(WIP) United Partitions Overview

The United Partitions of Salimanasia (UPS or U.P.S.), commonly known as the United Partitions (UP or U.P.) or Salimanasia, is a large democratic federation located in the subregion of Salimanasia in Central Argus, bordering the Southern Sea and the Gulf of Ekayitza. It is bordered by Baumes to the north-east, San Montagna to the north-west, Vacrus to the south-west, Keverai to the south, and San Javier off the east coast. The United Partitions covers 669,600 square kilometres and has an estimated population of 33.24 million people. The United Partitions is comprised of fourteen partitions that each enjoy a large amount of autonomy from the central government.

The United Partitions is known to be a melting pot of cultures, with very liberal immigration policies. The nation bolsters a large navy presence in the Southern Sea and maintains a large trade-based economy, owing to their large public and private industries. The leading industry being the mining of precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum, as well as the mining of gemstones such as diamonds, and ores such as copper and iron. Additional significant contributions to the Salimanese economy can be found in the industries of agriculture and the manufacturing of automobiles and automobile parts.

Etymology

The standard way to refer to a citizen of the United Partitions is as a "Salimanese person", that citizen being "Salimanese". The words Salimanese, Salimanasia, as well as the English transliterated name of the river that stretches along most of the entire country, which is the Salmanas River, all come from the Salimanese word Zalmanaztli.

History

Ancient History

The lands now belonging to the United Partitions were once entirely inhabited by a diverse group of indigenous nations in Central Argus, including the Ataneka, Cata, Moktlalmekoh, Zalmanazziuka, Zanquiu, Chakoa, Xinimo, Xomeka (now extinct) and the Tzoquikzal. These nations belonged to the Salimanic ethnic group, and covered large stretches of land and led great states, which would ally with one another, or occasionally wage war and engage in combat with other nations.

In 1260 BC, a seafaring peoples known as the Ipachi sailed from southern Ainslie down the Argus coast and got shipwrecked in modern day Keverai. They settled along the coast, abandoned their seafaring past, and spread inland into South-West Salimanasia. With this large amount of invaders settling in the tribal territory of the Ataneka and Moktlalmekoh, the Ataneka tribes were forced to migrate further north into Moktlalmekoh territory, and the Moktlalmekoh who had occupied the lands that were taken over by Ipachi and Ataneka were forced up into the mountains of the modern day partition of Moktlaltinko. The Ipachi that settled in Salimanasia over time adopted aspects of the greater Salimanic culture while still maintaining some of their ancient traditions, and their language evolved due to Salimanic influence. They developed into the Alatauhua culture.

In 330 BC, a democratic confederation of mercantile city states called Alatauh, made up almost exclusively of Alatauhua sailors and traders, was founded in what is now Keverai, around the modern day Keveraite capital of Kertalin. Alatau occupied most of the western Salimanese coast along the Galbar river as well as much of the southern coast, and reached its territorial height in 242 BC. Alatau further spread Ipachi culture and influence in Salimanasia during this period.

They were largely weakened in influence from invasions from nomadic tribes from Northern Salimanasia, particularly in 696 AD when the Chajd sacked the capital of the confederation, Leletau, near modern day Kertalin. The confederation officially dissolved in 846 AD, which left a variety of coastal mercantile city-states in its wake, some of which lasted well into the existence of the Chah-Chajd Empire.

The Salimanese Mesoage
Considered by most historians to have begun at the sacking of Leletau in 696, Salimanasia entered an age of being comprised of nomadic tribes and small, decentralized warring city states called Pautixoankos that were each led by a Pautixoan, a historic Salimanese noble class. Certain Pautixoans, through diplomacy and military might, consolidated regional power and nearly conquered the entirety of Salimanasia during this period, like the Chaxtlans of Tillan and Aza, but usually collapsed within a few decades, often from the death of notable military leaders or succession crises.

The Chah-Chajd Empire

In 1400, two Chaxtlans surrounding Lake Huakoataxatl called Chah and Chajd united into the Chah-Chajd Empire. The Chah, more commonly referred to as the Chakoa, are a Salimanic ethnic group indigenous to Salimanasia that is currently the largest Salimanic ethnic group in the modern day United Partitions. The Chajd are a group that had migrated into and settled in Salimanasia in the 600s AD. Due to a lack of writing, the origin of the Chajd is unknown, but they are believed to have come from somewhere in Northern Argus, or northern Central Argus.

