Riamo

Riamese Federation Federación de Riamo Other: Riamese: Federativa Riamoskye Haydag: Федераця Риамӹӝирар
Flag Seal
Motto: "Strenght in Unity"
Anthem: "Riamo will be there"
Location of Riamo (green).
Capital	Guri
Largest city	Nashe
De facto national language	Common
Recognized Regional Languages	1 language: Haydag (вӹшосы Нашер)
Demonym(s)	Riamese
Government	Federal monarchic republic
• Monarch	Diana II
• Chancellor	Elisa Nunes
Legislature	Federal Assembly
• Upper house	Council of the Federation
• Lower house	Council of Deputies
Establishment
• Kingdom of Guri	1251
• Grand Kingdom of Riamo	1488
• Riamese Empire	1820
• Riamese Federation	1980
Area
• Total	950,309.35 km2 (366,916.49 sq mi)
Population
• 2020 census	138,643,589
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Total	3.29 Trillion ACU
• Per capita	23,840.57 ACU
Currency	Riamese hull 1:1 conversion with real Euro (H)
Time zone	UTC-6
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	right

Riamo, officially the Riamese Federation is a federal devolutionary monarchic republic, composed of a collection of federal subjects with varying levels of autonomy. Its capital city, Guri, which lies on the Leight River, is home to the country's key political, judicial, and financial institutions. The country is primarily situated in Astariax, with additional territories located in Olivacia and maritime exclaves like Freice. Riamo is bordered by Gavrilia to the north, former colony and closest ally to the nation. The country is a member of the Saltstil Pact and operates an extensive network of diplomatic relations with the support of the Riamese Armed Forces.

Riamo is also the only country to hold significant territory in both Antariax and Olivacia, spanning a total of 803,910 km² (310,390 sq mi). The large population of over 138 million people predominately live, however, in the coastal areas and southern less arid lands, where most of the largest cities are located, including Nashe, Portington, Sefa, Cockney and Glowshire, amongst others.

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With a long colonial history dating centuries, Riamo was quick to become a very diverse country in both ethnical and economical terms, all of which would contribute to a generation of wealth and early industrialization. These differences have, however, generated social inequality, marginalization, poor wealth distribution and inequity of opportunities for centuries to slave-descent population. This has all continues to our days, where the aforementioned problems still present a challenge in daily life for millions of people, and while activists and political movements have managed to overcome many of them, it is widely accepted that the older generation still maintain a very xenophobic mindset.

Riamo stands as a developed country with an advanced, highly developed market economy along with a strong welfare state, universal healthcare, and a world-renowned public transportation industry. Riamo ranks highly in measures of democracy and political freedom, but areas like suicide rates, economical stability and equality of opportunities are situated as some of the worse globally.

Etymology

The etimology of the country is said to come from a derivation of "Ram-Aeyo", native phrase for "Land of Rivers", but its origin is disputed.

Language

While Riamo is the second largest Common-speaking country in Anteria, it is to be noted that the language's origin itself has not been scientifically proven and remains a mistery. Common is simply an inexplicable phenomenon that are forces of nature^[3][4][5].

History

Great War

See: Great War

Dark Decades

The Dark decades were 22 years spamming from 1950 to 1972 which saw the decadence of the Riamese overseas empire quickly followed by a strong decay in riamese culture. The mainland saw the emergence of the Dictatorship of Stoneck, cored around an anti-western way of thought. It was mainly fueled by both the colonialist mentality to expand the collapsing empire and the desire to fix core issues of the nation, which included a strong economical decadence, a drop in societal values, the emergence of many economical monopolies and a drop in national wealth.

Regenerationism

Lead by initiative of her majesty Queen Diana I, Riamo would soon follow the Gavrilian school of thought of Regenerationism. Many oligarchic ideas were soon phased out with the creation of a more stable government, formed by Elisabeth Wooden-led federalist government.

Diana I would ensure peace on the Namese Issue and would oversee the making of a new constitution in 1977, celebrated by many for introducing the new Federal system, inspired on that of the First Republic era. By embracing this school of thought the country would finally close its imperial era, leading the guided release of many nations into full sovereignty and allowing many lands to decide their own fates through consensus and dialogue.

