Pelinai (Pacifica)

Kingdom of Pelinai ペリナイ王国
Flag
Motto: “Faith, unity, and righteousness”
Anthem: National Hymn of the Kingdom of Pelinai
Location	On the Pelinese Peninsula and the island of Zholtiya Zemla, coastal southeastern Bailtem
Capital and largest city	Pelograd
Official languages	Pelinese Hinomoto
Recognized languages	Bregoder Hinomoto Karnetvorian Kretti
Ethnic groups (2023)	95.8% Pelinese 0.18% White Spirasian 4.02% other
Religion (2023)	96.2% Pelinayaka Orthodox Christian 2.7% other Pelinayakized religions 1.1% other
Demonym(s)	Pelinese
Government	Semi-unitary constitutional monarchy
• Head of state (Queen)	Izumi Yekaterina II Perinaiko
• Head of government (Prime Minister)	Aleksej Makarovic
Legislature	Pelinese State Parliament
Formation
• First colonization	C. 1779 AD
• Proclamation of the Kingdom of Pelinai	June 3 1783 AD
• Overthrow of the first Pelinese state	February 20 1975 AD
• White Revolution	July 7 1979 AD
• General recognition of the Pelinese Provisional Government	C. 1982
• Formal restoration of the Perinaiko Monarchy	December 24 1983
Area
• Total	232,274 km2 (89,681 sq mi)
Population
• 2023 estimate	122,408,398
• Density	527/km2 (1,364.9/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2022 estimate
• Total	$6,407,712,410,000
• Per capita	$52,347
GDP (nominal)	2023 estimate
• Total	$4.808 trillion
• Per capita	$39,278
Currency	Hana (HNA)
Time zone	UTC+3 (MET)
Date format	mm/dd/yyyy AD
Mains electricity	240 V–60 Hz
Driving side	right
Calling code	+128
World Forum Code	PLN
Internet TLD	.pln

Pelinai (Pelinese Hinomoto: ペリナイ, Karnetvorian: Пелинай), officially the Kingdom of Pelinai (Pelinese Hinomoto: ペリナイ王国, Karnetvorian: Королевство Пелинай) is a state located in the South Pacific, on the southeastern coast of the continent of Bailtem. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on its west, the Eastern Ocean to its east, and the Golden Strait separating continental Pelinai and the island of Zholtiya Zemla. It possesses a humid subtropical climate in the coastal regions of continental Pelinai and on Zholtiya Zemla, as well as humid subtropical highland and alpine climates in its interior. The Pelinese state encompasses a total area of 232,274km² and an estimated population of 122.408 million (estimated 2023). The Kingdom of Pelinai is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial monarch and an independent, democratically elected civilian government headed by the Pelinese State Parliament. The Kingdom of Pelinai is composed of eight prefectures, each of which maintain a measure of autonomy in domestic affairs and elect ministers of parliament to represent them in the Pelinese State Parliament: Yoruniyuki Prefecture, in northern Yukisora, Mizu-Soi-No-Machi Prefecture, which governs the northern coastline, Yuziniryesu Prefecture, in central Pelinai, Peraminato Prefecture, which acts as the capital of the Yukisora Prefecture Region, Korolyeviya Prefecture, covering most of Pelinai’s central-southeastern coast, Letograd Prefecture, which encompasses the southernmost areas of continental Pelinai, Zholtograd Prefecture, which covers the island of Zholtiya Zemla, and the capital state of Pelograd Prefecture on the Mediterranean coast.

Etymology

The Kingdom of Pelinai derives its name from its patron saint and founder, Saint Pelinai, who founded the Pelinayaka Orthodox Christian denomination and was the primary driving force encouraging Reizener exiles’ settlement of the territory that would later be incorporated into the modern Pelinese nation.

History

The Pelinese Civil War

Main article: Pelinese Civil War

Government and politics

Military

Main article: Pelinese Armed Forces (Pacifica)

Military matters of the Kingdom of Pelinai are governed by the Pelinese Ministry of Defense, which manages the Pelinese Armed Forces as well as military-adjacent entities like the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence (GVRU). The Pelinese state maintains significant offensive and defensive capability in the realms of both conventional warfare and grey-zone operations.

