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National Factbook of the Utabian Empire

The Empire of the Utabian Islands


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Motto: Unesmi niz durmion, bolivni onlés dusbient.
National Anthem: Link"Domine salvum fac regem"





Location

Population: 1,395,277,336
-Density: 46.19/sq km


Capital and Largest City: Singapore


Official Language: Utabian



National Language: Utabian, French, English


Religion: Roman Catholicism
Demonym: Utabian

Government: Unitary constitutionally absolute monarchy
- Monarch: Valeria Asiriel


Legislature:
Empress and Council of Lords (Informal)


Establishment: from France
Independence: March 1, 1563


Land Area: 22,316,339.2 mile²
35,914,666.571 km²


Elevation
Highest Point: Mt. Everest, 8,848 m (29,029 ft)
Lowest Point: Sea Level


GDP (nominal): $57.790 Trillion
GDP (nominal) per capita: $41,418.28


Human Development Index (NS Version): 0.967


Currency: Camiro (CMO)


Time Zone: Various


Drives on the: Left


Calling code: +39


Internet TLD: .cos


The Utabian Empire, more commonly called Utabia, is an empire found in Asia and Oceania, as well as its overseas territories. Utabia is divided into 43 provincial divisions (32 provinces, 7 autonomous regions, and 4 municipalities), and consists of southern and eastern Asia, Oceania, and numerous territories in the Americas and Africa, making a total of about 35.9 million square kilometers, making it the largest empire in history. Currently, the Empire has a population of around 1.3 billion people.

Initially inhabited by both prehistoric hominid species and ancient Southeast Asian civilizations, Utabia was first founded as a French colony along the northern coast of Sumatra around 1516, under the reign of Francis I of France. The colony steadily grew in power and independence until finally, on March 1st, 1563, Utabia declared itself an independent kingdom from France. At this point, Utabia held territory in all of the Great Sunda Islands, and thus had significant access to resources, allowing it to grow economically. Eventually, following the Anastasian Era during the late 19th-early 20th centuries, and a successful war against China, Utabia gained massive control over Asia and Oceania, fully transitioning from a kingdom to an empire.

Today, the Utabian Empire is recognized as one of the superpowers of the modern world. It has an extremely strong economy, with a national GDP of $57.790 trillion, as well as an extremely high GDP per capita of $41,418.28, but has higher than average income inequality. The nation has made significant advances in ecological and militaristic sciences, and has a powerful military. Utabia ranks highly in terms of civil rights, and has moderately good economic freedom, but has rather poor political freedom. It is also recognized as a member of a number of global organizations, such as the United Islands of the Atlantic and the World Assembly.

Etymology
The name Utabia is derived from the French word utopie, which directly translates into utopia in English. The term was first coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which was published the same year Utabia was founded as a colony. While the original term, utabia, originally applied to both the translation of utopia and the name of the country, it eventually only applied to the country name, having split apart from utabié, the modern word for utopia.

The standard way to refer to a citizen of Utabia is as a "Utabian".

History
The oldest inhabitants were also among the earliest humans in the world, with the oldest Homo sapiens fossils dating back to 40,000 years ago, with other Hominid species dating back even further, approximately 1,500,000 years ago. The area of Southeast Asia that consists of the Malay Archipelago and Peninsula were a connected landmass called Sundaland, which is said to have existed for the last 2.6 million years as the result of colder temperatures, in which the seas were around 50 meters (150 feet) lower than they are now, allowing prehistoric hominids and modern humans to migrate by foot. The hunter-gatherer societies that formed were remarkably similar in development until around 6000 BC, when the sea levels rose to their modern approximate levels, and different societies began to develop isolated from each other.

Following the turn of the first millennium, Southeast Asian cultures fell under the influence of the more mature civilizations that neighbored them to the north and west, particularly India and China. It was the Indian influence that led to the formation of the first indigenous states, but it wasn't until around the 13th century that the region was inhabited by significant civilizations. This roughly 300-year period was considered the "golden era" for the Southeast Asian civilizations before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century.

The first Europeans arrived between 1516-1517, in the form of French colonists, in northeastern Sumatra. These colonists were sent by Francis I to establish an Asian colonial empire, so France could combat the Holy Roman Empire, which was growing increasingly more powerful. The colonists, led by French noble Hugo Asiriel, referred to the island they landed on as pais de cocaigne, or "land of plenty", due to its lush environments and valuable resources, and thus established the colony of Cocaigne as the first French colony in the Eastern Hemisphere, as well as the kingdom's first colony period. During this time, however, Cocaigne entered a conflict with the Malacca Sultanate, a powerful Islamic sultanate to the south of Cocaigne, around the Strait of Malacca. This conflict, which would be called the War of the Tiger, lasted from 1520 to 1526, and nearly ended with Cocaigne's defeat. However, in 1523, the Franco-Ottoman alliance between King Francis and Suleiman the Magnificent, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, came into effect. While the main goal of this alliance was to fight the House of Habsburg and the Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman forces also would aid the French against the Malacca. In 1524, Ottoman forces reached the colony of Cocaigne, and easily overpowered the Sultanate's armies. These French-Ottoman victories accumulated on June 5th, during the Battle of Malacca, when the French-Ottoman forces destroyed the capital city of Malacca and killed both Sultan Mahmud Shah and his heir Ahmad Shah, ultimately destroying the Sultanate for good. Following their victory in the war, both the Ottomans and the French either executed the remaining people of the Sultanate, or took them into slavery.

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