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The Maloka Council State, colloquially Maloka, is a Fanerian protectorate in northern [[Crona]]. It borders [[Aeonara]] and the [[Levantine Ocean]] by sea, and [[Ashkenang]] to the east.
{{Infobox country
{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Maloka Council State
|conventional_long_name = United Cities
| native_name =  
|native_name =       联合城市
| common_name = Maloka
|common_name =       UC
| image_flag = [[File:Maloka Banner.png|frameless]]
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| alt_map = Location of Maloka on the globe.
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| national_anthem =That Western Star
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| official_languages = Malkn
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| demonym = Malki
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| ethnic_groups = Malki (78%), Ashkenauk (11%), Algosh (7%), Rianee (3%), other (<1%) (check vs official numbers)
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| capital = Kimiornee
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| largest_city = Kimiornee
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| government_type = Republic
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| leader_title = Chief Minister
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| leader_name = some dude
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| leader_title1 = Legislature
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| leader_name1 = some dude
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| leader_title2 = Judiciary Body
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| leader_name2 = Ministry of Justice
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|legislature =People's Council
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|capital =           [[Heng]]
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| percent_water =  
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| population_estimate = 4,723,109
|largest_settlement_type = largest city
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| population_estimate_year = 2020
|official_languages = Corummese
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|ethnic_groups =     {{ublist |item_style=white-space:nowrap;
| GDP_nominal =
| GDP_nominal_year = 2025
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = $14,233
| sovereignty_type = Independence {{nobold|from [[Algoquona]]}}
| established_event1 = Malokan Provisional Government
| established_date1 = 2022
| established_event2 = Maloka Council State
| established_date2 =2024 (?)
| HDI_year = 2025
| HDI_change = increase <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| HDI = 0.492 <!--number only-->
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| HDI_rank =  
| 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
| time_zone =
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| electricity = test
| drives_on = right
| calling_code = (773)
| cctld = .mak
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}}
postal code LO-01




==Geography==
  }}
Maloka is largely coastal, being a 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.
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==Economy==
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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.
|religion =          
==Politics==
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=== Parties ===
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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.
|demonym =           
 
|government_type =    Plutocracy
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.
|leader_title1 =      Grand Secretary
|leader_name1 =     
|leader_title2 =     
|leader_name2 =     
|legislature =        Council of Cities
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|lower_house =       
|sovereignty_type = 
|sovereignty_note =
|established_event1 = Establishment
|established_date1 =  915
|established_event2 = 1st UC-Zhong War
|established_date2 =  938
|established_event3 = 2nd UC-Zhong War
|established_date3 =  1125
|established_event4 = 3rd UC-Zhong War and dissolution
|established_date4 =  1215
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The '''United Cities''' was a state that existed in northwestern [[Corumm]] and parts of [[Canpei]] from 915 to 1215. Emerging during the death throes of the Chen dynasty and the Four Great Impostors crisis, it was originally created as a confederation of city states, the main aim of which was mutual protection, eliminating bad governance, promoting the slave trade and evading imperial taxation. The original members were the cities of [[Heng]], Sho Battai, Brink, Heft and Stoat. The economy of the United Cities was heavily dominated by slavery and not soon after its founding would slavers become the ruling class, effectively creating a highly corrrupt and despotic plutocracy. The United Cities would fall to [[Corumm]]ese Zhong dynasty armies in 1215 but many of its trade  and societal practices would continue in the territories that it had ruled.
=== History ===
=== Geography ===
=== Climate ===
The predominant climate of the area covered by the United Cities is cold semi-arid, featuring warm, dry summers and freezing winters with temperatures dropping below zero. Winters usually see light to moderate snowfall.
=== Government ===
=== 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. Various ministers oversee the government's business at the pleasure of the Council, with the Head of State, the Director, being a largely ceremonial position with minimal power beyond the veto and military authority. As a result, the Head of Government has significantly more power than the Head of State. Delegates serve for four-year terms with a term limit of six terms.
The United Cities was ruled by the Council of Cities, a collection of the wealthiest and most influential men of each city. Only the richest ten citizens from each city were allowed to take part in the council. The choosing was not through election but by a tallying of the monetary worth of the aspirant, usually carried out by Traders Guild accountants. Every ten years a member of the council would be elected by simple majority to serve as Grand Secretary of the United Cities. The Grand Secretary had powers to represent the UC in foreign matters and trade negotiations. For the United Cities entire three hundred year existence the position was typically rotated, with no one city ever holding on to the position for consecutive terms.
 
=== Military ===
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.
The United Cities kept a unified standing army known as the Iron Legion, composed of twenty thousand men in lamellar armor, divided into footmen, cavalry and artillery corps. It was augmented by city self-defense forces and private militias composed of slaves as needed. The Iron Legion was able to repel the numerically superior armies of the Zhong for many years until funding cutbacks, corruption and the intake of slaves into its ranks drastically reduced its combat effectiveness.
 
