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Commonwealth of Angevinia Commonwealth a Angevinia (Yankee) Keenchrei fun Angevinia (Deitsch) Roiaum d'Angevinia (Qadian) Commonwealth d'Angevin (Québécois) Cofhlaiths 'a Angevinia (Scoshun) Ganonsyoni Angevinia (Iroquoian) Angevinia Nutohkemminnit (Algonquian) קאַמאַנוועלט פון אַנגעוויניאַ/Kamanvelt fun Angevinia (Yiddish) Agewinia'gi (Mi'kmaq) Tuggavik Sivuk Angevinia (Innu-Inuttitut) Commonwealt'a Awnzvinya (Newfie) | |
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 Flag
 Coat of arms
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| Motto: An Appeal ta Heaven | |
| Anthem: Abner Mendez Angevinia Forever  | |
| Capital | Awlbany |
| Largest city | New Hahtland |
| Official languages | Yankee English |
| Recognised national languages | Yankee English Deitsch Qadian Scoshun Iroquoian Algonquian Yiddish Mi'kmaq Innu-Inuttitut Newfie |
| Demonym(s) | Angevin |
| Government | Semi-Constitutional Falango-Integralist Monarchy |
• King | Planter Dogood |
• Head of Pahlament | David Zekara |
| Legislature | Pahlament |
| The Elected | |
| The Appointed | |
| History | |
• First New English Colony | November 3rd 1620 |
• American Independence | July 4th 1776/September 3rd 1783 |
• The Great Collapse | April 15th, 2049 |
• Foundation of Angevinia | April 28th 2100 |
• Formation of the Commonwealth | December 31st 2221 - January 1st 2222 |
• Cemented Status | 2260 |
| Population | |
• 2320 estimate | 47,342,359 |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | GDP Not used |
• Per capita | GDP Not used (GDP Not used) |
| Gini (2315) | 29.4 low (6) |
| HDI | 0.937 very high |
| Currency | None (N/A) |
| Time zone | Eastern Standard Time |
| Date format | dd-mm-yy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +02 |
| Internet TLD | .ag |
Angevinia, officially the Angevin Commonwealth or the Commonwealth of Angevinia (Yankee: Commonwealth a Angevinia), is a sovereign nation located in Northeastern Merica. Angevinia is bordered by Erie and the United States Emergency Government to the south, Rontroit to the west, the État Michif to the northwest, and Nunavut and Klaalit Nunaat to the north, though these borders are either maritime or cover parts of the Jamésie-Kativik autonomous agreement. Compared to other nations in Merica, Angevinia is a sizeable ## km2 (### square miles), making it the third largest nation on the continent, after Alaska and Saskatchekhanate. As of 2320, it has a population of around 47.3 million. The country's population centres are spread across the coastlines of the nation, but vast tracks of rural and untouched land still remain, alongside ample nature preserves. It is a Semi-Constitutional Monarchy, self-described as "Integralist with Falangist characteristics." The largest city in the nation is the Enenwoy-New Hahtland urban area, and the capitol is Awlbany. The "Declahration a tha Commonwealth" establishes the state as majority Catholic, but provides protection for religious minorities living within it's borders. It also describes the state as "absolute," with it's sovereignty derived from God and military power.
It's borders cover what was, in pre-Collapse terms, New England, parts of the Mid Atlantic and New York Metropolitan area, Québéc and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, Labrador and Newfoundland, Upstate New York, and part of Ontario.
Pre-Collapse, Angevinia was inhabited by various Native American and Aboriginal Canadian tribes before being conquered and colonized by primarily British and French settlers. It served as a religious hub for Puritanism in the south and Catholicism in the north. It was the site of many different cultures meeting, including Norse meeting Natives, Western Europeans meeting Natives, and English meeting French. Primarily divided into three (and occasionally four) parts throughout most of it's history, it was generally known as "New England," "Quebec," "The Maritimes," and "Newfoundland and Labrador." The first of these proved to be instrumental in the American revolution, and the remaining three were part of Canada or the British Emprie for most of it's pre-Collapse history. America emerged as a heavily New England-influenced nation during it's beginning, and solidified it's power all over what is now Merica through Manifest destiny. The majority of Canada's population lived in Ontario, Southern Quebec, and the Maritimes, and formed the bulk of importance in Canadian history. During the 1950s and onwards, these regions all experienced vast cultural shifts and changes, and helped form the American Empire and NATO, widely considered by historians to have been the most powerful Empire in human history. Despite this, cultural changes, economic problems, demographic changes, political instability, and climate change would together prove to be too much for the American Empire to handle, and that, mixed with pushes by far left, far right, and anarcho-primitivist extremists, would cause a civil war in the late 2020s and early 2030s, leading to an eventual collapse of American and Canadian society in the 2030s and 2040s. During the Second American Civil War, what is Angevinia generally sided with the unsuccessful Democratic Forces and Antifascist militias, which were methodically wiped out by defecting units of the American military, the Gilead Compact, and various far-right militias. Despite this, the ruin brought to America proved too much for it to recover in time before the Great Collapse in 2049, in which the world was thrown into chaos by the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano at the hands of Kaczynskiist extremists.
Following the Great Collapse, the Angevin Commonwealth was founded after various towns and cities in what was the Connecticut River Valley allied with one another around 2100, and elected Karl Kosmaczewski as their first King. Kosmaczewski was, according to numerous sources, a "noted eccentric but good leader," and he sought to create what he considered to be the "American equivalent of Duginism" or "Caesar's Legion." Kosmaczewski pushed to revitalize what he saw as "traditional Northeastern Cultures" and began to methodically bring the rest of New England under his rule, first pushing east and then north, and bringing most of the region fell within Angevin control by 2134 at the time of Karl's death. Afterwards, they also expanded southwards into Deitsch territory, annexing most of what was Pennsylvania and began pushed the push north. In 2221 and into 2222, the Angevin Pahlament, under mounting pressure from the Royal Family and Royalist factions within the government, formed the Angevin Commonwealth, officially adding the other territories of their Kingdom alongside tributaries into one large Empire. The capital city is the historic Awlbany (Albany) and it is home to roughly over 3,350,000 people, making it the third largest city in the Commonwealth. The King is currently Planter John Dogood, the executive head of state. The Head of Pahlament is David Zekara, the appointed head of Pahlament. Pahlament, alongside society in general, is mainly dominated by the monarch-led Angevin Patriot(e) Party, or APP/PAP.
Throughout its long history, Angevinia has been a leading global center of culture, reform, tradition, and more, with it making significant contributions to art, science, theology, industry, and philosophy. Angevinia is a great power with significant cultural, economic, military, and political influence. A developed country with the a high standard of living, Angevins enjoy a good quality of life, and the country performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development. Angevinia is a member of the Forum for International Dialogue, and was a founding member of the Merican Union, with King Franklin II proposing the idea himself in 2299.
Etymology
Angevinia, translated, roughly means "land of the Angevins."
Angevinia comprises numerous regions, but the superregion known as "Angevinia" is a post-collapse creation that harkens back to reference the Angevin Empire, or the Empire of the Plantagenêts. This was a medieval Norman dynasty that ruled parts of England and France with smaller holdings in Ireland. Due to the shared nature of the medieval dynasty's holdings encompassing peoples of English, French, and Celtic stock, the term "Angevin" was repurposed by those living within territories largely inhabited by those groups in the New World after the collapse. English speaking Yankees, including many of Irish and French descent; French speaking Qadians and Québécois; and Celtic speaking Scoshuns all live within the borders of Angevinia, and seeing a similarity is not hard to find.
Since its formation and the cementing of it's status, the Commonwealth is more of a title than an actual meaning. Acting more akin to an Empire in function, the term "Commonwealth" for Angevinia harkens back to the days of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the most populous states in what was America and New England before the Great Collapse. Additionally, the term "Commonwealth" was found favorable due to it's connotations of being more egalitarian for smaller groups in the nation, and most Yankees of Polish descent view the term favorably due to European history as well.
While post-Colonial languages of European descent refer to Angevinia directly as a Commonwealth, the official native languages don't do so directly. Two of these languages, Iroquoian and Algonquian, are half-reconstructed languages and were made to be "pan-native" languages depending on their language family. Two other ones, Mi'kmaq and Innu-Inuttitut, are revitalized, already existant native languages. All of these language have extremely complex grammar systems which makes direct translations into Colonial languages difficult. In Iroquoian, Angevinia's official term, rather than "Commonwealth," is "Ganonsyoni Angevinia," which roughly translates to "Angevinia, The Lodge Extended Lengthwise." On the other side of Angevinia, the Algonquian language refers to the nation as the "Angevinia Nutohkemminnit," or "Place of our Angevin Land." While "Nutohkemminnit" originally referred to a now submerged place in eastern Massachusetts, the term has been re-fitted by the Angevin government and the Algonquian people to refer to the country as a whole. The other two native languages refer to Angevinia in a similar way, calling it "Tuggavik Sivuk Angevinia" in Innu, and "Agewinia'gi" in Mi'qmak..
