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The <b>Tobar Islands</b> ([[Tobarese Creole]]: <i>Islás Tobár</i>), officially the <b>Organized Republic of the Tobar Islands</b> (Tobarese Creole: <i>Republíká Òrganizád dé Islás Tobár</i>) and colloquially known as <b>Tobar</b>, is a {{wp|sovereign country|sovereign}} {{wp|island country}} situated in the [[Meridian Ocean]]. Bordering areas and polities of the Organized Republic include [[Graenaeyjan]] to the southeast, the islands of [[Scintillement]] belonging to [[Sieuxerr]] to the west, and the [[Irēlandes]] of [[Fyrland]]. | The <b>Tobar Islands</b> ([[Tobarese Creole]]: <i>Islás Tobár</i>), officially the <b>Organized Republic of the Tobar Islands</b> (Tobarese Creole: <i>Republíká Òrganizád dé Islás Tobár</i>) and colloquially known as <b>Tobar</b>, is a {{wp|sovereign country|sovereign}} {{wp|island country}} situated in the [[Meridian Ocean]] of [[Septentrion]]. Bordering areas and polities of the Organized Republic include [[Graenaeyjan]] to the southeast, the islands of [[Scintillement]] belonging to [[Sieuxerr]] to the west, and the [[Irēlandes]] of [[Fyrland]]. The Organized Republic occupies an archipelago of islands includes the eponymous [[Tobár (island)|Tobár]] and several smaller islands such as [[Gobá]], [[Tuqó]], [[Puyá]], [[Dabôt]], and [[Lùgí]]. | ||
The | The geographic area of the Tobar Islands have been inhabited by the [[Tobarese people]] for thousands of years, with ethnopolitical entities such as the [[Tobár Tribal Confederation]] having both unified the various Tobarese tribes and expanding their territory to encompass a majority of the landmasses of the Caribbean. However, with the increasing pressures of technologically advanced powers and advent of colonialism, this Confederation was gradually dissolved and replaced with a territorially-smaller continuum of loosely linked Tobarese tribes and clans that inhabited their home archipelago. After being annexed into the colonial empire of [[Serenoro]], the Tobarese racially diversified with intermixing between the white colonists, indigenous tribespeople, and imported indentured servants from ???. | ||
The Tobar Islands received independence following the [[War of the Sylvan Succession]] in (1920?), which led to the briefly-lived [[Federal Republic of the Tobar Islands]]. However, disinterest with the geopolitical climate of the world at that time in addition to social and economic crises lead to the [[Crown Jewel Revolution]] that installed a {{wpl|Fascism|fascist}} dictatorship led by [[Adám Golâz]]. Golâz's regime would rule from the 1930s well into the 1970s, and was punctuated by a wide degree of isolationism and Tobarese identitarian supremacism. | |||
Work in progress. | Work in progress. | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
The etymological origin for the term "Tobar Islands", or <i>Islás Tobár</i>, lies with the sociocultural diffusion and culmination of [[Tobarese Creole]] through the linguistic syncretism of both the old language of [[Tobarese (language)|Tobarese]] and {{wpl|Spanish language|Spanish}}, with additional elements from other Romance languages such as {{wpl|Italian language|Italian}} and {{wpl|French language|French}}. The term Tobár itself originates from Tobarese and refers to the largest island of the country that most clans and people within the Organized Republic affiliate themselves with, even if born on another proximal landmass. | |||
Work in progress. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Prehistory=== | |||
The first people to inhabit the Tobar Islands were the precursors of what would evolve to become the modern [[Tobarese people]]. Known as the [[Proto-Tobarese]], their origins are hypothesized to lie somewhere in the continent of Vinya. Migration to the Caribbean tens of thousands of years ago was most likely the result of the ice age that gripped the planet during humanity's general prehistory, forcing the proto-Tobarese southwards in order to colonize the warmer archipelago. | |||
The conventional form of the Tobarese people for most of their general history came to be with the gradual warming of the planet, bringing the tropical climates into being and diversifying the flora and fauna present on the island. This codependent evolution between the society of the Tobarese and their environs cultivated a deep-seeded attachment of the Tobarese people to their lands that persist in the culture to the present day. | |||
===Tribal history (before the Confederation)=== | |||
For most of the history of the Tobarese people, individual tribes existed under a loose, binding culture that was spread throughout the islands of the central Caribbean — namely the island of [[Tobár]], which begat the label for the identity of the various tribes (even those that inhabited proximal islands, such as [[Gobá]] and [[Tuqó]]). The affiliated tribes that inhabited nearby islands held a unique status in relation to other tribes on the main island of Tobár, focusing on aquaculture and fishing and often bartering with the tribes on the "mainland" that took advantage of the diffusion of farming technologies from the nearby continents. | |||
Many unrecorded wars and conflicts broke out within this time period that attempted to centralize and define the tribal powers of the Tobarese people. Although wars with outsiders were well documented in palm wood indices, such as ??? and ???, these interculture conflicts were seen as nothing more than settlements of disputes on a large scale, as is evident with the foreign-recorded war between the tribes of Tobár and the tribes of the island of [[Lùgí]]. | |||
