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Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki Five official names
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Motto: ¡Patría o Muerte, No Pasarán! ("Homeland or Death, They Shall Not Pass!") | |||||||||||
Anthem: Rumahokian March | |||||||||||
 Location of Rumahoki (dark green) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Santa Maria | ||||||||||
| Largest city | Adouka | ||||||||||
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| Ethnic groups | By race:
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| Demonym(s) | Rumahokian | ||||||||||
| Government | Federal Velvetine parliamentary socialist semi-elective semi-constitutional monarchy | ||||||||||
• Emperor | Maximilian I | ||||||||||
| Francisco Carvalho | |||||||||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | ||||||||||
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| Formation | |||||||||||
| 21 May 1976 | |||||||||||
| 1 May 1977 | |||||||||||
| 30 April 1994 | |||||||||||
| 31 December 1996 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• Total | 1,409,057 km2 (544,040 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• Estimate | 52,328,520 (2031) | ||||||||||
• Density | 37.14/km2 (96.2/sq mi) | ||||||||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2031 estimate | ||||||||||
• Total | $4.711 trillion | ||||||||||
• Per capita | $90,028 | ||||||||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2031 estimate | ||||||||||
• Total | $2.474 trillion | ||||||||||
• Per capita | $47,284 | ||||||||||
| Gini (2031) |  31.5medium | ||||||||||
| HDI (2031) |  0.796high | ||||||||||
| Currency | Peseta (RUP) | ||||||||||
| 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 Sauberanetas des Roumahauki), is a sovereign country located in eastern Vallos. It shares a land border with Takatta Loa in the southwest, Vallejar in the south, 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 Pelaxian 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 sparked a brief civil war period, eventually pushing through a series of sweeping democratic reforms which culminated 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 migrated 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.
History
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Early Vallosi settlements and Glaistic culture
The first human settlements on the Vallosi subcontinent has been dated to the year 12,000 BC based on archaeological evidence. This makes Vallos one of the last parts of the Occident to have been initially settled. Material culture suggests that these settlers may have migrated from what is now Pelaxia. Society for the early Vallosi who have become sedentary was primarily agricultural, reaching to about forty percent by the year 2000 BC. As indigenous Vallosi society developed, they would eventually reach their apex with the rise of the Glaistic civilisation, so-called due to ancient Istroyan texts about the supposed hostility and savagry of the Vallosi people. Some of the more well-known examples of Glaistic culture include so-called "shark pottery", named as such due to the use of shark teeth and bones as a crafting material while at the same time depicting shark-related motifs on pottery, and their widespread usage of masks, one of the most common archaeological finds across Vallos from that time period. The Glaistic civilisation reached its peak at around 1800 BC, not long before the arrival of the Polynesians and later arrival of the first Heaven Ships from Crona. However, the Glaistic civilisation, at this point classified as 'later Glaistic civilisation' due to foreign innovations, co-existed with these groups for centuries to come.
Archaeological evidence aside, virtually nothing is known about the indigenous Vallosi or the Glaistic civilisation. Thanks to the lack of technological development and the lack of a proper writing system, the indigenous Vallosi culture was eventually lost through assimilation, intermarriage, and colonisation, thus leading to a near-total displacement. The average Rumahokian may have as much as less than ten percent DNA from the indigenous Vallosi according to genetic studies made in the year 1997.
Heaven Ships and the Loa
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Warring periods and Caphiric domination
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Delepasian Kingdom and the end of Pelaxian rule
When the Pelaxian monarchy was toppled in 1852, much of the nobility have fled to the colonies which still pledged loyalty to the Girojón monarchy wherein they united the colonies into a monarchy serving as the pro-Girojón government-in-exile in opposition to the Pelaxian republic. However, tensions soon arose as three major factions were formed. There was the Royalists who hoped to overthrow the republican regime in Pelaxia with the help of the colonies and in return establish a dual monarchy in which the Delepasians would be of equal status to the Pelaxians. In opposition to the dual monarchy idea was the National Constitutionalists who, while they remained loyal to the crown, would rather that the kingdom drop the pretense of being a government-in-exile and instead become an independent Delepasian monarchy under the Girojóns. Lastly, there was the National Republicans who wanted nothing to do with the deposed Pelaxian monarchy nor with Pelaxia in general.
