the amount played while away being split evenly. Of the games played during the regular season phase, twenty-eight are played within a subdivision, twenty-six are played against teams within the other subdivision, and the remaining thirty-six are played against teams from the other division. The regular season lasts from September until March with a weeklong midseason break and a twelve-day long holiday during Christmas.

The final phase of a UFR season is the Zamora Cup Tournament wherein the top eight teams from each of the two divisions are chosen to compete in the annual elimination tournament. The tournament is divided into four rounds, with the first round consisting of four games for each division, the second consisting of two games for each division, and the third round serving as the semi-final with each division having only one game for the third round. The winners of the semi-finals will go on to play in the final which is the only round in the tournament in which both teams are from different divisions. The winner of the final wins the Zamora Cup and becomes that year's champion.

UFR games are almost always held in Rumahoki, save for home and away games that are held in Arona. The only season in which the games were almost entirely held outside of Rumahoki was the 1994-1995 season due to the fallout of the Velvet Revolution and the subsequent Democratic Salvation Period.

Smaller professional association football leagues exist in Rumahoki, and are known as junior unions; junior unions are more regionalised than the UFR and usually have their own trophies.

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Economy and Infrastructure

Main articles: Economy of Rumahoki and Velvetine Socialism

The economy of Rumahoki is a mixed economy with elements of tripartism and dirigism under the name Velvetine Socialism. In laymen's terms this means that the Rumahokian economy makes heavy used of economic planning with market forces in the name of guiding production in an economy, this also includes the existence of public and private enterprise. Firms in Rumahoki are under public ownership and are attached to certain state ministries that may opt to merge, dissolve, and reorganise these firms while determining which sector a firm may operate in. The acquisition of inputs and the selling of outputs are to be done in markets, ultimately meaning that the nation's economy is one of markets, making it very much unlike certain forms of socialist-style planned economies.

The basic idea behind Velvetine Socialism, named after the Velvet Revolution, is based around the idea of earlier forms of social democracy, that being a workers' revolution can be achieved through reformist measures, with armed revolts being an absolute last resort. That last resort being the Velvet Revolution of 1994, and that the victory of the left-wing reformists in the subsequent transition to democracy and the electoral victory of the People's Democratic Party in the nation's first truly democratic elections has given the idea of a workers' revolution by reform a mandate. Through the heavy use of state planning and intervention in a market economy while still ensuring the rights and dignity of the worker is maintained, socialism will be achieved.

As a result, the government of Rumahoki exerts a strong directive influence through the use of indicative planning to supplement market forces for guiding the economy. Enterprises such as mass public transportation, energy, and the basic infrastructure for telecommunications are under state control, and private corporations are given various incentives from the state to merge or engage in certain projects as needed.

Industries and Sectors

Rumahoki's main sectors can be divided into two areas: the privately-owned sectors, and the publicly-owned sectors. The major publicly-owned sectors are typically services that serve the population in general such as healthcare, electricity, and mass public transportation. For these sectors, the constitution explicitly forbids domestic private firms from directly conducting business in these sectors. The privately-owned sectors are different in that although the government may directly conduct business in these sectors, domestic private firms may also directly conduct business in them. The three largest privately-owned sectors of the Rumahokian economy are in telecommunications, shipping, and retail. By allowing private firms to directly conduct business in certain sectors that do not have the ability to potentially exploit the people, the Rumahokian government has aimed to ensure a growing semi-market economy while at the same guaranteeing what the constitution deems to be "key human rights". Although the constitution forbids foreign businesses to conduct any kind of business in the country, they are permitted to conduct business in the special economic zones in Portas Gemeas and Santa Maria. Furthermore, there exists a loophole that allows for businesses to conduct business outside of the special economic zones if they establish their regional headquarters in any of the special economic zones; this is known as the headquarters loophole, and quite a few major businesses throughout the Occident have taken advantage of it.

