Nayonland

Commonwealth of Nayonland 7 other official languages Bahasa Bakulud: Komonwelt ning Nayona Bahasa Ibalong: Komonwelt kan Nayona Bahasa Laoag: Komunidad ti Nayona Bahasa Lingayen: Komonwelt na Nayona Iverican: Opicomúnidat dei Terranayon Kastila: Opicomúnidat dei TerranayonComunidad de Terranayon Tagabay: Kommonwelt ng Nayona
Flag National Emblem
Motto: "Makatao at Makabansa" (Tagabay) "Por Gente y Pais" (Stillian) "For the People and the Nation" (Anglish)
Anthem: Marcha Nayona (Nayongan March)
Capital and largest city	Tondo
Official languages	Anglish Bahasa Bakulud Bahasa Ibalong Bahasa Laoag Bahasa Lingayen Tagabay Iverican Stillian
Ethnic groups	80% Tagabay 13% White 7% other
Demonym(s)	Nayona (female), Nayono (male), Nayongan
Government	Federal dominion
• Primo	Franso Deitorr
• Governor-General	Sulayman VII
• Prime Minister	Sarah Labuh
Legislature	Batasang Pambansa
• Upper house	Council of State
• Lower house	Kamarang Pambansa
Iverican Overseas Commonwealth Republic
• Annexed by Iverican government	29 August 1916
• Federation	14 May 1935
• Unilateral Independence Declaration	24 February 1986
• Order restored	3 April 1986
• Junta of National Reconstruction	25 March 1986
Area
•	841,638 km2 (324,958 sq mi)
Population
• Census	14,904,421
GDP (nominal)	2023 estimate
• Total	$104.538 billion ($4,130)
Gini	59.1 high
HDI	0.610 medium
Currency	Nayongan Velle

Nayonland, officially the Commonwealth of Nayonland, also known as Nayona (Tagabay), or Terranayon (Iverican and Kastila), is an Iverican dominion in Alharu. The territory comprises Northern Turtle Island, separated from the mainland continent by the Turtle Sea to the northwest and the Synthe Sea to the west. The capital city, Tondo, was the second colonial settlement in the island founded in 1627 by Miguel de Legazpi, the Stillian commander of the Armada de San Miguel, during the Gran Viatge. They became the progenitors of the Kastila people. The first colony, Batagan, predated Tondo in 1521, when it was founded by Anglian explorer Sir Ferdinand Magline. Extensive trading with Fulgistan, Sahra, and Saripoon brought their peoples to the island to settle and intermarry with the natives over the centuries.

Nayonland remains a territory of Iverica. As a dominion, it has full responsibility for internal affairs. Foreign and military affairs are subordinated to the Iverican Constitution. Nayongans are Iverican nationals. It varies due to different classifications of the Solidaridad status. For most Nayogans, they can easily acquire work, education, and tourist visas in Iverica. There are nearly 1.2 million Overseas Tagabay Workers around the world. They are part of the larger 4 million global Tagabay diaspora.

It is a newly industrialized country. But economic stagnation and political instability have depopulated Nayonland. It has a variety of natural resources left untapped. Living standards have not improved for the Tagabay majority. The White Nayongan minority continue to dominate important sectors of the economy. Many parts of Nayonland, especially the rural areas, are either abandoned or remain untouched. Combined with urbanization, the population decline has only been beneficial to the preservation of Nayonland's globally significant level of diversity.

Etymology

Nayonland is an exonym invented by Great Anglia. Ivericans and Kastilas use the name "Terranayon" to refer to the island.

The name "Nayon" is an archaic Tagabay word for "village". It is speculated that either Iverican or the Anglian explorers misheard the natives during the first contact. This likely occurred when tehy answered questions about the island's name. The use of the Anglian name became more popular than the Kastila name due to the proliferation of Anglish literature covering pre-colonial Nayongan history, economy, and other topics related to Nayonland.

