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|image_flag = StaynesFlagReborn.png
|image_coat =
|flag_caption = Flag of Staynes
|national_motto = In the depths of winter will you find sanative.
|national_anthem = ''"Rise the Empire through Union."''
|image_map =
|loctext = Map
|languages_type = Official languages
|languages =
[[wikipedia:English language|Staynish]] <br />
[[wikipedia:Manx language|Jubliakese]] <br />
[[wikipedia:Old English|Old Staynic]] <br />
|languages2_type = Recognised regional languages
|languages2 = HorkaleseAxdelian <br/> [[wikipedia:ItalianBretton language|New AxdelianKaltareg]] <br/> Calth[[Wikipedia:Cornish language|Rombewek]]
|ethnic_groups = 98.781% [[wikipedia:human|Human]] <br /> 1.210% [[Species of The East Pacific#FelineElf|FelineElf]] <br> /4% [[Cava]] <br> 0.15% unspecifiedother
|ethnic_groups_year = 2016 2024
| religion = {{Unbulleted list |item_style=white-space:nowrap;
|demonym = Staynes, Staynish, Staynic (rare) ▼| 42.7% [[Thaerism]]
|government_type = Part of a [[wikipedia:constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarchy]] ▼|leader_title1 = 34.8% [[wikipedia:MonarchIrreligion|MonarchNo religion]]
| 5.6% [[Kozam]]
| 3.9% [[Verk'ohism]]
| 2.3% [[Gadelthene]]
| 1.8% [[Qayam|Haqiqan]]
| 1.1% [[Paxism]]
| 2.1% other
| 5.4% No answer
}}
| religion_year = 2024
▲|demonym = Staynes, Staynish , · Staynic (rare)
▲|government_type = Part of a [[wikipedia:constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarchy ]], direct government exercised by the [[Parliament of Great Morstaybishlia|government of Great Morstaybishlia]]
|leader_title1 = [[Wikipedia:Monarch|Monarch]]
|leader_name1 = [[Lambertus VII]]
|leader_title1legislature = [[wikipedia:PrimeParliament of Minister|PrimeGreat MinisterMorstaybishlia]]
|established_event1 = Founded by [[Peragen#Impelanza|Impelanza]] as Estenes de la Aurora
|leader_name1 = [[Franklin Barvata]]
|established_date1 = 29 Dec 1515{{circa|70 BCE}}▼|legislature = Parliament of [[Great Morstaybishlia]]
|established_event2 = Staynish Revolution from [[Peragen#Impelanza|Impelanza]]
|established_event1 = [[Great Morstaybishlia#Union of the Thrones|Union of the Thrones]] under [[Lambertus III]] ▼|established_date2 = 157512th December 513▼▲|established_date1 = 29 Dec 1515
|established_event3 = SecessionTreaty of [[Souththe Staynes]]River Kuthern▼|established_event2 = Ascendancy of the [[Morstaybishlian Empire]] over the [[Kormistazm|Kormistazmic Empire]]
|established_date3 = 627th JunApril 1975684▼▲|established_date2 = 1575
|established_event4 = Rombar and northern Toranslic assimilation
▲|established_event3 = Secession of [[South Staynes]]
|established_date4 = by 18th May 972
▲|established_date3 = 6 Jun 1975
|established_event5 = Complete Toranslic assimilation
|established_date5 = by 6th October 1256
▲| established_event1established_event6 = [[Great Morstaybishlia# Early Modern from Union of the Thrones|Union of the Thrones ]] under [[Lambertus III]]
|established_date6 = 29th August 1515
▲|area_km2 = 22868501834160
|area_sq_mi =
|population_estimate =
|population_estimate_year =
|population_census = 155,770,860
|population_census_year = 20172024
|population_density_km2 = 6884.193
|population_density_sq_mi =
|GDP_nominal =
|GDP_nominal_year = 2017
|GDP_nominal_per_capita =
|Gini = 3.8
|Gini_year = 2014
|HDI_year = (n/a)
|HDI = 0.8
|HDI_change = (n/a)
|currency = [[Kirib]]
|currency_code = ♅/KRB
|date_format = DD/MM/YYYY
|drives_on = The left
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|iso3166code = STA
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'''Staynes''' is a country within [[Great Morstaybishlia]]. It shares southern borders with [[Axdel]], [[South Staynes]] and [[Durentrus]], [[Caltharus]] to the east and [[Vothetria]] to the south-east.
