Korova

Tiranate of Korova        Tiraniya Korovy (Korovan)
Flag Coat of Arms
Motto: needs redoing
Capital and largest city	Korovka
Official languages	Korovan Ad' Cane
Recognised national languages	Kýrovskan Pridansk Mercanti
Demonym(s)	Koroviy
Government	Absolute monarchy
• Tiran	Arthur Tatarov
• Veduministr	Vacant
• Zaministr	Vacant
• Predsedatel	Vacant
Legislature	Glavnyy Sud'ya
Establishment
• Unification under Juri III Zhurov	1820
• Establishment of Syndicalist Republic	2008
• Restoration of Tiraniya by Arthur I Tatarov	2019
Area
• Total land area	189,936 km2 (73,335 sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2018 estimate
• Total	17 billion IBU
• Per capita	899.30 IBU
HDI (2020)	0.548 low
Currency	Prydanian Kross (x)
Time zone	SET +2
Driving side	left
Calling code	+43
Internet TLD	.co.kr

Tiraniya Korovy, commonly called Korova, is a semi-constitutional monarchy in Northeast Korozemlya. It is bordered on the northeast by the Severnye Ostrova (SY), on the south by Norvesk, and the northwest by Prydania. Korova covers 189,936 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 19,189,200. Korova comprises of 16 principalities, with its capital in Korovka on the country's largest island, Novaya. A country of towering highlands, fertile river valleys, and rolling plains, Korova is home to a diverse range of ethnic groups and religions, including Korovan Szlavs, Kalmovite Ostrogots, Bayardi, Ad' Cane, Yeizhka (Koro-Ascalonians), and Ostrovans (Yerans). Religious groups include Laurentist Messianists, Courantists, Bayardi Pagans, Thaunicites, Ad' Cane Revivalists, Norsic Pagans, and Atheists. Korovans and Kalmovites are the largest ethnic groups, while Laurentist Messianists are the largest religious group.

The first inhabitants of Korova were Ad' Cane tribes that were expelled or enslaved by mainlander proto-Bayardi in roughly 3500DNE. It took until the early 800NEs for the Auburn Isles to be fully united by early Korovan/late Bayardi tribes, this effort later being broken by Zelstoviy (Andrennian) vikings in the 890NEs. Korova was then split between Kalmov, Zhurova, and assorted states surrounding Korovka. In the early 1500s Kalmov was integrated into UKAG but after its dissolution in the early 1800s Kalmov was weak and absorbed by the growing Zhurova who then refounded the Korovan state. Korova then experienced a golden age of trade, amassing considerable power until its decline after the Fascist War. In 2008 Prydanian Syndicalists couped the Monarchy and established a satellite republic, but later this collapsed after pressure from guerilla organisations in 2012. Soon after, the state broke apart into highly aggresive local governances alongside a national infrastructure failure. In late 2019 Korova as a state was reestablished by Arthur Tatarov with Ostrovan support.

Currently, Korova is a poor but rising country that is recovering from the Korovan Anarchy that followed the Syndicalist regime, having been notably described as the world's most violent country by IBC News. Tiran Arthur Tatarov is leading this effort as an interim dictator for three years with support from Norveskiy, Severnye Ostrova, and other countries partaking in the LinkYEET rehabilitation effort.

Other organisations Korova is pending to join include: the LinkCEA, LinkBergum Pact, and LinkLuscova Pact. It is rumoured to be trying to lay the foundations for a Szlavic cultural union.

Etymology

The name Korova is derived from Koro', also known as Korov, the name of original united Korova in the 800NEs ruled by Aleksandr Vorotynsky I and populated by Late Bayardi tribes. Some time after the viking formation of Kalmov, Koro' was appropriated as a wider name for the entire Auburn Isles and even supplanted 'Auburn Isles' as the common name for the geographic region until the modern era.

Around the time of the Durnovo Usurpers of Zhurova, in 1271, Koro' began to widely be referred to as Korova. This is because the old Koro' capital of Korovka had grown in prominence through the formation of the Ganzeyskiy Soyuz causing 'Korovka' to become the standard name of the area to foreign merchants due to the following economic boom. The name Korova spread slower on the Auburn Isles itself but soon caught on during contention between Kalmov and Zhurova over the southern Korovka areas. Later the second K was dropped to differantiate the city from the isles when Zhurova unified them in the 1800s.

The standard way to refer to a citizen of Korova is as a "Korovan".

