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BASIC INFORMATION
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Country name: United Republics (informally, Nameria)
Government system: Federal Presidential Republic
Population: ~135,000,000
Language(s): Spanish, Italian, French, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, Nahua and Hopi
Ethnic composition: ~40% Hispanic, ~25% Italian, ~10% French, ~7% Catalan, ~7% Occitan, ~6% Sardinian, combined 5% Uto-Aztecan peoples (Nahua, Hopi, and others)
GDP per capita: 20,000 dollarinos
Map claim (high-resolution Imgur link): For Both
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Human Development Index: 0.791
Gini coefficient: 39.12
Major resources: Iron, Copper, the Coal. Good arable land. D R U G S.
Major imports: Finished goods, resources for industry, money from selling drugs.
Military personnel: 600,000 or so, including National Guards
Types of equipment and military capabilities: Old lat-am sorts of equipment, Navy equivalent in equipment and capability to Italian Navy. Nameria is functionally able to defend its territories with an abundance of reservist forces at its disposal, bolstered by a smaller, elite active Army and Marine force. Its naval capacities center on its ability to close off our straights and in so doing cut the Lazarene sea in half.
Foreign policy stance (e.g. non-interventionist): Non-interventionist.
LONG-ANSWER QUESTIONS
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Please describe your nation. Nameria, better known by its formal name, the United Republics, is a somewhat unstable, corrupt, and crime ridden federation built around its wealthier spanish and italian speaking core population, which generally bully the other Republics into submission and generate a degree of racial tensions between the many peoples of the UR. The UR is well defined by its attitude of industrialization, its drive to lift itself up from poverty and succeed as a developing nation, all while organized crime is virtually omnipresent across the country and has developed into a highly sophisticated alliance of large crime families.
The empire that once streached across Conitia and Lazarene pangea, Palatina, was centered in the city of the same name which now resides in the UR. Much of the modern United Republics is characterized by the events of the Palatine rise to power and the following centuries of development and decline of Palatina as a hegemonic power in the region. The Namerian Empire, upon which the United Republics was established following a revolution, was built on the pretense of restoring the lost glories of Palatine rule, and so the long shadow of the long fallen Palatine domain continue to shape the direction of the Namerian nation and the United Republics to this day, over a millennium after its demise.
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IN YOUR OPINION...
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...what role will your nation play in Esquarium?: Big player in the Lazarene Sea area, co-mafioso with Karazawa and a stronger counterbalance to Milenka and Ainin in the Lazarene Sea area.
...what are the strengths of your nation?: It has at its disposal a large population (implicitly, a large workforce), a wide range of material resources and good agricultural production. This has enabled it to pursue rapid industrialization and urbanization, growing the economy at the expense of the worker and the environment.
...what are the weaknesses of your nation?: The nation is rife with crime and still suffers from poverty and inequality of wealth. Rampant corruption and the effects of very powerful criminal syndicates greatly weaken the effectiveness of the government and its ability to function properly, leaving the nation to be run by a hidden shadow government that guides the massive ungainly beast of the United Republics towards its future...and does what it can to stave off its seemingly inevitable dissolution.
...in what ways could your nation be viewed as "overpowered"?: It has a thiccness to it.
You know, large population, large productive territory. Its a mid to large tier country in general terms, although its far from a 'great power', or even regional power.
OOC NOTES
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I am primarily interested in... (delete as appropriate): both
How did you hear about Esquarium?: uh
Names of other NS accounts: Charnea
Former regions: This one
Discord username (N/A if none): Spectra#8373
IIwiki username (N/A if none): Char
Anything else to add? (optional): nah b
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Country name: Charnea
Government system: Hekar Sadulaarsa (pseudo-spiritual stratocratic tribal confederation)
Population: 41,000,000
Language(s): Charnean (Semitic conlang based on hebrew) and other related conlangs.
