Fariva
| Fariva | |
 Flag | |
| Country | Kiravian Federacy |
| Capital | Béyasar |
| Population | 11,216,000 |
| Chief Executive | Dáran Saroprestin (I) |
| Chancellor | Lorya Vadikaserin (CWP) |
| Legislature | Farivan Stanora |
| Stanora seats | 3 |
| Official languages | Taństan Coscivian, Kiravic Coscivian |
| Postal Abbreviation | FRV |
| Time Zone | Valēka Standard Time |
Fariva is a state of the Kiravian Federacy located in northeastern Great Kirav. Fariva forms the core of the Far Northeast economic and cultural region, and was an early centre of industrialisation. The Republican Revolution that led to the formation of the Confederate Republics of Kiravia began as a property tax revolt in Fariva, and Fariva was the fourth state to be formally admitted to the CRK. Contemporary Fariva is one of Kiravia's best-performing states economically and boasts robust information technology, financial, engineering, manufacturing, brewing, shipping, and fishing sectors.
Government
Fariva is a semi-presidential republic with a single legislative body, the Stanora, which is elected biannually. Executive power is vested in an Executive College (also referred to as the "Cabinet"). The Cabinet is jointly led by a Chief Executive (Governor), who is elected by four years by alternative vote, and a Chancellor elected every two years by the Stanora. The other members of the Executive College are appointed by the Chief Executive in consultation with the Chancellor and his camp in the Stanora, and can be dismissed either individually by consent of both the Chancellor and the Chief Executive, or collectively with a vote of no confidence by the Stanora.
The Farivan Stanora is elected every two years by single transferable vote.
| Party | Seats | Caucus | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Farivan Party Vèurox Farivax Plaiduv |
75 / 225 |
SRA | Market liberalism, Third Way, pro-Burgundie | |
| Commonwealth Party Plaiduv Aldhisāvul |
48 / 225 |
CSU | Christian democracy, Social Christianity, Social democracy | |
| New Direction Party Plaiduv Inox Isdul |
32 / 225 |
NDA | Progressivism, Kirosocialist Revisionism, Post-Kirosocialism, Liberal socialism | |
| Freedom Plus Party Plaiduv Helvikor Andidas |
26 / 225 |
KFA | Liberal conservatism, Libertarian conservatism, Caledonian liberalism | |
| People's Party Plānoplaiduv |
21 / 225 |
CSU | Christian democracy, Ordoliberalism, Social conservatism | |
| Levantian Union Party Levantiax Anūrarisēx Plaiduv |
3 / 225 |
none | Pan-Levantianism, New Urcean democracy, Liberal conservatism |
Like most Far Northeastern states, Fariva has a tradition of strong local governments. All land in the state, with the exception of two uninhabited islets, is allocated to a municipality or township. Municipalities in Fariva have extensive lawmaking and taxation powers and are responsible for the provision of many public services. Countyship governments in Fariva are the weakest in the Federacy, and are responsible only for overseeing utilities contracts for power and water services, certain roads, and health clinics.
| Member | Party | First Elected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ioan Peraston | First Farivan Party (SRA) | 21193 | |
| Maria Ardalion | Commonwealth Party (CSU) | 21196 | |
| Vespasian Odrilaven | Levantian Union Party (n-i) | 21205 | |
Law
Farivan law is derived from the law of the Coscivian Empire and comprises both statutory law and a body of non-statutory customary law and juristic consensus, known as réstiálda (lit. "Cultivated Law").
Fariva was the first Kiravian state to abolish capital punishment for ordinary crimes, followed by Niyaska. The state retains the death penalty de jure as a possible sentence for piracy and mutiny within the state's territorial waters, and for perfidy against or desertion from the state defence forces during combat, but has abandoned capital punishment in practice and no longer has the facilities or protocols in place to carry out executions.
The crime rate in Fariva is usually above the Federal average, and comparatively high rates of violent crime affect certain New Coscivian, Kópistonian, and Gaelic ethnic enclaves in the Béyasar metropolitan area. Organised crime has a major presence in the state, and is thought to have significant influence on municipal and state politics. The Institute for Accountable Government lists Fariva as the fifth most corrupt state in the Federacy, behind Kesta and the other leading industrial states of Etivéra, Devalōmara, and Niyaska.
