Bemiritra

Republic of Bemiritra Repoblikan'i Bemirehitra
Capital and	Sambava
Official languages	Nylela
Government	Unitary Confessionalist Parliamentary Republic
• President	Herilaza "Rako" Rakotobe
• Prime Minister	Dwi Syamsul Meutia
Legislature	Tsova Ny Kakuatan
Area
•	113,502.131 km2 (43,823.418 sq mi)
Population
• 2021 estimate	14,893,239
• 2008 census	15,346,723
• Density	135.21/km2 (350.2/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2021 estimate
• Total	127,701,923,689.76 USD
• Per capita	8,321.12 USD

Bemiritra is a parliamentary republic and an Island country located in the Ozeros Sea, separated from Scipia by the Kembesan Channel. It shares maritime borders with M'biruna to the south-west, Kembesa to the west, Fahran to the north, and Ayvana to the east. It's the largest island in the Ozeros Sea by landmass, with a surface area of 113,502 km².

From 1661 to 1841, Bemiritra was under the administration of the Mutul, as part of the B'aatz Yajawil. After the Mutulese Empire crumbled and its remnants underwent decolonization, the island became the short-lived Kingdom of B'aatz before joining by treaty the Neo-Tahamaja Empire after the invasion of Nalmoria by Fahran. When the Neo-Tahamaja itself crumbled, the island went through its own civil war which was won by the Unitary Constitutionalists led by General Massefin Gaibokoa who became the first President of Bemiritra. After the death of Gaibokoa, a second civil war threatened to split the island along ethnic and religious lines, before the Constitutionalists managed through various political alliances and military victory, to retake the control of the island. Since then, tensions between communities remain high and ethnic grouping continue to play an important role in the island' politics.

History

Varatrid Imamate

'Iifae Imamates

Mutulese hegemony

See also: Yajawil of Barriset

After the Ozeros War and the Mutulese victory, the Admiral Jasaw T'e Chan, de-facto leader of all Mutuleses forces in the Ozeros, maintained the exceptional military government over the island. The Divine Throne distantly confirmed this decision, and installed Jasaw T'e Chan as Yajaw of Bemiritra.

For the next 161 years Bemiritra, then known as B'atz, was ruled not as a colony or a protectorate, but as a direct administrative division of the Mutul, nominally to the same extent as other duchies in Oxidentale. However, the distance between K'alak Muul and the island de-facto granted exceptional power to Jasaw T'e Chan and his cadet-lineage of the Ilok'tab Dynasty.

the Mutuleses' interests in Bemiritra was as the terminus of the Ozeros Circuit, linking Scipia to the wider Mutulese Empire. the Bemiritran markets saw the exchange of goods from Oxidentale and Ochran, such as chocolate, spices... with ressources from Scipia and the Periclean Bassin. But the three most profitable trades going through the island were pearls, coffee, and slaves.

Originally with an Iifae' dominant population, the Ozeros War and its consequences greatly shifted the demography of the island. Many had fled the Mutulese' regime after the end of the Second Caliphate, and many more were victims of persecutions during and after the War. When Jasaw T'e Chan took over, he began a large-scale census of the island' population and, more importantly in the eyes of the Mutuleses, of how much farmlands had been left unexploited.

To re-populate and rearrange the island, the Mutulese administration used four different levers: first, the N'nhivarans monasteries, who had remained neutral in the previous conflicts, saw their lands officially expanded saw that they could administer directly the economy and production of the island in the Mutul' stead. Then, the island was opened for settlements by veterans who had served a full seven years contract within the Mutulese Military, dotting the countryside with multi-ethnic communities of Pulaui, Maori, Mzanzi, or even Tsurushimeses and Oxidentaleses people. Finally, the Mutuleses negociated specific contract with their Scipian allies from the Ozeros War, allowing Sahb to replace their 'Iifae counterparts. Historians generally count slaves as part of this migration wave, as under the the Mutulese Empire' laws slaves could own private properties and their children couldn't be enslaved in turn, meaning that after a single generation a slave settlement would turn into a community of freemen.

These land reforms would have three lasting consequences over the island: the denomination shift from 'Iifae to Sahb, the coallescence of the multi-ethnic Sakb'e into a distinguishable culture, and the unimpeded growth of the N'nivahran monasteries in both political and economical powers as they re-affirmed their hold over the highlands.

Kingdom of B'aatz

The kingdom of B'aatz was a short-lived monarchy established by the Divine Throne in 1841 as part of the decolonisation operated by the Regent Itzamnaaj B'alam in the aftermath of the Arthuristan Ultimatum. The newfound independence of Bemiritra did not lead to meaningful changes in how the island was run, as its institutions and administration remained the ones who had been established by the Mutuleses beforehand. The first B'atz Ajaw was Kan Akb'al, a distant descendent in direct line of Jasaw T'e Chan the first B'atz Yajaw and thus a very distant relative of the Ilok'tab Dynasty.

Immediately after its independence, the kingdom underwent grave economic and financiary troubles, caused by the end of Mutuleses budgetary supports to the administration and the shift in trade flux now that the Arthuristans routinely circumvented Scipia to go to their colonies of Onekawa-Nukanoa and reach their clients in Shambhala rather than go through the Latin-held Alcaean Straits. Sensing the weakness of Bemiritra now that they were no longer supported by the Mutuleses, the Sultanate of Fahran launched an invasion of Nalmoria, an archipelago off its coast that had been under B'aatz' administration since the Ozeros War. After the islands fell, Fahrani troops began a purge of all Mutuleses and Collaborationists elements in Nalmoria, an event that is still to this day denounced as a genocide by Bemiritra.

Politics

Bemiritra is a parliamentary democracy that includes confessionalism in which the Presidency must rotate between the three major religions of the islands: White Path, Azdarin, and N'nhivara. This system is intended to deter sectarian conflict and to represent fairly the demographic distribution of the island, although it has come under criticism from certain sections of the population such as the 'Iifae, who are a minority within the Yen population and thus never have proper representation within the system, being overshadowed by the larger Sahb community.

Bemiritra' national legislature is the bicameral Parliament of Bemiritra, divided between the Assembly of Bemiritra and the Bemiritrian Gallery. In the Assembly, each Seat match a geographic Electoral district which elect its representative for a four-years term. Meanwhile in the Gallery, each of the three religion has an equal number of seats, and Gallerymen are elected by proportional votes within each denomination, holding their seat for eight years. The Upper-House is so called "The Gallery" because traditionally its members are allowed to observe sessions of the Assembly from the upper Gallery.

The executive branch consists of the President, the head of state, and the Prime Minister, the head of government. The Gallery elects the president for a non-renewable four-year term by a two-thirds majority. The President then appoints the Prime Minister following consultations with the parliament. The president and the prime minister form a cabinet, although it requires the approval of the Assembly before it become the effective executive of the island.