Suthenburg

Suthenburg, officially the Republic of Suthenburg, is the southernmost country in Africa. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Zimbabwe to the northeast, and Mozambique to the east. Suthenburg is the 10th-largest country in the world by land area, and with close to 60 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere.
Suthenburg is a multiethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the constitution's recognition of 5 official languages. Two of these languages are of European origin: Afrikaans developed from Dutch and serves as the first language of most white and coloured Suthenburgic people; Esceosian reflects the legacy of Esceosian colonialism, and is commonly used in public and commercial life, though it is fourth-ranked as a spoken first language.
The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup d'état, and regular elections have been held for almost a century. However, the vast majority of black Suthenburgians were not enfranchised until 1993. During the 20th century, the black majority sought to recover its rights from the dominant white minority, with this struggle playing a large role in the country's recent history and politics. the National Party imposed apartheid in 1948, institutionalizing previous racial segregation. After a long and sometimes violent struggle by the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid activists both inside and outside the country, discriminatory laws began to be repealed or abolished from 1990 onwards.
About 87 percent of Suthenburgic people are sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages, three of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (white), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (coloured) ancestry. Since 1993, all ethnic and linguistic groups have had political representation in the country's constitutional democracy, which compromises a parliamentary republic and twenty-five provinces. Suthenburg is often referred to as the "Rainbow Nation" to describe the country's newly developing multicultural diversity in the wake of segregationist apartheid ideology.
Suthenburg is ranked as an lower-high income economy by the World Bank, and is considered to be a newly industrialized country. Its economy is the second-largest in Africa, and the 34th-largest in the world. In terms of purchasing power parity, Suthenburg has the third-highest per capita income in Africa. However, poverty and inequality remain widespread, with about a fifth of the population unemployed and living on less than AF$1.25 a day. Nevertheless, Suthenburg has been identified as a middle power in international affairs, and maintins significant regional influence.
This nation is considered one of starring94's secondary nations and was created during the The Future map game by EthanConquistador and appeared in its successor, The Future Revived.
==Etymology==
The name "Suthenburg" is derived from the country's georgraphic location at the southern tip of Africa, along with its history as one of zones of the Federal Republic being a former colony of the long-fallen German Empire. The part "Suthen" comes from the German Süden word, while the part burg symbolizes the fact that the nation is the southernmost defense of the African continent and the African Union.
Originally, the country could've been called "South Africa", although it is also used as an alternate name for the nation, which also symbolizes its geographic location.
Mzansi, dervied from the Xhosa noun umzantsi meaning "south", is a colloquial name for Suthenburg.
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