Fariva has acquired a certain reputation in Kiravian political discourse for having many laws of an allegedly paternalistic and nanny-statal nature, including laws and local ordinances governing various aspects of personal behaviour, extensive consumer protection policies, and an array of Pigovian taxes and sin duties. A number of factors are thought to explain this legal régime, including the state's early industrialisation and its struggle to manage a large and diverse urban population, strong municipal governments, the pervasive influence of progressive and Instructionalist ideas during high modernity and Kirosocialism and an appetite for technocratic policymaking, the relatively stronger influence of Protestant moralism, and the general absence in Taństan Coscivian culture of the attitude of kētka ("slack"). Fariva introduced the Federacy's first seatbelt law and has the lowest maximum speed limit (100 kmph) of any state.
Society and Culture
Fariva has a distinct subnnational culture owing to its long history as a centre for commerce, education, and immigration. Although it is integrated with and has made significant contributions to the wider culture of the Kiravian Federacy, Farivans are recognised as having developed characteristically Farivan liguistic traits, culinary and educational traditions, artistic and literary movements, and social values that have contributed to a strong Farivan subnational identity.
Ethnosocial Groups
Fariva has traditionally been the cultural domain of the Northern Tańrisem ethnic group and the closely-related Taństem. However, the state's demographics have been changed dramatically by centuries of large-scale immigration, and the Tańrisem and Taństem together now comprise some 44% of the population. Nonetheless, Taństan Coscivian remains the first official language and the both groups are overrepresented in the state's political institutions. Aspects of Taństem/Tańrisem culture have been embedded into Farivan life and adopted by the various other groups who have migrated to Fariva over the centuries, forming the foundations of Farivan local and civic culture. Many families of non-Taństem origin who have been settled in the state for centuries, such as the Leonoix family, have become socially integrated with the old Tańrisem establishment, as have some wealthy mercantile families of foreign origin, such as the de Marbot-Gisin family, whose ancestors migrated to Béyasar from Burgundie in 20748. Taństan Coscivians are found throughout the state and are the majority or plurality ethnic group in most areas, though they are now squarely in the minority in Béyasar, its inner suburbs and many of its satellite cities.
Other ethnic groups have arrived in multiple waves of immigration, first by the Æran and Frydhian Coscivians and other groups from the poorer areas of Western Éorsa, such as the Peninsular Coscivians, Kālatan Coscivians, Lusan Coscivians, Kostiatan Coscivians, Valosian Coscivians, Iyaspalan Coscivians, Ardónian Coscivians, Purgónian Coscivians, Venskan Coscivians, and North Elutes. These Western Éorsan peoples who arrived during the Great Crossing continue to live mainly in and around the state's cardinal cities, but have diffused further afield in the post-Kirosocialist era. Minority groups that have followed similar migration patterns include the Kópistonians, Idsikurians, and Ânaromanotes. Subsequent groups of immigrants have come from other New Coscivian countries (Triatha, Saliera-Arudia-Nutriava, and Kylixa). Others have come from Coscivian diaspora communities or Coscivian-influenced countries elsewhere in Ixnay, such as the Cape, Koré'heranùa, and Rumelistan. Coscivian peoples closely associated with seafaring, such as the Lúnstan Coscivians, Sea Coscivians, and Keregūlan Coscivians, have a large presence in Béyasar and Norvimur. As Farivan ports were (and are) the main shipping hubs serving Kiravian islands in the Kilikas Sea, communities of Meridian Finns and Meridian Coscivians, Suderavian Coscivians, and [X Islanders] have lived in Fariva for quite some time. The state is also home to the largest population of 10th, 11th, and 12th-generation Kiravian refugees from the island of Wintergen.
The largest single ethnic group in Fariva, after the Taństem, are Kiravian Gaels. Though a few Celtic villages remained in hilly areas of western Fariva after Coscivian colonisation, the state's substantial Gaelic minority is mainly as a result of mass in-migration from neighbouring Gaelic-majority states (Arkelly, Dunlévia) during the industrial era. There is a long history of tension between the Gaelic minority and the historically dominant Taństan Coscivians, beginning with conflicts from the colonial period but primarily based in a legacy of discrimination and political suppression during the industrial age. Gaelic culture in Fariva has been bolstered by immigration of Levantine Gaels from Fiannria, Faneria, Carna, and Urcea (see below).
A notable segment of Fariva's population trace their origins to the countries of continental Levantia, especially Burgundie, Fiannria and Faneria, but also Urcea, Wealdland, Carna, and the Latin States. Fariva has the densest concentrations of Levantine immigrants and persons of Levantian descent in the Kiravian Federacy, which has helped to impart a certain Occidental flavour on the culture of Béyasar in terms of cuisine, architecture, religious practices, sport, the local dialect, and international outlook. Burgundines in particular have a long history in Fariva dating back centuries and sustained to the present day by strong trading and business ties. Some Burgundine families have lived in Fariva for six or seven generations, and the upscale professional neighbourhoods of Béyasar and Madisar continue to host hundreds of white-collar Burgundine expatriates. The city of Epsilar, just outside Béyasar, is famous for its large population of Levantine-Kiravians, particularly those of more distinctive South Levantine and Romance- or Germanic-speaking groups.
