Karadon

Republic of Karadon Pэпублича Kарадон (Republica Karadon)
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Capital and largest city	Staratsaria
Official languages	Vala
Recognised national languages	Sariene
Government	Unitary Presidential Republic
• President	Tiran Volskola
• Prime Minister	Mircea Cebon
Legislature	Camera
Area
• Total	294,212 km2 (113,596 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	14,524,213 (2020)
• Density	49.36/km2 (127.8/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	$182.076 billion
• Per capita	$12,536

The Republic of Karadon is a nation located in central Evaesia, bordered by Kabylistan to the south.

History

The Sarienes populated the area in the 6th and 7th centuries CE, descending into the area they now inhabit from northeast Evaesia. They established the Mek Confederacy, which ruled over them for the brief transition period, but once the natives to the area had been displaced, the confederacy evaporated and was replaced by several chiefdoms. The Sarienes occupied the fertile lowlands around the River Mithen, especially the medieval city of Otde.

The highlands were later populated by the Valts, a romance-speaking people who practiced husbandry and thrived in the hills east of Mithen. The Valts were welcomed, begrudgingly, by the Sarienes of Otde and other small states during the collapse of a neighboring empire. The Valts were mostly not allowed to own property and were instead forced to live on “waste” land owned by the various kings where they were kepts in perpetual poverty by a kind of roving law enforcer called Vtsepeters, or colloquially “valt-scepters”. The Valts were mostly pastoralist; living close to Sariene towns and villages in the winter and then moving up into the hills and highlands during the summers. Conflicts emerged concerning the use of common land, especially during the winter when the population was more heavily concentrated around the river. Violence along ethnic lines caused mutual distrust.

During the migration period, many Valts opted to ally with foreign forces instead of resisting, although many also served in the Sariene armies. The city of Otde, center of the organized resistance of the migration, was destroyed entirely, permanently destroying a large part of Sariene culture as well. Under the Valtic alliance, land was redistributed along ethnic lines, largely favoring the Valts. This system persisted briefly under successor states, but broke down into several smaller states during the early modern period. The Sarienes were able to organize a new and powerful kingdom around the city of Staratsaria, while the Valts were broken up into three other states that were vulnerable to occupation. This fractious period eventually brought about a lag in development as the rest of the world began to industrialize.

Socialism had the strongest appeal to the impoverished Valts and the emerging industrial working class of Staratsaria, who formed a revolutionary core that overthrew first the weak federal Valtic government in Byalistan and then the kingdom of Staratsaria. Ethnic tension remained, although the government took many measures to eliminate it, perhaps the cruelest of which was the ban on teaching Sariene writing, which was the language that the monarchists used to write in. Vala was promoted as the virtuous language of the working people. After the fall of the socialist regime, Sariene was reintroduced optionally to school curricula and the new republic has attempted to smooth over the crimes of the past. Staratsaria today is a multi-ethinc industrial city as well as the capital.