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Nation Name (long): Federal Republic of Wahannon
Nation Name (short): Wahannon
Population: 147,843,897
Total GDP: $2,540,505,163,426
GDP per Capita: $17,183.70
Currency: Wahannonite pagta (₽) [1 WAP = 0.008696 SHD, 1 SHD = 115 WAP]
Demonym: Wahannonite
Language: Wahanpo, also known as Wahannese
Species: 54% Orc, 16% Cervine, 14% Lupine, 6% Human, 4% Ursine, 2% Elf, 2% Feline, 2% All Others
Religion: 38% Irreligious, 34% Ademarist, 17% Recognized Traditional Faith, 11% All Others
Capital: Tenzennon (de jure), Omazna (de facto)
Largest City: Tenzennon, metro area pop. 9.25 million
Government Type: Nominal parliamentary republic with asymmetric federalism. Wahannon has three Autonomous Regions, each with their own elected governments, legislatures, and competencies defined in law that were negotiated after the end of the most recent Wahannon Civil War in 2005: Amahan, Bohan, and the Wapagna Islands. The remaining portions of the country are known as the Region of Wahanta, which has no government or public institutions of its own but is divided into 20 provinces that are considered divisions of the national government.
Leader(s): President Wareg Pohassa, the second President of the Federal Republic, who succeeded his father Agem Pohassa in 2015
Legislature: Federal Assembly, a bicameral legislature with a 350-seat House of Representatives and a 160-seat Senate
Two-Letter Code: WA
Three-Letter Code: WAH
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Historical Summary:
Ancient Wahannon was a cradle of civilization, with written records dating back some 3,500 years, and evidence of continuous urbanized habitation in the region for at least a thousand years prior to that. The traditional establishment of “Wahannon” as single, cohesive cultural and political institution is commonly dated to the construction of the Great Mound of Tenzennon, which was completed in the early 15th century BCE, which was the first of eighteen massive earthwork temples built in what is today called Wahanta and which formed the core network of urban settlements, primarily inhabited by orcs, that would come to dominate the nomadic lupines to their west and the semi-nomadic cervines to their north. Around the turn of the first millennium CE, Wahannonite culture and political dominance began to expand to include the islands to their east and south, inhabited by orcs with linguistic and cultural similarities to the orcs of southern Wahanta. In the year 24 CE, the first Emperor of Wahannon was crowned at Tenzennon, beginning a monarchy that would rule for nearly 1,900 years before the last Emperor was slain in 1910, during the Wahannonite Revolution that coincided with the Great War.
Wahannon means, roughly, “meeting place of the good earths,” ‘earths’ meaning ‘soil,’ referring to the idea that Wahannon is the combination of three lands, each with their own people, that was united by the gods who commanded and blessed the construction of the Great Mounds. The orcs of Wahanta and the Wapagna Islands, the cervines of Bohan, and the lupines of Amahan have for millennia been recognized as the core nations that make up Wahannon, although the orcs have been the most populous and generally the most politically and culturally powerful since time immemorial, and especially in the later years of Imperial Wahannon, have tended to monopolize the rights of political and economic participation, a state of affairs which led to the violent Wahannonite Revolution and which still today has lingering effects. The Ancient Wahannonite religion has largely given way to other traditions, first Ademarism and then, gradually since the Great War, irreligion, though Amahan and Bohan both have notable minorities following various traditions directly descended from the Ancient Wahannonite faith.
Since 1910, Wahannon has been governed by a series of relatively weak nominal democracies, all of which have had varying but never insignificant levels of military influence. There were four coups in Wahannon during the 20th century, culminating in the Wahannon Civil War of 1999-2005, which led to the establishment of the Federal Republic and autonomous governments designed primarily around species lines to ease tensions between the different groups, with lupines and cervines seeking protection for their traditional cultures and ways of life that were opposed by the economic elite of Wahanta seeking development of natural resources in areas traditionally used for nomadic grazing. Since 2005, economic outcomes, public health and welfare, and cultural institutions have seen notable growth in the autonomous regions, while figures in Wahanta have stagnated at best. There is a growing sense of political resentment among people in Wahanta, especially the poor, that their needs are being overlooked.
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