Seredinia

The Seredinian Federation Серединская Федерация Seredinskaya Federatsiya
Flag Coat of Arms
Motto: Бог дал нацию ("God gave the nation")
Anthem: Прощание Велиянки ("Farewell of Veliyanka")
Political map of united Seredinia
Capital	Zolodolina
Largest	Belogorodka
Official languages	Seredyan
Recognised regional languages	Abzahn, Audonais, Latin, Losh, Nasjzky, Tolyk, Yakast, Zvečajian
Ethnic groups	81.8% Seredyan 6% Zvečajian 4.2% Yakast 2.8% Abzahn 2.7% Tolyk 1.0% Drev-Nasjzky 1.5% Other
Demonym(s)	Seredyan Seredinian
Government	Federal parliamentary republic
• President of Seredinia	Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin
• Prime Minister	Nadezhda Alexandrovna Vyrubova
Legislature	Seredinian Diet
Formation
• Conquests of the Bayarid Empire	970 CE
• Establishment of the Principality of Zolodolina	1047 CE
• Deposition of the last Zhuzhes	1318 CE
• Proclamation of the Grand Principality of Zolodolina	13 October 1366
• Conquests of Vsevolod IV begin across modern Seredinia	10 March 1454
• Grand Principality of Seredya proclaimed	11 December 1676
• Deposition of the Seredinian Monarchy in the Christmas Revolution	27 December 1878
• Beginning of the Seredinian Civil War	29 January 1879
• Effective End of the Seredinian Civil War	8 May 1891
• Grand Republic of Seredinia proclaimed	2 January 1895
• Verizov Constitution ratified	23 September 1952
• Seredinian Federation proclaimed	13 October 1952
Population
• 2017 estimate	126,841,466
• 2014 census	125,776,238
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$3.805,55 billion
• Per capita	$30.002,44
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$3.634,51 billion
• Per capita	$28.654,00
Gini	42.1 medium
HDI	0.858 very high
Currency	tochka (₸)
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy
Driving side	left
Calling code	+7
ISO 3166 code	DS
Internet TLD	.ds

Seredinia (Seredyan: Серединська, tr. Seredinska), officially the Seredinian Federation (Seredyan: Серединская Федерация, tr. Seredinskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental sovereign federal parliamentary republic. It spans east-central Belisaria and Ochran, a geographic makeup from which it gets its name meaning the middle in Seredyan. The largest nation in the world by land area, it is also the fifth largest nation by population with 126,841,466 residents. The majority of its population live in the center of the country, near the Periclean Sea, and in cities such as Belogorodka and Zolodolina, the first and second largest in the nation respectively. Other major cities include the coastal metropolises of Elektrostal and Tambov, as well as the far-eastern city of Dominigrad and the steppe city of Voroshilovka. Spanning a wide swathe of the northern hemisphere, Seredinia shares land borders with Drevstran, Velikograd, Tsensurii, and Uluujol as well as a maritime border with Tarsas. Historically and in contemporary ages, it has served as a gateway between the eastern and western powers of Ochran and Belisaria.

The ethnic group known as Seredyans first emerged across Belisaria and Ochran in the early centuries CE, and were initially ruled by various disparate knyazes over the course of the 6th through the 10th centuries. In 1012 CE, after a lengthy process of Christianization of the Seredyans along the Periclean coast and further north, Knyaz Vsevolod of Zolodolina -- then a Prince of Belogorodka and Grand Prince of the Golden Valley, or Zolodolina -- converted to the Eastern Orthodoxy, mandating that all people of Belogorodka and Zolodolina convert and baptize themselves in the Svir river and Lake Kupalnitsa. Vsevolod's realm would collapse over the course of the following century, but Christianity was able spread across much of the Seredyan lands, and ingrained itself deeply into Seredyan culture. By the seventeenth century, the lands were reunited and expanded by conquest, annexation, and expeditions east to roughly the modern extent of the Seredinian Federation, termed The Middle Lands by its Velikiy Knyazes.

The initial Seredinian state would collapse after the Christmas Revolution of 1878, leading to a decade-long civil war and the emergence of socialist and communist ideologies across the nation. The conflict would see the deaths by starvation and war of millions of citizens across the country, and the secession of Tsensurii as well as other small regions of the country. At its end, propagated by the unification of liberal Kadet factions with the moderate wing of the Socialist Authority, the Seredinian Federation was declared; it is one of the longest-standing republics in the world, with consistently peaceful transfers of power and only a single instance of near-usurpation of its democracy. That attempt, known as the Knyazitsyn Putsch and ended decisively by Prime Minister and later President Laurentiy Verizov, saw considerable reformation of and amendments to the Federation.

Seredinia's economy ranks within the top five of the world by nominal GDP, and it is a major producer of raw materials as well as finished products. Governmentally, Seredinia maintains an indirectly-elected President serves as the official head of state and guarantor of the Seredinian Constitution who appoints a prime minister from among the leaders of the Zemsky Sobor to serve as the head of government. The President's powers and the procedures by which he executes them are maintained according to the various so-called constitutions, though each successive document is actually a set of amendments to the official 1878 Constitution. The current President is Anatole Apraxin, serving his second term since 2010, and the current Prime Minister is Nadezhda Vyrubova since 2015. The government is based primarily in the capital city of Zolodolina.

History

The Seredinian Federation (1952-Present)

Language

Languages of Seredinia
Language			Percent
Seredyan			99.2%
Latin			28.4%
Audonais			19.8%
Zvečajian			6.0%
Yakast			4.4%
Abzahn			3.5%
Tolyk			3.2%
Other			2.4%

Religion

Religion in Seredinia
Religion			Percent
No Religion			34.4%
Orthodoxy			23.0%
Fabrian Catholicism			20.3%
United Reformed Communion			20.0%
Other			2.3%

Ethnic Groups

Ethnic Groups of Seredinia
Ethnicity			Percent
Seredyan			81.8%
Zvečajian			6%
Yakast			4.2%
Abzahn			2.8%
Tolyk			2.7%
Drev-Nasjzky			1.0%
Other			1.5%