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The '''Republic of Maloka''', formerly the Malokan Council State, is a Fanerian protectorate in northern [[Crona]]. It borders [[Aeonara]], the [[Levantine Ocean]], and the Mera Bay by sea, as well as [[Ashkenang]] by land to the east. Internally, it is organized as a unitary representative republic with its capital in Kimiornee, which oversees a territory of over xxx square miles and nearly six million people. Historically, Maloka's people and history have been defined by its separation from much of the subcontinent by the Mera Bay, which insulated them from some ancient migrations and made them a fishing people, as well as making them a desirable target for conquerors aiming to dominate the fur trade in northern [[Cusinaut]] such as the Northern Confederation and the [[Algoquona|Algosh Hierarchy]], resulting in their lacking an independent state until the 2020s as part of the outcome of the [[Peninsular War]].
 
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| conventional_long_name = Republic of Maloka
| group            = Urcean people
| native_name =  
| native_name     =  
| common_name = Maloka
| native_name_lang =  
| image_flag = [[File:Maloka Banner.png|frameless]]
| pop              = 1.7+ billion
| alt_flag =  
| regions          =  
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| region1          = {{flag|Urcea}}
| symbol_type =
| pop1            = 1,401,593,274
| image_map = Maloka Main Map.png
| ref1            =  
| alt_map = Maloka's administrative divisions and claims.
| region2          = {{flag|New Harren}}
| national_motto =  
| pop2            = 6,502,552 (not including [[Nysdrine people]])
| national_anthem =That Western Star
| ref2            =  
| official_languages = Malkn
| region3          = {{flag|Talionia}}
| demonym = Malki
| pop3            = 4,501,596
| ethnic_groups = Malki (82%), Ashkenauk (10%), Algosh (4%), Sabnak (2%), Rianee(<1%), Other(1%)
| ref3            =  
| capital = Kimiornee
| region4          = {{flag|Unnuaq Mission State}}
| coordinates =  
| pop4            = 11,321
| largest_city = Kimiornee
| ref4            =  
| government_type = Republic
| langs            = [[Julian Ænglish]], [[Lebhan]], {{wp|Ecclesiastical Latin|Latin}}
| leader_title1 = Director
| rels            = [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]
| leader_name1 = Mohoke Tohola Buyan
| related          = [[Caenish people]], [[Garán people]], [[Gassavelian people]]
| leader_title2 = Chief Minister
| leader_name2 = Oyuun Ashawa Yukaghir
| legislature = People's Council
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| population_estimate_year = 2020
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| GDP_nominal_year = 2025
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = $14,233
| sovereignty_type = Independence {{nobold|from [[Algoquona]]}}
| established_event1 = Malokan Council State
| established_date1 = 2024
| established_event2 = Republic of Maloka
| established_date2 =2029
| HDI_year = 2025
| HDI_change = increase <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| HDI = 0.492 <!--number only-->
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| Gini_year = 2025
| Gini_change = steady <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| Gini = 44.6 <!--number only-->
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| currency = Malokan [[Barra]], [[Taler]]
| currency_code = BrM
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| electricity = test
| drives_on = right
| iso3166code = MK
| calling_code = (773)
| cctld = .mak
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==Geography==
Maloka is largely coastal, being largely composed of the Malho peninsula with a coast stretching up into and along the mainland to the Boral Zone. Its northern coast is rugged and frozen, and its southern areas are cold and snow well into summer. The peninsula itself is mostly flats or rolling hills; the region is only marginal for farming quality and natural resources are poorly exploited. Its inland stretches are sparsely inhabited tundra. Most of its population lives along the inner coastline of the bay it rests on, the Mera, as storm weather on the coast is infrequent but savage; icebreaking and transport to the southern tip of the peninsula is critical for the country. The Kilmer River forms its primary watershed in the inner Mera Bay, with smaller creeks and rivers draining water along the peninsular region.
==Economy==
Maloka is a developing nation with a fairly small GDP, and relies heavily on Faneria for funding its military and political process. Fishing and subsistence farming, along with imports, feed the nation, and its few exports largely consist of meagre iron yields and canned goods. Trade is reliant on the city of [[Mharnsgate]], at the southern tip the peninsula, which is currently under a 99-year lease to [[Faneria]]. Shipping further into the bay normally requires icebreakers except in summer.
==Politics==
=== Parties ===
The three major political parties of Maloka are the Red Suns, White Suns, and Forward Path. The Forward Path is a reactionary party focused on advancing the aims of the disparate northern enclaves, shoreward communities, and tribal factions; the Red Sun is a conservative reformist faction aimed at centralization of the state along Occidental lines; the White Sun is the liberal faction (comparable to Occidental centrists) and focuses on government reform specifically along Cananachan lines as well as social reform reflective of Occidental enlightenment and modernism. The Red Sun and White Sun have consistently formed coalition governments throughout the country's history.