History
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Geography
Angevinia is the third largest nation in Merica, after the Alaskan Tsardom and the Saskatchekhanate, covering #### square kilometers of area.
Much like how pre-Collapse Massachusetts was referred to as the "Bay State," Angevinia is generally referred to as "Bay Country" or "Bayland," originally by Yankee speakers as a nickname, and this term has expanded to encompass all groups over the centuries. Most of the nation is within a six hour drive of a coastline or large inland sea. Angevinia's largest land border isn't with any nation, but rather the JKAZ nature reserve. Apart from that, Angevinia borders the Labrador Sea, the Pei and Fundy Seas, and the Atlantic Ocean. The St. Lawrence Strait divides the nation in half from north to south, leading into the Erie Sea, and the Hudson Strait does the same, though not nearly as much. New England and the Maritime Commonwealths additionally have a large number of bays.
Angevinia has a rather slim variation in land. It has only a few mountain ranges, the largest being the Appalachians in the southern half of the region. Angevinia's highest point is on Mount Agiocochook, followed by Mont D'Iberville in the Torngat Mountains. Angevinia's mountain rangers go down most of the center of the nation, diagonally across in the general shape of the nation. The Adirondack, Catskill, and Taconic Mountain Ranges became home to thousands of climate refugees during the Collapse. In the far northeast, however, the Torngat Mountains and other elements give Angevinia a sizeable number of fjords. Between coasts and mountain ranges, most of Angevinia is comprised of an almost never ending stretch of plains, valleys, hills, and rivers. Up north, territory tends to become much flatter and more post-glacial in appearance, with Nord and Newfinlan having many lakes and flat territories carved out by glaciers.
Many pre-Collapse rivers and streams became major rivers during sea level rise, just as major rivers like the Hudson, St. Lawrence, and Connecticut flooded and formed bays or straits. Angevinia's biggest rivers include the Hudson, Mohawk, Merrimack, and Susquehanna rivers, and many more of significant size.
Mount Agiocochook, Green-White Mountain District.
Ice dunes form on the Erie Sea in southern Ontario.
Qadia is generally considered to be one large woodland with flatter, more open spaces towards the coast.
The Torngat mountains in Northern Labrador are home to many high mountains and steep fjords.
Wild blueberries turn red during the autumn in Mi'gma'gi.
The coastline of southern Piscataquis at dawn. The coastlines of Piscataquis and Algonquia are very rocky.
Marshes are a common feature of the coasts of Central Angevinia, especially in New Providence, Massachusetts, and Pioneer.
While less pronounced, most of the central Saut Commonwealth is a part of the Appalachian range.
Quebec has many smaller rivers and streams.
A winter shot of the Erie Sea from a beach in Haudenosaunee.
Population wise, Angevinia's 47.3 million population is generally located by coastlines. Inland, smaller towns and settlements dot the landscape, with the average town having around 900-1,600 inhabitants. Towns in more populated regions likewise have higher populations on average. The highest population densities are around the center-south of the nation, mainly in the Saut Commonwealth.
Climate
Angevinia has a temperate to tundra climate, with most of the country being either part of a humid continental or subarctic climate zone. It has four seasons; spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Springs in Angevinia see snow melt and the temperature get warmer until may and June, when the southern parts of the nation get bombarded with storms and humidity until a dry heat takes over for most of the summer, lasting until September. Summers are generally sunny, with most rain coming through cold fronts that pass through every one to two weeks, or scattered showers and thunderstorms. Summers are warm and occasionally hot. Fall sees the temperature drop slowly, and winter sets in earlier in northern areas. The forests of Angevinia light up with bright colors, which Angevinia is known worldwide for. Angevinia's tight travel policy for foreigners is lifted for about a month and a half around this time, and groups of foreign tourists, usually from Europe or other Merican nations, called "leafas," visit the country for up to two weeks at a time. Winters are cold, with below freezing temperatures being common. In El Niño years, Angevin winters are warmer than average, and follow a repeating weather pattern: massive snow squalls affect regions of the nation every one to two months, and the time between the squalls has increasing warmth until most of the snow is melted. This repeats until the end of the winter season.
Precipitation is spread evenly throughout the year. Variations in precipitation and temperature occur less frequently near coasts due to the lack of convection over cooler ocean waters.
Severe weather outside of strong wind gusts and occasional hail is rare, though tornadoes do occasionally occur at around once a decade, usually in southern areas.
Environment
Attractive scenery dominates the Angevin landscape, especially in autumn, and "leafing" is a major tourist attraction to people from around the world, with a lengthy waiting list every other year. During the winter, it's also possible to view the Aurora Borealis in northern areas of the nation, mainly in the Nord and Newfinlan Commonwealths. Angevinia attempts to be an environmentally conscious nation, but it does have it's occasional shortcomings. Most of this is from aggressive fish farming and livestock raising because of Angevinia's meat and fish-heavy diet. Angevinia has also come under fire occasionally by environmentalists due to accusations of over-whaling in the northern commonwealths, and hunters are occasionally arrested for poaching in the JKAZ.
The government attempts to practice environmentally friendly logging practices, and many areas of New England and Quebec are intentional wood farms.
Politics
Government
According to the Angevin Constitution, the government is a "semi-constitutional Monarchy" that takes influence from numerous ideologies ranging from Syndicalism to Eurasianism.
The King is head of both state and government. Decisions are, to a large extent, made by the King, but there is a lengthy tradition of the King working extensively within Pahlament, which he oversees. The appointed head of Pahlament, who doubles as a speaker, is Colonel David Zekara. The King is mean to be the "final and only" official vote regarding all political issues, while Pahlament is essentially seen as a "public opinion" poll alongside a group of advisers. Every King has affirmed almost everything Pahlament has passed without objection, and most objections are generally considered minor.
Compared to most post-American states, there is little democracy in Angevinia. What voting there is is done typically on a local level, where the old New England tradition of meeting houses and town meetings as a form of direct or semi-direct democracy are still run. Commonwealth and national issues are left to the Lords, with few exceptions being left up to the popular ballot. Democratic votes, when had, are always direct and never representative. Members of Pahlament, however, are either appointed by the King or Lords, randomly selected via lottery, or democratically elected by Commonwealth Subdivisions, ensuing that Pahlament has a variety of Angevins within it.
Voting in general is restricted to landed men over the age of 25, soldiers over the age of 21 who pass a test if not landed, and national labor corps members 23 and over if they pass the same test as well. Women are not allowed to vote, and voting only generally affects the upper house. The lower house is appointed and selected by lottery to serve as public opinion representatives. Despite women not being allowed to vote, women may be allowed to serve within Pahlament, and can run in elections, though this isn't common.
Most parties are banned in Angevinia. This isn't due to an established political opposition, but rather the belief that political parties create division and partisanship and division within a populace, as shown by the leadup to the Second American Civil War. The leading party, APP/PAP, is generally considered to be the "only legal party." This is not the case. Minor parties are allowed, but for any of them to have a meaningful number of members is incredibly rare.
The King rules with "absolute power," and the first male heir takes over the crown on the death of the previous ruler. The current King, Planter Dogood, took after King Franklin II on 18 October 2319, and a coronation followed on October 20th. King Franklin II abdicated in favor of his son due to health reasons, the first King to do so.
The Government operates on a "fully transparent" basis, with all Pahlament sessions shown on TV and livestreamed online. Additionally, all government ministers are required to wear recording wires while doing work. The reason for doing so is due to a popular belief that the main reason why many pre-Collapse nations, such as America and the Soviet Union, became corrupt due to a lack of transparency.
To assist with a positive image, the King runs livestreams, charity events, and maintains a twitter account on the neonet, and King Planter is generally believed to be one of the more entertaining figures on neonet twitter.
Foreign Relations and Military
Angevinia is seen as a regional power, at least militarily. Socially and politically, Angevinia is seen as one of the bigger powers in the world, and the rise of "far-right" politics in what was previously liberal New England is generally seen as the "solidification" of current world affairs.
