Velaheria

Democratic People's Republic of Velaheria
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Velaheria united at last (Velaherian)
Anthem: Workers of the Velaheria unite (Velaherian)
Capital	Bastaria
Largest city	Vertia
Official languages	Velaherian
Recognised national languages	Velaherian
Ethnic groups	Velhars 95.40% Others 5.60%
Demonym(s)	Velher(s)
Government	Unitary one-party socialist republic
• Supreme Leader	Ander Starinburg
• General Secretary	Fredrick Staffenburg
Legislature	People's Assembly
• Upper house	Assembly of the People's party
• Lower house	Supreme People's Assembly of Velaheria
Establishment
• Establishment of the Empire of Velhars	1294
• Establishment of the Democratic people's republic of Velaheria	1941
Area
• Total	320,600 km2 (123,800 sq mi)
Population
• 2022 estimate	31,000,000
• 2020 census	28,956,762
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$80,000,000,000
• Per capita	$2,760
GDP (nominal)	2018 estimate
• Total	$60,900,000,000
• Per capita	$2,100
Gini (2018)	0.30 low
HDI (2015)	0.676 medium
Currency	Wran (W)
Time zone	UTC-2
• Summer (DST)	UTC-2 (not observed)
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	left
Calling code	+91
ISO 3166 code	VFH
Internet TLD	.sta

Overview

The  Democratic People's Republic of Velaheria , or just  Velaheria is a - Country in -. It is geographically located in -, and borders ---. Velaheria has a population of -.

Bastaria is the capital and the largest city of the Country.

Velaheria comprises of 6 provinces, 3 cities of importance and the Special city of Vertia, which was made into a EEZ in 2017 to encourage foreign investments.

Politics

Velaheria's political system is built upon the principle of centralization. While the  Velaherian constitution  formally guarantees protection of human rights, in practice there are severe limits on  freedom of expression, and  the government  closely  supervises the lives of the Velaherian citizens.

The constitution defines Velaheria as "a  dictatorship of people's democracy"  under the leadership of the Velaherian People's party (VPP), which is given legal supremacy over other political parties.  VPP General Secretary is typically the  Chairman, who controls the  VPP Meeting hall, the  VPP Politburo, the  VPP Secretariat  and the  VPP Central Military Commission, making the officeholder a powerful person in Velaheria .

The VPP is the ruling party of Velaheria. It has been in power since its creation in 1940. Three minor political parties also exist, but are legally bound to accept the ruling role of the VPP. They, with the VPP, comprise a  popular front, known as the  People's Front (PF). Elections occur only in single-candidate races where the candidate is effectively selected beforehand by the VPP.

Geography

Physical Geography

The entirity of Velaheria lies in the  east argis Plain, with flat terrain crossed by southern-flowing watercourses such as the Sanguine Creek and the Wilshaw Creek which are the main rivers of the region, these landmass is generally regarded as fertile though certain natural disasters and general lack of infrastructure has caused in underutilisation of the land.

Though velaheria is equally booned in its natural beauty, it has quite a lot of forests and moutains to visit, though few applicants ever get a chance to visit them, as the nation practises a set of strict rules which allow only people regarded as safe for the regime to enter the nation, and even then they are always monitored by their mentors, who keep a close watch on them, some famous people who have visited velaheria in the past include, some singers and some actors from the socialist states, in general about 10,000-100,000 people are able to visit velaheria in an yearly basis.

Wetlands  and marshy conditions are found close to the coastal areas and along the  Velaherian coast, these are non arable and are generally wastelands, though some levels of land reclamation has made it suitable for collective farming, though even that faces some difficulties at times.

The lakes in the northwest has been formed due to flooding of tne lands which occured in the 16th century, which are collectively known as the Twilthon Expanse , these are generally regarded as the birthplace of the leader, Arin Starinburg, and are thus treated as the most important sites of the revolution, these lakes have entire villages made besides them.

These villages are for show only, though they serve the purpose of teaching the population i.e the middle class and the outside world about the begining of the revolution, which overthrew the dolchic colonisers and the velaherian monarchy and established the People's Government in 1941.

This revolution began in early 1930's with several people demanding an end to the constant plunder of the Velaherian agricultural produces by the dolchic government.

Moving north, northern Velaheria also known as the Barrenlands, features rough and somewhat patternless hilly and mountainous desert areas, some of it formed by ancient  volcanic  activity, though these areas arent at all fertile in any way, they still provide energy to the northern provinces of velaheria by utilising the geothermal vents formed due to the eruptions

The central plains continue east and north as far as the  coast  and merge with the  northern Mountains, also known as the Sterkan Mountain ranges  on the border with Stedoria

Southern Velaheria's landforms are defined by various plains and swamp like areas which occupy a large part of the nation, though these have been urbanised and have been made suitable for living

There are some areas that are notorious for their animal presence which may cause serious hamper in the transfer of supplies from one province to the other due to occasional animal attacks

The southern regions also have some really precious natural areas which include large areas of grasslands and pasture lands which are run by the government, also help in constituting the large grazing areas and help maintain the animal industries of Velaheria.

