Huria

Huria (: Huria), officially known as the Hurian Federation (: Hurian Shirikishu), is an island nation located within the .
==Etymology==
The word Huria (pronounced as "who-REE-ah"), comes from the Swahili word for "liberty", "self-sufficient", and "without restraint". The word was chosen by Edison Williams, the founder of the Hurian Foundation, to reflect the organisation's desire to establish a free and independent nation for former slaves.
Prior to its independence, the island was often referred to as "Indoafrica" by European colonists, reflecting its proximity to both the African and Indian landmasses.
==History==
===Early history (c.600-1837)===
Huria is believed to have been continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic Period. The first inhabitants were hunter-gatherers who primarily dwelt in the northeast. Their descendants would come to be known as the Yamaziwa, meaning "of the lakes", due to the large number of lakes in the region. 
The island of Huria were settled by the descendants of the Swahili people from 600CE, when members of that group sailed abroad to the island in search for a new home. These people known as the Yamilima, settled Huria along the western coastline in modern-day Ukanda. However, warfare saw these people move deeper inland to the mountains around modern-day Dharau. The Yamilima took them name from the mountains they had settled, meaning in Swahili "of the mountains", and would come to give the mountains their namesake. 
The location of the island and the abundance of natural harbours along its coast, particularly in Ukanka, meant that it was frequented by traders travelling between the Middle East, East Africa and India. By the early Middle Ages, many of these traders were Arab Muslims from Oman, leading to the area becoming increasingly culturally influenced by Islam. The 1200s saw the establishment of the Warabu Sultanate along the coastline of Ukanda, which in the late 1600s was annexed to the Omani Empire. 
Huria's precolonial history saw intense fighting between the Yamilima and Yamaziwa people in the North. The martial spirit of both groups that was engendered by this warfare would later influence the highly militaristic nature of Hurian Society. 
In 1738, the island was visited by an expedition led by James Ratcliffe, a former officer in the British Royal Navy, and Carter Moore, a former black loyalist turned sailor. The expedition was, by all accounts, a success, as friendly relations were established by the Yamilima. Moore would remain on the island and marry a Yamilima woman named Kamara, before dying in 1763. Ratcliffe would return to Great Britain, where he would write extensively on the island and its people. 
=== Huria Foundation and Settlement (1837-1891) ===
Although Huria would not gain its independence until 1891, its history as a nation arguably began almost 75 years earlier on the other side of the world, in the United States, as part of the Back-to-Africa movement.
The steady growth of the abolitionist movement in the USA led to an increase in the number of free black people in the Northern States. This however led to societal friction, as many white people still saw the black population as inferior and undeserving of equal rights, while black freedmen chafed against continued discrimination. As a result, many viewed the return of the country's free black population to Africa as the ideal solution to the country's growing race problem.
The largest organisation supporting the colonisation of free black people back to Africa was the aptly named American Colonisation Society. The organisation enjoyed the support of many prominent political figures, including John Randolph, Henry Clay and Bushrod Washington, and was able to establish a colony in Liberia, in a region of West Africa unclaimed by the major European powers. Unfortunately, this attempt at colonisation was an unmitigated disaster. Of the 4571 emigrants sent to Liberia between 1820 and 1843, only 40% were alive in 1843, with the remainder succumbing to disease. The situation was so bad that in 1847, the ACS pressured the inhabitants of the colony to declare independence, so that they could wash their hands of the whole affair.
The ACS was not the only organisation promoting colonisation to Africa, however. In 1825, the Huria Foundation was established by Charles Lawrence, an abolitionist activist and former ACS member, and Edison Williams, an educated former slave. The pair of them agreed with the premise of colonisation, in contrast to radical abolitionist figures such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, who advocated for equal rights for black people within the USA. However, they came to view the ACS with disdain due to its domination by slaveholding interests. Furthermore, both Lawrence and Williams had become concerned by reports of mass disease and starvation coming out of the ACS's Liberia colony. As such, they began looking for another potential site for an African colony.
The Huria Foundation's work attracted the attention of Joseph Ratcliffe, the grandson of the explorer James Ratcliffe and a fellow abolitionist activist. Ratcliffe provided the foundation with his grandfather's writings about Indoafrica, which led the Foundation to conclude that it was a viable location for a colony.
Between 1830 and 1835, numerous envoys were sent to the leaders of the Yamilima Kingdom, allowing the Foundation to secure land in the Southeast of the country, in the Nyanda region. The first colonists arrived in 1837, establishing a settlement known as Kimbilio (Swahili for "refuge"). Almost immediately, the colony proved to be a success. Due to Nyanda's southern latitude, the climate proved to be far more temperate than that of Liberia, leading to a far lower incidence of disease. The fertility of the soil also made the growing of crops a highly productive enterprise, allowing the rapid growth of the population. News of the colony's success was relayed back to the USA, encouraging a mass migration of African Americans to the colony. By the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1860, the colony numbered some 50,000 settlers. 
