Silua

Siluan Hegemony Siluano Hegemonija
Capital and largest city	Ravumo
Official languages	Siluan, Saldian
Recognised national languages	Lettish
Recognised regional languages	Estian, German
Ethnic groups	Siluan, Saldian, Lettian, Esti, Shalumite
Demonym(s)	Siluan
Government	Federal Stratocratic Hegemony
• Pukias Sualkaranė	Aima III
Legislature	Council of Peers
• Upper house	Pukias Aryba
• Lower house	Mažau Arybai
Establishment
• Disbanding of tribal federation and declaration of Siluan queendom	946 AD
Population
• 2019 estimate	82,175,700
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Total	$3.019 trillion
• Per capita	$36,743
HDI	0.866 very high
Driving side	right

Politics and Government

The government Silua is a hegemony that consists of of two major component subdivisions. The hegemon nation of Silua which acts as the central authority and the thirty-nine autonomous states and polities which fall under its purview.

Each state and polity is guaranteed its own constitution and ruling assembly by which it may govern its geographic area. So long as each state and polity within the hegemony does noy act to harm or disrupt another state or polity and so long as its legislation and statutes do not contradict the hegemon's laws and statutes they may govern their territory as they see fit. Each constituent state and polity is required to provide the hegemon with troops, taxes, and other services depending upon the size and economy of their territory.

As the hegemon, Silua acts as the central authority in issues that affects the hegemony as a whole. The hegemon's leader, the Pukias Sualkaranė, acts as the head of state, head of government, commander and chief, and the final authority in all matters regarding the hegemony.

Military

The Siluan military consists of six branches; The Siluan Army, Siluan Navy, Siluan Air Force, Siluan Coastal Force, Siluan Border Force, and the Siluan Amphibious Operations Force. The commander and chief of the Siluan military is the Pukias Sualkaranė Aima III. The Siluan military's primary goals include: Maintaining the territorial integrity of Silua and its allies, protecting trade and transportation within Silua's area of control, maintaining border security, and eliminating perceived threats with whatever force deemed appropriate. Due to the historical hostility of neighboring states, Silua has maintained a military budget and force that are relatively large when compared to nations of comparable economic strength and population.

Foreign Relations

Silua's maintains diplomatic relations with most nations within its region. The nature of these relationships, especially with its neighbors, have frequently been troubled and have led to numerous political and military conflicts over the course of Silua's history.

Demographics

Ethnicity

The majority of the Siluan population belong to one of seven related ethno-linguistic groups which give Silua largely homogeneous population in terms of ethnic diversity. Aside from the majority ethnic inhabitants of Silua, there are also small ethnic minority populations that reside primarily in the border areas of the Siluan Hegemony. While this information is drawn from official Siluan records, those records do not take into account ethnic mixing that has occurred through contact with neighboring states or the assimilation of populations that share common physical characteristics with the core Siluan ethnic populations.

Language

Siluan is the official language of Silua and acts as a language of administration and education throughout the nation. While Siluan is the official language, there are half a dozen languages recognized as regional languages. Siluan and these regional languages all belong to the Pravo language family and share many structural and grammatical similarities. Aside from Siluan and its related languages, there are minority populations that speak primarily (), (), and () languages. The speakers of theses minority languages reside primarily in the Siluan border regions with (), (), and ().

Religion

The majority of the Siluan population, some 93.3% claim to practice the state religion Kuvo. The remainder of the population either claim Christianity as their faith (6%) or one of the many highly localized or imported faiths (0.7%). This makes a Silua a very non-diverse state in terms of religious participation.

Centuries before the modern period, the the large swath of land between modern day () and () was populated by a multitude of tribal groups, city-states, and petty kingdoms that predominantly practiced regional variations of Kuvo. When the () and () territories began to expand they brought with them Christianity. The new faith was adopted by very few in what is present day Silua, a fact that spurred the () and () church leaders to more aggressively pursue different methods of conversion.

With the rise and expansion of the Hegemon in the Siluan heartland, Kuvo became solidly entrenched within the territories that came under its purview and is found throughout modern Silua. The vast majority of Christians in Silua reside in the regions bordering modern () and () which were incorporated within the late 18th and early 19th centuries.