Halsuntria

The Federation of Halsuntria is a island nation located in the Kaldaz Ocean in Southeast Anteria. The nation has a cold climate with most of the country being in temperate and subarctic biomes and parts in the south being in the tundra biome. The nation is divided into 13 Departments & then further divided into 103 Boroughs. The capital city, Saluntberg is one of the oldest cities in Halsuntria dating back to 2000 BC and was the largest city until the 1970's. On the other side of the country, Telex, the largest city, is a port town and technological hub that had a rapid rise in population recently in the 1960's after popular tech companies Rater and Digiworld were founded there.

Federation of Halsuntria Federupskeat a Halsuntria
Flag of Halsuntria Flag
Motto: Fidelitas ad Invicem
Anthem: Serenity of the Tribes
Capital	Saluntberg
Largest city	Telex
Official languages	English, Tenurindji
Recognised regional languages	Scottish Gaelic, Belarusian
Ethnic groups	Halsunt (Hen, Gent, Oufrey, Kesgonther & Fuvern Tribes), Scottish, Belarusian
Demonym(s)	Halsuntrian, Halsunt
Government	Conservative Parochial Oligarchy
• Head Councilman	Xeggenek Pander
• Councilmen	Harry Dierecht (FD), Xiao Feng (CD), Igor Gantroshenko (SAHD), Derry Ihkals (RD) Padma Najestant (SMD), Olstan Nemorits (HD), Byron Phone (XD), Martin Reedman (MD), Yamiet Reman (GD), Norman Smint (MD), Adjanie Tarotivo (ND), Jaron Vormensen (TD)
Legislature	The Head Council
• Upper house	Borough Administration
Establishment
• Unification	January 9, 1562
• Organization	May 13, 1737
• Conversion	August 29, 1909
Area
• Total	498,000 km2 (192,000 sq mi)
Population
• 2020 estimate	12,500,000
• 2017 census	12,470,000
• Density	24.95/km2 (64.6/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2019 estimate
• Total	$735.73 billion
• Per capita	$59,000
Gini (2009)	34.0 medium
HDI (2013)	0.92 very high
Currency	Friekel
Time zone	UTC+7 (UTC HST)
Date format	mm-dd-yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+631
Internet TLD	.hl

Etymology

Halsuntria's name is pretty straight-forward, it comes from adding the Tenurindji suffix -ia meaning land, to Halsunt, the natives of Halsuntria. The Halsunt natives named themselves after the land that they were on, the Hasuntland. However, the broader Halsunts get divided into 5 tribes with distinct names. The most popular theory for the meaning of Hasuntland comes from -land (another prefix for land) and Hasunt which is prefect in Ancient Tenur.

Geography & Climate

Notable Landmarks

The Boninham Lakes, part of Boninham Lakes National Park in the South Department, is an expanse of wetland sprinkled with lakes home to many animals. It is a perfect example of Thermokarst, the melting of permafrost to form lakes. It is in the South Department and is home to animals including the Boninham Crab, a species found nowhere else in the world.

Temmerin Swamp is a large swamp located in the Gent Department. It is in accessible to cross by road and leaves Gent Isle isolated and only road access through ferry. It too, is home to a large amount of wildlife including the Halsunt Heron and the Gent Turtle.

The Mykretan Archipelago is located far off the Halsuntria's east coast and has no permanent population. It is a research station and one-time nuclear testing station. It is most noted for its extreme land features however it is also home to walruses and penguins. It isn't open to the public because of its remoteness and is owned by the Halsuntrian government.

Xylbdun (pronounced chilb-dun) Mountains is the main mountain range of Halsuntria located entirely in the Xylbdun Department. It attracts thousands of visitors every year to its ski slopes, hiking trails and scenery. It is the only place in Halsuntria that was never inhabited for most of history.

Viogen Volcano in the only active volcano in Halsuntria and is located on Viogen Island in the Kitrad Archipelago. It last erupted in 1915 and caused widespread damage throughout Halsuntria. The island's population of around 2000 operate the tourism industry there with hotels, scenic trains, restaurants and tours.

The most notable land feature though, is Urfet Lake. Urfet Lake is in Gent Department in Southwest Halsuntria and is home to many fish found nowhere else in the world. The reasoning of this is believed to be that it got cut off from the ocean 800,000 years ago and its fish have evolved to be unique without influence from any other body of water. It is also the largest lake in Halsuntria.