===Tobarese Tribal Confederation=== | |||
The rise of the [[Tobarese Tribal Confederation]] was possible only through the cultural ties between the Tobarese tribes and the consolidation of the [[Akuáñkiué]] over the Tobár island. The chief of the Akuáñkiué at that time, [[Nuákokíeorí]], was able to lead rapid subjugation wars against the other tribes of the island, such as the [[Jélekeó]] and the [[Mapará]], as a means of attempting to control the outflow of agricultural products to the peripheral tribes. With the success of this plan, he was able to force the remaining tribes into a series of politically and economically binding agreements that brought greater unity to the Tobarese culture and their native religion, [[Aćiraiké]], in addition to the formulation of a "confederation" that sought to place non-conquered tribes on equal footing as a means to mitigate further civil conflict. Nuákokíeorí, cognizant of the fact that wrangling direct control from these peripheral islands unto his own government, pursued this method of rule in expectance of meeting foreign powers later on in his reign. | |||
Work in progress. | |||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
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===Climate=== | ===Climate=== | ||
=== | The climate of the Tobar Islands are, for the most part, considered to be that of the {{wpl|Tropical rainforest climate|tropical rainforest}} classification. Many regions of the country are consistently hot and humid, with the notable exceptions to this being the northern region of the island of [[Tobár (island)|Tobár]] and islands near such a region, which instead possess a {{wpl|tropical monsoon climate}} that consists of periods of increased dryness and a lower frequency of rain. | ||
The Tobar Islands sit in the center of the Caribbean, which puts the area in the midst of the complemented {{wpl|hurricane belt}}. As a result of this, mass-scale damage from hurricanes and significant weather systems are common, including the recent hurricane [[Hurricane Johan (2015)|Johan]] in 2015. | |||
===Flora and fauna=== | |||
===Aquatic life=== | |||
==Politics== | ==Politics== | ||
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===Administrative Divisions=== | ===Administrative Divisions=== | ||
The Tobar Islands are divided into 10 departments... | |||
Work in progress. | |||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
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===Languages=== | ===Languages=== | ||
''Main Article: [[Tobarese Creole]]'' | |||
The Tobar Islands is, for the most part, a bilingual country that utilizes two main languages to conduct both official and day-to-day activities, namely {{wpl|Spanish (language)|Spanish}} and [[Tobarese Creole]]. Native [[Tobarese (language)|Tobarese]] persists in some protected tribes, but the creole has dominated all aspects of life in the nation from hundreds of years of linguistic syncretization with the Romance languages of their [[Sylva|Sylvan]] and [[Serenoro|Serenese]] overlords during the islands' time as a colonial possession. Post-colonial nationalism and the rise of Adám Golâz's regime lead to the prioritization of Tobarese Creole as becoming an integral part of governance, and as such, it remains as the only language to be used in government function and is the primary language taught in Tobarese schools. Certain sub-groups of the Tobarese, however, have inclinations towards using Spanish or {{wpl|Italian language|Italian}} as a secondary language due to racial intermixing and familial customs. [[Tobarese Sign Language]] has also become an influential language in recent times. | |||
===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||
''Main article: [[Religion in the Tobar Islands]]'' | |||
Currently, {{wpl|Christianity}} is the most practiced religion within the Tobar Islands, at 70% of the total population. Around 62% of the country's Christians identify with the [[Sylvan Catholic Church]], and the rest either identify with {{wpl|Calvinism|Reformist}}, {{wpl|Protestantism|Protestant}}, or miscellaneous denominations (particularly the [[Native Tobarese Church]]). Christianity was introduced to the Tobar Islands through its colonial overlords, [[Sylva]] and [[Serenoro]], and was crucial in the pacification of the otherwise indignant native populations. However, Christianity also historically became a rallying point for white, mixed, and native emancipation supporters who fought against the indentured servitude and slavery practices on the islands (especially those belonging to non-Catholic Christian denominations). | |||
The native, nonsyncretic ethnoreligion of the Tobarese people known as [[Aćiraiké]] modernly persists within a select few tribes and amongst individuals at around 1% of the modern population. The unique similarities between the religion and Christianity was key in the mass assimilation of the Tobarese people to the latter. | |||
A unique religion that blends elements of the native faith together with the trappings of Christianity is known as [[Àpakãraiké]], and is currently subscribed to by around 5% of the population of the Tobar Islands. Many members of this syncretic religion belong to isolate tribes with historical contact to missionaries, but also consists of radical ideologues (such as hardline sects of [[Golâzism|Golâzists]]). | |||
