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The '''Serene Realm of the Oan Isles''' ([[Wikipedia:Maori language|Oan]]: ''Te Rohe Rangamarie a te Motuere Oa''; [[Wikipedia:IPA|phonetic]]: /ˈoʊɪn/, also known simply as '''The Oan Isles''') is an independent island nation. It consists of two parts. The Home Islands are surrounded by the Polynesian Sea and the [[Morstaybishlian West Pacific Territories]] (overseas territories of [[Great Morstaybishlia]]) to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Morstaybishlian Sea to the south, and [[Aurora]] to the south west. The [[Kohatu Isles]] are surrounded by the [[Caven Sea]] and [[Peregrinia]] to the north, [[Peregrinia|East Gemica]] (a semi autonomous territory of Peregrinia) to the east, [[Justelvard]] (a constituent country of Great Morstaybishlia) to the west, the [[Morstaybishlian Sea]] and mainland Aurora to the south. The country has a total land area of 103,171 square kilometres (39835 square miles), of which 88,338 square kilometres (34,107.67 square miles) comprises the Home Islands and 14,833 square kilometres (5,727.05 square miles) comprises the Kohatu Isles. Although the country consists of two parts over 2,000 kilometres apart, their weather and geography is the same because they have similar geographic histories and lie at the same latitude. The Oan Isles is a tropical mountainous volcanic heavily forested island nation (comprising 36 islands), of which only a small portion is suitable for agriculture and human habitation confronted by earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones.
Ahua the Great established the Oan Isles in 1000 CE (according to the Oan calendar this is the first year of the period AU or After Unification). He converted to [[Thaerism]] and declared it the official and only permissible religion of his realm. He spread his
In the 3rd century AU (11 century CE), folk religions experienced a resurgence and intermixed with Thaerism. Priest Pohinga was an early advocate of the mixture of folk religion and Thaerism. His ideas laid the ground work for the role of the folk god Maui in the unification and the elevation of the role of the Rangitanga-a-te-Moana from a political and military ruler to spiritual leader. He was executed but his supporters launched the Civil War against the conservative monarchy in Tokamotu that supported conservative Thaerism. Upon their defeat, Mauism became the official religion, as it remains to this day.
Under Aotearoa the Great, the country established settler colonies in the Strathepolic Islands and integrated them into its territory, vastly expanding the size of the Oan Isles. Civil War led to the loss of the territory and the establishment of smaller Kingdoms that were eventually conquered by the [[Great Morstaybishlia]] in 1604. Following the unilateral revocation of a treaty that the Oan Isles believed was unfair by Kipiri II, Great Morstaybishlia invaded the Oan Isles and the country lost a third of its territory in a conflict that is today known as the First Morsto-Oan War. Further, the war kickstarted the Oan Slave Trade. Nevertheless the slave trade excluded citizens of what remained of the Oan Isles. In the 1800s, an illegal trade of free Oan citizens was started through a clandestine agreement between Lord Admiral Lusegart of Morstaybishlia and Chief Toamu of Wakatunuye. Upon discovering the act, the Oan Isles attacked a Morstaybishlian ship triggering the [[Second Morsto-Oan War]]. Although the Oan Isles lost another portion of its territory, Oan Slave Trade was abolished in Great Morstaybishlia.
Angry about the handling of the crisis by his father Tamatea II, [[Rangitake the Great]] overthrew him and began modernizing the Oan Isles including establishing the first universities and central bank. His son, Mikaere III continued these reforms and began democratizing the Oan Isles. The country still retains an amended form of the Constitution that he passed during his reign. During the [[Great War]], the Oan Isles remained neutral and grew wealthy from weapons exports and financial interlinkage. The country remained neutral in the [[Auroran Imperial War]]. The Oan Isles was thrust into international conflict following the assassination of [[Prince Thadeus, Duke of Horkalo]], and the invasion of [[Yor]] by the Greater Ethalrian Empire
The country is a high-income post-industrial economy administered through free-market socialism that has a nominal GDP of over 785 billion [[Kirib|KRB]] (the [[Economy of the UNAC|8th largest in the UNAC]] as of 2021). It is a world leader in information and communication technology (being the seat of [[Cafe Net]] and [[Metatron Corporation|Metatron]], some of the largest corporations by market capitalisation in Aurora, among others), and has large banking and tourism sectors. Its capital, [[Tokapa]] is the seat of the [[Auroran Monetary Fund]]. Its government takes place as a unitary parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. The House of Ahua is one of the oldest monarchies in the world and presides over a highly democratic government, that ranks highly in metrics of governance, economic and political freedoms among world nations. It has enjoyed enduring political stability and economic stability for decades.
== Etymology ==
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