Meronnia
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The Federal Republic of Meronnia République Fédérale de Mèronie | |
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 Flag | |
| Motto: Liberté, Solidarité, Prospérité Liberty, Solidarity, Prosperity | |
| Anthem: Le Chant Du Depart "Song of the Departure"  | |
 Official Map of the Federal Republic and Territories | |
| Capital | Senone |
| Official languages | Mèronais |
| Recognised regional languages | Vaalse, Cabecan, Tavitan |
| Demonym(s) | Mèron |
| Government | Federal semi-presidential republic |
• Premier | Pierre-Antoine Tremblay |
| Maximilien Sardou | |
| Legislature | Chambre des Députés |
| Establishment | |
• Crowning of Lothair II | 757 |
• The Philippine Proclamation | 1281 |
• Signing of the Commune Constitution | 1771 |
| Area | |
• Total | 646,571.4 km2 (249,642.6 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 66,762,700 |
• Density | 103.26/km2 (267.4/sq mi) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | L551 Billion |
• Per capita | L8,253.10 |
| Gini (2020) | 29.2 low |
| HDI (2020) | 0.889 very high |
| Currency | Livre ((L)) |
| Date format | ddmmyyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +122 |
| ISO 3166 code | MR |
| Internet TLD | .mr |
Meronnia (Mèronais: Mèronie), officially the Federal Republic of Meronnia (Mèronais: République Fédérale de Mèronie), is a nation in Western Lira with several overseas territories. Metropolitan Meronnia is bordered by the Bay of Bicscay and the Inoran Ocean to the West, Lunderfrau to the North, Winst to the East, Arideo to the Southeast, Cisparrania to the South, and Produzland to the Southwest. The capital and largest city is Senone, with 2,812,000 living in the Senone Commune. The country's 47 Communes and 5 other Territories span a total of 646,571.4 km2 (249,642.6 sq mi), with a total population of 66.8 million people.
The country has a primarily mild Oceanic climate, though the metropolitan region varies from warm Mediterranean to Humid Continental. Overseas territories have an even broader climatic range. The nation is a federal semi-presidential republic, with executive authority shared between a directly elected Premier, the First Deputy of the Chamber of Deputies, and the Directory, a limply empowered holdover of the early Republican government.
Meronnia is a center for arts, sciences, and philosophy. Meronnia is a developed country with a very high standard of living and fairly low income inequality, though there have been recent concerns about rising housing prices. Meronnia is heavily involved in international affairs and participates in a number of international bodies. It is the leading member of the OIM, an organization initially founded as a post-colonial community of Mèronais-speaking nations.
Etymology
The origin of Meronnia is as a geographic term, Merona, describing the area the majority of the modern nation exists on, though the origins of this terminology are unclear (it is believed to have originated somewhere in Western Lira). The tribes, and later, kingdoms that inhabited the area became known as the Mèrons, and a gradual linguistic shift over several hundred years was confirmed in 1281 when Philip Rusét in his proclamation claimed the title of King of Mèronie. The Lorian exonym settled on Meronnia around the same time.
Both the exonym and endonym roughly mean Land of the Mèrons. As the word Mèron originally means those living in Merona or Mèronie, the cyclical nature of the meanings of these terms has drawn some attention as a source of humor for linguists.
The modern demonym for the nation of Meronnia is "Mèron" (or Meron/Meronnian in Lorian).
History
Prehistory (before the 6th century BC)
The oldest traces of human life in what is now Meronnia date from approximately 1.5 million years ago. Over the ensuing millennia, Humans were confronted by a harsh and variable climate, marked by several glacial eras.
Early inhabitants of the region led nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Meronnia has large numbers of preserved decorated caves of the Paleolithic era, such as the famous Bourdon Caves (approximately 16,000 BC). As the climate became milder at the end of the glacial period the inhabitants of the region entered the Neolithic era and became sedentary, establishing agricultural communities as early as 6,000 BC.
Improvements in agriculture and demographic changes led to societal development throughout the 3rd Millenia BC, including the appearance of metallurgy. The earliest metals to have been worked in Meronnia were gold, copper, and bronze. Examples of worked iron date back as far as 1,200 BC.
Imperial Period (651-1000)
Interregnum Period (1001-1280)
Early Kingdom Period (1281-1500)
Middle Kingdom Period (1501-1650)
Late Kingdom Period (1651-1730)
Revolutionary Period (1731-1790)
Early Republic Period (1791-1920)
Middle Republic Period (1921-)