Due to the mutual militaristic traditions of both the Chakoa and Chajd, they quickly consolidated regional power with their skill in combat and finding opportunities where to strike. The Chah-Chajd Empire had conquered the entirety of the subcontinent of Salimanasia by the mid-15th century, and conquered large parts of San Montagna, Baumes, and the Tsunterlands by the 16th century.

Conquest would begin to slow around this time as the Chah-Chajd focused their efforts on administering their newly conquered territory to avoid the fate of many Mesoage Pautixoankos. They enacted an empire-wide education program, where citizens of the Empire would be entitled to mandatory exams. These exams would serve to appoint certain high-achieving citizens to government positions, though the Chaxchaxaunhuyan (Salimanese: King of Around Four-Hundred Kings; Emperor) could ignore any results if they chose to.

The Chah-Chajd Empire was able to administer their territories by allowing local Pautixoans to continue their rule over the land they controlled, as long as they swore fealty, obeyed the overarching laws, and paid taxes to the Chah-Chajd Empire. The Empire began to subjugate its neighbours through military threats and diplomacy rather than military force and conquest, creating a large sphere of influence with a network of vassal and tributary states. This, as well as Isles spanning trade networks, allowed for Chakoa cultural influence to propagate throughout Argus as the greatest power on the continent, peaking by the mid 16th century. The Chah-Chajd Empire also innovated in the field of astronomy, inventing a form of telescope and having charted out the movements of the stars.

However, the economic, technological, and cultural prosperity of the Empire began to stagnate due in part to decadence, and outside nations began to take advantage of the declining power. Several natural disasters including earthquakes, floods, and empire-spanning famines would occur. Outside nations began purchasing trade ports off the coast of Salimanasia, and spreading Christianity through missionaries, which led to a large uprising in the early 17th century. By the mid 17th century, the Empire was on its last legs, and completely collapsed in 1663 after a succession crisis. After which, Salimanasia would once again enter an age of warring states, but now with foreign nations vying for influence and filling the power vacuum left in the wake of the Empire's collapse.

The Colonial Era

The first European country to discover the lands of the United Partitions was Spain, which bought trading ports off the coast of the weak Chah-Chajd Empire in the early 17th century. Spain colonized the coast of the modern day King’s Partition and Cattahallie, including the vital island of Fortez, with the hopes of finding gold and silver; of which Spain found plenty. The Spanish massacred and enslaved thousands of indigenous Cata, Xomeka, Tzoquikzal, and Chakoa people in order to conquer the land and mine the valuable ore. However the Spaniards' advances inland halted as the harsh landscape of the Upper Salmanas desert and mountain range made it nearly impassible.

In the 17th century, the Íszkárì Confederation, Stiuran Republic, Solaryia, Kravato, and Emgland bought scattered trade ports off the coast of Salimanasia. Kravato took over south-west Salimanasia and established the colony of Galbarie. The Íszkárì colonized the land now part of the partitions of Xolxanko, Payotlan, Tilli, and a small part of Chinimo. The English colonized in the north-east in modern day Swine River, establishing English (later British) Salimanasia. The Íszkárì allowed a large amount of self-governance in their Salimanese colony, making it an autonomous state by 1719. The English on the other hand were much more aggressive, enslaving and massacring the local Salimanic peoples. With the help of the Merenese, Cata and Tzoquikzal nations, they completely wiped out the Xomeka peoples by 1750.

The English won a war against the Spanish in 1674, where they took all of their colonial holdings in the region except for the then Spanish owned island of Fortez, which managed to resist British occupation in the war and wouldn't be conquered by them for another century until 1800.

In the 1760s, tensions rose as the Íszkárì Confederation and Kravato desired each other's land. This eventually broke out into war over the land in 1764. Many Salimanic nations tried allying each other with the Confederation or Kravato. In the end, the Íszkárì Confederation won in 1767 and ended up taking all of Galbarie except for Kautakantza. In 1799, the Spanish settlement of Fortez, which had by now developed a sizeable Spanish population, was conquered by the British. The Íszkárì, along with Solaryia, conquered and divided British Salimanasia amongst themselves.

