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| government_type = {{wp|Stratocracy|Military oligarchy}}
| leader_title1 = {{nowrap|Caraparisad of the [[Syalat#Gaxag|Gaxag]]}}
| leader_title1 = Mukhtiyar
| leader_name1 = Indra Basnet<br>Samrat Aryal<br>Milan Rosyara<br>Taral Mishra
| leader_name1 = [[Indra Rosyara]]
| leader_title2 = Mulkaji
| leader_name2 = [[Taral Mishra]]
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| upper_house  = Mathadhisa Sabha
| upper_house  = Sabha
| lower_house  = Sarvajanika Sabha
| lower_house  = Samiti
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| established_date1 = 20 May 1913
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'''Syalat''' ({{wp|Nepali language|Khas Kura}}: ཤྱལཏ), also known as the '''Jackal Coast''', is a country in central [[Ajax#Ochran|Ochran]] stretching across the southern shore of the [[Chulha Sea]]. Its mountainous interior is bounded by the nations of [[Ankat]] and [[Shimlar-Pashmir]] to the east and south. The capital is [[Aphimagarh]], formerly a minor city in the central highlands which was rebuilt and converted into the seat of the national government, relocating the administration away from the old capital and the current largest city [[Kaloprayaga]]. The country is named for the narrow strip of flat, {{wp|arable land|arable}} coastal land along the southern edge of the Chulha sea where most of the population, economic activity, and major cities such as Kaloprayaga are concentrated. This eponymous Jackal Coast extends from the northern extremes where the steppes and badlands known as the ''Sunyata'' meet the sea to the far southwestern {{wp|Iranian peoples|Azaghartian}} enclave of Pakhtunkwa. The hinterlands are dominated by the ''Prathara'', a vast plateau region sitting between the lowlands of the Jackal Coast and the spine of the [[Devalayas|Devalaya mountains]] which mark the country's borders with its overland neighbors. The Prathara stands at an average elevation of 3,500 meters and is almost entirely arid, relying heavily on seasonal snowmelt from the upper mountain slopes to supply water to the plateau's towns and cities.  
'''Syalat''' ({{wp|Nepali language|Khas Kura}}: ཤྱལཏ), also known as the '''Jackal Coast''', is a country in central [[Ajax#Ochran|Ochran]]. It is situated between the southern coast of the [[Chulha Sea]] and the snow-capped mountain ranges that define the country's land borders with [[Ankat]] and [[Shimlar-Pashmir]]. The country takes its name from the shores of the southeastern Chulha which is known for its many inlets, islands, reefs and submerged rocks which made the coastal waters treacherous to navigate and a hot-spot for Chulha pirates. Much of the Syalati hinterland is made up of rugged peaks and valleys which break up the landscape into semi-isolated biomes and communities, most of which rely on rivers fed by {{wp|meltwater}} for subsistence due to the low levels of rainfall in the region. The populace is most concentrated near the coast in major cities like [[Kaloprayaga]] where Syalat's economy is centered, while the political center of gravity is pulled towards the interior by the large but dispersed rural population. The national capital is [[Jarakshetra]], a {{wp|Planned community|planned city}} built in the early 20th century within the remote [[Jar Valley]] deep in the mountainous center of the country.  
 
The government of Syalat is an [[wikt:ecclesiarchy|ecclesiarchy]] in which temporal authority is principally vested within the religious institutions of the [[Agamana]]. The monastic establishment governs with contributions from the lay officials of the secular oligarchy by way of the [[Gaxag]] council, a conciliar body ''Kalon'' ministers who collectively wield executive power. Democracy plays a limited role in the governance of Syalat through the national consultative assemblies known as the Sabhas, whose membership is extracted from the religious and lay officials of the country for the purposes of advising the Kalons of the Gaxag as to the state of the country and the grievances of the common people. In practice, these assemblies draft legislative proposals and policy recommendations that the Gaxag can elect to adopt as state policy at their discretion.
 
==History==
 
===The Ganas===
 
===Zilung era===
 
===Southern war===
The ''Daksini Yuddha'' or "Southern War" was a conflict between the forces of Zilung administered Syalat and the Ratoghati Gana of the southern Pathara.   
 
