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|leader_name1 = Arik Rao
|leader_title2 = Federal Premier
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|leader_title3 = King of the Okun
|leader_name3 = Adebayo VIII
|leader_title4 = President of Mikubana
|leader_name4 = Ayokunle Ariwa-Oorun Yamisi
|leader_title5 = President of New Rania
|leader_name5 = Rou Manao
|legislature = Federal Congress
|upper_house = Council of Communities
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|established_event4 = Federation of Bana formed
|established_date4 = 26 January 1963
|established_event5 = New Rania
|established_date5 = 13 August 1974
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==Government==
[[File:Bana 2021 Election.svg|left|thumb|300px|The current National Assembly, after the 2021 elections. The parties are, from left to right:<br /><br />'''Government:'''<br />Social Alliance: 373 seats<br />Green: 48 seats<br />For the Future!: 15 seats<br /><br />'''Opposition:'''<br />Federal Unity Party: 309 seats<br />Okunbana Democrats: 28 seats<br />Mikubana Democrats: 20 seats<br />Agrarian Interest Bloc: 16 seats<br />New Future Liberals: 9 seats<br />Socialist Party: 7 seats]]
Bana is a federal system, with the three states having their own governments that have the ability to control affairs within their borders. The Federal Constitution establishes that the central government has only those powers that are explicitly delegated to it in the constitution, with all other powers belonging to the states. On the federal level, the executive of the country is the cabinet, led by the Federal
As an upper house, the Council of Communities is designed to be a consultative body, and it is ultimately less powerful than the lower house. It has 15 members: 7 for Okunbana, 6 for Mikubana, and 2 for New Rania. The states decide how to choose the Councilors. In Okunbana, the 7 are allocated among districts that are coterminous with seven traditionally-identified regions of Okunbana. In Mikubana, all six are elected among the entire population, with two of the seats reserved for people of Loko heritage. In New Rania, one Councilor is elected from the City of Ranisport and the other by the entire remaining area of the country, the so-called "out-country." Councilors are required to be unaffiliated with any political parties.
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Abeo's stated primary goal for her term is a broad expansion of the country's public housing program, which she says is a strengthening of the country's social safety net that will also boost the economy. She has also focused on expanding the country's economic relationships, traveling abroad to countries such as South Hills and the Southern Coast to encourage foreign investment and development in the country. She has sought to avoid discussions regarding Tavari-Banian relations, which she describes as "a distraction." She has also pledged to have a special focus on New Rania, which she says "has been left behind by previous federal governments." She has promoted initiatives to develop the Translokonia region of New Rania, which has caused some tension in her coalition due to environmental concerns. However, she has pledged that all new development in Bana in her tenure will be held to strict standards of environmental sustainability, which the federal government has begun promoting through significant tax breaks for companies that agree to Abeo's "Federal Sustainability Plan." Abeo describes herself as a "capitalism reformer" and has specifically stated she is not a socialist. While she has gained opponents among Bana's political left, she is still enormously popular, with a 68% approval rating as of January 2022—a full ten points higher than Maku Mtebe's highest recorded rating. She is especially popular among those who identify as "independent" or "centrist," with an approval rating in this group of 89% as of January 2022.
On 28 December 2022, Abeo was assassinated in a radioactive poisoning. Defense Minister Temiloluwa Kuti became Acting Federal Premier upon her death, which was declared at approximately 8:10 PM. Abeo died while being airlifted from the Premier's Official Residence to the Federal Military Health Complex outside Newport. In the days after her assassination, the Cabinet will meet to confirm an Acting Federal Premier who will serve for up to 60 days while Social Alliance, the governing political party, selects a new leader. Should the party fail to do so in that time, new elections will automatically be called.
==States==
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Prior to the union of Okunbana and Mikubana in about 1200 CE, a third tribe known as the Loko merged into the Miku. The Loko, who are elves believed to be closely related to the Miku who lived along the upper Loko River valley, are still extant as an ethnic group in modern Mikubana. Since the Federation era, Mikubana has itself functioned somewhat as a federation between the Miku and the Loko. All state government bodies have seats reserved for those of Loko descent, including some of the state's seats in the Council of Communities. However, for census purposes, the Loko are considered to be part of the Miku ethnic group.
