Seredinia

The Seredinian Federation Серединская Федерация Seredinskaya Federatsiya
Flag Coat of Arms
Motto: Бог дал нацию ("God gave the nation")
Anthem: Прощание Середянки ("Farewell of Seredyanka")
Political map of united Seredinia
Capital	Zolodolina
Largest	Belogorodka
Official languages	Seredyan
Recognised regional languages	Abzahn, Audonais, Latin, Losh, Nasjzky, Tolyk, Yakast, Zvečajian
Ethnic groups	84.2% Seredyan 3.1% Uluujol-originating peoples 3% Zvečajian 2.5% Yakast 1.7% Abzahn 1.6% Jewish 1.3% Tolyk 1.0% Ludz 1.5% Other
Demonym(s)	Seredyan Seredinian
Government	Federal parliamentary republic
• President of Seredinia	Anatole Apraxin
• Prime Minister	Nadezhda Vyrubova
Legislature	Federal Assembly of Seredinia
Formation
• Conquests of the Bayarid Empire	970 CE
• Principality of Zolodolina established	1047 CE
• Deposition of the last Zhuzhes	1318 CE
• Grand Principality of Zolodolina proclaimed	13 October 1366 CE
• Conquests of Vsevolod IV begin across modern Seredinia	10 March 1454 CE
• Grand State of Seredya proclaimed	11 December 1676 CE
• Deposition of the Seredyan Autocracy in the Christmas Revolution	27 December 1878 CE
• Beginning of the Civil War	29 January 1879 CE
• End of the Civil War	8 May 1891 CE
• Grand Republic of Seredinia proclaimed	2 January 1895 CE
• Verizov Constitution ratified	23 September 1952 CE
• Seredinian Federation proclaimed	13 October 1952 CE
Population
• 2017 estimate	126,841,466
• 2014 census	125,776,238
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$3.805,55 billion
• Per capita	$30.002,44
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$3.634,51 billion
• Per capita	$28.654,00
Gini	42.1 medium
HDI	0.858 very high
Currency	tochka (₸)
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy
Driving side	left
Calling code	+7
ISO 3166 code	DS
Internet TLD	.ds

Seredinia (Seredyan: Серединська, tr. Seredinska), officially the Seredinian Federation (Seredyan: Серединская Федерация, tr. Seredinskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental sovereign federal parliamentary republic. It spans east-central Belisaria and Ochran, a geographic makeup from which it gets its name meaning the middle in Seredyan. The largest nation in the world by land area, it is also the fourth largest nation by population with 126,841,466 residents. The majority of its population live in the western area of the country, near the Periclean Sea, and in metropolitian areas such as Belogorodka and Zolodolina, the first and second largest cities in the nation respectively. Other major cities include the coastal centers of Elektrostal and Tambov, as well as the far-eastern city of Dominigrad and the steppe city of Voroshilovka. Spanning a wide swathe of the northern hemisphere, Seredinia shares land borders with Drevstran, Velikograd, Tsensurii, and Uluujol as well as a maritime border with Tarsas. Historically and in contemporary ages, it has served as a gateway between the eastern and western powers of Ochran and Belisaria.

The ethnic group known as Seredyans first emerged across Belisaria and Ochran in the early centuries CE, and were initially ruled by various disparate knyazes over the course of the 6th through the 10th centuries. By 970 CE a majority of the country was under the nominal control of the Bayarid Empire. Its domination over Seredya would last until just before the disestablishment of the Bayarids in 1147, with a transition to the Zhuzh system of decentralized rulership taking hold until the late 13th century. It was during this time that various religions began to spread across Seredya, including Eastern Orthodoxy and Fabrian Catholicism. While none would take root across the entire nation, each would ingrain itself into Seredyan culture, eventually forming what is now known as the Evangelical Orthodox Church of All Seredyans by the 16th century. After the deposition of the last Zhuzh in Seredya-majority areas in 1318, power began coalescing around the Christian Principalities of Zolodolina and Belogorodka. Proclaimed a united Grand Principality in 1366 through various intermarriages, the Princes of the Golden Valley would begin expanding across what is now western and central Seredinia throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the conquests of Vsevolod IV from 1454-1468. By the seventeenth century, the lands were essentially united and expanded by conquest, annexation, and expeditions in the far east to roughly the modern extent of the Seredinian Federation, termed The Middle Lands -- inhabited by the People of the Middle Lands, or Seredyans -- by its Velikiy Knyaz, or Grand Prince, and Samoderzec, or Autocrat.