The Salimanese War of Independence and the Kingdom of Salimanasia

In 1833, a large number of the population of Salimanasia rose up in a large scale revolt for independence known as the Salmanas River Rebellion, also known as the Salimanese War of Independence, where a large amount of territory along the Salmanas River was occupied by the rebel forces, waving flags of yellow and red. The Salimanese people managed to secure their independence on January 2nd, 1839. After that, a sovereign monarchy was established titled the Kingdom of Salimanasia.

The First Salimanese Republic and the Parrot War

In 1899, a large-scale civil war ended with the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a democratic federal republic called the United Partitions of Salimanasia. This First Salimanese Republic was largely unstable and saw rampant corruption, populism, and the frequent formation of oligarchic governments, with overthrows occurring nearly as often as elections.

In 1916, the United Partitions, inspired by irredentism and by a desire to divert from the corruption plaguing the republic, began an invasion of Solaryian ports on the Salimanese coast, beginning the Parrot War. The Salimanese began launching zeppelin raids on Solaryian cities, but Solaryia quickly obtained naval and air dominance. Salimanasia's victories in the Argean Wars in the 19th century had created a false confidence in their military, which in reality was greatly outdated, still largely using fleets of wooden ships. The war ends in 1920 in status quo, but de facto a loss for the Salimanese as they did not gain what they were seeking. This resulted in massive unrest and radicalism, where people start advocating for the return of the monarchy.

The Zastere Regime and the First Imperial War

One of the people who advocated for the return of the monarchy was Jaxon Zastere, who founded the ideology of Zasterism, a form of Pan-Argean Nationalism. This belief system promised to rid Salimanasia of its colonial occupiers, stated that all ports on the Salimanese coast were rightfully Salimanese, that the Salimanic race was more civilized and honourable than all others, and that Salimanasia must expand its territory, especially into former Chah-Chajd territory, among other things. In 1927, the weakened republic was overthrown and Zastere restored the monarchy as the Kingdom of the Ninth Sun. The royal family that had ruled in the Kingdom of Salimanasia from 1839 to 1899 attempted to return to the capital in a zeppelin, which in a terrific catastrophe resulted in all of their deaths. Zastere declared he will act as regent until a suitable heir to the throne is found, acting in practice as a dictator with absolute power over Salimanasia. He quickly made reforms to the military, industry and economy, transforming Salimanasia into a great power on the stage of the Isles.

WIP Imperial war: after invading San Montagna, Solaryia cedes back their colonies in Salimanasia in exchange for land around the Mesder sea in SM/Tsunterlands.

Post-War Period until the Modern Day

Following the end of the Imperial War, the junta that gained control over the United Partitions set about instituting key reforms in the nature of the federal government of the United Partitions. While authoritarian, the junta made it clear from its announcement of peace that their ultimate goal was to create a stable and long-lasting norm of democracy in the United Partitions, which started with the adoption of the 1951 Provisional Constitution and the restoration of Parliament with limited partisan rights. This Parliament's purpose was to justify the junta's ongoing rule through the conservative Pāuti Zalmanaztlan Yacil (In English: New Salimanasia Party), or PZY, which appointed a member of the Junta as the new Prime Minister, wrote and passed laws, and held its first regular election in 1953.

The election of 1953 would see a tightly regulated but remarkably open election of a new Parliament, with mostly members of the PZY, but also prominent pro-democracy politicians and activists from various ethnic and linguistic groups. While parties of certain ideologies, especially socialist parties, remained banned, the unexpected openness of the junta towards the political process is stated to be a leading cause for the development of democracy in the United Partitions.

By the election of 1961, further restrictions on political expression and organization were lifted by the junta, which began to set aside its role as the executive of the government to a reformed Presidency, one that had its powers tightly checked by the Parliament (In Salimanese: Pāulimentli) and the Prime Minister (In Salimanese: Chāntzalau). The subsequent adoption of a second Provisional Constitution in 1961 formally institutionalized these changes, though some believed that the liberalization of the junta would lead to radicals attempting a new coup.

