South Staynes
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| Motto: The Mountains, our protector. The Hills, our home. | ||||
| Anthem: "Power of Mother Hill." | ||||
 South Staynes and its dependencies in dark green, other Empire territories in light green.
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| Capital | Kirdintayos | |||
| Largest city | Labius | |||
| Official languages | Old Staynic Staynish |
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| Recognised regional languages | Kirdintay New Axdelian Lishboyara Jubliakese Rekilma |
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| Ethnic groups (2016 Estimate) | 97% Human 3% other | |||
| Demonym | South Staynese, South Staynish | |||
| Government | Republic under constitutional monarchy | |||
| - | High-King | Lambertus VII | ||
| Legislature | National assembly | |||
| Population | ||||
| - | 2017 estimate | 160,384,000 | ||
| - | 2015 census | 158,905,010 | ||
| Currency | Kirib (♅/KRB) |
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| Date format | DD/MM/YYYY | |||
| Drives on the | the left | |||
| ISO 3166 code | SST | |||
| Internet TLD | .sst | |||
South Staynes is a moderately large country within Great Morstaybishlia. It exists in central Aurora and is best known by its luscious deciduous forests, the Zycannes and cold, jagged coastline. It has a population of about 160 million. Around 6,000,000 people live in the municipality of Labius. It neighbours are Staynes, Axdel, which it shares the largest border with, and Ethalria. Eskomia, which is one of the oldest settled islands in Aurora, neighbours Tuvaltastan, Nilovia & Dragonia.
South Staynes declared independence as a sovereign state from Morstaybishlia on the 6th of June, 1975, when the country became too economically and militarily weak to control the region. In 1977, the country signed a political union with the United Kingdom of Staynes and Caltharus to form the United Kingdom of Great Morstaybishlia.
Within independence from Morstaybishlia and the Acts of Union 1977, whilst a completely independent nation from Morstaybishlia, still bore the same head of state, Galfridus. This was purely a constitutional role.
Income inequality
South Staynes has always suffered with above average income inequality. In 2016, about sixty percent of the population were under the national average, along with ruralisation created a common trend. The other forty live usually live in urbanised area. A system integration program was established in 2005 to try and sway more people to move to urbanised areas and live above or at minimum wage according to UNAC standards. However, this has only resulted in a small percentage of people converting.
History
The area now known as South Staynes has seen the most border change on Aurora. It has been under the control of the Kormistazmic Empire, the Tuke Empire, Kingdom of Sztahynz, Kingdom of Staynnica, Kingdom of Staynes, the Ethalrian Empire, the Xagrurgian Empire, several lesser known kingdoms, thousands of microstates, cities and kingdoms and the Morstaybishlian Empire.
South Staynes gained independence from Staynes, a country within the United Kingdom of Morstaybishlia in 1975 at the end of the Auroran Imperial War. In 1997, they gained member status and integrated their legislature with the United Kingdom.
