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Vurthungrian Free Association of Communes Vurthungrian: 𐑜𐑷𐑯𐑷𐑕ß𐑭𐑥𐑤𐑯𐑛𐑧𐑯 𐑴'𐑓𐑴𐑮𐑑𐑯𐑜𐑰𐑮 (Traditional) Ganasdsåmlenden oFortungir (Aesculized) Innan: Þéodcyning Framscipe á Landen Vorþongerisc Escara: Associu Libera di Comuni Fortongrolu
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Peace to all, death to tyrants!"
Anthem: Unto The Breach
Capital and largest city	Taradabourgh
Official languages	Vurthungrian
Recognised regional languages	Innan, Escara
Demonym(s)	Vurthungrian
Government	Libertarian Socialist Federation under a Unicameral Nonpartisan Consensual Soviet Democracy
• First Citizen	Gerall Berrhe
• First Commissar	Olle Eldannadid
Legislature	Revolutionary Federal Commissary
Formation
• Settlement by the Proto-Vurthungrian Vordons Culture	c. 650-300 BCE
• First Kingdom	499-1137 CE
• Second Kingdom	1221-1401 CE
• Imperial Principality	1798 CE
• Declaration of Independence	1903 CE
• Anarchist Revolution	1943 CE
• Constitution	1947 CE
Area
• Total	66,897.25 km2 (25,829.17 sq mi)
Population
• 2019 estimate	21,442,089
• 2010 census	19,989,772
• Density	320.52/km2 (830.1/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2019 estimate
• Total	219.24 Billion IRM
• Per capita	10,225 IRM
GDP (nominal)	2019 estimate
• Total	384.39 Billion IRM
• Per capita	17,927 IRM
Gini (2016)	26.1 low
HDI (2017)	0.833 very high
Currency	Vurthungrian Bezond (28.37 VUB = 1 IRM) (VUB)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right
ISO 3166 code	VU
Internet TLD	.vu

Vurthungria, officially styled the Vurthungrian Free Association of Communes, and occasionally abbreviated as the Free Association, is a country in Eastern Plateia. It is bordered to the east by Hoylend Bay and Aesculia, and to the west by the Bay of Furth and Vetonia. It is trisected by the branches of the Vordons River, generally divided, from east to west, into the historic regions of Hoylend, Ennalend, and Wardania. The nation's capital is Taradabourgh; other major cities include Bittabourgh and Bastia. With a territorial size of [TERRITORY], it is Plateia's [RANK] country, and the [RANK] in the world.

The earliest societies with surviving structures in modern Vurthungria were the Neolithic Cushbåro culture, who primarily resided in the coastal lowlands of Hoylend around 4,500 BCE. In Antiquity, the area became a battleground contested by the Vordons, Gattars, Sacaronians, and ancient Rians; though stability came to the region as the Gattars established martial hegemony c. 35 CE from Haim, a highly-fortified city on the nation's central highlands near the intersection of the Upper and Lower Vordons. The Haimic Kingdom would become a vassal of the Old Aesculians, though incursions from the Vordons peoples, who previously resided further north near the border with modern Vetonia, began making inroads towards the coasts after unifying under a singular confederacy c. 300 CE. Without the backing of the Old Aesculians, who were in terminal decline by this period, Haim suffered numerous sieges until becoming largely abandoned by the latter half the 4th Century CE. In 499, the First Vurthungrian Kingdom was declared, which ruled over much of Eastern Plateia, and significantly affected the cultural traditions of the Rianic cultures by introducing the Ervash script. This Kingdom endured until 1137, when it was dismantled by a series of naval invasions by the Innan peoples, who established their own kingdom along the Southwest coasts of modern Vurthungria and parts of Vetonia, centered at the mouth of the Bay of Furth. A successful revolt in 1221 led to the formation of the Second Vurthungrian Kingdom under the Fotavalat Dynasty, which established the Vurthungrian's territorial apex under under the Baghnemore III the Magnanimous (1289-1334 CE). After numerous disastrous campaigns and feudal strife among the later kings, the Second Kingdom fell in 1401 to the Second Aesculian Empire, who would dominate the region for the next four centuries.

By the 18th century, the region became extremely vital to the Empire's grain production and stocks of iron ore, and gradually became one of Aesculia's most important provinces both strategically and economically. As their political authority and a new sense of cohesive cultural identity emerged among the ethnic Vurthungrians and Innans, Vurthungria became a semi-autonomous Imperial Principality in 1798, though many nationalists were frustrated by the Empire's refusal to grant control of Eastern Hoylend to the Principality, due to the cultural significance of the region to Vurthungrian history, as well as the substantial military presence at Vurthungrian ports. In the early phases of the Great Continental War, Vurthungria remained loyal to Aesculia, though a palace coup installed Baghnemore V to the throne, a moderate with nationalist leanings with strong ties to the Vurthungrian militias. In 1903, a riot over rationing and seizure of Vurthungrian grain stores, alongside the arrest of numerous religious leaders from the Furthist community led to nationalist mobs taking over large swathes of rural Hoylend and Wardania, as well as the city of Bastia, prompting Baghnemore to declare independence on the side of the nationalists, and to pull Vurthungria out of the war and retake the "Lost East", resulting in recognition of an independent Third Kingdom by the end of the year. However, ethnic violence and rising inequality would lead to an coup d'etat, establishing a junta that itself would fall into chaos in 1943 at the outset of the Vurthungrian Revolution, which would lay the foundation of the nation's modern anarchist state. After four years of abortive conflicts towards the liberation of further historic Vurthungrian lands, as well as continued tactical betrayals by the other post-war radical states, Vurthungria would go into isolation and focus on rebuilding their country after the passage of the Constitution, largely disbanding their military and focusing on defense rather than expansion while they worked to solidify the newly-declared Free Association of Communes.

