Kantemosha & Ambrazka

Republic of Kantemosha and Ambrazka Kantimossi ja Ambro
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Motto: "Česť, služba, odolnosť" (Czech) "Honor, service, resilience"
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Capital and largest city	Koskunen
Official languages	Kantemoshan, Ambrazkan, Soravian
Recognised regional languages	Kirenian
Ethnic groups (2010)	Kantemoshan (45%), Ambrazkan (34%), Soravian (14%), Kirenian (5%), Other (2%)
Demonym(s)	Kantemoshan / Ambrazkan
Government	Multi-Party Parliamentary Republic
• Premier	Heimo Hämäläinen
• Water (%)	WIP
Population
• 2018 estimate	16,520,820
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	$276,492,000 (7)
• Per capita	$13,340 (???)
GDP (nominal)	2017 (WIP) estimate
• Total	$2,612,154,000 (WIP) (???)
• Per capita	$29,129 (WIP) (???)
Currency	Kantemoshan Laatta (tile) (LTA)
Time zone	UTC-1 (N/A)
Date format	yyyy-mm-dd
Driving side	right
Calling code	+62
Internet TLD	.uka

Kantemosha & Ambrazka (Kantemoshan: Kantimossi ja Ambro, Ambrazkan: Kantemosko a Ambrozhko), officially the Republic of Kantemosha & Ambrazka, also known as 'The Union', is a young sovereign state situated in Western Euclea. It's borders meet with the countries of Soravia to the west, Kirenia to the east, and East Miersa and West Miersa to the direct south. It has a northern shoreline with the Perovo Sea, making it the only way in and out of the Republic by means of water transportation. The country spans over 372,431 km2 worth of land, with a population of 16.5 million people inhabiting it in scattered towns and cities, with most of the population concentrating on the northern shoreline. The Union is organized into 16 different provinces. The capital city of Koskunen lays in the midpart of the Kantemoshan Coast, boasting a population of 1.2 million people, almost 6% of Kantemosha's total population. Officially, the language of the Union is Kantemoshan, which is also the most spoken language, with Ambrazkan coming in a close second, spoken mostly in the state of Ambrazka in the southern part of the Union. Episemialist Sotirianity is the dominant religion of the Union, and has been so for most of its history, with 93% of the inhabitants of the Union following the Episemialist church's doctrine.

Etymology

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History

Early History

It is common consensus amongst anthropologists and historians that the first settlements along the Kantemoshan coastline were Marolevic migrants moving from the west during the years of 600-610 AD. Some of these early Marolevs stayed in Kantemosha, either due to the possibility of a rich catch or economic opportunity. Whichever reason truly motivated them, they were inclined to set up numerous walled villages and towns along the common path of migration, farming various cereals and sugar beets to sustain themselves alongside catches from annual fish migrations across the Perovo Sea, interbreeding with Kostellime natives in the area, giving them a sense of individuality from common Marolevs in due time.

A Kantemoshan pot recovered from the Kaappo wreck found off the coast of Samistopol by Soravian divers in 1977. Preserved now in Soravia

Following decades of settlement, Northern Kantemosha was dotted with individual citystates vying for control over fishing grounds and abundant, yet valuable plots of land. This land was often scarred with works of irrigation ditches, dikes and other water control measure to exploit seasonal storms for agricultural use and storage within granite cisterns, either in use by castles or communally in small towns. Fighting over these works and the land they modified was not uncommon, manifesting as quick and bloody skirmishes between often conscripted peasants and/or reservist citizen soldiers, as it was too financially straining for some of these city states to keep standing, as is the case with many other parts of the world. Rarely in the time before the 8th century were city states prompted to try and work together, instead vying to stay independent and only collectively fighting against mutual enemies.

With the discovery of shipwrecks on the Porovo seafloor full of a variety of products, including sealed vases of honey (in the case of the Kaappo wreck found off the coast of Samistopol), it has been surmised that the various city states of Kantemosha had rather profitable trade with the northern principalities of the Great Vesemir confederacy, particularly to the port cities of Lipa, Samistopol, and Ovdapol. Westerly going trade from Ambrazka to Ulan Khol and Uzyn has been proven by unearthing of period-specific trash alongside buried stone roads in eastern modern Soravia, ontop of preserved parchments and/or interpretations of oral stories onto paper described these trails as being particularly treacherous and an unpopular route to take for merchants.

