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Faneria is a country in northern Levantia with coastline on the Nordska, Kilikas, and Vandarch seas. Its core region, the Ninerivers, sits along the Vandarch Basin. It posesses several minor overseas territories as well as Sorhaithe, which is a province not contiguous with metropolitan Faneria. It is dominated by the Fhainnin Gaelic culture group, with notable Coacivian, Aenglo, and foreign Gaelic minorities. Its government has four branches and a tricameral legislature, and is considered a unitary constitutional democracy with good civil and legal rights but a somewhat authoritarian political system dominated by the Republican Party with legal but weak opposition parties.  

Faneria originated from a patchwork of shifting petty states to become a kingdom in the 14th Century A.D. with an aristocratic, feudal elective monarchy eventually being eroded into a functionally absolute state and, by the 19th century, a constitutional one with a weak Senate and defanged petty nobility. Faneria was an aggressively expansive great power in the late 18th and throughout the 19th Centuries. At the close of the 19th Century, it was decisively defeated by the Commonwealth of Fiannria, destroying the monarchy's prestige and ultimately driving the nation into civil war in 1906 and emerging as a radical revolutionary republic under Callac Cananach and his version of republicanism. It later attempted and failed to create a pan-gaelic union in the 1930s and would eventually settle as a high-ranking secondary power with close ties to the Coscivian world and work to repair its relations with much of the outside Gaelic world.

The Fhainnin economy features strong native cultural goods, electronics, and especially chemicals sectors, and produces high-quality medical equipment. It also sees tourism for winter and water sports and manufactures wood products and crude lumber, seafood, and industrial precursors and materials. Its financial sector is popular for international travel insurance agencies, low-risk investment plans, and for banking clients not welcome in Sarpedonian or Levantine Union institutions.