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 | Leopold III |
| Pierre Édouardais | |
| Legislature | Parlement (Chambres des Députés) |
| Establishment | |
| August 470 | |
| 15th January 920 | |
| March 6th 1802 | |
| 3rd February 1822 | |
| 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 (6th) |
| 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 | BLC |
| Internet TLD | .blc |
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 five regions which are further sub-divided into fifteen 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. Other important urban centres inculde Elberné, Marbonne, Fluery, Breun and Arden.
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 Isaric Blakes who created the Kingdom of Blacia in 470. The Treaty of Breun in 920 partitioned Blacia into now the North Blacia and South Blacia with North Blacia gaining independence from the Holy Sabarine Empire. North Blacia which became the Kingdom of Blayk in 967 went on to become a leading power in West Auhres in the Late Middle Ages. Throughout the renaissance Blaykish culture flourished and the nation became 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.
The beginning of the 19th century saw a period of great unrest after the death of Phillipe III, culminating in the Blaykish Civil War and founding of the Blaykish Republic. The resulting War of the Commons saw Blayk, Rythene and other minor republican forces band together against invading coalition forces intent on establishing Autocratic rule in Western Auhres. The end of the war in 1816 saw the restoration of the monarchy under the rule of Gilbert II. Gilbert II proved to be an unpopular King and he was exiled to Tyrnica by Phillipean Rebels in 1822, who then raised Léopold I, Phillipe III's illegitimate son to the throne. The Chaudoir Restoration was the end of the great period of civil unrest in the country. Blayk was a major combatant in the Great War, during which it was allied with Rythene.
Blayk is a developed country and has Levilion's third largest economy by nominal GDP. It has a high-income economy and has a very high Human Development Index Rating ranking sixth in the word. It was the world's first industrialised nation and the foremost power during the 17th and 18th centuries. Blayk remains a great power, with large amounts of economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence.
Etymology
Originally applying to whole northern region of the Holy Sabarine Empire, Blayk derives from the Sabarine Blacia or "country of the Blakes". The Tyrnican name Blachland shares the same meaning.
There are a few theories on the origins of the name Blake. Many have linked the word Blake to Rythenean black or bleak. The name Blake thus may have been adopted from proto-isaric *blakaz meaning dark or black haired, a trait noted by Sabarine writers or *blaikaz meaning pale perhaps meaning in contrast to the nomadic people who inhabited Central Auressia before the Isaric tribes.