Vulkaria
Federation of Vulkaria | |
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 Flag | |
| Motto: United Against Oppression | |
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| Capital | Vulkar |
| Demonym(s) | Vulkarian |
| Government | Federal Republic |
• President | Farhen Brooks |
| Establishment | |
• Unity of Vulkaria | 1922 |
• Federation of Vulkaria | 1982 |
| Area | |
• Total | 550,523 km2 (212,558 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 66,903,000 |
| Gini (2016) | 9.32 low |
| HDI (2016) | 0.76 high |
| Currency | Vulkarian mark (VMM) |
| Date format | mm-dd-yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +647 |
| Internet TLD | .vu |
The Federation of Vulkaria, simply known as Vulkaria is a nation located in South Hespia, bordered by Zerphique to the west. It is made up of several hilly peninsulas and lowland areas. It is a capitalist economy that thrives on the energy sector, natural resources, and it's geographic location as the influx of the world's busiest shipping route that intersects through the Strait of Vulkaria and Elkjop Bay separating Vulkaria from Gladysynthia. The city of Amstelveen is the largest city in the nation, followed by the capital of Vulkar, and is one of the world's most lucrative economic hubs and shipping ports.
Known for its compassionate, democratic, devout population, Vulkarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt, while the government led by President Farhen Brooks has been able to keep the consumerist views alive even amidst rising political tensions. Vulkaria has historically been the forefront of many wars and power struggles, including perhaps most notably the 1982 Vulkaria Coup D'etat which led to the First War in Vulkaria, which lasted 8 years and, for a time, was one of the most violent wars in modern history until the subsequent 1999-2005 Second War in Vulkaria killed over 2.1 Million people. The nation is currently experiencing a period of civil unrest with the on-going insurgency that has pitted federal and international coalition forces against rebel and terror organizations like the Malvarian Liberation Front and Vulkarian National Army.
Vulkaria is a member of the International Democratic Union, and previously was one of the co-founders of the United Crown Alliance alongside Zamastan, Gladysynthia, and Cadair.
History
Early History
Neanderthal settlement in Vulkaria is seen in the Irina archaeological sites (43,000–45,000 BC) which include a mammoth bone dwelling. The territory is also considered to be one of the likely locations for the human domestication of the horse.
Modern human settlement in Vulkaria and its vicinity dates back to 32,000 BC, with evidence of the Hi culture in the Monza Mountains. By 4,500 BC, the Neolithic Hi–Trypa culture flourished in wide areas of modern Vulkaria. During the Iron Age, the land was inhabited by descendants of Zamastanian Kelownan, Gladysynthian Åethnoa, and Vulkarian Deventers. Between 700 BC and 200 BC it was part of the Deventer Kingdom, or Deventia.
Beginning in the sixth century BC, colonies of Hespian empires were founded on the northeastern shore of the Melville Bay and the Bay of Kas. These colonies thrived well into the sixth century AD.
Golden Age of Deventia
As historians state, the city of Vulkar was established during the time when area around the mid- and low-Monza was the part of the Deventia state. He derived that information from local legends because no written chronicles from that period are left.
In 882, Vulkar was conquered from the Farhonian by the Deventian noble Oleg who started the long period of rule of the Finian princes. During this time, several tribes were native to Vulkaria. Situated on lucrative trade routes, Vulkar quickly prospered as the center of the powerful Vulkarian state of Mevaan.
In 941 AD, the prince of Vulkar invaded the Gladysynthian Empire but was defeated in the Mevaan-Gladys War (941).
In the 11th century, Mevaan was, geographically, one of the largest states in South Hespia, becoming known in the rest of Hespia as Mevaania.
Christianity
While Christianity had made headway into the territory of Vulkaria before the first ecumenical council, the Council of Ostolvenia (325) (particularly along the Black Sea coast) and, in western Vulkaria, the formal governmental acceptance of Christianity in Mevaan occurred in 988. The major promoter of the Christianization of Mevaan was the Grand-Duke, Foran the Great (Foran). His Christian interest was midwifed by his grandmother, Princess Olga.
Conflict among the various principalities of Mevaan, in spite of the efforts of Grand Prince Miraan Edjoo, led to decline, beginning in the 12th century. In the Vulkar region, the nascent Mevaan principalities of Lir and Fonagona extended their rule. Vulkar was sacked by Miraan principality (1169) in the power struggle between princes and later by Riti and Dona raiders in the 12th and 13th centuries, respectively. Subsequently, all principalities of present-day Vulkaria acknowledged dependence upon the Dona (1239–1240). In 1240, the Dona sacked Vulkar, and many people fled to other countries.
Five years after the fall of Vulkar, a papal envoy wrote:
"They destroyed cities and castles and killed men and Vulkar, which is the greatest city they besieged; and when they had besieged it a long while they took it and killed the people of the city. So when we went through that country we found countless human skulls and bones from the dead scattered over the field. Indeed it had been a very great and populous city and now is reduced almost to nothing. In fact there are hardly two hundred houses there now and the people are held in the strictest servitude."
14th century
Formation (1950)
Political Separations (1951-1982)
Coup, First War in Vulkaria (1982-1991)
Reconstruction Era (1991-1999)
Second War in Vulkaria (1999-2005)
Post-war period (2005-present)
Geography
The landscape of Vulkaria consists mostly of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Vulkar, Godenia, and Panne as they flow south into the Strait of Vulkaria, Elkjop Bay, and the Bay of Kas. Vulkaria's various regions have diverse geographic features ranging from the highlands to the lowlands. The country's only mountains are the Monza Mountains in the west, of which the highest is the Mora Moverla at 2,061 metres (6,762 ft), and the Deventer Mountains on the Deventer Peninusla in the north. However Vulkaria also has a number of highland regions such as the Lacarno Upland (in the west) and the Near-Depanne Upland (on the right bank of the Panne River); to the east there are the south-western spurs of the Central Vulkarian Upland over which runs the border with Zerphique. The snow melt from the mountains feeds the rivers, and natural changes in altitude form sudden drops in elevation and give rise to waterfalls.
Significant natural resources in Vulkaria include iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulphur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber and an abundance of arable land. Despite this, the country faces a number of major environmental issues such as inadequate supplies of potable water; air- and water-pollution and deforestation, as well as radiation contamination in the north-east from the 1992 Treviso Nuclear Crisis.