Tobar Islands

Organized Republic of the Tobar Islands Republíká Òrganizád dé Islás Tobár
Flag National Emblem
Motto: Dé kuboké söé dú Jehó é pawá siwí úd-elé. (Tobarese Creole) ("The white light of God is for all mankind")
Capital and largest city	Sépalè
Official languages	Tobarese Creole
Demonym(s)	Tobarese
Government	Unitary semi-presidential republic
• President	Julián Rákaò
• Prime Minister	Matiú Alâsá
Legislature	Republican Assembly
Establishment
• Arrival of proto-Tobár voyagers	??? BC
• Tobár Tribal Confederation formed	??? AD
• Arrival of ??? explorers and colonists	??? AD
• Independence declared and recognized	??? AD
• Establishment of the Organized Republic	??? AD
Area
• Total	60,422 km2 (23,329 sq mi)
Population
• 2019 estimate	10,546,712
• Density	174.61/km2 (452.2/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	𝔇326.276 billion
• Per capita	𝔇30,926
GDP (nominal)	2019 estimate
• Total	𝔇162.69 billion
• Per capita	𝔇14,226
Gini	39.1 medium
HDI (2019)	0.803 very high
Currency	Tobarese dólará (𝔇) (TOD)
Time zone	XXX
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right
Internet TLD	.tob

The Tobar Islands (Tobarese Creole: Islás Tobár), officially the Organized Republic of the Tobar Islands (Tobarese Creole: Republíká Òrganizád dé Islás Tobár) and colloquially known as Tobar, is a sovereign island country situated in the Meridian Ocean of Septentrion. Bordering areas and polities of the Organized Republic include Graenaeyjan to the southeast, the islands of Scintillement belonging to Sieuxerr to the west, and the Irēlandes of Fyrland. The Organized Republic occupies an archipelago of islands includes the eponymous Tobár and several smaller islands such as Gobá, Tuqó, Puyá, Dabôt, and Lùgí.

The geographic area of the Tobar Islands have been inhabited by the Tobarese people for thousands of years, with ethnopolitical entities such as the Tobár Tribal Confederation having both unified the various Tobarese tribes and expanding their territory to encompass a majority of the landmasses of the Caribbean. However, with the increasing pressures of technologically advanced powers and advent of colonialism, this Confederation was gradually dissolved and replaced with a territorially-smaller continuum of loosely linked Tobarese tribes and clans that inhabited their home archipelago. After being annexed into the colonial empire of Serenoro, the Tobarese racially diversified with intermixing between the white colonists, indigenous tribespeople, and imported indentured servants from ???.

The Tobar Islands received independence following the War of the Sylvan Succession in (1920?), which led to the briefly-lived Federal Republic of the Tobar Islands. However, disinterest with the geopolitical climate of the world at that time in addition to social and economic crises lead to the Crown Jewel Revolution that installed a fascist dictatorship led by Adám Golâz. Golâz's regime would rule from the 1930s well into the 1970s, and was punctuated by a wide degree of isolationism and Tobarese identitarian supremacism.

Work in progress.

Etymology

The etymological origin for the term "Tobar Islands", or Islás Tobár, lies with the sociocultural diffusion and culmination of Tobarese Creole through the linguistic syncretism of both the old language of Tobarese and Spanish, with additional elements from other Romance languages such as Italian and French. The term Tobár itself originates from Tobarese and refers to the largest island of the country that most clans and people within the Organized Republic affiliate themselves with, even if born on another proximal landmass.

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History

Prehistory

The first people to inhabit the Tobar Islands were the precursors of what would evolve to become the modern Tobarese people. Known as the Proto-Tobarese, their origins are hypothesized to lie somewhere in the continent of Vinya. Migration to the Caribbean tens of thousands of years ago was most likely the result of the ice age that gripped the planet during humanity's general prehistory, forcing the proto-Tobarese southwards in order to colonize the warmer archipelago.

The conventional form of the Tobarese people for most of their general history came to be with the gradual warming of the planet, bringing the tropical climates into being and diversifying the flora and fauna present on the island. This codependent evolution between the society of the Tobarese and their environs cultivated a deep-seeded attachment of the Tobarese people to their lands that persist in the culture to the present day.

Tribal history (before the Confederation)

For most of the history of the Tobarese people, individual tribes existed under a loose, binding culture that was spread throughout the islands of the central Caribbean — namely the island of Tobár, which begat the label for the identity of the various tribes (even those that inhabited proximal islands, such as Gobá and Tuqó). The affiliated tribes that inhabited nearby islands held a unique status in relation to other tribes on the main island of Tobár, focusing on aquaculture and fishing and often bartering with the tribes on the "mainland" that took advantage of the diffusion of farming technologies from the nearby continents.

Many unrecorded wars and conflicts broke out within this time period that attempted to centralize and define the tribal powers of the Tobarese people. Although wars with outsiders were well documented in palm wood indices, such as ??? and ???, these interculture conflicts were seen as nothing more than settlements of disputes on a large scale, as is evident with the foreign-recorded war between the tribes of Tobár and the tribes of the island of Lùgí.

Tobarese Tribal Confederation

The rise of the Tobarese Tribal Confederation was possible only through the cultural ties between the Tobarese tribes and the consolidation of the Akuáñkiué over the Tobár island. The chief of the Akuáñkiué at that time, Nuákokíeorí, was able to lead rapid subjugation wars against the other tribes of the island, such as the Jélekeó and the Mapará, as a means of attempting to control the outflow of agricultural products to the peripheral tribes. With the success of this plan, he was able to force the remaining tribes into a series of politically and economically binding agreements that brought greater unity to the Tobarese culture and their native religion, Aćiraiké, in addition to the formulation of a "confederation" that sought to place non-conquered tribes on equal footing as a means to mitigate further civil conflict. Nuákokíeorí, cognizant of the fact that wrangling direct control from these peripheral islands unto his own government, pursued this method of rule in expectance of meeting foreign powers later on in his reign.

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Geography

Climate

The climate of the Tobar Islands are, for the most part, considered to be that of the tropical rainforest classification. Many regions of the country are consistently hot and humid, with the notable exceptions to this being the northern region of the island of Tobár and islands near such a region, which instead possess a tropical monsoon climate that consists of periods of increased dryness and a lower frequency of rain.

The Tobar Islands sit in the center of the Caribbean, which puts the area in the midst of the complemented hurricane belt. As a result of this, mass-scale damage from hurricanes and significant weather systems are common, including the recent hurricane Johan in 2015.

Politics

Administrative Divisions

The Tobar Islands are divided into 10 departments...

Work in progress.

Demographics

Languages

Main Article: Tobarese Creole

The Tobar Islands is, for the most part, a bilingual country that utilizes two main languages to conduct both official and day-to-day activities, namely Spanish and Tobarese Creole. Native Tobarese persists in some protected tribes, but the creole has dominated all aspects of life in the nation from hundreds of years of linguistic syncretization with the Romance languages of their Sylvan and Serenese overlords during the islands' time as a colonial possession. Post-colonial nationalism and the rise of Adám Golâz's regime lead to the prioritization of Tobarese Creole as becoming an integral part of governance, and as such, it remains as the only language to be used in government function and is the primary language taught in Tobarese schools. Certain sub-groups of the Tobarese, however, have inclinations towards using Spanish or Italian as a secondary language due to racial intermixing and familial customs. Tobarese Sign Language has also become an influential language in recent times.