Nauta Normand

Nauta Normand
Province of Burgundie
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Nickname(s):  The Northern Sailor, Hyperborea
Nation	Burgundie
Constituent Country	Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly
Geographic designation	Polar Burgundies
Capital City	Soix
Area
• Total	854.696 km2 (330.000 sq mi)
Population
• Total	142,960
• Density	170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Demonym	Normandiennes
Website	www.burgundie.gouv/nautanormand

Nauta Normand is an over-seas province of Burgundie located in the eastern Coscivian Sea. It shares a maritime border with Kiravia to the south. It is part of Burgundie's Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Polar Burgundies geographic designation. It is home to 142,960 Normandiennes. It's capital and largest city is Soix which also serves as the province's largest port facility.

Nauta Normand is known for its hard-nosed residents who brace the elements every day to live on the desolate and barren landscape. It is however a critical naval and scientific outpost for Burgundie which are the two largest sectors of the economy. Because of the focus on science, the Normandiennes are incredibly well educated and their Internet speeds are fastest in Burgundie, averaging around 3gigs. The Normandiennes are predominantly focused on traditional lives fishing, herding, weaving, and what little agriculture can be eeked out, but the youth are preferring to go to Kiravia and the Burgoignesc Metropole in greater and greater numbers. To make up for this, larger and larger numbers of immigrants are being given incentives to move to Nauta Normand to maintain these cottage industries which is being met with mixed reactions from the locals.

Politics and government

Nauta Normand is part of the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Polar Burgundies geographic designation. Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly is a constituent country equivalent of Burgundie with its own assembly, prime minister, budget, and laws. Burgundie's national governmental influence is limited to subsidies, education, and security, however, its financial and cultural institutes cast a long shadow across Nauta Normand.

Nauta Normand is a province within Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly with its own semi-elected Governor-Epistates, representative legislative body, and court system.

Nauta Normands are Burgoigniacs/Burgoignix with complete civil and economic rights, and citizenship (political rights) under the same federal service criteria as all residents of Burgundie. Burgoignesc is the official language but Coscivian and Burgoignesc are both in use.

Provincial executive

The provincial executive is the Governor-Epistates. Three candidates are elected by a single transferable vote election held every 5 years, the three candidates are presented to the Court of St. Alphador and the next Governor-Epistates is chosen from these candidates. If the citizenry rejects the selection, a run-off election is held with the remaining two candidates.

Provincial legislature

Like the Citizens Court of the National Assembly (Burg. La Assemblee de Ciutadans de l'Assemblee Nacional, ACAN), The Nauta Normand Citizen's Court of the Provincial Assembly is a unicameral legislator. It makes provincial law, has the power of the provincial purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the provincial government. The Assembly has three seats for each province, one for the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Nauta Normand liaison, 3 for the clergy, 3 seats reserved for municipal leaders, and 3 for a rota of private business leaders. On 6 occasions throughout the year 3 more seats are opened to the public to debate topics that are not on the annual legislative agenda.

Military

Military installations

St. Devereaux Naval Station
Near Soix in Burgundie
Site information
Owner	Burgoignesc Security Forces
Operator	Navy of Burgundie Revenue Guard
Controlled by	TBD
Condition	Operational
Site history
Built	TBD
Garrison information
Occupants	Navy TBD Revenue Guard TBD

Emergency response and healthcare

Law enforcement

National Gendarmerie

Further information: National Gendarmerie of Burgundie

Nauta Normand is under the jurisdiction of the Nauta Normand Battalion of the Borealis Brigade of the Overseas Gendarmerie Division. The Nauta Normand Battalion has 2 companies and an HQ section.

• A Company is assigned to
• B Company is assigned to the Joint Agency Taskforce Nauta Normand Rangers, with an area of responsibility rural parts of the island with the Wildland Management Service. They are based in .
• The HQ section is also based in.

Revenue Guard

Further information: Revenue Guard

Revenue Guard, Metaborealis Station

Firefighting

Further information: Fire Seneschalcy of Burgundie

Sociolance

Further information: Royal Sociolance Service of Burgundie

Geography

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Climate

Polar climate

Climate data for 1981–2010 normals
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	−13.5 (7.7)	−13.0 (8.6)	−7.5 (18.5)	0.0 (32.0)	5.6 (42.1)	11.0 (51.8)	14.9 (58.8)	15.8 (60.4)	11.5 (52.7)	5.1 (41.2)	−1.3 (29.7)	−8.1 (17.4)	−1.7 (28.9)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−17.6 (0.3)	−17.4 (0.7)	−12.5 (9.5)	−4.6 (23.7)	1.5 (34.7)	6.4 (43.5)	10.1 (50.2)	11.0 (51.8)	7.5 (45.5)	2.1 (35.8)	−4.4 (24.1)	−11.8 (10.8)	−2.5 (27.5)
Average low °C (°F)	−21.6 (−6.9)	−21.8 (−7.2)	−17.4 (0.7)	−9.1 (15.6)	−2.5 (27.5)	1.8 (35.2)	5.3 (41.5)	6.1 (43.0)	3.4 (38.1)	−1.0 (30.2)	−7.5 (18.5)	−15.4 (4.3)	−6.6 (20.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	14.1 (0.56)	12.0 (0.47)	13.1 (0.52)	13.7 (0.54)	13.0 (0.51)	15.0 (0.59)	16.0 (0.63)	15.4 (0.61)	15.4 (0.61)	14.6 (0.57)	13.8 (0.54)	14.1 (0.56)	170.2 (6.71)
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm)	1.82	1.73	2.55	2.91	3.18	2.73	3.82	3.45	3.27	2.36	3.09	2.55	2.79
Average relative humidity (%)	84.43	83.73	84.33	83.58	81.11	77.57	79.02	79.35	75.29	75.24	82.63	84.49	80.9
Mean monthly sunshine hours	3.78	6.88	8.37	10.62	13.9	14.96	14.96	12.33	8.99	7.21	4.94	3.68	9.22
Source: ur mum