As of 2021, Mikubana had a population of 10,493,232 people. The current President of Mikubana is Ayokunle Ariwa-Oorun Yamisi, a member of the Federal Unity Party. The President of
===New Rania===
[[File:New rania.png|thumb|left|200px|The flag of the State of New Rania.]]
[[File:New rania FOB wiki.png|thumb|right|200px|The State of New Rania within the Federation of Bana.]]
New Rania is the smallest state in the Federation by population. Formerly a sovereign country of exiles from Ni-Rao, it voted to join the Federation of Bana in 1974. Prior to integrating into Bana, it was known as the Free State of New Rania. Much of New Rania's territory is undeveloped, and with a population of 1,029,508, the other two states each have a population larger by nearly a factor of ten. New Rania is also relatively impoverished compared to the other two states, having long been economically dependent on Bana for most imports. The New Ranite economy is largely based in textiles, although manufacturing and the service industry have been seeing gains in recent years as New Rania's minimum wage laws are attractive to international business. Beginning in the early 19th century, New Rania became famous in the region for producing vanilla beans, a notoriously time- and labor-intensive process that the New Ranites had come to consider a particularly noble profession due to their religious beliefs placing a high value on hard work. While the country's agriculture industry has begun to diversify and expand since joining the Federation, vanilla is still grown and exported in the current day.
New Rania was founded in 1747 by a group of religious outcasts exiled from lands in the interior of the continent. "Old" Rania was a location in the interior from which many of the first exiles had been from. They had to migrate through both dense jungles and over the Danvreas Range of mountains, a journey the New Ranites called "the Long Walk." After the long walk, the New Ranites settled in a city they called Ranisport, which was built atop the ruins of an abandoned former Raonite city. Originally organized as a strictly religious colony, New Rania went through a process of democratization in the 19th century, although the New Ranite Church maintained representation in the National Council and the theoretical power to remove a President from office until 1954.
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==Economy==
With a nominal GDP of nearly one trillion SHD and a per capita GDP of $41,654, the Federation of Bana is among the more powerful economies in the region of northwest Gondwana. Both historically and in the modern day, the largest sectors of the Banian economy have been agriculture and mining/refining. However, since the 1980s, the manufacturing sector has gradually increased in productivity, making Bana one of the largest exporters of manufactured goods in the region.
Since the end of the Banian Civil War, successive governments have tended to place great emphasis on economic growth and production, with the Federation’s first Premier, Abidemi Akinde, stating that “Our country lies in ruins because of the Civil War, but the truth is, now we have an incredible opportunity to build an entirely new economy from the ground up, with the freedom to focus on what will bring us growth without being hindered by the economy of the past.” Early in the Federation era, left-leaning governments advocated for government direction of the economy in ways that resembled socialist state economic planning, but a string of neoliberal administrations since the 1980s have focused more on deregulation and industry subsidization to grow the economy.
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Agriculturally, the country’s most famous export—often the subject of tongue-in-cheek jokes regarding its name—is bananas, of which Bana exports more than any other country on Urth. A common misconception is that the name of the fruit is somehow related to the name of the country, or vice versa, but neither is the case. While the etymology of the Staynish-Codexian word “banana” is uncertain, the fruit has always been called “ọgẹdẹ” in the [[wikipedia:Yoruba language|Banian language]], while the word “Bana” comes from a grammatical root meaning “children.”
Beef, pork, and chicken are all raised and processed domestically and for export across the country. The amount of tropical rainforest cleared for livestock ranching, as well as for banana and palm plantations, are frequently subject to criticism from environmental groups, with the Banian Wildlife and Ecology Foundation estimating in 2020 that as much as 60% of Okunbana’s biodiversity had been lost due to increasing deforestation. Very few virgin rainforests remain in Okunbana, and though younger forests do remain, they have been in a steady decline since the 1980s.
