Sazarin

Most Illustrious Republic of the Assemblies and Peoples of Sazarin الدستورية الأشهر مجالس و جماهير لقتنيا ad-Dustūrīyah al-ʾAshhara Majālis wa Jamāhīr Laqitanīyā راپبلكا السترسما دس اصمبلايسي ا پوافلس دا صزرن República Ilustrísima das Asambleias e Puevlos de Sazarin
Flag
Motto: arabic mozarabic tbd
Anthem: arabic mozarabic tbd
Capital and largest city	Almezraquivir
Official languages	Arabic, Sazarine
Ethnic groups	XX% Mozarab XX% Cerutian XX% Other
Religion	tbd
Demonym(s)	Sazarine
Government	Unitary constitutional oligarchic republic
• Emir	tbd
• Suffetes	tbd tbd
Legislature	‌‌Grand Assemblies
• Upper house	Assembly of the Councillors
• Lower house	Assembly of the People Assembly of the Guilds
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Area
•	342,750 km2 (132,340 sq mi)
Population
• 2015 census	21,710,617
• Density	63.34/km2 (164.0/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	20XX estimate
• Total	tbd
• Per capita	tbd
GDP (nominal)	20XX estimate
• Total	tbd
• Per capita	tbd
Gini (20XX)	tbd
HDI	tbd
Currency	Sazarine dinar (SDN)
Time zone	tbd
Date format	DD/MM/YYYY
Driving side	right
Calling code	tbd

Sazarin (Arabic: لقتنيا, translit. Laqitanīyā; Sazarine: صزرن, translit. Sazarin), sometimes known more formally as the Sazarine Republic (Arabic: دستورية اللقتنية, translit. ad-Dustūrīyah al-Laqitanīyah; Sazarine: راببلكا صزرنيا, translit. República Sazarenya) is an oligarchic republic in Midgard. Located in the continent of tbd, the Sazarine mainland shares land borders only with Mondejar and the de facto independent region of North Alaouasem, both to Sazarin's northeast, and borders the tbd Sea to its northwest and the Lazarene Sea to the south. Sazarin also controls the Liburine Islands, an archipelago located in the Lazarene Sea. The country's capital and largest city is Almezraquivir.

[history - ancient lacetania, colonization by !greeks and !phoenicians, conquest by !rome and integration as lacetania caesariensis, fall of !western rome and the foundation of the kingdom of the cerutians]

[foundation of !muslim trading ports and amsar beginning in the 700s; unification of most of these coastal towns as the sazarine republic in the 900s; war between cerutians and sazarines in late 1000s results in latter conquering former; sazarin becomes a thalassocracy, dominating lazarene trade for centuries, with a stato da mar heydey from 1200s to 1600s]

[falls behind and resists reform in subsequent centuries, losing most of its overseas territories, and naval dominance, to sjealand in the 1600s-1700s and part of alaouasem to mondejar in the 1700s-early 1800s; forced to make some reforms in order to avoid popular turmoil; ties with ambrose warm over mutual sjealand-resentment and relations with mondejar cool after alaouasem becomes the donbass]

[geography, major geographic features, climate]

[demographics - ethnicity, religion, language; gap between the mozarabs and cerutians in most things]

[government - oligarchic republic based on a centuries-old system, albeit with many reforms; current leadership; calls for reform, problems with the oligarchy shtick]

[diverse economy based mostly around tourism and commerce, though agriculture and light industry remain strong]

Etymology

Both the Arabic Laqitanīyā and the Sazarine (and, thence, the English) Sazarin derive from the name of the !Roman province of Lacetania Caesariensis, which contained most of what is today western and northern Sazarin. The province itself was named for the Lacetanii, a major tribal confederation within the region whose name is of unknown etymology, and the provincial capital, Colonia Caesaria Victricensis, named for the !Roman general Aetius Veturius Caesar. Lacetania Caesariensis was so named to distinguish it from the province of Lacetania Sybariana, consisting of what is now eastern Sazarin and western Mondejar.

[after rome falls and the cerutians come and the arabs set up outposts, the arabs stick to "lacetania" whereas the natives (and also the mondejos) begin to refer to the country by a truncated form of "caesariensis", hence the gap between the arabic and sazarine names]