Fariva

Fariva
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Country	Kiravian Federacy
Capital	Béyasar
Population	11,216,000
Chief Executive	Dáran Saroprestin (UF)
Chancellor	Lorya Vadicaserin (CPA)
Stanora seats	3
Official languages	Taństan Coscivian, Kiravic Coscivian
Postal Abbreviation	FAR

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, 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.

	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.

Federal Stanora Delegation

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.

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 Ærem, Ispem, Síkutem, Kharic, and Kistani 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.

Society and Culture

Norvimur

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.

Other ethnic groups have arrived in multiple waves of immigration, first by the Ærem and other groups from the poorer areas of Western Éorsa, such as the Kostiatem, Kóursem, Peninsular Coscivians, Kālatem, Ispem, Ardóniem, Lusem, Purgóniem, Venskem, and North Elutes. Subsequent groups of immigrants have come from other New Coscivian countries (Triatha, Saliera, Arudia, and Kylixa), and most recently (in large numbers) from the nearby non-Coscivian countries of continental Levantia, especially Burgundie, Kuhlfros and Kistan, though smaller numbers of migrants, missionaries, and traders have crossed the Straits of Ilánova for many centuries. During the industrial era, Fariva also received a large number of domestic migrants from the neighbouring Gaelic-speaking states, and from Meridia.

The seafaring Lúnstem, Sea Coscivians, and Keregulem have a large presence in Béyasar and Norvimur.

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

Kiravic Coscivian and Taństan Coscivian are the state's official languages, though Kiravic, specifically the Far Northeastern dialect is much more widely spoken. Kiravic is the main language of public administration and business, 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 wealthy exurbs and rural areas), 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 Taństan. 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.

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.