Dezevau

Republic of Dezevau Dezevauboga
Flag
Location of Dezevau on Kylaris in dark green
Capital	Bazadavo
Largest	Naimhegebizo
Official languages	Ziba
Recognised regional languages	Brumhese, Estmerish, Gaullican, Kexri, Kunak, Ziba
Ethnic groups (2020)	84.4% Dezevauni 5.6% Pelangi 3.5% Gurani 2.7% Kunak 1.5% Ndjarendie 2.3% other
Religion (2020)	39.0% Irreligion 32.6% Badi 16.8% Solarian Catholicism 6.1% Irfan 5.5% other
Demonym(s)	Dezevauni
Government	Federal democratic parliamentary constitutional republic
Legislature	Congress of Twenties
Formation
• End of Gaullican control	1936
Area
•	1,834,685 km2 (708,376 sq mi)
Population
• 2020 census	129,899,450
GDP (PPP)	2020 estimate
• Total	€2.715 trillion
• Per capita	€20,899
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Total	€1.584 trillion
• Per capita	€12,194
Gini (2020)	24.4 low
HDI	0.818 very high
Currency	Gaongemi (GAO)
Time zone	DST
Date format	CE yyyy-mm-dd
Driving side	right

Dezevau (Ziba: [dəzəb̪au]), officially the Republic of Dezevau (Ziba: dezevauboga [dəzəb̪aubɒga]), is a country on the west coast of the continent of Coius, with a population of 128 million and an area of around 1,000,000 square kilometres. It has the Bay of xxx to its southeast and the Sea of xxx to its east, with substantial land borders with xxx, Cavunia, the Union of Zorasani Irfanic Repulics and Mabifia going clockwise from the south. Its capital is Bazadav.

Dezevau was one of the world's cradles of civilisation, with agriculture being independently developed in its river valleys, and city-states and petty kingdoms forming around the beginning of the Common Era. The religion Badi, its followers still the largest religious group in Dezevau today, formed around this time and spread throughout the region. For much of antiquity and the medieval era, Dezevau was influential as the most urban, populous and mercantile area in its region. The city-state was the dominant mode of organisation despite invasions out of modern Mabifia and Cavunia until the early modern era, when Euclean colonies and the Aguda Empire managed to consolidate many of them. Gaullica managed to unite the region under its colonial rule by xxxx, but despite winning in the Coian theatre in the Great War, lost the war overall and was forced to grant Dezevau independence. The newly independent country, after some internal turmoil, adopted council communism from Swetania, and continues to be organised along those lines until today.

The country is a federal parliamentary democratic republic operating with council communism. The country is considered to be middle income, with a nominal GDP per capita of about €11 thousand and a total nominal GDP of about €1.4 trillion. While only sometimes considered part of Bahia, being to the region's core's south, it has links with both that region and the countries of south Coius. Dezevau is generally considered a middle power. The dominant ethnic group are Dezevauni, who comprise around 85% of the country's population, and the national language, Ziba, is the associated language of this ethnic group. However, significant minorities exist, including around 8% of the population who are !Malay, and languages used as official by states but not the nation as a whole including Gaullican, !Malay and xxx; relations with Brumah, which is significantly ethnically !Malay, have been fraught at times over Dezevau's treatment of its !Malay minority.

Dezevau is one of the more developed countries in its region, as well as among the more populous, though it has one of the lowest fertility rates in its region also. Its historical cultural, religious and commercial influence are notable, which have aided its commercial, cultural and political links in the region of West Coius, despite disputes originating from human rights issues. It is among the world leaders in some areas of science, including geochemistry, soil science and scientific philosophy.

Etymology

Dezevau is a Ziba word made up of the root vau, meaning land or country, and deze, a prefix meaning twenty. However, in Ziba, twenty is used not only as a precise numeral, but also to stand in for when the number of something is many but not necessarily specifically enumerable. Dezevau might be therefore translated a something along the lines of "land of many", referring to the many related city-states of the geographical region in the medieval era when the term originated. In the modern day, the Congress of Twenties is the usual Estmerish translation for the federal legislature of the country, with members being elected from states whose boundaries and identities are largely descended from those medieval city-states.

History

Prehistory

Agriculture was independently developed in central Dezevau around eight millennia ago with the cultivation of taro and bananas in and around Bigiamhe Swamp. Pottery emerged relatively late, around three millennia ago, and ironworking shortly thereafter, ample evidence coming from the Buazajini cluster of archaeological sites in Vadimhunga, where bog iron was processed.

The first cities emerged on the riverbanks, it is suspected many being continuously inhabited from the first millennium BCE to the present day, but this being difficult to confirm owing to geological and climactic conditions. By the turn of the era, city-states and petty kingdoms were emerging across modern Dezevau, in particular in the Buiganhingi, Bugunho and Doboadane basins, with the Proto-Dezevauni region essentially a wide belt from the Bay of Lights to Binhame Inlet.

Antiquity

Agricultural expansion took place, with ethnic Dezevauni bringing distinctive agriculture up to the limits of the river basins and rainforest bioregion, and encountering the !mab and !cavunia. The Ziba writing system originated around this time, strongly influenced by the system of ancient Djedet. Trade and colonisation burgeoned, with culture and agriculture spreading to Brumah and networks across the region seeing goods from as far as Xiaodong make their way into the archaeological record. Some of the city-states and petty kingdoms fought wars against each other, generally with little success. However, one of the first battles in recorded Dezevauni history is the First Battle of Bugunho Lake, dating from this period.

Medieval

The city-state became the dominant method of organisation in Dezevau, even with the emergence of hourege in Bahia and empires to the south, this development in large part attributed to the natural geographic characteristics which made defence easy and extensive control difficult, though attempts at large-scale conquests did occur. The region's involvement with the trade between Bahia and southeast Coius brought wealth and ideas in. Some cities were invaded in this period, but typically the invaders integrated into the ruling elite. Badi became more formalised at this time, having its roots in traditional Dezevauni religious custom. Contact had been made with Euclean explorers around the time of founding of the Aguda Empire.

Colonial

An Estmerish presence on Crescent Island was followed by the establishment of a Gaullican one, with Euclean traders increasingly engaging in Dezevauni markets. The Aguda Empire benefitted from this, cooperating with Euclean powers and purchasing weapons and training to build the largest land empire in the region for many centuries. However, later on it fought against Gaullican corporate interests and lost; Gaullica became the dominant power in the region, outcompeting Estmere and the remaining disunited city-states.