===Pathara uprising===
 
===Independence===
 
===Khasarajya===
1913-1921
===Warlord era===
 
===Agamana movement===


The four regions of Syalat are home to a diverse group of cultures with ties to different parts of [[Ajax#Ochran|Ochran]]. The central Prathara highlands and the coastal Khasira region are homeland of Syalat's dominant {{wp|Khas people|Khas culture}}, a cousin of the south Ochrani {{wp|Aryan|Arya}} {{wp|Sinhalese people|Terasi}} and [[Ethnic groups in Shimlar and Pashmir|Pashmu]] peoples. Khondi Pradesh in the north is influenced by [[Untsangasar]] and the {{wp|Turkic peoples|Chuyan peoples}} of the steppe. In the southwest of Syalat lies Paktunkwa, homeland of the {{wp|Pashtuns|Pakhtuns}}, an Azagartic people with cultural ties to the [[Shirazam|Shirazamite]] {{wp|Tajiks|Ayars}}. Syalat's complex political history and physically divisive and isolating geography has historically impeded cultural assimilation and fostered the preservation of these distinct local cultures, only spurred on by the historical domination of foreign states over Syalat to include the [[Bayarid Empire|Bayarids]] or [[Zilung Chen]]. This trend continues into the modern era through the rule of the [[Begana Army]], a military and political institution defined by its practice of almost exclusively inducting foreigners without ties to Syalat into its ranks. The Begana government of Syalat takes the form of a nominally meritocratic bureaucracy whose functionaries are drawn from all ethnic and religious groups in an equitable fashion, within which internal conflicts and inter-ethnic infighting is dispassionately adjudicated and suppressed by the foreign military oligarchy presiding over the state.
==Government==
==Government==
The government of Syalat is officially {{wp|Oligarchy|oligarchic}} and draws sovereignty from the {{wp|Sangha|Sanghas}}, a class of local and national associations of religious, economic and political character. The Sangha, variably translated as "association", "guild" or "community", forms the fundamental unit of Syalati society and politics. The highest authority in the state of Syalat is the Gaxag, a quadripartite council of high ministers, which derives political legitimacy from the largest and most powerful Sanghas of Syalat. Beneath the authority of the Gaxag are various minor ministries and lay offices such as the {{wp|Mint (facility)|national mint}}, secular and religious courts, as well as security forces ranging from the national [[Army of the Gaxag of Syalat|SGS]] to local militias and the Sangha-run police entities. Democratic legitimacy for the Gaxag's government over Syalat is derived from two national consultative assemblies, the Mathadhisa Sabha and Sarvajanika Sabha. The former is made up of 100 abbots and former abbots representing the religious communities of Syalat's monasteries and temple-cities and is primarily dominated by the Dhan'ya Sangha, while the latter is made up of 214 lay officials representing secular society and is dominated by the major economic Sanghas. Each consultative assembly meets once a year for a multi-day session of debate regarding the rule of Gaxag and the successes or failures of state policy, and may make recommendations to the Gaxag, sanction the Gaxag's decisions or policies, and even appoint special officials to preform certain tasks until the next meeting of the assembly. Although the assemblies hold no legal authority as a legislative organ, they nevertheless wield considerable influence over the government as the most direct vehicles for the political will of Syalat's most powerful Sanghas.
===Gaxag===
The Gaxag (བཀའ་ཤག) is the ruling council of Syalat, headed by high officials bearing the Zilung-derived title of Kalon. The institution originally served as the cabinet of the Syalati monarchs before the downfall of the Khasarajya and the feudal order on which it was built during the Warlords era of Syalati history. When Syalat was reunified as a political entity in 1944 by the Agamana monks of Dhan'ya Sangha, the Gaxag was re-established and became a perpetual regency council sanctioned by the monks, subsuming the executive power which formerly rested with the monarch. For 64 years, the Gaxag ruled in this manner, until the political reforms accompanying the 2008 conclusion of the [[Syalati Civil War]] which formally abolished the institution of the monarchy and ended the regency. Since 2008, the Gaxag has held supreme authority over Syalat on a ''de jure'' as well as ''de facto'' basis.


The membership of the Gaxag has varied through the years of its existence as ministerial bodies have been created, merged and abolished, resulting in a variable number of Kalons through the council's long history.
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The national administration, also called the Begana government, is dominated by the [[Begana Army]] and its leadership who exercise political power through the State Gaxag. The Gaxag is made up of voting members with the title ''Kalon'' who are always current or former ranking members of the Begana Army, as well as the ''Mantri'' non-voting civilian advisors who are typically heads of administrative departments granted the privilege of sitting in on meetings of the Gaxag in order to provide their expertise and advice to the council. The head of the council is the ''Mulkaji'', equivalent to a Prime Minister, whose responsibilities center around controlling accession to the Gaxag, leadership appointments for the offices of the administration, and the daily affairs of the council. The chief executive of the state, the ''Mukhtiyar'', is elected by the Gaxag and serves for life, holding broad executive authority as well as the official command of the Begana Army and the [[Armed Forces of Syalat|Syalati military]]. The Mulkaji serves at the pleasure of the Mukhtiyar, who holds the power to dismiss and appoint another Mulkaji at will.