On the continent, Angevinia is regarded as the most powerful and largest nation on the eastern seaboard, with only the United States Emergency Government and the Neo-Confederate Republic coming second. Angevinia's close allies on the continent include Alaska, the NCR, California, Tejxas, and Nunavut. Off the continent, it's strongest allies are Sénégambie, the Europan Confederacy, the Iberian Union, Itop'ya, and Russia. The nation also maintains friendly relations with Ísland, Persia, the Maratha Confederacy, and Antartída. Angevinia was a founding member of the International Forum for Dialogue and the Merican Union. It has membership in a few other international and cultural affair organizations, such as the OIF, the Commonwealth of Nations, Sons of Éire, the Ilitannamek group, and the Solutrea Whaling Agreement.
Angevinia has five land borders. These are to Erie, the United States Emergency Government, Rontroit, and the Jaméskie-Kativik agreement zone. Including maritime borders, it additionally borders Ísland, Kalaallit Nunaat, and Nunavut.
Angevinia maintains a professional military force of approximately 850,000-900,000 active personnel and 120,000 reserve personnel. The Angevin Defense Force (ADF) comprise the Royal Angevin Marine Corps, the Royal Angevin Navy, and the Royal Angevin Air Force. The ADF is regarded as one of the better militaries in Merica, with well trained and equipped soldiers, and it's also one of few nations to maintain a regular "deployment" outside it's borders in the JKAZ.
The RAN is tasked with providing security to Angevin waters, and Angevin citizens and ships in international waters. It has a double duty, merging the tasks that the US Navy and the US Coast Guard had to do into one unified force. Most operations are coastal defense, rescue missions, and protecting trade ships abroad. Most ships are reproductions and improved versions of pre-Collapse American and Canadian war ships.
The RAAF is responsible for all aircraft operations on paper, though in a de facto sense it doesn't really exist. All RAAF aircraft are divided up between the AMC and the RAN, with aircraft switching off depending on which branch needs them more, and the RAAF has no real unified command.
The RAMC is responsible for handling all infantry related combat concerns that Angevinia faces. It comprises the majority of the ADF, and recruits actively from people between the ages of 18 and 40, with reservists and cadets allowed to enlist between the ages of 16 and 60, respectively. Troops are trained in different styles of combat tactics, and generally use a combined arms approach to handling military situations. Angevin military doctrine is based around four components: air superiority, machine guns, mortars, and grenade launchers. The RAMC is overwhelmingly male, with few women allowed to serve, and those that do are generally as support staff. Conscription exists in Angevinia, though after the mandatory training, people are allowed to re-enlist as either a reservist or active duty soldier if they desire to do so.
The Angevin military is one of the biggest contributors to the MUCA, or Merican Union Combined Army. Generally used for peacekeeping efforts as a neutral force in hotzones like the ongoing Lingít-X̱aayda Conflict and it also maintains a small garrison around the Boise Line. In recent years, due to escalation with Korea, a small but increasing number of Angevin troops have been deployed to California and Alaska. The largest of these is the Verdí, Nevada base, shared by Angevins, Deseretis, New Afrikans, and Cascadians. The increasing deployment of soldiers to foreign territories has faced heavy criticism from isolationist elements within the nation.
Administrative Divisions
Angevinia is divided up into 11 divisions, each called "Commonwealths" or "Districts." Each Commonwealth is divided up into smaller administrative regions called counties, and from there, cities, towns, and villages. These regional Commonwealths are ruled by a Lord, appointed by the King for Life or until "further notice." Each Commonwealth Lord has numerous underlings, each of whom is eligible to replace them in the event of death or replacement. The process to select a Lord is put forward by the King, and then legislated by the Speaker of Pahlament and approved by vote.
Demographics
According to the 2320 Angevin census, Angevinia had a population of 47,342,359, of which 49.7% were male and 50.3% were female. 22.2% of the population is under 18, while 6.5% is over 65.
In terms of race and ethnicity, White people make up around 70.2% of Angevinia's population. Mixed race people composed roughly 4.1% of the population. Blacks are 3.2%, and the largest non-White group in Angevinia are people of Native or partial native descent, who form around 9.5% of the total population. Other non-White groups like Asians, and people of Indian, Latino, or Arab descent are around 5% total, but spread out among many groups.
Angevin Jews, or Angevinim (אנגיוינימ), primarily of Shephardim or Ashkenazim descent, are 9% of the population, but are considered to be largely "White-passing" and are counted as White on official documentation.
Culturally speaking, demographics are much different. English speaking Yankees and Newfies are around 52% of the total population, followed by French speaking Qadians and Québécois who are another 22.3%. Jews and Natives both comprise around 9%. The remaining groups, mainly Deitsch and Scoshuns, comprise 5.3% and 2.4% of the population.
Racial demographics of Angevinia as of 2320.
Each cultural group has a unique heritage, with the most diverse being the English speaking White and Black Yankees, and the French speaking Québécois. Most Yankees can trace their ancestry back to settlers of English, Polish, Lithuanian, German, Irish, Italian, French, and Portuguese origins. Brazilians are also sometimes included. Black Yankees are the descendants of Black Americans and African immigrants from continental Africa starting after the 1960s, generally from Western Africa. Deitsch are descended from Mennonites and Amish; Qadians and Québécois are descended from French Colonists and their descendants, though due to Québéc's half-sovereign state, it has a sizeable population of people from previously Francophone nations, like Vietnamese and Lebanese people. Scoshuns are generally descended from Scottish and other Gaelic settlers of what was Nova Scotia. Newfies are similar, but have higher English admixture and also have a substantial amount of Basque genetics, and in years post-collapse, some Nordic genetics as well.
All Native groups are indigenous to the region, with almost all groups except the Innu-Inuttitut having a substantial amount of European or even Black admixture. Additionally, most European groups, mainly Québécois, have many genes from Native groups due to historical contact.
Languages
Angevinia has an astounding twelve official languages, with an additional two being used as "lingua Francas" or official government languages for the sake of document keeping. Legally, each of the twelve languages are held in equal regard, though in reality, Yankee English, or "Yankee," is the one most commonly used, spoken by almost all the population in some way, with around 76% of the population having a fluent grasp of the language.
Yankee is, technically, a dialect of English. Based on the evolution of the famous pre-Collapse "Bostonian" accent with influences from other nearby regions such as New York City and parts of Canada, Yankee is notable for it's "r-dropping" and changing of -ing noises to -in noises. Whether this evolution was forced by nationalistic and regionalistic political policies, or if it came about naturally is difficult to say. In addition, another language, though widely considered a creole, is Newfie English, usually called just "Newfie." It's a complicated and slang based form of English with a heavy amount of loanwords and grammar structure from European Gaelic languages and now the Scoshun language as well, with occasional influence from Native, French, and Basque too.
Additional languages include: Scoshun, which is the evolution of the Scots and Irish Gaelic dialects spoken in Nova Scotia. It is one of the few lively Celtic languages still around, and one of two spoken in the Americas, the other of which is Wladdic in Y Wladfa.
Linguistic Composition of Angevinia as of 2320.
The Qadian language is a Francophone language spoken in the rural areas of northern Angevinia, and along the coastline of St. Lawrence fishing villages and those on the coast of the Bay of Fundy. It's close and has a high level of mutual intelligibility with Québécois French, which is the other Francophone language in Angevinia. Québécois French is the second biggest language in Angevinia, with roughly half the total population having some command over the language.
The Deitsch language is spoken in the far south of Angevinia, in the Deitsland, mainly by the Amish. It is a Germanic language, much like Yankee, though it is much closer to forms of lower German than forms of English, despite heavy influence from it. The other non-English based Germanic language in Angevinia is Yiddish. Primarily spoken in and around the Enenwoy area and parts of Southern Connecticut and the Capitol region, Angevinia is the last bastion of the Yiddish language and Yiddishkeit in a linguistic sense after Zion's "re-Hebrewization" policies of the 2130s.
