Blokkarim Island
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Blokkarim Island | |
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| Blokkarim Island Territory | |
 Flag | |
| Motto: | |
| Named for | Burim Jeder |
| Capital and largest town | Kartesolt |
| Official languages | |
| Demonym(s) | Burimyner |
| Government | |
• Baroness | Marium I |
• Commissioner | Justen-Laurens Klein (BLP) |
• Municipal Chairman | Vasily Alfer (ABP) |
| Legislature | Burimyner Municipal Council |
| Population | |
• 2023 census | 6,182 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2023 estimate |
• Total | $136,268,404.14 |
• Per capita | $22,042.77 |
| Currency | Vistari Gildemerk (VSM) |
| Time zone | UTC±0 (Imperial Standard Time) |
| Driving side | right |
Blokkarim Island (Vistarian: Blokkarima, Tvordoma: Šyferdoma, Suvan: Burimyn Aral) is an island south of Itur which is administered as an unincorporated territory of Vorpest, a constituent country of Vistaraland. The island was first colonized by the Suvan Empire in 1631, both for its large deposits of flint and use as a minor trading outpost. These factors would lead the island to be exchanged a number of times between the competing Vistari and Suvan Empires, eventually being formally ceded to the Dominion of Vorpest in 1909, alongside Kamport in the modern day Union of Free Cities.
The island's population, consisting of 6,182 according to the 2023 census, primarily consists of members from three ethnic groups. Due to the long standing rivalry between their two homelands, the island has a considerable history of ethnic violence between the Suvan and Vistarian populations throughout the 20th century, and the free expression of Suvan culture on the island has remained an issue to this day.
The third largest group is the Tvordoma people, who first settled the island before the arrival of colonial powers. The Tvordoma, believed to have had strong historical ties to the Lupine population in modern-day Volkia, comprise around 21% of the island's population, having previously been forcefully removed from the island's few urban centres by the Suvan Empire.
History
Pre-colonization
Suvan rule
During the Great War
This period of uncontested rule of the island by the Dominion of Vorpest would be short lived, however, as 1909 saw the brewing of internal conflicts within the Ducal Federation surrounding the election of a successor to Emperor Alfred II. Though the colonial territories had no say on who would take the mantle of Emperor, debates over succession would coincide with disagreements amongst the states comprising Vistaraland over the nation's continued involvement in the Great War. The War of Imperial Succession, as it came to be known, threw the colonial administrations into disarray over who held the legitimate claim to the See of Supremacy and, therefore, what allegiance they had in the overarching conflict.
The Norgsveltian occupation of Vorpest would further exacerbate complications in governing the island, and the Vistari military garrison would eventually begin to coordinate the territory's administration with the Government of Ankbhaja , establishing a civilian administration in Kartesolt to conduct the internal affairs of the island for the duration of the civil conflict in Vistaraland.
Vistari rule
Administration
Consistent with the administration set out by the Kartesolt Wartime Governance Act, Blokkarim Island has been self-governing since 1911, primarily through the Burimyner Municipal Council, which the Government of the island answers to. The system of administration for the island was formalized in 1926 as an incorporated territory within the Dominion of Vorpest, now the Grand Dominion of Vorpest as part of the Imperial Vistari Confederation.
In exchange for this large degree of autonomy over internal affairs, the people of Blokkarim Island are not officially represented in the Imperial Parliamentary Council, though they may participate in elections to the Vorpestian Unified Assembly, as with Vistari citizens on Ny'Tewien Island.