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School of All People ⴰⵎⴰⵙⵀⵓⵔⵉ ⴱⵡ ⵓ ⴰⴱⴰⵏⵜⵓ ⴱⵄⵙⴻ Amashuri bw' u Abantu Bose
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Motto: Kuva mu kuboko kwe kumurika ubumenyi rusange ("From his hand shone universal knowledge")
Capital and largest city	Rwazuba
Official languages	(Kinyarwanda)
Recognised regional languages	(Swahili) (colonizer)
Religion	Amashurite religion
Demonym(s)	Amashurite
Government	Federation under an elective theocratic monarchy
• Archon	Ukuboha IV bw'Nkurunziza
Legislature	Hundred Colors
History
Area
• Total	521,153 km2 (201,218 sq mi)
Population
• 2022 estimate	56,013,800
• Density	107.48/km2 (278.4/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	high 1t?
• Per capita	low 20k?
Gini (2022)	58.1 high
HDI (2022)	0.797 high
Currency	Amashurite feza (AMF)
Time zone	UTC+2 (XXX)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy (CE)
Driving side	right
ISO 3166 code	AM
Internet TLD	.am

Amashuri (ⴰⵎⴰⵙⵀⵓⵔⵉ), formally titled as the School of All People (ⴰⵎⴰⵙⵀⵓⵔⵉ ⴱⵡ ⵓ ⴰⴱⴰⵏⵜⵓ ⴱⵄⵙⴻ Amashuri bw' u Abantu Bose) is a country located in XXX. It is bordered by XXX, and shares a maritime border with XXX; the Iapetus Ocean bounds its western coastline. Amashuri covers a land area of XXX,XXX,XXX square kilometers (X sqmi), largely defined by the watersheds of the country's XXX. Rwazuba, its capital and largest city, is located at XXX.

Amashuri is one of the oldest civilizations of the world, existing in substantial continuity as an independent cultural sphere since the Xth century BCE, and preserving to this day a wide range of unique cultural, political, and religious practices, primarily defined by and locally conflated within the context of traditional Amashurite religion. For much of history, the country existed as a patchwork of polities bound only by common civilizational affiliation, the pre-eminent of which were various thalassocratic states on the Amashurite coast, who acted as entrepots and notable intermediaries in historical trade between the XXX

The foundation of a united Amashurite state can be dated to the year 1XXX CE, when the charismatic warlord Nkurunziza the Great was acclaimed by the great men of the region in his assumption of the title Archon of Amashuri, establishing a hegemony through conflict and diplomacy over much of what is now recognizable as the modern boundaries of the Amashurite state.

MODERN STATE AND ECONOMY

Government

Ukuboha IV bw'Nkurunziza; here his coronation portrait in 1988.

Amashuri is a federal state composed by various heterogenous local governments and polities united under the overall leadership of the Archon of Amashuri, theocratic leader of the Amashurite religion as its "headman of headmen" (umutware bw'abatware) and thereby the instantiated ritual avatar of the Amashurite civilization's body politic. The archonal throne is theoretically elective as it is contingent on the "acclamation of the great men of [Amashuri]", but in practice has been held by the House of bw'Nkurunziza since 18XX and is passed down through hereditary succession. The incumbent Archon is Ukuboha IV bw'Nkurunziza (b. 19XX) since his acclamation to the throne in 1988.

The Archonal government is centered on the directly administered capital of Rwazuba, comprising a number of courtly ministries and agencies who are directly subordinated to the authority of the Archon. The Bodily Court roughly corresponds to the executive of the Amashurite government, whose members (19 as of 2023) serve at the pleasure of the Archon and act as his plenipotentiaries, exercising authority in his name to enact policy and administer the routine functions of the archonal bureaucracy, including the appointment of lower ministers and civil servants, as well as the administration of territories directly ruled by the archonal House. Beyond his delegates, the Archon himself nominally wields absolute authority in his capacity as the instantiation of the Amashurite civilization, manifesting as the Utterance – a direct and ostensibly omnipotent edict issued by the Archon.

