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Elwynnese Republic
Elluenuueh enueqaveq
Jumhuriye Elwin
Flag of Elwynn
Flag
Coat of Arms of Elwynn
Coat of Arms
Motto: Elwynn prevails!
Anthem:
Location of Elwynn
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Capital Eliria
Largest city Ardashirshahr, Islus, Echo
Official language(s) Elw, Babkhi,Istvanistani
See Languages of Elwynn
Official religion(s)
Demonym Elwynnese
 - Adjective Elwynnese
Government Republic
 - Prince Ander Avon-El
 - Conducător (in the North)
Nahur Vazir (in the South)
Frederik Haabye Truls (in the North).
Salvik Dorkolluerion (in the South)
 - Legislature Council of Eliria
Congress (in the North)
Establishment 1452 AN (as a Shirerithian duchy)
1567 (first independence, lasted till 1600)
1671 (second independence)
Area
Population
Active population 87,552,127 (1672)
Currency Natopian natopo (₦)
Calendar
Time zone(s) CMT-8
Mains electricity
Driving side
Track gauge
National website
National forum
National animal White Stag, Hangover Owl
National food Desert Berries
National drink Tea
National tree
Abbreviation ELW

Elwynn (Elw: Еӆуенууеқ, Elluenuueq [əɬuənuːəχ]); Babkhi: Элвин, Elwin) officially the Elwynnese Republic (Elw: Еӆуенууех енуеқавеқ, Elluenuueh enueqaveq [əɬuənuːəh ənuəqaβəχ]; Babkhi: Ҷумҳурии Элвин, Jumhuriye Elwin; see also Names of Elwynn) is a country in northern Benacia, generally consisting of the land between the Red and Blue Elwynns, and the associated land northwards to Cape Farewell, and thereafter extending eastwards and westwards.

Elwynn has in its history been an in imperial state of Shireroth (16001665 AN), an independent state (15671600), a Shirerithian duchy (14521588, 15091562, 15871600), barony (14881500, 15041509), and a county (15001504). As an independent county, west Elwynn was a republic with an elected prince. Since rejoining Shireroth, Elwynn kept its independence-era government (16001607), then became the Coordinated State of Elwynn (16071612), the Democratic People's Republic of Elwynn (16131618), a transitional monarchy (16181623), and a Vanic state (16231651). Since the fall of the Vanic State, Elwynn's governing institutions were eroded by factional infighting and popular unrest, culminating in an Imperial intervention and the partition of Elwynn in 1665. Parts of the previously partitioned Elwynn re-established itself as the Elwynnese Republic in a congress in Eliria in 1671.

The name Elwynn comes from a goddess with the same name who originally hailed from the Treesian pantheon. The Elwynnese Republic is noted for its violent and complex history, its significant minority cultures, sometimes living in harmony with one another, sometimes brutally massacring one another.

Geography

The territory under the control of the Elwynnese Republic (as of 1673) covers the area between the Blue and White Elwynn rivers (save for the city of Shirekeep under Shirerithian sovereignty), as well as the Northern Reaches (stretching from Wintergleam in the east to eastern Oleslääd in the west (about forty degrees longitude wide). Elwynn also controls the Automatican and Cimmerian islands, Raikoth, as well as most of the island of Leng (see Elwynnese Leng).

Regions of Elwynn

The geography of Elwynn is rich and diverse.

Amokolian lands

The so-called Amokolian lands within Elwynn are composed of the two Automatican Islands (also known as Amokolian Isles) and Vattnaland. The Automatican Islands are cold, with a stable climate. Rich in forests of hardy wood, the economy is based on timber, paper, and construction. South of the islands, we find Vattnaland, a bread-basket of Elwynnese economy. Much agriculture is done here, with rye and potatoes being the main products. Grazing of cows and sheep is also a common sight in Vattnaland. The Elwynn river system, fed by the melting water from glaciers in the high north of Elwynn, provide a lush landscape that gives the soil high nutrition suitable for agriculture.