Because these three factions were unable to find a suitable compromise, the Delepasian Kingdom was racked with instability and chaos as the inland-coastal divide led to a few of the states within the kingdom to outright declare war on one another. Within three months, the kingdom was dissolved and each state was free to do as they please. Some of the same nobility who have came up with the dual monarchy idea in the first place decided to attempt to strong-arm the state governments into becoming monarchies with themselves as the monarch. These were only successful in Bahia and Rios Gemelos with the rest settling for various flavours of republican governance.
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 Nicolas Torres after a stroke. The Estado Social also made the institutional system of racial segregation known as the Navidadian System nationwide, barring non-Delepasians from participating in politics as well as closing down immigration to all but a select amount of Pelaxians.
The Estado Social regime in Delepasia 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 up having had no memory of the disastrous years of economic and political turmoil that preceded Pascual's regime and most especially when the reformist experiment was put to an end by hardliners in the Armed Forces who felt that reforms should be up to the commander-in-chief and not the prime minister, a departure from the autonomy that Pascual had during his tenure.
Diplomatically, the regime was a member of LOTA, Rosaria having been a member since 1945, two years after the Second Great War had ended, to the detriment of whatever relations the new country may have had with Caphiria. Membership would end in 1991 as a part of the Torres reforms, aiming to move the nation torwards a more neutral stance after the end of the Occidental Cold War.
Velvet Revolution and democratisation
The Delepasian government and army resisted any attempts at dismantling the Estado Social regime until April 1994, when a left-wing military coup in Santa Maria, known as the Velvet Revolution, led the way for the establishment of a multi-party democracy after two years of a transitional civil war period known as PDS (Período de Salvación Democrática). This period was marked by constant social turmoil and a power struggle between left- and right-wing political forces, with the most prominent factions being the Delepasian Federacy, an authoritarian democratic government filled with Estado Social reformists and Pascualist counterrevolutionaries led by Raul Quintero and headquartered in the conservative stronghold of San Joaquin in the state of Homberia, the United Federative Councils of Vallos, a revolutionary Marxist workers' confederation led by popular far-left military commander Vito Borbon and headquartered in the forests of Inaua, and the rump faction of the Junta for the Salvation of Civility, which was headed by the Group of Nine and consisted of moderate socialists and liberal democrats who held a distrust for Quintero's faction and headquartered in Santa Maria.
Through the first several months of the civil war period, Quintero's faction was able to win decisive victories in many battles against the two other rival factions; the split between the two socialist factions were able to weaken the revolutionaries enough for the more professional and well-organised conservative forces to prevail to the point that by early 1995, many nations began to extend diplomatic relations to Quintero's government. In an effort to form a united front against the seemingly-victorious conservatives, the Borbonist faction opted to join forces with the Junta, forming the Council of the National Revolution in August of 1995. With that, the tide of war turned so quickly that by December of 1995 Quintero and much of the leadership of the conservative faction had fled the country; the last pockets of the conservative faction would be defeated in January of 1996.
By July of 1995, the tension between these was so high, that international observers were predicting that a civil war was imminent. Forces connected to the far-left launched a further coup d'état on 3 December, but the Group of Nine, a moderate military faction led by Emperor Maximilian himself, immediately initiated a counter-coup. The main episode of this confrontation was the successful assault on the barracks of the far-left dominated Santa Maria Lancers Regiment by the moderate forces of the Commando Regiment, resulting in three soldiers killed in action.
