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[[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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