Religions carried to the islands by slaves from other parts of Septentrion exist to a certain degree, such as... | |||
===Migration=== | ===Migration=== | ||
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===Symbols=== | ===Symbols=== | ||
[[Category:Tobar Islands]] | |||
[[Category:Countries]] | [[Category:Countries]] | ||
[[Category:Septentrion]] | [[Category:Septentrion]] | ||
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Organized Republic of the Tobar Islands Republíká Òrganizád dé Islás Tobár | |
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 Flag
 National Emblem
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| Motto: Dé kuboké söé dú Jehó é pawá siwí úd-elé. (Tobarese Creole) ("The white light of God is for all mankind") | |
| Capital and largest city | Sépalè |
| Official languages | Tobarese Creole |
| Demonym(s) | Tobarese |
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential republic |
• President | Julián Rákaò |
• Prime Minister | Matiú Alâsá |
| Legislature | Republican Assembly |
| Establishment | |
• Arrival of proto-Tobár voyagers | ??? BC |
• Tobár Tribal Confederation formed | ??? AD |
• Arrival of ??? explorers and colonists | ??? AD |
• Independence declared and recognized | ??? AD |
• Establishment of the Organized Republic | ??? AD |
| Area | |
• Total | 60,422 km2 (23,329 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate | 10,546,712 |
• Density | 174.61/km2 (452.2/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | 𝔇326.276 billion |
• Per capita | 𝔇30,926 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | 𝔇162.69 billion |
• Per capita | 𝔇14,226 |
| Gini | 39.1 medium |
| HDI (2019) | 0.803 very high |
| Currency | Tobarese dólará (𝔇) (TOD) |
| Time zone | XXX |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Internet TLD | .tob |
The Tobar Islands (Tobarese Creole: Islás Tobár), officially the Organized Republic of the Tobar Islands (Tobarese Creole: Republíká Òrganizád dé Islás Tobár) and colloquially known as Tobar, is a sovereign island country situated in the Meridian Ocean of Septentrion. Bordering areas and polities of the Organized Republic include Graenaeyjan to the southeast, the islands of Scintillement belonging to Sieuxerr to the west, and the Irēlandes of Fyrland. The Organized Republic occupies an archipelago of islands includes the eponymous Tobár and several smaller islands such as Gobá, Tuqó, Puyá, Dabôt, and Lùgí.
The geographic area of the Tobar Islands have been inhabited by the Tobarese people for thousands of years, with ethnopolitical entities such as the Tobár Tribal Confederation having both unified the various Tobarese tribes and expanding their territory to encompass a majority of the landmasses of the Caribbean. However, with the increasing pressures of technologically advanced powers and advent of colonialism, this Confederation was gradually dissolved and replaced with a territorially-smaller continuum of loosely linked Tobarese tribes and clans that inhabited their home archipelago. After being annexed into the colonial empire of Serenoro, the Tobarese racially diversified with intermixing between the white colonists, indigenous tribespeople, and imported indentured servants from ???.
The Tobar Islands received independence following the War of the Sylvan Succession in (1920?), which led to the briefly-lived Federal Republic of the Tobar Islands. However, disinterest with the geopolitical climate of the world at that time in addition to social and economic crises lead to the Crown Jewel Revolution that installed a fascist dictatorship led by Adám Golâz. Golâz's regime would rule from the 1930s well into the 1970s, and was punctuated by a wide degree of isolationism and Tobarese identitarian supremacism.
Work in progress.
Etymology
The etymological origin for the term "Tobar Islands", or Islás Tobár, lies with the sociocultural diffusion and culmination of Tobarese Creole through the linguistic syncretism of both the old language of Tobarese and Spanish, with additional elements from other Romance languages such as Italian and French. The term Tobár itself originates from Tobarese and refers to the largest island of the country that most clans and people within the Organized Republic affiliate themselves with, even if born on another proximal landmass.
Work in progress.
History
Prehistory
The first people to inhabit the Tobar Islands were the precursors of what would evolve to become the modern Tobarese people. Known as the Proto-Tobarese, their origins are hypothesized to lie somewhere in the continent of Vinya. Migration to the Caribbean tens of thousands of years ago was most likely the result of the ice age that gripped the planet during humanity's general prehistory, forcing the proto-Tobarese southwards in order to colonize the warmer archipelago.
The conventional form of the Tobarese people for most of their general history came to be with the gradual warming of the planet, bringing the tropical climates into being and diversifying the flora and fauna present on the island. This codependent evolution between the society of the Tobarese and their environs cultivated a deep-seeded attachment of the Tobarese people to their lands that persist in the culture to the present day.
