Almadaria: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (Historic) Tag: 2017 source edit |
(history2) Tag: 2017 source edit |
||
| Line 46: | Line 46: | ||
|population_estimate = 48,820,210 | |population_estimate = 48,820,210 | ||
|population_census = | |population_census = | ||
|GDP_nominal = | |GDP_nominal = 2.023 trillion doláres | ||
|GDP_nominal_per_capita = | |GDP_nominal_per_capita = 41,440 | ||
|Gini = Your gini coefficient | |Gini = Your gini coefficient | ||
|currency = Almadarian Dollar | |currency = Almadarian Dollar | ||
| Line 54: | Line 54: | ||
|electricity = <!--e.g. "230 V–50 Hz"--> | |electricity = <!--e.g. "230 V–50 Hz"--> | ||
|drives_on = right | |drives_on = right | ||
|cctld = | |cctld = .al | ||
|calling_code = | |calling_code = }} | ||
}} | |||
'''Almadaria''', officially the '''Democratic Republic of Almadaria''', is a country in [[Vallos]]. It is neighbored by [[Arona]] and [[Vespera]] to the north | '''Almadaria''', officially the '''Democratic Republic of Almadaria''', is a country in [[Vallos]]. It is neighbored by [[Arona]] and [[Vespera]] to the north and [[Takatta Loa]] to the south. Its shoreline extends against primarily the [[Polynesian Sea]], though its eastern border includes a shared freshwater body of water with its western neighbor. The Democratic Republic is a megadiverse nation, with one of the highest biodiversity per square kilometer across its rainforest, highland, grassland, and desert zones. The economy of Almadaria has significant government intervention, with most public services resources (water, electricity, transport, telecommunications, healthcare, etc.) being controlled or funded by the government. Nevertheless, private industries, including foreign ones, flourish in established free trade zones which benefit all involved from tax incentives and domestic investment. Almadaria has a high rate of literacy, and an equally high level of higher education attendance; this has contributed to both the growth of the economy as well as the standard of living. The tourism, financial sectors are the two major contributors to Almadaria’s GDP. The government of Almadaria is a presidential, representative democratic republic with a multi-party system. Based on Cartadanian practice, it is broken into three branches (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial), though the legislative exercises significantly more power over the executive, primarily by having no ability to be vetoed by the President and being able to set the government budget. | ||
Almadaria underwent intense political instability in the later twentieth century, its primary cause being decades of political repression under President Sergio Arbelaez. Despite Arbelaez leaving office in 1996 and sweeping political reform thereafter, a low-intensity conflict against fringe guerilla and criminal groups exists to this day. | Almadaria underwent intense political instability in the later twentieth century, its primary cause being decades of political repression under President Sergio Arbelaez. Despite Arbelaez leaving office in 1996 and sweeping political reform thereafter, a low-intensity conflict against fringe guerilla and criminal groups exists to this day. | ||
| Line 84: | Line 83: | ||
As the region stabilized, it became clear that there was a new power to answer to; that of the [[Tainean Empire]]. The Tainean Empire grew from the conflict, at which it fortunately was stationed at the periphery, by having warfighting experience at navigating the dense inland jungles. While this staved off most adversaries, what truly caused the Empire's rise to power was its connections over [[Lake Remenau]], which facilitated trade between other Vallosian polities. A strategy of piggybacking the newborn Lake Remenau slave trade and cunning pragmatism with their neighbors allowed the Tainean Empire to flourish. Traded frequently through the Empire was gold and spices, bringing the Empire into prominence. Even word of the Tainean Empire's prosperity reached the annals of the Caphirian Imperium, from which delegations were later cordially dispatched. | As the region stabilized, it became clear that there was a new power to answer to; that of the [[Tainean Empire]]. The Tainean Empire grew from the conflict, at which it fortunately was stationed at the periphery, by having warfighting experience at navigating the dense inland jungles. While this staved off most adversaries, what truly caused the Empire's rise to power was its connections over [[Lake Remenau]], which facilitated trade between other Vallosian polities. A strategy of piggybacking the newborn Lake Remenau slave trade and cunning pragmatism with their neighbors allowed the Tainean Empire to flourish. Traded frequently through the Empire was gold and spices, bringing the Empire into prominence. Even word of the Tainean Empire's prosperity reached the annals of the Caphirian Imperium, from which delegations were later cordially dispatched. | ||