In addition to the languages above, which are descended from various Indo-European languages, four of Angevinia's twelve official languages are native or native reconstructions. These are Iroquoian, more found in the west of the nation; and Algonquian, Mi'kmaq, and Innu-Inuttitut, found in the east and northeast. Due to the two languages' original component languages such as Mohawk and Seneca for Iroquoian, and Massachusett and Abenaki for Algonquian being mostly moribund by the time of the Collapse, what little speakers the languages had post-Collapse were put into mandatory linguistic schools by the Angevin government starting in 2154, after various native scholars spent a few years developing each language.
| Standard American English | Yankee English | Qadian | Deitsch | Scoshun | Iroquoian | Algonquian | Québécois | Mi'kmaq | Innu-Inuttiut | Yiddish | Newfie |
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| Hello! | Hello! | Bonjure! | Hallo! | Haelo! | Segon! | Kway! | Bonjour! | Gwe'! | Kuei! | אַ גוטן טאָג (A gutn tog) | He! |
| How are you? | Howah ya? | Commen allétu? | Vie bisht du? | Chiahmar a ta tu? | Sgennen gówa genh ontiatenro shón'a? | Dony gedowyozyn? | Comment allez-vous? | Me’ talein? | Tan eshpanin? | װי גײט עס? (Vi geyt es?) | What're ye at?/Wadda ya'at b'y? |
| I'm good, thanks. | I'm wicked, ya? | Je vé bien, mersi. | Ich bin goot, danky. | Tami math, taing. | Ioianerátie! | Newowlowzy, ny dony gya? | Je suis good/bon. Merci/thanks/thank you. | Welei, katu kil? | Nimishta-minupan, ekianai. | עס גײט גוט, אַ דאַנק! (Es geyt gut, a dank!) | I'm right, me.../I'm on the go. Hows you gettin' on, cocky? |
| My name is... | Ma'nam is... | Je m'app... | Ich bin/Ich binn... | Is e m 'ainm... | ...ióntiats. | ...nya. | Je suis/Je m'appelle... | Taluisi... | ... nitishinikashun. | איך הײס ... (Ikh heys...) | Me name's.../I's named... |
| Goodbye! | Seeya! | Aurevoi! | Gootbei! | Marsinleat! | Ó'nen! | Adyo! | Aurevoir! | Nmultis! | Niaut/Iame! | ביי/א גוטן ביי (Bey/A gutn bey!) | See ya! |
Religion
Angevinia is, due to heavy immigration from Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Brazil, Mexico, and other countries in the past plus the Qadian and Québécois populations, mainly Catholic as a nation. Noticeable influences from the Protestant-Puritan past are evident, however. Unlike many other nations, Angevinia has clauses that allow for freedom of religion. Religion is heavily regionalized, with most parts of Central and Northern Angevinia being primarily Catholic, and most Yankee, Francophone, and Native language speakers are Catholic as well. Religious minorities mostly exist in the form of Mennonite or Amish Deitsch speakers, primarily located in the the South, Orthodox Jews that are primarily located in and around Enenwoy and Montréal, and smaller minorities of various Protestant Sects and Wiccans exist spread throughout the nation.
Prior to the Collapse, today's Angevin territories went through phases of religiosity and atheistic tendencies. Prior to the arrival of European colonists, most of the native populace followed their individual tribal religions, though this changed with the introduction of Christianity. The first Bible published and printed within Angevinia's history was in the now extinct Massachusett language by John Eliot, and was called the Eliot Indian Bible, or the Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God.
Angevinia was originally Protestant, specifically Puritan, in the South. The Northern French-speaking parts were primarily Catholic, though immigration and the slave trade brought small groups of Jews and Muslims to other parts of the continent, specifically the Thirteen Colonies.
The hold of religion would wax and wane throughout history, with the First Great Awakening starting in Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut. Due to immigration, what was New England spent a long period of time being the most Catholic region in America, by percentage and by amount of practicing Catholics. Afterwards, starting during the middle of the 20th century, the influence of religion in what is now Angevinia slowly lost its grip on society, with most of central Angevinia being upwards of 25% atheist by the time of the Collapse.
The Deitsch community had always maintained a specific set of Mennonite and Amish styled beliefs. After being taken over by the Angevins, much to the surprise of the world, the Deitsch were allowed to maintain their religious autonomy. To this day, even compared to other Christian groups, the Catholic Church in Angevinia, noticeably more conservative than in other nations, manages to maintain a surprisingly productive and positive relationship with the Mennonite churches. Smaller groups of Protestants also existed up in the far northern communities, and the Innu-Inuttitut language has a high amount of German loanwords, brought over by Moravian Presbyters in the 1700s. Most modern non-Mennonite or non-Amish Protestant churches are of the Quaker or Neo-Puritan variety.
Most Angevin Jews are located in and around urban areas, though pushes to make rural Jewish life a "thing" in Angevinia has proved successful in recent decades, with around 40% of all Jews living in rural areas. Most of them are either Haredim or Hasidim, though other forms of Judaism exist too. Angevinia is home to the most Hasidic Dynasties in the world outside of Zion itself, with the three biggest native Angevin Hasidic Dynasties being the Tosh (located in Montréal), the Satmar (located in Enenwoy), and the Boston Dynasty (located in Lunenberg). Enenwoy has a half-Jewish population, and most surrounding towns and boroughs are majority or almost all Jewish.
Wicca is another large minority religion in Angevinia, and has received a large following due to Angevinia's traditional "superstitious" or "Witchy" culture. Many Wiccans also partially or fully practice other religions and integrate Wiccan teachings or beliefs on the side. Due to the existence of "easily visible magick" or "bending" due to genetic mutations caused by the Yellowstone eruption, Wicca and magick have entered into a nearly every day - but still somewhat shunned and awkward - position of Angevin life. This shouldn't be confused with old style magic/magick, which is actively practiced and believed as true.
Spiritualism is a small but generalized religious movement in Angevinia, experiencing a small number of growth in recent years. Most Spiritualists are syncretic and combine teachings from many different groups, like Wiccans, but don't commit specifically to one group.
Native religions also exist in Angevinia, but have largely been replaced or syncretized with other religions, mainly Catholicism. As of 2320, the most divided religious community comprised of Natives are that of the Mi'kmaq, who are divided up between the Knights of Columbus, a traditionalist Catholic faction, the Sons of Glooskap (an indigenous belief organization), and a small amount of syncretic groups.
During and after the Collapse, religion took hold of Angevinia again, with Catholicism -- promoted by Chicagoland and traditionalist Catholic factions ("tradcath") of the Gilead Compact -- becoming a common religion, and eventually the primary religion, taking over Atheism and Protestant Christianity by 2100. Angevinia, while not formed as a Catholic country per se, notes that it has a heavy Catholic tradition, and has "traditionally Catholic nations" within it's borders. Today, the general government opinion on the "religious question" seems to be a rather simple "it does not matter, provided you are religious to begin with."
Angevinia has three patron saints, Saint Karl von Habsburg of Austria, St. John the Baptist, and Saint Kateri "Catherine" Tekakwitha. Saint Karl was selected by the first Angevin King, Karl I, as a representation of a model traditionalist and Catholic Monarch, and Saint Kateri was selected due to her being born in the territories in modern Angevinia, alongside being one of the first Catholic Saints in Merica. St. John the Baptist is the national saint of Québéc.
Angevinia is divided up into 30 Roman Catholic Provinces, including 57 diocese, divided up from 10 archdiocese.
Magick Usage
Out of all the nations on the Eastern Seaboard of Merica, the one that uses the most magick is Angevinia. This is due to a few reasons, the primary one being caught in a "good zone" during the continental ash distribution during the Yellowstone eruption. The second and more commonly supported academically one is cultural. Due to New England, specifically the area around Salem, having an extensive history of Witchcraft and the Occult, and later on socially speaking due to the works of authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Angevinia has always had a very "Occult" or "Magickal" history, going back centuries. This also includes indigenous beliefs and shamanistic rituals. During the 20th century, New York City was a major hub of certain branches of the New Age movement.
Magickally speaking, magick as is known today has always existed and was and is always real. However, post-eruption, genetic mutations and an explosion of belief in religion and magick-based systems made it more accessible for the general public in many different ways.
Angevinia has numerous different systems and schools of Magick, and the government also conducts tests and trainings regularly to study it. The biggest schools in Angevinia are schools that take after a mix of native, Wiccan, Christian, Spiritualist, and Jewish/Kabbalistic branches of thought. Most magick is used to bring about positive results to people. In addition, it can also be used more physically as well, such as lifting heavy objects or shooting fire or ice from the hands of an individual. Additionally, magick is common in healing, either from ritual salves and healing energy. It's estimated that while everyone is capable of magickal usage, around 15% of the population is proficient in it's usage.
Witches, Wizards, and Shamans have a large pull on Angevin culture, and many local governments and Lords employ Court Wizards, Witches, and Astrologers. While anyone of any religion can use it, most magick users generally come from Spiritualist, Wiccan, Jewish, Native, or Syncretic belief systems. In recent years, a large number of Catholics and Protestants have begun to embrace their abilities as well, though this has caused controversy within their churches. Manifesting and other similar schools of thought are considered to fall within magick, and are also studied by the government and practiced by a substantial part of the population.
Additionally, the Amish culture has a history of "Hexmeisters," who deal with spiritual matters using magick.
