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| Suderavian People's Republic Suderaviax Plānokéarita | |
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| Country | Kiravian Federacy |
| Capital | Xromîda |
| Largest City | Dolno-Suderavsk |
| Population | 2,284,000 |
| Chief Executive | Karolyn Istraxan (UP) |
| Prime Secretary | S.V. Erid (SPP) |
| Legislature | People's Soviet |
| Stanora seats | 3 |
| Official languages | Suderavian Coscivian Skithanawite |
| Recognised languages | Kiravic Coscivian Covine language |
| Postal Abbreviation | SUD |
| Time Zone | West Levantine Time |
Suderavia, officially the Suderavian People's Republic (Suderaviax Plānokéarita) is an overseas state of the Kiravian Federacy occupying an island in northwestern Levantia.
Georgraphy
| “ | Geographically, Suderavia is very mountainous and has a vast system of rivers, valleys, lakes, and mountains that span the region. Though the region is now ideal for many interested in winter sports, buying a cottage/vacation home, the mining business, and ecotourism, it was historically viewed as largely inhospitable land that limited colonial expansion. | ” |
| — Diamavius Cronscovinus, Suderavia: Lore Once Forgotten | ||
History
Suderavia was first settled by palæolithic hunter-gatherers, and subsequently by pre-Aryan Levantine peoples such as the Lzveizish and Skithanawites, and later the Impaxi.
Coscivian settlements on Suderavia were founded early in the history of Coscivians in Ixnay, around the same time as in Meridia.
At some point in time, Suderavia came under Covine rule. Under Covine administration, Suderavia occupied a peripheral position in the Covine state, characterised by economic exploitation and political marginalisation. An underdeveloped and deprived province, it was valued by the government mainly for its strategic location on the [name of body of water], its mineral resources, and as a site for state dachas and weapons testing. Perceived mistreatment by the régime stoked the flames of competing Skithanawite and Sudercoscivian nationalisms on the island, which would boil over into armed insurgencies during the [X decade], when Skithanawite and Coscivian nationalists opened campaigns of bombings, mortar attacks, and small-arms attacks on military targets, Covine civilians, and sometimes one another. The militants received backing from the Kiravian Union and from Nahe, the former looking to support Coscivian national liberation and gain a proxy on the Levantian continent and the latter seeking to maintain its own security against Covina by leveraging minority separatist movements in the country.
The anti-Covine agitations and foreign interference campaigns culminated in the 211XX Suderavia War, in which a united front of the Suderavian Republican Army and Royal Skithanaw Army launched a series of mass-casualty attacks on Suderavian military installations that invited heavy-handed reprisal from the government, precipitating a bloody asymmetric conflict in the island’s interior accompanied by urban guerrilla activity in the cities. The repressive measures taken against the native civilian population by the Covine state was condemned by the Kiravian Federacy, Nahe, and [X other country].
Politics & Government
Suderavia is a semi-presidential republic. Executive power is exercised by the Governance Commission (Āritakirstuv), or “Cabinet”. Members of the Governance Commission are appointed by the Chief Executive, except for the Prime Commissioner, who is elected by the People’s Soviet. The People’s Soviet may dismiss the Commission or any of its individual members by a vote of no confidence.
The Chief Executive is elected every five years by instant-runoff vote. The Chief Executive presides over meetings of the Governance Commission and signs its decrees and orders into effect. Independently of the Commission, the Chief Executive is the supreme commander of the Suderavian Defence Force and Suderavian People’s Police, and holds a number of other prerogative powers, such as to make judicial appointments and issue pardons.
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The legislative organ is the People’s Soviet, which is elected every two years. Suderavia’s countyships and independent city (Dolno-Suderavsk) serve as its electoral constituencies, and seats are allocated among them with reference to population. Elections to the People’s Soviet are by instant-runoff vote in single-member constituencies and by single transferable vote in multiple-member constituencies. X number of special seats are reserved for the Skithanawite people, who elect their representatives by [general-ticket vote probably]. Skithanawite citizens also vote in the geographic constituencies in which they live.
Society & Culture
The culture of Suderavia is shaped by its Coscivian heritage, its geographic and environmental conditions, the legacy of Covine rule, and foreign influences absorbed from neighbouring countries or received from further abroad through the Kilikas Sea trade.
Ethnicity
Coscivian peoples
The founding Coscivian settler population of Suderavia was generally similar in profile to that of the Kiygrava, Fariva, and Ilánova, with most settlers belonging to Akúvaric Coscivian or Northern Coscivian ethnic groups, such as the Sedhem, Taństem, and Kaltem. Multigenerational Suderavian Coscivians retain an awareness of their different Coscivian ancestral origins, but among them ethnic identity has been for the most part subsumed into clan identity, with individual clans claiming a Kaltem heritage or Sedhem heritage, etc. On the 21200 Kiravian Census, 70.5% of Coscivians in Suderavia entered their ethnosocial identity as “Suderavian Coscivian” while 29.4% entered other designations. A great deal of the ancestral admixture of Suderavian Coscivians comes from Skithanawite, Gaelic, and Burgundois sources, and a significant number also have recent Covine ancestry, though this is now seldom discussed.
Other Coscivian ethnic identities reported by significant numbers of islanders were Taństan Coscivian, Sedhan Coscivian, Ĥeldican Coscivian (and subgroups), Arnórian Coscivian, Kiryaniv Coscivian (and subgroups), Kelnordan Coscivian (and subgroups), Skōrdan Coscivian, Sea Coscivian, Féinem, Ilánovan Coscivian, Fulmarine, North Coscivian (and subgroups), and Wintergen Coscivian.
Skithanawites
Skithanawites are the oldest community to continuously inhabit Suderavia. They speak a pre-Aryan Palæo-Levantine language and have their own customary monarch.
