Xiwantandu

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Domain over Tandire Xiwantandu
Motto: Progress, Prosperity and Peace
Capital	Azamilixtlahuara
Largest city	Itztlan
Official languages	Sondriline
Demonym(s)	Xiwantandu, Tandan
Government	Imperial Federation
• Sovereign	Cancuzuma I
• First Speaker	Yanisqua Carcosa
Establishment
• Great Reformation	14th of August, 1284 AM
Currency	Libra (Lb)
Date format	dd-mm--yyy

Xiwantandu (lit. Domain Over Tandire), occasionally known in shorthand as the Domain, is a state existing within the Gentian system, located in the Gamma quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy. Xiwantandu is based on the planet Tandire, the second planet from the Gentian sun, and is almost entirely comprised of native Tandans both in its government and general population, as alien interest and involvement in the Gentian system is minimal due to the star system's relatively isolated locale. Colonization efforts by enterprising Tandans of other planetary bodies and asteroids has occurred both within the Gentian system and to neighboring star systems, however the state of Xiwantandu does not exercise control beyond the inner Gentian system, being limited by the scope of its power projection capabilities to primarily operate on the planet Tandire and its immediate satellites, the moons Selisera, Hatheria and Maguleth. Being the only habitable planet within the Tandan sphere, the home-world Tandire is exponentially more populated than any Tandan colony or outlying settlement. Xiwantandu does not control the entirety of Tandire, but stands as the planet's sole superpower state, and its administered territory along with its satellite nations and dependent states totals approximate three quarters of the land area of Tandire. The Domain's maritime forces have a functionally uncontested control over Tandire's vast world-spanning ocean.

The population of Xiwantandu is divided between the three native sapient species of Tandire, belonging to the Archaeopterids family. These are, in order of population and general distribution, the Miri, the Kypra, and the Rorkar. The Kypra, natives of the extensive Sondrilos island chain in the planet's tropical zone, are the physically smallest and most diminutive of the three being roughly a meter in height on average. Kypra are commonly viewed as the dominant species of Xiwantandu due to their near-monopoly on the highest political offices and generally high social standing outside of the government and within the military. By contrast, the Miri are by far the most widespread and populous of the Archaeopterids being the dominant species in terms of their numbers on all three continents, and appearing as the majority on every landmass except the Sondrilos islands. The Miri make up the most generalist of the three species from a biological perspective, and also sit at a middle range of roughly two meters in height on average. Rorkars are by far the least populous and least widely distributed of the Archaeopterids, having a more specialized herbivorous biology than their siblings and being geographically limited to small regions of the far north of the planet. They stand at a towering three meters in height and have a powerful physical build. All three Archaeopterid species can be found within Xiwantandu society and are treated with a modicum of equality, although the stark biological differences between the species in terms of physicality and mental capacities create notable social strata within the state, typically having the Kypra islanders at the top and the Rorkars at the bottom, with those of the Miri species filling out the social roles in between.

The state known today as Xiwantandu was formed out of the Sondriline colonial empire, a massive sea-faring empire with the islander Kypra at its core. Sondrilos was in those days one of many major powers of Tandire, but nonetheless one of the most powerful imperialist states on the planet, exerting Sondriline cultural and Kypra racial imperialism over the other cultures and species of the planet. Old Sondrilos was dominated by a feudal society with a noble ruling caste at its top, with administrators, soldiers, workers and traders arranged below them in a social hierarchy, wherein colonials of the other species were maintained at the lowest rungs of society. A political crisis spurred on by a combination of increasingly rash and incompetent actions by the Sondriline nobility and an escalating secession crisis within colonial holdings of the Sondrilos empire caused an event known as the Great Reformation. This was effectively a coup by the bureaucratic organs below the nobility, made of administrators and imperial officials of lowborn status, in coordination with traders and merchants, to overthrow the feudal government of Sondrilos and prevent the dissolution of the colonial empire to secessionist movements that had been spurred on by the noble's repressive approach. The subsequent state, while not entirely democratic in nature, was organized on the principle of equal treatment and the supremacy of the law above all individuals within and without the government. Claiming to be a government that would extend across all of Tandire and function as the legitimate rulers of all Tandan species, the new state was dubbed the Domain over Tandire, Xiwantandu in the native tongue of Sondrilos.