History

Early Nayonland

The Tagabay people originated from the intermarriages of the Azano-Marenesian people and the transcontinental Boreaurelian nomads. The Azano-Marenesian first came to the island. Traces of their first settlement near Batagan is estimated to have been built circa 12,000 CE. The Boreaurelian nomads came between 3,000 and 4,000 BCE from West Alharu and crossed to the east via the Manamana isthmus on Indiense "barangay" boats. Towards the modern age, the barangays evolved into city-states and united to form the Tagabay kingdoms or kedatuans and lakanates. These were the kedatuans in the western shore, Bakulud and Tondo, and the lakanates in the eastern shore, Ibalong, Laog, and Lingayen.

The Yellow Empire, through its tributaries Quan and Zita, sold ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shells, pearls and birds' feather to Tondo. In the 15th Century, Huang settlers in Nayonland formed Kongsi republics or democratic mining settlements. They were invited by the local datus to extract tin and gold. Merchants who set up shop in the kedatuan capitals established Huang mestizo enclave-communities. Tagabay interactions with the Huang helped spread the Salamism and Phosattism.

The Anglians from Europa were the first White settlers. The first Anglian expedition, led by Sir Ferdinand Magline, founded the city of Batagan in 1521. During the Gran Viatge, Grand Datu Sulayman III permitted the lease of land near Tondo to Stillian commander Miguel de Legazpi to build a settlement for Iberic settlers. In return, the Stillians will provide weapons to the Kedatuan of Tondo. After they defeated consecutive raids from the Namayan Confederation, an alliance of raider kedatuans and lakanates, Sulayman recognized their settlement in perpetuity to secure a military alliance. In 1631, the Tondo colony declared its allegiance to Iverica. After the 1633 War of the Two Presidios, the Stillian colony and the kedatuan partitioned the defeated Namayan Confederation. Presidios or colonial fortresses were built all over the new territories to protect it from any more threats in the east. Between 1633 and 1638, the remaining free and wary lakanates gradually signed instruments of accession and recognized Anglian suzerainty. It established the Eastern Shore Protectorate.

In the Tondo Viceroyalty settlements, intermarriages were frequent between the Tagabays, Huang, and the Ivericans. The spread-out capitals, barangays, and puroks or villages were centralized by the policy of reducciones. In political administration, Iverican colonies were governed by an elected municipal captain. They each made up the Comtaté Capitanos, an advisory body to the governor-general. Over time, they gained judicial functions, handed down sentences, and became the highest court in the viceroyalty. The datus lost their territorial sovereignty. They maintained their noble status by becoming native hidalgos in the cabeza de barangay system. They were the hereditary legislators of a barangay, eligble for appointment as the barangay administrator or gobernadorcillo, and formed semi-legislative and judicial councils called Comtaté Cabezas. A protector de indios, representing the Tacolic Church, led the bureaucratic administration of a barangay. They audited taxes and served as mediators in Iverican-Tagabay disputes. Many colonists complained that the protectors were biased and in favor of the Tagabay people.

The Eastern Shore colonies were decentralized. The lakans maintained control over much of their traditional territories. Leased lands were settled by chartered Anglian colonies. Each led by a governor appointed by the crown. A representative assembly served as the colony's legislature. A governor's council was both the executive government and the last court of appeal in a colony. Cases could seek a final appeal in the Anglian privy council. But they often delegated judicial duties to a county court. The assembly members were elected by the propertied citizens of the towns or counties.

The prosperity of mining gold, silver, iron, manganese, and coal in the Tondo Viceroyalty and the sugar and tobacco plantations in the Eastern Shore colonies gave much power to the Nayongan principalía, a small landowning elite made up of White Nayongans. Despite promises to respect Tagabay leaders, numerous Iverican colonists and Tacolic protectors interfered with native affairs, either to seek Tagabay lands, wealth, or to commit reprisals. In the Olivaran Reforms, the datus were empowered. They gained lands in a restorative justice program that seized church properties, who held the biggest collection of ill-gotten native lands. Tacolic protectorates were abolished.

