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{{Infobox country

|conventional_long_name = Presidential Confederacy of Malentina

|image_flag =        MalentinaFlag.png

|alt_flag =          Flag of the Malentinan Confederation<!--alt text for flag (text shown when pointer hovers over flag)-->

|capital =            Salcojina

|largest_city =      Hierkuun

|regional_languages = <!--Languages recognised or associated with particular regions within the country/territory-->

|languages_type =    Official languages<br />  

|ethnic_groups =      {{ublist |item_style=white-space:nowrap;

   | 15.7% Tinuuds

   | 8.9% [[White Ænglish|White]]

|religion_year =      <!--Year of religion data (if provided)-->

|religion_ref =      <!--(for any ref/s to associate with religion data)-->

|government_type =    Confederated Presidential Republic

|leader_title1 =      President of the East

|population_estimate_year = 2019

|population_density_sq_mi = auto

|currency =          Malentinan Pound

|currency_code =      MTP

|electricity =        <!--e.g. "230 V–50 Hz"-->

|drives_on =          right

}}

'''Malentina''', officially the '''Presidential Confederacy of Malentina''', is a country in southern [[Crona]] in the western parts of the [[Songun sea#North Songun Sea|North Songun sea]]. The nation is made up of as a set of three larger islands just of the coast of [[Istrenya]]. Beyond it's closest neighbour Malentina also has maritime borders with [[Kelekona]] and [[Arcerion]]. While Malentina is connected to the rest of the world through the ocean, this is at great risk to the nations sovereignty as the nation is by far the weakest of those bordering the Songun Sea. Especially [[Arcerion]] and [[The Cape]] both hold immense influence thanks to the [[Warrington Strait]] and the [[Songun Straits]] forming natural chokepoints when exiting the Songun Sea.

In the modern day Malentina is a somewhat wealthy but still struggling nation in southern Crona. Their economy is mostly built around  agricultural products, a mixture of cash crops like tobacco and sugar as well as fishing products like crustaceans and squid. They do suffer from some insurgency issues partially caused by a severly lacking military which still tends to lead to minor international meddling, mainly by Arcerion but more recently also by Tierrador.

Malentina is a somewhat modern name taken from the term commonly used in {{wp|English language|Ænglish}} to refer to the tribes living on the islands that the nation now encompasses, ''Malentinu''. This term developed from combining the two most common tribe names, the ''Maaleens'' and the ''Tinuuds''. The name was a way for the native people to "take back" the lands that ones belonged to them alone from the colonizing Levantine population. There are still a small minority of the Ænglish white population who use the old colonial name of [[Pertooluna]], which is doubly ironic as the name is a butchering of the name of the Cartadanian settlement of Puerto Luna.

The many islands that the make up the Malentine archipelago are dominated by the three main islands of [[Tikaandu]], [[Hileenkopp]] and [[Wolviikipp]], in order of size. These three islands have mostly quite similar features although Tikaandu features by far the most fresh water making it the centre of the Malentine part of what was once the North Songun civilization. One of the most notable features of the island is that the islands are incredibly flat with only short hills cut by shallow valleys. Except for several smaller regions in the northern-most and southern-most parts of the islands. This made the islands ideal for plantation agriculture, before the earth of it's vast plains were eroded by years of exploitation.

Because of economic pressures the vast majority of the island has been reduced to agricultural fields, with only small forests dotting the landscape with a few national parks as the only exceptions. In modern times there have been significant attempt to reverse these changes at least partially, at the very least to an extent which may prevent further destruction of the islands natural ecosystem.

With the help of a small number of archaeological findings within on the islands it is believed that the cultural history of the malentine peoples date back to around 1600 BC. Very little is known about this period, especially as the islands have both geological and geopolitical reasons causing a severe lack of research into this distant history. Most of what is known about Malentina's early history is connected to the North Songun Civilization, whose records first mention the islands and their peoples as early as 700 BC.

When the traders of the North Songun first encountered the islanders they were noted for their excellent navigation, using well crafted canoes, as well as fishing expertise. What likely drew the traders attention most however would be the wealth mainly displayed through an abundance of pearls. These pearls were one of the first things that the North Songun would start to trade an at latest around 500 BC. The first larger settlements would be established on the islands by 350 BC, slowly melding the tribal native peoples into the larger North Songun civilization. Many records consider Malentina to first really exist as a civilized entity around the 400-200 BC period, although modern scholars largely disagree on the subject.   

Although starting of as a group of smaller colonial city-states trading and cooperating with the various island tribes Malentina would grow to be one of the most significant regions of the North Songun, especially at the time when their larger civilization was starting to collapse. Most importantly for modern scholars Malentina sources proved vital in describing events during the collapse, as few scholars of the other regions remained to record these events.

New silver age for Malentina, as it is united as one great alliance for the first time in history around the year 1040. A loosely connected league of the seven most powerful cities, representing the seven largest cultural groups of the islands, even including most of the indigenous peoples.

The era of prosperity ends, ironically by slowly making Malentina the center of the North Songun, even if only for a time. Over the course of 200 years, starting near the end of the 13th century, the arrival of the Arzali would drive the mainland states to collapse. During this time the trade flowing across the seas would slowly dwindle, but besides that Malentina would be relatively unaffected by what would prove to be the slow death of an entire civilization.