Climate

Velaheria's  climate  is  temperate  and  marine, with cold, cloudy winters in the eastern parts of the nation and warm summers and in the south, occasional warm  winds also are a common display in the southern coastal areas .

The greater part of Velaheria lies in the temperate climatic zone in which humid winds predominate.

In the northwest and the north, the climate is dry and arid with minimal rainfall along the entire year. Winters there are relatively harsh and summers are extremely hot.

In the east, the climate shows clear continental features; winters can be mild for short periods, and summers can become mostly warm. Dry periods are sometimes recorded.

In the center and the south, there is a transitional climate which may be predominantly coastal or continental, according to the general weather situation.

Winters are cool and summers warm, though maximum temperatures can exceed  30 °C   for several days in a row during heat waves.

The warmest regions of velaheria can be found in the north. Here summers can be hot with many days exceeding  40 °C .

Sometimes, minimum temperatures do not drop below  -5 °C in the northern areas,  which is relatively rare in other regions.

Though the Velaherian climate is occasionally extreme, it is so in the north, as there are occasional spikes of cold or heat.

Winter temperatures can sometimes drop to one-digit negative temperatures for a few days in a row.

Conversely, summer can see periods of very high temperatures for a long time in the north.

Economy of Velaheria

Velaheria has maintained one of the most closed and centralized economies in the wurld since the 1940s. For several decades, it followed the Central pattern of five-year plans with the ultimate goal of achieving self-sufficiency.

Extensive communist support allowed Velaheria to rapidly register very high growth rates.

Systematic inefficiency began to arise around 1960, when the economy shifted from the  extensive  to the  intensive development stage, The shortage of skilled labor, energy and transportation significantly impeded long-term growth and resulted in consistent failure to meet planning objectives in the 1970's the situation got even worse, when the food production absolutely plummeted, this resulted in several small riots across velaheria, but ultimately the government decided to rectify the beuracratic, centralized mess by giving more power and autonomy to the communes which resulted in the increase of food production again in the 1980's and 1990's, but plummeted again in the 2000's due to the climatic disturbances experienced by velaheria which werent seen in the last couple of decades.

Velaheria declared the last four-year plan unsuccessful in December 2001 and thereafter stopped announcing plans, A series of natural disasters throughout the 2000s caused severe hardships, including widespread  famine due to climatic disturbances.

By 2011, the situation improved owing to a return to agricultural outputs and modern farming tactics, but the economy continues to suffer from mild food shortages and damaged infrastructure.

In an attempt to recover from the collapse, the government began structural reforms in 2003 that formally legalized  private ownership of assets and decentralized control over small goods production.

 A second round of reforms in 2014 led to an expansion of market activities, partial monetization, flexible prices and salaries, and the introduction of incentives and accountability techniques, Despite these changes, Velaheria remains a  command economy where the state owns almost all means of production and development priorities are defined by the government.

Ethinicity

Demographics

The Demographics of Velaheria  are known through national censuses and international estimates. The socialist beareau Statistics of velaheria  conducted the most recent census in 2020, where the population reached 20 million inhabitants. The population density is 90 inhabitants per square kilometre, and the 2016 estimated life expectancy is 74.81 years. In 1990, the population rose at a near consistent, but low, rate (0.96% from the two censuses). Since 1979, velaheria birth rate  has exceeded its  death rate; the natural growth is positive. In terms of age structure, the population is dominated by the 15–64-year-old segment (80.09%). The median age of the population is 27.9 years, and the gender ratio is 0.97 males to 1.00 female. Since the early 1980s, the birth rate has been fairly stable, with an average of 2 children per woman, down from an average of 3 in the early 1960s.

Culture

Arts

All of the officially approved art is required to follow the doctrine of  Socialist Realism, which focuses on the utopian lifestyle of the people living in velaheria, while potraying the Starinburg's as the "savior's" of the Revolution and the population, As it helps tremendously to enforce the ideology of Socialism, inside Velaheria.

The Velaherian People's Party decreed that all existing literary and artistic groups and organizations should be disbanded and replaced with unified associations of creative professions.

Accordingly, the Bastaria and Vertia Union of Artists was established in August 1953, which brought the history of post-revolutionary art to a close. The era of Velaherian art began.

In October, 1956, the All-Velaherian Central People's Assembly adopted a resolution  on the creation of an House of Arts.

The Vertian Institute of Proletarian Fine Art was transformed into the Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

This drew a line under a 15-year period of constant change at the country's largest institution for art education.

In total, over the period 1943-2012, the Institute graduated more than 4,500 artists and art historians.

Among them were such major artists and sculptors of the Democratic people's Republic of Velaheria were ,  Rensarin Frugard, Rudolph Crondarin  and others.

The Party  later alleged that some higher members of the people's assembly  spend more time posing in the Art studios than they did attending their duties in the administrative sectors.