The Council had emerged victorious, thus preventing the establishment of a conservative strato-democratic regime in Delepasia and ending the period of political instability in the country. The Council of the National Revolution governed Delepasia until just a couple months after the Rumahokian legislative election of 1996. During that time, the junta drafted a new constitution, formally naming the new state the Most Serene Sovereignty of Rumahoki, it established a federal state, it abolished Catholicism as the state religion, it empowered the Emperor in recognition of his role in the civil war period, it established Pelaxian, Latin, and Reform Tainean as the state's three official languages, established provisions committed to the realisation of the socialist revolution through a constitutional framework as well as through a designated vanguard party, and it forbade any systems of racial segregation, thus putting a permanent end to the Navidadian System.
The 1996 elections resulted in a coalition government between the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Christian National Party (PNC) with Fernando Carvalho, PDP's leader, becoming Prime Minister of the first civilian government since before the Velvet Revolution on 21 January 1997. In this capacity Carvalho had initiated the process of accession to the Vallosian Economic Association (VEA) by starting accession negotiations as early as February that same year.
After the transition to democracy, Rumahoki quickly embraced tripartism and dirigism as the nation's primary economic policies, fostering in a mixed-market economy. Land reform and nationalisations were enforced; the constitution (approved in 1996) includes accommodations to socialist principles, complete with numerous references to socialism, the rights of workers, and the desirability of a socialist economy.
Diplomatically, Rumahoki has pursued the thawing and eventual warming of relations with Caphiria as a means to further distance the nation from the Estado Social's warm relations with Urcea, though relations with the Urcean protectorate of Arona have remained warm and cordial nonetheless.
Geography
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View of Lake Astolia from an observation aircraft -
Base of a ceiba pentandra tree near the Old Astol River in Auxana -
Canopy walkway for seeing the diverse tropical rainforests of Rosaria -
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View of Santa Maria's Resort Area from Saints' Rest Beach -
View of Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia's coast from Lake Remenau
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Rumahoki is situated with the Tainean Sea to its east, with a small bit of coastline in the southeast nearing the Kindreds Sea, and is bordered by a few freshwater lakes, most notably Lake Remenau, which since the 1970s is shared between Rumahoki and its neighbour Almadaria. Rumahoki's neighbours by land are the before-mentioned Almadaria, Takatta Loa, and the Caphiric exclave of Vespera, with maritime borders being shared with Cartadania's Porta Bianca, Puertego, and Vespera. The Niscamanta Range is located to the nation's west, enclosing both sides of the Remenau River Valley. The smaller Lake Astolia is located up north and is also shared with Almadaria.
| LR (Loru) | LD (Lade) | TL (Tilo) |
| NR (Nuru) | TDL (Tridesu) | GDN (Gedeno) |
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The Rumahokian Bureau of Statistics and Censuses, in cooperation with the Rumahokian Environmental Agency, have classified the nation as having seven natural regions in 1998: Those being Los Rumas, Lago Delepas (a continuation of the Remenau region in Almadaria), Tierra Loa, New Rumas, Trillizos del Sur (a continuation of the Niscamanta region in Almadaria), Gemelos del Norte (arguably a continuation of the Astol Plains in Almadaria), and Norte Maritimo.
Gemelos del Norte is a tropical grassland much like Astol, and is surrounded by the Astol Mountain Range in the north and east, and the Old Astol River in the south. Trillizos del Sur is the largest geographical area in Rumahoki, and is bordered by Old Astol in the north, and the Sierra Guerrero mountain range, which boasts the highest point in Rumahoki, Mount Sebastian, at 3,623 metres (11,886.48 ft) above sea level.
A majority of Rumahoki's population is concentrated within the regions of Los Rumas (where the nation's largest city of Adouka is located at), and Trillizos del Sur, mostly due to the two regions being among the largest in the country, and the existence of commercially-important rivers which ensures the economic livelihood of many of the states within them via trade with Almadaria.