History

18th-20th Century

During the 18th Century, Halsuntria started to get more organized under a single body instead of being sparse. They formed an Oligarchy that is still in use today in 1737. Most technological advances come later in their history but, time keeping and map making have became very important during this century. Due to them being so isolated time keeping and map making were unknown territories pervious to this era. In 1711, the Cartography Guild was formed to explore and map all of Halsuntria and is still in use to this day operating online maps. They discovered the Extreme Points of Halsuntria (the Eastern, Western, Northern, & Southernmost Points in Halsuntria) and climbed up Mount Fedder to map the uninhabited Xylbdun Mountains. The first accurate maps were made during this period as well as an established time zones. Art and Literature were greatly expanded on during this century with the Notsenevigen Alopen (Expanding Arts Period) being in full swing from 1760-1780.

The 19th Century was full of outside influence and technology coming in and turning Halsuntria into a industrialized powerhouse like the rest of the world. One of the most important of these technologies was the train. There was no efficient way to get around the island previous to this time and as soon an trains came, rails were built across the country and remain as the main way of interstate transportation in the country. Outside communication from the country was non-existent other than word of mouth for most of the 19th century until a major project called Project Kommunikate that linked telegram poles to the cities in Volgingrad and South Ildan from Halsuntria. One of the most important events during the 19th Century was the earthquake of 1832 that ravaged most of Halsuntria and left it in shambles for the next decade. It was an estimated 8.8 on the Richter Scale and many small villages were abandoned after the event because of the hassle to rebuild them. In 1866, Halsuntria made the Friekel its new currency becoming one of the last countries to have a currency. Foreign Relation during this period were greatly expanded making allies with Castilaria & New Sebronia.

The main event that happened in the early 1900's was the conversion to Departments from Districts. There were 23 Districts previous to 1909 and there are now currently 13 Departments. Halsuntria established one of the first nationwide system of telephones in 1915. Most of the time in the 1900's was used to build up on of the most technologically advanced Navies in the world. They also discovered in 1934 that they have plentiful deposits of 6 of the 17 Rare-Earth Minerals primarily in the Fedder Parish. Those include Thulium (largest producer), Gadolinium (largest producer), Neodymium, Ytterbium, Scandium, and Promethium (largest producer) and make up a large portion of their GDP. In the latter half on the century major reforms happened to the country under Head Councilman Gary Hyxler that made an effort to try and make technological advancements with the rest of the world as well as keeping close ties to traditional ways of Halsuntrians. This included using exclusively steam trains as passenger transport, and building traditional house complexes.

21st Century

An important improvement in the government was the addition of the Regional Administration in 2007 in which a representative from each of the 103 Boroughs (equivalent to US Counties) would gather Uoget (recommendations from the citizens) approved from the borough board. With the Uoget, they would narrow them down to recommendations that would best benefit the country, people and/or world and present them to the Council Members (It will be put in more detail later.) An important discovery for the study of mining and science was made in 2011 when natural reserves of Meitnerium (a previously synthetic element) were found in the South Parish. It was transferred to the Keenantown National Labs (a world-famous laboratory known for the studies of the Periodic Table) where it was studied. It was noted for having a very high half-life unlike lab-made Meitnerium and is expected to pioneer future studies of synthetic elements. With the coming of the internet, Halsuntria is famous for supplying free internet to its citizens and its social media sites which are spread throughout Anteria.

Economy

The Halsuntrian Economy has been limited mainly due to the fact of Halsuntria's small population. However, it has one of the highest GDP per capita in Anteria making it world class. It economy relies a lot on the mining industry as well as tourism, logging & IT. The mining industry is primarily done through Fedder Mining Co. due to most of the mining taking place in the Fedder Department. It is led by the supreme abundance of Rare-Earth Minerals found here including Promethium, Thulium, & Gadolinium. It is also supported by bismuth, iron & copper mining. The tourism is recently flourishing due to massive media campaigns across Anteria. Halsuntria has numerous amounts of tourist destinations and it has been limited due to its remoteness. It brings in billions of Friekels every year and it is run by the government-owned Halsuntrian Tourism and gets tons of funding. The logging business is a direct result of business owners of the 1800's using Halsuntria's resources to their advantage and chopping down large amounts of Halsuntria's forests. This could've been seen as a good thing and a bad thing. It cleared Halsuntrian land for roads and towns while making a slight profit in the process but they also eradicated wildlife from the region. The IT industry was grown exponentially during the 1960's in Telex and continues to be a technological hub to this day. The company Rater produces phones, mobile apps and gaming consoles while DigiWorld makes software for electronics as well as printers and provides internet. There are many smaller companies in the business but those two bring in the most money and are very well know throughout Anteria.