Vithinja: Difference between revisions

|capital                    =  [[Cities of Vithinja|Rolvsvik]]

|largest_city                = [[Cities of Vithinja|Tår Bringär]]

|official_languages          = <!--e.g. English, French--> [[Languages of Vithinja|Ruthi]]

|national_languages          = <!--Officially recognized national languages--> [[Peoples of Vithinja|Ruthi]], [[Peoples of Vithinja|Siarvish]]

* [[Peoples of Vithinja|Ruthan]] 21%

* [[Peoples of Vithinja|Ruth-Gvärs]] 16%

* [[Peoples of Vithinja|Novalke]] 14%

* [[Peoples of Vithinja|Gvergole]] 38%

The Syndical Cooperative Kingdom of Vithinja ([[Peoples of Vithinja|Ruþí]]: Viþjinsk) often simply referred to as The Cooperative is a constitutional monarchy located in [[Kiro-Borealis]], but is more politically connected to the Northern [[Levantia|Levantian]] region of [[Ultmar]] and it's various nations. It borders [[Caergwynn]] in the south among the vithinjan isles. Crossing the [[Kilikas Sea]] to the far west lies the island nation of [[Kiravia]], while crossing the sea southwards one can find the lands of [[Faneria]]. Vithinja holds the only land crossing from Kiroborea to Levantia via the [[Vithins-Awraidd Bridge Project]], a large set of bridges and underwater tunnels connecting the Kiroborea mainland to most of the Vithinjan isles and ending in northern [[Caergwynn]]. The Vithinjan capital is the [[Cities of Vithinja|City of Rolvsvik]], despite being only the 7th largest city in the nation. Rolvsvik holds importance as the historical seat of power of the various royal lines of the nation as well as being the religious center for the [[Church of Rolv]]. The two largest cities are [[Cities of Vithinja|Tår Bringär]] and [[Cities of Vithinja|Cärssund]], both of which lie within the vithinjan isles. Tår Bringär has long been the economic capital of Vithinja as it holds a large and deep natural harbor well placed for both safety and trading purposes. For most of Ultmar history the city benefited from strategically defensible geography, avoiding devastation from the many wars that plagued the Ultmar mainlanders, but since the great war it has fallen in favor somewhat compared to these mainland harbor cities. Vithinja has a population of ~70 million people. The vast majority of the population lives either in the vithinjan isles, or the more temperate southern coastline, but the northern lakes region still holds small population centers. These northern population centers are important to help extract the large wealth of the northern lands.

Vithinja is a relative newcomer among the nations of today in it's current state, only existing in it’s current form for the last 200 years. On the other hand the culture and traditions of a united northern nation has existed for almost a millennium. One of that nations largest issues is caused by large variety in cultures, religion, traditions and more recently ideologies, leading to the nation never truly being able to achieve stability. The nations origins is a tale of two very different peoples fighting each other for the reign but almost always united against foreign threats. The first traces of the two groups arriving in the north date back as far as 700 CE. From the evidence they were not the first people to live in the Vithinjan lands but whatever natives came before are long extinct. It is believed that the first group of settlers who would become the Ruthans left their homeland in western Levantia to sail for new lands in the north, while the celtic origins are even less certain. Both peoples started settling many of the islands along the northern coast of Levantia as well as finding the lands of [[Vithinjan Administrative Divisions|Ruthinja]]. ([[Peoples of Vithinja|Ruþí]]:Fhres-Ruthirí) While the Ruthan people have generally been the rulers over both peoples the [[Vithinjan Demographics|Guerigogled]] have almost always outnumbered them, to the confusion of many scholars.

[[Noborea]] was once settled by some [[Noborea Aboriginals|native culture]] that there are little remnants of, with so little evidence of their existence leaving room for people to consider that they may have been [[celts]], [[geats]] or even [[coscovians]]. They were practically extinct by the year 1000, with their numbers never having exceeded fifty thousand at their largest expanse by most estimate.

The Vithinjan syndicalist way of governing has been classified by experts as a kind of '''Hierarchical Top-Down Syndicalism''', with some extra complications from the '''Monarchical Exception''' and it's institutionally-enforced anti-liberal '''Neotribalism'''. This definition can be broken down as thus: '''Syndicalism''' as in the establishing of a system where people may freely form organizations that hold political influence to affect the legislative and executive powers and process of the state. '''Hierarchical''' as in these organizations being expected to form smaller joint organizations with representatives from each, who work together to help take care of matters that is in each of their interests, continuing upward as is necessary to join all organizations together at the highest point. '''Top-down''' as in these organizations were first created with a set of leading organizations above, whose powers where then divided into smaller portions for which new organizations attempted to be established, creating a starting point for the Syndicated systems powers that were then handed down a ladder of smaller organizations until it reached the local level.  

In effect the syndicalist government functions as a hierarchy of unions each of which may function as either an executive or legislative body, but usually both branches for part of the nations rules, laws and social groupings. The powers of each union is based on what has previously been agreed to be delegated to that level of the hierarchy from above. These powers include both serving as the executive branch for any issues the representatives bring from the legislative decisions of their own unions, one step down in the hierarchy, as well as serving as part of the legislative branch for any higher unions they send representatives to. One of the main purposes of this division of power was to ensure the each part of the government could take care of their issues swiftly and effectively. The ''Ällänsþinget'' (national council) refers to the members, who hold the title of chancellor, of the highest point in the hierarchy who hold only executive powers, including the first level of delegation of all state power towards the lower branches.  

