Iberunia

Iberunian Republic Em Republica Brú-Iveiru
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Motto: Hoc hic misterium fidei firmiter profitemur "Here is the mystery of faith that we strongly profess"
Anthem:  Sona Cunziglu, Vire d'o Rre cu sa Familia ("Sound the Muster, Long Live the King and his Family")
Official languages	Iberunian
Recognised regional languages	Suberran, Tavalonian, Lemavian
Callaetamesic	Iberunian
Demonym(s)	Iberunian
Government
• President	Amaro Peres
• Prime Minister	Iago Cuba
Population
• Estimate	32,000,000
• 2018 census	31,812,420
Currency	Iberunian Mona (IM)
Date format	dd ˘ mm ˘ yyyy
Driving side	left
Internet TLD	.cal

Modern humans first arrived in the Tamesian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago, and developed neolithic cultures. Indo-Esterian Callaetamesic cultures, which arrived in the region around the 6th or 5th century, along with ancient Phoenician and Greek settlements. The peninsula came under Tibernian rule around 200 BCE, after which the region was named Tamesia, based on the earlier Phoenician name for the modern Tamaris river, T(a)m(i)s or Tamis. Tibernian rule was centred along the west coast near large iron deposits and trading ports, and the peninsula was not fully conquered until the end of the first century AD. Previous military expeditions to subdue the eastern Callaetamesic tribes, such as those of Marcus Cornelius Gallicanus, and Aelius Magnus, had mostly ended in failure, making the Tiburnians content to hold onto the western half of the peninsula. As such, there was not a lot of Tibernian cultural influence inwards for at least some time, forming the beginning of Iberunia's modern day language divide. From AD 47, three years after the ascension of Emperor Nero, grandnephew of the first emperor Gaius Claudius Caesar Augustus, the eastern half was slowly conquered, with the Tibernians settling many colonies, most notably Colonia Victricensis with its large Temple of Nero, the largest of its type in the eastern half of the country. The conquest was finally completed by AD 96, but even then there remained loose pockets of resistance and some rebellions, particularly in the highlands around Suberra.

At the beginning of the fifth century, the Eastern Tibernian Empire led by Sebastianus abandoned the province in response to the increasing threat faced by Vanderic migrations. These Tamesian cities, which were told to organise their own defences from resurgent Suberran invaders sweeping south from the Cerbantian Mountains, as well as from invading Vanderic groups, began to fragment among tribal lines, becoming separate kingdoms in their own right. Vanderic groups, like those of the Gautigoths and Taifals, invaded and managed to unite a majority of Tamesia by the 7th century under the Amalic Kingdom, but were quickly assimilated into the Tiberno-Callaetamesic population. In the early ninth century the Amalic Kingdom fell to the Irsadic Qusayyad dynasty, who ended up ruling most of the peninsula by the year 818, leaving only a handful of small independent realms in the north. Over the next three hundred years, a long reconquering period, known as the Reconquistañe across the Tamesian Peninsula, helped lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Suberonia, Kingdom of Callacia, Kingdom of Cornovia and Kingdom of Narbonia who repelled this invasion. By the year 1187 the Qusayyad dynasty had been expelled from the peninsula, and by the year 1300, most of Tamesia's kingdoms had been united into two entities, the Kingdom of Callacia, and the Kingdom of Narbonia. These two kingdoms were unified in the Pact of Wernimes-Ogrobis in 1511, which formed a marriage between Eremand III of Callacia and Juana of Narbonia. Upon their death, the throne passed to their only surviving son, Sarles I, who formed the United Kingdom of Iberunia.

During the 18th and 19th century, Iberunia underwent a number of stresses, such as wars of succession, ethnic strife between Romance and Callaetamesic speakers, clashings between conservative and liberal tendencies, and the decline of its colonial empire. In 1920, shortly after the ending of the First World War, Iberunia became a republic. This First Republic was unstable, and monarchist sympathies remained strong. A civil war in 1932 ended with the formation of the anarcho-syndicalist Iberunian People's Federation. This Federation joined the forces of the ... in the Second World War, resulting in their defeat in the 1940s. The Iberunian People's Federation was forced to grant independence to Lemavia and Suberra in the aftermath, but was saved from total dismemberment. In the 1950s, after the destructive Second World War, there was a political reshuffling in the new Second Republic of Iberunia that led to the elections of social democratic and mostly market liberal presidents such as Joan-Pol Cuba, Francas MacoDonoal, and Muircad Carenotin. Due to political crises in the late 1950s, the Second Republic of Iberunia was reformed into the Iberunian Republic in 1960 under Ramon Ovalle, creating a presidential system. The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were marked by unprecedented economic growth, of which the strong directive role of the state during the 60s and 70s is said to be responsible. Since the 1940s, Iberunia has become a secondary power in Estere both economically and politically. There has been friction with Suberra due to the hasty nature of the separation between the two countries, which left significant minorities in either country, and as such has been the source of much ethnic conflict and violence. Iberunia has been a founding member of the Tamesian Customs Union or TCU, an economic community comprising of Iberunia and Lemavia.

Culture

Music and Dance

Various regional styles of folk music abound across Iberunia, ranging from Callaetian, to Suberran styles, to Tavalonian. Pop, rock, hip hop and heavy metal are also popular. One of the most popular musical groups of the 20th century, the Otters or "Em Duruhus" originated in Iberunia and quickly spread worldwide, changing the face of popular music and reaching almost a billion units sold internationally by their breakup in 1972.

The Iberunian band The Otters, 1965; left to right: Soan MacoEnri, Conni MacoArta, Rori Leize, Jordi d'Eglesia.