The Tainean Empire also saw social upheaval; the Taineans, traditionally found in subservient roles, found themselves elevated to merchant and administrators. Surprisingly, even with a Tainean-majority government, most records point towards the Tainean Kings having an even hand with its Latin | The Tainean Empire also saw social upheaval; the Taineans, traditionally found in subservient roles, found themselves elevated to merchant and administrators. Surprisingly, even with a Tainean-majority government, most records point towards the Tainean Kings having an even hand with its denizens of Latin, and even Polynesian, descent. This attitude, at the end of a bloody period in history, is claimed by many to have shaped the modern world by not splitting [[Vallos]] down racial lines. | ||
===Caphiric Undecimvirate=== | ===Caphiric Undecimvirate=== | ||
Soon, the calls of lesser kingdoms in Vallos became too much to ignore for the [[Caphiria|Caphirian First Imperium]]. Despite the relative calm of the region at that point in time, Caphirian Legions overwhelmed the recovering landscape of Vallos. In a series of decisive engagements, even the Tainean Empire was in full retreat, its crown and remainder of its forces fleeing south of the Gulf of Natsolea. | [[File:Ixnayvallosancient5.png|thumb|Extent of the Undecimvirate over the modern-day borders of Almadaria]]Soon, the calls of lesser kingdoms in Vallos became too much to ignore for the [[Caphiria|Caphirian First Imperium]]. Despite the relative calm of the region at that point in time, Caphirian Legions overwhelmed the recovering landscape of Vallos. In a series of decisive engagements, even the Tainean Empire was in full retreat, its crown and remainder of its forces fleeing south of the Gulf of Natsolea. | ||
The Undecimvirate was not entirely Caphirian; though tributaries of the Imperium, the eleven kings that ruled over their respective fiefs all over [[Vallos]] were given a great degree of latitude over their agendas, so long as the tributes were on time (and as it often was, overloaded). Nevertheless, the Undecimvirate implemented a social order distinct and entirely exclusive to the former powers that reeled in the south, licking their wounds from the Caphirian invasion. While the Caphirian policies and organization revolutionized society in the north just as the Adonerii Latins had, indigenous and Tainean powers were left sidelined or left behind entirely. | |||
Significant infighting, to a degree, became the status quo of the Undecimvirate. Each King, with their own armies and own agenda, fought petty wars to plunder one another. Among the most successful was the [[Portana Undecimvirate]], whose pragmaticism and strategic decision-making helped to keep them always at the top of the tributaries. | |||
===Second Warring Period=== | ===Second Warring Period=== | ||
With the [[History_of_Caphiria#The_Great_Civil_War_(1127-1172)|waning of the Second Imperium]] came increased uncertainty among the Caphiric kings. As the threat of Caphirian intervention to enforce the terms of their agreement subsided, so did the unwritten rule of self-conquest among the Undecimvirate. When the Second Imperium finally collapsed in 1172 CE, Caphirian Vallos was already in a quagmire of internal conflicts, and the death knell of their administrators was the final straw. | |||
With no divinely-inspired armada and legions behind their back, the Kings of the Undecimvirate quickly lost legitimacy, falling into a desperate civil war that mimicked the one happening on mainland [[Sarpedon]]. Adding to this was the rump Tainean Empire, in conjunction with other marginalized groups in face of the Undecimvirate, taking advantage of the instability and annihilating any hope of such a united [[Vallos]], taking up around half the land area of the subcontinent, forming ever again. | |||
The Neo-Tainean Empire, formed out of the altered territories and renewed by plundering the classical marble-and-limestone cities of a greater empire than them, quickly took back much of its former territory. With the pressure of Caphirian influence gone, many of the more southerly Polynesian states began to organize, forming prominent Kingdoms to oppose their Tainean-majority neighbor. Tainean kingdoms emerged in the north, too, taking inspiration from indigenous cultures, becoming the [[Manaqids]] and [[Lipipiqs]], which persisted for hundreds of years until the end of the 2nd Warring States Period. | |||
Many new kingdoms formed in the ashes of the Undecimvirate, made up of a completely new cultural force than what had existed in their place in 700 CE: the Cuasilatinos, their societies heavily imprinted on their Caphirian forebears. | |||
Those that remained in the image of what had been were exiled and rapidly receding. The [[Kingdom of the Ossanids]] (1172-1530), and short-lived Latinic Kingdom attempted to hold onto the Caphirian stability they had once known, but found themselves embroiled on all sides with hostile native Vallsian kingdoms, trained in the same style of warfare as they, and eager to conquer those who had once represented power. | |||
In the meantime, the power imbalance would soon stabilize; in the north, the [[Kingdom of Septemontes]], the east, the Neo-Tainean Empire, and in the south, the increasingly organized and Polynesian kingdoms. | |||
===Free Kingdom Era=== | ===Free Kingdom Era=== | ||
During this time, | |||
====Oustec Affair==== | ====Oustec Affair==== | ||
===Early Modern=== | ===Early Modern=== | ||