Landzberg
The Kingdom of Landzberg | |
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Anthem: Zierengit ins dobriien Narodi | |
| Capital | Swiegard |
| Official languages | Landzebergianys |
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| Demonym(s) | Landzbergian |
| Government | Federal parliamentary Constitutional monarchy |
• Kniez | Bogdan IV |
• Prime Minister | Bozhidar Stanko |
| Legislature | Parliment |
| Council of Representatives | |
| Council of Kniezes | |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 19,140,147 |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $312,492 billion |
• Per capita | $16,324 |
| Currency | Landzbergian Merk |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
| Calling code | +572 |
| ISO 3166 code | LZG |
The Kingdom of Landzberg, commonly known as Landzberg (LZG) is a federal parliamentary Constitutional monarchy located in Southwest Gondwana. It consists of 27 Kniezestwos, 2 autonomous provinces (Tăldăuți and Flămâgăras), as well as the Government Territory. It does not border any countries. The population is 19,140,147.
Landzberg is a constitutional monarchy. The current monarch, Bogdan IV of Vysokova, has reigned since 1981. He exercises judicial functions and acts as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Council of Representatives is the legislature, consisting of 120 Representatives, and is based in Swiegard. Executive power is exercised by the Council of Kniezes, which consists of all 27 Kniezes, who meet in Vysokova.
Landzberg is a developed country with an advanced high-income economy, ranking high in the Human Development Index. It also performs greatly in measurements of civil liberties, press freedom, internet freedom, democratic governance, and peacefulness. The country maintains a combination of a market economy with a comprehensive social security system, providing citizens with a universal health care and free education.
History
Prehistory
Paleolithic Period
The Prehistoric period is generally understudied in Landzberg, because research has traditionally focused on the later parts of history. Nevertheless, significant advances have been achieved during the last years and the record has been enriched with new material, collected mostly in the framework of regional surveys but also through systematic or rescue excavations. Not only new caves and rockshelters, but also recently discovered and important open-air sites are now being excavated. The earliest traces of human life in Landzberg are dated around 1.5 million years ago. The oldest traces can be found at Druzdriia Cave in Katolis, Bialwolka and date back 1 million years.
Neolithic Period to Bronze Age
Vencesliw and Plamemian civilization
The Vencesliw culture is a significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age culture, although not much is known about this civilization and the information is scant. It is known, however, that around 2000 B.C. its place was taken by the Plamemian civilization.
Little specific information is known about the Plamemians, including their written system, which was recorded on the undeciphered Linear A script and Plamemian hieroglyphs. Most of their settlements were in the south of the country, but almost none of them have survived to this day. Most likely, the main center of this civilization was the once existing Palace in Plimien, which was allegedly destroyed in a fire around 450 BC, but the opinion on this subject is divided.
Pre-Dusanski Bergatic period
Following the end of the Neolithic ages, the last Stone Age period, the early and middle Bergistic period was established in the Landzbergian mainland. Firstly, the slow transition from the Final Neolithic period took place with the Riznopole culture. The agricultural communities of that period needed entire centuries in order to replace their stone tools with metal tools. Following the materialistic developments, more powerful micro-states and the base of the future Late Bergiatic Dusanki civilization were developed. The Early Bronze Age settlements saw further development during the Middle Bergiatic period before the Dusanki period.
Dusanki civilization
Dusanki civilization originated and evolved from the society and culture of the Early and Middle Bergiatic periods in mainland Landzberg. It emerged in , when Bergiatic culture in mainland Landzberg was transformed under influences from the Plamemian culture.
Dusanki Landzberg is the Late Bergiatic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Landzberg and it is the historical setting of the most of Landzbergian mythology and religion.
Dusanki civilization was dominated by a warrior Belipsomihtia. Around 510 BC, the Dusankis extended their control to Wlogard, the center of the Plamemian civilization, and adopted a form of the Plamemian script called Linear A to write their early form of Landzbergian. The Dusanki-era script is called Linear B, which was deciphered in 1799 by Kazimír Nedved.
Around 300BC, the Dusanki civilization collapsed. Numerous cities were sacked and the region entered what historians see as a "dark age". During this period, Landzberg experienced a decline in population and literacy. The Landzbergians themselves have traditionally blamed this decline on an invasion by another wave of Landzbergian people, the Lipozowskans, although there is scant archaeological evidence for this view.
Ancient Era
Iron Age
The Landzbergian Dark Ages refers to the period of Landzbergian history from the presumed Lipozowskan invasion and end of the Dusanki civilization to the rise of the first Landzbergian city-states and earliest writings in Landzbergian.
When the Lipozowskans came down into Landzberg they were equipped with superior iron weapons, easily dispersing the already weakened Dusianks. The period that follows these events is collectively known as the Landzbergian Dark Ages.
Kniezes ruled throughout this period until eventually they were replaced with an Belipsomihtia, then still later, in some areas, an Belipsomihtia within an Belipsomihtia—an elite of the elite. Warfare shifted from a focus on the cavalry to a great emphasis on infantry. Due to its cheapness of production and local availability, iron replaced bronze as the metal of choice in the manufacturing of tools and weapons. Slowly equality grew among the different sects of people.
At the end of this period of stagnation, the Landzbergian civilization was engulfed in a renaissance that spread the Landzbergian world.
Archaic Landzberg
In the 2th century BC, Landzberg began to emerge from the Dark Ages. Literacy had been lost and Dusanki script forgotten, but the Landzbergians adopted the new Gdanicki alphabet.
Landzberg was divided into many small self-governing communities, a pattern largely dictated by cultural differences evident everywhere, which in turn were dictated by various histories and civilizations that existed on these lands.