Æthele
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Æþele Kingdom of Æthele | |
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Motto: "Beterian hero hycgan twihynde beterian wang" Common: Better men make a better world | |
Anthem: Hail, Eternal By Whose Aid  | |
| Capital and largest city | Edmond |
| Official languages | Common |
| Ethnic groups | Ætheles (85%) Ghantish (10%) |
| Demonym(s) | Æthelic |
| Government | Constitutional monarchy |
• Cyng | Malcom IV |
• Ambeht | Douglass Wynstonn |
| Legislature | Bold sylfum Spelingum |
| Population | |
• 2018 estimate | 11,143,523 |
• 2018 census | National Census |
| GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $5,73.89 billion |
• Per capita | NS$51,500 |
| HDI (2014) |  0.974very high · 3rd |
| Currency | Cynegold (ACY) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +042 |
The Kingdom of Æthele (Æthelic: Æþele) is a constitutional monarchy of over 11 million people in the region of Ajax, located on the island of Æthelion. Æthele’s capital, Edmond, is the political and financial heart of the country.
In ancient times, the territories making up modern day Æthele were divided up into a heptarchy of minor, Anglo-Saxon states connected by common language, customs and traditions. After centuries of disunity, these states were unified in 865 CE by the Roman Catholic King Duncan of Corraidhín. After centuries of direct rule, the King of Æthele steadily relinquished power to the House of Delegates led by a Lord Minister. The King of Æthele is Malcom IV Lord Minister is Douglass Wynstonn.
In the early 20th century, a civil war between the monarchy and communist forces in the southwest of the country from 1920 - 1923 was crushed by the monarchy. The country grew from an agricultural state to a larger industrial power starting in the 1950s with new advancements in in key technical industries, particularly aerospace industry, the arms industry, and the manufacturing side of the software industry.
Æthele boasts the largest organized fraternal order in Ajax, noted in the Grand Lodge of the Sparrow, a union of local fraternities of taxidermists.