Nation/Roborea
| The Incorporated States of Roborea | |||
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| Motto: One Arrow Can Be Broken, One Thousand Cannot! | |||
| Anthem: Forever Forward | |||
| Capital | Jefferson City | ||
| Largest city | Maxwell | ||
| Official languages | English | ||
| Recognised national languages | English Aleut Coremic |
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| Demonym | Roborean | ||
| Government | Confederate Collectivist Republic | ||
| - | Governor-General |  Lucas St. Bernard |
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| - | Spokesman | Colin F. Moray |
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| Legislature | National Governorate | ||
| - | Upper house | Board of Governors | |
| - | Lower house | National Citizens' Council | |
| Establishment | |||
| - | Settlement By Aleut Tribes | ~12,000 ybp | |
| - | Discovery by Imperial Russia | June 21, 1741 | |
| - | Veragorod Period | 1760s-1790 A.D. | |
| - | Founding (War of the Ostrovite Liberation) | 898 A.D - 924 A.D | |
| - | The Maxwell Venture | 1896-1919 | |
| - | (Ostrovitic) Green Constitution | August 8, 1919 A.D | |
| - | Bartleby's (Blue) Constitution | 24 December, 1919 A.D | |
| - | Jefferson Accords | June 21, 1973 A.D | |
| Area | |||
| - | Total | 14,883 km2 5,746 sq mi |
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| Population | |||
| - | 2015 estimate | 84 000 000 | |
| - | Density | 5644.02/km2 14,617.9/sq mi |
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| GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate | ||
| - | Total | $17.7 trillion | |
| - | Per capita | $ 62,437 | |
| Gini (2016) | 21.04 low |
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| HDI (2014) | 0.913 very high |
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| Currency | R-Credit (rC) |
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| Time zone | UTC-09:00 | ||
| Date format | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
| Drives on the | right | ||
| Calling code | +1 835 | ||
| Internet TLD | .RB | ||
Roborea, otherwise known as the Incorporated States of Roborea, is an island nation located in the Northern Pacific, near the Southern Alaskan Coast. It has a total area of 14,883 km2 (~5,746 sq. mi.) and a population of 84 million. While its National Governorate meets in Gshershem, its largest city is Maxwell, located nearest to the Eastern portions of the island, and closest to the North American mainland. As of 2016, at least 3/4ths of the population lives in this section of the island.
Roborea has a fair amount of volcanic and geologic activity, though its only known land-based volcano, Mt. Bartleby, has been dormant for much of the nations history. Thanks to the relative youth of the island, it is largely composed of volcanic soils, and is a highly arable zone, despite its proximity to the arctic circle. Its landscape is characterized by dense coniferous forest covering much of the island. In an effort to maintain a steady local supply of food and to not disturb the delicate nature of a volcanic ecosystem, much of the agriculture on Roborea is conducted in greenhouse operations, while much livestock-based farming is rare.
The earliest known settlers of Wood Island, and the surrounding Roborean Home Islands, are of Aleut descent, which have been present on the island at least 5,000 years before present. It was left untouched by European settlement until the 1760s, when Russian explorers began to settle the lands in the name of the Czar and to profit from the bountiful furs that could be taken there. However, disputes between the native residents, their mixed-ancestry friends and trapping partners, and the representatives of the empire there due to the increasingly hostile behavior of Russians in the region boiled over in the War of the Ostrovite Liberation in 1784, which the settlers won in 1790 after a prolongued guerrilla war. The new nation, the Derevyeva Commonwealth, was the sole source of political authority on the Roborean Home Islands until the establishment of the Kuznetsopol-Klondike Company, later known as the "Maxwell Venture", in 1896, when American Midwestern settlers rooted in on the eastern half of the island and established a strong industrial base on the backs of a growing lumber and fishing business. By the early 1900s, this chain of company settlements evolved into its own state, the Roborean Democratic Republic. In the 1910s and 1920s, these two authorities grew increasingly nationalistic, and would often engage in a heated, but often non-hostile rivalry, until coming together to help keep their lands safe from the spreading chaos of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. A short-lived Soviet Occupation of Astraea was met with fierce resistance, paving the way for cooperation, and later, unification, in 1973 at the signing of the Jefferson Accords, forging a strong, local-based government which endures to this day.
Roborea has a strong market economy, based largely in local "cottage industries" and agriculture, while its powerful energy sector is dominated by the burgeoning geothermal business. It is unique in that there is no permanent national government, with the Board of Governors, composed of local administrators, only meets once a year to report happenings or during emergency events. Of course, there are few national agencies, with much existing solely to maintain infrastructure and enforce laws and constitutional policy. Thanks to its decentralization, the nation retains a generally small tax rate when compared to its neighbors on the mainland, though localized tax rates are somewhat higher. Despite its status as a young nation, Roborea has a strong track record of social, political, and economic stability. It also is one of the few nations on Earth which have come remarkably close to Carbon Neutral, being one of the highest-ranked nations adhering to the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015. It runs almost entirely on renewable energy, primarily thanks to breakthroughs in wave-motion energy.
Roborean culture, in a nutshell, is founded upon the Midwestern American heritage of much of its residents, with practices of informal governance, neighborliness, and hospitality being among the core values of many of its citizens. Most members of society serve some sort of key function in their communities, and teaching of skilled trades are commonplace. The Libertarian roots of the island also show, as much of the governing takes place close-to-home, and most education and healthcare are managed by community and state-level organizations.
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Etymology
Roborea is not the only name of the territory occupied by the eponymous Incorporated States. Upon discovery of the island by Russian explorers in 1741, the land was named the "Island of Trees" (Russian: Ostrov Derev'yev (остров деревьев)). This term was made the official one for the island in 1790, when the Derevyeva Commonwealth, otherwise known as the Wood Island Commonwealth in the English-speaking world, was forged in the close of the War of the Ostrovite Liberation.
The actual latin term "Roborea" was introduced in the 1890s by members of the Maxwell Venture. In Latin, "Robor" refers to strength, or more specifically, a particularly strong tree, therefore, Roborea translates to "The Land of the Strong" or "The Land of Trees", and either translation is considered a valid one. It seemed befitting of a place that was built upon the timber business, and of strong individuals who upheld their communities since the earliest days of settlement, like the trunk of a pine holding up its many branches.