Federation

Created through the Constitution of 1977, the Federal era gave way to a chapter of massive development within the nation, with many former colonies now forming healthy ties with the mainland and many others rejecting entirely any possible friendship in fear of history repeating itself.

Upon the Watergate

Geography

Land uses in Riamo

  Urbanized (1.9%)

  Agricultural uses (36.9%)

  Dense or Medium vegetation (21.5%)

  Low vegetation (9.9%)

  Desertic, Polluted and Inhabitable (29.8%)

Riamo is well known for its rivers. The Leight, which traverses along many important cities of Riamo, crosses the country from the northwestern to t and the Mali rivers. Rivers like the Nalsh, and Heinel

Due to its vast valleys and relatively plain topographyt, he Riamese economy is strongly centered around its waterways, the most prominent ones being the Koleno, Segret, Mali and Pucamayo rivers.

Government and Territory

Riamo is a federal monarchic republic and representative democracy, with government regulated by a system of checks and balances outlined and codified in the country's constitution. The seat of government is in the city of Guri, the nation's capital, although may convene in other locations in extraordinary circumstances, as defined in the constitution. Suffrage is extended to every person over the age of 18, with the secret ballot an important part of the state's political culture.

The federal government is made up of three separate branches:

The legislative branch consists of a bicameral Federal Assembly, with the Council of the Federation and the Council of Deputies serving as the upper and lower houses respectively. The Council of Deputies represents the people, consisting of single-member constituencies elected every four years. The Council of the Federation represents the federal subjects, with two members appointed by the relevant subject's assembly to serve for six years. In most cases, nominees are elected by the subject's electorate, with the winning candidate nominated. However, this is not required by law. Together, the two houses make federal law, approves treaties, elects the government, and votes on the state budget.

The executive branch consists of the Chancellor and the government. The official designation of the political system is that of a "republic under the presidency of the crown". In this system, the Queen of Riamo, although head of state, is not de jure chief executive and has no political duties nor reserve powers. The Chancellor is formally chief executive as head of the executive branch. The Chancellor appoints members of the cabinet and other officeholders, administers and enforces the policies of the federal government, and serves as commander-in-chief of the Riamese military. The Chancellor is required to be a member of the Council of Deputies, and is elected from its membership on the basis of their power to command the chamber's confidence.

The judicial branch consists of the Federal Supreme Court, the Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal High Court, and lower federal courts. The courts interpret laws and overturn those declared to be unconstitutional. The judicial branch is independent of the executive and legislative branches; although judges are appointed by the Chancellor, they are nominated by an independent, non-partisan body. The Federal Supreme Court (FSS) and the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) are the two highest courts of appeal. The FSS has broad scope to address any law considered to be unconstitutional; the FCC has limited scope only in interpreting the constitution in cases where there is disputed meaning.

Subjects

Riamo is composed of a number of subjects, which are the federated states that are established through the constitution. Operating under a system of asymmetric federalism, different subjects possess different levels of autonomy based on their dependence on the federal government. Subjects possess varying power over budgets and other domestic policies, with their status determining the extent that they can organise their own affairs.

First level

• Republics: They have their own constitutions, chiefs of state, legislatures, land ordinances and laws up to a certain degree. They enjoy autonomy from all other first-level administrative divisions and partial autonomy from the federal government, with full control over domestic affairs, law enforcement, local taxation and budgetary powers.

• Country: One territory, Freice is designed as a Country. The status of country grants a territory access to foreign policy independent from that of the federation, as well as all other rights associated to republics. For the case of Freice, the only current country, the federal government is responsible for some degree of guidance regarding external affairs, along with providing full defense of the island and some other minor areas specifically transferred to it by Freice.

Second Level

• Provinces: They remain as the second-order administrative divisions all of continental Riamo is divided into. They are usually centered around a city within a day of walking distance of all land covered by them, and represent individual entities within the government.

• Federal cities: Consisting of major metropolis and their surrounding urban areas, federal cities differentiate themselves from provinces in that they cover the area constituted by a major contiguous urban area. They have absolute autonomy in budget administration, planning, and some limited domestic policy-making. They remain, however, heavily dependent on federal government's policies for some of their functions.