The government and the populace ardently maintain the belief that Magick is real.
Immigration and Migration
Angevinia maintains a very small immigration office, located on the outskirts of Enenwoy. A customs office is maintained and this is mainly for state officials and tourists that occasionally come into the country and state officials and tourists leaving the country on diplomatic visitations. Additionally, merchants leaving Angevinia to trade internationally must carry a passport with them at all times.
As is the case with practically all other nations in Merica, immigration to and from Angevinia is practically unheard of. However, Angevinia does maintain immigration records, and it does allow a small amount of people (under 200 a year), to immigrate to the nation. Most of these people come from the Jamésie-Kativik autonomous agreement zone, and are considered "tribals," or people of indigenous or other descent who are stateless. The remainder of immigrants generally come from bordering nations, the British Isles, the Europan Confederacy, Sénégambie, Zion, or Antartída. There is a very intensive vetting process to get in as well, and all immigrants are required to "pick a culture" and assimilate into it as much as possible.
Angevinia does not espouse ethnonationalism like some other Merican states, but believes that immigration in most numbers dilutes the overall cultures of the nation. This is generally believed to stem from paleoconservative policies from the era of the Second American Civil War.
Emigration from Angevinia is likewise rare. This is due to a high quality of living, a high cultural assimilation rate, and because most neighboring Merican nations harbor similar policies regarding immigration. In the past 25 years, 491 people have emigrated, mainly to Cascadia, New Afrika, and Dinétah. Most of these people were "Pheenies," or "Phenotypes," a term referring to ethnonationalists or ethnic supremacists. The only nation to receive a sizeable amount of non-ethnically motivated immigrants was Antartída, followed by Rontroit, who took around 60-70 persons each.
Health and Healthcare
Angevin healthcare is delivered through a series of Commonwealth based systems of publicly funded healthcare. This is called Medicare. According to the Angevin Constitution, healthcare is a natural right for all Angevin citizens regardless of, according to section three, "anything." Due to the economy not using money domestically, medical supplies are pooled for use by the general populace in various hospitals throughout the nation regardless of cost in case of specific needs. These include prescription and non-prescription drugs, painkillers, physical trauma equipment like casts and splints, eye and dental care, and occasional experimental treatments. Angevin healthcare attempts to firstly be holistic and natural before delving into more artificial ways of medicine and healing, though it's not uncommon to see the two mix.
Pre-Collapse, New England had some of the best hospitals in the world, a trait that is still carried onto this day.
Due to increased international cooperation and trade in the field of medicine, more advanced systems of care have been built throughout Angevin hospitals. Because of friendly relations with scientifically advanced nations such as Rontroit and Antartída, the already advanced Angevin healthcare system has helped discover cures for many different diseases that came back after the Collapse, including successfully vaccinating the wildlife population against rabies. Through cooperation with European Confederacy and Antartídan scientists and researchers, a universal cure for most forms of cancer was discovered in 2256. A cure for rarer, prion based diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Familial Fatal Insomnia (FFI) was discovered via work with Rontroiti and Bod-pa scientists in 2268. Work with Russian scientists helped to cure and even reverse osteoporosis, and work with scientists from Sénégambie helped cure the Marburg virus.
Abortion and forced euthanasia are illegal, mainly due to religious influence. A "right to life" policy is maintained, which bans both unless extreme circumstances exempt people from doing so. It additionally maintains an extensive suicide prevention and mental health program. The government runs a suicide prevention hotline for the whole nation. Despite this, Angevinia is rather eugenicist with childbearing, and anyone considered to have a major genetic disease, low IQ, or those of "bad moral standing" are barred from having children, or raising them. The lowest 5% of the national IQ range is banned from having children too. Children likely to be born with disabilities such as birth defects, learning disabilities, or mental illnesses are not euthanized or aborted, but healthcare professionals attempt to dissuade parents from proceeding if a substantial risk is detected.
Birth control in pill, hormonal, or implant forms are banned. Condoms are not, though some people discourage them due to religious stigma.
Most health statistics place Angevinia above the GT10 baseline. Life expectancy is very high, at 82.7 years total, with 84.4 for women and 80.9 for men.
Drugs maintain a precarious position in Angevinia. All hard drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and meth are banned though enforcement proves difficult sometimes. The only long lasting "foreign intervention" run by the Angevin military are anti-drug operations in the J-K autonomous agreement zone. Being caught smuggling, making, or selling hard drugs carries a penalty of death, with the government holding the position that drug usage and addiction is "degenerate" alongside being damaging to individual and public health. Hallucinogenic drugs, such as mushrooms, ayahuasca, and DMT are, while not illegal, generally tightly controlled by the government and handled mainly by religious organizations of Wiccan or Native beliefs. Marijuana is legal, though this is mostly for CBD oil treatments, as being "high" carries a heavy social stigma.
Race
Race is not a big deal as it is in Angevinia as it is in other Merican nations. A culturally diverse nation, Angevinia seeks to generally view it's citizens as followers of different cultures rather than divide them by race. However, Angevinia still maintains a racial demographics chart for health reasons and statistics. Racial equality is assured by the constitution, and most Angevins are generally beholding of "non-racist" beliefs by the world standard. It is believed that Angevinia's strangely "colorblind" race politics are a byproduct of the pre-Collapse American race policies common in the 1980s to early 2010s.
The majority of Angevinia is White, followed by Angevins of Mixed, Black, Native, Jewish, Asian, Indian, Latino, Arab, and "Other" in that order. In official documents, Ashkenazi Jews are generally classified as a subgroup of White. This caused the Cascadian Territorial Imperative to bar trade with Angevinia for a fifteen year period in the late 2200s.
The overall government belief seems to be one of "different but equal," and many cultures seem to have subgroups depending on race. Black Scoshuns, Asian Qadians, and even White Algonquians exist, but they generally tend to be small minorities, and the largest groups tend to have the most racial diversity, these being the Yankees and the Québécois. However, many in Angevinia have mixed or negative views on miscegenation, and generally see it much like immigration, as something that "dilutes" culture. This debate doesn't seem to be going away either. Mixed race people, however, are protected from discrimination, and most Mixed-race people in Angevinia report little to no discrimination at work or school.
Racial extremism or supremacism is heavily discouraged by both the government or society as a whole due to past conflicts with the "Pheeny" nations of Merica.
Education
Inside Angevinia are some of the oldest and most renowned institutions of higher learning in the world. Harvard College was founded in 1636 at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to train preachers, the first such institution in America. Yale was founded in Saybrook, Connecticut in 1701, and awarded the United States it's first doctoral degree in 1861. Yale moved to New Haven in 1718, where it remained until the Second American Civil War. The Battle of Yale destroyed most of the college due to Federal Artillery Command declaring that Yale University "had been lost." New Haven was taken by the ocean, and Yale was re-established in 2232, in Torrington, Connecticut. Seven out of eight pre-Collapse "Ivy League" schools were located within Angevin borders. This includes MIT, originally located in Cambridge, now located in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. McGill university, located in Montréal, was also widely considered to be one of the best universities in Canada before the collapse.
Various college "consortiums," or groups of colleges closely affiliated with one another, are also common in Angevinia. These include the Wormtown-Cape Consortium, the Five College Consortium, three different SUNC consortiums, and numerous others spread throughout the Commonwealth.
At the pre-collegiate level, Angevinia reformed the pre-Collapse education system into a mix of public and private styled education. Some boarding schools exist, but the average public school is based on a town or a regional basis. Attempts at keeping schools small are made, with an effort placed on community cooperation between students. Most schools have between 1,000 to 1,500 students max, with the average being much smaller. Most schools in the region promote a healthy mix of academics and practical schooling, with most students being able to learn a variety of baseline academics, practical skills, and languages as well. Most high schools in Angevinia have been or previously were operating at some point during or even before the founding of the American Empire, with the oldest surviving in the nation being Hopkins Academy, located in Sunderland, after the original buildings were taken by the Quabbin Sea.
There are many academic journals and publishing companies in the region, new and old, including The "Angevin Jurnal a Medicine" (formerly The New England Journal of Medicine), and the University Presses of Hahvard and Yale.
All education in Angevinia is free.
Angevin education is widely regarded as some of the most advanced and highest quality within the modern world.