Voting in Maloka is limited to citizens; the Forward Path has been pushing for a switch to landed voting but is unsuccessful. Due to the country's moderate cohesion, its elections tend to be difficult and filled with low turnouts and a relatively small voting pool compared to the total adult population.
The '''Urcean people''' are a nation and ethnic group native to [[Urcea]]. The Urcean identity is of early medieval origin. Their ethnonym is derived from peoples living close to the [[Urce River]] in antiquity, referred to in [[Lebhan]] as ''Urciona''.
=== Government ===
 
Maloka's government is comprised of a unicameral legislature of 33 people, called the People's Council, which is lead by a Chief Minister elected by a direct first-past-the-post vote. Terms are capped at six terms of four years each; this extends to judges, ministers, and the executive as well. Previously, the People's Council was both the legislative and executive organ of government; as of 2029, an executive branch in the form of a Directorate was formed as part of legal reforms intended to finalize the formation of government independent of Fhainnin military advisement.
The Urceans largely descend from two main historical population groups – the earlier [[Latinic people]] of [[Adonerum]] and the native [[Gaelic people]] who inhabited [[Levantia]] prior to the Latinic conquest. While the [[Great Levantia]] period largely saw a degree of segregation between the politically empowered Latinic population as compared to the geographically and politically marginalized Gaelic people, there was nonetheless a degree of admixture and integration. By the time of the fall of Great Levantia, integration of the two cultures began in earnest in the Urce River valley, and by the time of [[St. Julius I]], the residents of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] and the [[Urce River]] valley were in the throes of hybridization, beginning a truly unique, Urcean culture.


Maloka's government has a variety of ministries that operate at the beck and call of the Directorate, while the Chief Minister exercises great powers in budgetary decisions and the country's Triad Court is assigned a judge each by the Director, Chief Minister, and a popular vote in the People's Council.
Besides the "core" Urcean ethnicity, sometimes called "[[The Valley (Urcea)|valley]] Urceans" in relation to their origin in the greater [[Urce River]] valley region known as [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]], other ethnic groups are sometimes considered to be part of the wider Urcean identity. Most prominent among these are the [[Caenish people]] of [[Canaery]] and the southern tip of Levantia.


Maloka does not exercise rights as a nation in regards to bilateral relations with other states, but instead operates a diplomatic ministry that works in conjunction with the Fhainnin Foreign Affairs Bureau. In theory, this limits their ability to conduct diplomacy; in practice, it is more a check to ensure Malokan relations do not counteract Fanerian aims.
== Identity ==
Despite global classifications of Urceans consistently placing them as among [[Latinic people]]s, and relations between [[Urcea]] and Caphiria and other states on [[Sarpedon]] are characterized by their cultural kinship, Urceans consider themselves neither Latinic or Gaelic but rather the descendants of both groups. While the concept of ''Urceanity'' derives from the cultural traditions of the country as well as the ethnic admixture of Gaels and Latins, immigrants have been known to be able to integrate into Urcean culture.


