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The provenance of the name "Krasoa" is currently unknown, and may come from the undocumented indigenous language(s) of the islands, related to those spoken in [[Loa Republic]]. | The provenance of the name "Krasoa" is currently unknown, and may come from the undocumented indigenous language(s) of the islands, related to those spoken in [[Loa Republic]]. | ||
A theory attributing the name to a [[Tryhstian Littoral|Tryhstian]] navigator named Fernão Crassoa gained currency during the 21010s and was commonly printed in reference works and local school textbooks until around 21194, when an exhaustive study by an élite team of historians failed to find written records of anyone by that surname dating from before the word was in use as a name for the islands. Nonetheless, a statue of Fernão Crassoa (modelled on an unknown subject) still stands in front of the Colonial Stanora building, and many parks, squares, and schools in the colonies are named in honour of the spurious Crassoa. However, some families with ties to the islands do bear the | A theory attributing the name to a [[Tryhstian Littoral|Tryhstian]] navigator named Fernão Crassoa gained currency during the 21010s and was commonly printed in reference works and local school textbooks until around 21194, when an exhaustive study by an élite team of historians failed to find written records of anyone by that surname dating from before the word was in use as a name for the islands. Nonetheless, a statue of Fernão Crassoa (modelled on an unknown subject) still stands in front of the Krasoa Colonial Stanora building, and many parks, squares, and schools in the colonies are named in honour of the spurious Crassoa. However, some families with ties to the islands do bear the surnames ''Krasoa'' or ''Krassoa'', as for many decades it was bestowed on children of unknown parentage raised in state-run {{wp|orphanages}}. | ||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
The Krasoan provinces encompass the entirety of Big Krasoa Island and nearby Island №3, which lays across | The Krasoan provinces encompass the entirety of Big Krasoa Island and nearby Island №3, which lays across Aventurine Bay (''Bahía Creciente''); as well as the entirety of Island №5 and part of the island of Saint Martin, which is divided between the Colony of Nív-Martain and the Burgundine colony of [[Port de Vent]]. Krasoan control of these areas further extends to a number of smaller offshore islets and small remote islands. | ||
The climate of the Krasoa Islands is humid and oceanic throughout, with thermotypes ranging from supratropical in Nív-Martain, to infratemperate, to thermotemperate in South Krasoa and various highland pockets on Big Krasoa Island and Island №5. Seasonal variation in the subtropical areas of Krasoa is mild, but follows southern hemispheric patterns. | The climate of the Krasoa Islands is humid and oceanic throughout, with thermotypes ranging from supratropical in Nív-Martain, to infratemperate, to thermotemperate in South Krasoa and various highland pockets on Big Krasoa Island and Island №5. Seasonal variation in the subtropical areas of Krasoa is mild, but follows southern hemispheric patterns. | ||
Population density is highest along the coastlines and also along the [RIVER] and its tributaries in the interior of Big Krasoa Island. As for inland areas, higher-altitude lands were historically more densely populated than lowland areas, due to the more temperate climate of the former and by extension their greater suitability for the transplantation of mainland Kiravian agriculture; however, this historical correlation between altitude and population density has eroded due to the effects of {{wp|air conditioning}} and population decline in older upland agrarian communities. | |||
Laying within the same longitudinal band as east-central [[Great Kirav]], the Krasoa Islands observe Valēka Standard Time. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
As early as they were described in writing by Occidental and Coscivian geographers, the islands that would one day be included in the Krasoa Colony were inhabited by Austronesian peoples related to the people of Loa Republic. | ===General Overview=== | ||
As early as they were described in writing by Occidental and Coscivian geographers, the islands that would one day be included in the Krasoa Colony were inhabited by Austronesian peoples related to the people of Loa Republic and the descendants of the fallen [[Glaistic civilisation]], who engaged in a degree of cultural exchange and marital intermixture with one another. | |||
The Krasoa Islands were frequented by merchants from Sarpedon and Kiravia to trade for their exotic botanical goods. They subsequently became contested between Pelaxia, Kiravia, Caphiria, etc.<sup>?</sup> during the [[Kindred Wars]], during which Kiravian and Kiravian-backed forces consolidated control over Big Krasoa Island, Island №3, and Island №5. The partition of Saint Martin island between the Kiravian and Burgundine thalassocracies would occur later, in [YEAR], following [EVENT]. | |||