Northern Reaches

The Northern Reaches, constituting the northern-most coastline of Elwynn (Cape Farewell and Illumination) stretching from Vattnaland in the west to the Cimmerian islands in the east, are cold and humid. As they are low-lying, they are however shielded from the winds from the continent's inner highlands. The local wildlife consists mainly of marine mammals (such as seal, polar bear, walrus, narwhal, whales) along the coast, some of which in the sea and on land, as well as penguins, and flying migratory birds. Despite the harsh climate, thanks to Hyperborean hotspot technology throughout the past two centuries (drilling below the crust to create tiny controlled hotspot volcanoes for energy and heat), the area has hosted a larger than expected population. The far east of the Northern Reaches have a forest, the Phoenix Forest, created in the late 1400s, by Halluci refugees, using the hotspot technology. The Phoenix Forest is famous for a protected habitat of the hangover owl (Strigida crapula). The hangover owl's behaviour is special because of its fervent, loud and bizarre nightly activity, while in day-time the bird is often seen walking (almost penguin-like) on the ground from tree to tree, looking for quick high-energy foods such as nuts.

The inland Cape Farewell and northern Illumination have some glaciers of note.

Cimmeria

A subregion of the Northern Reaches is Cimmeria, a group of five rocky volcanic islands. Thanks to hot springs (geysir), they are warmer than their latitude would otherwise indicate. A few endemic species in the fauna, little mammal life outside livestock.

Agnesia and Wintergleam

Agnesia and Wintergleam cover the north-eastern parts of continental Elwynn, and these regions' climate and geography also include the Asantelian region. Historically formed by receding ice from the last ice age, as well as glaciers, the Agnesian coast houses numerous fjords, the greatest of which is the Vijayanagara Fjord. While northern Agnesia is rocky, the central parts (around Dragonskeep) are covered in pine forests. The southern parts, bordering on the Eliria area, have fertile grounds, where grazing occurs, as well as some agriculture in the form of potatoes, wheat, rye, and vegetables.

Wintergleam, to the east, is humid and fertile. Thanks to the Straylight Stream, the area is warmer than what would otherwise be indicated. This is the agricultural basket for Elwynn. The waters outside Wintergleam are particularly rich for fishing. The beaches south of Asantelian are said to be the best in Elwynn thanks to the southern latitude in interaction with the Straylight Stream.

Iserdia

Iserdia's name comes from an expression in a Nordic vernacular dialect, Íseirdia-la-Vraulalennir, meaning "tundra and barren lands". This is an accurate description. The inland of Elwynn north of the Elwynn rivers' mouths is mostly barren, cold, with permafrost, tundra, and taiga.

Araxion and Utasia

Araxion and Utasia are lush and fertile. However, they are on a higher ground than northern Elwynn, so there are glaciers in the north of these areas. They experience hot summers and cold winters. In Araxion there is some forest (cultivated, for the purposes of timber), while Utasia has more agriculture.

Alalehzamin

Alalehzamin, Elwynn's southernmost region, has a rocky hilly, at times mountainous interior, and a fertile, lower-lying lands along the banks of the Elwynn rivers. The interior used to be one forest, but in the late 1400s all brought down. As such, grasslands and cold deserts cover the interior these days.

Trans-Elwynn

Trans-Elwynn is mainly covered by pine forests, except in the south of the region where there is a mountainous area.

Leng and Raikoth

Leng and Raikoth have very similar geography, both are surrounded by an iceshelf, and there is little vegetation in both of them. Leng has, however, some vegetation in the form of endemic species of cabbage. Raikoth has a central mountain, Yaanek, 3273 metres above sea-level, which is also Elwynn's traditionally tallest mountain. However, Leng is more mountainous and has several taller mountains.

Raikoth has several glaciers while much of Leng's interior is covered by ice shelf. Both of the islands have some barren lands, "ice deserts", where ground can be seen. The inner lands have very little life outside the human footprint. Southern Leng has an "archipelago" of islands with geysir, making the sea there sometimes visible for a few days at a time. This has brought many species of sea birds and marine mammals to the area, as well as fish.

History

See History of Elwynn

Politics

See the Constitution of the Elwynnese Republic

The Elwynnese Republic established itself as an independent state during the Kalirion Fracture, and was recognized as independent by Shireroth on 19.XIV.1672. In a congress in Eliria ending on 8.X.1671, consisting of delegates from the bailiwicks of the Northern Reaches, Akordionnyr, Raikoth, Leng, Vattnaland and the Amokolian Islands, as well as of political, social, academic, and military leaders of various fractions in Elwynn, the political organization of the new republic was decided. First of all, a transitional government would remain in place until the end of 1672. This transitional government is led by the Conducător of the Elwynnese Republic, Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr, of the Behsaz Elwynn party of Alalehzamin, and is tasked with ensuring that the new constitution could enter force upon 1.I.1673.