History

Pre-human Korova

In roughly 6,700DNE, Novaya (the largest Auburn Isle) was one of the centers of bronze age development with the earliest recorded indigenous Ad' Cane civilization of the Kanestvo (AC Kingdom) of Çèkii-sáhwíi near present-day Suzdal. It is thought to have gradually built what fortune it had through trade with Ad' Cane in present-day Severnye Ostrova and the Auburn Channel coast, as well as with humans further along the coast.

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Unification Era

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Zelstoviy Conquests

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Middle Era

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Prydanian Union

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Zelstoviy Return

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Second Unification Era

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Fascist War

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Korovan decline

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Korovan destruction

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Tatarov Reevival

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Geography

Korova's only land border is 24km² shared with Norveskiy on the south of the Nebol'shoy Norveskiy Peninsula. It is otherwise surrounded by the Auburn Channel and Seran Sea. Korova's geopolitical role stems from the location at the northern edge of Korozemlya which has historically been the first and most accessible mainland port of Korozemlya for the northern ship routes with Avrokheyviyya, the Second Unification Boom can be attributed to this. The strait created by the peninsula also allows for tolling for access between the two halves of the Auburn Channel. Aside from extensive coastlines, the majority of Korova's landscape consists of river valleys and grassland plains. Korova, and notably the historic Zhurova, has long benefited from this for agricultural purposes having the lowest recorded number of famines of all North Korozemlya states despite the country's famously harsh winters. Western Korova, the historic Kalmov territories, are dominated by two mountain chains. The northern one is known as the Kodar Range while the southern one is known as the Ilmensky Range, which also includes Korova's tallest point Mt. Opala. The range has historically been a defensive bulwark for Kalmov but is nowadays a rising skiing and alpine resort location during the longer-than-average Korovan winters.

Korova has a temperate climate, characterised by strong winters, with mean temperatures in February of -24.7 °C (-12.46 °F), and cool summers, with a mean temperature in August of 17.2 °C (63.0 °F). The most extreme temperatures recorded in Korova, since 1874 when recordings began, was 36.4 °C (97.5 °F) in 1975 and -47.3 °C (-53.14 °F) in 1982. Korova has an average of 179 days per year with precipitation, on average receiving a total of 765 millimetres (30 in) per year; autumn is the wettest season and spring the driest. The position between a continent and an ocean means that the weather is often unstable.

Because of Korova's northern location, there are large seasonal variations in daylight. There are short days during the winter with sunrise coming around 8:45 am and sunset 3:45 pm , as well as long summer days with sunrise at 4:30 am and sunset at 10 pm.

Demographics

Population

Korova has an estimated population of 18,575,000, ranking 40th on existing world charts. A census is taken every year in Korova, with the first one having been in 1870NE. The birthrate is 24 per 1000, but the population growth rate is 2.85% due to the mass immigration of expats. The largest ancestry groups include Korovan Szlavs (incl. Kalmovites), Sinno-Korovans, and Ad' Cane. Korova culturally is a minority-majority country: 41% of the population are the Koro-Szlav Korovans, 34% Kalmovite Ostrogots, 18% Ad' Cane, and 7% are of Other groups. Korovans and Kalmovites also exist as a large refugee population in other countries, such as Severnye Ostrova, Norveskiy, Malariya, and Sentonzh. It is estimated that there are as many as 1,200,000 refugees globally.

Language

Korovan Szlavic is the de facto language of Korova. Approximately 87% of the population speak Korovan as a first language, with both Prydanian and Torogvetsiy each being spoken by 4% of the population. The third most dominant language is Ostrovan at 1%. Korova has a notoriously poor rate of learning languages beyond Korovan due to lack of education or availability of other language resources during the Korovan Anarchy.

Religion

The plurality of Korova's population is Messianist, with 29% identifying as Laurentists, 13% identifying as Courantists, and 4% identifying as other denominations. Pagan faiths (excluding Ad' Cane Revivalist), primarily Norsic and Thaunicca are adhered to by 15% of the population. Ad' Cane Revivalist Paganism is a growing neo-faith in Korova and is considered the faith of 12% of the population. 3% of the population identify as other faiths, while 24% identify as athiest/non-religious. Surveys indicate that religion plays a "very important role" to roughly 57% of religious Korovans, with Courantists and Norsic Pagans being identified as the most devout faiths in Korova. The number of irreligious people in Korova is steadily rising, showing a decline of the religious spike caused as a result of the Korovan Anarchy.

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