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The many state's of Tulura have taken their own actions to combat environmental effects in their polity. In late 2018 the executive federal directory put into action Project Greenway, which provides funding to state's to combat their own environmental issues. This included reforestation in highland areas and a massive irrigation project to green the Kalahay Desert. Foreign investors from [[Sante Reze]] and [[Tarsas]] under permission of the government have also backed the construction of commercial wildlife safari's within national parks, as part of economic reform, stimulating the tourism industry and providing safe refuges for animals extinct in the wild, such as elephants, lions and rhinoceros. | The many state's of Tulura have taken their own actions to combat environmental effects in their polity. In late 2018 the executive federal directory put into action Project Greenway, which provides funding to state's to combat their own environmental issues. This included reforestation in highland areas and a massive irrigation project to green the Kalahay Desert. Foreign investors from [[Sante Reze]] and [[Tarsas]] under permission of the government have also backed the construction of commercial wildlife safari's within national parks, as part of economic reform, stimulating the tourism industry and providing safe refuges for animals extinct in the wild, such as elephants, lions and rhinoceros. | ||
==Culture== | |||
Tulura is diverse and multicultural. Throughout the country, concentrated in sprawling urban centers, a large variety of mixed languages co-exist alongside eachother deriving from Bahktric, Greek, Tafeti, Latin and Nogmere, composing ''Nogmere Ademel''(Universal Tongue), a broad collection of hundreds of dialects that are mutually intelligible in most cases, however pronunciation varies widely and the tonal inflections from old Nogmere have mostly disappeared, opting for a vast glossary of adapted loanwords. | |||
As a whole Tulura is a melting pot of cultures tied in with the modern Tuluran identity and language is good indication of this. The north along the Tafet River, known as the ''Tafet Valley'', is diverse in the general population's ethnic origins. Most deriving from Bahktric, Tafeti, Sidgim, Nogmere, Barib and Hellenic roots. Tuluran culture, deriving from the Tuluran Empire, has always been assimilative and open, thus having adopted and redefined influences as Tuluran themselves. The regions in and around the Tuluran Plateau down to the south are more ethnically monolithic and lack sprawling diversity, most areas are rural except along the coast in the Naabri Gulf, where a closer dialect of Old Nogmere is spoken. The island of Barisset in the Gulf of Naabri has a unique culture of it's own, growing from variety of trade languages and speaking an Ahar pidgin. | |||
Western Tulura is full of what is referred to as the ''Highland Tulurans'' - this is the most linguistically different region of the country, with descendant's of the ancient highland empires of the Lower Valley speaking the Tafeti language in one of it's most pure forms. The people are heavily mixed however, deriving from generations of ancient desert nomads of the north and west who were centered on trade, as well as Highlanders who live in the Gombakor Mountains. | |||
What unites overarching Tuluran culture is the religious infusion of Emnet tradition. | |||
===Music=== | |||
[[File:Seated man playing krar.jpg|thumb|250px|Kireri player]] | |||
The music of Tulura is a rich mix of innovations and sounds from cross-Ozeros, Northern Scipian and indigenous influences. Traditional folk music is usually played with stringed instruments such as the Tuluran lute, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krar Kireri], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begena Bahden], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanun_(instrument) kahanum], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masenqo mastenka], Hellenic harps and double flute, modern takes on folk sounds such as ''Tuluran Desert Blues'' can be played with guitars. Traditional music is usually sung in chant-like verses with imitating and drone-like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphony polyphony], with heavy percussion instrumentation. | |||
Depending on the region trumpets are also included, turning into jazz-style folk. The nature of traditional songs and their lyrics are usually religious, in-line with [[Emnet|Emnetist]] beliefs. Some are prayer songs, others are sung by priestess' as blessings under the belief that song is enchantment. Because of the moral beliefs steeped in Emnetist tradition, songs are typically upbeat, celebratory and positive, about family, friendship, good deeds and virtue. Also famous are epic ballads, steeped in ancient mythology and Emnetist allegories. Modern forms of music don't abide by these traditions however. | |||
Kalaka, for example, is a genre of spoken word deriving from ballad-singing entertainers(bards). Kalaka is usually slower and methodical with droning beats and expressive lyrics, very similar to spoken-word and rap, with a methodical rhyming scheme. Psychedelia, electronica, jazz, pop and rock are among the most popular modern genre's, taking on their own local flavors influenced by regional indigenous sounds. | |||
===Naming=== | |||
Naming traditions are quite diverse across Tulura, but mostly follow Emnetist guidelines. A mother is expected to name a child, if not the responsibility is passed to the father or grandmother. This given name is usually inspired by an event or circumstances of a birth, more often they are passed down names of special meaning. Names with ''Tsomi'' in them, meaning Gift, are common. For example ''Rakab'tsomi'' would mean ''Gift of Rakab''. Labiri is another, meaning Light(Rakab'labiri, Light of Rakab). These are more common as middle names or formal names, however a given name can also be formal, as it depends on the family and their own traditions, spelling differs widely depending on dialect(Tsomi, Tsaam, Tsobni, Tsassi).''Tsomi'' and ''Labiri'' are more often than not temporary names, as many families wait until their child is developed to officially name them. A naming ceremony can take place, typically in late pre-teen years or early teen years. | |||