Elwynn returned to its republican principate – an elected Prince (Elw: Aran) – and a disavowment of all monarchical and noble titles and hierarchies in Elwynn. A unicameral legislature, the Congress, was elected by the people on proportional party lists in all of Elwynn (excepting for the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic) in the 1672 Elwynnese congress election, in which the National Vanguard coalition (consisting of the Verionist Union, the Ayreonist Independence Party and the Elwynnese Workers' Party) secured a majority and established an executive in Congress Elwynn. The next elections are planned for 1676.

North vs South

The compromise between congressional Elwynn (in the North of the country) and the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic (AAR) was made to ensure the unity of the Elwynnese people in one state. The Alalehzaminis demanded an exceptionally high degree of autonomy, and the resulting compromise made it so that the Congress would have no power at all over the Alalehzamin. Instead congressional Elwynn and the AAR share a national government headed by the Prince. The Prince is elected every six years by the people of all Elwynn, and the Prince, acting through the Council of Eliria, has full legislative and executive power over matters of international relations, trade, commercial standards, borders, national defence and security, the enforcement and system of justice, taxation for the Republic's functioning ("national tax" as opposed to "congressional tax" in the North and the "Alalehzamini tax" in the South). In the North, the Congress legislates on all other matters – and the Prince appoints from the majority of Congress a Council of Ministers, headed by a Conducator (Elw: Kondukytoor), who will execute all other matters of the Elwynnese law not belonging to the Prince. From 1672 to 1675 Stephen Lewis was the Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, with authority over the northern regions subject to Congressional rule, until his defeat in a no-confidence vote and the appointment of an N&H led caretaker administration to take the north into elections scheduled to be held in mid 1676.

Council of Eliria

The Council of Eliria consists of the Prince, two members appointed by the AAR government, the President of the Elwynnese Congress, and the Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic. As of 1675, the members are as follows:

Title Name Party
Prince of the Elwynnese Republic Ander Avon-El AIP
Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic Frederik Haabye Truls N&H
President of the Congress of the Elwynnese Republic Isa Kaliandarion Qor EWP
Sardar of the Alalehzamini Automous Republic Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr N&H
Nahust Vazir (Prime Minister) of the AAR Salvik Dorkolluerion N&H

Court of the Prince

The Court of the Prince constitutes the executive of the Elwynnese Republic. It is, aside from the office of Prince, apolitical and technocratic. Its ministers, called commissioners, are in charge of various departments. These departments are in charge of state authorities (for example the postal services, taxation authority, immigration authority, courts, etc.). The reason for apolitical commissioners has its roots in the deep distrust between the Movement for National Salvation & Rights (headed by the Nationalist and Humanist Party) and the Ayreonist and Verionist parties in the North.

Political parties

Party Abbreviation Council of Eliria Congress Majlis Ideology
Nationalist & Humanist Party N&H
3 / 5
40 / 250
Ascensionism, Benacian confederalism, Conservatism, Corporatism, Human supremacism, Khanism, Mercantilism, anti-Verionism
Ayreonist Independence Party AIP
1 / 5
48 / 250
Ayreonism, civic nationalism
Elwynnese Workers' Party EWP
1 / 5
25 / 250
Socialism, communism, civic nationalism
Verionist Union VU
0 / 5
70 / 250
Verionism, civic nationalism, authoritarianism
Democratic Party of Elwynn DEM
0 / 5
20 / 250
Aldricism, Conservative, pro-nobility, pro-Raspur, "Imperial Remoaners"
Amokolian Freedom Front AFF
0 / 5
16 / 250
Amokolian reunification as independent state, Amokolian self-rule
Communist Party of Elwynn CPE
0 / 5
12 / 250
Communism, anti-Nationalist Humanism, authoritarian, split from EWP in 1675
Amokolian People's Party APP
0 / 5
11 / 250
pro-Elwynn, pro-Amokolian self-rule, absorption of West Amokolia into Elwynn
split from AFF in 1675.
Mishalanski Party of Democratic Socialism MPDS
0 / 5
5 / 250
Socialism, Amokolian self-rule, Mishalanese rights
Holy Party of the Divine Icebear HPDI
0 / 5
3 / 250
Icebear theocracy, Church rights, Cimmerian identity, authoritarianism, Verionism
Behsaz-Eluin BEH
0 / 5
0 / 250
Ethnic nationalism, Khanism
Conservative Historical Party CHP
0 / 5
0 / 250
Amokolian monarchism, East Amokolian reunification with West Amokolia, loyalty to King Arkadius IV of Amokolia
Party for Reunification PR
0 / 5
0 / 250
Asantelianese autonomy, reunification with Norestria, anti-war