Among the unions the seven top-level unions that all other unions are subdivisions of are all based on the concept of the collar colors that was a pretty popular concept as [[The Syndicalization]] took place. At first there were only four collar-unions that represented the nation: red, black, blue and green, but today that number has risen to seven. They are as follows: the red-collar union (1951), the black-collar union (1952), the blue-collar union (1953), the green-collar union, the pink-collar union (1961), the white-collar union (1977) and the new-collar union (2001). Each of these hold one seat at the ''Ällänsþinget'', while the ''Naþionelförsamligyn'' holds representatives based on the number of people working within each of the top unions.

The largest faction is the '''Syndical Cooperatist''' (''Samvärckenzyndicati'') [Pink seats], usually shortened to The ''Cooperatists''. They are lead by Chancellor [[Magnus Tornssen]], who is famous for being the creator of the Cooperatist movement and helped move Vithinja away from their previous isolationist direction after the [[1983 Vithinjan Nuclear Test]]. Since 2019 he has been the single longest leading chancellor, leading the reds since 2007 continuously while also leading them between 1991 and 1999. He is nearing 40 years since he first achieved a position in the national council at the young age of 28. Among his achievements he has successfully pushed Vithinja from mostly domestic economy to a vibrant export based economy, while also helping improve relations with foreign partners nearly universally. His critics points out that he has continuously promised to cut down Vithinjan military spending for over 25 years with little success, although more significantly he is often a target of both internal and external environmentalists who point out how he is the main reason for Vithinjan environmental policy being by modern standards especially abysmal considering it is a mainly train-based economy. The Cooperatists as a whole hold 67 seats in the national assembly, mainly from the reds and the blues, but has supporters from every collar-union except the blacks. Currently the Cooperatists are alone in controlling more than one of the Chancellor seats, as both blue-chancellor [[Rikart Ragnersson]] and new-chancellor [[Lina Birgittdotr]] are important figures in the faction. Thanks to this near majority in the national council they maintain great executive powers as long as they can convince a single other faction to work with them on whatever issue may be in question. This is helped by most other factions having greater disagreements with each other than they do with the Cooperatists.

Representing the older original Syndicalist ways, the '''Boreal Syndicalists''' (''Noboreazyndicati'') [Red seats] often just called ''Syndicalists'' as many believe they represent the ideals of the ideology. Out of all the factions in the National Assembly they are the most critical of the monarchy in addition to finding entanglement with the global market to be damaging to the rights of the people. They maintain a good 48 seats, although this often holds little power as the only other faction that commonly works with them on policies is the Environmentalists. Today they are lead by green-chancellor [[Sten Vikqvist]], who has been trying to modernize and strengthen the faction in a number of ways. These include shifting their stance from full economic isolationism towards a more moderate total ban on foreign investments or the new stance of tolerance of the Church rather than opposition. In the end their most important shift has been towards more green efforts, creating an ally in the Environmentalists.

Among the more reason additions to the assembly, the '''National Syndicalists''' (''Naþionelzyndicati'') [Brown seats], often referred to as ''Natsynds'', split off from the ''Syndicalist'' factions in the early 2000's. They mostly hold views that can be roughly placed somewhere in between the ''Syndicalists'', ''Cooperatists'' and ''Conservatives''. One of their most defining features is that they believe that Vithinja is a gothic nation first, with it's more celtic inclinations only to be tolerated, not accepted. Despite their short existence they already hold 42 seat, almost surpassing the old ''Conservatives''. They are currently lead by white-chancellor [[Riordan Mayor]], although his hold of the faction is weak. His attempts to similarly make the group more appealing to a modern audience similar to the ''Syndicalists'' has lead to many in the faction considering him soft. Many suspect that one of the more radical representatives within the assembly will soon replace him, which will likely cause him to lose his place as chancellor.

Despite being one of the oldest factions in the assembly the '''Syndical Environmentalists''' (Zyndicatister fyr Meljöen) [Green seats] have struggled to gain support for most of their existence. Their ideas for bettering the future are hold strong support in many other nations but this is not to their advantage, as there is a common rumor that they were born from and still gain from foreign supports and especially scandalous: foreign investments. Even with all of this against them they hold 21 seats, which is still the height of their popularity. Being lead by pink-chancellor [[Ingrid Fridsdotr]], they have taken on the ideals of the modern progressive movement. Fridsdotr was the first councilor and first chancellor to call herself a feminist, which has made her popular especially among many in the more progressive youth, but has also made her many enemies within the assembly who view her ideas as unpatriotic.

Finally, the '''Liberal Monarchists''' (Frijehits Partiet) [Light-blue seats] who only joined the assembly five years ago hold a decent 8 seats. Many believe that they movement had no chance to ever enter into the assembly, which was true for more than 50 years. But with the efforts of their leader, white-representative [[Aron Watch]] as well as suspected support from the somewhat popular [[Valker Sortvit|Prince Valker Sortvit]]. They currently push ideas that seem to be mainly inspired by a combination of Burgundine and Caeric views on liberalism. Meanwhile, chancellor Watch is most famous for being the first representative to get into a brawl with his own chancellor, Riordan Mayor, over an attempt to pressure white-representatives into supporting the national syndicalists. He attempts to gain support both among his own but also from the ''Environmentalists'', in part by pushing a progressive set of ideas but that are more in line with the common culture within Vithinja.

==== Top-Level Union ====

The Vithinjan constitution, a product of the [[Vithinjan Compromise]], is an unorthodox work as it is a product of three origins. The constitution borrows a few things from the constitution of the old Boreal Republic, however this is the smallest component in the text. Secondly and thirdly it is sourced from the compromise between the government of the royal Sortvit family and their supporters as well as the ''Syndicalists'' that made up the nations labor unions during the [[Second Great War]]. This has caused large parts of the constitution to have proved over the years to be a convoluted mess that contradicts itself in more than a few places. Because of the constitutions contradictory nature most of the time the national council and the king both simply use the powers that previous rulers have used, avoiding actions that may cause a constitutional crisis.