Hvalheim

Imperial Federation of Realms Bând Vurkonglik das Rykê Csarique Fodoraçien des Raumes Fédération Impériale des Réaulmes
Flag Coat of arms of The Hvalheim Coat of arms
Motto: By the Gods!
Map of Hvalheim
Capital	Oçkarn
Largest city	Brukírk
Recognised regional languages	Magnish, Zvish, Gvalo-Audonic, Aldarsprek
Demonym(s)	Hvalig/Hvalheimer
Government	Federal constitutional monarchy
• Vurenkongr (Emperor)	Vilmar I
• Gangsführer (Regent)	Diotmar dur Rotehôl
Legislature	Aldarthangs
• Upper house	Rykésrat
• Lower house	Ehrenhås
Establishment
• Treaty of the North	July 10, 1870 CE
• Treaty of Helstromme	November 9, 2005 CE
Area
• Total	1,129,936 km2 (436,271 sq mi)
Population
• 2021 estimate	78,628,013
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Total	$1.514 trillion
• Per capita	$19,250
Gini	0.4 low
HDI	0.59 medium
Currency	Vigmark (₰) (VMK)
Date format	dd.mm.yyy.MM
Driving side	right
Calling code	+420
Internet TLD	.hva

The Hvalheim, officially the Imperial Federation of Realms (Magnish: Bând Vurkonglik das Rykê), is a country in northern Belisaria bordered to the west by Skaldafen, to the south by Vannois, and to the south and east by Ostrozava. It also shares a maritime border with Keuland to the north. Formed in 1870 CE, the Imperial Federation, also known as the Twelve Realms at the time, is an increasingly-stratocratic, federal constitutional monarchy currently composed of nine Reichs or Realms which are ruled by Konge, kings, that elect a Vurenkongr, high-king or emperor. Since 2003 CE, after the assassination of Ragnahar II and his wife Kyrsten, the nation has been governed by the interregnum administration of Gangsführer Diotmar dur Rotehôl in the place of the prematurely-elected Vilmar I. Closely allied with Keuland due to historical relations, the country has not enjoyed the most amicable of roles on the international stage. Regarded as either an oligarchy or dictatorship, the Hvalheim has few allies among Ajaxi Leftist states, let alone its liberal democracies, and due to historical tensions stemming from the Northern Crusades and later ethnoreligious conflicts, few other monarchies maintain a steadfast relationship with the Federation. Many critics of the state voice concerns relating to the Hvalheimer Thralldom as a violation of human rights as legalized slavery, the Gangsführer's alleged associations with international criminal and terrorist organizations, the alleged ongoing practice of the state's arming of foreign far-right and radical pagan militant groups, and the Realms' treatment of Christians, especially Fabrians, and political dissidents. There is a rather large diaspora of Hvalheimers across the world; many of whom still claim Hvalheimer citizenship in spite of the legal complications therein. While the Hvalheim has been notoriously harsh to outsiders since the earliest records of/in the area, the internal demographics of the nation are surprisingly diverse and the culture itself retains and has developed a great deal of social progressivism, with burgeoning social justice movements coalescing as early as the mid 20th century and enduring governmental rebuke to this day.

History

Prehistory

As late as ten million years ago, protohuman ancestors were present in the modern Hvalheim. Archaeological evidence from several excavation sites near and within 19th, 20th, and some 21st century mines as well as ancient places of worship that archaic hunter-gatherer tools were in regular use throughout the area some 300,000 to 400,000 years ago. Most famously, between 2002 and 2006, nine spears or harpoon like objects dated to approximately 340,000 years old were recovered from the Bjarnsgard mines in eastern Skegmyrk. The fossils of the extinct Hrolågstalur human species were also discovered in 1875.

Some time between 42,000 and 30,000 years ago, the Hrolågstalur populations of prehistoric Hvalheim were entirely displaced if not outright annihilated by modern human hunter-gatherer bands who had migrated from Scipia, Ochran, and southwestern Belisaria. These early modern humans had superior tool-making skills and possibly larger and better-organized social units. Some fossil evidence suggests that these newcomers were also extremely violent towards the Hrolågstalur. Several of these early modern humans, known as the Vorfrig Group in Hvalheimer anthropology, apparently wore Hrolågstalur bones as jewelry alongside the more normal animal dental jewelry of the period. The 2014 discovery in Alasexen, Tôln-dur-Rhíanne, of a stash of broken Hrolågstalur bones near what appeared to be a primitive cooking pit sparked intense debate about the Near-Cannibal Hypothesis which suggested that the Vorfrig Group humans hunted and consumed Hrolågstalurs as part of their diet or even as proto-religious ritual, but this has yet to be confirmed. Further genetic analysis of the bones in the stash only added to the mystery as Vorfrig Group and closely-related early modern human bones were confirmed to also be within the stash. Criticism of the NCH often hinges on the idea that the pit may have been used for both cooking as well as a burial pyre. Nonetheless, the prevailing theories throughout Hvalheimer discourse and international academic sources is that a combination of events, rather than solely direct competition with early modern humans, such as that competition with the Vorfrig Group, which could have simultaneously occurred with interbreeding and even socio-technological collaboration, and a period of intense seasonality or even a volcanic eruption in the Periclean resulting in climate change is what resulted in not only the Hrolågstalurs' disappearance from the Hvalheim but also their total extinction throughout Belisaria and beyond.

By nine thousand years ago, the first truly-sedentary human populations were arriving in the Hvalheim. Having migrated from modern day Vardana, they began forming the first cultures of a civilized Hvalheim.

Culture	circa Periods
Painted Hand	7000 BCE-2800 BCE*
Grove-and-Henge	4500 BCE-2300 BCE
Facecarver	3100 BCE-1700 BCE
Füürstynnen	2800 BCE-700 BCE
Schäfenhügel Culture	1200 BCE-400 BCE
Osttorkur	500 BCE - 1 BCE

The Azgrhüzur ^spel?, or "Houses of Ashes," some of the oldest and surviving free-standing stone structures ever built in Belisaria, are constructed in this period in modern Slavisha just northwest of the Ostro-Hvalheimer border as the Tyvarian declines into hills. Most Hvalheimer legendary histories traditionally start here with the Stromssaga.

Antiquity

pre-5th century BCE

Tribal States Period

[Brother-Kings are here]

Classical era

4th century BCE to 5th century CE

[Tervingia and Post-Tervingia here]

Middle ages

5th century CE to 15th century CE

Early modern era

15th century CE to 18th century CE

Modern era

19th century CE to ~1950s

Fudge it a bit to work with your nations' actual historiographical eras.

Contemporary history

~1950s to present

Demographics

Healthcare and education

^Could also go under the Government header instead.