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Union of Rhowyden Rhowyden
Flag of Rhowyden Flag Emblem of Rhowyden Emblem
Motto: "Beneath the pavement, the beach."
Anthem: Solidarity Forever
Logo of CERES File:Logo of CERES.svg
Map of Rhowyden's Regions Map of Rhowyden's Regions
Capital	Gydenborg (de facto)
Largest	Mikelby
Working language	Rhowysh
National languages	Avonic Burnish Cargish Howingese Merelandic Sharlan
Religion	63% No religion 31% Velism 6% Other
Demonym(s)	Rhowysh
Government	Council federation
• General-Secretary	Aaa
• Presiding Arbiter	Aaa
• Chief Coordinator	Aaa
Legislature	Public Forum
Formation
• First human habitation	c. 30,000 BCE
• Sovereign Copper culture	c. 600 CE
• Valsian invasions	c. 14th century CE
• Malachite Declaration	16 March 1642 CE
• Vital Revolution	1979-1984
Area
•	32,356,439 km2 (12,492,891 sq mi)
Population
• 2020 census	845,245,440.00
• Density	26.12/km2 (67.7/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2020 estimate
• Total	$42.7 trillion
• Per capita	50,523
Gini	15.3 low
HDI	0.955 very high
Currency	Sol (ᛋ) (ROS)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+23
ISO 3166 code	RW
Internet TLD	.rw

Rhowyden (/roʊwɪdɛn/ ROH-wih-den), officially the Union of Rhowyden, is a sovereign country encompassing the continent of Rhowyden, the island of Sharlow, the smaller surrounding islands, and dozens of overseas autonomous territories. Most of its land area of 32,356,439 km² (12,493,000 mi²) is characterized by cold, wet, mixed forests, although the southern coast is warm year-round. It is surrounded by oceans on all sides. The de facto administrative capital of Rhowyden is Gydenborg, while its largest city is Mikelby. Other major urban centers include Lisitas, Bramwin, Leraster, and Leander.

Humans first arrived in Rhowyden around 30,000 CE during the last ice age Beginning in the 15th century, large numbers of Proto-Valsian peoples of undocumented origins began arriving by sea on the west side of the continent, conquering and assimilating much of the indigenous population by the beginning of the 17th century, leaving a plethora of large, independent warlord states in the wake of the campaign. In the 1640s, the Archimandry of Holburn was the first recorded great power on the continent, briefly conquering most of the continent’s eastern half, before collapsing during the Malachite Wars from 1719-1742. Industrialization of the continent began amid these conflicts, with the first commercial steam engines entering use in Leraster in 1732. The ensuing economic and technological boom led to dramatic urbanization and socioeconomic upheaval, until much of the continent began transitioning into a deindustrialized service-based economy in the mid-20th century. Rising discontentment due to precarious economic conditions, environmental degradation, and rising authoritarianism led to the Vital Revolution in 1979, which eventually unified the continent into the modern polity of Rhowyden.

Today, Rhowyden is a libertarian socialist council federation where the predominant political current is vitalism. It is divided into 6 regions, 42 zones, and 9,735 autonomies. The federal government is based upon the Community for Equity, Research, Ecology, and Security (CERES), and a system of advanced e-democracy is implemented at all levels. Rhowyden utilizes a decentralized planned economy in which basic needs have been decommodified and all firms are either employee-owned or community-owned, with production coordinated through an advanced decision support system named DAGDA. Major industries and exports include foodstuffs, forest products, commercial vehicles, industrial machinery, telecommunications, and tourism. Rhowyden ranks highly in international measurements of political freedoms, government transparency, education, and quality of life.

Etymology

The name Rhowyden is derived from the Middle Rhowysh word ‘’prowetinne’’ (“prophetess”). It first entered common usage in the mid-1700s as a derivation of Prowetinnesrewlm, referring to the Archimandry of Holburn and the wide-reaching influence of Archabbess Alinora the Most Holy. Though the “Prophetess’s Realm” dissolved in 1739, the name remained in use for at least a generation and began being used as a common name for the continent by the turn of the 19th century. Among speakers of Burnish and Merelandic, the word soon mutated into Rhowetinn, and eventually Rhowyden, following the establishment of standardized spelling by the now defunct Academy for the Rhowysh Language.

Geography

Köppen climate map of Rhowyden.

Most of Rhowyden consists of the continent of the same name, which is 28,755,303 km² and lays between latitudes 55°N and 32°N and longitudes 173°W and 66°W. Despite its large size, Mainland Rhowyden's climate and terrain are relatively consistent, with wet, continental forests spanning most of the continent. North of the Thousand Lakes, the northern third of the continent has a subarctic climate with harsh, cold winters and short summers. The majority of the continent is divided between warm-summer versus cold-summer continental climates in the north and south, and monsoonal versus distributed precipitation in the east and west. In the southeast, a humid subtropical climate persists year-round, with some southern-pointing peninsulas even experiencing a Mediteranean-type climate. The city of Yupoly on the southern coast of Avony is the only place in Mainland Rhowyden that has a tropical climate.

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  The shore of Lake Sovereign is a popular domestic and international tourist destination and an important economic hub.

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  Cranes taking flight in a marsh in northern Mereland.

Demographics

Largest cities or towns in Rhowyden Source: CERES Economic Coordination Commission
	Rank		Zone	Pop.	Rank		Zone	Pop.
Mikelby Bramwin	1	Mikelby	Great Bay Moraine Zone	2,333,627	11	Drytholm	Maritime Sharlan Coastal Zone	1,240,312	Leraster Leander
	2	Bramwin	Istervanic Archipelago Zone	2,041,099	12	Timmingham	Great Bay Moraine Zone	1,238,488
	3	Leraster	Lake Sovereign Basin Zone	1,980,445	13	Rosheamus	Southern Meric Lowlands Zone	1,223,188
	4	Leander	Green River Delta Zone	1,976,742	14	Glasmere	Great Green Lake Basin Zone	1,178,455
	5	Balworth	Balworth Bay Zone	1,722,998	15	Kininkle	Sea of Spears Zone	1,047,350
	6	Lisitas	Salhet Peninsula Zone	1,608,764	16	Delwen	Abbey Straits Zone	965,237
	7	Gydenborg	Lake Sovereign Basin Zone	1,517,065	17	Rinbrouk	Great Bay Moraine Zone	946,420
	8	Yupoly	South Avonic Tropical Coastal Zone	1,463,413	18	Lanasford	Great Green Lake Basin Zone	888,592
	9	Josbury	Southern Meric Lowlands Zone	1,456,788	19	Sorden	Howingese Northern Plateau Zone	755,331
	10	Drosstad	Salhet Peninsula Zone	1,318,435	20	Mansfeld	Aspholm Bay Zone	721,098