Finstria
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Finstrian Republic Finstrische Republik | |
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| Capital and largest city | Tanaus |
| Official languages | Hesurian |
| Recognised regional languages | Lesiac Tharic Gaugasanic Yerin Maric Arguzic |
| Ethnic groups | |
| Demonym(s) | Finstrian |
| Government | unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| Johann Preiss | |
| Frank Schroeder | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate | 27,320,000 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | 932.24 billion |
• Per capita | 34,123.05 |
| Currency | Zaile |
| Time zone | |
| Date format | dd.mm.yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +44 |
| Internet TLD | .fn |
The Finstrian Republic (Hesurian: Finstrische Republik), commonly referred to as Finstria (/ˈfɪn.strjə/; Hesurian: Finstrien [ˈfɪnstriən]), is a sovereign country located in south-eastern Hesuria. Finstria is bordered by Mascylla to the north, Krumlau to the west and shares a maritime border with Rotsir to the east.
Etymology
The term “Finstria” comes directly from Hesurian Finstrien. Finstrien is derrived from Finsterey or Vinsterey, from finster (archaic spelling: finster “dark”), thus literally translating to “land of darkness”. It originally was used to describe the marshlands of the coastal region around Tanaus and Reßhaven. Occasionally, it was referred to as Diusterey, which gave rise to the modern name for that province; Distria (Hesurian: Düsterei (occasionally spelled as Düsterey)).
History
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Politics and Government
Military
Foreign Relations
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Industry
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Demographics
Largest cities
Template:Largest Cities in Finstria
Ethnic groups
Main page: Ethnic groups of Finstria
Finstria has always been ethnically diverse, having been a border region of the Ragucin Empire. As a rule of thumb, it can be said that parts of the country which used to be under Ragucin rule are either Lesiac or Hesurian, while regions that were besides its control, at least historically, are inhabited by ethnic minorities, such as the Tharic, Gaugasanic or Yerin peoples. However, since the Middle Ages, there has been a trend towards Hesurianization, with the Finstrohesurian culture and language spreading at the cost of minority cultures and languages.
While there are at least ten ethnic groups recognized by the Finstrian government as “[ethnic] groups native to Finstria”, around 92% of the population identifies as Hesurian, most of which either based on geographical or historical regions (e.g. Disterians from Disteria) or as broadly “Finstrohesurian”.
Language
Main page: Languages of Finstria
There is a lot of linguistic diversity in Finstria, though its extent was much greater in the past. Besides various Hesurian dialects, Lesiac and Tharic are other major languages that serve as lingua franca in parts of the country.
Many of the smaller language groups to be found in Finstria are to some degree endangered. A prime example of language death in Finstria is the Kun language, which less than 50,000 Kun (ca. 1/5 of the Kun population of Finstria) have the ability to speak and much less than 10,000 are active speakers of, using the language on a daily basis. Of these, only a small part is under the age of retirement as the language had not been passed on from one generation to the other to a great extent in past decades.
Other languages, in the meanwhile, have a stable speaker community, such as Gaugasanic or Yerin.