The area now called Staynes was first inhabited by modern humans known as the Strathipolic people around 52,000 years ago, but takes its name from the Staynnica, the most prosperous kingdom during the time where the second kingdom of Maltervenia fell and the "third" kingdom of Maltervenia (Kingdom of Staynes) rose. Staynes became a unified state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The Staynish language, the [[Thaerism|Thaerist]] Church, and Staynish law – the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world – developed in Staynes, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been adopted by a respectable count of other nations.
Staynes' terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and western Staynes. However, there are uplands in the south (for example, the [[Zycannes]] and the mountainous Petenta District) and in the southwest (Zycannes). The capital is [[Sani Bursil]], which has the largest metropolitan area in both Great Morstaybishlia and the world. Staynes' population of over 155 million comprises 32.8% of the population of Great Morstaybishlia, largely concentrated around Sani Bursil, the West Coast, and conurbations in the Midlands, the Far North East, and Horkalo, which each developed as major industrial regions during the 19th century.
The Kingdom of Staynes ceased being a separate sovereign state on the 29th of December 1515, when the [[Great Morstaybishlia#Union of the Thrones|Union of the Thrones]] merged the two thrones under one name, resulting in a political union with the Kingdom of Caltharus to create the Kingdom of Morstaybishlia. As a result of the [[Auroran Imperial War]], on the 6th of June 1975, [[South Staynes]] seceded from the Kingdom.
Staynes is a [[wikipedia:Developed country|developed country]] and is considered to have a [[wikipedia:World Bank high-income economy|high-income economy]] and is categorised as high in the [[wikipedia:Human Development Index|Human Development Index]]. There is a total GDP per capita of $40,597 in Staynes and its dependencies. Staynes has remained as a highly influential [[wikipedia:Core countries|core country]] especially influencing events in [[Aurora]]. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state.
==History==
===Cultural origin===
Scientific evidence promotes the theory that various cultures began in the 9th millennium BCE following the invention of agriculture, but over the next few thousand years refined into only half a dozen standout cultures because of the relative geographic isolation from other major land areas in Aurora.
Regardless of specific chronology, many western Neolithic groups in Staynes share basic characteristics, such as living in small-scale, family-based communities, subsisting on domesticated plants and animals supplemented with the collection of wild plant foods and with hunting, and producing hand-made pottery. Polished stone axes were very common, enabling forest clearance for agriculture and production of wood for dwellings, as well as fuel. These communities would exist in small groups of possibly 50-100 people.
Eastern Neolithic groups in Staynes specifically around the Jubliak, Knare and Belvec river basins lived in heavily fortified settlements of around 4,000 to 6,000 people. These settlements would eventually expand to become Maltervenia, the first civilisation in northern Aurora by around 4,000 BCE. Maltervenian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus of which enabled them to form urban settlements. Prehistoric proto-writing dates back before 3000 BC. The earliest texts come from the cities of Jubeeria and Novasa.
===Maltervenian Era (4000 BCE - 998 CE)===
As early civilisations grew, the first empires formed. Numerous kingdoms existed in the Maltervenian Era but the era was defined by the Maltervenian Empire which grew to encompass all of north Aurora from the [[Molvian Corridor]] to the easternmost Jubrione evergreen rainforest. The Empire was ruled by the strict line of succession of the Jubrita dynasty and existed through rapid cultural and socio-economic change in Aurora through the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
The Maltervenians are most notable for building large stone temples across the region that geometrically mimics the Chemrok Constellation over an area of 250,000 square kilometers. Evidence for Maltervenian mathematics is limited to a scarce amount of surviving sources written on leather, wood and stone. The Maltervenians utilised a numeral system for counting and solving written mathematical problems, often involving multiplication and fractions. From these texts it is known that ancient Maltervenians understood concepts of geometry, such as determining the surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes useful for architectural engineering, and algebra, such as the false position method and quadratic equations.
