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Sarracaise Republic Sarracaise: République sarraçaise Cerdanyá: República de Sarrac Zarautzea: Sarrako Errepublika
Flag Coat of arms
Capital and largest city	Toulogne
Official languages	Sarracaise
Recognised regional languages	Zarautzea Cerdanyá
Demonym(s)	Sarracaise
Government	Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic
• President	Jean-Marc de Villers
• Premier	Jaqueline Leroux
Legislature	Parlement sarraçais
Population
• 2020 estimate	42,128,950
• 2018 census	40,035,846
Gini (2020)	27.5 low
HDI (2020)	0.903 very high

Sarrac, officially the Sarracaise Republic (Sarracaise: République sarraçaise) is a country in the continent of Berea. It borders Lavaria to the east and the Arthurean Strait to the north. It is home to 42,128,950 inhabitants and its capital and largest city is Toulogne, a major financial, political and cultural centre of the continent.

During most of Antiquity, the territory of Sarrac would be home to antique Erytherian colonies, especially on its west coast bordering the Sian Sea. Farther north, in the regions that surround the Arthurean Strait, Felghnez tribes’ identity would start to form with !Celtic influences from Albish territories, rapidly becoming a threat to these prosperous colonies, often referred to as city-states. During the following centuries, the territory remained subject to !Roman influence. The start of the Middle Ages would see a heavily fractured Sarrac. Cutish migrations over the Albish territory forced the !Celtics to extend, once again, across the Arthurean Strait, forming the first Felghnez independent merchant towns settled mostly on the northern tips of Sarrac. These towns would be the first to unify under a single authority becoming a threat to Albish kingdoms at the end of the 10th century. During most of the 9th and 10th century, Sarrac would see the development of a proper feudalist society, with the fracture of its territory developing into a decentralised authority. Felghnezs and Sarracaises would later expand across Albeinland during the 11th century, marking a point of major territorial extension that was going to carry along structural social changes and a development of the Sarracaise language, now spread across the whole continent.

Together with the end of the Middle Ages, Sarrac saw an incredible cultural development, becoming the birthplace of painters, authors and religious studies that profoundly changed the spirit of the era. Sarrac would engage in wars over territorial disputes with Lavaria and other surrounding nations during the first half of the century. During 1431, the Queen Marguerite of Sarrac would marry Charles II of Cerdagne, marking the first formal unification between the two crowns and formally forming the Sarracaise Kingdom. The rise of absolute monarchism would end with the news of the Albish Spring, which animated a republican spirit in Sarrac that overthrew the Crown and established the First Republic after a crude civil war. The contemporary period is marked by the heavy industrialisation carried out by Sarrac and the incursion into the Great War, during which it fought alongside the Armala Coalition, before falling into a period of regional isolation led by the Fascist leader Maxime Barrault until the 1970s. In 1972, social pressure and the death of Barrault forced a democratic aperture led by Jean-Marc Devereux, which was marked by an important financial impulse that created a large Sarracaise welfare state. During the 1990s, economic insolvations took the country to live its largest financial crisis that was tackled down with neoliberal reforms and a rise of poverty and unemployment that marked a later rise of centre-left governments.