Bana has a relatively small fishing sector compared to other neighboring countries with ocean access and is a net importer of seafood. This has traditionally been ascribed to the fact that Bana’s EEZ along the Strait of Vaklori is relatively narrow due to the presence of nearby Tavaris. The [[Royal Tavari Armed Forces|Tavari military]] keeps its maritime border with Bana highly patrolled both at sea and in the air, maintaining what some Banian governments have decried as a “de facto blockade” that reduces the safety of Banians attempting to make lawful use of Bana’s own EEZ. Tavaris maintains that its military presence is within its own territory and therefore lawful, and since 2020 has kept a somewhat lower military presence in the Strait as it turned its military focus to Ni-Rao and to Novaris. The largest source of seafood for Bana is [[Vaklori]], however a domestic fishing industry does exist, though not for export.
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The three nations of the Banian people, despite sharing a common origin and having been in various forms of social, political, and economic union for more than a thousand years, each retain unique cultural identities. The New Ranites are also a unique cultural group, distinct from their Raonite forebears. The Constitution of 1963 placed a special emphasis on preserving and promoting Banian culture as a way of bringing the country back together after the Civil War while still celebrating the unique distinctions of the different peoples of the country, including immigrants.
One of the central cultural identifying factors among the Banian peoples is language. The Constitution states that “the first and primary national language of the Federation shall be Banian,” a clause meant to emphasize unity. While in the modern day Banian is indeed considered to constitute a single language, Mikubana and Okunbana both have distinct dialects that, in some cases, can even be unintelligible to speakers of other dialects. The dialect of the Lokobana people in particular is noted in Bana to be hard for outsiders to understand. Famously, Babatunde Ariwa Azikiwe, who became the first person of Lokobana descent to serve as President of Mikubana in 1983, was so hard to understand by others in Mikubana that subtitles were used when he spoke on television and an interpreter regularly accompanied him to events. Since 2005, the State of Mikubana has required secondary school students to learn and demonstrate “basic proficiency” in the Lokobana dialect, in an effort to promote mutual understanding and preserve the unique Lokobana culture.
===Mikubanian Culture===
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===Lokobana Culture===
[[File:Spiti River Kaza Himachal Jun18 D72 7232.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Loko River high in the Raonite Spur of the Danvreas Range.]]
The Lokobana nation, while today considered a constituent part of Mikubana, are a distinct cultural group who trace their origin to one of Bana’s harshest environments—the high peaks in the country’s far east, where the Loko River begins. The area where the Lokobana people first resided is essentially uninhabited in the modern day, after the Loko migrated northward into
Lokobana people are, on average, the most religious people in the country. While all three nations have their own religious traditions, in the modern day, a majority of Banian people consider themselves religiously unaffiliated. In contrast, 79% of Lokobanians consider themselves active members of their religion, which they call “Aṣa Afẹfẹ,” or “Way of the Winds. Banian religious traditions are highly [[wikipedia:animism|animist]], considering many things in nature to have powerful spirits within them capable of affecting the world around them. In Aṣa Afẹfẹ, the most powerful of these spirits are the Nine Winds. Eight are directions (“north,” “southwest,” etc.) while the ninth is “No Wind.” Each Wind is said to have a distinct personality and control over a different part of life. For example, winds moving to the northeast are said to be an omen of wealth and good fortune, while winds moving to the west are considered an ill portent. Lokobana people, unlike other Banians, typically have two forenames, with their second forename being that of the wind that was blowing at the time of their birth.
Religious activities among Aṣa Afẹfẹ believers are often very musical. Singing is seen as an activity that brings glory to the spirits of the winds, as breath leaving the body is a way for mortals to create wind themselves. It has been a tradition at every Presidential inauguration in the Federation era for the National Choir of Lokobana to sing after the President takes their oath as a way of blessing the incoming Presidential administration and guiding the whole country to prosperity. Aṣa Afẹfẹ practices also include a particular style of meditation that features a regimented, careful way of breathing called “Centering Breath” that is designed to be relaxing and thought-provoking. Centering Breath is commonly taught across all of Bana as a stress relief technique, even by medical doctors.
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