Climate and environment
Rumahoki's climate is broadly tropical throughout much of the year, though the existence of geographical nuances has allowed for a variety of biomes and climate zones to crop up. Trillizos del Sur and Gemelos del Norte, surrounded by the mountain ranges of Astol and Guerrero, have a more temperate climate in the interior before gradually transitioning towards an alpine climate as one gets closer to one of the mountain ranges, or towards a tropical rainforest climate as one gets closer to the river up north. Near the coast, the regions of Los Rumas and New Rumas have a warmer and more humid climate, often with tropical rainforests. Lago Delepas is a tropical savannah near Lake Remenau, but soon transitions towards temperate grassy plains as one gets closer to Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia before transitioning towards a cooler climate in Tierra Loa.
Being just south of the equator and within one of the tropics, average temperatures remain mostly constant throughout the year, with average highs going up to 30 degrees Celsius, and average lows going down to 15 degrees Celsius. The big distinguishing feature between Rumahoki's geographical areas is the amount of rainfall a given area gets rather than temperatures.
There is no such thing as a vernal or autumnal season in Rumahoki; there is only a dry season, or cosecha (harvesting), and a wet season, or floración (flowering). Typhoons are most common in the wet season, bringing forth heavy amounts of precipitation of up to 350 mm; the dry season sees as little as 10 mm on average. Los Rumas and the interior of Trizillos del Sur and Gemelos del Norte each receive the highest amounts of rainfall on average.
Government and Politics
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Rumahoki is a federal parliamentary semi-elective semi-constitutional monarchy governed under a dominant-party system by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which adheres to the fundamental principles of Velvetine Socialism. Thus, Rumahoki is one of the few countries that happens to be governed by an explicitly socialist party. The Rumahokian constitution states that the nation "is governed by the fundamental principles of socialism as determined by the Velvetines after the Revolution in 1994; the defining feature of which is the role of the People's Democratic Party as the vanguard party designed to develop the conditions needed to properly transition the nation towards a post-capitalist society."
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.
There exists the title of Commander-in-Chief, which is designated by the constitution as the chief executive. In theory, this means that the Emperor is in fact a ceremonial head of state, but in practice the office of commander-in-chief and the head of state have been in the person of the Emperor ever since the Velvet Revolution, thus making him one of the most powerful figures in the nation.
The Prime Minister, currently Francisco Carvalho, is the head of government, appointed by the Commander-in-Chief 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 286 members split between the 266 Peers Temporal and the 20 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 500 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.
Federal subdivisions
Rumahoki is a federal state with nineteen estados, including the Federal District containing the nation's capital of Santa Maria. The primary purpose behind these entities is to be the primary-level divisions, complete with their own constitution and form of government. These entities are delegated some autonomy and self-governance, thus allowing them to pass their own laws and policies, provided that it doesn't violate the constitution. The states are further divided into provincias, parroquias, cantones, and municipios. These divisions are responsible for certain functions, but most notably not the educational functions due to the highly centralised nature of the education system. The comarcas serve a dual-purpose, totaling to 500, not only do they serve as a common local government over multiple municipalities they also serve as a means for the apportionment of seats in the Congress of the Commons as a means to prevent the National Assembly from being dominated by the cities.
The government of Rumahoki also provides maps of the extent of the nation's four main cultures as well as the nation's regions. Three states are Tainean, three states are Loa, two states are Cartadanian, and twelve states are Delepasian. The state of Junu'urinia Ba'andasi-Navidadia is the only state to have two major cultures, those being Loa and Delepasian. The largest state by area is Rosaria at 137,664.89 square kilometers (53,152.71 sq mi), while the Federal District is the smallest state by area at 1127.24 square kilometers (435.23 sq mi).
