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Duchy of Vastria     Duqé d'Vastrey (Vastrian)
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Capital	Bessens
Official languages	Vastrian
Recognised regional languages	Blostlandic
Recognized auxiliary language(s)	Gaullician
Ethnic groups	Vastrians (87.7%) Blostlanders (11.6%) Other (2.5)
Religion	Church of Vastria (Amendism)
Demonym(s)	Vastrian(s)
Government	Unitary semi-constitutional monarchy
• Duke	Jeannot
• Prime Minister	Brus Gaspard-Valett
Establishment
• Duchy of Issetia	1393 C.E.
• Independence from Gaullica	1935 C.E
• Proclamation of People's Republic	1938 C.E
• Desocialization	1981
Population
• Estimate	5 million
Gini (2020)	68.4 very high
HDI (2021)	0.851 very high
Driving side	right

Selosia (Selosian: Selōska /selu̯oska/), officaly known as Republic of Selosia (Selōskas Republika), is a landlocked country and a democracy located in the ??? plains in Central Euclea. It is bordered byEast Miersa to the west , Kirenia to the north, Gaullica to the east and Lake ? to the south. The capital is located at Vissens.

History

1935 to 1982

During the Kirenian invasion of Gaullica, a worker's congress in the town of Mālkreis led by Klaus Vireskis declared their independece and soon instigated an all-out guerilla war to liberate the rest of Selosia along with numerous Witterite and Miersan volunteers. Together, the newly organized People's Liberation Front of Selosia (PLFS) , with Kirenian backing, succeded in achieving their goals and virtually wiped out the already broken enemy infastructure. On Christmas Day 1935, the PLFS entered into Vissens and liberated the city without any resistance or bloodshed, scores of crowds cheering and celebrating in the snow as it were a true Christmas miracle.

Months later, the last remaining Gaullican forces pulled out as the Godfredson Agreement was signed between the two sides. One of the terms listed gave Kirenia the right to administer over Selosia and East Miersa for 15 years, whilst supporting the two nation's self-determination. After months of negotiating, the two countries signed the Treaty of Peaceful Co-Operation in which Selosia was allowed to retain its democratic independence in exchange for economic aid from Kirenia. By this time however, Vireskis and his People's Party had already made Selosia an one-party socialist state modeld after the latter's govenrment and their attempts at implementing economic reform succeded and jumpstarted the post-war recovery. But sadly, before he could realize the country's future, he died unexpectedly of liver cancer in late 1943.

Under the administration of Dimetri Ozoliņš, Selosia was heavily involved in the foreign affairs of her more socialist-minded neighbors. It provided logistical support for Kirenia in the short-lived war against Werania in 1949. But problems were brewing at home, as corruption and persecution of dissidents run rampant during a decade that also saw anti-government protests. Between Feburary and August of 1954, an attempted coup staged by Selosian "pro-democracy" right-wing militias funded by Gaullica and Soravia successfully ousted the authorities, but their plan miserably backfired when both Kirenia and East Miersa caught word of the crisis, sending its expeditionary forces to crush the rebellion. This became known as the "Vissens Spring". Soon afterwards, a "normalization" policy was put in place to return the nation to a status quo.

In 1960, Pēteris Briedis became premier of Selosia and sought to introduce a series of reforms aimed at liberalizing some aspects of society, in order to appease the people after the events of 1954. These would allow greater freedoms for the public to speak about their views without restrictive censorship and to travel abroad. Also, he initiated a centrist-minded foreign policy that saw the establishment of relations between Selosia and other nations whom were mostly comprised of recently-independent nations (Slirnia, Alsland, Hennehouwe,Solstiana) or newcomers on the global stage such as Cassier and Zorasan. At this point, Kireno-Selosian relations began to falter somewhat, especially after a more orthodox wing of communists swept through Kirenia's government in 1965. Then in 1968,Selosia normalized relations with Werania for the first time since the aforementioned Kirenian-Weranian War, provoknig ire within the hardliners and others with what they saw as a utter betrayal of socialist values and accusing Briedis of being "in bed" with the capitalist opressors from the past, despite his still-strong oppostion to imperial hegemony and pestering influences from Soravia and Gaullica.

Afer he stepped down as president in 1971 due to health issues, Briedis was succeeded by Andris Bogūvērš, the first ethnic Ventish leader in the nation. He particuarly continued much of the former's policies and introduced some new ones, including the recognition of his own Ventic people as being part of Selosian society and improvements in infastructure and the economy. But Andris's most lasting accomplishment was in using his "Ostpolitik" foreign policy to commence a rapprochement with Gaullica after forty years of hostility, which resulted in the pivotal Kesselborug Accords of 1975. However, his presidency soon went into freefall amidst growing tensions in central and western Euclea, as well as inflation brought upon by the Oil Crisis of 1977. The anti-corruption demonstrations around this time turned violent, and morphed into a democratic revolution that pressured Bogūvērš to resign in 1978.

Thereafter, a civil-military junta was installed in order to keep the peace, while simultaneously silenecing opponents of the new regime, including the very Socialists that had once held power.

Demographics

Languages

The Selosian language is predominantly spoken by the Selosian majority. Kasavrine is the largest native minority language, being spoken there due to the role it played for centuries and shared similarities with Selosian. Lemovicians enjoys special status as the language of the namesake group, whose presence also goes to the late Medieval period. Also, Miersan is spoken in the western regions and on locations close to the border with East Miersa. Other languages such as Savader and especially Gaullican do not have the same recognition, owning to historical shifts in ethnic compostion (the latter's speakers were expelled after the Great War, just as in other parts of Central Euclea once controlled by the Gaullican Empire.)