Pindai

Pindai Provinsi Pindai
Province
High Ardent Conclave of Slokais in central Pindai
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Nickname(s):  Jewel of Acadia, The Great Eastern City
Country	Slokais Islands
Establishment	01 January 1927
Capital and largest city	Pindai
Ethnic groups	60% Rén 16% Mescaldo 10% Costeno 6% Indigenous 3% Ambonar 5% Blancos 1% Kaijanese 2% Other
Demonym(s)	Pindai
Government
• Governor	Kwan Ko-Gie Centrist Party
• Upper house	Pindai Senate
• Lower house	Pindai Legislative Council
National representation
• Slokaisian Legislature	14/643
Population
• 2020 census	1,413,749 (19th)
Postal	PI

Pindai is a province in Slokais Islands, a combined city-state with 1,413,749 people. Pindai Province was founded in 1927 and named for the historical Pindai State, a pre-colonial empire. Pindai is one of the most historic provinces with many historical sites as well as the center of modern Slokais with several major companies headquartered in the province. Additionally, Pindai is considered the center of the Minjian faith in Slokais with the High Ardent Conclave in the city.

History

The area that became Pindai has long been a center of trade and commerce with Pre-Medieval kingdoms establishing trading posts, the largest of these being the Janghara State which built Jangharama just to the north of modern-day Pindai. Around the year 800, a fleet of Minjian reached Janghara and were initially welcomed, however, when relations soured the settlers were forced to return to the High Conclave with a message of rejection. In response, Jangharama was undermined from the inside as members of the high class were converted to Minjian, and by 940, the King of Janghara was a Minjian faithful himself. This led to a civil war in the 950s between loyalists to the traditional Animist and spiritual ideology and the Minjian. It's estimated somewhere around 250,000 died in the Great War of Faith which lasted until the founding of Pindai itself in 1037.