Chilicxqua
People's Republic of Chilicxqua Chilicxqua | |
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| Capital and largest city | Cilicamanca |
| Official languages | Sylvan, Hablachilica |
| Recognised regional languages | Merovingian |
| Ethnic groups (2010) | Sylvan/Sylvan mestizo(45%), Chilica(34%), Merovingian(14%), Idacuan(5%), Other (2%) |
| Demonym(s) | Chilica / Chilican |
| Government | One-Party Marxist-Leninist Republic |
• Premier | Alfonso Criado |
• Water (%) | WIP |
| Population | |
• 2014 estimate | ~44,120,100 |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | TBD (TBD) |
• Per capita | TBD (TBD) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $368,550,162,250 (WIP) (TBD) |
• Per capita | $4,140 (TBD) |
| Currency | Chilica Dinero (CDN) |
| Time zone | UTC-1 (N/A) |
| Date format | yyyy-mm-dd |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +77 |
| Internet TLD | .pch |
The People's Republic of Chilicxqua or Chilicxqua is a relatively young nation situated in the northmost region of the continent of Abyalaa on Septentrion. The state's territory is recognized as having borders with the states of Idacua, Federiko, and Tawantinsuyu, and possesses a small coastline situated within a large bay area, which opens out into the Meridian Ocean, providing the state with an outlet to the outside world. Chilicxqua is particularly large, lording over an area of [TBD] square kilometers, [TBD] square kilometers if counting the intricate network of waterways that girdle the northern half of the country and grace parts of the southern desert. The nation itself has a population of over 44,127,156 people, as the census had recorded in 2018, with a grand majority of these people living in the lush northern part of the country. It's capital city of Cilimanca sits on the western edge of the great Vilaaca Delta, with a population as estimated in 2015 to be around 5,250,100 people, making it the largest city in the entire country by a large margin. With a nominal gross domestic product of $368,550,162,250 in 2017, the 'PRCh' is not the largest economy in Septentrion, but it is not the smallest or most hollow in it's growth.
Etymology
The country's name as it is now comes from the 20th century 'Chilica Libertad' movement in the 1912, where Chilica ethno-nationalist, Jose Manuel Juárez, coined the term as a way to 'better describe this nation'. Ofcourse, Chilicxqua is a melting pot of different aboriginal tribes and ethnicities, but the Chilica tribe remained the largest and most prominent before and especially after Sylvan colonial rule. 'Chilic-' is a common demonym for the Chilica people and '-qua' is Latin that means 'where' or 'which way'. Combined, Chilicxqua is considered to mean 'where the Chilica reside'. The name was picked up by independence movements in the late 40s after the Pan Septentrion War and it stuck once independence was finally achieved in the mid-1970s.
History
Pre-history
Archaeological expeditions in the Vilaaca Delta have turned up evidence of extensive agriculture in the northern to central part of the Vilaaca Delta, some of which date as early as 5100 BC. Evidence of agriculture south of the delta come close chronologically, with pottery for plant oils found to be from as early as 4900 BC. Evidence of intricate metalworking with copper were found in the form of jewelry, arrowheads and some primitive religious artifacts, dated as early 2100 BC. Many of these artifacts were found often on isolated island villages, which were walled using a combination of packed dirt, discarded shellfish, and general trash, with some even containing the remains of the dead. Wrecks of large log canoes in mudbogs near certain villages, plus accompanying pottery and jewelry, indicate trade was common between the villages, and maybe even beyond, as the same general 'industry' of canoes are found further south down the Vilaaca River. Underwater digs has revealed that the ancient Chilica people and other cultures in the area in pre-history commonly made landfills from construction garbage, 'midden' and dirt from villages upstream. Either for farmland or expanding space, few of these landfills survive today as erosion eventually wore thin their sturdiness, aswell as a lack of maintenance as their villages were either abandoned in favor of later consolidation of populations in polities or to their death by disease.
