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Republic of Charnea ⴰⵊⴰⵎⵀⵓⵔⵢⴰ ⵏ ⵛⵀⴰⵔⵏⴻⴰ Ajamhurya n Charnea
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Capital and largest city	Agnannet
Official languages	None
Recognised national languages	Tamashek (de facto)
Recognised regional languages	Randeshret Tamahaq Tawellemmet Darja Udayen
Ethnic groups (2022)	70.2% Tenerians  ∟55% Kel Aɣrem  ∟15.2% Kel Ajama 14.3% Deshrians 11.1% Gharibs 3.2% Kel Udayen 1.2% Other
Demonym(s)	Charnean
Government	Unitary parliamentary military republic
• Emasli Adinat	Amina N'Akall
• Amizar	Khyar Aziouel
Legislature	Agraw Allonan
Historical Landmarks
• Ihemodian Wars	1360-1410
• Peace of Awakar	1549-1810
• Baron's War	1854-1860
• Imperial Restoration	1 August 1921
• Muttay Aljamaɣat	4 April 2023
Area
• Total Area	2,130,656 km2 (822,651 sq mi)
Population
• 2022 estimate	27,023,983
• 2020 census	26,995,572
• Density	12.68/km2 (32.8/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	$599 billion
• Per capita	$22,179.45
Gini	29.4 low
HDI	0.801 very high
Currency	Charnean Azref (₳)
Date format	mm.dd.yyyy
Driving side	right

Charnea, officially the Republic of Charnea (Tamashek: ⴰⵊⴰⵎⵀⵓⵔⵢⴰ ⵏ ⵛⵀⴰⵔⵏⴻⴰ, Ajamhurya n Charnea), is a country in central Scipia. The Ninva desert encompasses the totality of the land area of Charnea, a total of 2.1 million square kilometers of arid terrain receiving on average 7 centimeters of rain a year or less. Charnea is a landlocked country bordered to the north by Talahara, Tyreseia, and Alanahr, to the east by Fahran, Kembesa and M'biruna, to the south by Itayana, and to the west by Anyanwu. The Charnean desert is not geographically uniform and is subdivided into several regions, some of which are more or less inhospitable than others. Most human settlement in Charnea is concentrated into four relatively limited zones in the Arwa and Adjer mountains, the Achra basin and the regions of the Charnean far east known as Hatheria and Deshret. The rest of the desert, subdivided into the Tenere region in central and west Charnea and the Zahra region in the east, is ill suited for permanent habitation and is covered in dune seas, rocky pleateaus and other formations of the barren landscape.

The history of Charnea has been marked by reoccurring social upheavals and conflict over the limited resources of the desert, primarily water. The foundation of Charnea, or the Kel Kaharna as it was known contemporaneously, can be linked to the Siriwang eruption and volcanic winter in the mid 14th century, which struck the desert-dwelling peoples of Scipia in the form of climatic disruption leading to widespread famine. The Tenerian warlord Ihemod the Inheritor emerged from this period of strife, unifying the Tenerian tribes and leading them in the conquest of the neighboring states in order to claim for themselves greener pastures and more reliable water supply. This conquest would expand in scope as it unfolded until the Kel Kaharna had subjugated the majority of the Scipian continent, ruling over a population of millions at its zenith in the 15th century. Although the empire would soon loose much of its territory to rebellion, reconquest and invasion, it would remain as a rump state in the lands of its birth, deep in the Ninva desert, where it would evolve over the centuries into the modern Charnean state. In the 20th century, Charnea would undergo a process of urbanization and industrialization, facilitated by the connection of the country's far-flung oasis towns and cities with the construction of continent-spanning railway networks across Scipia. This process would bring unprecedented prosperity to the Charnean cities, although the ever expanding demands for water and other resources would lead to major internal conflicts and wars with neighboring countries such as the Agala War and the Ninvite War. In April of 2023, Charnea underwent the Muttay Aljamaɣat or Republican Reform, which overthrew the monarchic imperial system of seven centuries to install a new system of government based on a limited democracy of the army and civil services. This has been the latest in a long line of political upheavals Charnea has suffered over the course of the past century which have left their mark on Charnean society and culture.