Five out of nineteen states are constituent monarchies, those being Bahia, Rios Gemelos, Portas Gemeas, Kalanatoa, and Na'aturie; the latter two being theocracies, and Portas Gemeas is an example of a more traditional elective monarchy. The rest of the states are republics. The states of Tescolinia, New Isuria, and Valio are also known as autonomous islands; islands on equal status to the rest of the states despite their small area.
Politics
The nation's dominant party is the left-wing 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 rather than a one-party state, 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, the far-left Yes We Can!, and the far-right Delepasian Alternative.
Law
The system of law used in Rumahoki is the system of civil law, a legal system that has its basis in the Caphiric legal system. Under the civil legal system, laws are determined by written statutes and not judicial precedents; a judge may not have the authority to make law, but they do have the authority to merely interpret the law. The only instance in which judicial authority has been used to change the law is when a given law is interpreted as being in violation of the Constitution, and even then that kind of authority is exclusive to either the Supreme Court of Rumahoki or any of the supreme courts of any of the nation's main subdivisions. In agreement with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which had emerged as a result of the Kilikas Enlightenment in the latter half of the 18th Century, freedom is the natural condition of society; any prohibitions to that natural condition can only be done in the name of keeping actions considered to be deleterious to society from destroying society altogether. Basically, the law can only establish prohibitions if it is needed, and said prohibitions must not cause inconveniences deemed to be greater than the societal inconveniences that a given law is trying to prohibit.
Rumahokian law has four major subdivisions, with those being: private civic law, criminal law, administration law, and constitutional law. Private civic law encompasses non-criminal disputes such as contract law, family law, and property law; sentences under private civic law are typically monetary or compensatory in nature with punishments usually being minimal. Criminal law, as the name suggests, encompasses criminal disputes over matters such as thefts, assaults, and homicides; criminal sentencing can either be punitive or rehabilitative depending on the nature of the crime committed, the history of the accused, and the personal discretion of the judge presiding the case. Administrative law encompasses legal matters pertaining to the executive branch of government on both the national level and in the subnational level; administrative cases can usually mean instances of, for example, disputing fines levied due to a parking violation, but it can also mean determining the legal custody of a minor. Constitutional law, as the name suggests, exclusively encompasses not just the directly-codified provisions within the Constitution, but also documents that are considered to be highly important to the Constitution such as the Rights of Man; this typically arises over laws that are suspected, whether by an organization or a private citizen, of being unconstitutional.
All four realms of law have their own judicial hierarchies, but all of them end with the Supreme Court of Rumahoki as the highest court in the country as well as being the highest that an appeal can go; all decisions made by the Supreme Court are considered final and unappealable.
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Ethnicity
Self-reported ethnicities in Rumahoki (2028)
Rumahoki's population is highly diverse, but research on Rumahokian ethnicity has felt the impact on nationalist discourses on identity. Ever since their independence from Pelaxia, the former Pelaxian colonies have all promoted the view that all Pelaxian-descended people in eastern Vallos are part of the Delepasian community, within which they were all considered indistinguishable from one another regardless of genealogy. This is the state of affairs that surrounds the Delepasians to this day.
The second-largest ethnic group is the Taineans, people who have descended from passengers of the Heaven Ships and have intermarried with the indigenous Vallosi people. In what's now Rumahoki, the Taineans have enjoyed more rights than the Taineans of Almadaria. Indeed, Rumahoki is one of the only two countries that actively preserves Tainean culture with the other being the Tainean-majority Arona.
In southwest Rumahoki, the Loa people constitute as the predominant minority group. The Loa of Rumahoki have fallen under Delepasian rule ever since the first settlements of Navidadia after the collapse of the Loa Empire. Historically, the Loa were actively discriminated by the Delepasians, most especially in Navididia from which the Navidadian System was first created in. It wasn't until after the Velvet Revolution in 1994 when the Loa were finally granted equal rights under the law.
Cartadanians in Rumahoki have always been a presence ever since the establishment of the Pirate Republic of Portas Gemeas in 1498. As a fellow Romance culture, the Cartadanians were largely treated as near-equals by the Delepasians with the only demerit being that they spoke Cartadanian instead of Pelaxian.
