Factbook for Ajuran in the AMW universe. OOC comments fine as I'll be linking all relevant posts in the TOC. Work in very gradual progress.
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Overview
Overview
Ajurani President Cusman Ali Al Samada
Map of the Republic of Ajuran. most major cities marked
Summary
The Republic of Ajuran is a large but thinly populated country situated in the Horn of Africa. Nominally a democracy, political discourse is dominated by the ruling Ajurani Freedom Party (AFP) and the Al Samada clan, whose head, Cusman Ali Al Samada, serves in a Presidency invested with great power over the legislature.
Independence from Gandvik was achieved by mutual consent in the years following the Great War as a Bantu minority insurgency threatened to spread to the Ajurani majority. In the decades since, the disenfranchisement of that minority has not abated, and militant resistance has crystallised around the banned United Lusakan People's Organisation (ULPO) and its armed wing, the Lusakan Revolutionary Alliance Corps (LRAC).
Today, the indigenous Ajurani people, forming an absolute majority of the population, are pre-eminent at the heart of government, while a substantial Arab population remains disproportionately affluent, dominating the nation's commercial relationship with its old colonial power. The Bantu population, not necessarily representing a single ethnicity but thought to descend from refugees forced from their homelands in Nilosahara during and after the Byzantine presence, are often collectively referred to as Lusakan, which is a reference to a village head-man who, in the first half the twentieth century, united the peoples of this most down-trodden minority in resisting the Gandvian empire and its favoured Arab 'managers' of the Ajurani protectorate.
Ajuran's population is marginally more than one tenth that of the nation's principle neighbour, Nilosahara, while per-capita GDP in Ajuran, a lower middle income economy, is more than three times higher.
Major languages spoken in the country include Ajurani (an Afro-Asiatic language), Arabic, and Swahili, though several local languages and dialects persist. Gandvian competes strongly with English as a second (or often third) language amongst educated classes.