Itayana Solar Autocracy
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Itayana Solar Autocracy | |
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 Flag | |
| Anthem: Prayer to the Unifying Sun | |
| Capital | Yanbango |
| Largest city | Asima |
| Official languages | Kaayana |
| Ethnic groups (2024) |
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| Demonym(s) | Amayana |
| Government | Theocracy |
| Legislature | Iseyana Faithful Conclave of Temples |
| Foundation | |
• Foundation of Yanbango | c.800 BC |
| 1375-1521 | |
| 1548-1875 | |
| 11 May 1980 | |
| 15 June 1996 | |
| Population | |
• 2024 census | 43,640,272 |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | $745.77 billion |
• Per capita | $17,089 |
| Gini | 48.1 high |
| HDI | 0.75 high |
| Currency | Nahaasi |
| Date format | dd:mm:yyy:cc |
| Driving side | right |
Itayana Solar Autocracy (ISA), commonly known as Itayana or The Temple State, is a state in the Central Scipia, bordered to the north by Charnea and to the west by <UKI> of the Nine Cousins of Sante Reze. Its claimed eastern border is M'Biruna, but the de facto eastern neighbour is the Amayana Makgato Federation. Its territory is centred in the Karana and lower Imo river basins and includes the largest inlets of Karana. The population of 55 million is spread in settlements across the basins with the major exceptions being the cities of Asima and Kanokari.
While part of the Greater Itayana, it is generally considered that the Temple State history started with the foundation of Yanbango c.800 BC around the Solar Temple of Yanbango. Overshadowed by larger polities, it rose to prominence as the site of the Yanbango Capitulaion, ending the Tenerian conquest of Karana and establishing the Tributary Provinces of Karana and Imo in 1375. The next 140 years are known as the Ihemodian Yoke, seeing the lower Karana and Imo basins turned into the breadbasket provinces of the Ihemodian Empire. The period ended in 1521, when the priests ousted Tenerian garrison of Yanbango, and in the next 27 years the Solar Temple reclaimed the entire Karana Basin. Further campaigns from 1568 to 1629 established the Second Unifying Realm as the dominant power in Southern and Oceanic Scipia; however, the Amayana renaissance was brief, reverted by infighting and factionalism within the Temple, as well as difficulties in gaining hold over the territories, and by 1875 the Realm collapsed completely, fracturing on independent governorates. The Agala War started the process of strengthening between three major polities of the region, centred around SMT, Asima and LDN; the Temple served as the mediator and the organizing force beyond modernization efforts through dispatching several missions to outlying countries, including Sante Reze, Orun Redisus, Zacapican, Elatia and Velikoslavia. In 1980, a clique of priests from the latter three missions asserted control over the Temple; starting of the Ninvite War in 1984 greatly aided in their effort of unifying the political landscape culminating in the Two Basins Consensus in 1996.
Today, Itayana is a rapidly developing nation with dominant secondary sector used in supply chains of Nine Cousins and four major Oxidentale nations, and as such maintains functional relationships with all four of them. Its major industrial conglomerates participate in several international research and development efforts such as Oxidentale Jet Works consortium and the Burning Sun Initiative. Itayana also maintains warm relationships with the theocracy of Elatia in Norumbia and the Tsardom of Velikoslavia of Eastern Belisaria.