Ninva
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State of the Ninva ⴰⴷⴷⴰⵓⵍⴰⵜ ⵏ ⵏⵉⵏⵠⴰ Addawlat n Ninva (Tamashek) | |
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 Flag | |
| Capital and largest city | Agnannet |
| Official languages | Tamashek |
| Recognised national languages | Rankumat Zarma Tedaga |
| Recognised regional languages | Tamahaq Tawellemmet Dazaga Darja Tichkalloɣat |
| Ethnic groups (2020) | |
| Demonym(s) | Ninvite |
| Government | Unitary dominant party constitutional monarchy |
| Amina Harakkat ult Tanermat N'Okha | |
• Premier | Marus Ibiza ag Haqar |
| Legislature | Agraw Imgharan |
| Population | |
• 2022 estimate | 50,023,983 |
• 2020 census | 48,995,572 |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | $1,109.5 billion |
• Per capita | $22,179.45 |
| Gini | 29.4 low |
| HDI | 0.801 very high |
| Currency | Ninvite Azref (ZRF) |
| Date format | mm.dd.yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
The State of the Ninva (Tamashek: ⴰⴷⴷⴰⵓⵍⴰⵜ ⵏ ⵏⵉⵏⵠⴰ, Addawlat n Ninva) is a landlocked country in central Scipia bordered by Aɣmatia to the northwest, Tyreseia to the north, Alanahr, Vardana and Fahran to the northeast, Kembesa and M'biruna to the east, and Itayana to the south. Geographically, country consists of the arid expanse of the eponymous Ninva Desert, the Agala highlands in the far south of the country, and a transitional semi-arid sahel belt stretching between the two. The Ninva extends halfway across the continent of Scipia from east to west, commanding many of the overland routes of travel between the densely populated southern Scipia and the wealthy Periclean states to the north. Ninvite government is a coalition of the region's four major ethnic groups, the Tenerians, the Tebu, the Zarma and the Deshrians, joined into a unitary state under the conditional rule of the Okha Clan, one of many dynasties that has governed the State of the Ninva and its numerous successor states. The Agraw Imgharan, the Ninvite legislature, allows political participation under a dominant party system by a variety of political parties representing various majority and minority ethnic and religious groups in the country. However, the Assembly of Progress and Development (Tamashek: ⴰⵍⵥⴰⵎⴰⵖⴰⵜ ⴼⴰⵍ ⴽⴰⵔⵔⴰⵙ ⵏ ⴻⴼⴻⵙ, Alzamaɣat fal Karras n Efes or AKE) has dominated the national elections and the Agraw Imgharan since 1982, limiting the role of the multi-party system in the de facto governance of the country.
The Ninvite economic model is best defined as developmental state capitalism, with strong and frequent intervention by the government in the economy both in a regulatory capacity and as a directive force. Ninva possesses a diversified middle income economy based on resource extraction, refining, manufacturing and a developing service sector. The nation experienced a period of rapid economic growth coinciding with a demographic explosion in the mid to late 20th century known as the 2nd Stride, but growth rates declined thereafter due to economic and political factors and the Ninva has since stabilized with only a low-moderate rate of population growth and cooling economy. The Okha government, installed in 2013, has perused a policy of renewed investment in the economy and has been seeking to develop the service sector of the Ninvite economy to limited success as part of the so-called 3rd Stride. Because the country is landlocked, the Ninvite economy relies instead on internal and external land routes developed with an extensive rail network traversing most of eastern and central Scipia across many national borders. The Ninva relies on these rail links to access shipping lanes via ports in neighboring countries in order to interact with the broader global economy in any significant way.
