Ilbon
National Republic of Ilbon Irubon Kyōwakoku | |
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| Motto: Subete No Han'ei No Tame Ni For the Prosperity of All! | |
| Anthem: Bitoku No Uta (official) Song of Virtue | |
| Capital and largest city | Oikage |
| Official languages | Ilbon-eo |
| Recognised national languages | Kokuri-eo Kita-eo |
| Demonym(s) | Ilbonese (ethnic) Ilbonese (citizen) |
| Government | Unitary Social Republic |
| Ozawa Mitsuo | |
| Kuse Shig | |
| Legislature | Kokkai |
| Establishment | |
• The First Kingdom | 551 CE |
• Ruuzoji Domain | 1485 CE |
• Federal Republic | 1815 CE |
• National Social Republic | 1910 CE |
• Ilbonese Federeshon | 1939 CE |
• National Republic | 1996 CE |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 146,416,962 |
| Date format | dd.mm.yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| ISO 3166 code | DR |
| Internet TLD | .dr |
Ilbon (Ilbonese:イルボン, Ielbon or Irubon, officially known as the National Republic of Ilbon, and formally Irubonkoku) is an island nation located south of Agleia. It is situated to the south of Agleia and to the north of Sorenwey. Ilbon has no natural land borders, and therefore does not have any neighboring states on its borders, aside from Ueshima, to which it shares a small land border on Eushima's southern coast. Due to its nature as an island nation, Ilbon is surrounded on all sides by smaller island chains, with there being nearly 4,000 smaller islands surrounding the nation on all sides. The nation possesses many smaller city-states across the coasts of Sorenwey and Agleia, it also claims parts of north-western Sorenway and smaller areas of southern Kardia. Oikage is the nations largest city and capitol, followed by Osaga, Kokasa, Mie, Niinoshima, and Ar.
Ilbon is the 8th most populous country in the world, and is one of the most densly populated in some its provinces and cities. Oikage itself is home to nearly 20 million people and is so large that it has become its own prefecture, and is the largest urban metropolitan region in the world. The eastern coast of the nation is the most densly populated with the population density decreasing the further west-ward one travels. Most of the nation's terrain is hilly or flat, with the nations only mountain range being located along the western coast of the island. Ilbon is divided into 11 regions, which are then further divided up into smaller prefectures, which are then divided further into subprefectures.
Etymology
History
Ilbo-Genesis
The first humans to arrive in Ilbon did so around 10,000 years ago when they migrated from Sorenwey to Ilbon on small wooden vessels in waves and established a primitive hunter-gatherer, pit-dwelling culture on the island. The first wave of arrivals, which later went on to form the Kita-Tomin culture, was eventually pushed out by the second wave which was that of the ancestors of modern middle Ilbonese "Ruuzoji" people, who were later pushed out by the ancestors of the Kokuri who arrived with the third wave of settlers. Based on cave paintings and primitive escriptions found in the mountainous regions of western Ilbon, it is assumed that early Ilbonese settlers from all 3 cultures drifted towards figures of authority and based their tribal structure around obeying these figures of authority. Early Ilbonites have been, due to the lack of discovered damaged skeletons, theorized to have been pacifistic by nature, only resorting to combat when all other options were exhausted by their surroundings.
The First Kingdom
Ilbon's first unified kingdom came about during the 4th century BCE and was led by King Tsuchiya Mayumi and his council of warriors. Prior to his consolidation of power in the lands of middle Ilbon, King Mayumi led a smaller tribe of warrior-gatherers named the "Omuras" or "growers", who slowly absorbed their neighboring tribes via peaceful annexation over the course of two decades to eventually form the first Ruuzoji Kingdom; every legitimate and unlegitmate emperor after Mayumi's death would claim to be descended from the Tsuchiya and Omura clans. After King Mayumi's consolidation of control in the 4th century BCE, he declared himself to be the true "philosopher king of the Ruuzoji" and took it upon himself to begin expanding the intellectual capacity of his kingdom, reaching out to prominent intellectuals from across his Kingdom such as the mountain-dwelling Sugihara Moriko and his group of apprentices. Mayumi, during his reign as king, was rumored to have been a homosexual due to his lack of a male heir, but eventually married one of his female concubines and produced a male heir the year after.
Mayumi reigned as king until the age of 50 and left his kingdom to his younger son, Tsuchiya Tsutsomu. Tsutsomu, led by his fathers council of warriors, ruled much in the same way as his father and enacted policies similar to his father. At the age of 31, Tsutsomu was shot in the shoulder by an arrow from a Kokuri assassin, which prompted a retaliatory strike from the Ruuzoji army, which eventually resulted in the beginning of the first Ruuzoji-Kokuri war. The Kokuri, although largely outnumbered by the Ruuzoji, were noted to have fought with "stunning tenacity", and many captured Kokuri warriors were even sent back home to the houses of Ruuzoji noble families to serve as bodyguards and mercenaries. After nearly 8 months of on and off fighting, King Tsutsomu of Ruuzoji and King Beon of Kokuri met atop hill Haneul in what is now the region of Izumi to negotiate an end to the war. The terms agreed upon were deemed to be fair to both sides, and the two kings left satisfied by the negotiation, but not before reportedly bowing to eachother in a show of "ancestral respect".