Instead of revolution, however, a counterculture protest emerged in 1968 which called for the opening of the still centrally planned economy. This effort, led mostly by the growing middle class, forced the junta into a catch-22 situation between its efforts to safely develop democracy and securing the state from instability. An attack on junta leaders during a meeting with protestors served as the final shock to the government, which decided to hold a final constitutional convention to institute a final set of reforms. Most of all, the 1969 Constitution enshrined free market policies into the United Partitions and set the standard for the modern federal state. As a result, economic development and investment in Salimanese infrastructure exploded, doubling national GDP in the course of only three years, which translated into the United Partitions becoming an Isles-wide industrial powerhouse for the rest of the 20th century and the early 21st century. This coincided with a dramatic increase of income inequality, which remains an issue into the modern day.

Geography

The United Partitions has an extremely diverse landscape, with many sprawling jungles, grasslands, deserts, salt pans, mesas, and mountain ranges; the tallest mountain being Moktlalhueyilli. The United Partitions enjoys a largely tropical climate, with dense jungles and rainforests spanning the country that see frequent rainfall.

Harsh winters and heavy snow affect only the highest parts of the United Partitions, in the mountainous partition of Moktlaltinko, as well as mountain ranges in certain other partitions such as Upper Salmanas, Cattahallie, Valinnia and La Selva, with the only large settlement that sees regular snow being the town of Chochamok, capital city of the partition of Moktlaltinko.

The largest lake in the United Partitions, Okautaxatl, lies in the middle of the country in the Chah-Chajd partition. Home of the Chakoa, the region is abundant with Chah-Chajd Imperial era statues, pyramids, and other monuments, and is one of the reasons why it is one of the partitions that receives the most tourists per year, along with
Okautaxatl lake being a popular location for fishing and boating. The Chah-Chajd Empire poured hundreds of thousands of pounds of gold into the lake as a form of tribute to the Gods, and there remains plenty of it still at the bottom of the lake to this day. It is however illegal for anyone to try and obtain the riches from the bottom of the lake, as it is considered a holy site by many Chakoa people. The United Partitions is a popular tourist destination in The Western Isles, renown for it's beautiful beaches, water, landscapes, wildlife, and its fascinating history.

Demographics

Population

The population of the United Partitions is roughly 33,243,000 people, with a population density of 49.6 people per km².

Language

The national language of the United Partitions is Salimanese, with many Salimanic languages being recognized as regional languages, and English, Galbarais, Spanish, Solaryi, Merenese and Uszíān being other recognized languages. The Galbarais language first originated from Rodavese settlers assimilating with local Salimanic languages.

Religion

The United Partitions is largely irreligious, with nearly half of the country identifying as atheist, agnostic, or not religious in general. The believers in the local polytheistic folk religions of Salimanasia that are commonly grouped together under the name of Zonoteoztin (meaning Sun Gods) are the second largest group, and make up around 31% of the population. People who practice some form of Christianity make up almost 10% of the population. 3.3% of the population are Muslim, most of which have Najimamian ancestry. The adherents of other various religions from around the world that live in the United Partitions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and religions from elsewhere in the Western Isles, make up the final 6.2% of the population.

Ethnicity

57.4% of the population identifies as being of majority Indigenous Salimanic descent, roughly 19.0% of which are Chakoa. Mitzek, meaning people of mixed Salimanic and foreign ancestry, make up around 14.3% of the population. 12.7% of the United Partitions identifies as Ipachi, primarily Merenese or Alatauhua. 3.1% of the population are of Maurican descent, 2.6% are of Najimamian descent, and 2.5% identify as being of majority European descent. The remaining 7.7% of the population are other non-European expatriates.

Largest Cities

Government

Federal Structure
The United Partitions are made up of fourteen constituent sub-divisions, known as partitions (Ranked here by population):

Government power is substantially delegated to the local authorities in each partition.

Foreign Relations and Military

The United Partitions keeps a relatively large military presence in the Southern Sea with the United Partitions Navy. As of 2021, the UPN operates 11 frigates, 3 attack submarines, 11 coastal defense vessels, 6 patrol class training vessels, 1 offshore patrol vessel, as well as several auxiliary vessels. The UPN consists of 7,800 Regular Force and 1,800 Primary Reserve sailors, supported by 3,800 civilians. Admiral Tzimil Nahualli is the current commander of the United Partitions Navy and chief of the Naval Staff.

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Energy

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