Initially, the islands formed a unitary province, the Captaincy-General of the Mild Isles of the South, subject to the oversight of the Superintendant of Hāverma in [[Pribraltar]] until 1812 AD<sup>[why?]</sup>. The territory of the Captaincy-General was then parcelled out into [[Canton (Kiravia)|subprovinces]] initially governed by the [[Bay Trading Company]] and the [[Kerēgulan Merchants of the Tropics]] under patents from the Kiravian government. Over time, the arrival of Kiravian settlers and assertion of greater control by the Colonial College led to the gradual reorganisation of the colony and replacement of company rule. The Piradia Plantations in southeastern Big Krasoa Island, where there was the greatest density of Kiravian homesteaders and fewest commodities of interest to the mercantile groups, were the first part of the colony to transition from corporate to civil administration, followed by Island №5. The Piradia Plantations would later be extended and chartered as a separate Colony of South Krasoa. Eastion, Island №5, and the Krasoa Colony proper would similarly receive their own charters in the subsequent decades, while the more northerly areas in what is now the Palmetto Coast, Aventurine Bay, Island №3, and Nív-Martain would remain under the Captaincy General. | |||
During Kirosocialist rule in Great Kirav, the Krasoas remained in the hands of the [[Kiravian Remnant|Federalist rump state]] based on [[Æonara]]. The Kiravian Remnant completed the process of administrative subdivision of the Krasoas, distinguishing the Palmetto Coast and Nív-Martain as separate provinces (abolishing the Captaincy-General) and overseeing the elevation of Krasoa proper, South Krasoa, Aventurine Bay, Eastion, and Island №5 as overseas states. | |||
===Peopling and the Glaistic Era=== | |||
===Insuo Loa Colonization=== | ===Insuo Loa Colonization=== | ||
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==Governance== | ==Governance== | ||
[[File:Fuerte de Santa Teresa.jpg|thumb|Dun-Áseınander {{wp|star fort}}, Palmetto Coast]] | [[File:Fuerte de Santa Teresa.jpg|thumb|Dun-Áseınander {{wp|star fort}}, Palmetto Coast]] | ||
Politically, the Krasoa Islands comprise eight Kiravian provinces: the overseas states of Aventurine Bay, Eastion, Island №5, the Krasoa Colony, and South Krasoa, and the overseas territories of Island №3, Nív-Martain, and the Palmetto Coast. These provinces belong to the [[Kiravian federalism#Themes|theme]] of the [[Overseas Regions]]. | |||
The Krasoan provinces jointly operate certain government agencies established by {{wp|Interstate compact|interprovincial compact}} to serve the entire region, such as the Krasoa Port Authority (responsible for seaport and riverine port infrastructure and key ferry terminals), and the [[Territorial Defence Forces|Territorial Defence of the Krasoa Islands]], which serves {{wp|military reserve|army reserve}}, {{wp|civil defence}}, and {{wp|coast guard}} functions. The Territorial Defence Force notably includes a Defence Motorways Patrol, which provides roadside assistance to motorists with disabled vehicles.<ref>Manned by reservists, the Defence Motorways Patrol was created during [time of international tension], when there were credible fears of war with Pelaxia and Governor Ğrampianus Risson ordered that reservists be stationed at rural roadway intersections to provide visual confirmation of the passability of the roads in case of bombing and be ready to clear the roads of civilian traffic quickly should the roads be needed by military vehicles. Today, the DMP functions mainly as a highway safety patrol offering roadside assistance to motorists, removing {{wp|roadkill}}, and supporting first responders in handling roadway emergencies.</ref> | |||
===Law=== | ===Law=== | ||
The marital laws of the Krasoan provinces all uphold the doctrine of ''[[Marital and family law in Kiravia|marital fusion]]'', whereïn a married couple is treated as a single, unified entity for the purposes of civil law (though not criminal law). They are also among the most difficult Kiravian federal subjects in which to obtain a divorce by the Association of Kiravian Marital Attorneys, with their courts requiring high standards of proof for marital fault, mandating extensive efforts at counselling and reconciliation before beginning dissolution proceedings, and recognising none of the "loophole faults" used in some other states to approximate divorce by mutual consent (which does not exist in Kiravia) or otherwise expedite the process. | The marital laws of the Krasoan provinces all uphold the doctrine of ''[[Marital and family law in Kiravia|marital fusion]]'', whereïn a married couple is treated as a single, unified entity for the purposes of civil law (though not criminal law). They are also among the most difficult Kiravian federal subjects in which to obtain a divorce by the Association of Kiravian Marital Attorneys, with their courts requiring high standards of proof for marital fault, mandating extensive efforts at counselling and reconciliation before beginning dissolution proceedings, and recognising none of the "loophole faults" used in some other states to approximate divorce by mutual consent (which does not exist in Kiravia) or otherwise expedite the process. | ||
In all provinces, furries are shot on sight pursuant to an ordinance issued during the early colonial period to protect Kiravian settlements from native warriors whose {{wp|Jaguar warrior|wore animal hides and masques as their battledress}}. | |||
==Society & Culture== | ==Society & Culture== | ||
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==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||
[[File:El Correo (233650473).jpeg|thumb|Avenasar, the financial centre of the islands]] | |||
===Agriculture=== | |||
Agriculture is the historic mainstay of the Krasoan economy. Citrus fruits, olives, oilseeds, grapes, and products derived from them (olive oil, soaps {see below} and medicaments, wine, etc.) were and remain major export earners. Processing of food, beverage, and agricultural products is the largest component of the {{wp|secondary sector}} and provides jobs for thousands of Krasoans. | Agriculture is the historic mainstay of the Krasoan economy. Citrus fruits, olives, oilseeds, grapes, and products derived from them (olive oil, soaps {see below} and medicaments, wine, etc.) were and remain major export earners. Processing of food, beverage, and agricultural products is the largest component of the {{wp|secondary sector}} and provides jobs for thousands of Krasoans. | ||