Economy
Unlike many other nations in the post-Collapse world, Angevinia doesn't use money in it's economy. Originating from a widespread disapproval of American and Western-styled Capitalism and Consumerism, Angevinia elected to not use money. When dealing with nations that do use money, Angevinia has a trading currency, the shilling, but the shilling isn't used within Angevin borders except for in rare circumstances. Payments and "wages" are given in the form of a "social contract" between people and the government. According to the Angevin constitution, "working and serving the nation is beneficial, and it is only just that the worker and servant receives what is worthy in return." Said social contract essentially dictates that as long as a member of society works to benefit society as a whole via public service, defense, or labor in one way or another, they should get something in return for their positive actions. Essentially, workers produce for all in the nation and are paid by being able to access these goods. Members of the National Labor Corps and the Military are given preference in ability to access.
Families that produce raw goods such as food are allowed to keep a portion for themselves. The majority of the resources, however, are collectivized by the government and then re-distributed where they need to be given. Angevinia maintains an extensive system of resource storage depots for whatever it can hold. Lumber, food, minerals and metals, medicine, technology, weaponry, and more are all considered to be valuable resources. As shown by the success of DPEK and many nations in Afrika and Sibir, autarky is seen as good by the government. Angevinia, according to government estimates, is roughly 98-99% self-sufficient, with most imports being minimal.
The official organization of labor in Angevinia follows a mixture of a medievalist guild system and industrial syndicalism mixed with corporatist policies. Traces of distributionism are also present. Workers are organized according to trade and each trade is organized into a local, Commonwealth, and national syndicate, with other terms like "union," "guild," "company," or "corporation" being used interchangeably. The terms "corporation" or "company" are generally frowned upon, however, due to the connotations of pre-Collapse economics. Increasingly specialized trades become more common within each syndicate. Each trade union is lead by a Guildmaster required to be a part of APP/PAP. Each Guildmaster and their underlings are regularly consulted by Pahlament and other officials for advice on how the state can address certain problems or increase productivity.
Agriculture
Angevinia is an agricultural nation. The Natives had been farming for millennia before the arrival of European colonists, who arrived also as small homestead farmers. Today, a massive agricultural sector exists, though this is limited by it's geographic location and growing seasons being shorter than many other nations. What cannot be grown outside is grown like how it is in many other nations, in greenhouses or by using hydroponics. Due to this technology, Angevinia is able to maintain a stable amount of food production year-round, though there is a definite boost in what is produced during the spring and summer months. Agriculture in Angevinia is primarily done in a way that is intentionally made to be environmentally friendly, with few pesticides and insecticides, and those that are used are organic.
In the modern era, most families in Angevinia are involved in agriculture in one way or another. The most common way families are involved is through gardening. While industrial farms do exist, most farms are family or even town owned. While not common, it isn't unheard of to run into a farm run by either a guild for members of a guild and locals around it, or farms run by the government or military. Greenhouses and hydroponic facilities are usually owned by industrial farms, guilds, or the government.
The most common crops grown in Angevinia are grains, primarily wheat, corn, barley, and oats. Vegetables commonly grown include squash, pumpkins, potatoes, asparagus, zucchini, and more. Cabbages and brussels sprouts are also grown. Many fruits are also harvested as well, and most of the coastal regions are famous for having cranberry bogs, while inland regions commonly produce strawberries, blueberries, and peaches. Fruits not native to, or unable to grow naturally in Angevin soil are grown in greenhouses or indoor growing operations. The most commonly grown indoor fruit are the orange and other citrus fruits.
Livestock include pigs, cows, ducks, geese, chickens, goats, sheep, horses, poultry, fish, deer, etc.
Fish and stuff, mussels, etc.
- livestock - as is common, angevinia follows the autarky rules but does export/import food via trade - sustainable agriculture
Industry
- angevinia is an agro-industrial nation - heavy industry is a thing again - "green industry"
Services
Science and Technology
Transport
Despite having a low population density, Angevinia's transport sector is well developed and considered to be one of the best on the continent. Though much of it was destroyed during the Second American Civil War and the Collapse, most of Angevinia's roads have been rebuilt along with bridges, railways, and airports. They are regarded as efficient. Airports aren't as common as they were pre-Collapse, however, and Angevinia maintains only one international airport, which is primarily used by government and military officials. It is located in Athol, Massachusetts. It does, however, take in a number of international tourists each autumn on account with allowed quotas and "leafer" seasons. All trains in Angevinia are bullet trains with the exception of subways, and rail lines connect all major cities to one another. Boat travel is also common due to long shorelines and a maritime culture.
Each Commonwealth in Angevinia has it's own Transportation Syndicate, responsible for planning, developing, and building transportation routes throughout the Commonwealth and providing transportation services with other DTS organizations. Every major city has it's own local TS, which oversees transport in the city and surrounding area. The New Hahtland Transportation Syndicate, or NHTS, it the largest of these, followed by the Enenwoy TS (ETS), and the Montréal TS (SdTdM). All major cities also have a below and above ground subway system, and a tram-trolley system. Subways are used primarily for city-wide travel, and tram-trolley systems are usually used for shorter distances. One of the first metros in the USA and the worldw as the MTBA metro, located in Boston.
AGTRAK provides all inter-Commonwealth rail travel throughout the nation. One train connects the entirety of the nation, the Vermonter, which was in service prior to the Second American Civil War. With it's route expanded from northern Vermont to one from Labrador to Joyse, the train essentially does a round-trip of Angevinia every day, though the route uses different trains to speed things up.
Bus transport is available in most suburban and a few rural areas, and is governed by regional or local TS. Most northern regions, islands, and the Deitsland Commonwealth are more rural areas with bus services.
Almost all families in Angevinia own at least one personal vehicle. Most vehicles are solar powered or run on some variant of biofuel. Most vehicles are based on pre-Collapse models with extensive modifications, though in recent years, due to more world stability and government incentives, locally designed models are becoming more and more common. The same is reflected on boats, with most families in coastal areas having some sort of sea faring vehicle.
In other regions of Angevinia, such as Deitsland, horses and buggies are common. In more rural areas with extensive farms, horse travel is a common mode of transportation for short to medium distance travel. The Angevin government currently has a goal to provide most Angevins with at least three easy methods of transportation by the end of the century.
Energy
All energy within Angevinia is renewable and considered "green" and is required by law to be so. Overall, the most common forms of energy are solar, wind, hydroelectric, and biofuel. In certain areas, geothermal power is generally used as well, though primarily for heating buildings. Government programs in recent decades ahve attempted to make each home and businesses in Angevinia self-sufficient in energy production. As of 2320, roughly 83% of houses and 44% of businesses are self-sufficient, and 95% of government and military buildings are.
Solar power in most common in the west and south, due to wide open spaces. Wind power also appears a bit more, but most wind farms within the boundaries of Angevinia are off the coast. Hydroelectricity is used mostly in the central and northern regions of the nation, where dams and levees are common. Thanks to bio-engineering from nations such as Rontroit, biofuel is much more efficient in the 2300s than it ever has been. Rarely used, biofuel is generally an automotive and long-distance transportation based fuel.
Hydroelectricity is achieved through multiple sources. The most common source of hydropower conventional, followed by tidal hydropower. Conventional is a hydroelectric style derived from potential energy of still or dammed water. The largest hydroelectric dam in Angevinia is the Southampton Dam, and the second largest is across the Quabbin Sea, the Hampden Dam. Tidal power stations use tides to generate poewr, and are common due to tides being easily predictable. Tidal power is more common than "conventional" nowadays, though conventional produces more energy. Run-of-the-river hydropower is used in small towns and towns by rivers. A constant supply makes it easy to store energy for later, and it additionally allows smaller and more remote towns to become autarkic with energy production as well. If all rivers were used, an estimated 31% of all energy in Angevinia could be produced from it.
Wind turbines are located in a large variety of places, and many cities and larger towns -- even those not in the west and south -- have small wind turbines (and occasionally solar panels as well) above more modern lampposts and some buildings. Additionally, most highway sign posts have at least one turbine built into them. In some cases, they can even use the wind produced by passing cars to power themselves.
Biofuel is generally comprised of various forms of natural biomass. Fossils fuels are not really used in Angevinia or most other nations. Contrary to pre-Collapse definitions, solid biomass that is burned as fuel such as kindling, pellets, or briquettes are classified as biofuel by the government. Liquid and gaseous fuels are also counted as biofuel. Since most biofuels tend to be able to regrow fast enough, it is considered renewable energy. The majority of biofuel in Angevinia comes from grass, algae, and chaff. Wood and peat are occasionally used, but this is mainly for heating homes.
In the past, both New England and the Maritimes were the most energy-efficient areas in the US and Canada as a whole. This was generally offset by high prices on electricity, which is no longer a problem.