Last names, or in the Tuluran context ''second names'', are the Grandmother's given name. Some Tulurans, such as the Lower Tafeti and Nogmere descendants, belong to ceremonial and historical clans, usually placed as a middle name. | |||
Revision as of 05:43, 6 February 2019
Tulura | |
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 Flag
Emblem
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| Capital | Arimal |
| Largest | Khasrin |
| Demonym(s) | Tuluri/Tuluran |
| Government | Council Federation under the Azem System |
• Sahrat Heluk | Amira Esyete |
• Mazhuri Heluk | Zema Yossi Muhaba |
• Fadlik Heluk | Alem Tinsae |
| Area | |
• | 2,551,040 km2 (984,960 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 102,838,475 |
• Density | 40.31/km2 (104.4/sq mi) |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $1.909 trillion |
• Per capita | $18,571 |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
Tulura is a country in Ajax located on the continent of Scipia, south of Bahktar, with the Ozeros Sea to the east and the Nabarhiqi Gulf to the south. With an area of over 2.5 million sq km, Tulura is a rather arid country with 8 federated provinces and 102 million citizens. The country is lead by a council of three elected Chief Directors, the collective Head's of State, known as the Heluk's. The capital is Arimal, landlocked in central Tulura south of the Tafet River. The largest city is Khasrin, composed of 12.80 million and over 18 million people in the total metro area, located on the eastern coast in the Gulf of Tafet.
History
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Government and Politics
<imgur thumb="yes" w="250" comment="The Guminan, Meeting place and offices of the Gumi">7LxvVbQ.jpg</imgur> The Tuluran Government is lead by three Head's of State, Chief Directors, known as the Sahrat Heluk, Mazhuri Heluk and Fadlik Heluk. This directorial council is dictated by a collective consensus in executive policy. Each Heluk will retain a Cabinet Directory, usually splitting administrative duties and leading an agenda. Direct executive decisions and edicts must have 2/3rds vote among the Heluk.
Each Heluk is chosen by an Azem to represent their interest in the executive branch. An Azem is a house of the legislative convention known as Gukiba, the three represent the Workers(Sahrat), Scholars(Mazhuri) and Judges(Fadlik).Azem means era, signifying a current generation's ruling in it's assembly. Each Azem last a total of ten years, after which the chosen successors will succeed it's members. When a successor is chosen, they must be approved by the Izhemekle, a passive elder assembly of former Azem members from the last generation. This ten year cycle continues perpetually. Who can serve in an Azem is usually provided by their social and economic class, as well as their age, limited between 40-60 years old. The Heluk's terms run congruent with the cycle.
The Azem meets officially every two years in a Gukiba meeting to review the three Heluk, propose legislation, settle judicial issues and more. On average a Gukiba is regulated to last up to two months. This review period can lead to a Heluk or more being replaced by an existing member. The executive's overall agenda is also put under review and scrutinized. The Izhemekle stands-by as an oversight jury, called to make judgement in legislative and judicial matters, or to break gridlocks.
Political Parties
Foreign Relations
Tulura is in an alliance with Bahktar, known as the Bahktro-Tuluran Pact, maintaining a mutual close special relationship on an economic, military and political level.
Military
Climate & Geography
At over 2.5 million sq km with the Ozeros Sea to the east, Tulura lies within a varied transitional ecoregion of semi-arid and temperate grasslands, savannas and steppes on the Tuluran Plateau. The topography of the Tuluran Plateau is mainly flat in the central regions, surrounded by the Nesai Highlands to the south and the Gombakor Mountains along the west near the border, the tallest mountain is Mt.Akarul at 6,183m. The Tuluran Plateau is vast and expansive, spanning the area of much of Tulura at 1.5 million sq km and an average elevation of up to 2,500 to 3,000 meters. The southern Nesai Highlands, combined with the western Gombakor Mountains create a rainshadow in west-central Tulura, comprising the arid steppes of the Kalahay Desert that extends into the east and north.
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Tulura is typically hot, sunny, dry and somewhat windy all year long, annually experiencing low precipitation except in the more wet tropical areas in the south. Relative humidity is rather low inland, however the coast experience on average more humidity and rain. Average temperatures across the Tuluran Plateau vary between 31 and 36°C, with more moderate temperatures year-round along the coastal areas. At it's highest, the Tuluran Plateau is rather temperate, with a subtropical highland climate.
Enviromental Issues
Increased urban development and human activity has strained the environment to the near-tipping point. Historical overgrazing of the plains, in addition to unsustainable agricultural practices - to support the growing population and development - has led to the desertification, with the expansion of the Kalahay Desert. This in-turn has strained local migratory wildlife and led to the extinction of several grazing mammals. Major species have been hunted to extinction in the wild as well, such as elephants, rhinoceros, giraffe and lions, leading to the overpopulation then decline of species like antelope, which had also overgrazed and sped up the process of desertification, they eventually pushed into urban areas looking for water and food.
