Nayonland
Nayonland | |
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| Motto: "Makatao at Makabansa" (Tagabay) "Por Gente y Pais" (Stillian) "For the People and the Nation" | |
| Anthem: Marcha Nacional Nayona (Nayongan National March)  | |
| Capital and largest city | Tondo |
| Demonym(s) | Nayona (female), Nayono (male), Nayongan, Nayonlander |
| Government | Responsible government |
• King | Creighton III |
• Governor-General | Sultan Sulayman VII |
• Prime Minister | Sarah Labuh |
| Legislature | Batasan Pambansa |
| Council of State | |
| Kamara | |
| Royal Dominion of Great Anglia | |
• Annexed by Great Anglia | May 23, 2017 |
• Transitional Constitution | December 31, 2019 |
| Currency | Nayongan Velle |
Nayonland, initially the "Dominion of Nayonland" from its establishment in 2019 until 2020, is an Anglian royal dominion in Alharu. The territory comprises Turtle Island, separated from the mainland continent by the Turtle Sea to the northwest and the Synthe Sea to the west. The capital city, Tondo, was the first colonial settlement in the island founded in 1608 by Miguel de Legazpi, the Stillian commander of the Fleet of San Miguel, during the Gran Viatge. They become the progenitors of the Insulares people. They were joined by the settlers of San Lazaro in 1759, the first Iverican colony in Nayonland.
The island is mountainous, with its tallest peak Mt. Bernardo Carpio located near the geographical center of the island, in the eastern region of Namayan. The settlement of the Insulares and Iverican people drove the native Tagabay people away from the coast, relocating in the island's valleys, the largest being Marikina Valley in Mountain Province, Nayonland's main mining region. Much of the nation's farms and industrial areas span the coastal region. Its second largest seaport, Batangan, is situated in the Southern Shore province, the historical Anglian colonial center. The provincial capital was founded in 1854 as a supply port of the Great Anglia Equatorial Alharu Company (GAAC) to facilitate trade with the western hemisphere.
In 1894, the entire island was annexed by GAAC. Their rule was authoritarian, controlling prices, regulating immigration, and monopolizing trade. The company started buying and expanding large sugar and tobacco plantations near the coast. To escape GAAC rule, the Insulares in the north started the Gran Marcha, a mass migration inland and claimed arable lands. The discovery of gold in Mountain Province created a rush, attracting both Insulares and Anglian settlers to the center of the island. Violent Tagabay resistance to the rushers escalated into the 4-year Boondok Rebellion, starting in 1896 and ending in 1900. In 1901, the island was annexed the Anglian government. The Treaty of Godstone incorporated the Insulares and Iverican settlements into the new colony under the name "Equatorial Alharu."
In 1916, the colony was granted self-rule. Andrés Soriano Sr., an Insulares mining mogul, become the first elected prime minister of Nayonland. Suffrage was limited to the male, wealthy, and educated principalía (Insulares and Tagabay elite) and Anglian residents, excluding much of the native Tagabays. A series of Tagabay-led plantation and mine revolts in the early 1920s forced the Insulares and Anglian peoples to adopt segregationist policies in an attempt to control the violence. In 1934, a new constitution allowed greater Tagabay representation, granting power to the emerging native middle classes. It reserved the Legislative Council, the new upper house in the expanded bicameral Legislative Assembly, to majority Tagabay and Alharun minority membership. It enabled the election of Datu Manuel Koe-sun, a Nayongan-Fulgistani noble, leader of the Progresista Party. It was the largest opposition party from 1935 to 1945, when its members split. The pro-colony Anglian and Principalía factions founded the United Empire Movement (UEM). The nationalist Tagabay faction joined the Katipunan ng Manggagawag Katagalugan (KMK).
The country experienced great economic growth in the 1950s. The expansion of social services, especially healthcare and education, increased living standards and literacy. Existing roads and rails were expanded to connect the growing number of industrial and mining towns. This prompted the prosperous Insulares and Anglian upper and middle classes to expand cities, build suburbs in extended city limits, and buy up real estate in the surrounding countryside. This often involved the forced displacement of Tagabays, who lived in the peripherals of urban centers. Many of them could not afford to buy property, which led to the proliferation of shantytowns infamously known as "boondoks. Although segregation was not enshrined in law, it has become commonplace in all sectors of society. Its institutionalization has been supported by the Nacionalista Party, the colony's ruling party since self-rule. They are mostly made up of Insulares principalía.
Student riots in the early 1960s demanded the end of segregation. This prompted the Nacionalistas to start power-sharing negotiations with the Council of Elders, the governing body of all Tagabay tribes, and the KMK.
