Pulacan

Republic of Pulacan Riphaboliki ya Bopulacan (Setswana) Tlacatlahtohcayotl Pulacan (Nahuatl)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Pula e ne (Setswana) We will be blessed with rain
Map of Pulacan's major cities
Capital	Tepetenxipaltlan (executive) Mabesekwa (legislative) Mohembo (judicial) Yztac Tlalocan (administrative)
Largest city	Tepetenxipaltlan
Official languages	Setswana, Pulatec Nahuatl
Recognised national languages	Khoisan languages
Religion	Secular state
Demonym(s)	Pulatec, Pulatl
Government	Federal parliamentary republic with an executive presidency
• President	Coyotl Gontebanye
• Chief Minister	Moctezuma Tshireletso
• Chief of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi	Kȍhà ǂToma
• Chief Surveyor	Tlaloc Xochiquetzal
Legislature	Pulatec United Legislative Assembly
• Upper house	House of Survey
• Lower house	Ntlo ya Dikgosi House of Delegates
Establishment
• First cave paintings	c. 73,000 BCE
• Arrival of Bantu tribes	c. 600 CE
• Arrival of first Nahua peoples	c. 1150 CE
• Itzcoatl's conquest	1476 CE
• Return to Zacapine control	1544 CE
Area
•	1,552,740 km2 (599,520 sq mi)
Population
• 2020 estimate	46,442,816
• Density	29.91/km2 (77.5/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Total	$714,373,343,528
• Per capita	$21,468.51
Currency	Pulatec Pula (PLP)
Time zone	UTC+2 (Central Malaio Time)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy (CE)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+254
Internet TLD	.pl

Pulacan, officially the Republic of Pulacan (Setswana: Riphaboliki ya Bopulacan, Nahuatl: Tlacatlahtohcayotl Pulacan), is a sovereign country in eastern Malaio. It straddling the continent between the Vespanian Ocean and the Ozeros Sea on its north and south respectively, and borders Zanzali in the east and Pulau Keramat in the northeast. The current population of 46,442,816 people is spread across 1,552,740 square kilometers, making the nation one of the least population-dense on the continent at just under 30 people per square kilometer. The arid plains in the south of the nation are divided from the fertile forests and coastal savannahs of the north by a large section of mountains and the Djebe highlands that dominate the country. For centuries, political power has been concentrated in these highlands, lording over the two coasts. The distribution of ethnic groups in Pulacan is heavily influenced by this geography; Nahuatl peoples, the former elites in Zacapine colonial times, reside mainly on the southern coasts, while large populations of Wampar and other related groups dominate the north. Tswana and mixed Tswana-Nahuatl peoples are by far the most populous groups in the nation, with populations spread throughout, but mostly concentrated in the center of Pulacan. Small populations of mostly-nomadic Khoisan peoples exist in protected areas in the hinterlands of the country.

The Khoisan peoples were the first to arrive in what is now Pulacan, living in hunter-gatherer societies for thousands of years before their way of life was hampered by the arrival of sedentary Bantu peoples in the 7th century CE.

In the modern day, Pulacan employs a dual-government system that continues to balance the interests of the dueling sides in the Pulatec Civil War. United at the top by the Presidency and the Pulatec United Legislative Assembly (PULA), the republican government and the government representing the Tswana chiefdoms and monarchies operate largely autonomously, though the united nature of the PULA allows for dual cooperation on major issues. As such, Pulacan is one of the few states in the world with a tricameral parliament, featuring two co-equal lower houses and an upper house. Internationally, Pulacan is a member of the Forum of Nations and the Association of Malaio-Ozeros Nations, and its government operates as a full member of the Vespanian Exchange Institute.

Etymology

The name Pulacan derives from two separate languages, and reflects the multicultural origins of the country. The word "pula" is a word in Tswana, literally referring to "rain"; the word carries deep positive significance for many Setswana speakers, as it stands for the coming of the Tswana peoples from an arid homeland to their current center of population in the often humid and rainy highlands. The suffix -can is Nahuatl in origin, and is used to denote a location, like the suffix -ia in Hellenic. Originally a name applied by Zacapine settlers on the coast to the mountainous highlands of the country on their first arrival, the name eventually became metonymous, and later synonymous, with the polity as a whole, reflecting the eventual takeover of modern-day Pulacan by the collection of highland Tswana chiefs.

History

The first settled peoples arrived in what is now Pulacan via the northern plains in 35,000 BCE.

Government

Tribal Government

The leadership of the so-called "tribal government" is represented by the Ntlo ya Dikgosi, or the Council of Chiefs. This body operates as both a legislative and executive body, with each member being either the executive monarch of a subnational body, or an appointed elector representing a tribe. The land area directly governed by the tribal government covers most of the interior of Pulacan, with only the extremes of the southern and northern coasts being under the direct supervision of the republican government and its House of Delegates.

Complicating the system is the presence of cities. The Pulatec Political Settlement allowed for the existence of official "free cities," granted charters by their local government, to stand directly in the Ntlo ya Dikgosi. Most cities, however, have instead opted to elect representatives to their local governments and to the House of Delegates. This leads to a complicated political situation whereby these free cities are governed both the laws of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi and their local monarchs alongside the House of Delegates' laws. These laws can sometimes be in opposition to each other. As such, some local governments opt to create exceptions for cities in drafting local laws, while other cities elect their own municipal governments that declare which laws they choose to enforce. The latter option is controversial, and usually requires a city with great political power already to successfully implement.

Subnational Monarchies

Within the dual-government system,

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