Silua
Siluan Hegemony Siluano Hegemonija | |
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 Flag | |
| Capital and largest city | Ravumo |
| Official languages | Siluan Saldian Trussaarhulki |
| Recognised regional languages | German |
| Ethnic groups | Siluan and Kuldian (92%) Northian (5%) Shalumite and Nordic (2%) Others (1%) |
| Demonym(s) | Siluan |
| Government | Federal Stratocratic Hegemony |
• Pukias Sualkaranė | Aima III |
| Legislature | Council of Peers |
| Pukias Aryba | |
| Mažau Arybai | |
| Establishment | |
• Disbanding of tribal federation and declaration of Siluan queendom | 946 AD |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate | 82,175,700 |
• 2020 census | 83,459,116 (Silua) 11,053,433(Saldia) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $3.233 trillion (Silua) $561.216 billion (Saldia) |
• Per capita | $38,743 (Silua) $50,773 (Saldia) |
| HDI | 0.866 very high |
| Currency | silas |
| Driving side | right |
History
Geography
Climate
Environment
Politics and Government
The government Silua is a hegemony that consists of of two major component subdivisions and one partner state. 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. The Saldian Federation is a partner state located within the borders of Silua that maintains it sovereignty in all regards but almost always acts in concert with Silua. The relationship between Saldia and Silua is maintained through a wide set of treaties
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. The Saldian Protector Queendom maintains its own military and assists Silua in all military endeavors through various treaties and agreements.
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.
Economy
Energy
Silua is a major produer of electricity in Eracura. Šiluos Elektra (SE), which is majority owned by the Siluan government, is the country's major distributor of electricity, and one of the worlds largest utility companies, ranking among the top five in Tyran. In 2018, SE produced around one-fifth of western Eracura's electricity, about half from nuclear power. As of 2021, Silua was the biggest energy exporter in western Eracura, mostly to neighboring countries such as Trussaare, and among the largest net exporters of electricity in the world.
Since the 1950s, Silua has pursued a strong policy of energy security, namely through heavy investment in nuclear and renewable energy. It operates a large number of nuclear reactors which provide 55% of the nation's electricity. Silua a leader in nuclear technology, with reactors and fuel being major exports.
Despite the large percentage of electricity generated by nuclear power, renewable energies have seen very rapid growth since the 1970s, which puts it ahead of many nations in Tyran. By 2021 Silua was recieving 40% of its electricity from renewable sources with wind, hydropower, and solar providing the largest portion of electricity generated. As with nuclear power, most hydroelectric plants, wind farms, and solar farms are managed by SE. Silua aims to further expand renewable energy to provide 50% of the nation's electricity by 2030.
Because Silua derives the vast majority of its power from nuclear and renewable source, 95% of its power is derived from low-carbon sources, which is much lower than many other nations in Eracura and the world as a whole. Silua is possibly the smallest emitter of carbon dioxide in Tyran.
Engergy resources
While Silua does not have the vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas that major producers Acrea and Mansuriyyah possess, it still possesses sizable deposits. Because of decades policy aimed at energy security and proactive environmental policies though, the vast majority of oil and natural gas production is not consumed by the domestic, civilian market. A large portion of oil and natural gas production in Silua is either consumed by the military, placed into energy reserves, or exported. Much of the revenue made from the export of Siluan oil and natural gas goes to either the Siluan Investment Authority (SII) or the Siluan Military Financial Authority (SKFI).
The government controls its petroleum and natural gas resources through a combination of state ownership in major operators in the oil fields and the fully state-owned Silnaf. Finally, the government controls licensing of exploration and production of fields. In 2019 The SII and SKFI controlled assets surpassing NS$ 2 trillion making them amont the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.
Industry
Infrastructure
Transport
Demographics
Education
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.