By the 1880s, however, the leadership of the Foundation became increasingly paranoid. 
===War and independence (1891–1897)===
===Post-war era (1897–1914)===
Following the War, Huria developed a close relationship with the USA under William McKinley. The USA had previously funded the Huria Foundation's activities as a way of undercutting British influence in the region. With US funding, Huria was able to build infrastructure and industry. Huria also developed close ties with Imperial Japan, and the country soon became a major market for the Empire.
In 1903, the Hurian Provisional Government established over a decade earlier was dissolved, and a new constitution that remains in force to this day was ratified.
===First World War (1914–1918)===
===Interwar period (1918–1939)===
===Second World War (1939–1946)===
See: Operation Chuma Ukata 
Operation Kulipiza Kisasi
===Cold War era (1946–1991)===
During the Cold War, Huria was considered a Third World country. Initially, it supported the Stalinist Soviet Union, mainly due to the USA's support for Apartheid South Africa.
===Modern era (1991–Present)===
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===Government===
The Hurian Federation is a stratocracy in which the military and the government are one in the same, with the military holding significant power over the government. At the top of the government sits the Supreme Commander of the Hurian Federation, a position currently held by Maurice Williams. In theory, any general can be elected to the post of Supreme Commander. In practice however, all Supreme Commanders have been members of the Williams family.
Executive power is vested in two bodies. The War Council oversees the Hurian Armed Forces, and is charged with all matters relating to war and peace, as well as with the election of the Supreme Commander. Its membership consists of the leaders of all of the service branches of the armed forces. The Council of Ministers, meanwhile, is tasked with running the numerous government agencies of the government, and advising the Supreme Commander on government policies and agendas. It also assists in handling certain aspects of the non-military side of the government, such as internal and foreign affairs, transportation, and the treasury. Members of the Council of Ministers are civilians appointed by the Supreme Commander. In practice however, such appointments almost always occur with the advice and consent of the War Council, and many ministers are often retired Generals in the Armed Forces.
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===Language===
Swahili is the main language of the Federation, spoken primarily by the Warabu (Muslim) and Nyeusi (indigenous) populations of Huria. English is also an official language, however, spoken primarily by the Anyi (African American) and Vahaza (White) populations of the country. A majority of the population is bilingual. There exist small minorities of Arabic, Hindi and Afrikaans speakers.
===Religion===
The government is officially secular. However, a plurality of the population follows the indigenous Katagamist faith, originally the faith of the Yamilima, but also practised by a large number of Anyi due to intermarriage and cultural exchange between the 2 groups. Most Anyi, however, are either Baptists or Methodists, due to their ancestors having converted to these faiths while enslaved in the Americas. Meanwhile, the Warabu are mostly Muslim, due to the heavy Omani/Zanzibari cultural influence on Ukanda. The Vahaza are a mixture of Katagamists and various Protestant denominations - while there exist a Catholic minority, they are regarded with some suspicion by the government due to their supposed "foreign" nature. The small Kihindi (Indian) minority are mostly Hindu.
===Education===
Given the serious consideration of education in Hurian culture and society, larger because of religious beliefs, Huria's population has been a strong advocate of advanced learning and reaching out for higher education. Schooling in compulsory for Hurian children upon reaching the age of four and going on until the child reaches age 17. All 14 years of education are paid for by the state, which seeks to maintain a high graduation rate, and prevent high levels of drop outs by re-enrolling the the child and tutoring them through a military program that leads to a high possibility of success in the Hurian Armed Forces.
Indoctrination into the state's beliefs and ideals begins early in Hurian learning, with children taught all the basics needed for a successful career in the military given the nation's stratocratic system. Each and every Hurian child is required to go to school to learn the basic skills needed before moving on to another grade. During this time, gym and recess serve as periods where the children learn military skills. In gym, they learn martial arts, while during recess, they spend their time field stripping their weapons, learning how to aim and shoot them, and learn basic military drill.
Most of the population between the ages 15 to 29 hold a tertiary qualification. The majority of the adult population has attained some form of secondary education after high school, with close to 41.6% holding a bachelor's degree or higher, while another 47.2% hold some form of secondary education or qualification, and the remaining 11.2% holding no higher education, but employed in areas of society which normally require degrees of higher education elsewhere in the world. The country maintains hundreds of universities, and polytechnics.
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