Meronnia

The Federal Republic of Meronnia République Fédérale de Mèronie
Flag
Motto: Liberté, Solidarité, Prospérité Liberty, Solidarity, Prosperity
Anthem: Le Chant Du Depart "Song of the Departure"
Capital	Senone
Official languages	Mèronais
Recognised regional languages	Vaalse
Demonym(s)	Mèron
Government	Federal semi-presidential republic
• Premier	Pierre-Antoine Tremblay
• First Deputy	Maximilien Sardou
Legislature	Chambre des Députés
Establishment
• Crowning of Lothair I	757
• The Philippine Proclamation	1281
• Signing of the Commune Constitution	1771
Area
• Total	287,076.7 km2 (110,840.9 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	37,450,000
• Density	130.45/km2 (337.9/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2019 estimate
• Total	$588 billion
• Per capita	$15,700
Gini (2019)	29.2 low
HDI (2019)	0.889 very high
Currency	Livre ((L))
Date format	ddmmyyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+122
ISO 3166 code	MR
Internet TLD	.mr

Meronnia (Mèronais: Mèronie), officially the Federal Republic of Meronnia (Mèronais: République Fédérale de Mèronie), is a nation in Eastern Lira with several overseas territories. Metropolitan Meronnia is bordered by the Cherusccia to the Northwest, and the Rosel Sea to the West, South, and East. The capital and largest city is Senone, with 2,812,000 living in the Senone Commune. The country's 87 Communes and 4 Territories span a total of 287,076.7 square kilometers (110,840.9 square miles), and a total population of 37.5 million people.

The country has a primarily mild Oceanic climate, though the metropolitan region varies from warm Mediterranean to Humid Continental. Overseas territories have an even broader climatic range. The nation is a federal semi-presidential republic, with executive authority shared between a directly elected Premier, the First Deputy of the Legislative Chamber, and the Directory, a limply empowered holdover of the early Republican government.

The origin of a national identity for Meronnia began in the late 600s, particularly after Louel the Great (or Louemagne) claimed the title of "King of all Mèrons" in 698. The Grimoalding dynasty of Louel the Great would go on to further success and unify much of what is considered Meronnia today. In 757 Lothair the Knight, who had converted to Beoism earlier that decade, defeated the last major resistance to his rule in the peninsula and was crowned the first Emperor of Mèrona. The Empire would last more than two centuries before civil war between rival claimants to the throne brought the period to an end.

Between 999 and 1281, the Meronnian region was disunited, with between two and five kings overseeing the feudal realms of the peninsula and the neighboring areas. Philip Rusét, in 1281, issued the Philippine Proclamation claiming the divine right to rule as King of Mèronie, after his marriage to the royal Adelaide of Blénoir. The new Kingdom underwent an age of flourishing arts and culture, as well as scientific innovation, through the 1300s and 1400s, which built a reputation for Meronnia as a place of learning and arts.

The Meronnian Colonial Empire had its beginnings in the early 1500s, and the prosperous kingdom quickly settled towns along the northern coast of Meridiq across the Rosel Sea. The sovereignty of Meronnia was interrupted for 32 years from 1551 to 1583 after Philip I/IV, the Produes King, inherited the Meronnian crown. After his death, the Kingdoms of Meronnia and Produzland again split thanks to differences in succession law.

The late kingdom period was dominated by religious conflict and peasant uprisings, while the Meronnian monarchs focused their attention on supporting Produes allies and the expansion of colonial holdings, particularly in the South of Nori. Between 1731 and 1771, a period of revolutions saw the loss of several valuable colonial holdings, most significantly Carelia, as well as the permanent overthrow of the Meronnian monarchy and the establishment of the Federal Republic.

Meronnia underwent an industrial revolution and drained significant amounts of unusable lands throughout the 1800s. They carefully avoided direct participation in the Olympic War, but volunteer divisions fought on multiple fronts and the impact on the global economy led to rationing of key goods in the Republic. Since the end of the Olympic War, Meronnia has withdrawn from almost all colonial possessions, invested more in Space Sciences than any other nation in Olympus, and seen significant growth in GDP year-over-year.

Meronnia is a center for arts, sciences, and philosophy. It is a competitive tourist destination. Meronnia is a developed country with a very high standard of living and fairly low income inequality, though there have been recent concerns about rising housing prices. Meronnia is heavily involved in international affairs and participates in a number of international bodies. It is the leading member of the OIM, an organization initially founded as a post-colonial community of Mèronais-speaking nations.

Etymology

The origin of Meronnia is as a geographic term, Merona, describing the peninsula the majority of the modern nation exists on, though the origins of this terminology are unclear (it is believed to have originated somewhere in Western Lira). The tribes, and later, kingdoms that inhabited the peninsula became known as the Mèrons, and a gradual linguistic shift over several hundred years was confirmed in 1281 when Philip Rusét in his proclamation claimed the title of King of Mèronie. The Lorian exonym settled on Meronnia around the same time.

Both the exonym and endonym roughly mean Land of the Mèrons. As the word Mèron originally means those living in Merona or Mèronie, the cyclical nature of the meanings of these terms has drawn some attention as a source of humor for linguists.

The modern demonym for the nation of Meronnia is "Mèron" (or Meron/Meronnian in Lorian).