Blayk
Grand Kingdom of Blayk Reyoume Grand de Blayc (Blaykish) | |
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| Motto: "Audeamus" "We dare" | |
| Anthem: Trais Couorônes Unies "Three Crowns United" | |
| Capital and largest city | Montigné |
| Official languages | Blaykish |
| Recognised regional languages | Vervillian, Litavin |
| Demonym(s) | Blaykish |
| Government | Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy |
• Monarch | Léopold III |
| Pierre Édouardais | |
| Legislature | Parlement (Chambres des Députés) |
| Establishment | |
| August 470 | |
• Treaty of Breun | 15th January 920 |
• Republic Established | March 6th 1802 |
• Chaudoir Restoration | 3rd February 1829 |
| Area | |
• | 542,093 km2 (209,303 sq mi) |
• Water (%) | 1.34 |
| Population | |
• 2017 census | 79,310,821 |
• Density | 146/km2 (378.1/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $3.570 trillion |
• Per capita | $45,023 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | $3.877 trillion |
• Per capita | $48,893 |
| Gini (2017) |  29.1low |
| HDI (2018) |  0.934very high |
| Currency | Marque (MRQ) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (Western Auhr Standard Time) |
| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +06 |
| ISO 3166 code | BLK |
| Internet TLD | .blk |
Blayk (Blaykish: Blayc, pronounced: /ˈbleɪk/), officially the Grand Kingdom of Blayk (Blaykish: Reyoume Grand de Blayc) is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy located in Western Auhres. The country extends from the Western Ocean to the Khovaar strait and borders Rythene to the north west, Vervillia and the Imperial Confederacy to the south and shares maritime borders with Tyrnica to the east. Blayk consists of four regions which are further sub-divided into fourteen provinces, covering a total of 542,093 square kilometres. It has the second highest population within Auhressia with 79.31 million inhabitants as of 2018. Blayk's capital is Montigné, the country's largest city and main commercial and cultural hub.
During the iron age the area that now makes up Blayk was inhabited by a collection of Rubic tribes. Sabaria annexed the region in 60 BC forming the province of Vervillia, holding onto it until the arrival of the Eastern Auhressian Blacs who created the Kingdom of Blaccia in 470. The Treaty of Breun in 920 partitioned Blaccia into North Blaccia and South Blaccia with North Blaccia gaining independence from the Holy Sabarine Empire. North Blaccia which became the Kingdom of Blayk in 967 went on to become the leading power in West Auhres in the Late Middle Ages. Throughout the renaissance Blaykish culture flourished and the nation become the first in Auhres to discover the New World and establish an overseas empire. The 16th century saw Blayk enter union with Vervillia in the Blako-Vervillian Union after the Blaykish-Tyrnican war of 1528. The Blako-Vervillian Union became the dominant cultural, political and economic power in Auhres in the 17th and 18th centuries until it's dissolution in 1790.