Culture
Art
- Thomas Cole - Neoromanticisim - Nationalist Art
Architecture
Many buildings in Angevinia were built before the fall of the United States, with some going as far back as the Colonial Era and early American Era. Many people live within buildings that mirror the different styles within the United States before the Collapse depending on time period. Post-Collapse though, with the Angevin national identity coming to, architectural styles nationwide began to mirror a more Colonial New England and Québécois style, aiming for a more simplistic style of housing. Most architecture is modelled after colonial styled and Georgian styled American and Canadian housing, with houses typically being made out of more modern materials but featuring an exterior of wood, stone, bricks, or a mix of them all. Many architectural styles take after the different cultural divides in Angevinia, and can be divided up into two larger sub-styles - Colonial and Native architecture.
Houses generally take on a Saltbox or Cape Cod style, and occasionally more complex buildings or simpler ones like cabins are used as well. Building a house in Angevinia is a community event, and it's not uncommon for people to welcome a new neighbor or new house into the neighborhood with physical assistance or some other form of help. Most houses incorporate sharp angles and edges, and are sided with wood. Houses typically have anywhere from one to three floors, along with a basement or root cellar. Many houses, especially those in rural areas, typically have an external shed or two for storage or work. Additionally, many houses typically conform to the "Connected Farm" style of building, and as the name indicates, it is a style in which a storage barn meant for farming is connected directly to part of a house, generally on the back or on the side. These are typically more common in rural areas, alongside another type of house, the barn house, or the barnhaus, a style originating from parts of Western Massachusetts and Amish Country post-Collapse. These houses are also more common in rural areas, and are repurposed agricultural barns or storage barns repurposed into large, spacious houses. Barnahaus style apartments are becoming increasingly common. Angevin houses are generally much larger than those in surrounding nations due to an abundance of space, especially further up north.
In urban areas, while architectural revitalizations have happened in the past, many buildings within the more dense urban areas typically follow a style more similar towards 1800s and 1900s style mills, and many old mill-buildings have been repurposed and refurbrished into either apartments or places of work. "Rent" is not a thing in Angevinia, and moving into an apartment is as good as owning it. Skyscrapers still exist, and are generally used as apartment complexes as well due to fewer offices being needed.
Native residences also take up their own unique style, blending together modern building materials and construction with traditional styles depending on the tribe(s) in question. Iroquoians typically build longhouses (Iroquoian: ganonhséshne) and Algonquian, Innu-Inuttiut, and Mi'kmaq peoples typically build more flexible and smaller houses, called wigwams. Most of these are primarily located within their own Commonwealths, but they have slowly gained popularity elsewhere throughout Angevinia, and many pre-Collapse camping cabins have been slowly replaced by wigwams, and most mobile homes in Angevinia follow a wigwam style.
A house in the Ganonhséshne style in coastal Haudenosaunee.
An Amish haus in Hudson-Leigh.
A simplistic Colonial style house in Pioneer.
A Georgian styled house in Labrador.
Coastal houses in Gazzaville, Providence.
A Mi'kmaq house in Pilei Maragaree, Mi'gma'gi.
Wigwams are typically smaller than other homes.
A connected farmhouse in Upstate.
The Château Frontenac, once a hotel in Quebec City, is now one of Angevinia's most notable landmarks.
A housebarn in Canada.
(this is getting to be bigger than I thought so I'll make a sub-article for it, please don't strike this)
- Cathedrals - Places of Worship - Collegiate Gothics - Castles - Native Styles - Covered Bridges
Literature
Philosophy
Angevin philosophy has much to do with the national character and makeup of the nations, and most philosophy tends to resolve around a semi-stoic belief system. It frequently deals with fighting negative situations and the debate if they can be controlled or not.
Throughout history, most philosophical thought within the present borders of Angevinia had to do with different kinds of Protestant sects, and eventually, it morphed into philosophical and artistic movements like romanticism and transcendentalism, all of which left their mark on thinking even centuries later.
Due to the Second American Civil War destroying what many considered to be "liberal American ideology," many living within the then-liberal New England felt angry at...
i'll get to this later
Music
Angevinia has become renowned worldwide, especially in English and Francophone countries for it's contributions to the musical arts. Traditional Angevin music tends to mix many different things depending on the artist, but an overall sense of "traditional Colonial" music and "traditional Native" music is there. This is shown in many traditional songs having simple but prevalent drums and fiddles as well, and many songs include stomping or clapping. Many songs also incorporate heavy amounts of wind or brass instruments. For many government and official songs though, more traditional "American" or "European" styles are used, primarily for anthems. As is the case in many Merican nations, guitars and string instruments are also heavily used, along with computer and synth technology. Due to the minority populations of Natives, Amish, and Jews, Angevin music is heavily influenced by the music coming from these cultures, with Native War and Healing songs being commonly sung during public events. Angevinia is the world's second largest producer of Klezmer music, after Zion.
Angevinia is also unique in that certain AI programs dedicated to music have also reached the top of the charts, the most famous of them being pIne. Most Angevin music is consumed in nations with similar languages, and can generally be occasionally found within the EC, the Ozarkes, Sénégambie, or California. The most famous Angevin singer is generally considered to be Eleanor Chen.
Stylistically, many traditional Angevin songs tend to mirror what many can call "sea shanties" or choral elements. Pre-Collapse indie and alternative bands like tUnE-yArDs, Fleet Foxes, and Lord Huron have affected Angevin music the most, and many songs reference many of the same "motifs" mentioned in their songs.
The Angevin anthem is a variant of the old Canadian patriotic song "The Maple Leaf Forever," specifically a cover from the Canadian music duo "The Connors Brothers." The lyrics were edited into a more friendly version for Angevin politics. The lyrics were composed by Abner Mendez, an Angevin Marine from Vermont, in 2168.
| Angevinia Forever | |
| Yankee | English |
|---|---|
| In days a yore, ta oure wild shor
Foreign colonizas came And planted firm their conquerahs flags Where Native peoples reigned From struggles into hope they formed A nation 'ere togetha That there might be eternally Angevinia forevah! Through bittah wahs in ah great cause Brave Angevinians fought an died Now we, their children, gauhd the peace Upon ah green hillsides We'll not break faith with glories past The torch we'll lowah nevah A shining light to all the world Angevinia forevah! From Scoshun land and south Deitsch strands Buffalo to Bostyn's sound May patriot love unite us land True Commonwealth be found; And may Angevinians young and old Uphold ah great endeavah And proudly say eternally Angevinia forevah! Angevinia ah nation deah, Angevinia forevah! And proudly say, eternally, Angevinia forevah! |
In days of yore, to our wild shore Foreign colonizers came And planted firm their conquerors' flags Where Native peoples reigned From struggles into hope they formed A nation here together That there might be eternally Angevinia forever!
Through bitter wars in our great cause Brave Angevinians fought and died Now we, their children, guard the peace Upon our green hillsides We'll not break faith with glories past The torch we'll lower never A shining light to all the world Angevinia forever! From Scoshun land and south Deitsch strands Buffalo to Bostyn's sound May patriot love unite us and True commonwealth be found; And may Angevinians young and old Uphold our great endeavour And proudly say eternally Angevinia forever! Angevinia, our nation dear, Angevinia forever! And proudly say eternally, Angevinia forever! |
Cinema
Dress and Fashion
Media
Society
Angevin society is heavily regimented. Officially promoting an Organic Society, Angevinia has invented it's own national identity based on it's history. Started during the formation of Angevinia around 2100, the goal was to originally build an "organic and traditionalist" society based on cultural unions and alliances, alongside the perceived need to prepare for war. Compared to the pre-Collapse American and Canadian identities, Angevin culture tends to scorn individualism and materialism. Most of these new cultural values have much to do with the leadership and influence of the APP/PAP.
Regarding minority races and cultures, the "national identity" of Angevinia allows for and actively promotes minority cultures that it considers to be apart of it. All cultures regardless of size are given equal promotion, and Angevin schools require students to take a language course from a culture not of their own. Minority cultures are required to learn French or Yankee. Between all cultures, the most commonly learned languages are Deitsch and Yiddish, and the most commonly learned Native language is Algonquian.
There is a heavy emphasis on the "traditional masculinity" of the Angevin Man, stressing aggression, virility, youth, speed and sport alongside providing for a family, defense of community, neighborly outreach, and overall brotherhood. Women are generally expected to attend to motherhood, the home, and to stay out of public affairs.
Cuisine
Sports
Some of the most popular Angevin sports include football, American soccer, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, baseball, basketball, boatball, and cornobbling. With the commencement of the Merican Cup in 2275, Angevinia has hosted tournaments for each of the previously mentioned sports except American soccer at least once. The Dudley Stadium in New Hahtland is the largest stadium in the country, and was the venue for both the 2299 and 2305 Superbowls. Angevinia hosts a large part of the Appalachian trail and hiking trails not a part of specific ranges. The most popular martial arts in Angevinia are Fencing and Krav Maga. Volleyball and Basketball were invented in Massachusetts, and Baseball was invented in Upstate. All of these were invented within a 100 year period during the early 19th and twentieth centuries.