==Economy==
==Economy==
The economy of Syalat is administered according to the principle of ''gaira hastaksepa'', or "non-interference", an indigenous philosophy of government that includes a {{wp|Laissez-faire|laissez-faire}} economic policy. Gaira hastaksepa, which proposes that the state sustain the minimum necessary degree of intervention in the lives of the people, results in low levels of taxation, restriction and regulation of economic affairs from the offices of the state and the national laws. Despite this, Syalat ranks low in the worldwide indices of economic freedom and ease of doing business, thanks to the high levels of private regulation and restrictions on business placed by the Sangha entities which dominate the Syalati economy. Many Sanghas act as {{wp|Professional association|proffesional associations}} and {{wp|guild|guilds}} that enforce a near-monopolistic control over a particular trade or productive activity either on a local, regional or national basis. The most prominent of these Sangha monopolies is the [[Yatri Sangha]], internationally known as the Travelers Guild, which maintains the only nationwide distribution and commercial transportation network, enforced by anti-competition measures on the part of the Yatri Sangha. The sectors of the economy which suffer the least from Sangha-based private restriction are those involving international commerce and exports, as well as small-scale agricultural operations


Syalat is an agrarian country, with some 12 million of its citizens dependent on agriculture for income and subsistence. This preeminent agricultural sector is subdivided into dedicated cereal cropping of rice and barley, cash cropping of many economically important crops such as {{wp|Crocus sativus|saffron crocus}} and {{wp|Papaver somniferum|opium poppy}}, and textile cropping of flax and cotton. Meat is uncommon in Syalati cuisine and is often expensive, restricting its regular consumption to the wealthier class of the citizenry. As a result, animal husbandry in Syalat is focused on production of wool and hides, with sheep being the principal farm animal in the countryside. Mining has a long history on the Prathara plateau, where some of the world's oldest active iron mines can be found. Taken together, the primary sector activities of the Syalati economy contribute roughly two thirds of the national GDP and employ more than 80% of the population. Secondary sector industries in Syalat are mainly based on the production of textiles and processing of the country's other agricultural products for export. The more industrialized textile mills, tool factories and other more modernized firms which can be found in the major coastal cities on the shores of the Chulha sea contribute disproportionately to the GDP relative to the portions of the national workforce involved in such enterprises. This phenomenon contributes to the significant economic inequality experienced in Syalat, contributing to the concentration of wealth within a few firms in a handful of urban centers while the majority of the country remains underdeveloped and agrarian in nature.  
Syalat is an agrarian country, with some 12 million of its citizens dependent on agriculture for income and subsistence. This preeminent agricultural sector is subdivided into dedicated cereal cropping of rice and barley, cash cropping of many economically important crops such as {{wp|Crocus sativus|saffron crocus}} and {{wp|Papaver somniferum|opium poppy}}, and textile cropping of flax and cotton. Meat is uncommon in Syalati cuisine and is often expensive, restricting its regular consumption to the wealthier class of the citizenry. As a result, animal husbandry in Syalat is focused on production of wool and hides, with sheep being the principal farm animal in the countryside. Mining has a long history on the Prathara plateau, where some of the world's oldest active iron mines can be found. Taken together, the primary sector activities of the Syalati economy contribute roughly two thirds of the national GDP and employ more than 80% of the population. Secondary sector industries in Syalat are mainly based on the production of textiles and processing of the country's other agricultural products for export. The more industrialized textile mills, tool factories and other more modernized firms which can be found in the major coastal cities on the shores of the Chulha sea contribute disproportionately to the GDP relative to the portions of the national workforce involved in such enterprises. This phenomenon contributes to the significant economic inequality experienced in Syalat, adding to the concentration of wealth within a few firms in a handful of urban centers while the majority of the country remains underdeveloped and agrarian in nature.  