The primary Ministries of the Malokan government are the Ministries of War, Trade, Security, Records, Development, and Finance.
A vast majority of Urceans are divided into what are known as the [[Estates of Urcea]], kinship-and-identity groups that bind families together. Deriving from the early voting tribes of [[Great Levantia]] and the socio-political client-patron relationships within them, the Estates have 25 distinct "Latinic" Estates and 25 distinct "Gaelic" Estates, with the latter being integrated during the latter Great Levantia period as part of the process of what sociologists call ''Urceanization''. Distinctly, Urceans do not see themselves as the same Latin peoples who forged and lived within Great Levantia, instead claiming heritage both from Great Levantia and the Gaelic peoples that it conquered, seeing themselves as the direct descendants of neither but instead the product of both. In this way, Urceans view themselves as the "consummation of the whole history of [[Levantia]]" in the words of [[Kiravia|Kiravian]] scholar [[P. G. W. Gelema]].
=== Administration ===
=== Historic Urceanization ===
Maloka is divided into thirteen provinces, three of which are semiautonomous as part of the [[Rianee Cooperative Reserve]]. Each non-autonomous province elects three delegates to the People's Council, one of which is approved by the peoples' council to simultaneously serve as governor of their province. Each semiautonomous province appoints one delegate, and is permitted to operate under local tribal law and is not regulated by the central government in regards to hunting and fishing rights within their territory.
"Historic" Urceanization refers to a process which occurred beginning approximately in the 3rd century and ending in the 9th century that saw groups of [[Latinic people]] and [[Gaelic people]] living in Southern [[Levantia]] begin to form a single, albeit broad, cultural continuum that could be identified today as "Urcean". Much, though not all of this process, was accompanied by frequent intermarriage among these peoples, especially in the midst of and following the collapse of [[Great Levantia]].
=== Late Urceanization ===
"Late" Urceanization refers to any continuation of the process of the growth and adaptation of Urcean identity by groups of people at any time following the 9th century. Subjects of late Urceanization tend to be groups living in Urcea's geographic periphery and ones incorporated into the country following the [[Golden Bull of 1098]]. Accordingly, these groups tend to have entirely different historical origins than the "Valley Urceans" and also retain a partially separate identity. These groups - primarily the [[Caenish people|Caens]], [[Gassavelian people|Gassavelians]], and [[Garán people]]s - nonetheless view themselves as Urcean under varying models of dual identity.
====Dual identity====
Dual identity is a sociological phenomenon prevalent among the groups of people who were subject to "late" Urceanization. People in these groups tend to view themselves as Urcean, both in terms of nationality as well as ethnicity, in addition to their core held ethnic view of themselves as a distinct people. While the relationship between Urcean nationality and these groups is fairly straight forward due to its long political control over their homelands, scholars and cultural observers have long been interested in what sense these groups consider themselves ethnically Urcean. The primary justification behind dual identity theory among its adherents is that, even if history separated the development of specific cultural mores and identity between the residents of the Valley and residents of the periphery, the original "ingredients" of these cultural groups are all the same. By way of example, this theory holds that a [[Gassavelian people|Gassavelian]] and a Valley Urcean share ultimately the same origin point in ancient [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] peoples, even if the Gassavelians were later primarily influenced by people from [[Audonia]] while Valley residents were influenced by settlers from [[Adonerum]].  


