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Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki 3 official names Latin: Serenissima Dominatio Rumahociae Pelaxian: Serenísima Soberanía de Rumajoqui Reform Tainean: Serenisim Souvirainte des Roumahauki
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: ¡Patria o Muerte, No Pasarán! ("Homeland or Death, They Shall Not Pass!")
Anthem: Your song
Location of Rumahoki (dark green)
Capital	Santa Maria
Largest city	Adouka
Official languages	Latin Pelaxian Reform Tainean
Recognised regional languages	Cartadanian Insuo Loa
Ethnic groups	By race: 61.6% Delepasian 20.7% Tainean 9.2% Loa 7.2% Cartadanian 1.3% other
Religion	Catholic Church
Demonym(s)	Rumahokian (noun) Rumahokian (adjective) Rumahokians (plural)
Government	Federal parliamentary 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	30 April 1996
Area
• Total	1,409,057 km2 (544,040 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	52,328,520 (2031)
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$2.474 trillion
• Per capita	$47,284
Gini	31.5 medium
Currency	Peseta (RPT)
Mains electricity	230 V–50 Hz
Driving side	right
Calling code	+422
Internet TLD	.ru

Rumahoki, officially the Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki (Latin: Serenissima Dominatio Rumahociae; Pelaxian: Serenísima Soberanía de Rumajoqui; Reform Tainean: Serenisim Souvirainte des Roumahauki), is a sovereign country located in eastern Vallos. It shares a land border with Takatta Loa in the southwest, 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 Spanish 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 pushed through a series of sweeping democratic reforms, eventually culminating 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 made it 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.

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Pact of Eighteen and Delepasian Commonwealth

Main articles: Pact of Eighteen and Delepasian Commonwealth

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 Nicolás Torres after a stroke.

The Estado Social regime in Delepas 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 with no memory of the anarchy that preceded Pascual and most especially when the reform experiment was put to an end by hardliners in the Armed Forces.

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Government and Politics

Main article: Politics of Rumahoki

Rumahoki is a federal parliamentary semi-elective semi-constitutional monarchy.

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. The Prime Minister, currently Francisco Carvalho, is the head of government, appointed by the Emperor 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 143 members split between the 133 Peers Temporal and the 10 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 400 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.

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Rumahoki is a federal state with nineteen states, including the Federal District containing the nation's capital of Santa Maria.

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The nation's dominant party is the centre-left 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, 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, and the left-wing Yes We Can!.

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Self-reported ethnicities in Rumahoki (2028)

  Delepasians (61.6%)

  Taineans (20.7%)

  Loa (9.2%)

  Cartadanians (7.2%)

  Other (1.3%)

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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 Merchantile 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.

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