===Agriculture===
===Agriculture===

Latest revision as of 16:02, 9 December 2023

Syalat
ཤྱལཏ
CapitalJarakshetra
Largest cityKaloprayaga
Official languagesKhas Kura
Demonym(s)Syalati
GovernmentMilitary oligarchy
• Mukhtiyar
Indra Rosyara
• Mulkaji
Taral Mishra
LegislatureConsultative Assemblies
Sabha
Samiti
Population
• 2022 census
20,081,119
GDP (nominal)estimate
• Total
$147.7 billion
• Per capita
$7,354
Gini57.4
high
HDI (2022)0.569
medium
CurrencyPaisa
Driving sideright

Syalat (Khas Kura: ཤྱལཏ), also known as the Jackal Coast, is a country in central Ochran. It is situated between the southern coast of the Chulha Sea and the snow-capped mountain ranges that define the country's land borders with Ankat and Shimlar-Pashmir. The country takes its name from the shores of the southeastern Chulha which is known for its many inlets, islands, reefs and submerged rocks which made the coastal waters treacherous to navigate and a hot-spot for Chulha pirates. Much of the Syalati hinterland is made up of rugged peaks and valleys which break up the landscape into semi-isolated biomes and communities, most of which rely on rivers fed by meltwater for subsistence due to the low levels of rainfall in the region. The populace is most concentrated near the coast in major cities like Kaloprayaga where Syalat's economy is centered, while the political center of gravity is pulled towards the interior by the large but dispersed rural population. The national capital is Jarakshetra, a planned city built in the early 20th century within the remote Jar Valley deep in the mountainous center of the country.

The four regions of Syalat are home to a diverse group of cultures with ties to different parts of Ochran. The central Prathara highlands and the coastal Khasira region are homeland of Syalat's dominant Khas culture, a cousin of the south Ochrani Arya Terasi and Pashmu peoples. Khondi Pradesh in the north is influenced by Untsangasar and the Chuyan peoples of the steppe. In the southwest of Syalat lies Paktunkwa, homeland of the Pakhtuns, an Azagartic people with cultural ties to the Shirazamite Ayars. Syalat's complex political history and physically divisive and isolating geography has historically impeded cultural assimilation and fostered the preservation of these distinct local cultures, only spurred on by the historical domination of foreign states over Syalat to include the Bayarids or Zilung Chen. This trend continues into the modern era through the rule of the Begana Army, a military and political institution defined by its practice of almost exclusively inducting foreigners without ties to Syalat into its ranks. The Begana government of Syalat takes the form of a nominally meritocratic bureaucracy whose functionaries are drawn from all ethnic and religious groups in an equitable fashion, within which internal conflicts and inter-ethnic infighting is dispassionately adjudicated and suppressed by the foreign military oligarchy presiding over the state.

Government

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The national administration, also called the Begana government, is dominated by the Begana Army and its leadership who exercise political power through the State Gaxag. The Gaxag is made up of voting members with the title Kalon who are always current or former ranking members of the Begana Army, as well as the Mantri non-voting civilian advisors who are typically heads of administrative departments granted the privilege of sitting in on meetings of the Gaxag in order to provide their expertise and advice to the council. The head of the council is the Mulkaji, equivalent to a Prime Minister, whose responsibilities center around controlling accession to the Gaxag, leadership appointments for the offices of the administration, and the daily affairs of the council. The chief executive of the state, the Mukhtiyar, is elected by the Gaxag and serves for life, holding broad executive authority as well as the official command of the Begana Army and the Syalati military. The Mulkaji serves at the pleasure of the Mukhtiyar, who holds the power to dismiss and appoint another Mulkaji at will.

Economy

Syalat is an agrarian country, with some 12 million of its citizens dependent on agriculture for income and subsistence. This preeminent agricultural sector is subdivided into dedicated cereal cropping of rice and barley, cash cropping of many economically important crops such as saffron crocus and opium poppy, and textile cropping of flax and cotton. Meat is uncommon in Syalati cuisine and is often expensive, restricting its regular consumption to the wealthier class of the citizenry. As a result, animal husbandry in Syalat is focused on production of wool and hides, with sheep being the principal farm animal in the countryside. Mining has a long history on the Prathara plateau, where some of the world's oldest active iron mines can be found. Taken together, the primary sector activities of the Syalati economy contribute roughly two thirds of the national GDP and employ more than 80% of the population. Secondary sector industries in Syalat are mainly based on the production of textiles and processing of the country's other agricultural products for export. The more industrialized textile mills, tool factories and other more modernized firms which can be found in the major coastal cities on the shores of the Chulha sea contribute disproportionately to the GDP relative to the portions of the national workforce involved in such enterprises. This phenomenon contributes to the significant economic inequality experienced in Syalat, adding to the concentration of wealth within a few firms in a handful of urban centers while the majority of the country remains underdeveloped and agrarian in nature.

Agriculture

Mining

Manufacturing