Pelinai (Pacifica)
Kingdom of Pelinai ペリナイ王国 | |
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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 | Hinomoto Karnetvorian |
| Ethnic groups (2023) | 95.8% Pelinese 4.2% 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 (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 small state located in the South Pacific, on the southeasternmost peninsula of the continent 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 80,746km2 and an estimated population of 54.342 million (estimated 2022). 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 four 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: Korolyeviya Prefecture, covering most of Pelinai’s eastern 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
Pre-colonization period
Colonist era
Early monarchy period
Late monarchy period
SRB era
The Pelinese Civil War
Restoration era
Recent
Geography
Climate
Geology
Government and politics
Government
Political parties
Law and judicial system
Administrative divisions
Military
Foreign relations
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.
Infrastructure
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, 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 Foundry, founded 1984, is headquartered in Korolyeviya and is a major global producer of carbon steel, stainless steel, aircraft-grade aluminium alloys, and exotic alloys and superalloys. Its major customers include Aetherdyne, Kazamatsuri Design Bureau, Yusuko, Sakanov Electronics, Mediterranean Precision Manufacturing Systems, Pelkosmos, and Zheleznov Motors.
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.
Science and technology
Demographics
Urban areas
Languages
Religion
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.