Zamorodna
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Zamorodnian Hetmanate Замородинський гетьманство | |
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| Capital | Porozhamina |
| Official languages | Zamorodnian |
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| Demonym(s) | Zamorodnian |
| Government | Confederal minarchist elected autocracy |
• Hetman | Oleh Bohdanuk Petrenko |
• Koshovyy Otaman | Volodymyr Matvyyuk Nesterenko |
| Legislature | Starshyna Rada |
| Establishment | |
• Great Kozak Migration | 1332-1426 CE |
• Unification of the Hosts | 1538 CE |
• Independence from Suvarova | 1672 CE |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 14,293,012 (2021) |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $178.6 billion (2021) |
• Per capita | $12,494.43 |
| Gini |  39.9medium |
| HDI | 0.67 medium |
| Currency | Hrivenka (₴) (ZHR) |
| Date format | yyyy-mm-dd (CE) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +443 |
| Internet TLD | .zam |
The Zamorodnian Hetmanate (Zamorodnian: Zamorodyns'kyy Het'manstvo), also known as Zamorodna or Zamorodina, is a small, landlocked nation in northern Belisaria. Zamorodna is the homeland of the Kozak peoples, who migrated westward from the Altunid and Ikdemid Khanates in the high middle ages, settling in a harsh, swampy region in the western hinterlands of Suvarova. The Great Kozak Host was an autonomous nation under the Crown of Suvarov, but gained independence in 1672.
In the present day, Zamorodna is a culturally integrated but politically disunified entity. The various constituent polities of the Hetmanate, the Tovarystva, have varying degrees of authoritarian or democratic and capitalist or socialist elements. As such, the Tovarystva can often be isolationist, particularly from very different neighbours. However, the unified culture, language, and traditions of the Kozaks tie the Tovarystva together.
Economically, Zamorodna is self-sufficient but only moderately-to-poorly industrialized. Approximately one-third of the population are traditional pastoralists. Mining and other resource extraction are growing industries and leading sectors in the export economy. Domestically, economic figures can be difficult to ascertain due to limited governmental oversight and a widespread informal economy.
Name
The name of Zamorodna is inconsistently associated with the Kozak peoples who inhabit it. The term originally referred to the land before the Kozak hosts arrived and occupied it. Since then, however, it has come to refer more specifically to both the ethnic Kozaks living on the land and their language. The Zamorodnian language is distinct from that which was spoken by the first migrant Kozaks, having been heavily influenced by Slavic speakers in the region that they settled but retains Turkic influences.
The etymology of Zamorodna can be broken down into three components. The first component, "zam" or "sam", means "on its own", or "independent". The second component "o" is a linking element between the first and third components. The third component is etymologically uncertain and may stem from "rodna" or "rodina" and either means "fertile" or "of nature", or "of family". Read together, "Zamorodna" has the sense of either "fertile wilderness" or "free families". The former is likely descriptive of the harsh marshes and swamps of the region, while the latter has been widely accepted as referring to the independent Kozaks or the previous inhabitants of the land. There is no academic consensus on which interpretation is more likely the original.