Nayonland

Commonwealth of Nayonland Komonwelt ng Lupangnayon (Tagabay) Opicomúnidat dei Terranayon (Iverican) Mancomunidad de Terranayon (Stillian)
Flag National Emblem
Motto: "Makatao at Makabansa" (Tagabay) "Por Gente y Pais" (Stillian) "For the People and the Nation" (Anglish)
Anthem: Marcha Nayona (Nayongan March)
Capital and largest city	Tondo
Official languages	Tagabay Iverican Stillian
Ethnic groups	80% Tagabay 13% White 7% other
Demonym(s)	Nayona (female), Nayono (male), Nayongan
Government	Responsible government
• Primo	Franso Deitorr
• Governor-General	Sultan Sulayman VII
• Prime Minister	Sarah Labuh
Legislature	Batasang Pambansa
• Upper house	Council of State
• Lower house	Kamarang Pambansa
Overseas Commonwealth Republic of Iverica
• Annexed by Iverica	April 12, 1987
• National Reconstruction Constitution	November 30, 1988
Area
•	841,638 km2 (324,958 sq mi)
Population
• Census	14,904,421
GDP (nominal)	2024 estimate
• Total	$104.538 billion ($4,130)
Gini	59.1 high
HDI	0.610 medium
Currency	Nayongan Velle

Nayonland, officially the Commonwealth of Nayonland, also known as Lupangnayon (Tagabay), or Terranayon (Iverican and Stillian), is an Iverican overseas commonwealth republic in Alharu. The territory comprises Turtle Island, separated from the mainland continent by the Turtle Sea to the northwest and the Synthe Sea to the west. The capital city, Tondo, was the second colonial settlement in the island founded in 1627 by Miguel de Legazpi, the Stillian commander of the Armada de San Miguel, during the Gran Viatge. They became the progenitors of the Kastila people. The first colony, Batagan, predated Tondo in 1521, when it was founded by Anglian explorer Sir Ferdinand Magline.

The mountainous interior separated the two colonies, with Tondo in the western San Lazaro province and Batagan in the Eastern Shore. Its tallest peak, Mt. Bernardo Carpio, is located in the semi-arid Mountain Province south of San Lazaro. The settlement by Kastila and Iverican people drove the native Tagabay people away from the coast, relocating in the island's valleys, the largest being Marikina Valley in Eastern Shore. The Tagabay tribes from San Lazaro had to traverse the deadly Dunas de La Paz desert, covering nearly a quarter of Mountain Province, which has the developed to become the island's mining region, fueling Iverican industrialization in the 19th Century. The majority of the agricultural and industrial areas, dominated by the Anglian sugar and tobacco industries, span the coastal region.

In the Iverican-Anglian War, the combined territories of northern Turtle Island were leased to the Compañía Ivericana de Alharu Ecuatorial. Its rule was authoritarian, controlling prices, regulating immigration, and monopolizing trade. The company started buying and expanding large sugar and tobacco plantations near the coast. To escape CIAE rule, the Anglians in the east started the Grand March, a mass migration inland and claimed arable lands in the deeper valleys of Eastern Shore. The discovery of gold in Mountain Province created a rush, attracting Iverican, Kastila, and Anglian settlers to the center of the island. Violent Tagabay resistance to the rushers escalated into the 4-year Boondok Rebellion, starting in 1896 and ending in 1900. In 1901, the island was annexed by the Iverican government under the colony "Equatorial Alharu."

In 1916, the colony was granted autonomy. The new General Assembly was comprised of the members of the Anglian colonial Legislative Council and the Iverican counterpart Colonial Chamber. Andrés Soriano Sr., a Kastila mining mogul, become the first elected Nayongan prime minister. Suffrage was limited to the male, wealthy, and educated principalía (Kastila and Tagabay elite), Iverican, and Anglian residents, excluding much of the native Tagabays. A series of Tagabay-led plantation and mine revolts in the early 1920s encouraged the Kastila, Iverican, and Anglian communities to adopt segregationist rules in an attempt to control the violence. In 1934, a new constitution allowed greater Tagabay representation, granting power to the emerging native middle classes. It reserved the Council of State, the new upper house in a bicameral National Assembly, to majority Tagabay and Alharun membership. It enabled the election of Datu Manuel Koe-sun, a Nayongan-Fulgistani noble, leader of the Progresista Party. It was the largest opposition party from 1935 to 1946, when it was dissolved due to intense infighting. The pro-colony Principalía, Iverican, and Anglian factions founded the Unión Republicano Patriótica (URP). The nationalist Tagabay faction joined the Katipunan ng Manggagawag Katagabayon (KMK).

The country experienced great economic growth in the 1950s. The expansion of social services, especially healthcare and education, increased living standards and literacy. Existing roads and rails were expanded to connect the growing number of industrial and mining towns. This prompted the prosperous Kastila and Anglian upper and middle classes to expand cities, build suburbs in extended city limits, and buy up real estate in the surrounding countryside. This often involved the forced displacement of Tagabays, who were already pushed out to live in the peripherals of the historical urban centers they once called their home. Many of them could not afford to buy property, which led to the proliferation of shantytowns infamously known as "boondoks." Although segregation was not enshrined in law, it has become commonplace in all sectors of society. Its institutionalization has been supported by the Nacionalista Party, the colony's ruling party since 1949. They are mostly made up of Kastila principalía.