Since the adoption of its Constitution, Vurthungria has been organized as a voluntary federation founded upon the principles of Libertarian Socialist Communalism, the Non-aggression principle, and Consensus Democracy, making the terminology of conventional statehood highly contentious in reference to Vurthungria, while acting as a de facto sovereign state. In the decades since its stabilization after the Vurthungrian Civil War, it has become a fairly decentralized society politically and economically, though cultural unity has generally been on the increase. Unlike many of the other far-left states which rose and fall over the course of the 20th Century, Vurthungria has maintained a steady population size, though its growth is relatively sluggish in comparison to its neighbors.

Vurthungria is a member of the International Coalition for Liberty, though otherwise is generally hesitant to sign on to many supranational political organizations. While not a part of the Plateian Common Market, it is one of the chief exporters of machinery, minerals, and grain in the region. Since the liberalization of the Vurthungrian markets to allow for far less restrictive border crossings, it has become a major hub of tourism in Plateia, especially thanks to its high-quality environment, world-class winter sports sites, and numerous ancient megalithic structures among other historic regions.

Etymology

The name Vurthungria is derived from the Proto-Vurthungrian Vordons Gir, an alliance of tribes of [GOTHIC] origins which migrated and settled in the region of the modern Vurthungrian nation between the seventh and fourth centuries BCE, and are credited with its foundation. Their name is not entirely understood, and references to the Vordons Culture cannot be reliably traced past c. 300 BCE, making the location of primary sources which might determine its linguistic origins extremely difficult for modern scholars. It may have been rooted in the Innan term Wárdan Cynn ("strange deer people") in use as an exonym during the Vordons migrations in antiquity, in possible reference to headdresses worn by Vordons warriors adorned with the antlers of Red deer, as well as their noted reverence for the animal in their oral tradition.

History

Main Article: History of Vurthungria

Prehistory and Antiquity

The earliest habitation by modern humans of the region constituting modern Vurthungria took place around 11,000 BCE, as reindeer-hunting nomadic cultures entered the area during the recession of the Tennescösh Glacier which began two millennia earlier. Recent evidence suggests that a small population of Neanderthals resided in the southern portions of the country c. 150,000 BCE as well, though it is unlikely that the population survived to make contact with homo sapiens in the area due to a phase of glacial advance. The first sedentary agricultural societies in the area began to emerge around 4,500 BCE in the form of the Cushbåro Culture, which resided largely in the coastal lowlands and created a number of dolmens and megalithic tomb structures which are still observable today.

The Gattars, the primary non-[GOTHIC] ancestors to the Vordons, would establish themselves as the prominent culture in the region during the bronze age, and would be among the earliest metallurgists in the region of [NORTHEAST EUROPE], as well as noted charioteers and later, skilled horsemen.

Revolution and Early Anarchist Period

Main Articles: Vurthungrian Revolution

• Revolution begins in two waves - the Officers' Coup of February 1939 which established the short-lived Provisional Republic (effectively a military junta), and the Revolution of June 1943.
• The "Black Terror" of 1944 takes place primarily in major urban centers, with greatest effect in Innan-majority areas, which disproportionately supported the Officers' Coup and the Principality before it. As the International Coalition for Liberty begins to pull out of its alliance with the Authoritarian Leftists, Anarchists begin to target "Orthodox" Leftists as part of the campaign to "save the revolution" through to 1945, a period of violence known as the "Little Terror", which had a relatively small scope domestically.
• Tenemore Tarradh suffers a stroke in August 1945 and functional authority is passed to the leadership of Dauben Bitt, the head of the Black Army throughout the combat in support of and against the 1939 Coup. Tarradh is still the official figurehead of the Revolutionary Movement until his death in 1946, but makes no public appearances as his declining health is kept a secret to maintain morale.

Politics and Government

Executive Ministry

Main Articles: Executive Minister of Vurthungria, Executive Ministry of Vurthungria

Legislature

Main Articles: Revolutionary Federal Congress of Vurthungria, Revolutionary Commissary of Vurthungria, Federal Assembly of Vurthungria, First Commissar of Vurthungria, First Assemblyman of Vurthungria

Military

Main Articles: Free Association Army of Vurthungria, Black Navy