Sudmoll

Trade Island of Sudmoll
Province
Flag
Nation	Burgundie
Constituent Country equivalent	Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly
Geographic Designation	Polar Burgundies
Capital	Oparo Nui
Government
• Governor-Epistates	Tino Oro-Martine Vaiarie
Area
• Province	1,554 km2 (600 sq mi)
• Water	217.56 km2 (84.00 sq mi)  14%%
• Urban	12.6 km2 (4.9 sq mi)
• Rural	1,226.02 km2 (473.37 sq mi)
• Metro	9.25 km2 (3.57 sq mi)
• Military installation	84.37 km2 (32.58 sq mi)
• Port facility	4.2 km2 (1.6 sq mi)
Population  (2025)
• Province	18,510
• Density	11.91/km2 (30.8/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Iti

Sudmoll, officially the Burgoignesc Trade Island Province of Sudmoll, is an island in the western Okatian Sea. It shares a maritime border with Stenza which has often led to complications with that nation (Sudmoll Island Conflicts).

It has a small population of 18,510 residents, outside of the Naval/Revenue Guard station and Foreign Legion outpost. On average there are approximately 50-100 Revenue Guardsman, 3-5,000 naval personnel, and 3,500-4,000 legionnaires stationed on the military facilities on Sudmoll. The capital and largest town on the island, Oparo Nui, is home to around 4,730 people in it's city limits, which spans 12.6 sq km. The metro area consists of two villages, Pasquavil with 1,748 people, and Oparo Iti with 1,329 people. The remainder of the population lives in a rural environment.

Politics

Sudmoll is part of the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Polar Burgundies geographic designation. Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly is a constituent country equivalent of Burgundie with its own assembly, prime minister, budget, and laws. Burgundie's national governmental influence is limited to subsidies, education, and security, however, its financial and cultural institutes cast a long shadow across Sudmoll.

Sudmoll is a province within Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly with its own semi-elected Governor-Epistates, representative legislative body, and court system.

Sudmollians are Burgoigniacs/Burgoignix with complete civil and economic rights, and citizenship (political rights) under the same federal service criteria as all residents of Burgundie. Burgoignesc is the official language but Austral Valloise and Burgoignesc are both in use. However, there was a time during the 1960s and 1970s when children were forbidden to speak Austral Valloise in schools. Austral Valloise is now taught in schools; it is sometimes even a requirement for employment.

Provincial executive

The provincial executive is the Governor-Epistates. Three candidates are elected by a single transferable vote election held every 5 years, the three candidates are presented to the Court of St. Alphador and the next Governor-Epistates is chosen from these candidates. If the citizenry rejects the selection, a run-off election is held with the remaining two candidates.

Provincial legislature

Like the Citizens Court of the National Assembly (Burg. La Assemblee de Ciutadans de l'Assemblee Nacional, ACAN), The Sudmollian Citizen's Court of the Provincial Assembly is a unicameral legislator. It makes provincial law, has the power of the provincial purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the provincial government. The Assembly has three seats for each province, one for the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Sudmoll liaison, 3 for the clergy, 3 seats reserved for municipal leaders, and 3 for a rota of private business leaders. On 6 occasions throughout the year 3 more seats are opened to the public to debate topics that are not on the annual legislative agenda.

Culture

Religion

Sudmoll enjoys complete religious freedom and is a thriving polity of religious observation. The most common religions practiced in Sudmoll are reported to be Catholicism at 35%, Protestantism at 28%, Masa Church at 15%, agnostic or nonreligious at 18%, and other/animist at 4%.

Economy

Tourism is a significant industry.

The main trading partners are the Burgoignesc Metropole for about 40% of imports and about 25% of exports. The other main trading partners are Stenza, Caphiria, and the Loa Republic.

Unemployment affects about 13% of the active population, especially women and unqualified young people.

Tourism

Sudmoll has, in recent years become known for whale watching: Humpback whales come and reproduce here between July and October within easy sighting distance from the beaches.

Agriculture

Agrinergie

Main article: Agrivoltaics

Since 2014 Sudmoll has seen rise in the interest in agrivoltaics. There is a 1MW solar installation with agriculture activities on 2 hectares (5 acres) of land owned by a local cooperative that was funded by a grant from the Royal Academy of Sciences. The farm grows melons, chilies, and cucumbers which are sold at the local market. In 2019, an agrivoltaic system was built on a shrimp farm, funded by a local block grant. According to data collected by the Ministry of Energy's Department of Sustainability's Office of Energy Resiliency's Local Initiatives Branch, the results of their pilot project indicate that water consumption has been reduced by 75% and other benefits such as shading for workers as well as a lower and stable water temperature for better shrimp growth.

In 2024, a subsidy program was established for participants who can provide 1 hectare of undeveloped, arable, and viable land and a business plan to farm/ranch on the land with shade-tolerant crops can receive up to $150,000 towards the installation of a solar array.

Aquaculture

Aquaculture is a new aspect for the economy of Sudmoll. The commercialization of the pearl and nacre industry was first attempted in the 1990s and met with stiff resistance by the cottage industry that existed around it. The final push was in 2014 when conservation groups succeeded in getting the local legislature to put a 10-year moratorium on "wild" fishing, pearl-diving, and other forms of gathering seafood by hand.

This was considered an Occidentalization of the cottage industries, concentrating power in hands of a few people who were friendly to the Governor-Epistates at the time. Two court cases have been brought against the law banning "wild" marine capture. In both cases the locals lost to overwhelming evidence that the new approach was much better for the environment and since the supply of aquaculture products was most consistent and forecastable much better for exporting concerns.

