Zamorodna

Zamorodnian Hetmanate Замородинський гетьманство
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Porozhamina
Official languages	Zamorodnian
Ethnic groups	Kozaks (78.2%) Suvarovans (7.3%) Balts (6.4%) Baderians (6.0%) Ostrozavans (1.3%) Others (<1%)
Religion	Alban Nazarism (55.4%) Docetic Nazarism (31.7%) Fabrian Catholicism (2.4%) None (10.4%) Others (<1%)
Demonym(s)	Zamorodnian
Government	Confederal minarchist elected autocracy
• Hetman	Oleh Bohdanuk Petrenko
• Koshovyy Otaman	Volodymyr Matvyyuk Nesterenko
Legislature	Starshyna Rada
Establishment
• Great Kozak Migration	1332-1426 CE
• Unification of the Hosts	1538 CE
• Independence from Suvarova	1672 CE
Population
• Estimate	14,293,012 (2021)
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$178.6 billion (2021)
• Per capita	$12,494.43
Gini	39.9 medium
HDI	0.67 medium
Currency	Hrivenka (₴) (ZHR)
Date format	yyyy-mm-dd (CE)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+443
Internet TLD	.zam

The Zamorodnian Hetmanate (Zamorodnian: Zamorodyns'kyy Het'manstvo), also known as Zamorodna or Zamorodina, is a small, landlocked nation in northern Belisaria. Zamorodna is the homeland of the Kozak peoples, who migrated westward from the Altunid and Ikdemid Khanates in the high middle ages, settling in a harsh, swampy region in the western hinterlands of Suvarova. The Great Kozak Host was an autonomous nation under the Crown of Suvarov, but gained independence in 1672.

In the present day, Zamorodna is a culturally integrated but politically disunified entity. The various constituent polities of the Hetmanate, the Tovarystva, have varying degrees of authoritarian or democratic and capitalist or socialist elements. As such, the Tovarystva can often be isolationist, particularly from very different neighbours. However, the unified culture, language, and traditions of the Kozaks tie the Tovarystva together.

Economically, Zamorodna is self-sufficient but only moderately-to-poorly industrialized. Approximately one-third of the population are traditional pastoralists. Mining and other resource extraction are growing industries and leading sectors in the export economy. Domestically, economic figures can be difficult to ascertain due to limited governmental oversight and a widespread informal economy.

Name

The name of Zamorodna is inconsistently associated with the Kozak peoples who inhabit it. The term originally referred to the land before the Kozak hosts arrived and occupied it. Since then, however, it has come to refer more specifically to both the ethnic Kozaks living on the land and their language. The Zamorodnian language is distinct from that which was spoken by the first migrant Kozaks, having been heavily influenced by Slavic speakers in the region that they settled but retains Turkic influences.

The etymology of Zamorodna can be broken down into three components. The first component, "zam" or "sam", means "on its own", or "independent". The second component "o" is a linking element between the first and third components. The third component is etymologically uncertain and may stem from "rodna" or "rodina" and either means "fertile" or "of nature", or "of family". Read together, "Zamorodna" has the sense of either "fertile wilderness" or "free families". The former is likely descriptive of the harsh marshes and swamps of the region, while the latter has been widely accepted as referring to the independent Kozaks. There is no academic consensus on which interpretation is more likely the original.