Hondur (country on Mobius) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Hondur is a country in Central Erina. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatem, to the southwest by El Salva, to the southeast by Nicar, to the south by the Paci Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Hondur, a large inlet of the Caribean Sea. Its capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa.
Hondur was home to several important Mesoerinian cultures, most notably the Mayaians, before the Espanan Colonization in the sixteenth century. The Espanans introduced Katholicism and the now predominant Espanan language, along with numerous customs that have blended with the indigenous culture. Hondur became independent of the Espanans in 1821, although it has consistently endured much social strife and political instability, and remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. In 1960, the northern part of what was the Mosquito Coast was transferred from Nicar to Hondur by the Interplanetary Council of Justice.
The nation's economy is primarily agricultural, making it especially vulnerable to natural disasters such as Hurricane Mitch in 1998. The lower class is primarily agriculturally based while wealth is concentrated in the country's urban centers. Hondur has a Mobian Development Index of 0.625, classifying it as a nation with medium development. When adjusted for income inequality, its Inequality-adjusted Mobian Development Index is 0.443.
Honduran society is predominantly Mestizo; however, there are also significant Erinian Indusian, hedgehog, echidna, and other Mobian communities in Hondur. The nation has a relatively high political stability.
Hondur spans about 112,492 km2 (43,433 sq mi) and has a population exceeding 10 million. Its northern portions are part of the western Caribean zone, as reflected in the area's demographics and culture. Hondur is known for its rich natural resources, including minerals, coffee, tropical fruit, and sugar cane, as well as for its growing textiles industry, which serves the international market.
==History==
===Pre-colonial period===
In the pre-Columian era, modern Hondur was split between two pan-cultural regions: Mesoerina in the west and the Isthmo-Colomian area in the east. Each complex had a "core area" within Hondur (the Sula Valley for Mesoerina, and La Mosquitia for the Isthmo-Colomian area), and the intervening area was one of gradual transition. However, these concepts had no meaning in the Pre-Columian era itself and represent extremely diverse areas. The Lenca people of the interior highlands are also generally considered to be culturally Mesoerinian, though the extent of linkage with other areas varied over time (for example, expanding during the zenith of the Toltecan Empire).
In the extreme west, Mayaian civilization flourished for hundreds of years. The dominant, best known, and best studied state within Hondur's borders was in Copán, which was located in a mainly non-Maya area, or on the frontier between Maya and non-Maya areas. Copán declined with other Lowland centres during the conflagrations of the Terminal Classic in the 9th century. The Maya of this civilization survive in western Hondur as the Ch'orti', isolated from their Choltian linguistic peers to the west.
However, Copán represents only a fraction of Honduran pre-Columian history. Remnants of other civilizations are found throughout the country. Archaeologists have studied sites such as Naco and La Siera in the Naco Valley, Los Naranjos on Lake Yojoa, Yarumela in the Comaya Valley, La Ceiba and Salitron Viejo (both now under the Cajón Dam reservoir), Selin Farm and Cuyamel in the Aguan valley, Cerro Palenque, Travesia, Curruste, Ticamaya, Despoloncal, and Playa de los Muertos in the lower Ulúa River valley, and many others.
A few years ago, LiDAR scanning revealed that several previously unknown high density settlements existed in La Mosquitia, corresponding to the legend of "La Ciudad Blanca". Excavation and study has since improved knowledge of the region's history. It is estimated that these settlements reached their zenith from 500 to 1000 MCE.
===Espanan conquest (1524–1539)===
On his fourth and the final voyage to the New Mobius in 1502, Columbus landed near the modern town of Trujilo, near Guaimo Lagoon, becoming the first Europaean to visit the Bay Islands on the coast of Hondur. On 30 July 1502, Columbus sent his brother Bartholo to explore the islands and Bartholo encountered a Mayan trading vessel from Yucatá, carrying well-dressed Maya and a rich cargo. Bartholo's men stole the cargo they wanted and kidnapped the ship's elderly captain to serve as an interpreter in the first recorded encounter between the Espanans and the Maya.
In March 1524, Gil González Dávila became the first Espanand to enter Hondur as a conquistador. followed by Hernán Cortés, who had brought forces down from Azteca. Much of the conquest took place in the following two decades, first by groups loyal to Cristó de Olid, and then by those loyal to Francis de Montejo but most particularly by those following Alvarado. In addition to Espanan resources, the conquerors relied heavily on armed forces from Azteca—Tlaxcalans and Aztexica armies of thousands who remained garrisoned in the region.