Foreign affairs

Economy

Elwynn is a member of the Raspur Pact. As such, it is part of a zone of free movement of capital, goods and workers with Constancia, Drak-Modan, Eklesia, Natopia, Shireroth, the Sovereign Confederation, the Unified Governorates, and the Wechua Nation. Furthermore, Elwynn is also party to a free-trade treaty with West Amokolia.

Elwynn is dominated by three main companies – the ESB Group, the Iron Company and the Anzarolexion (the latter one mainly in banking, obligations, investment and insurances). These companies, regarding one another as mortal enemies, create good ground for competition. Furthermore, especially in northern Elwynn, there is a culture of small companies, start-ups, one-person companies in the services, consulting and construction sectors. It is relatively easy for any person to set up a joint-stock company, and most companies in Elwynn are incorporated in this form, though others exist. Such others are mainly in the form of foundations (such as the People's Academy of Elwynn) or cooperative ownership. Cooperative ownerships are most common in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors, where former communist-run were privatized at the end of communism during the reign of Prince Jonathan (1618–1623). Many of these, however, have converted into joint-stock companies as they have a reputation of being more profitable and easier to run.

In Northern Elwynn, health care is considered by many people to be a right. Although tax pays for basic health care for citizens (and legal residents), many people use private insurances to pay for quicker and higher standards of health care. Many labour contracts add for such insurances, as well as for pension funds.

The economy of Elwynn was devastated in the twenty years following the Auspicious Occasion. The civil wars, lasting with little periods of peace 1660–1669, took their toll. However, the Vanic government's insistence of putting its paws everywhere meant that there existed a considerable paper trail for all legal persons, holdings, and deeds of titile. This meant that when reconstruction began in the late 1660s, there was cause for little dispute over such information. The civil wars did, however, cause destruction of infrastructure, agriculture, factories, as well as bombings of large areas of cities. Many people became jobless, homeless or both, with authorities struggling to find quick housing. As such, many suburbs in areas ravished by the civil war have a similar style of simple, cheap architecture.

During the Vanic era, Elwynn's economy was dominated by funds pumped in from Stormark and the Stormark-owned company SEKEF. SEKEF held a monopoly on trade between Stormark and any other jurisdictions, and with regard to the Froyalanish financial status during this era, SEKEF was the richest company in Elwynn during this time. Its assets in Elwynn, and across Shireroth, were seized during the Auspicious Occasion and set into a fund held by the Imperial Government which was used for reconstruction in Elwynn in 1651–1660 and 1669–1671 (halted by the Elwynnese civil wars). After the independence and reunification of Elwynn in 1672, this fund has been frozen and is under dispute between the Elwynnese and Shirerithian governments. The matter is under negotiation, as Elwynn also seized all imperial-held infrastructure and assets in Elwynn during the struggle for independence.

Culture

See also: Elw

Elwynn is a diverse country. The national identity is based on a civic Elwynnese identity that is enjoined with one's ethnic and/or regional identity. The largest ethnic groups are the Elw and Babkhi (plurality in the north and the south respectively) with other significant groups being the Tapferites, Amokolians, Farewellish, Norse, Hyperboreans, Cimmerians, etc. However, people's regional identity, regardless of actual ethnic identity, is also a uniting measure. Cape Farewellers, for example, whether Elw or Farewellish or Amokolians, etc, have a strong sense of being Cape Farewellers, based on the area's particular culture, history, climate, and stories.

Many people also have several ethnic identities due to intermarriage and cultural appropriation.

