Kulkkistan

Udonovi Republic of Kulkkistan جمهوری اودونوی کولکستان
Flag National emblem
Motto: خدا، کشور، انقلاب، وحدت "God, Country, Revolution, Unity"
Anthem: Anthem of the Akhist Revolution
Capital and	Noshkant
Official languages	Phresian
Recognised national languages	Predominantly Phresian 15% Kudvoni 8% Amonian 2% Kulkkan Norter 3% other
Ethnic groups (2004)	Predominantly Kulkkistani 15% Kudvonite 8% Amotroic 5% other
Religion	Akhism
Demonym(s)	Kulkkistani
Government	Unitary theocratic Akhist socialist republic under a totalitarian dictatorship
• Supreme Leader	Ali Tarrokh
• President	Ali Tarrokh
• Vice President	Taghi Dara
• Chief of the National Armed Resistance	Bahman Yekta
• Sukkrast of Noshkant	Enayat Qanbari
Legislature	Akhist National Assembly
Establishment
• Phresian Kingdom	867 AD
• Phresian Empire	1382
• Vayzerite Phresia	1898
• 1980 Kulkkistani Revolution	18 September 1980
• Current constitution	5 May 1989
Population
• 2009 estimate	82,772,094
• 2002 census	80,002,634
GDP (PPP)	2010 estimate
• Total	$349,752,850
• Per capita	$3,843
GDP (nominal)	2009 estimate
• Total	$223,152,958
• Per capita	$2,212
Gini (2007)	32.8 medium
HDI (2008)	0.560 medium
Currency	Kulkkistani sudri (KSD)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right

Kulkkistan, officially the Udonovi Republic of Kulkkistan, is a country located in far-western Ardentia, with a coastline stretching across the x sea. It is bordered to the north by Baltocarpathia, to the south by the Ansalonian States, and to the southeast by Anheldac. It also has a population of over 80 million, and a size of over x square kilometers, with the country being divided into a number of geographical and political regions. Its capital, as well as its largest city, is the western city of Noshkant, with a population of over 12 million. Other major population centers in Kulkkistan include Afahd, Sarvendaj, and Abyerabad.

Kulkkistan is one of the world's oldest civilizations, with Phresians first arriving and developing in the area in the fourth millenium BC. As they continued to develop, different city-states and political entities would emerge in the region, and importantly, different warlords and leaders would make attempts to unify the area, with a number of different wars taking place. By the 9th century AD, a clear force had manage to become victorious, that being the Vayzer dynasty, who successfully took over remaining resistance in southeast Phresia. Under the early Vayzers, the city back then known as Toninsia, today known as Noshkant, would be founded and designated capital of the Phresian Empire. Phresia had also started to flourish, as their position on the coast of Ardentia would allow for merchants and travellers to cross through the lands of Phresia, allowing them to be taxed so that Phresia could generate substantial income. Alongside this, they also participated heavily in regional trade, with different Vayzers all contributing to opening the nation up to global trading systems. It was also at this time that Phresia would undergo a large religious conversion, with many Phresians converting to Akhism. Although this lead to internal religious conflict, the upcoming Vayzers would soon transition Phresia into an Akhist nation as a whole.

Under Vayzer Aqim Huloal in the late 19th century, the empire would undergo significant changes and reforms. One of these main changes was switching from the use of the name 'Phresia' to the use of the name 'Kulkkistan', as it had become more popular to describe the general region in which the empire was located in. Alongside this, a peasant rebellion and a declining position on the world stage had caused Kulkkistan to being declining, with a weakening economy and military. This soon led to Huloal taking his reign towards a more authoritarian route, choosing to seize absolute power gradually as he disbanded any semblance of a democratic section within the government. Over the next few decades, this would only worsen, as different Vayzers expanded upon this approach, restricting more and more civil liberties. By the late 1970s, a weak political situation and economy, combined with mass repression and foreign exploitation of Kulkkistan, would lead to the 1980 Kulkkistani Revolution, overthrowing Vayzer Abdhu Suleiman and bringing Supreme Leader Ali Tarrokh to power, who decided to follow the main concepts of Udonovism, establishing the Udonovi Republic shortly after he was brought to power.

Today, Kulkkistan is ruled as an Akhist Republic with a presidential system that is completely dysfunctional, as Tarrokh, along with holding ultimate power as the country's Supreme Leader, is president of the nation. The Kulkkistani government is extremely authoritarian and has attracted widespread criticism for its constraints, violations of human rights, and forming an image of Tarrokh bein some sort of semi-god within Akhism. Kulkkistan is also considered a middle power, due to its influence when it comes to revolutionary groups in the region and even globally, as well as becoming somewhat self-reliant due to the cessation of trade by several important trade partners following the 1980 revolution. It is also a member of the League of Nations, however has remained heavily critical of the organization, along with many other international groups. The people of Kulkkistan are multicultural and comprise a wide variety of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups.

Etymology

Some scholars suggest that the name Kulkkan has roots from the use of the world Koltite, which was sparingly used to refer to the ancient inhabitants in western modern-day Kulkkistan, formerly known as Phresia. Koltite has a variety of different meanings, most possibly meaning either something similar to "mountains" or "high people". As language developed, Koltite soon became Kulkkan, and the "-stan" suffix was attached to the name, a Phresian word that means "place of". Therefore, the word Kulkkistan most likely means "place of Kulkkans", or historically, "place of Koltites. The name Kulkkistan was first used sometime around the 11th century AD, being found in a series of writings by the Vayzer of that time.

The name was officially incorporated into Phresian society by the 16th century, as many foreign merchants travelling to the region referred to Phresia as the land of the Kulkkans. In 1843, the name "Phresia" was formally changed to "Kulkkistan" as a part of greater reforms done being done by the government. Ever since then, it has remained the sole name of the nation.

History

Prehistory

The earliest attested archaeological artifacts in Kulkkistan confirm a human presence in the area since the Lower Palaeolithic. Kulkkistan's Neanderthal artifacts have been found mainly around the East Urastan regions, at a number of different sites found by archeologists. From the ninth to the seventh millennium BC, early argicultural communities began to flourish in and around the East Urastan region in eastern Kulkkistan, including the early Bokha Phresians, as well as Bokha Gan and Bokha Pelt. The occupation of several river towns in the area of Makku, as determined by radiocarbon dating, ranges from 3295 to 2855 to 2580–2390 BC. There are dozens of prehistoric sites across the Kulkkistani Plateau, pointing to the existence of ancient cultures and thriving settlements in the third millennium BC. During the Bronze Age, the territory of present-day Kulkkistan was home to several civilizations, including Ghadah, Toninsia, and Hadidin. Toninsia, the most prominent of these civilizations, developed in the central-west alongside those in far-west Ardentia, and continued its existence until the emergence of the Phresian kingdoms. The advent of writing in Toninsia was paralleled to other prominent civilizations, and the Toninsite cuneiform was developed since the second millennium BC.