Religion
The Insular Apostolic Church is the largest religion in the state, followed by Roman Catholicism, Coscivian Orthodoxy, Ruricanism, and Læstorianism. The Gaelic, Ĥeldican Coscivian, and Féinem populations account for most Insular Apostolic adherents, though some smaller communities, such as the Wintergen refugees of Svéntren, are Apostolic as well. Coscivian Orthodoxy in Fariva also has an ethnic character, being practised mainly by communities of Southwest Coscivian and New Coscivian descent concentrated in and around urban centres. Ruricanism is the traditional faith of the Taństem and Tańrisem peoples, and as such has contributed much to Farivan history and culture. It is also a "secondary" religion to many Christians of Kóursem and Ardóniem descent.
Catholicism is particularly strong in the Béyasar area, where it has deep roots planted by some of the earliest Catholic missionaries from Levantia, and has been bolstered by Levantine immigration. Many important Catholic religious, educational, and charitable institutions are located in Fariva, including the University of the Holy Cross, the Archdiocesan Seminary of Saints Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius (the name of which is even more cumbersome in Coscivian), and the headquarters of the Catholic youth hockey league Our Lady of the Rink. Most Farivan Catholics belong to the Coscivian Rite, but a large minority (and in Béyasar proper, a majority) belong to the Latin Rite. Farivan territory is divided among one archdiocese (Béyasar) and two suffragan dioceses (Norvimur and Pellam), and the entire state, along with the rest of the Far Northeast, is part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Béyasar. The Archbishop of Béyasar is usually a Cardinal and has strong influence over the Kiravian Church as whole.
Mercantile Protestantism has spread in the state as a result of Burgundian influence, giving Fariva the largest Mercantile Protestant population in the Federacy.
Language
Taństan Coscivian and Kiravic Coscivian and are the state's official languages. Taństan Coscivian has more native speakers than Kiravic and is the main language of daily life for rural, peri-urban, and small-town Fariva, while Kiravic, specifically the Far Northeastern dialect has far more second-language speakers, and is the main language of everyday life in the inner Béyasar metro. The growth of Kiravic at the expense of Taństan is largely a result of Kirosocialist language policy aggressively promoting Standard Kiravic as the single national language. Today, Kiravic enjoys primacy over Taństan in business and public administration, though Taństan Coscivian continues to enjoy state-sponsored prestige as the state's "heritage language". Taństan is taught in most public schools (and is the medium of instruction in a large minority of them, particularly in rural areas and certain long-established Taństem-majority large towns), and Taństan-language literature - whether in the original or in translation - features prominently in the state-mandated curriculum. Many of the state's older universities teach either in High Coscivian or in a combination of High Coscivian and Taństan Coscivian. Gaelic is the second most spoken language in the state by number of native speakers, narrowly surpassing Kiravic. It is official at the local level in municipalities with large Kiravian Gael or Gaelic-Levantine populations, such as Epsilar, and the state government provides many services to Gaelic speakers, including the routine translation of statutes and other public documents, Gaelic translators in state courts, and the use of Gaelic in emergency broadcasts.
Economy
Fariva has a highly developed, diversified economy driven by international and domestic trade, finance, high-value white-collar services, maritime industries (including fishing), healthcare, education, and high technology.
Historically, the major industries in Fariva were the construction and provisioning of seagoing vessels, the manufacture of textiles and ceramic goods, woodworking, and metalworking.
Agriculture is a small component of the Farivan economy. The state's poor soils, terrain, and climate have long limited agricultural activity, and Farivan farmers are poorly positioned to compete in the domestic and international produce markets. Livestock farming - mainly sheep, dairy cattle, goats, and hogs - is the most productive agricultural activity. Farivan farmers also grow staple crops such as potato, barley, and cale, and there are many apple orchards to supply the state's cider brewries.
Concerns have been raised about barriers to social mobility in Fariva, particularly with regard to the urban working classes, which include many families locked into intergenerational poverty.
Localities
Countyships
- County Amhald
- County Antram
- County Telbrant
- County Koffin
- County Sirand
Notable Farivans
- The Leonoix family settled in Fariva during the Colonial Era, founding the city of Traprain in County Telbrant. Subsequent generations of the family have mostly remained in the state, and many have distinguished themselves in Farivan politics and business.