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Most Serene Wisentlander Republic Durchlauchtigste Republik Wisentlandische
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Motto: Freeiheid of Dood! "Freedom or death!"
Anthem: Die Glocken stürmten vom Bernwardsturm "The bells stormed from the Bernward Tower"
Capital and largest city	Sniddjenbörg
Official languages	Wisentlander Ruthish
Ethnic groups (2020)	85.7% Wisentlanders 7.3% Adanalis 3.2% Ruthenic 3.8% other
Religion	75.2% Gregorianism 67.9% Kerkchoffite Church 7.3% Other Gregorian 13.8% Irreligious 3.7% Himaya 7.3% Other
Demonym(s)	Wisentlander
Government	Federal directorial republic and direct democracy with elements of sortition
• Head of state and Head of government	Wahlraad
Legislature	Friversammeln Börgerraad (between Friversammeln sessions)
Establishment
• Recognition of the Wisentlander liberty	Circa 1050
• Humble Freemen's Pact of 1362	1362
• Ruthenic occupation	1783
• Independence from Ruthen	1864
• Sydenham occupation	27 December 1934
• Liberation from Sydenham occupation	11 March 1940
Population
• 2024 estimate	7,420,069
GDP (PPP)	2024 estimate
• Total	$450.450 billion
• Per capita	$60,707
GDP (nominal)	2024 estimate
• Total	$380.583 billion
• Per capita	$51,291
Gini (2024)	22.1 low
HDI (2024)	0.932 very high
Currency	Wisentlander guilder
Time zone	UTC+1 (East Calesian Time, ECT)
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	left
ISO 3166 code	WS
Internet TLD	.ws

Wisentland, officially the Most Serene Wisentlander Republic (Ruthish: Durchlauchtigste Republik Wisentlandische) is a sovereign state located in Central Calesia. Bordered by Olcabria to its south, C8 to its east, C7 to its west, and C23 to its north, Wisentland is almost entirely located within the X Mountains; however, Wisentland is geographically divided between a more mountainous and rugged hinterland, comprising the majority of its landmass, and the Zigland Valley, a relatively low-lying area located along the Zigland River which hosts the majority of the country's population, including the primate city of Sniddjenbörg, where approximately one-third of Wisentland's population of 7 million reside.

A directorial federal republic internally divided into 33 constituent Free Provinces and 11 constituent Free Cities, Wisentland's government is based around principles of direct democracy and sortition, incorporating these systems, particularly sortition, more than any other state; both nationally and locally, legislative decisions and supreme power lies in Friversammeln, bodies comprised of all adult citizens that meet to decide legislative decisions biannually, either through in-person assemblies at the subnational level and in smaller Free Provinces and Cities, or through referenda and ballots at the national level and in larger Free Provinces and Cities. Between Friversammeln sessions, legislative power lies in the Börgerraad, bodies of 50 citizens chosen by lot annually; togther, the Börgerraad and Friversammeln in turn annually elect the Wahlraad, directorial, collegial bodies which administer state administration and serve as the collective head of government and head of state. This direct-democratic tradition extends to the judiciary, where Wisentland has extensive traditions of elected judges, jury trials, and jury nullification, and to the military, where Wisentland maintains a largely unprofessionalized military based around conscription and service into a reserve militia.

Given the isolation born by mountainous terrain, Wisentland is notable for its long history of state evasion and resistance to control by, or assimilation into, outside forces more broadly. Wisentland was one of the last locations in Central Calesia to remain predominantly Celtic, only becoming substantially Ruthenized by the fifth and sixth centuries, and only becoming fully Gregorianized and swearing fealty to the Northern Ruthenic Kingdom by the tenth century AD. Even after this nominal incorporation, Wisentlander society remained self-governing by autonomous rural communes and assemblies, with this status acknowledged by Ruthenic lords as part of the notion of the Wisentlander liberty. popular revolts during and after the Catabolic Crisis, sometimes termed the Wisentlander revolution, further deepened this autonomous and egalitarian tradition, resulting in the assertion of peasant and journeyman ownership over land and manufactures, the abolition of elected officials in favor of governance by sortition and direct democracy, and the gradual coalescence of Wisentlander communes and assemblies into a decentralized but coherent political entity.

The signing of Humble Freemen's Pact of 1362 signed by revolutionary communes and assemblies after the Great Sniddjenbörg Revolt is today celebrated as the date of the formation of Most Serene Wisentlander Republic, and Wisentland is generally considered the most prominent and long-lasting example of the medieval Calesian peasant republic, and the only such peasant republic to have survived into the modern day. During the early modern period, Wisentland faced substantial internal division, crisis, and transformation—most notably, socioeconomic inequalities between burghers, artisans, peasants, and shepherds, and substantial social transformation during and after the Presterite Reformation, resulting in the mass conversion of most Wisentlanders to Kerkchoffism, a local Presterite denomination rooted in a synthesis Radical Pietism with local peasant tradition.

Nevertheless, Wisentland remained self-governing until 1783, whereupon it was invaded and conqered by the southeastern Ruthenic kingdom of Xland. During Xlander rule, termed by modern Wisentlander historians and writers the Eighty Years' Indignity, Wisentland became an epicenter of the early Industrial Revolution, with prodigious coal and iron mines in the Wiesntlander hinterland fueling substantial textile and woodworking factories in the Zigland Valley and one of the world's highest rates of industrialization, urbanization, enclosure, and proletarianization in the early nineteenth century. This combination of proletarianization and a loss of ancient liberties resulting in the mass political radicalization of Wisentlander society and the Wisentlander War of Independence in the mid-nineteenth century. Following the Wisentlander War of Independence, the newly-unified state of Ruthen recognizing Wisentland as independent in 1864 and the Most Serene Wisentlander Republic became reestablished based on a synthesis of historical peasant and artisan radicalism, including traditions of sortition and direct democracy, with contemporary traditions of classical radicalism and proto-socialism.

Though having substantially reformed since the nineteenth century—most notably, through the institution of Delarueist-inspired reforms in the early twentieth century, particularly after the country's occupation during the Transmedan War, mid-century secularization and liberalization driven by new social movements, and greater political centralization and deindustrialization during the Deluge, this political and economic settlement remains the foundation of contemporary Wisentland. Though struggling with issues such as deindustrialization and an aging poplation, contemporary Wisentland enjoys one of the world's highest standards of living as measured by the Human Development Index; a high-income country, Wisentland's post-industrial economy is based around tourism, information technology, other services, and legacy industries, and synthesizes market socialist principles of ownership of the means of production by workers' and agricultural cooperatives with aspects of economic planning through state ownership of the command heights of economy and tripartite economic agreements between workers', farmers', and consumers' federations mediated by the state, causing many analysts to consider Wisentland a de facto decentralized planned economy. Internationally, Wisentland enjoys close ties with other Calesian socialist states, especially Hyacinthe and West Ruthen, and is a full member of the United Congress, Teleon, Global Socialist League, and Lisieux Pact.