South Osweyan, the southernmost province, is partially leased to the government of Faneria until 2123. while Maloka also agreed to sell the Tohatacan Strip to Faneria in 2025 in exchange for a military aid package of a frigate, several fighter aircraft, and repair and sustainment aid, which Faneria gifted to [[Ashkenang]] to allow it access to the sea.  
Efforts by the [[Government of Urcea]] as well as cultural exchanges as part of the [[Levantine Union]] have largely failed to include people adhering to [[Derian identity]] - particularly those of Urcean nationality living in [[Transionia]] - within dual identity structure. Scholars have posited that the relative recentness of Transionia's incorporation, combined with severe ethnic tensions in and around [[Dericania]] since 1800, have made efforts at identity integration difficult.
==Demographics==
== Religiosity ==
Education is highly stratified, with the Algosh population being 85% literate, the Malki being 64% literate, and the Rianee being 4% literate. The majority of the Rianee population lives in the tundra and northern coastal regions, and are by far the poorest, with some never receiving regular contact with the south and only nominally being under Malokan control. The Algosh population has, since the war of liberation, become a pariah caste, sticking to their own communities to avoid backlash - typically consolidating towards the lease city of Mharnsgate, which is legally a safe haven - a reality usually enforced by Fhainnin troops, though violence does occasionally occur. The Algosh, despite their previous affluence, are politically a non-entity, while the Rianee communities in the southern regions are small enough to be safely ignored and generally are only supported by the White Suns out of deference to their imported ideals.


The largest city in Maloka is Kimiornee, which is home to a population of 1.42 million people. The next largest cities, Losha and Tutelo, hold 1.18 and half a million, respectively, making the Kilmer watershed and its urban zones the core of the country with around two-thirds of the population residing there. These communities are some of the oldest permanent settlements in the country, but remained a smaller proportion of the population until 2011, after the area was annexed by the [[Algoquona|Algoquonan Heirarchy]] and a program of forced urbanization was enacted to help modernize the area.
Being a member of the [[Catholic Church]] - practicing or otherwise - is considered to be a vital part of Urcean identity, so much so that {{wp|Protestant}} and other faith Urcean nationals have assumed a completely different ethnic identity over the past five centuries known as [[Cisionian people]]. Cisionians assumed their identity not only from Urcean external views but from internal identity realization based on centuries of cultural isolation.
==History==
===Antiquity===
===Northern Confederate and Algosh Rule===
===Fhainnin Occupation and Protectorate===
Maloka faces considerable challenges with infrastructure, education, and public health, particularly north of the Kilmer River Basin and on the exterior coast of the Malokan Peninsula. Its military and bureaucracy are heavily dependent of Fhainnin foreign aid, and the government's primary concern has been establishing effective taxation, services, and information systems, as well as formally creating a registry of citizens to fix the issue of more than twenty percent of the population being undocumented as citizens of any country. While basic food and water availability has been met, these services are often privatized, and the government is not yet capable of regulating racketeering without external support.
==Culture==
=== Malki ===
Malki culture is heavily based in familial and clan ties; most Malki families live in multigenerational compounds that are grouped into blocks rather than Occedental-style housing divisions. Their people are stratified by a somewhat more educated and developed urban class and a much poorer small community class, and many still live in cottage industry towns, forgotten by the urban core around the Kilmer River. Their diets heavily feature shellfish and fish, though potatoes have also become a staple crop. Malki art glorifies triangle patterns, as their ancient cloth weaves used series of colored triangles as a primitive writing system.
=== Ashkenauk ===
Ashkenauks are a considerable minority in Maloka, but are a large minority in some of the border regions with [[Ashkenang]]. Ashkenauk culture is a unique branch-off of the more common continental [[M'acunism]], and their tribal faiths burn their offerings in addition to other parts of the sacrifices made.
=== Rianee ===
The Rianee people are largely hunter-gatherers, and have a preindustrial culture with a heavy emphasis on subsistence hunting and fishing. Many of them visit temporary living sites throughout the north and Polar Zone, and furs and handcrafts still feature heavily in their garb. In modern times, they have acquired a small number of firearms and manufactured goods in addition to traditional spears and clubs, and have adapted well to using modern trappings while maintaining distance from urban society. The few static Rianee communities are relatively stable albeit poor, and Rianee are often found in shanty towns throughout north and central Maloka. Historically, the Malki pushed the Rianee north from the peninsula, wiping most of them out. The Northern Confederation, during its tenure, had little concern for their status considering their small population size, while the Hierarchy employed many as pathfinders and enforcers against the Malki majority.
=== Algosh ===
The Algosh homeland is on the opposite side of [[Cusinaut]] from Maloka, but controlled a vast swathe of territory, including Maluka, under the now-defunct [[Algoquona|Algoquonan Hierarchy]]. During the occupation, ALgosh settlers became a dominant social class in the major cities, and after the liberation of Maloka, suffered from pogroms, asset siezures, and forced deportations. Many of these were combatted by Fhainnin troops during the [[Final War of the Deluge]], but the Algosh remain a hated minority in Maloka. As a result, many have voluntarily emigrated to the [[Algosh Republic]] or to the city of [[Mharnsgate]], which is governed by [[Faneria]].
== Military ==
=== National Liberation Army ===
Maloka's Army consists of four brigades modelled in a roughly Occidental style, with three motorized infantry brigades and a Pathfinders Brigade, the latter of which is in theory special forces but acts in a mountaineering and border patrol capacity. The majority of its equipment is surplus Occidental equipment, and training is handled by a small core of local officers aided by Fanerian advisors. Most of the initial equipment was mixed, with captured Algosh arms, local small arms, and Fhainnin gifts being seen side by side, but as reorganizations have gone on the Army has gradually approached uniformity, with the oldest armaments being passed down to garrison units and later decommissioned or sold off in batches to Sabnaki or other petty states to help pay for better equipment. The NLA only possesses a half-dozen tanks, although its primary armored vehicle, the [[Bataís 1962-2|Bataís]], is an excellent rough terrain vehicle (for a tracked system) and is decently effective against most of the local Cronan threats the NLA would reasonably be expected to fight.  