In the 2020s aquaculture exploded as the pristine marine coastal ecosystem attracted millions of dollars of investment from the Burgoignesc Metropole and the Levantine Union. The aquaculture sector employs about 250-300 people directly and brings in about $55-65 million a year not including ongoing investments.

Mariculture

Raimana et Fils Inc. seaweed farm

Mariculture as a commercial effort is a growing business sector in Sudmoll. There are now two artificial reefs or sea ranches farming Paua farms that produce Paua flesh, pearls and nacre (mother of pearl). Other mollusks are farmed here and sold as a local food source.

There is a fish oil extraction and fishmeal production ship that processes all of the leftovers or unsellable fish and exports fish oil and fish meal. It circles the fish farms and collects it's load for an "offloading fee".

There is also a seaweed forest and an oyster farm both owned by Raimana et Fils Inc.

The sector generates around $18 million a year and employs about 50 people directly.

Pisciculture

Pisciculture in Sudmoll is focused mostly on the raising of Awa, Flatfish, tamure. Open-ocean cage culture is the only allowable form of pisciculture in Sudmoll and theey produce about 3-400 tonnes of fish each year.

There are also two smaller fish farms that specialize in reef fish for aquariums and cleaner fish production.

The Pisciculture sector brings in about $35 million each year to the island and employs 173 people directly.

Trade

Port Nova Martillia
Location
Country	Burgundie
Details
Opened	1949
Employees	550
Statistics
Vessel arrivals	179
Annual cargo tonnage	805.219 tonnes
Annual revenue	₮25 million

Port Nova Martillia is a small container port that can accommodate two feeder sized ships at once. It is used to export the agricultural goods from the island but also to supply the locals with sustenance since the island is not self-sufficient. Since opening relations with Stenza the port has increased its activity almost twofold. Smaller packet freighters are a much more common sight. Almost all of the meager exports from Sudmoll now go to markets in Stenza.

Trade is handled throught the Okatian Island Trading Company (OITC), a joint stock company that is owned 20% by Caphiria, 20% by Burgundie, 20% by O’Shea Container Shipping, and the remaining shares are publically traded. The OITC handles the imports and exports from Sudmoll and Caphirian Escal. It runs a regular route from Port Lacomopoles in Burgundie, Sybaesa Port in Caphiria, Port Bianca in Cartadania, Port TBD, Burgoignesc Equitorial Osteiecia, Ku'umata, the Loa Republic,....tbd.

Infrastructure

Energy and electricity

Sudmollians consume 41,499,420 kWh of electricity each year. Per capita, this is an average of 2,242 kWh. Sudmollians consume 188,681,640 kgs of oil equivalent each year. Per capita, this is an average of 10,194 kgs of oil equivalent.

Sudmoll imports its petroleum and has no local refinery or production. Civilian daily consumption of imported oil products was 5,430 barrels in 2025, which constitutes 70% of energy generation for the island's inhabitants. A waste-to-energy plant was constructed in 2003 and provides the remaining 30% of power generation. It also consumes about 83% of the waste generated on the island. The syngas byproduct is increasingly becoming one of Sudmoll's most valuable exports. There is a rising interest in {{Sudmoll#Agrinergie|Agrinergie]] but a study found that the total potential of the island could only offset the need to meet the current energy consumption, which will never be realized. There has been a mild interest, in residential and commercial solar energy but there isn't a financial capability by the vast majority of residents and businesses to make the initial investments even with current government subsidies. It is estimated that the total solar energy generation capacity on the island is about 4KWs and there is no expectation of that drastically increasing in the next 3-5 yrs.

Through an infrastructure investment grant, the Levantine Union has committed ₮8 million to construct tidal power generators, but the project is currently stalled by local fishermen who are concerned about the disturbances the generators will cause to their livelihood. The project is still expected to move forward and the projected completion date is 2029. A feasibility study was conducted and determined that solar would be unreliable due to the long monsoon seasons, and nuclear was too expensive for the demand.

Military installations

Sudmoll is home to two military bases, Fort St. Amaund, jointly operated by Navy of Burgundie and the Revenue Guard, and Fort St. Giles, operated by the Foreign Legion.

Fort St. Amaund

Fort St. Amaund Okatian Sea Joint Maritime Patrol Station
Burgundie
Site information
Owner	Burgoignesc Security Forces
Operator	Navy of Burgundie Revenue Guard
Controlled by	Burgoignesc Australis Combined Forces Command, Western Sector
Condition	Operational
Site history
Built	1922
Garrison information
Occupants	Navy 4th Aviso Divison 37th Destroyer Squadron Revenue Guard 5th Cutter Pod 2nd Life Saving Squadron

Fort St. Giles

Fort St. Giles
Burgundie
Site information
Owner	Burgoignesc Security Forces
Operator	Army of Burgundie National Gendarmerie of Burgundie
Controlled by	Burgoignesc Australis Combined Forces Command, Western Sector
Condition	Operational
Site history
Built	1973
Garrison information
Occupants	Foreign Legion Foreign Legion Detachment Sudmoll Gendarmerie Okatian Basin Company of the Overseas Gendarmerie

Demographics

Demographics of Sudmoll do not typically include those stationed at

Ethnicity	Population	% of total population	Notes
Mixed race	8,375	45.24%	Primarily Bergendii and Polynesians
Polynesians	5,174	27.95%
Occidental	4,599	19.44%	Almost exclusively Bergendii
Austronesian	1,362	7.35%