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Republic of Selosia     Silsija Republika (Selosian)
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Capital and	Vissens
Official languages	Selosian
Recognised regional languages	Miersan Kirenian Witterite
Other	White Cassavian
Ethnic groups	Selosian (67.1%) Kirenian (16%) Miersan (9.6%) Witterite (5.3%) Savaders (0.8%) Others (2.3%)
Religion	Unoffical
Demonym(s)	Selosian
Government	Unitary democratic republic
• President	Ruberts Kalniņš
• Prmier-Minister	Lica Pšektīdovas
Legislature	Parlijamenta
• Upper house	Senāts
• Lower house	Konreš
Establishment
• Principality of Selosia	1098 C.E
• Independence from Gaullica	1935 C.E
• Proclamation of People's Republic	1938 C.E
• Desocialization	1983
Population
• Estimate	5 million
Gini (2020)	68.4 very high
HDI (2021)	0.851 very high
Driving side	right

Selosia (Selosian: Silsija /sil.sija/), officaly known as Republic of Selosia (Silsija Republika), is a landlocked country and a democracy located in the ??? plains in Central Euclea. It is bordered by both East Miersa to the west, Gaullica to the east and Kirenia to the north. The capital is located at Vissens.

History

1935 to 1982

During the Kirenian invasion of Gaullica, a worker's congress in the town of Malnūvs led by Francisks Karstas declared their independece and soon instigated an all-out guerilla war to liberate the rest of Selosia along with numerous Witterite and Miersan volunteers. Together, the newly organized People's Liberation Front of Selosia (PLFS) , with Kirenian backing, succeded in achieving their goals and virtually wiped out the already broken enemy infastructure. On Christmas Day 1935, the PLFS entered into Vissens and liberated the city without any resistance or bloodshed, scores of crowds cheering and celebrating in the snow as it were a true Christmas miracle.

Months later, the last remaining Gaullican forces pulled out as the Godfredson Agreement was signed between the two sides. One of the terms listed gave Kirenia the right to administer over Selosia and East Miersa for 15 years, whilst supporting the two nation's self-determination. After months of negotiating, the two countries signed the Treaty of Peaceful Co-Operation in which Selosia was allowed to retain its democratic independence in exchange for economic aid from Kirenia. By this time however, Karstas and his People's Party had already made Selosia an one-party socialist state modeld after the latter's govenrment and their attempts at implementing economic reform succeded and jumpstarted the post-war recovery. But sadly, before he could realize the country's future, he died unexpectedly of liver cancer in late 1943.

Under the administration of Jānis Galminieks, Sevria was heavily involved in the foreign affairs of her more socialist-minded neighbors. It provided logistical support for Kirenia in the short-lived war against Werania in 1949. But problems were brewing at home, as corruption and persecution of dissidents run rampant during a decade that also saw anti-government protests. Between Feburary and August of 1954, an attempted coup staged by Selosian "pro-democracy" right-wing militias funded by Gaullica and Soravia successfully ousted the authorities, but their plan miserably backfired when Kirenia caught word of the crisis, sending its expeditionary forces to crush the rebellion. This became known as the "Vissens Spring". Soon afterwards, a "normalization" policy was put in place to return the nation to a status quo.

In 1960, Boriš Zaķītis became premier of Selosia and sought to introduce a series of reforms aimed at liberalizing some aspects of society, in order to appease the people after the events of 1954. These would allow greater freedoms for the public to speak about their views without restrictive censorship and to travel abroad. Also, he initiated a centrist-minded foreign policy that saw the establishment of relations between Selosia and other nations whom were mostly comprised of recently-independent nations (Slirnia, Alsland, Hennehouwe,Solstiana) or newcomers on the global stage such as Cassier and Zorasan. At this point, Kireno-Selosian relations began to falter somewhat, especially after a more orthodox wing of communists swept through Kirenia's government in 1965. Then in 1968,Selosia normalized relations with Werania for the first time since the aforementioned Kirenian-Weranian War, provoknig ire within the hardliners and others with what they saw as a utter betrayal of socialist values and accusing Zaķītis of being "in bed" with the capitalist opressors from the past, despite his still-strong oppostion to imperial hegemony and pestering influences from Soravia and Gaullica.

Demographics

Languages

The Selosian language is predominantly spoken by the Selosian majority. Kirenian is the largest native minority language, being spoken there due to the role it played for centuries and shared similarities with Sevrian. Witterite enjoys special status as the language of the namesake group, whose presence also goes to the Reformation period. Also, Miersan is spoken in the western regions and on locations close to the border with East Miersa. Other languages such as Savader and especially Gaullican do not have the same recognition, owning to historical shifts in ethnic compostion (the latter's speakers were expelled after the Great War, just as in other parts of Central Euclea once controlled by the Gaullican Empire.)

A dialect of Selórzan, known as White Cassavian, is still spoken in small pockets within Āztevs province. The language was introduced to the country when Gaullica absorbed most of modern-day Selosia in the mid-17th century, and it was here that many Cassavians (Selosian: Kasavieši), primarily from the Rivir and Vadran tribes, migrated northward to southern Selosia as part of efforts by the Gaullican authorities to colonize their newfound holdings in the West. From there, the settler's language somewhat differed in many respects from the dialects spoken in Gaullica, and has several features that are unique or rarely found in other Solarian languages, including "masuring" (a phonemic change where the constanants cz, sz, rz, and dzi, are de-patalized into c, s, ŗ and dz respectively).