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| Veski, officially the Commonwealth of Veski, is a country located in the Atlantic Ocean, with a population of approximately 4.9 million as of 2019. Regno is the nation's capital, and the largest city. | | Veski, officially the Commonwealth of Veski, is a country located in the Atlantic Ocean, with a population of approximately 4.9 million as of 2019. Regno is the nation's capital, and the largest city. |
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| ==History==
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| The first European contact with North America was that of the medieval Norse settlers arriving via Greenland. For several years after AD 1000 they lived in a village on the tip of the Northern Peninsula of what is today Unituuq, Remnants and artifacts of the occupation can still be seen at Inlani, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The island was inhabited by the Beothuks (known as skrælingjar in Greenlandic Norse) and later by Mi'kmaq.
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| From the late 15th Century, European explorers like John Cabot, João Fernandes Lavrador, Gaspar Corte-Real, Jacques Cartier and others began exploration.
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| John Cabot (1450–1499), commissioned by King Henry VII of England, landed on the North East coast of Veski in 1497 before travelling on to what today is Newfoundland in Canada. The first European settlement in Veski was Eksmanserfant which is now the capital of the Region of Maarlegraaf.
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| Sir William Granne, provided with letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I, landed in Regno which was by this time the largest settlement on the island in August 1583, and formally took possession of the island.
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| During this time the fishing industry boomed and Veski became an economic powerhouse in the North.
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| The colonies of New Wessex and Maarlegraaf received colonial assemblies in 1838, which was and still are referred to as the House of Assembly.
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| In 1905 Veski became a Dominion of the British Empire as the Dominions of New Wessex and Maarlegraaf were unified to form Veski. There was talk of joining both the United States and Canada but ultimately Veskians wanted to remain as a separate Dominion.
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| The First World War was supported with near unanimity in Veski. Recruiting was brisk, with 8,977 men joining the Veskian Regiment for overseas duty, 3,457 joining the Royal Navy and 237 women became war nurses.
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| In 1919 The Commonwealth and The Liberal Parties were formed, they were the first official political parties in Veski and the Liberal party won the nation’s first election in 1920 winning 89 of the 170 seats in the Veskian House of Commons.
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| Iron mines were opened in Vinford in 1926. In 1940 Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to an exchange of American destroyers for access to British naval bases in the Atlantic, including Veski. The result was sudden prosperity as American money flooded the island.
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| In modern times Veski is a prospering modern nation with a population of 4.9 million people.
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| ==Geography==
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| Veski is in the North East of North America and id a very mountainous land. Most people live in and around the coast with major population centres such as Regno, NewportWilliam and Sasquut on the west coast and Eksmal and Bletford on the east coast. The least populated region in the nation is Unituuq.
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| The marine waters around the province are considered boreal, or sub-Arctic, in nature. A great deal of the coastline is rock-strewn, allowing an extensive variety of plant and animal life to thrive.
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| [[file:1AB45166-74AE-481E-BD71-202D0A55C89E.png|thumb|left|240px|a painting of the landscape of the Maarlegraaf Region in West Veski]]
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| The tundra is a sub-Arctic zone with long, cold winters and short, warm summers. Precipitation is low. Soil a meter below ground and deeper is permanently frozen (permafrost), which does not allow water to drain easily through the soil, so it collects in shallow pools. Trees and shrubs are stunted since their roots cannot grow into the permafrost. Low shrubs, lichens, mosses, and small herbaceous plants are found instead. The most common mammals on the tundra are the barren-ground caribou, Arctic wolf, Arctic fox, Arctic hare, lemmings, and voles. The polar bear is the dominant carnivore of the tundra, but is an occasional visitor to coastal Veski, especially in the spring. Many birds migrate to Labrador in spring to lay their eggs and raise their young before returning south for the winter.
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| Southern Veski is mostly taiga. It is characterized by low winter temperatures, a longer growing season, and more precipitation than the tundra. Soils are typically lacking important nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. The taiga is dominated by coniferous trees, notably balsam fir and black spruce, though the deciduous white birch, trembling aspen and mountain ash are also present.
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| Along with Newfoundland, Veski is located in a unique time zone in North America.It is a half an hour ahead of Atlantic Time, one and a half hours ahead of Central Canada and 4 ½ hours ahead of the west coast of the country.
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