Morlaixie

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Morlaixie is a country in Central Avalonia. It shares a land border with Huaranga to its north, Shenewa to its west, Hirondelles to its east and Fukyi to its south. Its name derives from the name of the discoverer of Belle Côte, Roland de Morlaix.

The Republic of Morlaixie

La Republique de Morlaixie
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Capital
and largest city
Augusta
Official languages Ovannois
Demonym Morlaixien
Government Republic
Area
• Total Surface Area
47,750 km2 (18,440 sq mi)
Population
• 2023 estimate
6,064,250
• Density
127/km2 (328.9/sq mi)
GDP (PPP) 2021 estimate
• Per capita
$
GDP (nominal) 2021 estimate
• Total
$23,668m
• Per capita
$3,903
Gini (2021) Positive decrease 54
high
HDI (2021) Increase 0.76
high
Time zone UTC-6 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)
Not Observed
Date format dd.mm.yyyy
Driving side right
Calling code +309
Internet TLD .hua

History

Pre-colonial history

Empire of Belle Côte

The war on banditry

Break-up of the empire

First Morlaixie-Hirondelles War (1942-45)

Huarangan War of Independence (1944-45)

Revolution by plantation workers against plantation owners, quickly descends into anarchy.

Post-imperial

Emergency government (until 1954)

Miliitary Junta

Second Morlaixie-Hirondelles War (1956)

First Republic (1958-79)

The Saint-Germain War (1977)

War fought largely in the Cradle of Saint-Germain.

Second Republic (2002-07)

Geography

Government

International Relations

Morlaixie remains locked in a frozen conflict with Hirondelles

Armed Forces

The Armed Forces of the Morlaixien People have a peacetime strength of 88,000 personnel with 668,000 reservists and a budget of $1.183bn or 5% of GDP. This force is staffed by conscription for 24 months of all fit, male Morlaixien citizens of Ovannois ethnicity, around 56% of the 58,000 men who come of age annually in Morlaixie.

Armed Forces of the Morlaixien People

Forces Armées de la People Morlaixienne

Further information
Founded 1942
Current form 1945
Manpower
Military age 18
Conscription Yes, 24 months
Reaching military
age annually
58,000
Active personnel 88,000 (64,000 conscripts)
Reserve personnel 668,000
Expenditures
Budget $1,183m
Percent of GDP 5%
Industry
Foreign suppliers

Politics

Morlaixie is a democracy, in-theory. However, in practice registration fees to vote and larger ones to run for office ensure that the republic is an oligarchy, run by local landowners for local landowners.

Demographics

Languages

Whilst the official language of Morlaixie is Ovannois, the actual native language of its inhabitants is more often (), an ovannois dialect native to Belle Côte and heavily influenced by Agrannan and Jungastian in pronunciation and vocabulary.

Ethnicity

Approximately 70% of the Morlaixien population are classified by the Morlaixien state as Ovannois, with the remaining 30% largely being (creoles).

Culture

Salles de dimanche

In Morlaixie, it was not uncommon for a barn or other large building to be turned into an imitation of the tea rooms popular in Ovancia.

Economy

Morlaixie is a lower middle income developing market economy. It remains very reliant on agriculture and comparatively underdeveloped in the industrial and service sectors.

Agriculture

Morlaixien agriculture is dominated by the production of cash crops, notably coffee and tobacco. This predominance means that Morlaixie remains a net importer of foodstuffs, particularly meat and other animal products. Morlaixien cash crops are largely grown for export, with only a small amount being processed in Morlaixie itself.

Energy

Morlaixie has no notable domestic sources of energy, making it largely an energy importer. An unusually large amounts of its energy is generated using biofuels (wood), notably from Fukyi.

Manufacturing & Industry

There are two main sources of industry in Morlaixie. The first is the processing of some of its cash crops, notably tobacco and grapes. However, the products which they are processed into are typically of lower quality than in competing nations and some remain largely for domestic consumption, where they are kept competitive by their relatively lower prices. Morlaixien wine in particular is noted for being rougher and more sour than even its Hirondellien counterpart. The second is in and around the capital Augusta. Following the civil wars after the breakup of Belle Cote, these surrounding areas had become home to a large population of Ovannois refugees, many of them skilled industrial workers from Hirondelles. This quickly led to the establishment of a toolmaking industry in and around Augusta, mostly agricultural tools. With time, this has expanded to include some agricultural machinery, particularly tractors.

Services

Due to the country's largely rural nature, the official Morlaixien service sector is relatively underdeveloped outside of Augusta. However, there is a large and thriving unofficial service sector. One example of this would be Salles de dimanche, Sunday rooms, where communities will turn one of their agricultural buildings into a bar on Sunday, immitating the ovannois tea rooms which became popular in Belle Côte in the late 19th century. Whilst these generate large amounts of money through sale of drinks and money for local musicians, they go largely unrecorded as anything beyond estimates in official figures.