Cote d'Cuivre

The Republic of Cote d'Cuivre
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Capital and largest city	Port-au-Prospérité
Official languages	French, English
Recognised regional languages	Latin, Naka, Didube, Sekuwa, others
Ethnic groups	Naka 42% Dame 18% Northern Sekuwa 16% Didube 11% Southern Sekuwa 10% other 3%
Religion	???
Demonym(s)	Cuivran
Government	Republic
• President	Henri Gnamien
Independence
• Treaty of Paradisa	1988
Population
• 2014 census	23,091,876
Currency	???
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy AD
Driving side	right
Internet TLD	.cdc

Cote d'Cuivre is a nation in Northeastern Hesperidesia. The country is especially notable because of the history of Gallic colonization, after it was seized from the Empire of Exponent during the waning phase of the Aquitaynian War of Independence.

History

Insurgent groups began conducting widespread operations throughout Cote d'Cuivre in 1961, with a series of armed assaults against Imperial outposts throughout the area. The modern Cuivran Army traces it's lineage back to those early insurgents.

Demographics

The official language, French, was introduced during the colonial period. This language is taught in schools and serves as a lingua franca in the country. French is used in schools and commerce and is spoken more frequently by men than by women. Most publications, including government documents, are also printed in French. Vernacular newspapers are not widely available, although biblical texts and educational materials have been translated into major Hesperidesian languages.

Many Cuivrans also understand Latin, which is taught in high school and the National University of Côte d'ICuivre, but it is not a language of choice, even among the educated. Less than half of the adult population is literate.

Ethnic breakdowns: Naka 42%, Dame 18%, Northern Sekuwa 16%, Didube 11%, Southern Sekuwa 10%, other 3%

Culture

Cuisine

Street Foods Aloko - fried banana served with onions and chilies

Fufu - mashed cassava and plantain or yam mixed with palm oil into a dough and eaten by hand. It is often served with a sauce or drizzled with a spicy powder

Peanuts - Often served boiled, raw, or salted by street vendors

Melon - A wide variety of fruits are available

Local dishes

Kedjenou - Chicken cooked with different vegetables and sealed in banana leaves. Some locations offer a variety of other meats, such as wild game, goat, or grass rat (a native Hesperidesian rodent that is a delicacy here)

Peanut soup - A soup with a peanut base, with beef, chicken, goat or smoked turkey; sometimes, tomatoes, okra or onions and other vegetables often added

Hesperidesian snail - A delicacy in almost all the nations on the continent, these large snails have a similar texture to their more western relatives, but are much larger and have a slightly different taste

Attieke - Crumbled, fermented cassava that is eaten like couscous

Braised chicken and fish, fish fried in palm or peanut oil, and frogs legs are also very common here. Cutlery is rare, but some restaurants, particularly those that are near tourist areas, will provide it upon request. More upscale restaurants, of course, have cutlery already on hand, and no requests are needed.

Most native Cuivrans prefer to eat with their hands, using foods such as fufu or rice, rolling it into a tight ball, and using that to scoop up sauce and meat.

Architecture

Côte d'Cuivre is a juxtaposition of the urban and rural. Its cities, particularly the fashionable Porte-au-Prosperite, are replete with modern office buildings, condominiums, Mederano-style boutiques, and trendy Gaulic restaurants. They stand in sharp contrast to the country's many villages—accessed mainly by dirt roads—whose architecture is comprised of huts and simple abodes reminiscent of an ancient time. While the cities are described as crowded urban enclaves with traffic jams, high crime rates, an abundance of street children, and a dichotomy of rich and poor, the villages are filled with farmers tending their fields, native dress, homemade pottery, and traditional tribal rituals. Most traditional village homes are made of mud and straw bricks, with roofs of thatched straw or corrugated metal. The Didube live in rectangular structures, while the Dame compounds are set up in a circle around a courtyard. High fences surround many Sekuwa village of mud-brick homes with cone-shaped straw thatched roofs. The artistic Basa, a small minority group, are especially impressive and paint murals with white and red clay onto their mud-brick homes.