Following the death of King Volkemur in 998 BCE, Maltervenia collapsed into civil war because of an inheritance dispute with his eleven children. The successor kingdoms that came from this war marked the beginning of the First Interregnum.
===First Interregnum (998 BCE - 650 BCE) ===
The First Interregnum was a period of small successor kingdoms of the Maltervenian Empire that disputed the claim of the Maltervenian throne. Through a complicated era of war and marriages between the ten kingdoms, and the Calath and Kormistazic Empires vying for expansion within the region, by 650 BCE the ten kingdoms became three kingdoms with significantly less land, approximately two fifths of what the Maltervenian Empire spanned.
At this time a small north-coast Kingdom of Cromera controlled the coastline and a portion of the Jubrione evergreen rainforest. The Kingdom of Redrilath controlled some of the north and west coast and the Kingdom of Jersia controlled land near and around some of the central rivers such as the Anker and the Borin.
===Second Maltervenian Era (650 BCE - 512 CE)===
For a period of 950 years the north of the continent lived in relative peacetime. After the Kingdoms of Redrilath and Jersia became the Second Maltervenian Empire from marriage, they pushed back against the rival Kormistazic and Calath territories resuming it to a somewhat similar size to modern Staynes. In this period of time, smaller kingdoms were also present in the region, such as the continual existence of Cromera in the north, the Kingdom of Burisaye in the present day [[Sani Bursil]] area and the Kingdom of Corstania which acted as a buffer zone at the Molvian Corridor.
Upon the eruption of the Toré supervolcano in 512 CE, the Maltervenian and Calath economies collapsed as a result of heavy trade with the Impelanzan economy. The region was plunged into a dark age as a result of lack of trade, the loss of crops and livestock from the high acidity from the ash cloud and stagnating local economies. The result of all of these factors caused widespread famine and disease, religious assimilation and wars, the destruction of historical texts and libraries and more.
The result of the supervolcano causing widespread destruction and famine began an era of extinction of minority native religions across the region. Thaerist scholars, who had already integrated heavily into much of high society spread Thaerism through their influence.
===Maltervenian Decline in Aurora (512 CE - 890 CE)===
Religious assimilation and famine from the Toré supervolcano eruption left the region in a vulnerable state. Whilst Aurora in general was left in a poorer state than before, some countries were hit worse than others, specifically those north and west of the [[Zycannes]] as the ash clouds were physically unable to pass over the mountain range into central and eastern Aurora.
'''Staynes''' is a country in [[Aurora|Northeastern Aurora]], making up one of the four constituent countries of [[Great Morstaybishlia]], two of which, [[Valeria]] and [[Kaltariezh]], it borders to the south and east respectively. It also shares a border with [[Drakaland]] to the southeast. Often regarded as the Cradle of Aurora due to its central location between the [[Molvian Corridor]] and the [[Horn of Kaltariezh]], the capital [[Sani Bursil]] is the largest, most diverse and prosperous city in the world, with over fifty million residents. It is also the seat of the [[Parliament of Great Morstaybishlia|Morstaybishlian Parliament]] and the [[Lambertus VII|monarchy]]. The city sits on the west banks of [[Morsa Lake]], the second largest freshwater lake in the world, draining into the [[Morstaybishlian Sea]] to the north via the River Rombar. A tiny part of the lower [[Zycannes]] are in the south, seperated from the [[Bolvinian Plateau]] by [[Bishop's Pass]], the main migratory corridor to the continental south. The largest river, the Kuthern, flows from the Zycannes through mainly flat country, draining into the Western Sea. At the rivermouth sits [[Redrugus (city)|Redrugus]], the second largest city with over five million residents, named after the national heroine [[Rugus the Red]] whom led the defence of the early Estenes settlements of [[Peragen#Impelanza|Impelanza]] against the Kingdom of Dumnowes. The majority of the north coast is uninhabited because of the Malderva Rainforest. Climates are layered horizontally, some larger than others, with a strip of [[Wikipedia:Tropical rainforest climate|tropical rainforest]] on the north coast, then [[Wikipedia:Tropical savanna climate|tropical savanna]], a transitional strip of [[Wikipedia:Semi-arid climate#Hot semi-arid climates|hot semi-arid]] leading onto [[Wikipedia:Humid subtropical climate|humid subtropical]], which makes up the majority of the country; and [[Wikipedia:Humid continental climate|humid continental]] straddling the mountainous interior.
