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Eschaton of Okredesia Eshadana Akradeysha (Okrish)
Flag Seal
Motto: "Breykin, bernin, growin, yurnin." ("Breaking, burning, growing, yearning.")
Anthem: Ereynchment fer Aunted Tymes ("Arrangement for Haunted Times")
Map of Okredesia's metropolitanates. Overseas exarchates not shown. Map of Okredesia's metropolitanates. Overseas exarchates not shown.
Capital and largest city	Ys
Other languages	Okrish, Ysic
Religion	Ysology (official)
Demonym(s)	Okrish, Okrisher
Government	Anarcho-totalitarian socialist theocracy
• Archon	Aaa
• Overprovost	Aaa
• Stratarch	Aaa
Legislature	Megasynod
Formation
• Dagerby culture	c. 25,000 BCE
• Alweni migration	c. 300 CE
• Valsian invasions	c. 1300 CE
• Archimandry period	1673-1739
• Republic period	1891-1997
• Eschaton period	1997-present
Area
•	437,220 km2 (168,810 sq mi)
Population
• 2023 estimate	73,890,180
• Density	169/km2 (437.7/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2023 estimate
• Total	$3,124,372,371,120
• Per capita	$42,284
GDP (nominal)	2023 estimate
• Total	$991,606,215,600
• Per capita	$13,420
Gini (2021)	23.3 low
HDI (2021)	0.855 very high
Currency	Sol (𐤳) (OKS)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+23
ISO 3166 code	OK
Internet TLD	.ok

Okredesia (/ɔːkrɛdiːʒiə/ AW-kreh-DEE-zhuh, -⁠DESS-ee-uh) officially the Eschaton of Okredesia (Okrish: Eshadana Åkradeysha), is an island country in the Mazarine Ocean. Most of its land area of 437,22 km² (168,811 mi²) is characterized by cold, wet, mixed forests and rolling hills. It shares a maritime border with Elyssia, which is also the closest other country to Okredesia, laying 450 kilometers to the west. Much of the population of 73,890,180 is concentrated in the north around the Foss Valley and Lake Sovereign. Ys, the capital, is also the country's largest city. Other major urban centers include Elderon, Elcho, Erneburn, and Phlox.

Okredesia was first inhabited during the Last Glacial Maximum, with megalithic structures submerged in the Dagerby Sea and Great Bay dating to approximately 25,000 years ago. The archaeological record shows a mass die-off occured around 13,000 BCE, leaving the island uninhabited again until the 4th century CE when the Alweni peoples arrived. The Alweni engaged in a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and built their own monumental structures. In the late 1300s, large numbers of Valsians began migrating to Okredesia from eastern Elyssia, conquering and eventually subsuming the Alweni population. During the centuries following the Valsian invasions, power coalesced around the petty kingdoms of Mallow, Lasel, Umber, Begom, and Floret, which are historically referred to as the Pentarchy. Beginning in the mid-1600s, a religious reformation resulted in the entire island uniting for the first time under the Archimandry of Okredesia from 1673 to 1739 before dissolving upon the death of Saint Alinora. The endemic warfare resulting from the Archimandry's collapse fueled the island's industrialization, which in turn caused substantial sociopolitical upheaval. The unification of Elyssia in 1871 inspired the unification of the island into the Republic of Okredesia in 1891. Rising discontentment due to precarious economic conditions, environmental degradation, and rising authoritarianism led to the Vital Revolution beginning in 1991 with the ensuing Okredesian Civil War ending in 1997 with the victory of the Eldritchians.

Today, Okredesia is a unitary socialist state that has been simultaneously described as an advanced e-democracy and an electronic police state, with low levels of political transparency and religious freedom, but paradoxically high rankings in human development, civil liberties, and democracy. Ysology is the state religion. Okredesia is divided into 13 metropolitanates, which enjoy extraordinary devolved powers, consisting of 256 eparchies and 4096 parishes, as well as 23 overseas exarchates. The country maintains a decentralized socialist economy in which basic needs have been decommodified and all firms are either employee-owned, community-owned, or state-operated. While its nominal GDP per capita is just $13,420, by PPP measurements its GDP per capita is $42,284. Major industries and products include foodstuffs, forest products, commercial vehicles, industrial machinery, electronics, and telecommunications.

Etymology

The origins of the name Okredesia are uncertain. It first emerged into the written record around 1400 CE as Okirdosia, possibly dervied from the Middle Alweni word okkido, meaning "to kill, ruin, afflict", and thus could be interpreted as meaning "ruined land" or even "land of the dead". The term was initially used to refer to the area around modern day Elderon and the Foss Valley, likely in reference the devestation wrought by the Elyssian invasion of Okredesia which began roughly a century prior, and soon began to be used by the Elyssians to refer to the entire island. The modern form, Okredesia, only entered use in the early 1700s, coined and standardized by the govermnent of the Archimandry, and ending the use of other derived words such as Kidosa or Lithasia. With the Great Okredesian Dialect Shift of the late 19th century and subsequent establishment of the Academy for the Okredesian Language in 1910, the native spelling was standardized to Akradeysha.