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'''The Serene Emirate of Sayyed (Alsaayqaydiu: اللسان الصايقيدي, 'iimarat alsayid alhadia)''' is a nation located in the deserts of West [[Gondwana]].
Sayyed is a semi-constitutional monarchy, where the Emir(a) of Sayyed holds the title of both head of government and head of state simultaneously. Most decisions are made with the supervision and acknowledgment of the Council of Viziers (CoV) and the Council of Pashas (CoP) The current monarch of Sayyed is Emira Scheherazade Al Sayyed, who ascended to the throne in May 2022 when her father abdicated in poor health.
The emirate has maintained relations with [[Mirhaime]] who they on rely heavily for military support and are important trading partners.
Sayyed’s economy is a developed free-market one. Because of its advanced economy that came from exporting oil from the 1920s, the nation focused on modernizing its infrastructure and its main source of revenue shifted to manufacturing, research and development, and tourism. Sayyed holds a sophisticated welfare system, modern infrastructure, and an advanced, high-technology sector.
The Sayqidi jewelry industry is one of the world’s centers for extracting, cutting, and polishing, and contributes a sizeable portion of the nation’s exports. However, the country depends on imports for resources like fruit. And due to freshwater sources being scarce in the nation, it also relies on importing bottled water from other nations.
Sayyed is known to be incredibly wealthy and to have a low Gini score; most if not all Sayqidi citizens live comfortably, even in luxury. While the prices of basic necessities are low, and basic housing is provided by the government, the costs of amenities are significantly high. Due to the wealth of the nation, the minimum wage is higher than average, and hard labor, in Sayqidi culture, is considered to be extremely valuable and workers in most industries that in most countries, are considered underpaid, are paid rather well in Sayyed.
Sayyed's high-quality university education, as well as the creation of a highly motivated and educated populace, are largely responsible for the country's high-tech boom and rapid economic development by regional standards. The country has built a strong educational infrastructure as well as a high-quality incubation system (which they had adopted from the Haqmi) for new cutting-edge ideas to produce value-added goods and services. As a result of these developments, the country has created a high concentration of high-tech companies across the country's regions. These companies are financially backed by a strong venture capital industry.
Having four sheikhdoms, all of which are culturally different from one another, Sayyed is rather multicultural; all citizens of all Sheikhdoms are treated equally and discrimination of any kind is frowned upon. The current reigning Emira of Sayyed is of Haqmi heritage and grew up with both Haqmi traditions and Atasiyaqi ones.
Before the last Ashurian king passed away childless, he appointed his Alqamar-following cousin, Muhammed Al Sayyed, as his heir. After the king’s death in 873 CE, Muhammed took the throne and reformed the kingdom into an Emirate, the Emirate of Sayyed, after the Al Sayyed clan he led. His reign marked the beginning of the prosperous desert empire it is today. He helped the citizens of Sayyed through famine and upon the recovery of the emirate, he set his sights on its development. Due to its new and growing wealth, Emir Muhammed was able to invest funds into the construction of Al Mahadiyya Palace, the current residence of the Emira, her family, the court, the Grand Vizier, and the location of the imperial government chambers. Muhammed passed away at the age of 79, just when the 24 years of construction on the palace were completed.
The Sayqidi Golden Age began in 955 CE on several timelines, though there wasn’t a solid date for its true beginning. Due to its ever-increasing wealth, Sayyed began to focus on science, mathematics, art, and literature. This was also a time when the Emir promoted literacy and education; Upon the poet Scheherazade (born Auset) of Khor Sha’aidat’s rise to prominence, she was sent to the court of Al Mahadiyya, where, in exchange for poetry on the life of the palace, she would be supported by the royal family in any endeavor she’d have, as long as it benefited the emirate. With this, she used the funds to build schools all over Al Salarqa, smaller villages in Atasiyah and Khor Sha’aidat, and in her home city of the same name. These crown-sponsored schools helped promote literacy and by 1000, it was reported that most if not all Sayqidi citizens could read and do basic mathematics.
In 1015, the emirate claimed the Khomani Plateaus, a region in modern-day Sayyed. Months later, they discovered remnants of “strange” nomadic camps in the region. When they looked into it, they found the first inhabited camp of the elven Xuhari people. After contact and cultural exchange were made, the Xuhari people and the Sayqidi were on good terms. In 1045, the first major Xuhari settlement of Quzou was founded with the support of Emir Lateef and the Xuhari leader, Nyandak Lhamo. The same year, Nyandak Lhamo pledged fealty to the emirate and the Sheikhdom of Khonmani was formed with Nyandak (now Nyandak Lekhshey) as its first sheikh.
Centuries later, the Emirate would violently conquer the “Aljibal” region to the west, taking the Haqmi city Haraman in May 1229. After the king of Haraman, Tigran Vardanyan surrendered and peace was made. The region would become a Sheikhdom of the Emirate and Tigran and his descendants would be its sheikhs and sheikhas.