• Federal dependencies: Only nominally different from former overseas territories, Federal Dependencies consist of a series of poorly inhabited islands off the Riamese coast with limited autonomy and only small populations, if any. All have no significant public, economic or cultural interests, and they are all controlled directly by the Riamese Navy, with special permissions for visitors being granted sometimes.

List of subjects

First level: Republics & 1 Country

• Riamese Republic
• Nashe Republic
• Hokone Republic
• Namese Republic
• West Achary Republic
• Republic of the Unhak Islands
• Country of Freice Freice

Second level: Provinces

• Ashbury
• Carbonelle
• Guri
• Invarshire
• Nammington
• Nashe
• Reddington
• Seaview
• Sefa
• Shuso

Politics

Military

See: Riamese Armed Forces, Riamese Navy

Riamo's military is a noticeable player in the region, fueled mainly by a long legacy of a strong shipbuilding industry and a strong tendency to make alliances with militaristic countries. It is to be noted that Riamo offers citizens the possibility of serving in the army, while getting a salary and an education degree, with the condition of staying in the force for a minimum of 5 continuous years.

With the Freice Autonomy Act, the Riamese military military remains in charge of the defense of Freice. This includes the obligation to defend the country in terms of internal order and external affairs, as well as against natural disasters and other catastrophes. The agreement also established a shared Exclusive Economic Zone and allows for free movement in the other's waters.

Economy & Population

The Riamese economy has a strong natinalized sector, most of which operates as private companies but under governmental supervision and guidance. This includes heavy machinery, shipbuilding, transportation and resource extraction, among others.

Riamese economy had always been supported mainly by a strong agricultural sector, however, after the Pacific Revolution, the country experienced a massive economic boom lead by legislation towards the protectionism of local enterprises, the overexploitation of high value economical resources, benefitial geopolitical factors, guvernmental interventionism, and internal investments into high-value sectors. By the 1980's, Riamo was in an unprecedented economic boom that lead companies to start exporting goods to the world.

By the 2010's, the most economically effective sectors included those of:

• Manufacture of fabricated goods related with public daily consumption
• Affordable public mobility
• Rural strategic resource production
• Local assets of international enterprises
• Design and construction of fixed transport structures
• Specialized silicon microchip technology
• Manufacture of vessels and equipment dedicated towards the intent of national defense

Riamo is one of the top global producers of iron, peaches, wine, military armament, microchips, cabbage, oranges and ammonia.

Central Bank

The Central Bank of Riamo is the organization in charge of the Monetary Ordinance of the country. Stablished in 1591, continues to be the largest finantial entity in Rthe country. The Riamese Constitution remarks some of its roles and objectives as follows:

• Design, distribution and maintenance of the national currency.
• Maintenance of stable prices - achieved mainly by controlling yearly printed currency and Box Ratio.
• Reducction of the cyclical sway of the economy - artificially, through the control of public investment, and naturally, through automatic market-lead stabilizers, in hopes of mantaining a constant GDP growth.
• Establishment of national interest rates of reference - essentially short-term interest rates for all other financial institutions to follow

Cities

See: Metropolitan Areas of Riamo

With an urban population of around 55%, Riamo posseses some of the biggest metropolis of the region, some of which date from thousands of years ago.

Transport

After the nationalization of land transportation of 1977, subways, airlines, bus companies and shipping companies, all became government-owned. After that year, and during the Mid-century dictatorships, subways and airlines would see a massive increment in their bugdet, with subways adopting the Ferrer System.

Nowadays, many political parties have a possitive view on public transportation, but specially since 2006, when major investments on mass transit systems returned to Riamo, converting the nation into a world leader in the area.

Urban Transportation

See: Riamese Trenchways Mass Transportation in Riamo

Following its early industrialization, Riamo would be within the first nations on Astariax to develop a nation-wide railroad network. The completion of the Transnational Railway in 1822 would soon lead to the Trans-Astariax Railway via Gavrilia in the 1830s, sparkling rapid industrialization across the Qashan Valley and along the Leight river, leaving most of eastern Riamo out of the first wave of rail industrialization.

