Bastarneia
Kingdom of Bastarneia Rice Bășciâine | |
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| Motto: Helpă frăuini ia lovon țeadoi sent mină mapt. "The Lord's help and the love of the people are my strength" | |
 Location of Bastarneia (green) within European Union (light green) and Europe (gray) | |
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| Location | Eastern Europe |
| Capital and largest city | Iamberg |
| Official languages | Bastarneian |
| Recognised national languages | Russian |
| Recognised regional languages | Hungarian |
| Ethnic groups (2014) | 83.7% Bastarneian 8.3% Russian 3.1% Ukrainian 2.8% Polish 1.7% Hungarian 0.1% Jewish 0.3% other |
| Religion | 57.0% Eastern Orthodoxy 30.9% Greek Catholicism 4.3% Simply Christianity 3.9% Protestantism 1.6% Roman Catholicism 0.2% Judaism 2.1% non-religious or other |
| Demonym(s) | Bastarneian |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Hereswith |
| Dagămer Arțeai | |
| Legislature | Arățemn |
| Formation | |
• Monarchy established | c. 830 AD |
| 869 | |
| 987 | |
• Absorption into Lithuania | 1362 |
• Austrian crown land | 1772 |
| 10 September 1919 | |
| 2 August 1940 | |
• Independence from the Soviet Union | 27 August 1991 |
• Constitution adopted | 29 July 1994 |
| Area | |
• Total | 131,256 km2 (50,678 sq mi) (95th) |
• Water (%) | 1.4 |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate | 9,765,281 (92nd) |
• 2001 census | 10,101,756 |
• Density | 76.96/km2 (199.3/sq mi) (105th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $102.010 billion (83rd) |
• Per capita | $10,098 (107th) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $33.721 billion (98th) |
• Per capita | $3,338 (124th) |
| Gini (2014) | 25.0 low (19th) |
| HDI (2017) |  0.751high (88th) |
| Currency | Shilling (Sk) (KBS) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +384 |
| ISO 3166 code | KB |
| Internet TLD | .kb |
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Bastarneia (Bastarneian: Bășciâine, pronounced: [bəʃˈtʃɨjne]), officially the Kingdom of Bastarneia (Bastarneian: Rice Bășciâine, pronounced: [ˈritʃe bəʃˈtʃɨjne]), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Ukraine to the east, Moldova and Romania to the south, Hungary to the southwest, Slovakia and Poland to the west, and Belarus to the north. Its capital and most populous city is Iamberg. The nation's geography is defined largely by its central uplands and by the Polesian lowland in the north, while in the far west the Carpathian mountains rise sharply. Beyond the mountains, a small portion of the Pannonian basin also falls within Bastarneian territory. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Bastarneia, including the Principality of Bastarneia, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Soviet Union.
In the aftermath of the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the Austrian portion of Bastarneia seized independence as the Kingdom of Bastarneia, inviting an obscure member of the Danish royal family, Count Berthold of Rosenborg, to take the throne, and aided Poland during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919—1921. During the second world war, the Soviet Union and Axis Powers invaded, dividing the territory between them; during the course of the war, military operations devastated Bastarneia, which lost about a third of its population and more than half of its economic resources. Following the war, Bastarneia was redeveloped as a Soviet Republic. The parliament of the republic proclaimed the sovereignty of the Bastarneian SSR on 27 July 1990, and during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Bastarneia declared independence on 27 August 1991. In July of 1994 the Constitution of Bastarneia was adopted, which reestablished the Ancient Monarchy by inviting the ruling family to return from exile.
Following its independence, Bastarneia declared itself a neutral state; it formed a limited military partnership with Russia and other CIS countries while also establishing a partnership with NATO in 1994. On 1 July 2013, Bastarneia entered into the European Union alongside Croatia.
Bastarneia is a developing country and ranks 88th on the Human Development Index. It has the second lowest GDP per capita in Europe after Moldova and falls shortly behind neighbouring Ukraine. The nation suffers from a high rate of poverty and severe corruption; however, because of its fertile farmlands, it is one of the world's largest exporters of grain. The country is home to a multi-ethnic population, 83.7 percent of whom are Bastarneians, followed by a very large Russian minority, as well as Ukrainians, Poles, Hungarians, and many others. The official language is Bastarneian, an East Germanic language descended from the Gothic language. Bastarneia is a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
Etymology
The English name for the country, Bastarneia, is derived from the Latin Bastarnae, which in turn is derived from Greek Βαστάρναι, both of the latter referring to an ancient tribal confederation that inhabited the modern day region of Bastarneia.
The origin of the tribal name is uncertain. It is not even clear whether it was an exonym (a name ascribed to them by outsiders) or an endonym (a name by which the Bastarnae described themselves). A related question is whether the groups denoted Bastarnae by the Romans considered themselves a distinct ethnic group at all (endonym) or whether it was a generic exonym used by the Greco-Romans to denote a disparate group of tribes of the Carpathian region that could not be classified as Dacians or Sarmatians.
One possible derivation is from the proto-Germanic word *bastjan (from proto-Indo-European *bʰas-) meaning "binding" or "tie". In this case, Bastarnae may have had the original meaning of a coalition or bund of tribes.
It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this people (or, if it was an exonym, the name of the people is derived from it) which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.
It has also been suggested that the name is linked with the Germanic word bastard, meaning "illegitimate" or "mongrel"; if the name was originally an endonym, then this derivation is unlikely, as most endonyms have flattering meanings (e.g. "brave", "strong", "noble").
O.N. Trubačev proposes a derivation from Old Persian, Avestan bast- "bound, tied; slave" (cf. Ossetic bættən "bind", bast "bound") and Iranian *arna- "offspring", equating it with the δουλόσποροι "slave Sporoi" mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.