The country is home to a mostly urbanized population of 27 million people. This urban population is highly concentrated with more than a quarter of all Charneans live in the capital city, Agnannet, with an additional third living in the next three largest cities. The urban population sustains the national economy which is based in processing the country's natural resources and manufacturing products for export on the basis of these resources. Charnean economics is heavily state driven and consolidated into a number of industrial giants with close ties to the government, such as the state owned petro-extraction and chemical firm COPEC or the nominally private but state-linked plastics manufacturing giant Plexico. A near-totality of all economic output in Charnea comes from large corporations such as these operating in the great cities. The rural population, consisting of Kel Ajama as well as ethnic and religious minority groups in the territorial periphery, lead a predominantly agrarian existence and contribute little to the economy. Charnea has been plagued by its history of slavery, apartheid and internal segregation of its population, which has had a long-lasting effect on its society and the development of its economy and has been the subject of many recent political reforms.

Government

The Agraw

The supreme power of the Republic is vested in the assembly of the Agraw Allonan, the military council constituted from elected deputies of the Charnean Army with special delegates representing select organs of the civilian government. It is the heart of the Charnean state and its military-political organization from which all legal authority stems. The Agraw serves a dual political function both a legislative organ of the national civilian state as well as a democratic governing body of the Army. As a legislature, the Agraw functions as a unicameral lawmaking assembly with a flexible membership holding the ultimate authority to create laws, issue directives to the executive branch, and approve ministers of the state and judges of the Charnean court system. As a military organ, the Agraw satisfies the political imperative to democratize the Army and redress the grievances of the rank and file Charnean servicemembers without subverting the tenets of military discipline and hierarchical cohesion. This was done to avoid implementing a democratic system within the military itself as is done in the Talaharan military, something which the leadership of the Charnean military-political movement deemed to be potentially corrosive to the cohesion of the Army and damaging to its effectiveness as a military force. Instead, representatives of the military in the Agraw hold no authority within the military hierarchy, serving only to give a democratic voice to the servicemembers of the Army in the assembly which might then implement the general will of the Army's rank and file from the top down and in accordance with military hierarchy. As the Agraw is vested with the sole authority to declare war, this also grants exclusive power to declare war and sue for peace to the common soldiery of the Army.

The Agraw Allonan replaced the previous Agraw Imgharan, the council of elders, which had served as the bicameral legislature of the Charnean states since the time of Ihemod and was based primarily on clan membership. It a strong contrast to its predecessor, the Agraw Allonan remains true to its name (lit. "Common Assembly") as its deputies are voted into their seats by public, popular vote within each unit of the Army and civilian government organs. Voting is done through a instant-runoff system, a ranked choice system in which multiple rounds of counts of second and third-rank votes are used to determine the winner of each unit election if no candidate can win at least half of the first-rank votes. This electoral system as well as the investiture of voting power mainly in the predominantly Ajamite enlisted ranks of the Army has had the effect of almost entirely eliminating the great Charnean clans from political office, instead elevating many historically disenfranchised groups such as the Ajamites and Deshrians into the Agraw Allolan.

Leadership

Administrative authority is delegated by the Agraw into the hands of the Amizar, the principal executive and head of government of the Charnean republican system. The Amizar is vested with broad authority to carry out the will of the Agraw and to enforce the laws of the Republic through the organs of the civilian government. Amizars are elected using the same electoral system as the Agraw elections applied to an electorate-wide scale to serve five-year terms in office with a single term limit disallowing any candidate from holding the office more than once. The authority and power of the Amizar within the Republic is wide reaching, with few constitutional limitations. However, the practical limitations of the Amizarate rest with the Agraw which holds the authority to override the Amizar, issue directives and recall them from office. The recall can be triggered by a simple majority of the Agraw, which will proceed to a referendum of the full electorate, where another simple majority of the popular vote will end the sitting Amizar's term prematurely and bar them from running againt as if they had completed their term normally. An interim Amizar is then appointed by the Agraw until a full Amizarate election can be held.

The office of the Emasli Adinat is the secondary executive of the government, and the nominal head of state. This office is the product of a constitutional addendum, a later addition to the government system made in response to rising public unrest in the aftermath of the Muttay Aljamaɣat. The function of the Emasli Adinat (lit. "Public Voice") is to serve as the advocate of the general public in the government, with a mainly advisory role but a variable degree of de facto authority dependent on the public will. The first Emasli, the former monarch Amina N'Akall, was appointed by Amizar Khyar Aziouel with the approval of the Agraw, while a system of direct election open to the public was put in place to select subsequent Emaslis.