[[File:Aleppo soap 03.jpg|thumb|Stacks of famous Krasoa Jade soap, freshly cut.]] | [[File:Aleppo soap 03.jpg|thumb|Stacks of famous Krasoa Jade soap, freshly cut.]] | ||
{{wp| | A significant and distinctive subsector of Krasoan agriculture is the rearing of {{wp|ratites}}. {{wp|Cassowaries}} were partially domesticated by indigenous peoples from {{wp|time immemorial}} and are today raised on large forest estates in Nív-Martain where they subsist on natural forage, and smaller properties in the Palmetto Coast where they are fed on slops rendered from human {{wp|food waste}}. Further south, {{wp|emus}} are raised in the other provinces of the archipelago for eggs, fat and oil, leather, and meat. Island №5 has the highest number of emus per capita, at a ratio of one emu per human settler. | ||
Citrus cultivation, esp. limes. | Citrus cultivation, esp. limes. | ||
The explosion of the essential oils market in recent years has been a boon to the islands' economy. | The explosion of the essential oils market in recent years has been a boon to the islands' economy. | ||
===Industry=== | |||
{{wp|Soapmaking}} is a major industry and source of employment, though since the end of Kirosocialism the large industrial soapworks have declined in favour of smaller operations selling market-diversified products, many of which are artisanally crafted. A growing number of small and medium soapworks in Krasoa are coöperatives. Krasoan soap is highly regarded in Great Kirav and Sydona and is increasingly sold abroad. Several traditional types of Krasoan soap have been granted geographic designations and other intellectual property protections by the Kiravian government. | |||
The {{wp|Tanning (leather)|tanning industry}} is important in Krasoa, producing leather from both emu and mammal hides and fashioning finished leather goods (mostly handcrafted) for export. | |||
During the [[Punthite Quasi-Wars|Kiro-Burgundian Gin & Tonic Race]], the [[Colonial College]] tried to establish {{wp|cinchona tree}} plantations in suitable areas of Krasoa, to obtain a domestic supply of cinchona bark from which to extract {{wp|quinine}}, in order to bypass the effective [[Cartadanian]] monopoly on the substance. These efforts were frustrated by difficulty in obtaining the necessary land and smuggling saplings out of Cartadania. As such, the Krasoan plantations were slow to reach maturity and were not targeted for arson by [[Burgoniesc]] saboteurs like their counterparts in the Melians and Saint Kennera. Kiravia's eventual defeat in the Gin & Tonic Race led to the Colonial College selling off the plantations, and most of the land was converted to other uses. However, a few sites remain, owned by a local private company, Sovakaīn Tonics of Krasoa SAK, which produces artisan tonic waters for the Kiravian market. | During the [[Punthite Quasi-Wars|Kiro-Burgundian Gin & Tonic Race]], the [[Colonial College]] tried to establish {{wp|cinchona tree}} plantations in suitable areas of Krasoa, to obtain a domestic supply of cinchona bark from which to extract {{wp|quinine}}, in order to bypass the effective [[Cartadanian]] monopoly on the substance. These efforts were frustrated by difficulty in obtaining the necessary land and smuggling saplings out of Cartadania. As such, the Krasoan plantations were slow to reach maturity and were not targeted for arson by [[Burgoniesc]] saboteurs like their counterparts in the Melians and Saint Kennera. Kiravia's eventual defeat in the Gin & Tonic Race led to the Colonial College selling off the plantations, and most of the land was converted to other uses. However, a few sites remain, owned by a local private company, Sovakaīn Tonics of Krasoa SAK, which produces artisan tonic waters for the Kiravian market. | ||
===Services and tourism=== | |||
The agreeable climate and pleasant landscape of the islands has nurtured a growing tourist industry based on {{wp|agritourism}} and wine tourism, beaches and marine recreation, and destination weddings. | The agreeable climate and pleasant landscape of the islands has nurtured a growing tourist industry based on {{wp|agritourism}} and wine tourism, beaches and marine recreation, and destination weddings. | ||
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==Points of Interest== | ==Points of Interest== | ||
[[Haunted Woods (forest)|Haunted Woods]] | <strike>[[Haunted Woods (forest)|Haunted Woods]]</strike> - [Still canon but moving to the Mainland] | ||
==Notable Krasoans== | |||
*'''[[Juan Kerr]]''' - International financial misunderstanding victim, born in Mulifanua, Nív-Martain. | |||
*'''[[Serapion Larimar]]''' - Chief State Affairs Executive under the [[Candrin administration]], from Anjuna Beach, [[Aventurine Bay Colony|Aventurine Bay]]. | |||
*'''Dorian Indalpírón''' - Defencive end for the Kiravian national {{wp|gridiron football}} team, from County Reyvurn, Aventurine Bay. | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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==Notes== | |||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||
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[[Category:Sub-national Regions in Kiravia]] | [[Category:Sub-national Regions in Kiravia]] | ||
[[Category:Map Completion Project]] | [[Category:Map Completion Project]] | ||
[[Category:Catenias]] | |||