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

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 island, 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.

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 island’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 political culture and party-political landscape of Suderavia are rooted in its revolutionary history but have evolved since the island'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-Meridians and Burgittans with Kiravian citizenship. Voters with Wintergen refugee ancestry strongly favour the SRP.

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 island in the process.

Other Coscivian ethnic identities reported by significant numbers of islanders were Taństan Coscivian, Sedhan Coscivian, Ĥeldican Coscivian (and subgroups), Arnórian Coscivian, Kiryaniv Coscivian (and subgroups), Kelnordan Coscivian (and subgroups), Skōrdan Coscivian, Sea Coscivian, Féinem, Ilánovan Coscivian, Fulmarine, North Coscivian (and subgroups), and Wintergen Coscivian.

Most of the non-Coscivian, non-Skithanawite population are of mainland Levantine origin, whether Covines who settled on the island during the period of Covinan rule, or migrants from neighbouring Levantine countries ([[Burgundie]], [[Fhainnaeran]]) and their descendants. In Dolno-Suderavsk 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 island as refugees and political asylees after the island's liberation. The government of Covina has accused the Kiravian Federacy of harbouring wanted terrorists on the island and providing them training from former Suderavian Republican Army guerrillas and Kiravian military advisors, which the Kiravian government denies.

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 island’s history, but by the mid-20th century the last Coscivian Orthodox parishes had either entered communion with Urceopolis or disbanded. It saw some underground revival with the rise of Coscivian nationalism and has been formally reconstituted since liberation with about 25,000 communicants, many of whom are recent transplants from other Kiravian states.

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

Tourism has been an important pillar of the Suderavian economy for quite some time. Under Covine rule the island 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.