Levantine Peoples
Most of the non-Coscivian, non-Skithanawite population are of mainland Levantine origin, whether Covines who settled on the island during the period of Covinan rule, or migrants from neighbouring Levantine countries (Burgundie, Fhainnaeran) and their descendants. In Yuzhno-Suderavsk and a few larger towns there are neighbourhoods populated by Saresians and other minority peoples of Covina. Some of these people arrived as ordinary internal migrants during Covine rule, and others came to the island as refugees and political asylees after the island's liberation. The government of Covina has accused the Kiravian Federacy of harbouring wanted terrorists on the island and providing them training from former Suderavian Republican Army guerrillas and Kiravian military advisors, which the Kiravian government denies.
Ethnocultural Breakdown of Saar-Silverda
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Language
The major languages of Suderavia are Suderavian Coscivian, Covine, Skithanawite, and Kiravic Coscivian. Suderavian Coscivian and Skithanawite are official languages of the state as stipulated in the state’s Fundamental Statute. Separate legislation has provided for the recognition and official use of Kiravic Coscivian and granted legal status to the Covine language.
Suderavian Coscivian is a post-creole language that developed in parallel with Kiravic Coscivian and is characterised by base derived from northwest Kórsan dialects, with extensive inheritance from North Coscivian, Taństan Coscivian, Kelnordan Coscivian, and other settler languages, as well as influences from Gaelic, Burgittan (and other Burgy langs) and Covine. The modern written language emulates Literary Kiravic in its style and has directly borrowed many words from it, especially since liberation.
Over a third of the population speak Suderavian Coscivian as their native language, over a third speak Covine as their native language, and 11% speak Skithanawite as their native language. Dramatic language shift has been underway since liberation: The share of native Covine speakers is rapidly diminishing due to emigration, abandonment of the language by Coscivians and Skithanawites, and lack of official support/affirmative suppression by the government. While the percentage of Suderavian-born ethnic Covine children speaking Covine at home holds more or less stable at around 90%, the total Covine population itself has declined steeply. The percentage of Suderavian-born Coscivian children speaking Covine at home has collapsed from ~40-50% before liberation to under 20%, though there is reason to believe that Coscivian households underreport the extent to which they use Covine. Many households that are bilingual or even primarily Covine-speaking may report to be Coscivian-speaking for reasons related to ethnic identity. A series of observational studies conducted by the University of Duniver found that it is still common for urban adult Coscivians in Suderavia to speak Covine with other Coscivians, and even more common to employ various forms of code-switching between Coscivian and Covine. The same studies concluded that use of Covine by Coscivians has almost entirely disappeared from rural and mountain areas, while its use in urban areas has declined much more gradually.
The policy of the Suderavian People’s Republic since liberation has been to promote the Suderavian Coscivian and Skithanawite languages and to curtail the presence of Covine in public life. Suderavian Coscivian has become the language of instruction in all public intermediate and secondary schools not under the authority of the Skithanawite King. Outside of Dolno-Suderavsk the replacement of Covine-era road signage with Coscivian-language signs conforming to Kiravian standards is 95% complete. Kiravic Coscivian is taught in secondary schools and spoken by many transplants from other Kiravian states, as well as in many business settings. It has official recognition from the state, and the state government will accept and process documents filed in Kiravic.
Religion
Suderavians are predominantly Christian, though among the Coscivian population many maintain Læstorian, Rurican, and Sarostivist traditions as a “background religion” of sorts. Most Coscivian-Suderavians are either Catholics worshipping according to the Coscivian Rite or belong to the Insular Apostolic Church. The Coscivian Orthodox Church had a significant presence earlier in the island’s history, but by the mid-20th century the last Coscivian Orthodox parishes had either entered communion with Urceopolis or disbanded. It saw some underground revival with the rise of Coscivian nationalism and has been formally reconstituted since liberation with about 25,000 communicants, many of whom are recent transplants from other Kiravian states.
The Skithanawites are conclavist Catholic sedevacantists with their own Pope. The Latin Rite Catholic population is made up mainly of Covines and other Levantine residents.
Lutherans, Mercantile Protestants, and Kiravian Sectarian denominations such as the Reformed Orthodox Church and Trinitarian Universalists are also represented.
Suderavia is home to a considerable population of Abrigalasts, representing one of the largest and oldest Abrigalast communities in Ixnay. The Abrigalasts of Suderavia arrived fairly early in the history of their faith, having fled persecution in South Levantia and been welcomed by the Covine government of the time to cultivate its more marginal lands. Most Suderavian Abrigalasts do not respond to the Federal Census, but there are estimated to be about 5,000, with around 60% living in Abrigalast settlements, though figures for urban Abrigalasts are likely underreported. Although they are mainly of Levantine ancestry, Suderavian Abrigalasts have spoken Suderavian Coscivian as their native language for centuries.
Due to the impact of communist rule, Suderavia has a larger non-religious population and lower rates of religious participation than most Kiravian states. Rates of religious adherence and participation have risen consistently since liberation, though the KF Conference of Catholic Bishops has noted that intellectual understanding of Church doctrine remains low among Suderavian Catholics due to the long suppression of religious education.
There are two mosques in Suderavia, one Qustanti and one non-denominational but of Sunni provenance, both in Dolno-Suderavsk. The Bahá’í Local Spiritual Assembly is based in Xromîda and claims 500 adherents, 105 of which are active.
Architecture
Levantine influence on Suderavian architecture is strong and pervasive. Coscivian nationalists on the island looked to Kilikas Brutalism for expression, and since liberation there has been a profusion of Kilikas Brutalist architecture all over the island, especially for public buildings.