Redinea
Kingdom of Redinea | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
| Capital and largest city | Lochmour |
| Official languages | English |
| Demonym(s) | Redinean |
| Government | Unitary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Joanna II |
| Catherine Westwood | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
| Establishment | |
• Unification | 1489 |
• Treaty of Lochmour | 1652 |
• Sturbridge Compromise | 1812 |
| Area | |
• Total area | 8,515,767 km2 (3,287,956 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2022 estimate | 93,424,957 |
• 2015 census | 89,239,804 |
| Currency | Crown (CRN) |
| Driving side | left |
Redinea, known officially as the Kingdom of Redinea, is a sovereign nation located in northern Westtora. Governed as a unitary constitutional monarchy, it has a population of 93 million and a total landmass of 8,515,767 km². The capital and largest city is Lochmour.
Founded in 1489 through the unification of the Kingdoms of Placeholder and Placeholder, Redinea was initially governed by an absolute monarchy and became a global power in the 1500s through its dominance of East-West trading routes and naval superiority. Subsequent prosperity led to the establishment of a powerful landowning class, which asserted its political power in competition with the monarchy until the Treaty of Lochmour established the Parliament of Redinea in 1652. Employing a form of semi-imperialism to maintain its trading dominance, Redinea became the world's premier economic power in the 1700s and extended significant geopolitical influence over the rest of northern Westtora.
The rapid industrialisation of the economy in the late 1700s, particularly in urban cities, triggered class-based political turmoil as social inequalities grew and by the early 1800s a combination of trade unionist and extra-parliamentary activity pressured Parliament into the Sturbridge Compromise of 1812. This expanded suffrage to a majority of the male population for the first time and greatly reduced the powers of the monarchy in favour of the legislature. A series of conflicts in northern Westtora throughout the 1800s led to a Redinean policy of isolationism with the continent which allowed it to maintain its economic dominance, but the rise of imperial rivals in Placeholder and Placeholder by the turn of the 20th Century greatly challenged Redinea's control of access to global trading routes.
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