=== Foreign Relations ===
The primary Ministries of the Malokan government are the Ministries of War, Trade, Security, Records, Development, and Finance.
=== Economy ===
=== Administration ===
The United Cities economy was heavily reliant on slave labor for its agricultural and industrial manpower. UC slavers would undertake great raids into [[Rusana]], [[Duamacia]] and the rest of Zhong dominated [[Corumm]] to procure slaves for both internal use and for export. It would also acquire Audonian slaves through intermediaries since the UC never had direct access to the sea. The semiarid climate made for poor agricultural output, crops that required little water like cactus were favored. The rare alcoholic Cactus Rum has its origins in the United Cities and was also a big earner. Another source of revenue was taxation of caravans traversing through UC territory. Most trade in and out of the United Cities was overseen by an institution known as the United Traders Guild
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.
=== Culture ===
 
South Osweyan, the southernmost province, is partially leased to the government of Faneria until 2122, while Maloka sold the
==Demographics==
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.
==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 ===
=== 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 Heirarchy employed many as pathfinders and enforcers against the Malki majority.
=== Algosh ===
== Military ==
=== National Liberation Army ===
Maloka's Army consists of approximately fifty thousand men divided into four Occident-style brigades, several garrison units, and a command staff. the Army's command staff also directs Naval operational goals but not its combat decision-making; in other words, the Army is superior to the Navy but cannot instruct it on in-combat operations, only goals.
 
Most of the Army's equipment is last-gen or surplus modern-gen, and training is handled by a small core of local officers aided by Fanerian advisors. The focus of military doctrine is purely defensive, and as such relies on simpler, tried-and-true methods rather than complex maneuver. 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.
 
The NLA was initially a much larger force, but combat losses, mass demobilization, and finally a winnowing of troops by selection reduced the force to a size which could be feasibly supported by Maloka. 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 First Peoples' Brigade is the NLA's most veteran brigade and is on par with an equivalent Occidental force on paper and performed admirably against modernized Algosh troops during the [[Malokan Month's War]], while the others are decidedly second-rate.
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=== National Liberation Navy ===
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The Navy consists of six surface craft (one modern destroyer, two icebreakers, and three frigates/corvettes) and two dozen-odd patrol boats; its destroyer is a mine warfare-oriented design of Fanerian origin and its corvettes are Fanerian surplus. The Navy also operates Maloka's fleet of eighteen aircraft (two trainers, four scout planes, and twelve 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.
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United Cities

联合城市
Flag of UC
Flag
Capital
and largest city
Heng
Official languagesCorummese
GovernmentPlutocracy
LegislatureCouncil of Cities
Establishment
• Establishment
915
• 1st UC-Zhong War
938
• 2nd UC-Zhong War
1125
• 3rd UC-Zhong War and dissolution
1215

The United Cities was a state that existed in northwestern Corumm and parts of Canpei from 915 to 1215. Emerging during the death throes of the Chen dynasty and the Four Great Impostors crisis, it was originally created as a confederation of city states, the main aim of which was mutual protection, eliminating bad governance, promoting the slave trade and evading imperial taxation. The original members were the cities of Heng, Sho Battai, Brink, Heft and Stoat. The economy of the United Cities was heavily dominated by slavery and not soon after its founding would slavers become the ruling class, effectively creating a highly corrrupt and despotic plutocracy. The United Cities would fall to Corummese Zhong dynasty armies in 1215 but many of its trade and societal practices would continue in the territories that it had ruled.

History

Geography

Climate

The predominant climate of the area covered by the United Cities is cold semi-arid, featuring warm, dry summers and freezing winters with temperatures dropping below zero. Winters usually see light to moderate snowfall.

Government

The United Cities was ruled by the Council of Cities, a collection of the wealthiest and most influential men of each city. Only the richest ten citizens from each city were allowed to take part in the council. The choosing was not through election but by a tallying of the monetary worth of the aspirant, usually carried out by Traders Guild accountants. Every ten years a member of the council would be elected by simple majority to serve as Grand Secretary of the United Cities. The Grand Secretary had powers to represent the UC in foreign matters and trade negotiations. For the United Cities entire three hundred year existence the position was typically rotated, with no one city ever holding on to the position for consecutive terms.

Military

The United Cities kept a unified standing army known as the Iron Legion, composed of twenty thousand men in lamellar armor, divided into footmen, cavalry and artillery corps. It was augmented by city self-defense forces and private militias composed of slaves as needed. The Iron Legion was able to repel the numerically superior armies of the Zhong for many years until funding cutbacks, corruption and the intake of slaves into its ranks drastically reduced its combat effectiveness.

Foreign Relations

Economy

The United Cities economy was heavily reliant on slave labor for its agricultural and industrial manpower. UC slavers would undertake great raids into Rusana, Duamacia and the rest of Zhong dominated Corumm to procure slaves for both internal use and for export. It would also acquire Audonian slaves through intermediaries since the UC never had direct access to the sea. The semiarid climate made for poor agricultural output, crops that required little water like cactus were favored. The rare alcoholic Cactus Rum has its origins in the United Cities and was also a big earner. Another source of revenue was taxation of caravans traversing through UC territory. Most trade in and out of the United Cities was overseen by an institution known as the United Traders Guild

Culture

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