In 1459, Aghvani Arzumanyan, a Haraman-born noble and Imperial Vizier, was appointed Grand Vizier by Emir Ibrahim Al Sayyed, becoming the first Grand Vizier of Haqmi origins. He made multiple contributions and improvements to the Emirate, including founding the Aghvani Arzumanyan University in Salarqa. Today it is the top university in Sayyed. He also integrated the Haqmi Educational Philosophy (Contemporarily abbreviated as HEP) into the standard Sayqidi education system, which improved the average performance of most students in the emirate.
In 1527, Emir Mirza passed away without a confirmed heir. Due to his popularity, Ngawang Tsamchoe, Mirza’s son via a Xuhari concubine, took the throne instead of Mirza’s son with his chief consort. Thus begin the Tsamchoe Dynasty, where Sayyed (then Tsamchoe) was ruled under Xuhari royalty. This caused a shift in court culture, where Xuhari culture was the major influence. However, the rule of the Tsamchoes wouldn’t last long.
1610 marked the year the Sayyed clan staged a violent coup against Emir Tobgyal (who had usurped the throne from his teenage nephew). The coup was a success and the Sayyed clan returned to the throne with the coup leader, Sharyar Al Sayyed, as the first Emir of the restored dynasty.
Throughout his reign, he stabilized the nation and strengthened it. Though his multiple contributions would be greater than any Emir before, he was most known for his love life and his harem, which became the subject of multiple novels and televised dramas such as the earlier seasons of ''Al Mahadiyya: Imperial Secrets'', a show that gained much success in Sayyed.
Abreshmina, Sharyar’s granddaughter, ascended to the throne in 1663 upon the death of her father, Solayman. Being thirteen years old at the time of her coronation, she is known to be the youngest Emira in Sayqidi history. And due to her mother being Haqmi, she’s known as the first and one of the only Sayqidi monarchs to have a full Haqmi parent (another being the current Emira, Scheherazade, whose mother is Haqmi).
Abreshmina was a beloved and benevolent Emira, whose 60 years of rule was a time of peace and prosperity. A revered diplomat and a patron of the arts who reformed Sayyed into a semi-constitutional monarchy in 1693 using the foundation Aghvani Arzumanyan created during his term as Grand Vizier in the 15th century, which included the creation of the Council of Pashas, which consisted of officials elected by the people. Imperial Viziers held more power as well after Abreshmina and the Grand Vizier signed the decree.
The Hiqbat Jamila emerged in the late 18th century when there was a focus on taking inspiration from foreign and neighboring powers, or any ally Sayyed had. It was a time of emerging modern beauty, and works like ''90 Days in Al Salarqa'' by Kelden Norbu were written with the mindset of focusing on the industrial beauty of the nation.
Emira Soraya’s reign caused controversy, as she decided to let the Grand Vizier hold most of the authority on the Emirate while she focused on her vanity. Many people feared that there might be a sudden switch of governments, even when the unique semi-constitutional system the emirate had for centuries had proved to work perfectly. However, something Soraya did to benefit Sayyed was endorsing the involvement of the Mirhamian military in Sayyed from 1916 onwards. The Great War struck fear into the Sayqidi, who never had the need to militarize heavily, so they sought outside help. Mirhaime ended up being a major trading partner with Sayyed in its modern day, and contains the largest Sayqidi diaspora on Urth.
Emira Soraya abdicated in 1926, at the age of 32, with the reason of believing her sister was more capable, and has said to the press that she never wanted to be Emira, and would have abdicated earlier, but felt obligated to stay on the throne. In an interview a year after her abdication, Soraya said:<blockquote>“It was only ten years later did I gather the strength to write a letter of abdication. I remember so many nights when I would sit down at my desk, paper in front of me and pen in my hand. I just couldn’t get myself to write an abdication letter. Last year, when I resigned from my position, I felt as if a large weight had been carried off my back; I was finally free.”</blockquote>When Kamaria took the throne, she immediately took back power from the Grand Vizier, who, for the past eleven years had been holding most responsibilities an Emir would. Though she didn’t live long, she spent most of her reign investing in transportation, modernization, and working on regaining the power the Crown lost. She was succeeded by her son, Emir Farzad in 1946, who continued the work his mother began. The beginning of his reign marked the beginning of the modern age in Sayyed. He was the first Emir to not practice polygamy and in fact outlawed it in 1954.
The Salarqa Renaissance began in 1964, and it was a movement of new music, art, and literature genres. Many say that the city of Al Salarqa still is in the era as new artistic revelations and ideas are shared constantly.
Emir Farzad passed away in 1985, and his son, Hassan, took the throne. His reign marked the many and quick changes in Sayqidi modern history and culture. From the return of Kevahenet, a Salovian port city on the Sayqidi coast in 1992 upon its collapse to the rise of social media. Hassan’s reign was considered progressive and accepting of new ideas, and Emir Hassan was (and still is) loved by Sayyed However, due to his declining health, he abdicated on the 16th of May, 2022, in favor of his eldest child, [[Scheherazade Al Sayyed|Scheherazade]], who is the current Emira of Sayyed, and one of the youngest, being 18 years old at the time of her ascension.
== Etymology ==
Because of its religion and culture, the realm would be named after the ruling dynasty. The name of the dynasty, Sayyed (السيد) means "The Master" in Sayyiby.
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