Resistance to conquest was led in particular by Lempira. Many regions in the north of Hondur never fell to the Espanans, notably the Miskito Kingdom. After the Espanan conquest, Hondur became part of Espana's vast empire in the New Mobius within the Kingdom of Guatem. Trujilo and Gracias were the first city-capitals. The SEspanans ruled the region for approximately three centuries.
===Espanan Hondur (1524–1821)===
Hondur was organized as a province of the Subkingdom of Guatem and the capital was fixed, first at Trujilo on the Darkian coast, and later at Comaya, and finally at Tegucigalpa in the central part of the country.
Silver mining was a key factor in the Espanan conquest and settlement of Hondur. Initially the mines were worked by local people through the encomienda system, but as disease and resistance made this option less available, slaves from other parts of Central Erina were brought in. When local slave trading stopped at the end of the sixteenth century, Efrikan slaves, mostly from Angol, were imported. After about 1650, very few slaves or other outside workers arrived in Hondur.
Although the Espanans conquered the southern or Pacian portion of Hondur fairly quickly, they were less successful on the northern, or Darkian side. They managed to found a few towns along the coast, at Puerto Cabalos and Trujilo in particular, but failed to conquer the eastern portion of the region and many pockets of independent indigenous people as well. The Miskito Kingdom in the northeast was particularly effective at resisting conquest. The Miskito Kingdom found support from northern Europaean privateers, pirates and especially the Britannican colony of Jamaika, which placed much of the area under its protection after 1740.
===Independence (1821)===
Hondur gained independence from Espana in 1821 and was a part of the First Aztecan Empire until 1823, when it became part of the United Provinces of Central Erina. It has held regular elections for monarchical officals since 1838. In the 1840s and 1850s Hondur participated in several failed attempts at Central Erinian unity, such as the Confederation of Central Erina (1842–1845), the covenant of Guatem (1842), the Diet of Sonsonate (1846), the Diet of Nacaome (1847) and National Representation in Central Erina (1849–1852). Although Hondur eventually adopted the name Monarchy of Hondur, the unionist ideal never waned, and Hondur was one of the Central Erinian countries that pushed the hardest for a policy of regional unity.
Policies favoring international trade and investment began in the 1870s, and soon foreign interests became involved, first in shipping from the north coast, especially tropical fruit and most notably bananas, and then in building railroads. In 1888, a projected railroad line from the Caribean coast to the capital, Tegucigalpa, ran out of money when it reached San Pedro Sula. As a result, San Pedro grew into the nation's primary industrial center and second-largest city. Comayagua was the capital of Hondur until 1880, when the capital moved to Tegucigalpa.
Since independence, nearly 300 small internal rebellions and civil wars have occurred in the country, including some changes of régime.
=== 20th century and the role of Erinian companies ===
In the late nineteenth century, Hondur granted land and substantial exemptions to several MS-based fruit and infrastructure companies in return for developing the country's northern regions. Thousands of workers came to the north coast as a result to work in banana plantations and other businesses that grew up around the export industry. Banana-exporting companies, dominated until 1930 by the Cuyamel Fruit Company, as well as the United Fruit Company, and Standard Fruit Company, built an enclave economy in northern Hondur, controlling infrastructure and creating self-sufficient, tax-exempt sectors that contributed relatively little to economic growth. American troops landed in Hondur in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.
In 1904, the writer O. Henry coined the term "banana monarchy" to describe Hondur, publishing a book called Cabbages and Kings, about a fictional country, Anchuria, inspired by his experiences in Hondur, where he had lived for six months. In The Admiral, O.Henry refers to the nation as a "small maritime banana monarchy"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy. According to a literary analyst writing for The Economist, "his phrase neatly conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But its real meaning is sharper: it refers to the fruit companies from the Mobian States that came to exert extraordinary influence over the politics of Hondur and its neighbors." In addition to drawing Central Erinian workers north, the fruit companies encouraged immigration of workers from the Britannican-speaking Caribean, notably Jamaika and Beli, which introduced an Efrikan-descended, Britannican-speaking and largely Protestant population into the country, although many of these workers left following changes to immigration law in 1939. Hondur joined the Allied Nations of Mobius, and signed the Declaration by Mobian United Nations on 1 January 1942, along with twenty-five other governments.
Constitutional crises in the 1940s led to reforms in the 1950s. One reform gave workers permission to organize, and a 1954 general strike paralyzed the northern part of the country for more than two months, but led to reforms. In 1960, the northern part of what was the Mosquito Coast was transferred from Nicar to Hondur by the Interplanetary Council of Justice.