Natural Hazards

• Frost quake

Controversy

• Despite being illegal in Kiravia, abortion tourism is quietly on the rise. Because it is prosecutable under both Kiravian passport law (in federal court) and extraterritorial jurisdiction for Kiravian nationals (federal or provincial court) great pains are taken to conceal the true reason for the visit, and it has led to a rise in human smuggling in the Coscivian and Kilikas Seas. The Government of Burgundie has come out strongly against this practice and the Revenue Guard has increased its presence and anti-smuggling patrols in Wintergen and Nauta Normand as a result.

Economy

Further information: Economy of Burgundie

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  Sheep herding is a major economic driver
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  So is cattle herding, Hamish here is adorable
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  Ship yard for the fishing fleet
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  Ferries to Kirav
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  Whaling fleet

Employment

Because Nauta Normand's economy is a high-low mix of sectors from research to traditional fishing and herding, opportunities abound for Normandiennes at all skill and education levels, which has helped the islands maintain a fairly steady unemployment rate of around X% for the last decade. Burgundie's high emphasis on education translates to a particularly educated and skilled workforce, leading to lower unemployment compared to less educated countries in Kiro-Borealis. The islands' economic diversity cushions against overreliance on any single industry, which has demonstrably made the island more resilient during downturns. Since Burgundie strives for Total Economic Engagement and espouses equal rights and opportunities regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, or background, Nauta Normand benefits from improved access to education and training, impacting employment prospects across various fields.

Agriculture

Agrinergie

Main article: Agrivoltaics

Fishing, fisheries, and hunting

Fishing and whaling account for 75% of the economic activity by value on Nauta Normand.

Distant-water fishing fleet

Whaling

Aquaculture

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Artisanal/heritage industries

Sealing and walrusing

Further: Seal hunting and Walrus hunting

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  Historic approach to sealing, 1880s
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The northern coastal communities of Oilieur, Norville, Cotecress all engage in the legally protected heritage seal and walrus hunting industry. They do it for the meat, blubber, skins, and walrus tusks. A limited number of tourists can also hunt them as big game.

On average they hunt and process 47 tones of meat and blubber.

Furrier

• Muluks
• Sealskin

Trade

Port Soix
Location
Country	Burgundie
Location	Nauta Normand
Details
Opened	1868
Type of harbor	Intermodal freight port
Available berths	2
Piers	3
Employees	164
Statistics
Vessel arrivals	64 (seasonal, June-September)

Port Soix is the cargo port for Nauta Normand. Due to the polar climate of the island, the port is only accessible from June to September. The workers of the port spend most of the year maintaining the port through the winter, but there is a feeding frenzy in the summer months to import all of the the food and commodities that are needed for the year. The port is smaller and most of the ships are transshipped through Kiravia. As a result, there is a contingent of the Revenue Guard focused on customs enforcement.

The Port of Soix is designed around short-sea shipping small feeder ships sized vessels. There is a container terminal, a tanker pier, and a break-bulk berth. The port is serviced by a bunker fuel depot and a climate controlled warehousing complex.

Infrastructure

Maritime

Lighthouses

Further information: Burgoignesc Maritime Navigation Administration

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Rail

Further information: Rail transportation in Burgundie

Torlen uses Standard gauge, 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) for both freight and passenger rail.

Borail (a portmanteau of boreal and rail) is the is the public-private joint-venture, intercity, passenger rail operator in Nauta Normand and Wintergen. It owns and operates all rail corridors, rights of way, and rolling stock that serve this purpose.

Energy and electricity

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  Geothermal powerplant

Phone service and internet

Phone service is provided by Island Mobile, a co-op with a basic infrastructure layout, that covers the three main municipalities on the island. There are 11 cell towers that cover 84% of the population. Landline service is available and is still popular with those who live in the rural parts of Nauta Normand.

Highspeed internet service is provided by National Wireless Services a public-private ISP offered to areas of the Burgoignesc thalattocracy that don't have enough demand to create a competitive market. Residential internet speeds average 2 gigabits while commercial speeds are typically higher in the 3-4 gigabit range. National Wireless Services piggybacks on the Island Mobile towers and also has two towers of their own which provide highspeed wireless connections deep into the logging lands on the west of the island.

There is also a Global Maritime Distress and Safety System repeater and beacon on the island.

Demographics

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