Angevinia has a designated national team for playing in the Merican Union's International Sports League (MUISL), and each district has it's own regional team. Angevinia, like New England and Québéc of old, tends to dominate in football and hockey, and does above average in baseball and lacrosse. Roughly 55% of all Merican Superbowl victories belong to the Angevin Patriotes. The best hockey team is regarded to be the Montréal Angevins, and the best baseball team is the Pittsfield Green Sox.
A popular maritime sport is boatball, in which individuals in kayaks are divided up into teams and attempt to hit a ball into the other team's goal.
Additionally, the military and occasionally the NLC or various guilds participate in "gladitorials," in which soldiers from various marine and navy units have mock gladitorial fights with foam weaponry. The Marine Corps and the Navy are divided up into teams respective of their military branch, with the team colors for each being green with red highlights for the marines, and blue with yellow or orange highlights for the navy. Additionally, each regiment gets a tertiary color for more individual customization.
Holidays
| List of Angevin Holidays | |||
| Date | Name | Holiday | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January | New Year's Day and Commonewalth Day |  |
Beginning of the new year and foundation of Angevinia's Commonwealth status. |
| 6 January | Epiphany | |
Feast day celebrating the visit of the Magi to Jesus Christ. |
| 1 February | Imbolc |  |
Wiccan holiday celebrating the halfway point between Winter and Spring. |
| 1 February | Candlemas | |
Christian holiday coinciding with Imbolc. |
| 1 February | Midwinter Festival | |
Traditional Iroquois midwinter festival. |
| 2 February | Grundsaudaag | |
Alternatively known as "Groundhog's Day" in Yankee, or "Daks Day" in Scosha. |
| movable Monday in February | Family Day | |
Day celebrating the family as a whole. |
| Tuesday before Ash Wednesday | Fat Tuesday/Fastnacht | |
Day before Ash Wednesday. |
| movable Wednesday in February or March | Ash Wednesday | |
Beginning of Lent. |
| Late February - Mid March (14-15 of Adar) | Purim | |
Jewish holiday celebrating the saving of the Jewish people. Typically celebrated with Adloyada, or parades. |
| 14 March | Maple Festival | |
Traditional Iroquoian festival celebrating the start of the maple sap harvesting season. |
| 17 March | St. Patrick's Day | |
Originally a celebration of Celtic Heritage, St. Patrick's day is now a religious holiday in Angevinia. |
| Spring solstice (March 19-21st) | Ostara | |
Wiccan holiday celebrating the Spring Solstice. |
| day before Good Friday | Maundy Thursday | |
The day before Good Friday. |
| movable Friday in March or April | Good Friday | |
The Friday before Easter Sunday. |
| movable Sunday in March or April | Easter Sunday | |
Easter Sunday. |
| 39 days after Easter | Ascension Day | |
A primarily Mennonite holiday celebrating the ascension of Christ. |
| 49-50 days after Easter | Pentecost | |
A primarily Mennonite and Protestant holiday celebrating the 49-50th days after Easter. |
| movable Monday in March or April | Easter Monday | |
The Monday after Easter Sunday. |
| Late March - Early April (15-22 Nisan) | Passover | |
Jewish holiday celebrating deliverance from Egypt. First two days are allowed to be taken off by Jews. |
| 17 April | Feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha | |
Feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Catholic Saint to come from Angevin soil. |
| 19 April | Patriots' Day | |
Celebrating those who fought and died at the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy. |
| 22 April | Earth Day | |
Day in celebration of Earth and Nature. |
| April 28th | Foundation Day | |
Celebrating the foundation of the Angevin nation. |
| 28 April - 1 May | Corn Planting Festival | |
An Iroquoian festival celebrating the planting of corn and other crops, coincides with Foundation Day and Labor Day. |
| 1 May | Labor Day | |
Celebration of all working Angevins. |
| 1 May | Beltane | |
Wiccan holiday celebrating the halfway point between Spring and Summer. Coincides with Labor Day. |
| Fourth Monday in May | Fête des Patriotes | |
Day celebrating the 1837 Patriote Rebellion. |
| Late May - Early June (6-7 Sivan) | Shavuot | |
Jewish holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. |
| 25 May | College Day | |
Day celebrating college students graduating. |
| 6-10 June | Strawberry Festival | |
An Iroquoian festival celebrating the late spring and early summer harvest, specifically strawberries. Picking strawberries is a common "to-do. |
| 18 June | Graduation Day | |
Day celebrating high school students graduating. |
| Summer Solstice | Summer's Solstice | |
Wiccan holiday celebrating the Summer Solstice. |
| 24 June | Feast of St. John the Baptist (Fete National) | |
Francophone holiday, celebrating St. John the Baptist. |
| 2 July | Day Off | |
A day off. Implemented in 2310 by King Franklin II, because "We (Angevinians) don't get a lot of summer holidays." Eating donuts is common. |
| 3rd Monday in July | Farmer's Day | |
A day celebrating farmers and agricultural workers. |
| 25 July | Green Corn Festival | |
Traditional Iroquoian festival celebrating the start of the corn harvest. |
| 1 August | Lammas | |
A Wiccan holiday celebrating the halfway point between Summer and Autumn. |
| 1 August | Lammastide | |
A Christian holiday coinciding with Lammas. |
| 2 August | Ceasefire Day | |
Celebrating the "Until Further Notice Ceasefire" treaty between Merican nations in the wake of the Collapse. |
| Early September (1-2 of Tishrei) | Rosh Hashanah | |
Jewish New Year. Cultural holiday, celebrated in a similar fashion to Chinese New Year in certain parts of America and Canada pre-Collapse. |
| Mid September - Early October (10th of Tishrei) | Yom Kippur | |
Holiest day in the Jewish Year, generally used by non-Jews as a similar religious-study day. |
| September Equinox (September 21-24) | Alban Elfed/Mabon | |
Wiccan Holiday celebrating the autumn equinox. |
| Late September - Early October (15-22nd of Tishrei) | Sukkot/Sukkos | |
Jewish feast week. |
| Late September - Early October (22nd or 23rd day of Tishrei) | Shmini-Atseres | |
Jewish day of Assembly. |
| Late September - Early October (23rd day of Tishrei) | Simchas Torah | |
Jewish day of prayer and Torah study. |
| 1-6 October | Sgennen Preparation | |
Sgennen, or "Peace" in Iroquoian, is a holiday celebrating peace between people. |
| 7 October | Sgennen | |
Sgennen day celebrates peace between individuals and groups of people. Alternatively known as "Apology Day" or "Sorry Day." |
| 10-14 October | Harvest Festival | |
An Iroquoian festival celebrating the Harvest. While not a "day off" holiday, the government and businesses typically celebrate by lowering prices on foodstuffs.. |
| 21 October | Feast Day of St. Karl of Europe | |
The Feast day of St. Karl von Habsburg of Europe. |
| 31 October - 3 November | Halloween (Samhain) | |
Halloween is the largest holiday in Angevinia outside of Christmas. Lasting only one day pre-Collapse, Angevinia Halloween or "Samhain" in Scosha lasts 4 days and is a nationwide festival with parties, parades, and religious events, regardless of faith. |
| 1 November | All Saints' Day | |
Religious event during Halloween celebrating all Catholic Saints, known and unknown. |
| 2 November | All Souls' Day | |
Religious event during Halloween in remembrance of those who have died. |
| 11 November | Veterans' Day | |
Celebrates all veterans who fought or died for what is now Angevinia, from the pre-Colonial era to modern day. |
| Fourth Sunday in November | Thanksgiving | |
Celebrating peace between Natives and Colonial peoples. |
| Early to Late December (25 Kislev - 3 Tevet) | Hanukkah | |
Jewish holiday celebrating the recovery of Jerusalem. Widely celebrated like Christmas. |
| 21 December | Yuul (Yule) | |
Celebration of the Winter Solstice |
| 24 December | Christmas Eve | |
Holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| 25 December | Christmas Day | |
Alternatively known by some as Noel. |
| 26 December | Boxing Day | |
Originally a secular holiday, Boxing Day is now generally celebrated as an extension of Christmas. |
| 31 December | New Year's Eve and Commmonwealth Day | |
End of the old year and celebration of Angevinia's Commonwealth status. |