Nafran

Sublime Dominions of Nafran Ⲇⲟⲙⲩⲗⲗⲟⲓ Ⲥⲁⲋⲇⲓⲓ Ⲛⲁⲫⲣⲁⲛ (Domulloi Sa'dii Nafran)
Flag Royal Coat of Arms
Motto: "Ϩⲩⲇⲟ, Ϣⲁⲭ vⲁ Vⲁⲧⲁⲛ" (Xudo, Shah va Vatan) "God, Shah and Country"
Anthem: "All with One Symbol"
Capital and largest city	Sham
Official languages	Nafrasi
Ethnic groups	60% Narfani 17% Camati 9% Gelstani 7% Marstani 7% Other
Demonym(s)	Nafranian
Government	Constitutional Monarchy
• Shahansha	Mobarak XII
• Prime Minister	Shadi Zan
Legislature	Shúroi Shahansha
Population
• 2014 census	98,391,239
GDP (nominal)	2018 estimate
• Total	$1 664 billion
• Per capita	$16,921
Gini (2018)	40.0 medium
HDI (2018)	0.811 very high
Currency	Kran (₭R (KR))
Date format	yy-mm-dd
Driving side	right
Internet TLD	.nf

The Sublime Dominions of Nafran (Nafrasi: Ⲇⲟⲙⲩⲗⲗⲟⲓ Ⲥⲁⲋⲇⲓⲓ Ⲛⲁⲫⲣⲁⲛ, Domulloi Sa'dii Nafran) is a country in Sifhar. It borders Myenia to the north, Kwok-Avki to the east and the Decanian Sea to the south. Nafran's capital and largest city is Sham. It is a Constitutional monarchy with the Shahanshah as the head of state. Nafran is a mountanous country home to wildly diverse coultures and peoples. Due to its geographic position, Nafran is subject to earthquakes and other seismic phenomena. With its population of 98 million, Nafran is the most-populous country in Sifhar as well as a significant regional power.

Nafran is home to some of the wordl's oldest civilizations that began all the way back in the fourth millenium BCE with the first Lanati Kingdoms. The first major kingdoms in Nafran were the Mar and Savotian kingdoms that existed between the 720s BCE and 640s BCE until the conquest of the Mar Kingdom by the Memian Empire named after the city of Memalascar. In 412 CE, modern-day Nafran as well as modern-day Myenia were unified by the Zedestani Tigranid Dynasty. Following the collapse of the Tigranid Dynasty in 532 CE, Nafran was shatered into a myriad of small kingdoms and states that were eventually unified by the Umed and Nuedii dynasties beginning from 812 CE until 1002 CE when Khalmitsa was conquered by Regigabun II.

The current dynasty ruling Nafran, the Koxed Dynasty, began its rule in 1121. The country would change its name from Memia to the Sublime Dominions of Nafran following the beginning of the Nafranian Golden Age in 1378. Nafran would reach its maximum territorial extent and height of power in 1637 when Nafran was a trans-continential empire. Nafran would go on to experience slow but significant decline beginning from the early 1700s that would culminate in the First Great War when an ill-prepared Nafran was invaded by Veleaz which lead to a momentary collapse of the government leading to Nafran having to make peace quickly. Nafran lost around half of the land it previously held as a result of its early peace. In order to prevent total collapse, Aşinar Zana, the head of the military, subjected the rest of the country under military occupation. The unpopularity of the government reached its peak in 1943 when the western half of Nafran separated from the government and joined the FSR as the Peoples Republic of Nafran. The Baglamaq Crisis that followed the disestablishment of the Mayenian Socialist Republics led to the Nafranian annexation of Camajan. Following the collapse of the FSR in 1981, the two Nafranian states were reunited under a constitutional democratic monarchy.

After being the dominant power in Sifhar for over 400 and having faced a great collapse from this status in the late 1800s, Nafran has once more become a regional power in Sifhar. It aims its foreign policy towards the unification and continued prosperity of the region. Despite this, it is one of the least internally integrated countries in the world as de facto autonomous areas within the country can often ignore the central government. Nafran also experiences high levels of corruption leading to high levels of distrust and resentment towards the government. The Nafranian economy is reliant on its oil and natural gas deposits although efforts to diversify the economy have seen some success in a few regions in the country.

Etymology

Historically Nafran was known by the exonym Memia until the 1300s. Memia derives itself from the city of Memalascar (Nafrasi: Ⲙⲉⲙⲁⲗⲁⲥⲕⲃⲟⲗ, Memalaskbol) that was the capital of the Memian Empire. The name "Memalascar" consists of two parts: Mema meaning of the Memite people and Lascar that refers to the Lascar river.

Nafran has always been called by its endonym by the people living there. Nafran (Nafrasi: Ⲛⲁⲫⲣⲁⲛ, Nafran) originates from the Nafrasi word for breath: Nafas (Ⲛⲁⲫⲁⲥ). Thereby Nafran means the breathing land refering to great winds that the mountanous area experiences.