Seredya under the Grand Prince and Autocrat would collapse after the Christmas Revolution of 1878 and capture of Anatole I, leading to a decade-long civil war and the emergence of socialist and communist ideologies across the nation. The conflict would see the deaths by starvation and war of millions of citizens across the country, and the secession of Tsensurii as well as other small regions of the country. At its end, propagated by the unification of liberal Kadet factions with the moderate wing of the Socialist Authority, the Velikaya Respublika, or Grand Republic, was declared; and while it underwent significant amendment and change during the early-1950s era known as the Time of Troubles, it is one of the longest-standing republics in the world. It maintains consistently peaceful transfers of power and only a single instance of near-usurpation of its democracy, undertaken during the 1950 to 1954 period of instability, known as the Knyazitsyn Putsch and ended decisively by Prime Minister and later President Laurentiy Verizov. The reformation of the nation into the Seredinian Federation was overseen by Verizov, and his reforms and constitutional document are termed the Verizov Documents.

Seredinia's economy ranks within the top five of the world by nominal GDP, and it is a major producer of raw materials as well as finished products. Governmentally, Seredinia maintains an indirectly-elected President serves as the official head of state and guarantor of the Seredinian Constitution who appoints a prime minister from among the leaders of the Zemsky Sobor to serve as the head of government. The President's powers and the procedures by which he executes them are maintained according to the various so-called constitutions, though each successive document is actually a set of amendments to the official 1878 Constitution. The current President is Anatole Apraxin, serving his second term since 2010, and the current Prime Minister is Nadezhda Vyrubova since 2015. The government is based primarily in the capital city of Zolodolina.

Etymology

The name Seredinia is derived from the Seredyan word середи́на (tr. Seredina), meaning "centre" or "midpoint". This name was only used after the establishment of the Velikaya Respublika in 1895, as previously references the state was referred to as the "Середская Земля" (tr. Seredskaya Zemlya) which can be translated as "Seredyan Land" or "Land of the Seredyans". The state which developed into Seredinia is commonly referred to as the Grand Principality of Zolodolina, and its people as Zolodolinans, until the proclamation of the Grand State of Seredya in the 17th century.

Citizens of Seredinia are still primarily referred to normally by the ancient name as "Seredyans" (Seredyan": Середян). Due to the nation's size and periodic expansion over time, other words are used to specify citizens of specific regions of the modern nation. "Velikoseredya", or Great Seredya; "Maloseredya", or Small Seredya; "Novoseredya", or New Seredya; and "Vostoseredya", or East Seredya, are all regions of the nation which have specific demonyms.

The regional demonyms have evolved over time, and the social acceptability of some -- especially Maloseredy -- have come into question in recent years. Proponents of the disuse of these demonyms include Prime Minister (and Vostoseredyan) Nadezhda Vyrubova, while supporters of their traditional use continuing include former Prime Ministers (and Velikoseredyans) Mikhail Luzhkov and Adrian Dityatev

Demographics

Language

Languages of Seredinia
Language			Percent
Seredyan			99.2%
Oshi			21.4%
Latin			13.4%
Audonais			10.8%
Zvečajian			4.6%
Yakast			1.8%
Yiddish			1.6%
Losh			1.3%
Ludz			0.9%
Other			2.4%

Religion

Religion in Seredinia
Religion			Percent
Evangelical Orthodox Church			45.0%
No Religion			24.4%
Fabrian Catholicism			10.2%
Sadhana			6.5%
United Reformed Communion			5.5%
Zensunnism			3.1%
Judaism			1.6%
Eastern Orthodoxy			1.4%
Other			2.3%

Ethnic Groups

Ethnic Groups of Seredinia
Ethnicity			Percent
Seredyan			84.2%
Uluujol-originating			3.1%
Zvečajian			3%
Yakast			2.5%
Abzahn			1.7%
Jewish			1.6%
Tolyk			1.3%
Ludz			1.0%
Other			1.5%