Economy

Agriculture

Agriculture in Pelinai is split between the humid-subtropical coastal regions and the alpine inland regions, which produce different crops to suit local weather and terrain. Major agricultural products in Pelinai include apples, beets, cabbage, carrots, cherries, lettuce, pine nuts, potatoes, rice, roses, wheat, and zucchini, and smaller quantities of other crops are also grown. Animals are also farmed, with most production focusing on chicken and pork.

Historical and current difficulty with farming in Pelinai prompted the development of a significant fishing and fish packing industry through the twentieth century. The largest producer of fish in Pelinai is Borushoriba Fish Company (BSK) in Yuuziminato, Pelograd Prefecture, which was founded in 1907 and supplies a large portion of sardines, tuna, and cod fished in the eastern Mediterranean zone and the Eastern Ocean. Major customers include Pelinese grocery store chain Bisuri and canned food company Tsurikana. Major foreign purchasers of fresh and frozen fish from BSK include Myria, Sallodesia, and Stoinia.

Tsurikana Packing Ltd., founded in Kurashuni in 1983, is the largest canned goods company in Pelinai by total estimated value. In addition to canned soups and fruits, Tsurikana cans sardines, tuna, herring, mackerel, and other fish that are produced in Pelinai or imported from suppliers in Sedunn. Major customers include Bisuri Stores Co. and the Pelinese Armed Forces. Large volumes of canned fish are also exported to foreign purchasers like Kliegme and Sedunn.

Pelinai has a growing timber and tree-farming industry that has grown in size since its initial foundation in the 2000s. Major produced woods include fir, palmate maple, oak, pine, red maple, and sakura, of which pine is the most commonly farmed tree. Farmed pine timber is exported to Sallodesia and Sedunn, either as lumber or in Sedunn’s case as wood pulp for the manufacturing of paper.

Energy

Pelinai has a nationalized energy grid, with all providers of electricity and electricity distribution services being owned in whole or in part by the Pelinese state. Nuclear fission-derived energy is the largest source of electricity generation capacity, and a combination of light-water and molten-salt reactors contribute 76% of total Pelinese grid capacity. Another 19% of capacity is provided by wind energy, and the remaining 5% is a mix of solar, waste incineration, and fossil fuels. Emergency capacity is provided by natural gas fueled power stations. The Pelinese government is actively pursuing the expansion of thorium-fueled nuclear power plants.

Manufacturing

The manufacturing base of the Kingdom of Pelinai as it exists now first arose in the 1990s under the Pelinese Ministry of Economics’s effort to introduce modern industrial standards to the nation during postwar reconstruction. Mediterranean Precision Manufacturing Systems was founded as a joint public-private company in 1993 under the Made in Pelinai 2010 Initiative, and other companies like Pelektronik and Aetherdyne would also receive substantial investment from the Pelinese state under the newly established state capitalism system. MPMS, which produces CNC machine tools and other industrial manufacturing tooling, then became a major supplier for Pelinese companies that were establishing, overhauling, and modernizing manufacturing facilities as part of Made in Pelinai 2010. It now produces EUV lithography machines and other ultra high precision devices as well as machine tools and other standard equipment.

Sakanov Electronics, an integrated device manufacturer producing semiconductors and electronics components founded in 1995, was one of the first companies in the world to adopt the EUV lithography method of producing components in 2018. It produces semiconductor components, integrated circuits, and computer and server parts such as SSDs, hard disk drives, RAM sticks, motherboards, CPUs, and GPUs, as well as other device components. Major customers include Aetherdyne, Mediterranean Precision Manufacturing Systems, Pelektronik, and the Pelinese state as the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of State Industry.

Korolyeviya Metallics, founded 1984, is headquartered in Korolyeviya and is a major global producer of bar stock carbon steel, stainless steel, high-speed steel and tool steels, and other steel alloys, as well as primary forms of the aforementioned metals. It also operates metal casting facilities tailored towards high-volume production for major manufacturers. Its major customers include Aetherdyne, Kazamatsuri Design Bureau, Yusuko, Sakanov Electronics, Mediterranean Precision Manufacturing Systems, Pelkosmos, and Zheleznov Motors.