Student riots in the early 1960s demanded the end of minority rule and segregation. This prompted the Nacionalistas to start power-sharing negotiations with the Government of Nayonland#Council of Cabezas de Barangay, the governing body of all Tagabay tribes. This later included the KMK. A constitutional conference was proposed to compile the agreed provisions, but the Iverican government insisted on a constitutional convention that represents everyone in Nayonland. The disagreements between the Iverican and Nacionalista governments created a deadlock, causing the civil unrest to continue. Six, consecutive Nacionalista governments collapsed, none lasting the Legislative Assembly's five-year term. In 1974, Governor-General Biel Deitorr y Suances appointed Gat Cesar Virata to lead a coalition government of pro-convention Nacionalista defectors, the KMK, and the URP. They scheduled the elections for the 1976 constitutional convention. It was marred by violence, vote-buying, and the assassination of Deitorr. The convention elections were suspended indefinitely. In 1979, the Nacionalistas returned to power under Elia Field.

To restore public order, Governor-General Felix Abello y Latorre proclaimed martial law at the request of the new government. Field directed the Guardia Civil to arrest anti-government activist leaders, KMK politicians, and journalists designated as dangerous subversives by her Anti-Terrorism Council. In 1981, the National Renewal Scheme was introduced. Its aims included the removal of boondok settlements and the forced relocation of Tagabay squatters. It was met with mass protests. The brutal quelling by the Guardia Civil led to more than 1,500 people dead. In the Battle of Cementerio del Norte, 100 squatter residents and 20 Guardia Civil officers were killed in the clearing operations. In total, 600,000 squatters were relocated.

In 1984, the Iverican parliament passed the Nayonland Independence Act. A transition period of 10 years was going to occur before independence to allow more time for the Iverican and colonial governments to prepare Nayonland's economy. It scheduled elections in 1985 for a constitutional convention the following year. It was the first Nayongan election held with full suffrage. The new constitution introduced majority rule, the prohibition of racial segregation, and a proportional representation system in the legislature. In 1987, the constitution was approved by 64% in a national referendum. It never came into force due to the Terranayano Declaration of Independence. In the same year, the Republican Armed Service regained control of the island. Field and her cohorts were executed. The 1934 Constitution was restored until the formation of the Government of Nayonland#Junta of National Reconstruction, which finally established majority rule in Nayonland in 1988. It provided an indefinite transitional period for future independence.

Martial law returned between 1992 and 1994 in response to several coup plots. Public criticism of the government was criminalized. More than 1,200 activists were jailed until general amnesty was granted by Franso Ramos. Their poor human rights record and disappointing economic growth has kept the country as a newly industrialized economy since 1996, slowly transitioning from its agriculture-based economy to a service-manufactured-based one. Its location in the Equator, between the Fulgiotan Plate and the Adisian Plate, has made the country prone to earthquakes and typhoons. As a temporary solution to growing unemployment, the Terranayano government incentivized Overseas Tagabay Workers (OTW), negotiating with foreign governments to deploy skilled workers, and improving technical vocation education, marketing Terranayon as a "human-resource rich" country. The country experienced rapid brain drain and the Tagabay population shrunk from 80% in 1989 to 75% in 2005. There are nearly 1.2 million OTWs around the world. Many of its varied natural resources are left untapped, helping to preserve its globally-significant level of diversity.

Etymology

Nayonland is an exonym invented by Great Anglia. Ivericans and Kastilas use the name "Terranayano" to refer to the island. The name came from the Tagabay "Nayon", which is an archaic word for "village". It is speculated that either Iverican or the Anglian explorers misheard the natives during the first contact. Perhaps, when they answered questions about the island's name. The use of the Anglian name became more popular than the Stillian name due to the proliferation of Anglish literature covering pre-colonial Nayongan history, economy, and other topics related to Nayonland.

Politics

Nayonland uses a semi-presidential hybrid of parliamentary democracy. At the head of it is a council of ministers called the praesidium. It is inspired by the Iverican model. The head of state is the Primo of Iverica, represented in the island by a governor-general appointed by the primo and approved by the Iverican National Chamber. Legislative power belongs to the Batasang Pambansa, the "highest organ of the state power duly granted by the Republic of Iverica."

The prime minister, as chair of the praesidium, is the head of government. It is elected by the Kamarang Pambansa from the majority party or coalition. Other ministers and members of the Praesidium are nominated by the prime minister. Ministerial nominations need the approval of the Batasan. By law, it requires the 2/3 of the Praesidium to be concurrent members of the Batasan. Similar to the Anglian system, it adopted parliamentary supremacy. As such, there is no strict separation between the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches. The Batasan is the "highest organ of the Commonwealth." The Iverican parliament can only legislate on behalf of its foreign and military affairs as defined by the Nayonland Independence Act. It delegated dominion charter change and domestic matters to Nayonland. The members of the upper house Council of State are appointed for life by the governor-general.

The governor-general officially retains executive power. But since the introduction of dominion status in 1934, the role of the governor-general has developed cohabitation rules. If power-sharing agreements broke down between them and the elected government, the governor-general would have a different policy of his exclusive portfolio over foreign, military, and legislative affairs. They can sign bill into laws, veto bills approved by the Batasan, and dissolve the Kamarang Pambansa to call for an early election. It tends to be inconsistent with the elected Batasan and government, which is in charge of finances, internal affairs, and other domestic policies.

Judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court of Nayonland.