By the early 1500's, the mainland was in ruins and the first attempts at raiding the islands were made by the new Arzali invaders. These proved to mostly be a failure, as the warrior tribes of the islands proved themselves a tough foe. These efforts would cause the islanders to grow much more militarized again, which would prove to be a far more dangerous threat to the seven cities than the invaders.

The Arzali were not quick to give up however, numerous raids were attempted over the next century, with only a few proving even partially successful.

The many migrants who often referred to the islands as the Haven (transl?) would add to a growing problem on the islands. Although the seven cities depicted themselves as united, they had always been more of a loose collection of alliances than any central power. The pressure to centralize these states, together with the pressure to militarize especially by utilizing the warrior tribes even as these warriors found themselves more and more separate from the cities they fought for, as many new peoples arrived to the islands causing cultural and social unrest. It all reached a boiling point in the early 17th century. An event that would be referred to as the "Crisis of the twelve", which would lead to what one famous scholar of the time would refer to in some of his final writings as "The Fall of the Havens".

A series of smaller revolts and notorious cultural clashes would result in the creation of the Great Council around 1616, who would bring forth all of the issues currently being faced by the league and seek solutions through large-scale reforms decided on by the ruling class. This great council would prove a great failure however, as a large series of errors and miscommunications would slowly descend the islands into chaos, slowly escalating towards discriminate violence between different groups.  

The final result of this time of trouble was what many consider the final end of the North Songunese civilization, as the people who escaped the heartlands are believed to have died out almost completely and the cities that first connected the island natives to the surrounding civilizations were reduced to a fragment of their former selves. Of the seven cities only two remained anything more than ruins. It is estimated that at least two thirds of the islands population died out in less than 100 years. It is around this time that the islands would see their first settlers on the eastern coast, peoples from a land far distant from theirs. The first cartadanian explorers visited the island in 1689, arriving on the now nearly deserted east coast that had always been the backwater of the island.  

The timely arrival of a new group of foreign sailors would've been met with exceeding hostility if they had first landed anywhere else among the three islands. But the empty lands they found only had a few small tribes inhabiting them. These tribes were suspicious of the strange foreigners but would slowly be convinced to work with them. These small tribes have very little history that survived to modern day, leaving their exact origin a mystery. A missing piece of history that would likely not matter at all if it wasn't for the 35% of modern Malentine tracing their origins to these tribe, mainly among the Aenglistizo and Costizo population.

A notable shift would start to occur around the year 1750, as many of the people who migrated to the island would not be of sarpic or coscivian origin. Instead the island was quickly developing a large Ænglish community.

A previous small trading post, the town of Puerto Luna would become the centre of the islands development after gold discovered in the surrounding hills. This would push the already notable migration to the island into overdrive, especially among the Ænglish. As a result by 1777 the town of only about 2000 had grown to over 50 000 citizens in less than 20 years, becoming the largest city with an Ænglish majority.  

In the 1780s and 1790s Ardmore was starting to gain an interest in expanding into Crona. Although the gold rush had started to normalize at this point the Ardmori crown payed a significant sum to Cartadania as well as the various trading companies who actually owned the settlements to gain control of the island.   

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Ænglish are not as good at dealing with the natives as Cartadania. Although they are way better at getting rid of them.

1780-1850

Purchase of colony is almost immediately followed by conflicts between settlers and natives. This quickly ignites into full blown war. Although there are short periods of peace during this time, most of it is made up of various conflicts against the natives. Natives while mostly being on the loosing end don't get crushed in large parts thanks to successfully staying mostly unified against the foreign threat. A lesson learned from the Arzali invasion and Haven's Fall, which at this point is among the most important legends in the Malentinan culture.

1850-1900

Natives and Ænglish make an unease peace, although incidents of violence between the two continued consistently through the period.

1900-2000

Colony no more. But violence remains.

1899

Colony is granted self-governance soon followed by independence. Although foreign influence is still strong. Government is mostly focused on the immigrant population, with natives being side-lined and mistreated often.

1933

Natives successfully mount a violent revolution, focused on acts during moonless nights where the revolution gets its name. Despite being outnumbered conflict goes the natives way. Until they very clearly go genocidal on the immigrant population. Specifically targeting full blooded whites over those of mixed heritage, and notably focused on attacking upper class members such as plantation owners and government officials. Even with a swift intervention championed by Arcerion over 70% of the white population of the islands are wiped out in a matter of months. Aftermath would lead to a short period of total occupation soon followed by an international mandate mainly lead by Arcerion and Cartadania.

1987

After 50 years of occupation a new state is created to finally replace the international mandate, once more letting the nation be free. This is however with a very harsh limit to their military capability, or rather military asset ownership. The agreement establishing the new state also allows Arcerion to enforce a demilitarization of the nation.

2000+

In the early 2000s Malentina violates the Arcerion demilitarization after several incidents of what they consider Arcerion overreach violating Malentinan sovereignty. This has caused somewhat of a cold war to develop between the nations, with the only reason it not breaking into all out war being international intervention.

Malentina has connections with Arcerion, Tierrador, The Cape, Cartadania, Ardmore, Alstin and Vithinja.

The Malentinan government is mainly inspired by the confederate system in Arcerion, despite how it may first appear. While the highest offices differ greatly from Arcerion, it has many functional similarities. The ruling body is separated into four main components: The Senate, the Parliaments, the Internal cabinets and the External cabinet. The most notable differences is the fact that the Malentinan republic is a presidential system, as well as having no single representative for the entire confederation.