Ethnic composition: 75% Telko-Charnean tribes, ~20% Obulite tribes, 5% Monics and Turkic peoples
GDP per capita: 9,500 dollarii
Map claim (high-resolution Imgur link): For Both
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Human Development Index: 0.601
Gini coefficient: 37.89
Major resources: Copper, Rare Earths and a wealth of oil
Major imports: Almost everything that requires manufacture, especially high end like electronics, as well as a lot of scrap and garbage (old cars, ships, plastics, broken electronics, basically any and all recyclable materials)
Military personnel: some 300,000 or so ICA (government controlled forces), god knows how many irregulars scattered across the countryside in the form of village militias and tribal armies that are not directly loyal to the central government.
Types of equipment and military capabilities: Equipment ranges wildly in origin and quality, some extremely crude copies of foreign models, some legitimate native production designs (the highest quality being native designed but contracted manufacture outside of Charnea), and purchased foreign made weapon systems. Charnea's projection capabilities are very limited, but aided by its terrain and social dynamics, Charnea is able to fight on its own or immediately adjacent territory with very high effectiveness.
Foreign policy stance (e.g. non-interventionist): Playing an active role, as far as its limitations will allow, in the local balance of power, interesting in preventing nearby states from aligning with powerful outside forces.
LONG-ANSWER QUESTIONS
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Please describe your nation. Charnea is best understood as a tribal confederation governing not one, but several different tribal nations of varying and at times unrelated linguistic groups. This geographically vast and far flung polity is made of a myriad of isolated communities in high mountain valleys, with urban and industrial centers clustered close together in a large northern valley and along the coastal plane in the east. Charnea is united by a pseudo-religious philosophy known as Sadulaarsa, upon which its government form, Hekar Sadulaarsa, is based. This philosophy espouses the virtues of an honorable and well lived life, glorifying the path of the warrior, resulting in the radical meritocracy and de facto stratocracy of the Hekar Sadulaarsa, wherein authority is based almost exclusively on reputation and the respect of one's peers.
The Charnean polity is some two thousand years old, established by the conquests of the Telkachek tribes of the Great Kuresh uplift. Some parts of Charnea are even older still, with the so called 'Valley of the Gods' basin in the north being home to one of the oldest civilizations in the world. The nation is very much a place of many ancient traditions, and has proven to be highly impermeable to the changes and innovations of modern society, in part due to these cultural traditions that remain well grounded across society, but also thanks to the highly divisive geography of the nation, which keeps most communities in a state of near complete isolation from the rest of the country, greatly impeding the communication of new ideas.
Please provide a writing sample (recommended types: roleplay post, wiki article or news article). ok
IN YOUR OPINION...
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...what role will your nation play in Esquarium?: Foil to Milenkan schemes in the east Gulf of Rama, general purpose geo-pol and interactions from our mountaintop homes.
...what are the strengths of your nation?: Charnea is very, and I must stress very, difficult to invade and poses a very significant challenge from a military perspective to even the most advanced powers in the region due to geographic and cultural factors as well as the overall high quality of the central armed forces. (Charnea lacks in almost every form of projection however, and is a negligible direct threat to nations that do not share a land border. Drawbacks below also dampen its martial advantage.)
...what are the weaknesses of your nation?: It is highly decentralized and fragmented, both politically and geographically, and suffers from poor state of industry, poor or outright nonexistant infrastructure, highly diverse and far flung populations, and general backwardness when it comes to modern science and technology
...in what ways could your nation be viewed as "overpowered"?: In a superficial sense, it covers a large map area. Its oil-powered budget in some ways could be seen as as being too much, but I see it as balanced by the many inherent disadvantages. While territorial vast, Charnea is a low mid-tier country that pales in comparison with virtually any power in the region or around the world.
OOC NOTES
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I am primarily interested in... (delete as appropriate): worldbuilding
How did you hear about Esquarium?: I rebooted the region with my boys this one time
Names of other NS accounts: United Namerian Republics
Former regions: Oldsquarium, Borealias
Discord username (N/A if none): Spectra#8373
IIwiki username (N/A if none): Char
Anything else to add? (optional): Char is weird, but it works imo