Equatorial Alharu period

In the Iverican-Anglian War, the combined territories of northern Turtle Island were leased to the Compañía Ivericana de Alharu Ecuatorial. Its rule was authoritarian. The company controlled prices, regulating immigration, and monopolizing trade. It started buying and expanding large sugar and tobacco plantations near the coast. To escape CIAE rule, the Anglians in the east started the Grand March, a mass migration inland and claimed arable lands in the deeper valleys of Eastern Shore.

The discovery of gold in Mountain Province created a rush, attracting Iverican, Kastila, and Anglian settlers to the center of the island. Violent Tagabay resistance to the rushers escalated into the 4-year Boondok Rebellion, starting in 1896 and ending in 1900. In 1901, the island was annexed by the Iverican government under the colony "Equatorial Alharu."

In 1916, the colony was granted autonomy. The new General Assembly was comprised of the members of the Anglian colonial Legislative Council and the Iverican counterpart Colonial Chamber. Andrés Soriano Sr., a Kastila mining mogul, become the first elected prime minister. He led the first political party founded in the island, Partido Morales. They are pro-Iverica conservatives. Strict property and income franchises restricted the vote to the male, wealthy, and educated principalía (Kastila and Tagabay elite), Iverican, and Anglian residents, excluding much of the native Tagabays. A series of Tagabay-led plantation and mine revolts in the early 1920s encouraged the Kastila, Iverican, and Anglian communities to adopt segregationist rules. In 1935, a new constitution created a federal dominion for Nayonland. It granted franchise for the emerging native middle classes. It reserved majority Tagabay and Alharun membership in the Federal Council, the 50-seat new upper house in a bicameral National Assembly. Datu Manuel Koe-sun, a Nayongan-Fulgistani noble, is the first Tagabay opposition leader in the assembly. He was the head of the Progresista Party, the largest opposition party from 1935 to 1946. It was dissolved due to intense infighting. The pro-colony Progresista factions led by Principalía, Iverican, and Anglian leaders broke off to form the Unión Republicano Patriótica (URP). The nationalist Tagabay faction joined the Katipunan ng Manggagawag Katagabayon (KMK).

The country experienced great economic growth in the 1950s. The expansion of social services, especially healthcare and education, increased living standards and literacy. Existing roads and rails were expanded to connect the growing number of industrial and mining towns. This prompted the prosperous Kastila and Anglian classes to expand cities, build suburbs in extended city limits, and buy up real estate in the surrounding countryside. This often involved the forced displacement of Tagabays, who were already pushed out to live in the peripherals of the historical urban centers they once called their home. Many of them could not afford to buy property. It led to the proliferation of shantytowns infamously known as "boondoks." Although segregation was not enshrined in law, it has become commonplace in all sectors of society. Its institutionalization has been supported by the Nacionalista Party, the colony's ruling party since 1949. They are mostly made up of Kastilas.

Student riots in the early 1960s demanded the end of minority rule and segregation. This prompted the Nacionalistas to start power-sharing negotiations with the Council of Cabezas de Barangay, the governing body of all Tagabay tribes. This later included the KMK. A constitutional conference was proposed to compile the agreed provisions, but the Iverican government insisted on a constitutional convention that represents everyone in Nayonland. The disagreements between the Iverican and Nacionalista governments created a deadlock, causing the civil unrest to continue. Six, consecutive Nacionalista governments collapsed, none lasting the Legislative Assembly's five-year term. In 1974, Governor-General Biel Deitorr y Suances appointed Gat Cesar Virata to lead a coalition government of pro-convention Nacionalista defectors, the KMK, and the URP. They scheduled the elections for the 1976 constitutional convention. It was marred by violence, vote-buying, and the assassination of Deitorr. The convention elections were suspended indefinitely. In 1979, the Nacionalistas returned to power under Elia Field.

To restore public order, Governor-General Felix Abello y Latorre proclaimed martial law at the request of the new government. Field directed the Guardia Civil to arrest anti-government activist leaders, KMK politicians, and journalists designated as dangerous subversives by her Anti-Terrorism Council. In 1981, the National Renewal Scheme was introduced. Its aims included the removal of boondok settlements and the forced relocation of Tagabay squatters. It was met with mass protests. The brutal quelling by the Guardia Civil led to more than 1,500 people dead. In the Battle of Cementerio del Norte, 100 squatter residents and 20 Guardia Civil officers were killed in the clearing operations. In total, 600,000 squatters were relocated.

