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'''Chakailan''', officially the '''Free State of Chakailan''', is a country in [[Crona]]. It is neighbored by [[Varshan]], [[Titechaxha]], [[Telonaticolan]], and [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]].

The nation was established by the [[Treaty of Electorsbourg (2024)|Treaty of Electorsbourg]] as an independent nation at the end of the [[Final War of the Deluge]]. The territory was part of [[Varshan]] prior to the conflict, and its history is inexorably linked to that of Varshan and slavery within Varshan. Prior to its incorporation into Varshan, the land was sparsely populated territory of the people of [[Telonaticolan]], to whom the original tribes of the area were distantly related. However, the local mountain tribes often interacted with runaway slaves, and this area became well known as a slave escape route out of [[Varshan]] in the 19th century. A strong local culture between the tribes and slaves was established. Reduction of fugitive slavery became a top Varshani priority and the land was taken along with the other Telonaticolani lands in 1894. The area continued to be a choice area for the Anzo government to enslave and also a location where many slaves unable to work - such as the elderly or crippled - were deposited in the rare cases where they were not exterminated. The area became home to a unique people and culture with global influences due to the reach of Varshani slavery.

==Etymology==

''Chakailan'' as a term most likely originates from an earlier version of the [[Telonaticolan]]i language, and most scholars believe it approximately means "bad soil" with reference to the region's generally poor conditions for sedentary farming. References to the region using this name or some variation thereof are first attested to by [[Levantia|Levantine]] traders who interacted with and traveled throughout Telonaticolan during the early 16th century.

==Geography==

Chakailan occupies a mountainous position east of [[Varshan]] and west of [[Telonaticolan]], occupying one of the central mountain ridges that divides north central [[Crona]]. Accordingly, the country is primarily comprised of mountains and {{wp|highlands}} and has a relatively cool climate with strong winds blowing over much of the country. The mountains form a "V" shape at the southeastern and southwestern border of the country, separating it from the eastern highlands of [[Varshan]]. In the middle, a relatively flat but elevated region exists where most human settlement occurs.  

With the invasion of [[Kiravia|Kiravian]] forces in the [[Final War of the Deluge]], the area was quickly abandoned by the Varshani military as it was beyond the natural defendable borders of the country. Most Varshani overseers simply abandoned their plantations and other enterprises in the country with retreating Varshani forces, and economic devastation swept the countryside as most of the technical experts and managers left overnight. Occupied by Kiravian forces during the war, significant investment was done by the Kiravian government in education and restoration of the productive enterprises of the region. Most Chakailani instead took to the traditional nomadic lifestyle or subsistence farming on the lands of former plantations, which were divided up into lands with title by the occupying Kiravian forces in June 2023. Many refugees, most of them liberated slaves, came to settle in the area as the war progressed, with as many as 10,000 settling in the region. Local leaders began to organize a provisional government under Kiravian occupation in late 2023 and the area was determined by [[League of Nations Command]] to be capable of self-governance in March 2024, with its recommendations included in the Electorsbourg peace negotiations that commenced with the end of the war.

===Independence===

Chakailan was established as an independent state by the [[Treaty of Electorsbourg (2024)|Treaty of Electorsbourg]] with an explicit recognition of the unique culture that emerged in the territory with further expectation of additional slave resettlement in the future. Following its independence, it became geopolitically aligned with both [[Kiravia]] and [[Urcea]] with significant investments from both countries and the presence of the Urcean [[Ministry_of_State_(Urcea)#Department_of_National_and_Institutional_Development|DNID]] and [[Ministry_of_Commerce_(Urcea)#Agency_for_Cronan_Economic_Development|ACED]] to help social, political, and economic development.

===Executive===

===Legislature===

===Local governance===

==Culture==

Chakailani culture is an eclectic blend of many different cultural traditions, with local tribal customs forming a cultural baseline on which the traditions of many different groups of former enslaved people from across the world have introduced new traditions and mores.

===Cuisine===

Much of the cuisine of Chakailan speaks to its history both as an area of slaves as well as that of a rugged mountain people, and due to the types of people left in Chakailan over the ages, it reflects the country's rich and diverse cultural heritage. Two categorizations of food exist in Chakailani cuisine, the first of which is known as "work food" and the second of which is known as "new food". "Work food", as the name suggests, originated from the food given to laborers and slaves, and is nutrient dense; many of these types of foods, originally bland, have received additional ingredients and spices to make them more appetizing. {{Wp|Hardtack}} is commonly eaten in Chakailan, and in recent decades this has been iterated into cake-like products eaten for {{wp|supper}} with fruit-based sweeteners and softer ingredients included. {{wp|Salt pork}} stews are also common and have received iterative improvements to flavor in recent decades and especially since independence. "New food", on the other hand, are types of food based on the cuisine and meals familiar to people enslaved and subsequently brought to the region. These meals resemble those of the cuisines of elsewhere and Crona and even abroad, but are made using local ingredients. Deer meat pies, prepared in such a way that clearly originally followed Levantine beef pies, are commonly eaten in Chakailan. "New food", despite the name, can date back hundreds of years.

===Symbols===

The torch and torches are used in Chakailan as a symbol of liberation, as paths lit by torchlight are associated with the road to freedom from slavery. Accordingly, torch imagery has become closely associated with Chakailani culture and is pictured on the flag and coat of arms of the newly established state and is also alluded to in the state's motto, "''Light the torch to freedom''."

== Demographics ==

=== Linguistic Demographics ===

The majority of residents of Chakailan speak a lower caste variant of [[Draft:Varshani language|Hieratic Varshani]], though a handful of native languages which are related to it are spoken by isolated mountain tribes.

=== Religious Demographics ===

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The Chakailani people have a wide variety of religious beliefs as a result of their historical ties to servitude in [[Varshan]]. A plurality of the people are adherents of a folk variety of [[Arzalism#Solar_Arzalism|Solar Arzalism]], though scholars believe a separate {{wp|heliolatry|heliolatristic}} folk religious tradition may be included within these statistics. The second largest group of people are what can best be described as "folk atheists" - a position with no definitive philosophical or scientific arguments against the existence of a God, but rather a lived experience leading to religious {{wp|nihilism}}. Among the relatively small but growing educated classes of Chakailan, an effort to import [[M'acunism]] into the country is underway, though some former slaves and mountain tribes are also original adherents of the faith. [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] missionaries made minor inroads with both the native population and returning slaves during and after the [[Final War of the Deluge]], contributing to a small but notable Christian population in the country. The remaining part of the population - about 15% - adhere to a wide variety of folk mythologies, slave religions, obscure tribal faiths not yet categorized by [[Occidental]] sociologists, and other various local traditions.

==Economy==

Chakailan has a very small economy, and its people are considered among the poorest in the world. The primary sectors are subsistence agriculture and nomadic pastoral herding. The economy of Chakailan is such that its government is not sufficiently strong enough or have enough credit to issue a currency. In the more remote parts of the country, barter is the primary form of exchange, but the government uses [[Cronan lira]] as its de facto currency for internal and external transactions. Chakailan is very under-urbanized, with a large, central city only presently under construction as a project of the new state - T'laa'nah, which means "liberty", - which also serves as the nation's capital. Few transportation networks or systems allow travel throughout the country, with a highway and rail network system emanating out of the city of T'laa'nah, which is under construction.

==Military==

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