The Velaherian paintings in short shows a mastery of classical representational techniques, as well as depicting an utopian vision and version of the socialist system.

Art inspectors of other nations and those who defected to other countries from (1943–) approve the claims that artistic life of the people in Velaheria is suppressed by the ideology and artists submitted entirely to what the party wanted them to depict and draw.

A great number of landscapes, portraits, and studies exhibited are also mostly seen glorifying the socialist system and the people's lives under socialism with the capitalists and Dolchic people being their ultimate enemies, with sometimes depicting seylosians as their enemies too prior the 50's and 60's.

That approach is also pursued ever more consistently in the genre paintings as well, although young artists at time still lack the experience and professional mastery to produce works of high art level devoted to the Velaherian Socialist Reality.

Writing

Any text published in the DPRV is governmentally controlled

Education

Education in Velaheria is free at all levels except for higher education.

The government ministry that oversees the running of the school systems is the Ministry of Education of Velaheria.

Each of the Fiefdom inside Velaheria has oversight of the education system, and students may attend either a public (state) or a private school. The current structure of the educational system was established by decree in 1976.

The education system is also based on The Education Code of the Velaheria and other educational standards.

Pre-school education is not compulsory in Velaheria, but around 70% of children attend nursery (at the ages 1 to 2) and kindergarten (at the ages of 3 to 5) before they start school.

Some kindergartens are specialized to work with psycho-physically challenged children to help them socialize.

Education in primary and secondary schools is required for children from the ages of six until fifteen and lasts for 9 years.

After finishing basic education, each student must pass the basic educational curriculum and is given a certificate by the state. Then students are able to enter a professional technical institutions where they can focus on completing their high school education and study to get a professional certificate.

Completion of 11 years of school or a professional certificate allows students to enter higher educational establishments or enter professional technical institutions as well; the length of the schooling depends on what the student has chosen.

As of 2020, 7,000 per 10,000 citizens are undergraduates. Velaheria has also adopted the ECTS system, allowing more student mobility.

Velaheria counts 95 higher education institutions (75 state-owned, 20 private).

To enter a higher educational establishment a student must pass three centralized tests (and get up to 100 points per test).

A ten-point grading scale has been used since 1990. It is used in primary, secondary and higher education.

Marks "1" and "2" are considered as "Fail" at school. In higher education, "3" is also considered as "Fail".

Infrastructure

Road Networks of Velaheria

The road network was estimated to be around 43,200 kilometres in 2009, up from between 42,300 kilometres and 41,700 kilometres in 1990, of which 6,717 kilometres , 15.5%, are paved. However, The Wurld Factbook lists 42,554 kilometres of roads with only 6,726 kilometres paved as of 2016.

The Roads connect the Cities of Bastaria, Vertia, Gotäin and Köinsburg and Muslburg together and extend upto 42,250 kilometres of Roadways.

And 6,726 kilometres of that roads are paved as of 2016.

The Railway Networks of Velaheria

1,772 km (2002),

1,138 km (1995); narrow gauge:

4,321 km 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge (858 km electrified)(2002)

1,987 km 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge (858 km electrified)(1996)

1,250 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge; (2002) ev. transformed to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge in 1980

1,026 km 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) gauge (2002)

The 9,910 kms long railroads connects the main cities of Bastaria, Vertia and Götain and and its surrounding 400 villages and thirty smaller cities and has 150 train stations and 12,000 signal posts to run the trains.

Velaherian language

Velaherian language is arguably the closest language to the Common language, having virtually the same grammar and really close phonology. Vocabulary wise and world-formation wise, Velaherian is almost exclusively Germanic, with little to no Romance influence, unlike Common. Velaherian alphabet has managed to preserve multiple letters, which has been dropped from the Common language in the past:

A a /ɑ ~ ə/	Æ æ /æ/	B b /b/	C c /k ~ s/	D d /d/	Ð ð /ð/	E e /e ~ ɛ ~ ə/	F f /f/	G g /g ~ ʤ/
Ȝ ȝ /g ~ x/	H h /h ~ ɒ/	I i /i ~ ɪ ~ aɪ/	J j /ʤ/	K k /k/	L l /l/	M m /m/	N n /n/	Ŋ ŋ /ŋ ~ ŋ̊/
O o /ɔ ~ u ~ ɒ/	P p /p/	Q q /q/	R r /ɹ ~ r/	S s ſ /s ~ ʒ/	T t /t/	Þ þ /θ/	U u /ʌ/	V v /v/
Ƿ ƿ /w/	X x /ks/	Y y /j/	Z z /z/

The Velaherian language also has a set of diphthongs

Ch ch /ʧ/

Ck ck /k/

Ea ea /iː/

Ee ee /iː/

Sh sh ſh /ʃ/

Ur ur /ɜ:ʳ/

Oo oo /ʊː/

Oul oul /ʊ/

Our our /ʊəʳ/

As the consequence of this nearness, Velaherian language has almost identical phonology to Common.