Syalat
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Syalat ཤྱལཏ | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
| Capital | Aphimagarh |
| Largest city | Kaloprayaga |
| Official languages | Khas Kura |
| Ethnic groups | |
| Demonym(s) | Syalati |
| Government | Conciliar ecclesiarchy |
• Gaxag | Indra Basnet Samrat Aryal Milan Rosyara Taral Mishra |
| Legislature | Consultative Assemblies |
| Mathadhisa Sabha | |
| Sarvajanika Sabha | |
| Foundation | |
• Independence | 20 May 1913 |
• Warlord Era | 1921-1944 |
• Civil War | 2004-2008 |
| Population | |
• 2022 census | 20,081,119 |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $147.7 billion |
• Per capita | $7,354 |
| Gini | 57.4 high |
| HDI (2022) | 0.569 medium |
| Currency | Paisa |
| Driving side | right |
Syalat (Khas Kura: ཤྱལཏ), also known as the Jackal Coast, is a country in central Ochran stretching across the southern shore of the Chulha Sea. Its mountainous interior is bounded by the nations of Ankat and Shimlar-Pashmir to the east and south. The capital is Aphimagarh, formerly a minor city in the central highlands which was rebuilt and converted into the seat of the national government, relocating the administration away from the old capital and the current largest city Kaloprayaga. The country is named for the narrow strip of flat, arable coastal land along the southern edge of the Chulha sea where most of the population, economic activity, and major cities such as Kaloprayaga are concentrated. This eponymous Jackal Coast extends from the northern extremes where the steppes and badlands known as the Sunyata meet the sea to the far southwestern Azaghartian enclave of Pakhtunkwa. The hinterlands are dominated by the Prathara, a vast plateau region sitting between the lowlands of the Jackal Coast and the spine of the Devalaya mountains which mark the country's borders with its overland neighbors. The Prathara stands at an average elevation of 3,500 meters and is almost entirely arid, relying heavily on seasonal snowmelt from the upper mountain slopes to supply water to the plateau's towns and cities.
The government of Syalat is an ecclesiarchy in which temporal authority is principally vested within the religious institutions of the Agamana. The monastic establishment governs by way of the Gaxag council, a quadripartite body consisting of four Kalon ministers who collectively wield executive power. Democracy plays a limited role in the governance of Syalat through the national consultative assemblies, whose membership is extracted from the religious and lay officials of the country for the purposes of advising the Kalons of the Gaxag as to the state of the country and the grievances of the common people. In practice, these assemblies draft legislative proposals and policy recommendations that the Gaxag can elect to adopt as state policy at their discretion.
History
The Ganas
Zilung era
Southern war
The Daksini Yuddha or "Southern War" was a conflict between the forces of Zilung administered Syalat and the Ratoghati Gana of the southern Pathara.
Pathara uprising
Independence
Khasarajya
1913-1921
Warlord era
Agamana movement
Government
The government of Syalat is officially oligarchic and draws sovereignty from the Sanghas, a class of local and national associations of religious, economic and political character. The Sangha, variably translated as "association", "guild" or "community", forms the fundamental unit of Syalati society and politics. The highest authority in the state of Syalat is the Gaxag, a quadripartite council of high ministers, which derives political legitimacy from the largest and most powerful Sanghas of Syalat. Beneath the authority of the Gaxag are various minor ministries and lay offices such as the national mint, secular and religious courts, as well as security forces ranging from the national SGS to local militias and the Sangha-run police entities. Democratic legitimacy for the Gaxag's government over Syalat is derived from two national consultative assemblies, the Mathadhisa Sabha and Sarvajanika Sabha. The former is made up of 100 abbots and former abbots representing the religious communities of Syalat's monasteries and temple-cities and is primarily dominated by the Dhan'ya Sangha, while the latter is made up of 214 lay officials representing secular society and is dominated by the major economic Sanghas. Each consultative assembly meets once a year for a multi-day session of debate regarding the rule of Gaxag and the successes or failures of state policy, and may make recommendations to the Gaxag, sanction the Gaxag's decisions or policies, and even appoint special officials to preform certain tasks until the next meeting of the assembly. Although the assemblies hold no legal authority as a legislative organ, they nevertheless wield considerable influence over the government as the most direct vehicles for the political will of Syalat's most powerful Sanghas.
Gaxag
The Gaxag (བཀའ་ཤག) is the ruling council of Syalat, made up of four officials bearing the Zilung-derived title of Kalon. The institution originally served as the cabinet of the Syalati monarchs before the downfall of the Khasarajya and the feudal order on which it was built during the Warlords era of Syalati history. When Syalat was reunified as a political entity in 1944 by the Agamana monks of Dhan'ya Sangha, the Gaxag was re-established and became a perpetual regency council sanctioned by the monks, subsuming the executive power which formerly rested with the monarch. For 64 years, the Gaxag ruled in this manner, until the political reforms accompanying the 2008 conclusion of the Syalati Civil War which formally abolished the institution of the monarchy and ended the regency. Since 2008, the Gaxag has held supreme authority over Syalat on a de jure as well as de facto basis.
The council of the Gaxag heads the administration of the Syalati state, consisting of ten ministries in total. Four of these ministries - Home, Foreign Affairs, War, and Finance - are headed by the Kalons while the remainder are headed by lower officials with the title of Mantri which are appointed by majority vote of the Gaxag. Each minister, be they Kalon or Mantri, has the autonomy to dictate policy within their area of expertise. Matters which transcend the expertise of any one minister are presided over by all four Kalons of the Gaxag as a collective. Each of the six lower ministries has an informal association with one of the higher ministries, such as the Mantri of Police being influenced by the War Kalon or the Mantri of Culture coming under the influence of the Home Kalon.
- Home Kalon - Domestic policy - Samrat Aryal
- Ministry of Culture
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Courts
- Foreign Kalon - Foreign policy - Milan Rosyara
- Immigration and Customs Office
- National Diplomatic Corps
- War Kalon - Military policy - Taral Mishra
- Ministry of Police
- Finance Kalon - Fiscal policy - Indra Basnet
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Mint of Syalat