The Marauder Age(8th-11th Century)

The Marauder Age is considered one of the most influential points of time for the regions of Kantemosha and Ambrazka, setting itself as the fork in the road where, had the Ghailles not come from the east, history could have been very different from what it is now, atleast history pertaining to the KA. During the early part of this era, Kantemosha, the most vulnerable to any raid to the marauders, was safe, with raids only touching Svoya, Geatland, and Caithia. However, this period of safety quickly came to a close, as the 840s saw the establishment of resting bases for Marauders in modern day Werania. Using these bases, the first raid on the Kantemoshan coast that was recorded in detail was logged in 842 as part of a lithograph recovered in the mud in a salt marsh west of a Koskunen suburb. The lithograph, called the Viitasaari Slab, detailed large ships full of men that match the description of the Ghaillish longship from written accounts. The village being raided, Viitasaari, was a prominent fishing village in the area, being situated on a tiny peninsula near the borders of modern day Kantemosha and Kirenia. Upon contact, the settlement barely missed annihilation as the raiders burned down houses and slaughtered livestock and people alike. The militia were unable to put up enough of a defense, owing to a lack of men and low morale, with many seen running.

Unfortunately, the Viitasaari massacre was disregarded by nearby city states as just bandits having a romp and the failure chocked up to incompetent militia leaders. The idea of Ghaillish speaking men attacking from the sea was a ludicrous proposition to the nearby city states that could have actually done something. This was especially considering that Viitasaari was an independent village, having broken off of its superior city state of Sukraukle just a few months earlier.

This lack of a response further galvanized marauder raids on Kantemoshan shores and trading ships departing from eastern port cities like Koskunen and Palkule. Limited action was taken by city states such as Koskunen to prevent further attacks. The Porovo League, headed by the city state of Koskunen and populated by a motley of independent villages and smaller city states, came into being in 855, but was notably ineffective. The then Koskunian ruler, Aaro Liikanen, intended for it to pool resources together to fight off marauder attacks and present a hardwall, but lack of actual participation, especially by states further inland, eroded its ability to actually do something, and the group quickly shrunk in size by 857. This was notable not only for how useless it was as a group, but also as the first time that Kantemoshan city states actually coalesced into a collective entity to face a problem and cooperate with eachother, with past, similar groupings being considered very temporary partnerships. Liikanen was disheartened by how short-lived the alliance happened to be, but he was persistent, and this would show later on.

During the failure of the Porovo League, the

Economy

Industry

The Union suffers greatly from its pre-independence relegation as an agricultural core of Soravia and being used as a buffer state, with heavy industry besides basic processing of raw materials being in an almost non-existent state. Low investment by foreign industrial firms, corruption and corporatization of the vast agricultural industry of the country has only served to keep the country mated to this industry as a method of making money for government programs and for people to spend. As such, the most significant exports by the Union are of its various agricultural stocks and the various raw materials afforded by it, that being copper, coal, lumber, and a minor other few. Despite this, the Union's government has taken steps to make the Union less dependent on foreign manufacturers for refined goods, and as such, has employed many foreign advisors to preside over the creation of nationalized industries and innovate upon existing ones.

The Kantemoshan and Ambrazkan government has made multiple subsidies to local manufacturing startups, especially with investment into the Ambrazkan Automobilový závod Bybrowa (AzB), leftover after breaking from Soravia in the 80s. This is also done to existing heavy industrial enterprises, such as the small coal mining industry present in Ambrazka and copper mills in Kantemosha, both leftovers from Soravian rule and the latter of which has seen increasing viability in today's international market.

Demographics

Education

The majority of educational institutions in the Union are public, regulated and controlled by the Kantemoshan Federal Education Commission headquartered in Kuskak. Whilst recent years have seen the appearance of more private primary and secondary schools, most private education institutions are post-secondary schools with specific niches that the government's public colleges do not fulfill or are inadequate in fulfilling. Homeschooling without license and/or training (depending on the province) is considered a misdemeanor and is paramount to child neglect in the Union, however, there are movements trying to repeal or reform this law. Religious education is always there throughout public schooling in the Union, being more pervasive in primary schools than secondary schools as the latter have less funds to work with on average in regards to their more varied curriculum.

Parents of children are often recommended by the government to put their children into preschools by the age of four, though are enforced to put them in if they haven't by the age of six. Preschool and kindergarten/'Lasten puutarha' focuses mostly on teaching the children Kantemoshan (and/or Ambrazkan, depending on the district or province), counting, the alphabet. Such curriculums are also engineered to find out possible career/artistic interests early on, acting as a 'litmus test' for parents when children grow older, so as to help them find their way in the job market. Upon reaching the first grade of five in primary schools, children are immediately exposed to basic principles like arithmetic, geography, science, etc. Going throughout primary school, more complex subjects are touched upon throughout, though the scientific curriculum in primary school is canted towards giving children the foundations for a possible career in the agricultural sector, in compliance with the 1981 Järvensaari Act that emphasized career education in public schools. Extracurricular activities are limited and are usually organized by parents rather than the schools.

Secondary school would ideally begin once children were entering or just entering their teenage years, going on for six more grades. Increasingly more complex subjects would be taught and within the latter two years of secondary school, career classes to determine the 'best fit' for individual students are required to graduate, aswell as college preparation classes. Extracurricular activities in secondary schools are, in direct contrast to primary school protocol, organized by the school itself.

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