Plague erupted in the region on multiple occasions, wiping out nearly a third of the population at the turn of the 7th century. Returning epidemics would rise and fall in the next thousand years, most notably in 795 and 812.
The area has been inhabited by sentient, anatomically modern [[Cava|cava]] for possibly as much as a million years, though records begin suggesting that early civilisation was made up of cava and [[Species#Elf|elf]] as far back as the [[Wikipedia:Bronze Age|early Bronze Age]]. Although [[Species#Humans|humans]] were present in Eastern Aurora, they were first introduced in the northwest of Staynes by the Impelanzan Empire around the 1st century BCE to mine [[Wikipedia:Tin|tin]]. This land, Estenes de la Aurora, literally 'Tinlands of the Sunrise' is where Staynes derived its name after half a millennia of [[Wikipedia:Semantic change|semantic shift]]. Native cultures were establishing their own civilisations at this time, namely Dumnowes, Toransla and Rombarow, which spoke forms of the [[Wikipedia:Brittonic languages|Malterva language family]] alongside [[Wikipedia:Breton language|Kaltareg]] in Kaltariezh. After the [[Toré eruption]] destroyed Impelanza and plunged the world into global [[Wikipedia:Volcanic winter|volcanic winter]] in 512 CE, the Staynish Revolution overthrew the ruling Impelanzan elite the following year, installing Alzar I as the first King of the Staynish, who worked with the [[Thaerism|Thaerist]] branch of [[Tunseism]] in supporting one another into power. King Fredmund I began the Staynish conquest of Toransla in 664, lasting 20 years and concluding with Fredmund II signing the Treaty of the River Kuthern, vastly expanding the Staynish realm south. Toransla was nearly completely assimilated save a mountanous holdout in the Zycannes by the 9th century, and Rombarow fell in 972 following a lengthy siege of [[Sani Bursil|Sanned Bursil]]. The Staynish Empire began looking to the seas by the mid 15th century, claiming [[Necraties Islands|the Necraties]] and [[Eskomia]] and establishing trading outposts in [[Arcturia]]. In 1501, [[Lambertus III|King Lambertus III]], later ''the Great'' would take sides in the [[Kaltariz Civil War]] by marrying Azenor Cadoret, a contested claimant to the Kaltariezh throne, and winning the war against her uncle Kirus Cadoret by slaying him in single combat at the Battle of Rouekador in 1505. Lambertus and Azenor's son, [[Lambertus IV]], would inherit rule of the Staynish-Kaltariz Empire and unified them politically in 1515, forming [[Great Morstaybishlia|Morstaybishlia]].
During this time, the more successful Ethalried Empire in southern Aurora absorbed the economic sphere and influences that Maltervenia and Calath once had.
Staynish administrative divisions were established for the first time properly in 1919 after the signing of the [[Great Morstaybishlia#Morstopackia and the Great War (1897-1917)|Great Charter of the Liberties]] and transition from [[Wikipedia:Absolutism|absolutism]] to [[Wikipedia:Constitutionalism|constitutionalism]] two years prior. This saw the dissolution of the Dukedoms and establishment of the Shires and Territories, the first level of elected administration below Parliament itself. As of the 2024 census, Staynes had a population of 155.8 million, 32.5% of the overall Morstaybishlian population. It has a total area of 1,834,160 km² (708,173 sq mi). 81% of the population comprises humans, whilst 10% are elf, 4% are cava and 5% is split between a plethora of other species. Thaerism is the dominant religion, though the nation is shifting towards [[Wikipedia:Secularism|secularism]].
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