Toyana

Empire of Tōyana 夲簗帝国 (Tōyana Teikoku)
Flag of Toyana Flag
Motto: "Ichinichiippo"
Anthem: Chiho Kaikaku, the One thousand steps reformation
Location of Toyana
Capital	Kyōhei
Official languages	Toyanese, Kacchinean, Utari, Belogorskovi
Ethnic groups	Yanajin, Utari,Kacchinean, Kalean, Mannese
Government	Parliamentary monarchy
• Emperor	Emperor Nishihito (西仁)
Currency	(Toyanese Yen) (滿元 (TYE))
Calling code	+67
Internet TLD	.ty

Toyana

The empire of Toyana or simply Toyana, is an archipelagic state, based off of the Furusato Archipelago, Ebisu Strait Islands and the Makigai Archipelago which all lie on the westernmost tip of the south of Ausiana. Bordering north with the Kalea Confederation, south with Nektain and the Neratov Sea, east with the Toyana Ocean and west with Tosichi, the Tosichean Gulf and Gangkou, or Kōkō, as it's known in Toyanese, is known as 'The land in the end of the world'. With a population of exactly 85,000,000 people, it's the 6th most populous country on Ausiana.

Toyana comprises of a total of 1,455 inhabitable islands, enriched by the andosolic soils. As a nation inside of the Toyanic Rim of fire, seismic and volcanic activity is common as well as steep and uneven, with the exception of some coastal plains where cities pack tightly. Toyana is divided into 6 Prefectures and 2 semi-autonomous Republics to the north and south. Toyana is under the rule of the house of X, but the government is mostly managed by the Greater Southestern Ausianan Identity Coalition GSWAIC, leaded by the Home ministry of Toyana.

Etymology

夲簗 Tōyana or Tauyana (second form is an archaism) comes from the old Yuanese 夲 Tō, (To) run very quickly (as fast as 10 people), as quick as ten men, fast-paced and 簗 Yana, fishing trap. Which are two of the most noticeable things the old Cao warring states discovered when visiting the southern islands.

There's a more derogatory way of writing Tōyana, as 等 (et cetera) 簗 which means 'the remainder/the other fishing traps' resting importance to the islands and their importance on the region, and while this may have been the original form the country got its name from, it was later changed by the natives.

Religion

(Main article: Religion in Toyana)

Toyana follows State Tamado as the state religion.

Toyana follows the most popular religion in Southwestern Ausiana, Hinayana Buddhism with its own variant the Tamado, a natural religion with different sources claiming one is the same classification as the other or sometimes seen as different religions. Tamado is a religious syncretist faith that developed separated from Hinayana, and as the later one was introduced to the islands at around 500 BCE, it incorporated it and gained teachings from it and it absorbed enough material to be considered a branch but doesn't have enough in common to be taken as the same exact religion as the practices in mainland Ausiana. Hence Shinbutsu shugo is the best term to describe the interaction of both with each other.

Tamado and Hinayana Buddhism are the religions with the most followers in that order with 89 to 90% of the total population claiming to be a follower of at least some kind, followed by Christianism, mainly Zianism at 5%, then Islam by 1.5% of the population which is entirely foreign in nature.

There is controversy with the native religions that don't come from the [Furusato archipelago] since these are often classified as Tamado or outright data is ignored. Such is the case with the [Kacchinean] religion, Mabuiism since it has so many similar practices derived from the same sources as Tamado.

Numbers are estimated to be in around 1 to 14.5% of the population are mabuiists, followed by Islam at 0.5% and the remaining of the population being either atheist, agnostic or other less practiced religions.

The Urasui Tamadoist Grand shrine, sitting at the capital of Urasui city in the north of Toyana.

Languages of Toyana

Toyana may seem like it's a very uniform and homogeneous country, counting with 89% of the total population speaking Toyanese for most of its known history. Though minorities and other groups considered, change the overall look.

Toyanese

Toyanese language is the result of hundreds of years of exposure to Old Yuanese and adaptation to the local Yanaese dialects. After the first encounter with the two civilizations and a restriction to travel outside the archipelago for 50 years, the proto-toyanese started developing an identity of their own and with this, Toyanese started to separate from Yuanese; though it's important to mention that, even though they share about 17% of similarity in vocabulary and grammar, the Southwestern Ausianan languages aren't neither mutualy interlligible nor related in any sense, but they've interacted with each other throughout the centuries since they're right nect to each other.

89% of the total population speak Toyanese with its regional variants and dialects which equals to 75,650,000 people in total including bilinguals, and lingua franca users.