Currency

Main article: Peseta

The official currency of Rumahoki is the Peseta, first introduced in 1852 to replace the overly-complicated Rumian real with an easy-to-use decimal currency. It is the original Peseta, with Vallejar adopting their own form of the Peseta sometime after the original Peseta's introduction. The current exchange rates are as follows: ₽29.11 for $1 USD; ₽51.99 for $1 URD; ₽56.76 for ₮1 LUT; ₽57.33 for ₳1 ICA; ₽53.55 for ◊1 KFS; ₽52.95 for ₹1 RLS; ₽15.15 for ฿1 BAR; ₽39.21 for £1 ARP; ₽27.50 for ₱1 TDP; ₽1.75 for Ps1; ₽20.33 for $1 AST; ₽7.48 for ₺1 LIR; ₽3.51 for ₴1 KBS.

Historically, the Peseta was one of the weakest currencies in Vallos, the result of decades of economic and political turmoil that arose after the collapse of the Delepasian Kingdom in 1852. It would not be until the beginning of Fernando Pascual's involvement in the Rosarian government that measures would be taken to undo the damages caused by eighty years of economic mismanagement and bankruptcies. Through his near-absolute control of economic policies, Pascual was able to strengthen the Peseta for the first time in many years, leading to the neighbouring Delepasian polities to make use of similar economic policies to those of Pascual's to similar results. However, it would not be until the 2000s that the Peseta became one of the strongest domestic (read: not using a foreign-based currency such as the Levantine Taler or the mainland Sarpedonic Real) currencies in Vallos.

Prior to 1976, the Peseta was decentralised, with each Delepasian polity having their own variant of the Peseta. These pesetas were collectively abolished in favour of the new Delepasian Peseta, which itself was the successor to the Rosarian Peseta. The Peseta is not to be confused for the Ponča, the official currency of Tierrador, nor the similarly-named Vallejarian Peseta.

Healthcare

The Rumahokian healthcare system greatly emphasises the right to the universal access to healthcare and as such the government holds a monopoly on healthcare funding which it gets through income taxes, making it a form of single-payer universal healthcare. In practice, this means that access to any healthcare institution in Rumahoki, which is always a government-owned facility as domestic private healthcare has been declared forbidden by the constitution as part of the country's commitment to socialism and the eventual transition to communism in the future, is guaranteed at no further cost to the patient. With a consistently growing economy since the early 21st Century, the Rumahokian healthcare system has generally improved over time with it eventually becoming one of the best systems in Vallos in the 2020s. Healthcare funding in Rumahoki comprises about fifteen per cent of the country's GDP, which is over $7,016 per capita, making it among the most-funded healthcare systems in the subcontinent.

Energy

Further information: Energy in France

Rumahoki is a major producer of nuclear energy, it having been national policy since the 1970s when the Delepasian Commonwealth began to pursue energy security. As noted in the constitution, the energy sector is one of the three major sectors of the economy under complete government ownership with no exemptions for private firms. The heavy investment into nuclear power had allowed for the nation to have one of the highest amounts of operational nuclear power plants, at over fifty. Presently, the percentage of energy generated through nuclear power in Rumahoki is 84%; wind energy is common along the shores of the nation and makes up about 8% of the energy generated in the country. Solar energy is usually prevalent amongst more remote areas of the country and citizens who live off-the-grid, making up 8% as well.

These stats seem to suggest that there is no energy in Rumahoki that has been generated through fossil fuels, the last of the power plants in Rumahoki that made use of fossil fuels was shut down permanently in 2017 as part of the government's commitment to ending reliance on fossil fuels. The end of fossil fuel reliance for the energy sector has been seen as a source a pride throughout the country, ensuring that even a hypothetical oil crisis will not turn into a potential energy shortage. Brownouts and blackouts are recorded to be a rarity save for times of maintenance.

Wind turbines are at their most numerous within the Porto Taino Wind Farm, a wind farm located off the coast of northern Porta Gemeas that was constructed in 2006 and was fully operational by 2010. The rest of the wind turbines are located off the coast of Homberia as part of the New Rumas Wind Farm, itself having been constructed in 2014 and was fully operational by 2016. All wind farms are connected to an on-shore "battery unit", a building that stores the energy generated by the wind farms for use on the power grids of the autonomous islands. Solar power has found its greatest use in the state of Auxana, which has had a long history of opposing nuclear power.

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