Dewnania
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Republic of Dewnania | |
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 Flag | |
 Dewnania within Northern Aurora | |
| Location | Map |
| Capital and largest city | Synta Berlewen |
| National language | Terghyntek |
| Ethnic groups (2024) | 83.2% Cava 8% Elven 1.4% Human 7.4% other |
| Demonym(s) | Dewnanow, Dewnanian |
| Government | Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic |
| Mawgan Kitto | |
| Ruan Pethick | |
| Legislature | Parliament of Dewnania |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,572.63 km2 (607.20 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2024 estimate | 5,630,442 |
• Density | 3,580/km2 (9,272.2/sq mi) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2024 estimate |
• Total | ♅304,021,346,232 |
• Per capita | ♅53,996 |
| Currency | Kirib (♅) |
| Date format | DD/MM/YYYY |
| Driving side | the left |
| ISO 3166 code | DEW |
| Internet TLD | .dew |
Dewnania, officially the Republic of Dewnania (Terghyntek: Repoblek Dewnanieth) is an island nation in Northern Aurora, located in the Filari Sea between Kaltariezh, Biramura and Oscrelia. It is the region's most densely populated country. Its capital and largest city is Synta Berlewen, which is home to about 71% of the country's roughly 5.63 million residents. Over an area of 1,573 km² (607 sq mi), Dewnania is the worlds fifth smallest and second most densely populated country, and second in Aurora behind Blueacia despite land reclaimation projects increasing its size by approximately 16% since the 1970s. The official and national language is Terghyntek.
Dewnania has been inhabited since before the Great Vanishing, with limited records pointing to cava civilisation as old as 3000 BCE. Known as Dewnan, its location as the sole island in the western Filari Sea has historically given it a great strategic importance as both an emporium and naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Kaltariz, Salovians, Morstaybishlians, Ethalrians, and later Terghintians. Its contemporary era began in 1703, when it formed apart of the wider Kingdom of Terghintia whom gained independence from the Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria in the Ethalrian Succession War. Terghintia prospered as a minor colonial empire. During the Great War, the Gwlas, a socialist movement and later political party led to the overthrow of the absolute monarchy and establishment of a socialist state. Loosing the Marisva region in the Great War and suffering severe territorial losses in the Auroran Imperial War to Ethalria, the Dergyntow government fled to the island of Dewnan in 1971. When Ethalria surrendered in 1975, Morstaybishlia did not hand back their mainland despite two appeals to the International Forum in 1975 and 1981. The Terghyntow government officially established Dewnanieth as its successor state in 1975, and since then has been relatively skeptical of Morstaybishlia and Ethalria; the ACA and its successor organisation the UNAC. Dewnania applied to join the UNAC in 2018 following the Auroran-Cerenerian War, but was denied on democratic grounds. It since applied to join as an observer state in 2024.
An industrialised exporter of natural resources such as copper, gold, oil, fish and wood in the second half of the 19th century. Terghintow chemist Jago Marghek discovered Dewnanium in 1886 and named it after the nations' island. Ironically, Dewnania has been the world's largest exporter of Dewnanium products since mass extraction from placer monazite deposits began in the 1950s; including Dewnanium acetate, cryocoolers, Dewnanium magnets, glass, lasers, et cetera.
Terghintia introduced labour-market and social reforms in the mid 20th century which formed the basis for the present Dewnanian welfare state model and advanced mixed economy. With its growth based on economic globalisation and international trade, it has integrated itself within the world economy, successfully reconciling economic efficiency with social equality. Dewnania has a relatively high GDP per capita of 53,996 KRB compared to the rest of Aurora.
Dewnania is a unitary semi-presidential republic. Its legal system is based on civil law. Gwlas has led Dewnania and Terghintia in all but eight years since 1911, the last time it was out of government was in 1956. While it supports and practices free election and multi-party democracy, Gwlas employs notable dominance over society and politics. They currently hold 101 out of 124 elected seats in the Senedh. Multi-speciesism and multi-culturalism is enshrined in the constitution.
Name and etymology
The Staynish name Dewnania is a staynification of the native Terghyntek cognate word for the island, Dewnan, thought to mean 'deep valley dwellers' from Proto-Uspric *dubnos meaning 'deep'. It likely refers to the dry valley which spawned the base for its civilisation.
History
Prehistory to Terghyntow Settlement
Prehistory
Present-day Dewnania has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The earliest confirmed site of anatomically modern cava activity on Dewnania is Nanke, situated on the western coast, indicating that hunter-gatherers were active on the island from over half a million years ago. Cava skulls were found buried with circular copper pendants, radiocarbon dated to approximately 26,500 BCE, indicating the earliest use of copper extraction anywhere in the world.
The discovery of the Kothyndanna underground city below present day Nanclemma has structures that are dated as old as 6,500 BCE. The youngest structures correlate with the abandonment of the city in the Great Vanishing around 1,800 to 1,700 BCE. Mass burials discovered around this time indicate that the cava civilisation may have been wiped out by a plague; this plague may have wiped out the wider cava civilisation of Aurora leading to societal collapse in the mixed cava-elf civilisations.