Race relations between the Delepasians and the non-Delepasians would not start to slowly improve until after the Velvet Revolution. Even to this day, a worryingly high amount of Delepasians still hold exceptionalistic views with varying degrees of Delepasian supremacy.
Language
Rumahokian Pelaxian is the majority language in Rumahoki, having been introduced to mainland Vallos with the arrival of Captain Mauricio José Delepas on Bahía de Los Ruma in the year 1497. Reform Tainean, an Occidental-influenced standarisation of the Tainean langauge, is the language of the Taineans ever since it start being taught in northern Rumahokian schools in 1911. The native Tainean dialects are still spoken in increasingly smaller numbers in northern Rumahoki, usually by older Taineans and isolated Tainean villages. Classical Latin has historically been used as a lingua franca by the Taineans when communicating with the Latinic peoples, the Bergendii, and the Delepasians. The Cartadanian language is almost exclusively spoken by the people of Portas Gêmeas and Trêscolinia as is Insuo Loa by the Loa people in Kalanatoa, Na'aturie, and Junu'úrinia Ba'andasi-Navidadía. Almadarian Pelaxian, Caphiric Latin, and Burgoignesc are other known minority languages in Rumahoki.
Religion
Religious affiliations in Rumahoki (2028)
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 Mercantile 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.
Education
State education in Rumahoki is free, secular, and compulsory from the age of three until the age of sixteen. The current education system is regulated by the 1994 educational law, LOE (Ley Orgánica de Educación) or Fundamental Law for the Education, which permanently decoupled the Catholic Church from the public school system as well as establishing the school-leaving age at sixteen, something which was illegal under previous educational laws.
Rumahokian education is centralised and divided into three stages: Primary, secondary, and higher education. Government assessment has determined that school children perceive very low levels of support and feedback from their teachers, with many of them reporting great concern about the disciplinary climate and behaviour in classrooms.
Higher education is divided between public universities and the prestigious and selective Academias Coronadas, such as Ciencias Gu for political studies, ANR for economics, Politécnico, UMD for social studies, Escuela de Minería Santa María for high-profile engineers, or Academia Administrativa Burocrática for careers in the Gran Cuerpo of the state. The Academias Coronadas have come under criticism for their alleged elitism as many of Rumahoki's high-ranking civil servants, CEOs, and politicians were graduates of these institutes of higher learning.
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Religion
Rumahoki has been a secular state since 1996 with the promulgation of its constitution. As part of the government's efforts to attain assurances of non-intervention from the Catholic Church, the Concordat of 1996 was signed between the Church and the Council of the National Revolution which detailed the exact relationship between both entities. It superseded the Concordat of 1976, itself a reaffirmation of the Concordat of 1948, which had given the Catholic Church a wide array of privileges ranging from censorship of blasphemous materials to clerical exemption from military service while granting the prime minister, which at that time was Fernando Pascual, the privilege of appointing clerical figures; the Pope at the time of the enactment of the Concordat of 1948 issued an encyclical which celebrated the 450th anniversary of the arrival of Mauricio Delepas and the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Los Rumas. The Concordat of 1996, on the other hand, established the Catholic Church and the Rumahokian government as two separate and yet equal entities that may not interfere in the affairs of one another while at the same time reaffirming that the Church would still be represented in the Congress of the Peerage.
