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Revision as of 02:47, 20 September 2021

Democratic Republic of the Apatonia
République démocratique du Apatolia
Flag of Apatonia
Flag
Motto: "Justice – Peace – Work"
Location of Apatonia
CapitalSifondo
Largest cityMisamba
Official languagesApatonian
Recognised national languages
Religion
(2015)
  • 94.9% Christianity
  • —55.8% Verdusan Catholic
  • —39.1% Other Christian
  • 2.5% Traditional faiths
  • 0.5% No religion
  • 2.1% Others
Demonym(s)Apatonian
GovernmentUnitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
• President
Mlamuli Ngotsha
Michel Lukonde
• President of the Senate
Bahati Mawobo
• President of the National Assembly
Christophe Mboso
• President of the Constitutional Court
Mlamuli Majola
LegislatureParliament
Senate
National Assembly
Formation
• Colonised
17 November 1879
• Apatonia Free State
1 July 1885
• Independence from Albarine
30 June 1957
• Admitted to the CCA
20 September 1988
Area
• Total
342,000 km2 (132,000 sq mi) (11th)
• Water (%)
3.32
Population
• 2021 estimate
21,386,000
GDP (PPP)2019 estimate
• Total
Increase 27.486 billion
• Per capita
Increase 1,285
GDP (nominal)2019 estimate
• Total
Increase 16.117 billion
• Per capita
Increase 753
Gini (2012)Positive decrease 42.1
medium
HDI (2019)Increase 0.480
low
Currencycoani (CDF)
Time zoneUTC -7
Date formatdd/mm/yyyy
Driving sideright
Calling code+243
Internet TLD.an

Apatonia, officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Apatonia or the DRA, is a nation in Southern Adula, bordered to the north by Unified Sera. With a population of over 21.3 million varying ethnic backgrounds, it is one of the most diversely populated nations in the world both in terms of race and religion. While most of the nation is composed of Christian faiths, there are widespread traditional beliefs and Islamic faiths intertwined. The capital city is Sifondo, while the largest city is the port of Misamba. Since 2017, the southeast has been the site of an ongoing military conflict in Biulundo which has seen involvement of CCA peacekeepers.

Centered on the Apaton River Basin, the territory of the DRA was first inhabited by South Adulan foragers around 90,000 years ago and was reached by the Albarinean expansion about 3,000 years ago. In the west, the Kingdom of Londo ruled around the mouth of the Londo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. In the northeast, center and east, the kingdoms of Aezde, Tuba and Tunda ruled from the 16th and 17th centuries to the 19th century. In the 1870s, just after the end of the Barretoan Wars, exploration of the Apaton Basin was carried out, first led by Tacito Saraiva under the sponsorship of Albarine. Albarine formally acquired rights to the territory at the Saint Marina Conference in 1885 and declared the land its sovereign territory, naming it the Apatonia Free State. During the Free State period, colonial military units forced the local population to produce rubber. From 1885 to 1929, millions of people died as a consequence of disease and exploitation. The territory gained independence from Albarine following the World War on June 30th, 1957. A deadly civil war raged from 1957 until 1979, resulting in the deaths of more than 3 million people and severely damaging the country's population, infrastructure, and functional capability. Despite this, the international community began to invest in Apatonia, and it joined the Coalition of Crown Albatross in 1988. Apatonia has seen free and open elections since 1986, with the most recent being in 2018 when the country elected President Mlamuli Ngotsha and Prime Minister Michel Lukonde.

The Democratic Republic of Apatonia is extremely rich in natural resources but has suffered from political instability, a lack of infrastructure, corruption, and centuries of both commercial and colonial extraction and exploitation with little widespread development. Besides the capital Sifondo and the port cities, the two next largest cities, Boteke and Wabi, are both mining communities. The DRA's largest export is raw minerals, with Yuan accepting over 50% of its exports in 2012. In 2019, DR Apatonia's level of human development was ranked low and as of 2018 around 300,000 Apatonians have fled to neighbouring countries from conflicts in the center and east of the DRA. Two million children risk starvation, and the fighting has displaced 3.5 million people.

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