In 1984, the Iverican parliament passed the Nayonland Independence Act. A transition period of 10 years was going to occur before independence to allow more time for the Iverican and colonial governments to prepare Nayonland's economy. It scheduled elections in 1985 for a constitutional convention the following year. It was the first Nayongan election held with full suffrage. The new constitution introduced majority rule, the prohibition of racial segregation, and a proportional representation system in the legislature. In 1987, the constitution was approved by 64% in a national referendum. It never came into force due to the Terranayano Declaration of Independence. In the same year, the Republican Armed Service regained control of the island. Field and her cohorts were executed. The 1934 Constitution was restored until the formation of the Junta of National Reconstruction, which finally established majority rule in Nayonland in 1988. It provided an indefinite transitional period for future independence.

Present

Martial law returned between 1992 and 1994 in response to several coup plots. Public criticism of the government was criminalized. More than 1,200 activists were jailed until general amnesty was granted by Franso Ramos. Their poor human rights record and disappointing economic growth barely moved the country from its newly industrialized economy since 1996, partially transitioning from its agriculture-based economy to a service-manufactured-based one. Its location in the Equator, between the Fulgiotan Plate and the Adisian Plate, has made the country prone to earthquakes and typhoons. As a temporary solution to growing unemployment, the Terranayano government incentivized Overseas Tagabay Workers, negotiating with foreign governments to deploy skilled workers, and improving technical vocation education, marketing Terranayon as a "human-resource rich" country. The country experienced massive brain drain and the population shrunk from 16 million in 1989 to 15.2 million in 2000.

Government

Nayonland is an autonomous Iverican Overseas Commonwealth Republic. It uses a semi-presidential hybrid of parliamentary democracy. At the head of it is a council of ministers called the praesidium. It is inspired by the Iverican model. The head of state is the Primo of Iverica, represented in the island by a governor-general appointed by the primo and approved by the Iverican National Chamber.

Legislative power belongs to the Batasang Pambansa, the "highest organ of the Commonwealth." The Iverican parliament can only legislate on behalf of its foreign affairs, defense, and international trade as defined by the Nayonland Independence Act. It delegated dominion charter change and domestic matters to Nayonland. The members of the upper house Council of State are appointed for life by the governor-general. A seat is reserved for the Chairman of the Council of Cabezas de Barangay, a position permanently held by the Grand Datu of Tondo.

The prime minister, as chair of the praesidium, is the head of government. They are elected by the lower house Kamarang Pambansa from the majority party or coalition. Other ministers and members of the praesidium are nominated by the prime minister. Ministerial nominations need the approval of the Batasan. By law, 2/3 of the praesidium membership is required to be concurrent lawmakers in the Batasan. Similar to the Anglian system, it adopted parliamentary supremacy. It prevented a definite separation of powers in the Nayongan government.

The Iverican primo officially retains executive power. In practice, their powers are divided between the governor-general and the prime minister. Since dominion status was granted in 1934, the role of the governor-general has developed cohabitation rules. If power-sharing agreements broke down between them and the elected government, the governor-general would have a different policy of his exclusive portfolio overm military and legislative affairs. They sign bills into laws, veto bills approved by the Batasan, and dissolve the Kamarang Pambansa to call for an early election. It could interrupt the agenda of the elected Batasan and government, which is in charge of finances, law enforcement, local government, and other domestic policies.

As a dependent territory, the foreign relations of Nayonland are conducted by Iverica. However, by special dispensation from the Iverican foreign minister, it can establish representative offices in countries with large diasporas of Nayongan citizens. Participation in international organizations and ratification of treaties require the authorization of the Iverican parliament.

The Nayongan government is represented in Iverica by the Overseas Commonwealth Office, the agency responsible for Iverican government policy on Nayonland.

Judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court of Nayonland.