The Trenchway System was adopted in the early 1960s as a response to widespread low income of public transportation systems mixed with a decaying railroad industry, the backbone of the riamese economy at the time. Originated in the city of Nashe, the System follows a simple repetitive plan by which real state is bought, transportation links and infrastructure are added, and then a major wave of land development would come, with exponentially increased value which would make for most of the company's revenue.

Trenchways allowed income to skyrocket, making Riamo the only nation with active profit throughout its entire transportation industry, but has been severely critiziced for leading to a nationwide policy of scarce urban housing.

In turn, the system has been praised for boosting the riamese economy's core, helping reduce private car ownership, and ultimately helping provide millions of people with good, cheap, and reliable transportation access, decreasing transportation costs for individuals throughout urban Riamo and increasing quality of life.

From all Trenchway systems in Riamo, the most well known ones are:

• Guri - Capital of Riamo, possesses the largest single tram network in the continent.
• Nashe - Being the densest city in Riamo and with a car ownership of 9% per household, Nashe counts with a titanic trenchway system
• Portington - The olimpic capital of Riamo. Counts with 14 subway lines built in less than 30 years and is in continuous expansion.

Important Companies

V22 "Vector" by Vayle Industries

• United Trenchways Leader of transit worldwide, UT is known for being the owner of many subway systems in the nation and 3 mainline companies of rail transport. Through the use of the Ferrelay system, the RRC has achieved an average return margin of over 122% on all subway systems operated by the company, including 2 systems in Krenya and 7 elsewhere in the world
• Vayle industries - famous for their V22 "vector" and C3-A "arrow" multi-role fighter aircraft
• Wool of Nations - Riamo's largest multinational conglomerate. Operates in 32 countries and provides goods and services related, mainly, to light manufacturing and heavy construction industries
• W&T - One of the worlds' largest pocket technology leader, with headquarters in Nashe, Gassasinia and Gavrilopolis, among other large cities
• Victoria Shipbuilding - shipbuilding company in charge of the new Guri Class Destroyers

Agriculture

Agriculture

  Rice (5.6%)

  Agricultural uses (36.9%)

  Dense or Medium vegetation (21.5%)

  Low vegetation (9.9%)

  Desertic, Polluted and Inhabitable (29.8%)

Agriculture has always been a fundamental pillar of the Riamese economy, specially on the eastern regions.

Much of the agricultural products include large amounts of rice, peaches, oranges, grapes, cabbage, chestnuts, rice and cherries being the main exports.

With one of the largest fishing fleet in western Astariax, Riamo also produces large amounts of tuna,

Demographics

Although large, the Riamese population has been categorized as one of the overall poorest populations from the eastern hemisphere. With a poverty rate of over 1.2%, the country has a poverty headcount ratio at 5.00 ACU of over 25%.

Industrialization in the country came by the early 18th century, lead by the shipbuilding industry and recent colonial independence. With a rapid adoption of the steam locomotive for intranational shipping, most cities soon had their first industrial railyards and central grand stations which, by the dawn of the 20th century, found themselves surrounded by a sprawling spaghetti of railways.

With industrialization came a rivalry between impoverished workers and farmers, and the high-incomed elites of factory owners. This would soon lead to the praising of populist figureheads and a rivalry between rural and urban areas of the country, the former leading on the agricultural and mining sectors, and the latter on the transit and shipbuilding ones.

The Riamese government has made several adjustments to its legal system trying to promote more refined lifestyles, being the most noticeable the approval of mandatory military service, where recruits are forced into literacy, elegancy, respect, loyalty and discipline. Upon 30 years of constant political battles for a wealthier Riamo, the country has seen an increase in literacy of over 7% to its current 98.3% literacy rate, and an overall increase on Living Income from 50% to 80% in two and a half decades.

Nowadays, Riamo counts with the largest rail and public transit networks in the world, mostly used by daily working commuters, who benefit from its low cost and high efficiency.

See Also

• Mass Transportation in Riamo
• Talgo (train operator)
• Riamese National Trenchway Network