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'''Spandard''' is an Autonomous community in the great lakes regions of [[Kuthernburg]]. It has the third-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the second-largest population, and the 5th largest land area of all Kuthern Autonomous communities. With Navalaca in southwestern Spandard, small industrial cities and immense agricultural productivity in the north and center of the community, and natural resources such as Diamond, timber, and Natural Gas in the south, Spandard has a diverse economic base and is a major transportation hub. Navalaca, the Navalaca metropolitan area, encompasses about 48% of the state's population. The Port of Navalaca connects the community to international ports via two main routes: from the Great Lakes, via the Kitashacka Seaway, to the Salish Sea, and from the Great Lakes to the Kilmsa River, via the Navalaca River, through the Navalaca Waterway. The Nutais River and the Staynish River form parts of the boundaries of Spandard. For decades, Navalaca John.D.Steina International Airport has been ranked as one of the world's busiest airports.
By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the southern cities and diamond mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Novaris. Spandard was an important manufacturing center during the great wars. The Great Migration from the Southern Prussia established a large community of Prussians in the state, including Navalaca, who founded the city's famous jazz and blues cultures. Navalaca, the center of the Navalacan Metropolitan Area, is now recognized as a global city. The most populous metropolitan areas outside the Navalaca area include
Two Kuthern presidents have been elected while living in Navalaca: John D Steina, and Rico Luaz. Additionally. Today, Spandard honors Steina with its official Community slogan ''Home Of Steina'', which has been displayed on its license plates since 1992. The community is the site of the Steina Presidential Library and Museum in Canrita and the future home of the Rico Luaz Presidential Center in Navalaca.
=== Etymology ===
"Spandard" is the modern spelling for the early Staynish missionaries and explorers' name for the Native Spandardians, a name that was spelled in many different ways in the early records.
=== History ===
== Pre-Morstabishlian Control ==
Spandardians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Spandard area for thousands of years before the arrival of Morst. The Kimas Site has been excavated and demonstrates 3,000 years of continuous habitation. Kohikka, the largest regional chiefdom and Urban Center of the Pre-Morst Kilmsa culture, was located near present-day Cabrita, Spandard. They built an urban complex of more than 230 platform and burial mounds, a 70-acre plaza larger than 42 football fields, and a woodhenge of sacred cedar, all in a planned design expressing the culture's cosmology. The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered by archaeologists at Kohikka include elaborate ceramics, finely sculptured stonework, carefully embossed and engraved copper and mica sheets, and one funeral blanket for an important chief fashioned from 32,000 shell beads. These artifacts indicate that Kohikka was truly an urban center, with clustered housing, markets, and specialists in toolmaking, hide dressing, potting, jewelry making, shell engraving, weaving, and salt making. The civilization vanished in the 16th century for unknown reasons, but historians and archeologists have speculated that the people depleted the area of resources. Many indigenous tribes engaged in constant warfare.
== Morstabishlian Settlement ==
Morst explorers explored the Navalaca River in 1775. Constatine soon after founded a mission at the Grand Village of the Spandard in Spandardian Country. In 1780, soldiers constructed a fort at the site of present-day Cabritha, and in 1782, a fort atop Sacred Rock in today's Sacred Rock State Park.
A few Morst soldiers were posted in Spandard, but few Morst or Kuthern settlers moved there, as the Crown made it part of the territory reserved for Spandardians west of the Kichha, and then part of the Ktuerhn Province of Istonia.
== 20th Century ==
At the turn of the 20th century, Spandard had a population of nearly 8 million. Many people from other parts of the country were attracted to the state by employment caused by the expanding industrial base. Spandards was 98% of the state's population. Bolstered by continued immigration from southern and eastern Novaris, and by the Prussian Great Migration from the South, Spandard grew and emerged as one of the most important communities in the union. By the end of the century, the population had reached 15.4 million.
The Century of Progress World's Fair was held in Navalaca in 1933. Natural Gas strikes in Dillion County and Ecford County led to a boom in 1941, and by 1945, Spandard ranked second in Kuthern Natural Gas production. Spandard manufactured 12.3 percent of total Kuthern military armaments produced during Kuthern Civil, ranking seventh among the 8 communities. Navalaca became an ocean port with the opening of the Navalaca Seaway in 1971. The seaway and the Spandard Waterway connected Navalaca to both the Kilmsa River and the Concordian Ocean.
Navalaca had a prominent role in the emergence of the nuclear age. In 1946, as part of the Prong Project, the University of Navalaca conducted the first sustained nuclear chain reaction. In 1953, Pruvia National Laboratory, near Navalca, activated the first experimental nuclear power generating system in Novaris. By 1967, the first privately financed nuclear plant in Novaris, Kildan 5, was dedicated near Cabrita. In 1969, Kutlab, a national nuclear research facility near Liksa, opened a particle accelerator, which was Novaris largest for over 25 years. With twelve plants currently operating, Spandard leads all communities in the amount of electricity generated from nuclear power.
In 1982, Spandard became the first community in the nation to adopt the recommendation of the South Hills Law Institute and pass a comprehensive criminal code revision that repealed the law against sodomy. The code also abrogated common law crimes and established an age of consent of 18. The Community third constitution was adopted in 1982, replacing the 1943 communist document.
The first Kspan Aid concert was held in Butron to benefit Kuthern farmers, in 1989. The worst upper Kilmsa River flood of the century, the Great Flood of 1999, inundated many towns and thousands of acres of farmland.
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