Tribal history (before the Confederation)
For most of the history of the Tobarese people, individual tribes existed under a loose, binding culture that was spread throughout the islands of the central Caribbean — namely the island of Tobár, which begat the label for the identity of the various tribes (even those that inhabited proximal islands, such as Gobá and Tuqó). The affiliated tribes that inhabited nearby islands held a unique status in relation to other tribes on the main island of Tobár, focusing on aquaculture and fishing and often bartering with the tribes on the "mainland" that took advantage of the diffusion of farming technologies from the nearby continents.
Many unrecorded wars and conflicts broke out within this time period that attempted to centralize and define the tribal powers of the Tobarese people. Although wars with outsiders were well documented in palm wood indices, such as ??? and ???, these interculture conflicts were seen as nothing more than settlements of disputes on a large scale, as is evident with the foreign-recorded war between the tribes of Tobár and the tribes of the island of Lùgí.
Tobarese Tribal Confederation
The rise of the Tobarese Tribal Confederation was possible only through the cultural ties between the Tobarese tribes and the consolidation of the Akuáñkiué over the Tobár island. The chief of the Akuáñkiué at that time, Nuákokíeorí, was able to lead rapid subjugation wars against the other tribes of the island, such as the Jélekeó and the Mapará, as a means of attempting to control the outflow of agricultural products to the peripheral tribes. With the success of this plan, he was able to force the remaining tribes into a series of politically and economically binding agreements that brought greater unity to the Tobarese culture and their native religion, Aćiraiké, in addition to the formulation of a "confederation" that sought to place non-conquered tribes on equal footing as a means to mitigate further civil conflict. Nuákokíeorí, cognizant of the fact that wrangling direct control from these peripheral islands unto his own government, pursued this method of rule in expectance of meeting foreign powers later on in his reign.
Work in progress.
Geography
Climate
The climate of the Tobar Islands are, for the most part, considered to be that of the tropical rainforest classification. Many regions of the country are consistently hot and humid, with the notable exceptions to this being the northern region of the island of Tobár and islands near such a region, which instead possess a tropical monsoon climate that consists of periods of increased dryness and a lower frequency of rain.
The Tobar Islands sit in the center of the Caribbean, which puts the area in the midst of the complemented hurricane belt. As a result of this, mass-scale damage from hurricanes and significant weather systems are common, including the recent hurricane Johan in 2015.
Flora and fauna
Aquatic life
Politics
Government
Foreign Relations and Military
Administrative Divisions
The Tobar Islands are divided into 10 departments...
Work in progress.
Demographics
Ethnic Groups
Languages
Main Article: Tobarese Creole
The Tobar Islands is, for the most part, a bilingual country that utilizes two main languages to conduct both official and day-to-day activities, namely Spanish and Tobarese Creole. Native Tobarese persists in some protected tribes, but the creole has dominated all aspects of life in the nation from hundreds of years of linguistic syncretization with the Romance languages of their Sylvan and Serenese overlords during the islands' time as a colonial possession. Post-colonial nationalism and the rise of Adám Golâz's regime lead to the prioritization of Tobarese Creole as becoming an integral part of governance, and as such, it remains as the only language to be used in government function and is the primary language taught in Tobarese schools. Certain sub-groups of the Tobarese, however, have inclinations towards using Spanish or Italian as a secondary language due to racial intermixing and familial customs. Tobarese Sign Language has also become an influential language in recent times.
Religion
Main article: Religion in the Tobar Islands
Currently, Christianity is the most practiced religion within the Tobar Islands, at 70% of the total population. Around 62% of the country's Christians identify with the Sylvan Catholic Church, and the rest either identify with Reformist, Protestant, or miscellaneous denominations (particularly the Native Tobarese Church). Christianity was introduced to the Tobar Islands through its colonial overlords, Sylva and Serenoro, and was crucial in the pacification of the otherwise indignant native populations. However, Christianity also historically became a rallying point for white, mixed, and native emancipation supporters who fought against the indentured servitude and slavery practices on the islands (especially those belonging to non-Catholic Christian denominations).
The native, nonsyncretic ethnoreligion of the Tobarese people known as Aćiraiké modernly persists within a select few tribes and amongst individuals at around 1% of the modern population. The unique similarities between the religion and Christianity was key in the mass assimilation of the Tobarese people to the latter.
A unique religion that blends elements of the native faith together with the trappings of Christianity is known as Àpakãraiké, and is currently subscribed to by around 5% of the population of the Tobar Islands. Many members of this syncretic religion belong to isolate tribes with historical contact to missionaries, but also consists of radical ideologues (such as hardline sects of Golâzists).
Religions carried to the islands by slaves from other parts of Septentrion exist to a certain degree, such as...