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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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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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