The Tuluran Plateau in connection with the snow activity of the High Gombakor Mountains are vital to the region's water flow, which sustains the Tafet River from the southern Nesai Valley to the northern Kalahay Desert. Drought in the lowlands and less snowfall in the High Gombakor elevations has created a long dry period in the Tuluran Plateau where water flow is declining and many rivers have dried up. This has led to, combined with aforementioned wildlife and cattle grazing, wildfires across the plains and in higher forested elevations. The burning of forest and plains have led to a variety of ecological disasters such as mudslides and floods. Wildlife migration has also been affected, being pushed more into urban living spaces.
The many state's of Tulura have taken their own actions to combat environmental effects in their polity. In late 2018 the executive federal directory put into action Project Greenway, which provides funding to state's to combat their own environmental issues. This included reforestation in highland areas and a massive irrigation project to green the Kalahay Desert. Foreign investors from Sante Reze and Tarsas under permission of the government have also backed the construction of commercial wildlife safari's within national parks, as part of economic reform, stimulating the tourism industry and providing safe refuges for animals extinct in the wild, such as elephants, lions and rhinoceros.
Culture
Tulura is diverse and multicultural. Throughout the country, concentrated in sprawling urban centers, a large variety of mixed languages co-exist alongside eachother deriving from Bahktric, Greek, Tafeti, Latin and Nogmere, composing Nogmere Ademel(Universal Tongue), a broad collection of hundreds of dialects that are mutually intelligible in most cases, however pronunciation varies widely and the tonal inflections from old Nogmere have mostly disappeared, opting for a vast glossary of adapted loanwords.
As a whole Tulura is a melting pot of cultures tied in with the modern Tuluran identity and language is good indication of this. The north along the Tafet River, known as the Tafet Valley, is diverse in the general population's ethnic origins. Most deriving from Bahktric, Tafeti, Sidgim, Nogmere, Barib and Hellenic roots. Tuluran culture, deriving from the Tuluran Empire, has always been assimilative and open, thus having adopted and redefined influences as Tuluran themselves. The regions in and around the Tuluran Plateau down to the south are more ethnically monolithic and lack sprawling diversity, most areas are rural except along the coast in the Naabri Gulf, where a closer dialect of Old Nogmere is spoken. The island of Barisset in the Gulf of Naabri has a unique culture of it's own, growing from variety of trade languages and speaking an Ahar pidgin.
Western Tulura is full of what is referred to as the Highland Tulurans - this is the most linguistically different region of the country, with descendant's of the ancient highland empires of the Lower Valley speaking the Tafeti language in one of it's most pure forms. The people are heavily mixed however, deriving from generations of ancient desert nomads of the north and west who were centered on trade, as well as Highlanders who live in the Gombakor Mountains.
What unites overarching Tuluran culture is the religious infusion of Emnet tradition.
Music
The music of Tulura is a rich mix of innovations and sounds from cross-Ozeros, Northern Scipian and indigenous influences. Traditional folk music is usually played with stringed instruments such as the Tuluran lute, Kireri, Bahden, kahanum, mastenka, Hellenic harps and double flute, modern takes on folk sounds such as Tuluran Desert Blues can be played with guitars. Traditional music is usually sung in chant-like verses with imitating and drone-like polyphony, with heavy percussion instrumentation.
Depending on the region trumpets are also included, turning into jazz-style folk. The nature of traditional songs and their lyrics are usually religious, in-line with Emnetist beliefs. Some are prayer songs, others are sung by priestess' as blessings under the belief that song is enchantment. Because of the moral beliefs steeped in Emnetist tradition, songs are typically upbeat, celebratory and positive, about family, friendship, good deeds and virtue. Also famous are epic ballads, steeped in ancient mythology and Emnetist allegories. Modern forms of music don't abide by these traditions however.
Kalaka, for example, is a genre of spoken word deriving from ballad-singing entertainers(bards). Kalaka is usually slower and methodical with droning beats and expressive lyrics, very similar to spoken-word and rap, with a methodical rhyming scheme. Psychedelia, electronica, jazz, pop and rock are among the most popular modern genre's, taking on their own local flavors influenced by regional indigenous sounds.
Naming
Naming traditions are quite diverse across Tulura, but mostly follow Emnetist guidelines. A mother is expected to name a child, if not the responsibility is passed to the father or grandmother. This given name is usually inspired by an event or circumstances of a birth, more often they are passed down names of special meaning. Names with Tsomi in them, meaning Gift, are common. For example Rakab'tsomi would mean Gift of Rakab. Labiri is another, meaning Light(Rakab'labiri, Light of Rakab). These are more common as middle names or formal names, however a given name can also be formal, as it depends on the family and their own traditions, spelling differs widely depending on dialect(Tsomi, Tsaam, Tsobni, Tsassi).Tsomi and Labiri are more often than not temporary names, as many families wait until their child is developed to officially name them. A naming ceremony can take place, typically in late pre-teen years or early teen years.
Last names, or in the Tuluran context second names, are the Grandmother's given name. Some Tulurans, such as the Lower Tafeti and Nogmere descendants, belong to ceremonial and historical clans, usually placed as a middle name.