Originally, the National Liberation Army consisted of a large variety of militia forces and political extremist groups; after the [[Peninsular War]], an internal winnowing was undertaken to refine the military into a considerably smaller and more manageable force aimed at national defense and maintaining internal order. The focus of military doctrine is purely defensive, and as such relies on simpler, tried-and-true methods rather than complex maneuver.
== Culture ==
=== National Liberation Navy ===
{{Main|Culture of Urcea}}
The Malokan Navy is a green-water force which consists of six major surface craft (one older frigate, two icebreakers, and three heavy patrol craft) and two dozen-odd patrol boats; its frigate is a mine warfare-oriented design of Fanerian origin and its corvettes are Fanerian surplus. The Navy also operates Maloka's fleet of fourteen aircraft (two trainers, four scout planes, and eight last-gen fighter craft). Its primary role is coastal and air defense, and it operates the country's major naval base in Kimiornee and uses Mharnsgate as a second port due to the Fanerian base there.
== See also ==
*[[List of Urcean monarchs]]
*[[List of Urcean officials]]
*[[List of former Urcean officials]]


In 2026, Maloka sold four of its then eighteen fighters to [[Ashkenang]] to pay for a maintenance and training program on its other aircraft..
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Urcean people
Total population
1.7+ billion
Regions with significant populations
 Urcea1,401,593,274
 New Harren6,502,552 (not including Nysdrine people)
 Talionia4,501,596
 Unnuaq Mission State11,321
Languages
Julian Ænglish, Lebhan, Latin
Religion
Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Caenish people, Garán people, Gassavelian people

The Urcean people are a nation and ethnic group native to Urcea. The Urcean identity is of early medieval origin. Their ethnonym is derived from peoples living close to the Urce River in antiquity, referred to in Lebhan as Urciona.

The Urceans largely descend from two main historical population groups – the earlier Latinic people of Adonerum and the native Gaelic people who inhabited Levantia prior to the Latinic conquest. While the Great Levantia period largely saw a degree of segregation between the politically empowered Latinic population as compared to the geographically and politically marginalized Gaelic people, there was nonetheless a degree of admixture and integration. By the time of the fall of Great Levantia, integration of the two cultures began in earnest in the Urce River valley, and by the time of St. Julius I, the residents of Urceopolis and the Urce River valley were in the throes of hybridization, beginning a truly unique, Urcean culture.

