Zesmynia
Empire of Zesmynia Засмэскэ владцевствӣ Zasměské vladcevství | |
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 Flag | |
| Capital | Katvan |
| Largest | Zlatikopet |
| Official languages | Kavacian |
| Recognised national languages | Zvonian, Pari |
| Religion | Mislitely |
| Government | Absolute monarchy |
• Emperor | Miroslav III |
• Minister-President | Lubor Naidenov |
| Legislature | Imperial Senate |
| Population | |
• 2018 estimate | 58,137,500 |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | $684.2 billion |
• Per capita | $11,770 |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $402.6 billion |
• Per capita | $6,925 |
| Gini | 30 medium |
| HDI | 0.795 high |
| Currency | Zesmynian zlatý (ZSZ) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 |
| Calling code | +05 |
| Internet TLD | .zes |
Zesmynia (Kavacian: Засмэско Zasměsko), officially the Empire of Zesmynia (Kavacian: Засмэскэ владцевствӣ Zasměské vladcevství), is a sovereign state located in West Borea, bordered in clockwise order by Razaria, Ceresnia, Kheratia, and Luziyca. It has a population of about 58.1 million, and is the 2nd most-populated country in West Borea after Luziyca. The capital city is Katvan while the largest city is Zlatikopet.
Etymology
History
Prehistory and antiquity
Homo ergaster fossils have been found in eastern Zesmynia dating to about 1.1 million years ago, and the earliest settlements have been found to date to about the 8th millennium BCE. ??? culture and ??? culture sites have been found in Zesmynia, representing its major neolithic cultures, as well as substantially expansive presence of agriculture, pottery, and metallurgy. By about 2200 BCE, urban developments emerged on the Zasem river, driven by the efficient food production via irrigation that the river offered, and with it appeared the Zasem valley civilization. The civilization lasted only briefly before conquest by the Sepcans, a Monic people, in the 20th century BCE, and left little records of its culture.
As the Sepcans established an unified empire and began to settle, they founded new cities on the Zasem, and soon it became an important center in the Sepcan realm. The area was already heavily populated beforehand, and upon conquest most of them were rewarded to Sepcan nobles as serfs; this, coupled with acquisition of local leaders' property, drove the rise of Menew as nobles found themselves suddenly replete in resources of various sorts. The river valley correspondingly had a high concentration of fiefdoms. Khyual II's centralizing reforms in the 16th century BCE however confiscated most of these estates. The area was placed under first a system of prefectures overseen by appointed and supervised scribe-bureaucrats, and then a looser system of governorates known as rukens. However, ruken lords of the river valley area turned increasingly rebellious in the 14th century BCE, initiating a series of rebellions that led to the empire's eventual downfall.
After the collapse of the first Sepcan empire in the 13th century BCE, northern Zesmynia was largely still under the control of Sepcan elites, while the south saw the ascent of natives that was observed in most other parts of the former empire. The Kalian civilization developed on the Zesmynian coast, flourishing from the 11th to 4th centuries BCE in the form of seafaring kingdoms, before being conquered by the Lysandrene Empire. The Sepcan principalities upstream were gradually overthrown in the 7th century BCE after crippling natural disasters and famines, and replaced by indigenous elites, though the Sepcan population and presence was still significant. The Neo-Sepcan Empire, founded in western Kheratia, rapidly conquered the area in the 170s BCE in its rapid growth before sweeping south and conquering several of the old Kalian cities too, posing no small concern to the Lysandrenes.
The standoff between the Neo-Sepcan and Lysandrene empires manifested mostly through warfare on the Kalian coast, and control of southern Zesmynia constantly alternated. In the meantime, the Neo-Sepcan political and cultural core slowly shifted to the Zasem valley. This was unchanged after the Lysandrene empire's collapse and conquest of most of it by the Neo-Sepcans; the capital city of the now-triumphant Empire was practically permanently fixed at Brungun by the beginning of the 2nd century CE.