Setaiyoka GK, founded in Korolyeviya in its current form in 1992, is the largest Pelinese operator of metal casting and primary forms plants processing nonferrous metals such as aluminium, magnesium, copper, and exotic superalloys such as those based on nickel. It produces a plurality of die-cast nonferrous metal products for use in the entire range or commercial and industrial applications. Major customers are Aetherdyne, Sakanov Electronics, Mediterranean Precision Manufacturing Systems, Zheleznov Motors, and Tyr IDB.

Kurotsukai petrochemicals, a state-owned petrochemicals corporation founded in Zholtograd in 1998, is the largest Pelinese manufacturer of most major petrochemical products and materials. Its primary products include synthetic rubbers like nitrile rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber as well as various plastics like high-density and low-density polyethylene. Major customers include Aetherdyne, Sakanov Electronics, Mediterranean Precision Manufacturing Systems, and Pelektronik. High volumes of synthetic rubber materials in particular are exported to Sallodesia and Stoinia.

Mining and extraction

The Kingdom of Pelinai possesses a large supply of mineral ores due to its proximity to the Mediterranean Rift and other tectonic features, as well as abundant petrochemical and natural gas resources. The entirely public-owned Pelinese mining industry, led by the Ministry for Strategic Resources, mines and processes a wide variety of metals, rocks, and other products. Prominent deposits include the Zholtograd Igneous Complex, the Korolyeviya Igneous Complex, the Tanaka Mine’s iron oxide copper gold deposit, the Mediterranean Massive Sulfide Ore Deposits, and the kimberlite pipes at Ivanov Mine and North Creek Mine. Other deposits exist, including heavy mineral sands deposits along the coastline of mainland Pelinai. Resources extracted by Pelinese companies in significant quantities include antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, germanium, gold, hafnium, indium, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, platinum group metals, rare earth elements, rhenium, selenium, silver, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, thorium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zinc. The Pelinese economy benefits greatly from its reliable access to domestic production of most technology-critical elements, and the Kingdom of Pelinai is the only South Pacifican producer of several.

the Pelinese Ministry of Strategic Resources engages in experimental deep sea mining in cooperation with a Myrian firm, particularly around the Eastern Ocean Trench. Harvested ores are primarily metalliferous sediments and polymetallic nodules, which together contain primarily cadmium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, vanadium, and zinc. PMoSI-harvested metals are processed in Pelinese facilities like Letograd Metal Refinery Complex before being sold to either domestic or foreign manufacturing facilities for further usage.

In addition to minerals, Pelinai also mines gemstones in relatively high volume. These include diamonds, orthoclase and moonstone, jade, zircon, and various species of garnet, tourmaline, beryl, corundum, quartz, and spinel. Gemstones have held a place of prominence in Pelinese culture since the early 19th century, and the production of faceted stones and jewelry is a well developed industry in Pelinai.

The Kingdom of Pelinai is one of the largest producers of crude oil in Pacifica. Pelinese companies extract primarily sweet grades of both light crude and heavy crude oil from both terrestrial and offshore oil wells within the Pelinese continental shelf zone, and shale oil is also widely extracted. The Pelinese Ministry of Strategic Resources also mines a great deal of coal, primarily in the form of bituminous coal and some anthracite coal. Most coal types and grades produced in Pelinai are either used as a feedstock for chemical production or converted into oil through CTL coal liquefaction and processed into fuel. Natural gas and helium are also harvested in significant volume and used for industrial processes. The Kingdom of Pelinai currently has no plans to slow or cease its extraction or usage of coal or petrochemical resources.

Pelinai quarries multiple varieties of rock for construction and industrial usage, including granite, marble, basalt, mica, and slate. Most quarries are in the northwestern mountains of Pelinai, where a broad selection of high quality stone can be found.

The Kingdom of Pelinai is one of the largest exporters of noble gases in the world due to its large cryogenic fractional air distillation industry, which proliferated in the early 21st century in order to take advantage of consistently low electricity prices. The largest complex performing CFAD is in Letograd, with smaller facilities in Zholtograd and Korolyeviya.