Besides the "core" Urcean ethnicity, sometimes called "valley Urceans" in relation to their origin in the greater Urce River valley region known as the Valley, other ethnic groups are sometimes considered to be part of the wider Urcean identity. Most prominent among these are the Caenish people of Canaery and the southern tip of Levantia.

Identity

Despite global classifications of Urceans consistently placing them as among Latinic peoples, and relations between Urcea and Caphiria and other states on Sarpedon are characterized by their cultural kinship, Urceans consider themselves neither Latinic or Gaelic but rather the descendants of both groups. While the concept of Urceanity derives from the cultural traditions of the country as well as the ethnic admixture of Gaels and Latins, immigrants have been known to be able to integrate into Urcean culture.

A vast majority of Urceans are divided into what are known as the Estates of Urcea, kinship-and-identity groups that bind families together. Deriving from the early voting tribes of Great Levantia and the socio-political client-patron relationships within them, the Estates have 25 distinct "Latinic" Estates and 25 distinct "Gaelic" Estates, with the latter being integrated during the latter Great Levantia period as part of the process of what sociologists call Urceanization. Distinctly, Urceans do not see themselves as the same Latin peoples who forged and lived within Great Levantia, instead claiming heritage both from Great Levantia and the Gaelic peoples that it conquered, seeing themselves as the direct descendants of neither but instead the product of both. In this way, Urceans view themselves as the "consummation of the whole history of Levantia" in the words of Kiravian scholar P. G. W. Gelema.

Historic Urceanization

"Historic" Urceanization refers to a process which occurred beginning approximately in the 3rd century and ending in the 9th century that saw groups of Latinic people and Gaelic people living in Southern Levantia begin to form a single, albeit broad, cultural continuum that could be identified today as "Urcean". Much, though not all of this process, was accompanied by frequent intermarriage among these peoples, especially in the midst of and following the collapse of Great Levantia.

Late Urceanization

"Late" Urceanization refers to any continuation of the process of the growth and adaptation of Urcean identity by groups of people at any time following the 9th century. Subjects of late Urceanization tend to be groups living in Urcea's geographic periphery and ones incorporated into the country following the Golden Bull of 1098. Accordingly, these groups tend to have entirely different historical origins than the "Valley Urceans" and also retain a partially separate identity. These groups - primarily the Caens, Gassavelians, and Garán peoples - nonetheless view themselves as Urcean under varying models of dual identity.

Dual identity

Dual identity is a sociological phenomenon prevalent among the groups of people who were subject to "late" Urceanization. People in these groups tend to view themselves as Urcean, both in terms of nationality as well as ethnicity, in addition to their core held ethnic view of themselves as a distinct people. While the relationship between Urcean nationality and these groups is fairly straight forward due to its long political control over their homelands, scholars and cultural observers have long been interested in what sense these groups consider themselves ethnically Urcean. The primary justification behind dual identity theory among its adherents is that, even if history separated the development of specific cultural mores and identity between the residents of the Valley and residents of the periphery, the original "ingredients" of these cultural groups are all the same. By way of example, this theory holds that a Gassavelian and a Valley Urcean share ultimately the same origin point in ancient Gaelic peoples, even if the Gassavelians were later primarily influenced by people from Audonia while Valley residents were influenced by settlers from Adonerum.

Efforts by the Government of Urcea as well as cultural exchanges as part of the Levantine Union have largely failed to include people adhering to Derian identity - particularly those of Urcean nationality living in Transionia - within dual identity structure. Scholars have posited that the relative recentness of Transionia's incorporation, combined with severe ethnic tensions in and around Dericania since 1800, have made efforts at identity integration difficult.

Religiosity

Being a member of the Catholic Church - practicing or otherwise - is considered to be a vital part of Urcean identity, so much so that Protestant and other faith Urcean nationals have assumed a completely different ethnic identity over the past five centuries known as Cisionian people. Cisionians assumed their identity not only from Urcean external views but from internal identity realization based on centuries of cultural isolation.

Culture

See also