In practice, the Archon's authority is checked by the federal subjects of Amashuri. These autonomous subjects number over a hundred in all, and their collective corresponds to Amashuri's body politic, their leaders the "great men" responsible for the Archon's acclamation. These subjects are predominantly affiliated with the Amashurite nobility, in decreasing order of importance composed by regional lords, urban governors, self-asserting clergy of the country's various monastic orders, as well as technocrats and managers commissioned by the country's nobility. The jurisdictions of subjects are not explicitly territorial, but often overlap even if they are, as is the case with orders and corporations operating in those of lordships and cities. The privileges and rights held by these subjects are defined by a complex network of precedents, traditions, pacts and contracts between individual subjects and with the archonal government, arbitrated through archonal authority as the final resort but in most cases handled routinely at the initiative of the involved subjects.

The Hundred Colors is the collective will of these federal subjects, being a gathering of unelected representatives of every recognized subject. This institution does not hold any formal legislative authority, but may effect change through the election of officials to subdivisional branches of the archonal government in an "advisory" capacity, as well as lobby and pressure the archonal government through collective petitions and "advisories". Most notably, it may collectively (theoretically by supermajority) issue a veto which countermands any archonal decision, in theory constituting their authority as the body politic of the Amashurite civilization to legally erase any particular action carried out by its temporal instantiation the Archon. This procedure is complex and rife with customary precedents, however; in contemporary Amashurite politics, threats to enact it are as common as actual enactments are rare.

Politics

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Nyarume bw'Shyaka, arguably the most powerful noble in Amashuri.

The present state of Amashurite politics can be traced to its modernization in the early 19^th century, during which the House of bw'Nkurunziza rose to prominence with XXX aid and consolidated power over the country under its hereditary rulership. This was by no means absolute, however, as the archonal house relied upon (and still continues to) the implicit support of the wider base of the Amashurite nobility, who by custom represent the body politic which granted legitimacy to the archonal throne. As such, the nobility holds an eminent role in national politics, the complex competitions and intrigue between its internal factions and with the archonal house characterizing the administration of the country. Notably, the modern definition of nobility transcends historical notions of noble pedigree and feudal landowners, encompassing influential figures such as monastic clergy, corporate executives and various media personalities, who themselves may be affiliated or co-opted into existing noble houses. International scholars suggest that this "new nobility" is characterized by their association with localized centers of clientelist influence, power bases from which they compete for power on a national and international scope, formalized through either their direct representation in the Hundred Colors or their ties with those in it.

In principle, the Hundred Colors is a collection of the most influential of these noble subjects – often coalesced as lordships with substantial feudal holdings – each represented by a single plenipotentiary to its assemblies, usually those called at the Archon's pleasure or those periodically held every year. However, as new members require archonal recognition and are rarely added, the stagnant membership has produced a rather different practice: multiple subjects may nominate the same plenipotentiary to assemblies, manifesting as short-term coalitions or elaborate organizations enshrined through olden dynastic pacts, many of which encompass noble notables who do not have membership. As new membership is rare, destitute members may co-opt or be usurped by non-members, transferring their voting privileges to them. The various factions formed from these interactions, both ephemeral and time-honored, serve as the primary actors within the political system of Amashuri.

Amashurite politics can be generally characterized as the competition between the archonal center and peripheral noble interests. Centralist tendencies seek, of course, the centralization of government and the ridding of "obstructive" red tape limiting the supposedly omnipotence of archonal power, with the ultimate objective of transforming the country along unitary lines, though the idealized styles of government may range from those democratic or technocratic. They are opposed by well-established regional rulers and nobles who seek to maintain the autonomous status quo to secure their own powers, often pursuing their own ambitions and policies, some of which may conflict with their regionalist peers or match centralist ones. A loose coalition of regionalist nobles is led by Nyarume bw'Shyaka, the head of the historic House of bw'Shyaka and an industrialist with vast economic ties around the country.

This political situation has remained stagnant for decades, resulting in a political deadlock that prevents effective reform on the scale of the whole nation, though independent policymaking by regional rulers (including the archonal house in its own direct territories) has seen considerable social and economic change in certain parts of the country. In both camps, the common citizenry is readily co-opted into their ranks, as those of notable merit or influence may find power through integration or alliance, some even rising as competing nobles of their own right. Beyond this though, political participation in the rest of the population is rare, generally only manifesting as localized sway or clientelism within the existing framework of this factional interplay.