The concordat also established the twelve permil law in which Rumahokian taxpayers are obligated to devolve 12‰ (1.2%) from their tax returns to an organised religion that has been officially recognised by the state, or to a state-run social welfare programme. According to statistics from 2032, 64.8% of the population had made a choice from amongst the recognised religions. This tax law has had the unintended effect of funding minority congregations which would not have had such a boost in funding through regular donations from their adherents. As of 2035, the current religious denominations that the Rumahokian taxpayer may choose from are as follows:
- Latin Catholic Rite
- Caphiric Catholic Rite
- Coscivian Catholic Rite
- Mercantile Reform
- Marian Kapuhenasa
- Assemblist
- Collegiate
- Vallejarian
- Judaism
- Qustanti Islam
The only extant religion in Rumahoki that has not requested recognition from the government is the Delepasian National Church which since the Velvet Revolution has refused to communicate with the government, believing that doing so would validate what they deem to be an anti-clerical socialist regime.
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Economy and Infrastructure
The economy of Rumahoki is a mixed economy with elements of tripartism and dirigism under the name Velvetine Socialism. In laymen's terms this means that the Rumahokian economy makes heavy used of economic planning with market forces in the name of guiding production in an economy, this also includes the existence of public and private enterprise. Firms in Rumahoki are under public ownership and are attached to certain state ministries that may opt to merge, dissolve, and reorganise these firms while determining which sector a firm may operate in. The acquisition of inputs and the selling of outputs are to be done in markets, ultimately meaning that the nation's economy is one of markets, making it very much unlike certain forms of socialist-style planned economies.
The basic idea behind Velvetine Socialism, named after the Velvet Revolution, is based around the idea of earlier forms of social democracy, that being a workers' revolution can be achieved through reformist measures, with armed revolts being an absolute last resort. That last resort being the Velvet Revolution of 1994, and that the victory of the left-wing reformists in the subsequent transition to democracy and the electoral victory of the People's Democratic Party in the nation's first truly democratic elections has given the idea of a workers' revolution by reform a mandate. Through the heavy use of state planning and intervention in a market economy while still ensuring the rights and dignity of the worker is maintained, socialism will be achieved.
As a result, the government of Rumahoki exerts a strong directive influence through the use of indicative planning to supplement market forces for guiding the economy. Enterprises such as mass public transportation, energy, and the basic infrastructure for telecommunications are under state control, and private corporations are given various incentives from the state to merge or engage in certain projects as needed.
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Currency
The official currency of Rumahoki is the Peseta, first introduced in 1852 to replace the overly-complicated Rumian real with an easy-to-use decimal currency. It is the original Peseta, with Vallejar adopting their own form of the Peseta sometime after the original Peseta's introduction. The current exchange rates are as follows: ₽29.11 for $1 USD; ₽51.99 for $1 URD; ₽56.76 for ₮1 LUT; ₽57.33 for ₳1 ICA; ₽53.55 for ◊1 KFS; ₽52.95 for ₹1 RLS; ₽15.15 for ฿1 BAR; ₽39.21 for £1 ARP; ₽27.50 for ₱1 TDP; ₽1.75 for Ps1; ₽20.33 for $1 AST; ₽7.48 for ₺1 LIR; ₽3.51 for ₴1 KBS.
Historically, the Peseta was one of the weakest currencies in Vallos, the result of decades of economic and political turmoil that arose after the collapse of the Delepasian Kingdom in 1852. It would not be until the beginning of Fernando Pascual's involvement in the Rosarian government that measures would be taken to undo the damages caused by eighty years of economic mismanagement and bankruptcies. Through his near-absolute control of economic policies, Pascual was able to strengthen the Peseta for the first time in many years, leading to the neighbouring Delepasian polities to make use of similar economic policies to those of Pascual's to similar results. However, it would not be until the 2000s that the Peseta became one of the strongest domestic (read: not using a foreign-based currency such as the Levantine Taler or the mainland Sarpedonic Real) currencies in Vallos.
Prior to 1976, the Peseta was decentralised, with each Delepasian polity having their own variant of the Peseta. These pesetas were collectively abolished in favour of the new Delepasian Peseta, which itself was the successor to the Rosarian Peseta. The Peseta is not to be confused for the Ponča, the official currency of Tierrador, nor the similarly-named Vallejarian Peseta.
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