Sitting at the geographic confluence of northern, eastern and southern Scipia, the Ninva has always been a crossroads for trade and a hinterland region at the edge of many empires throughout history. Many of the important regional cities within the Ninva such as Agnannet, Azut, and Hamath, are all ancient urban centers that prospered as hubs for merchant caravans and trading posts frequented by the indigenous nomadic peoples of the desert, the ancestors of today's Tenerians and Tebus. Long overlooked by the Latin Empire and later the Almurid Caliphate, in the 14th century the Ninva desert became the seat of one of the greatest empires in Scipian history, the Charnean Empire. Under Ihemod the Inheritor and his heirs, the Tenerian Charneans ruled over roughly half of the Scipian continent for over a century from their capital at Agnannet. Although this zenith of Ninvite power on the world stage was relatively short lived compared to its predecessors, it revolutionized the backwater region of the continent. The Charnean rump state, the Awakari Empire, continued to rule the arid center of the continent for centuries after its predecessor's fall and eventually transitioned into the early State of the Ninva, sometimes called the Third Tenerian State, in the mid 19th century amid a wave of modernization and reform, the 1st Stride. In many ways, the Ninva has remained the outer frontier of the many polities surrounding it, while in others the modern state has rivaled its Ihemodian antecedents in its local prominence on the Scipian continent.
Etymology
The State of the Ninva takes its name from the Ninva Desert, itself a name of unknown origin. The name first appears in Deshrian inscriptions, describing the barren region to the west as Nishwa. It was adopted as the name for the new nation during the modernization and reform process of the old Akawari Empire, itself a rump state of medieval Charnea. Awakar is the name of a sandy region of the Tenere known as the Erg Awakar, itself a sub-region of the Ninva desert. The name Charnea has equally uncertain origins. The prevailing theory posits the name comes from Kel Kaharna, the united Tenerian tribal confederation that formed the Charnean Empire from its conquests beyond the Ninva.
Demographics
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 23 | 805,006 | — |
| 651 | 908,261 | +12.8% |
| 1009 | 920,675 | +1.4% |
| 1515 | 1,323,082 | +43.7% |
| 1603 | 1,736,529 | +31.2% |
| 1698 | 2,284,922 | +31.6% |
| 1750 | 2,714,374 | +18.8% |
| 1805 | 3,044,513 | +12.2% |
| 1820 | 3,034,818 | −0.3% |
| 1840 | 3,238,890 | +6.7% |
| 1860 | 3,676,020 | +13.5% |
| 1880 | 4,231,048 | +15.1% |
| 1900 | 4,727,781 | +11.7% |
| 1920 | 7,102,411 | +50.2% |
| 1940 | 10,696,378 | +50.6% |
| 1960 | 19,648,367 | +83.7% |
| 1980 | 24,004,635 | +22.2% |
| 2000 | 38,307,623 | +59.6% |
| 2020 | 48,995,572 | +27.9% |
The population of the Ninva Desert grew very slowly over the centuries if at all due to the wide dispersal of the largely nomadic population, impossibility of agriculture in most of the region and general hostility of the environment inhibiting growth of the human population in the desert. In the early 19th century, a population decline was recorded between censuses for the first and only time in the history of the region, and the total population increased by only one quarter by the end of the century. Two events in the late 19th century led to a gradual rise in the rate of population growth, these being the reformation of the Awakari Empire into the State of the Ninva in 1862 and the discovery of gold in the Agala highlands in 1877. Mining and later oil extraction fueled the economic growth and urbanization in the Ninva, producing numerous boom towns around the mining sector deep in the desert, connected to the outside world by rail lines and in 1898, the Great Scipian Railway. It was the 20th century that saw a major explosion in the Ninvite population, this time preceded by the adoption of highly interventionist state capitalist development model by the Ninvite regime in the 1920s and the subsequent development of the manufacturing sector in the great cities of the desert. The latter half of the 20th century in particular saw meteoric population growth which the economy and the government struggled to control, resulting in crisis in the late 1970s and early 1980s provoked in part by external factors such as the upheaval brought by the Ninvite War. Although the rate of population growth has cooled off significantly in recent decades, the Ninva nevertheless has grown by approximately 44 million people or an increase of over 1000% since 1900. This dramatic demographic explosion has all but revolutionized every aspect of life in the Ninva and permanently changed the character of the country.