Demographics

Languages

The official national language of the Kingdom of Pelinai is Pelinese Hinomoto, which is spoken at a high proficiency level by approximately 98% of the population. Pelinese Hinomoto retains a high degree of similarity to other Hinomoto variants in most respects, but contains many Karnetvorian- and Bregoder-based loanwords and may substitute the letter “R” with the letter “L” in certain words. Bregoder, Karnetvorian, Kretti, and Spirasian Tarnese are all prominent minority languages in Pelinai with varying degrees of distribution and prevalence. School students in Pelinai typically learn both Pelinese Hinomoto and Bregoder since preschool, and begin studying their choice of either Karnetvorian, Kretti, or Spirasian Tarnese during primary school.

Religion

Main article: Pelinayaka Orthodox Church (Pacifica)

Aside from the SRB era in the late 1970s, Pelinakaya Orthodox Christianity has remained both the overwhelmingly dominant religion in Pelinai and its explicit or implicit state religion since its founding in the late 18th century. Aggressive persecution under the communist regime failed to significantly reduce the percentage of Pelinayaka adherents in Pelinai, and the Pelinayaka Orthodox Church remains a powerful and entrenched institution in Pelinese culture and public life.

The Kingdom of Pelinai is consistently considered to be one of the most deeply religious nations in the world. Freedom of religion and right to worship are both enumerated rights in the Pelinese State Constitution, but lack of religion is not named as a protected category and Pelinese laws tend to favor Pelinayaka moral beliefs in the realm of social policies. 96.2% of Pelinese citizens are Pelinayaka Orthodox Christians, with an additional 2.7% following “Pelinayakized” religions adopting some Pelinayaka traditions and holidays and the remaining 1.1% belonging to all other religions and irreligion.

Education

The Pelinese education system is divided into preschool (ages 4-5), primary school (ages 6-12), high school (ages 13-18), and higher education (university). Education is compulsory in Pelinai, and parents must either take their children to a school or provide them an equivalent homeschooling education whose quality is verified annually. Universities in Pelinai are publicly funded and students can receive significant education subsidies in exchange for high performance in classwork. Trade school is also maintained as an institution that provides both early college classes and classes to become certified in the practice of a non-university profession such as masonry, construction, or machining. The education system in Pelinai reaches the vast majority of Pelinese citizens, 99.9% of which are literate.

Technical universities are emphasized in Pelinese education, and most degree holders work in STEM professions. Foreign exchange programs for Pelinese universities exist, and degrees from engineering colleges like the Korolyeviya Institute of Science and Engineering are highly reputable abroad.

Famous Pelinese

Main article: List of Notable Pelinese (Pacifica)

Culture

Pelinese culture has existed in a state of relative isolation from the wider Mediterranean and Pacifica since 1783, and has continued to remain largely insular in the present day. Pelinayaka Christianity’s immense and enduring influence on Pelinese culture, combined with significant religious, cultural, and political incompatibilities between Pelinai and neighboring nations, has severely restricted lasting cultural exchange both in the past and in modern times. Even major Pelinese cultural works are highly obscure outside of Pelinai and vice versa, and Pelinese culture at large is almost completely inaccessible outside of Pelinai.

Literature

The first known book to be published in Pelinai is an untitled book of devotionals from 1783 commonly referred to as Sixty Days. Religious literature, as both explicitly religious works and as novels and other books meant to illustrate or discuss religious principles, has continued to feature prominently in Pelinese culture into the present day. The most well-known modern book in Pelinai is Едкая Вода (Yedkaya Voda, “Caustic Water”), which was written under the name of Yara Vladimirov and surreptitiously circulated in 1978; the book horrified readers with its graphic depictions of systematic violence perpetrated against Christians and political dissidents by the SRB, and is credited with fracturing the legitimacy of the communist regime and precipitating the White Revolution in 1979.

Media

Pelinese television and video games are both very popular within Pelinai, and the Pelinese domestic market supports multiple successful production companies for each. Both forms of media are often produced in animated style, although other forms exist. Pelinese video games, the most popular series of which are visual novels, various forms of RPGs, and management games, constitute a growing sector of the Pelinese entertainment industry, along with television and film. Pelinese media has little presence outside of its home nation, and even major franchises are rarely localized or translated for international markets.