Yohannes

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Yohānnes
Flag
Motto
“Wohlstand und Stabilität”
“Prosperity and Stability”
Anthem
Das Lied des Yohannesischen Reiches
(The Song of the Realm of Yohannes)
Countries of the Yohannesian Realms.
CapitalRoyal Alexandria
Official languages 40.7% Yohannesian German, 23.1% British English, 19.5% Alexandrian Swedish, 8.3% Bahasa Yohannesia, 7.9% Yohānnesi, 0.5% Sign Language
Demonym Yohannesian
Government Elective monarchy
 -  Emperor Garnet til Alexandros
 -  Chancellor Annabelle Thorndon-Stevensonn
Amalgamation
 -  Foreign Mission Act 1786 08 April 1786 
Area
 -  Total 7,592,010 km2
2,931,290 sq mi 
Population
 -  2013 estimate 379,001,034
GDP (PPP) 2018 estimate
 -  Total $15.92 trillion
 -  Per capita $41,997
Gini32.6
medium
HDI 0.895
very high
Currency Quertz russling (YQR)
Date format dd/mm/yyyy
Drives on the left
Calling code +585
ISO 3166 code YO
Internet TLD .yo

Yohannes is an island nation comprising the continent of Yohannes and some overseas islands, with a total area of 7,592,010 km2, which is home to approximately 379 million Yohannesians. Its three largest countries — Alexandria, Burmecia, and Lindblum — are the geneses of its founding economic, political, and legal institutions: the Yohannesian model, parliament, and the Unity law. Yohannes is an elective monarchy. The head of state is the Yohannesian Emperor. The head of government is the Chancellor of the Confederation. The executive council creates laws; parliament tables laws; and the emperor approves laws. The respective government ministries can then execute these laws. This executive body is responsible for important affairs of the nation, such as foreign relations and defence.

Yohannes is a member of the World Assembly through its General Assembly Office.

Etymology

The earliest Yohannesian people descended from the migration of two sub tropical tribes of the East Pacific region (Urth) during the early twelfth century and the gradual arrival of non-English speaking settlers, starting from the early fifteenth century onwards. Their descendants are respectively known today as Yohānnesi (First people) and Pākehā (People of light complexion); together forming the foundation of the nation state’s early bicultural history.

The earliest discovery of a historical account originating from Te Whanganui-a-Tara is also the oldest engraved record in Yohannesian history. It recognised, although somewhat vaguely, the original home of the three indigenous tribal ancestors of today’s ‘First People’. A well-known nineteenth century historian in the nineteen countries, Andrew Pipitea, translated the inscription, describing it “rather lacking”, and revealed that the three tribes migrated from a “semi-tropical, far-flung continent west of the nation.” Not surprisingly, Yohannesian tribal historians have for long debated “whether Pipitea’s claim [and the object] should be taken with a grain of salt.”

Nevertheless, it was widely recognised — following the discovery of other artefacts — that the three tribes were able to successfully adapt to the continent’s temperate climate. The relative geographical isolation of Yohannes ensured the insulated evolution of the three tribes over the next ten centuries; establishing in the process a moderately mature economic and social structure in the continent. Coastal and inland trading operations were conducted between the three tribes and their sub-tribal divisions, whilst ethos, governing method, and partially civilised tradition were spread throughout the Eastland landmass. The language of their descendants today is a fusion and mix of the Malay-Bahasa Indonesia and Māori languages. Over the next two hundred years this first group of native settlers gradually developed their own distinct tribal cultures within the broader Yohānnesi culture — until the arrival of the first Occidental colonials from the ‘civilised nation states’, and the subsequent cultural and institutional subjugation of the Yohānnesi by the Pākehā settlers.

History

Early history

The constant infighting and the tendency of the old tribes to follow what is known today as the tradition of Mereke Mati Lah (“Kill the Neighbouring Tribe”) further aggravated their problems and contributed to their inability to counter the Pākehā force that would soon engulf them. The result from this period was a much weakened society lacking unified resources; without the capacity to effectively maintain a centralised armed resistance against even the first wave of badly organised but comparatively better equipped settlers. As more and more settlers from the civilised nation states arrived, the Yohānnesi were gradually subsumed until they became anything but strangers in their own land; their culture appropriated and their tribal leaders bribed to ‘urge their countrymen to assimilate’. The Canhi-Yohannesian Trading Company — officially founded in 1410 as an economic and supranational association of nineteen Yohannesian communities — was thus born; the forefather entity of the present nineteen Yohannesian countries.

The nineteen communities, similar to colonies, were nominally subordinated to the then Kingdom of Canhadast from Yanitaria. The three largest countries in present Yohannes — the Kingdom of Alexandria, the Regency of Lindblum, and the Kingdom of Burmecia — were the first three colonies established in the continent, and they were known for their competitive merchant guilds and associations. Both Alexandria and Lindblum dominated commercial and trading activities in Yohannes, and on the back of this early economic success and the maritime protection provided by the Kingdom of Canhadast, the association slowly expanded to become nineteen in number.

The early fifteenth century was good to the association, which had acquired a significant right to self-government from mainland Canhadast: allowing their highest ranked citizens to exercise titular authority and allowing for the foundation of a primitive form of parliamentary system and local customary laws. A consensus leading to the ratification of a treaty — the primitive version of a partial customs union — by the association further strengthened economic administrative collaboration in the continent.

This golden period was, however, short. By the late 1480s, many self-made crises caused by administrative incompetence and corruption, compounded by fiscal excesses of the public and private sector in fifteen of the nineteen economies in the previous forty years, would finally bring down Canhadasti rule in Yohannes. A crisis of succession right broke in 1491, a year marked by Yohannesian historians as the end of the association’s period of prosperity. It started when the Kingdom of Alexandria, under the leadership of King Alfred the Fourth, declared war on the Regency of Lindblum. Alfred the Fourth exploited his kingdom’s revolutionary advance in early finance and banking to afford and maintain its constantly expanding Royal Navy, whilst Lindblum languished in serious economic decline for much of the 1490s.

The then Regent of Lindblum, Cid the First, fought valiantly to defy the forces of tyranny. However, Alexandria was the first association to establish an effective early form of a centralised financial and banking system. It was therefore able to more effectively harness its economic capacity to reinforce its military prowess over that of Lindblum and all its neighbouring countries combined. An arduous five years of strife ensued, where Lindblum was then joined by the Kingdom of Burmecia and the rest of the sixteen smaller countries: all intimidated by the prospect of a complete Alexandrian hegemony.

Despite the support of its distant mainland Canhadasti ally, however, the Treaty of Loriath in 1511 eventually saw the strategic victory of Lindblum and her allies in the continent. The treaty imposed numerical limitation upon Alexandria’s land and maritime forces to deprive her of the capacity to wage similar wars of aggression in future, thereby restoring the balance of power in Yohannes.

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