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Kingdom of Cuthland-Waldrich | |
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| Motto: "God, Cing, and Rich" (Cuthish) "God, Kening, and Lân" (Waldish) "God, King, and Country" | |
| Anthem: "Loofsong of Hallow Wybert"(Cuthish) "Hymne fan Hillige Wybert" (Waldish) "Hymn of Saint Wybert" | |
| Capital | Kingsham (executive and administrative) Grienfjild (legislative and judicial) |
| Largest | Kingsham |
| Official languages | Cuthish Waldish |
| Recognised regional languages | Widdalian |
| Ethnic groups (2020) | 76.5% Cuthish 22.1% Waldish 1.4% Other |
| Religion (2020) | 88.5% Christianity 3.4% Unaffiliated 8.1% Other |
| Demonym(s) | Cutho-Waldish |
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Edwin IV |
| Clifford Goodwin (protecting) Ale Dykstra | |
| Legislature | Wittenmoot |
| House of Nobility | |
| House of Burghers | |
| Establishment | |
| 21 February 1444 | |
| 7 October 1758 | |
| 19 June 1841 | |
| 30 March 1921 | |
| 2 September 1923 | |
| Population | |
• 2020 census | 33,794,500 |
| GDP (PPP) | 2020 estimate |
• Total |  $1.293 billion |
• Per capita | $38,248 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $1.066 trillion |
• Per capita | $31,536 |
| Gini (2020) |  27.4low |
| HDI (2020) | 0.877 very high |
| Currency | Pund (CWP) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +39 |
| ISO 3166 code | CW |
| Internet TLD | .cw |
Cuthland-Waldrich (Cuthish: Cuþland-Waldrice, Waldish: Cutlân-Wâldryk), officially the Kingdom of Cuthland-Waldrich (Cuthish: Cingdom of Cuþland-Waldrice, Waldish: Keninkryk Cutlân-Wâldryk) is a sovereign state located on the Telmerian Peninsula in northern Berea. It lies between the White Sea to the north, Lake Sigismund to the east, and the Dentrian Mountains to the west. The nation shares borders with Mascylla, Lilienburg, X, and X. With a population of approximately 33.8 million and spanning an area of approximately X square kilometers, Cuthland-Waldrich is the Xth most populous and Xth largest state in Berea.
Cuthland-Waldrich is a multinational state consisting of the two autonomous constituent states of Cuthland and Waldrich, each with its own distinct ethnic identity. The Cuthish are the country's largest ethnic group and constitute a slim majority of its population at 76.5%, followed by the Waldish at 22.1%. This ethnic diversity forms the basis for Cuthland-Waldrich's unique structure, which splits many institutions between the two states. The country is officially multilingual, recognizing both Cuthish and Waldish as official languages. Kingsham, the country's largest city and the state capital of Cuthland, serves as the federal executive and administrative capital, while Grienfjild, the country's second largest city and the state capital of Waldrich, serves as the federal legislative and judicial capital. Other major cities include Whitford, Alderport, and Fenmouth.
Telmerian settlement in modern day Cuthland-Waldrich dates back to classical antiquity. These early tribes began to coalesce into various pretty kingdoms and duchies at the dawn of the Early Middle Ages, leading to the region's dominance by Four Kingdoms from the 6th century onward. During the 11th century, Edmund the Great of the Kingdom of Meerland unified the Cuthish states into the Kingdom of Cuthland. Cuthland and its southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Waldrich, remained geopolitical rivals for the next four centuries, culminating with the Cuthish conquest of Waldrich during the 15th century and the establishment of the First Cuthish Empire as the most powerful state in Telmeria. Cuthland continued to expand throughout the early modern period, conquering parts of X, western Mascylla, and the northern Dentiran Peninsula while establishing one of the world's first colonial empires in Alvinia and northern and eastern Pamira. During the mid-18th century, Cuthland's dominance in Telmeria began to falter due to increasing ethnic tensions within the empire and the rising prominence of Aldia. The shifting balance of power culminated in the outbreak of the Cutho-Aldian War in 1755, ending in 1758 with Cuthland's partition and loss of its colonial empire.
A wave of nationalism swept through Cuthland during the mid-19th century, leading revanchist Foresitter Harold Farnham to declare war on Mascylla in 1839 in an effort to reclaim the lost territories of the Cuthish Empire. The war ended with the Treaty of Alderport in 1841, which restored continental Cuthland to its pre-1758 borders and returned large portions of the Mascyllary colonial empire to Cuthish rule. Cuthland enjoyed a second period of international prominence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, expanding its colonial empire in Caphtora and Pamira and challenging Mascyllary dominance. Tensions between Cuthland and Mascylla and their respective power blocs led to the outbreak of the Great War in the 1910s, ending in a Cuthish defeat which saw the abolition of the monarchy and cession of many of Cuthland's eastern territories. The nation subsequently experienced an economic collapse and the outbreak of a three-way civil war between communist, republican, and monarchist forces in 1919 following a failed coup d'état by communist revolutionaries. The war ended with a monarchist victory in 1921, with the Treaty of Newbridge restoring the Cuthish crown as a dual monarchy in which both Cuthland and Waldrich hold coequal status.
The newly reorganized Kingdom of Cuthland-Waldrich established an authoritarian regime, carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings against political dissidents collectively known as the Royal Terror. Cuthland-Waldrich assisted Melasian revolutionaries against Mascyllan colonial forces during the Melasian Crisis, ultimately leading to a brief military conflict with Mascylla. The crisis resulted in Melasia's independence and subsequent alliance with Cuthland-Waldrich and Erytheria
History of Cuthland-Waldrich
- Pre-6th century: Tribes and stuff from prehistory until circa 6th century
- 6th century: Various petty kingdoms, duchies, etc. emerge and dominate throughout early medieval period
- 6th-11th centuries: But oh no, they keep getting fucked by Mascylla from the east and the Nordics from the west
- 11th century: Probably better if we unite into two kingdoms instead, Cuthland and Waldrich
- 15th century: Yeah this is pretty cool but Masc keeps fucking us so let's form a political union and totally not rip off Poland-Lithuania in the process
- 15th-17th centuries: Wow I like this whole empire thing let's go invade not!Scandinavia and maybe parts of Mascylla as well
- We should also be artsy and shit while we're at it
- 17th century: Oh never mind this is actually completely unsustainable, ethnic tensions are sucky and our economy is in the shitter
- Guess we better partition the G L O R I O U S E M P I R E and return to getting railed by Mascylla
- 1818: Lol jk we're getting the band back together
- 19th century: Oh look, industry and colonies
- Oh awesome now Dulebia wants in, maybe we can challenge Lavarian/Mascyllary dominance and in no way collapse spectacularly in the process
- Great War: Oh wow that was shockingly predictable guess we suck again
- 1920s: Yep we definitely suck, Masc took our monarchy and now the commies want in
- 1930s: But what better cure for communism than a return of the monarchy, this time with double the oppression
- 1930s: Guess we should invade/annex Waldrich again, as is customary
- 1930s-1970s: Oh wow this is much better than before, we're actually kind of feared
- 1970s: Whoops maybe economics aren't our thing, the people are restless again
- Okay we'll give you more capitalism but the monarchy stays
- 1980s-2000s: Mmm yes the sweet taste of cold hard cash
- 2000s-present: Wow we're actually developed as fuck for once