Starting in 2700 BC, a massive migration south from the Vilaaca Delta started. Reasons theorized by modern archaeologists and anthropologists suggest a mix of environmental concerns, like the Vilaaca possibly having a particularly bad flood, and cultural disputes, with many of these villages having completely different artifacts and religious materia from those in the Delta. Many of these villages going into the south were far more spread out than those in the Delta, despite having more land to settle upon, and the migration seemed to continue until the southern tip of modern Chilicxqua, where the desert begins. In particular, archaeological digs around Chowvá reveal that the Chowvásaa Valley may infact be the origin point of the modern Chilica culture that has been adopted by the nation at present, with similar, yet more 'primitive' forms of cultural artifacts prevalent in the modern culture, such as the Golden Path recovered in the Chowvá River in 1967.
Pre-colonial history
The earliest pieces of Chilican history, the Tiluaxca Vault Scripts, were found in a vault hidden under the terraces of a village known as Tiluaxca, near Hugo, in 1978. Being the earliest dated pieces of writing in Chilicxqua, it is believed that the writing system, known today as Vilaacan Calligraphy, was invented around 2400-2200 BC. Some archaelogists believe it to be earlier, due to certain symbols and letters in the written language, aswell as it's relative complexity for such an early system, pointing to the possibility that the language began on biodegradable materials, like wood or tanned hide. Eitherway, the tablets were part of a information curators archive, known following extensive translation of the script in 1998. The tablets pointed at there being multiple city states that crowded the northern part of Chilicxqua, in particular a few like Kexxacht, Zyk, and Tonnass. All three were considered major players in the region and, according to the scripts, battled regularly over control of the delta's prime agricultural farmland. The scripts also contained details about these conflicts that pointed to bronze working and pottery being a major export north to the city states of the delta. City states south of the delta and in the mountains were mentioned, but not by name, and it's implied that these city states, one of these being Kyx'gar, were actually subjects to the major city states in the delta.
Technological progress was slow for the region in general, as additional, newer tablets that were found in the 18th and 19th centuries, translated in the 20th century, said that many merchants from the north and across the sea were afraid of going anywhere deep into Chilicxqua, citing bandit problems and fears of supernatural beasts roaming the jungles and stalking from the mountains. As such, the city states in the Delta remained far ahead over most settlements in the south. Isolated villages and nomad clans were considered the norm farther south past the modern city of Hugo. Furthermore, the city states of Kexxacht and Zyk, Kexxact being the foundations of Ardientid, were notoriously xenophobic and rarely let merchants do business in their cities, often at a high tax and often with the prospects of mobs.
Ironworking would only come to northern Chilicxqua around 800 BC, and further advancements would get later and later as the region of Chilicxqua maintained a reputation for being no-mans land. A thin sliver of roads running through modern Cilimanca and various towns allowed western Abyaala during this time to maintain trade with the east during hotter months, when passages through central Abyaala were considered too hot and treacherous to trek through.
Geography
Chilicxqua is located on the northern side of Abyaala. Chilicxqua is located between the latitudes of 2° and 35° It covers a total approximate area of Xkm2(X sq. miles). The combined length of the country's boundaries are Xkm(Xmiles) and it has Xkm(xmiles) of coastline. Chilicxqua is a blend of different climates and biomes. In the north, where most people live around the Vilaaca Delta, it is flat and heavily forested. Throughout the rest of the country, the western border of the country is straddled by the expansive Western Abyalaan Mountain Range, consisting of tall peaks and running foothills and valleys. The eastern part of the country running to its southern borders is hilly and decently forested until the Yuzuca Desert, which is mostly flat throughout with pillars of rock. Chilicxqua's famous rainforests account for around 30%(TBD) of the country's territory, with most of the forests in the north. The arid parts of Chilicxqua account for atleast 42% of it's land area. The remaining 28% is made up of the alpine climates of the western mountains and the hilly transitional continental forests between the northern rainforests and the arid deserts or savannahs of the south. Chilicxqua's connection to the rest of the world, it's northern coast, is notably small and the Vilaaca Delta, the country's titular 'jugular artery' of trade from north to south, opens up into the large natural bay area of Ardi Bay. Ardi Bay is notably rocky around the shores and terminates officially at the deeper Strait of Ardiccizia, where the city of Ardientid is situated and watches over almost 85% of Chilicxqua's in and out-going sea trade.