Since the Auspicious Occasion of 1651, the Froyalanish culture has almost completely disappeared from Elwynn, and using, displaying or propagating material or immaterial objects of the Froyalanish culture is considered taboo.

Administrative divisions

See Bailiwicks of Elwynn
Bailiwicks of Elwynn (Leng and Raikoth not shown).

Elwynn is divided into 183 of bailiwicks. The southern bailiwicks (56) are joined together to the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic, while the northern 126 bailiwicks are commonly known as Congress Elwynn, as they form the jurisdiction of the Congress of the Elwynnese Republic. These bailiwicks may or may not be grouped in circles or counties, depending on the decisions of the first congress. As for now, all previous counties are dissolved by the Transitional Elwynnese government.

The population of the bailiwicks range from 13,847 persons in the smallest (Saint Biffor) to 4,450,812 persons in the largest (Ardashirshahr).

Seventeen bailiwicks have a population over a million people, namely:

Rank Bailiwick Population Location Division
1 Ardashirsahr 4450812 Alalehzamin AAR
2 Araxion 2659163 Araxion Congress
3 Eliria 2442884 Greater Eliria Congress
4 Echo 1654444 Greater Eliria Congress
5 Islus 1645672 Utasia AAR
6 Babran 1541947 Alalehzamin AAR
7 Allswell 1480876 Alalehzamin AAR
8 Naubandar 1465917 Alalehzamin AAR
9 Zoroaster 1420088 Utasia AAR
10 Concord 1403872 Mishalan Congress
11 Asantelian 1300085 Wintergleam Congress
12 La Terre 1255345 Vattnaland Congress
13 Arsalani 1230847 Alalehzamin AAR
14 Ismailabad 1210488 Alalehzamin AAR
15 Mariyechelân 1120996 Alalehzamin AAR
16 Dragonskeep 1065552 Agnesia Congress
17 Ventura 1057454 Greater Eliria Congress

Demographics

Population per bailiwick of Elwynn (Leng and Raikoth not shown).


The population of Elwynn, 87 678 127 persons according to the Census of 1672, is divided somewhat equally between the northern congressional territory and the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic. Before the Auspicious Occasion in 1651, King Noah's government in Elwynn divided up the population in what was called the Twelve Peoples of Elwynn. This division was, according to scholars after the fall of the Vanic state, made in order to weaken Elwdom by encouraging the minority population groups within the Elwynnese Nation to privilege their own identities over that of the prevailing national culture. In so doing, the Elwynnese monarchy, an instrument of the disguised occupation of Elwynn by Stormark, was able to advance its own cultural practices and belief systems. After the Auspicious Occasion, despite the many problems facing Elwynn in terms of civil wars, economic mismanagement, food and fuel shortages, and civil unrest, the people of Elwynn began uniting as an Elwynnese nation, not divided up in distinct ethnicities, but having fluid identities. The transitional government, established during the Kalirion Fracture and basing its data from the governments of the now defunct duchy of Akordionnyr and the Northern Reaches, decided not to collect any data on ethnic or cultural identities, but rather only linguistic, in order to provide appropriate social services.

The Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic meanwhile decided to collect full details of their citizens ethnic, cultural, religious, and political identities as full-spectrum information awareness was a key tenet of the AAR's governing ideology.

Languages

See also Languages of Elwynn

The Elwynnese people have no majority language. Rather, different languages are dominant in different areas. Elwynnese law commands that any government division where more than 20% of the population speak a given language, that language shall be an official language of that division. A division is allowed to bring any other language to official status too. Istvani is a general working language throughout the entire Republic. Other official languages of the Republic are Elw and Babkhi.

Proportion of native language in Elwynn, Congress Elwynn, and the Alalehzamini Autonomous (AAR).

Elwynn Congress AAR
Babkhi 32% 10% 56%
Elw 26% 31% 22%
North Amokolian 7% 14% < 1%
Istvani 6% 8% 5%
Norse 6% 9% 3%
Præta 6% 7% 6%
Mishalanese 4% 8% < 1%
Agnesian 3% 4% 2%
Cimmerian 1% 2% < 1%
Raikoth < 1% 1% <1%
Lengish < 1% <1% < 1%
Other 4% 4% 4%