Khijovia

Ascended Kingdom of Khijovia Khıjœvïænne Æšcaeē Raēgə
Flag Coat of arms
Motto:  "Vīəra unīəva Laexxe seþþ' Mætriannə jmørre" "Love of the Motherland is our only Law"
Anthem:  Khıjœvïænne Aemınærïe Hyjnnə [The Preclarous Khijovian Anthem]
Lands and surroundings of the Ascended Kingdom of Khijovia
Capital	Kleitore
Largest	Xoviah
Official languages	Khijovian
Recognised regional languages	Teutorian, Aldorian, Klettorian
Ethnic groups	Humans (100%)
Religion	Aravianism
Demonym(s)	Khijovian
Government	Feudalistic Constitutional Monarchy
• Ascended King of Khijovia	Arcadion II
• Ascended Queen of Khijovia	Carevia I
Legislature	Royal Parliament
Area
• Land Area	385,270 km2 (148,750 sq mi)
Population
• 1611 AR estimate	~34,275,100
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Per capita	41,850 Shonnenors (46,220 USD)
Currency	Shonnenor (SHN)
Date format	dd/mm/yy
Driving side	right

Khijovia (Khijovian: Khıjœvïæ [kɪjəʊviə]), officially The Ascended Kingdom of Khijovia, is a feudalistic constitutional monarchy located in northwestern Pelia (in a geographical region usually known as the High West) with Kleitore as its capital city. The nation has a population of about 34 million inhabitants and occupies the entire historical region of the same name, including territories of the Clastoclite mountain range and the Recondian Arcipelago. Delimited to the east by the Clastoclite mountains, Khijovia is bordered to the north by the Kyldigardian Confederation and to the south by Prestore, and faces the Kesper Sea to the west. The Ascended Kingdom was founded in 1611 AR by Arcadion II shortly after the collapse of the Khijovian Federation and after the return of the Zenonian Dynasty. The State is divided according to the Jovianic Feudal System into 27 administrative regions corresponding to the territorial units of the main Khijovian aristocratic houses. A strongly spiritual society, Khijovia has always had a very special relationship with the magical arts.

Etymology

The etymology of the name Khijovia has always been the subject of reconstructions not only by linguists, but also by historians, traditionally attentive to the question; not always, however, we are faced with etymologies in the strict sense, rather with hypotheses which over time have formed a rich corpus of possible solutions, among which there are numerous that refer to popular traditions (such as the mythical existence of an ancient king named Khjvonnə).

It is thought that the name derives from the word Khyjvīə, an exoethnonym with which the Coritians designated a tribe that inhabited the bordering region of Aldoria. It is also hypothesized, however not in contrast with what has been said, that this people worshiped the simulacrum of a pagan divinity, Khœvă. According to this hypothesis, the name would therefore mean "inhabitants of the land of Khœvă".

A further hypothesis instead maintains that the origin of the name is simply the semantic union of the word Kveutonic, a qualifying adjective of uncertain etymology which referred to the Holy Kveutonic Empire, with the term Jovianic, which referred to the Jovianic Order and its doctrine.

History

A crossroads of numerous neolithic cultures, ancient Khijovia saw the birth and flourishing of a multitude of independent city-states that thrived for thousands of years, eagerly preserving their culture and language from outside meddling and influences. Following the collapse of the city-state system around 277 BR, the Khijovian territory was occupied by numerous nomadic peoples coming from the North, thus initiating the so-called Barren Age and ending the Archaic Age of Khijovian history.

Khijovia was then conquered and divided into multiple governatorates by the Kveutonic civilization in 87 BR, becoming one of the most important economic and cultural centers of the Holy Kveutonic Empire. Having reached its maximum expansion in the "heydays" (800-825 AR), the Kveutonic empire then dissolved in 902 due to the continuous invasions of barbarian peoples from the east, thus creating new independent statelets throughout the High West and sanctioning the birth of ancient religious-monastic military orders: among these was the Jovianic Order, which operated on the Khijovian region for more than a century until its disappearance around 1056.

Starting from 1152, the Grand Duke of Klettoria Zenon the Great launched a campaign of national unification and managed to defeat the rival House of Arenia for hegemony over Khijovia, then reuniting the agglomeration of territories into a single Kingdom on July 11, 1161: the Kingdom of Khijovia. Although hundreds of years of reign, on January 28, 1534 the Zenonian Dynasty was driven out in a coup d'état and the Khijovian Federation was founded. However, Federalist Khijovia had a short life as, with the return of the Zenonian Dynasty in 1610, the young prince Arcadion II managed to obtain power and bring the monarchy back to the country: on 3 July 1611 the Ascended Kingdom of Khijovia was founded.

Ancient Age

The first settlement of the Khijovian territory dates back to about 70,000 years ago by the Acreatics, a nomadic people whose only remaining archaeological site is preserved in Yvernia on the Pletorian coasts. The Neolithic revolution did not excessively change the lifestyle of the Acreatics, who continued to base their subsistence on hunting and collecting shellfish.

Starting from the sixth millennium AR, however, this population settled in the surrounding regions and, due to the mountainous nature of the territories, transhumant farming developed while agriculture appeared later. The beginning of metallurgy in Khijovia gave birth to the cultures of the Copper Age: thus the Venatorian culture was born in the north, the Khantan culture in the center and the Khyvian culture in the south. The Bronze Age led to the development in central Khijovia of the Xomian culture while the Iron Age gave birth to the Kleitite culture on the River Thevre.