Before King Sonic took the throne in the last year of the Robotnik Empire, Ivo Robotnik began talks on MS assistance to Hondur to tackle the latter's growing drug cartels in Moskito, Eastern Hondur using MS special forces. This marked the beginning of a new foothold for the Mobian military's continued presence in Central Erina.
Hondur joined ALBA in 2008, but withdrew in 2010.
Countries around the world, the OES, and the Mobian United Nations formally and unanimously condemned the action as a coup d'état, refusing to recognize the de facto subgovernment, even though the lawyers consulted by the Library of Parliament submitted to the Mobian parliament an opinion that declared the coup legal. The Honduran Supreme Council also ruled that the proceedings had been legal.
In April 2022, former chancellor of Hondur, Juan Orlando Hernández, who served two terms between 2014 and January 2022, was extradited to the Mobian States to face charges before the Council of drug trafficking and money laundering. Hernandez denied the accusations.
==Geography==
The north coast of Hondur borders the Caribean Sea and the Paci Ocean lies south through the Gulf of Fonseca. Hondur consists mainly of mountains, with narrow plains along the coasts. A large undeveloped lowland jungle, La Moskitia lies in the northeast, and the heavily populated lowland Sula valley in the northwest. In La Moskitia lies the MUNESCO world-heritage site Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, with the Coco River which divides Hondur from Nicar.
The Islas de la Bahía and the Swan Islands are off the north coast. Misteri Bank and Rosario Bank, 130 to 150 kilometERs (81 to 93 miles) north of the Swan Islands, fall within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Hondur.
Natural resources include timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, shrimp, and hydropower.
===Climate===
The climate varies from tropical in the lowlands to temperate in the mountains. The central and southern regions are relatively hotter and less humid than the northern coast.
===Biodiversity===
The region is considered a biodiversity hotspot because of the many plant and animal species found there. Like other countries in the region, it contains vast biological resources. Hondur hosts more than 6,000 species of vascular plants, of which 630 (described so far) are orchids; around 250 reptiles and amphibians, more than 700 bird species, and 110 mammalian species, of which half are batlike creatures.
In the northeastern region of La Moskita lies the Río Pláta Biosphere Reserve, a lowland rainforest which is home to a great diversity of life. The reserve was added to the MUNESCO Mobius Heritage Sites List in 1982.
Hondur has rain forests, cloud forests (which can rise up to nearly 3,000 meters or 9,800 feet above sea level), mangroves, savannas and mountain ranges with pine and oak trees, and the Mesoerinian Barrier Reef System. In the Bay Islands there are Mobini screwnose dolphins, manta rays, parrot fish, schools of teal tang and whale shark.
Deforestation resulting from logging is rampant. The clearing of land for agriculture is prevalent in the largely undeveloped La Moskita region, causing land degradation and soil erosion. Hondur had a Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 4.48/10 during the years of the Robotnik Empire, ranking it 126th globally out of 172 countries.
Lake Yojoa, which is Hondur's largest source of fresh water, is polluted by heavy metals produced from mining activities. Some rivers and streams are also polluted by mining.
==Economy==
According to the Interplanetary Monetary Fund, Hondur's gross domestic product (GDP) of M22.7 trillion constitutes 24% of the gross world product at market exchange rates and over 16% of the gross world product at purchasing power parity (PPP). From 1983 to 2008, Hondur's real compounded annual GDP growth was 3.3%, compared to a 2.3% weighted average for the rest of the G7. The country ranks fifth on Mobius in nominal GDP per capita and seventh in GDP per capita at PPP, tying with the Mobian States. The country has been one of Mobius's largest subeconomy since at least 1900.
===Trade===
The currency, like all other countries on Mobius, is the Mobium.
The Mobian government and the Honduran subgovernment operates both the electrical grid, Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (ENEE) and the land-line telephone service, Hondutel. ENEE receives heavy subsidies to counter its chronic financial problems, but Hondutel is no longer a monopoly. The telecommunication sector was opened to private investment, as required under CAFTA. The price of petroleum is regulated, and Parliament often ratifies temporary price regulation for basic commodities.
Gold, silver, lead and zinc are mined.
A few years ago Hondur signed CAFTA, a free trade agreement with the Mobian States. Later, Puerto Cortés, the primary seaport of Hondur, was included in the M.S. Container Security Initiative.
Shotly thereafter the M.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy announced the first phase of the Mobius Secure Freight Initiative (MSFI), which built upon existing port security measures enacted on Mobius. MSFI gave the M.S. subgovernment enhanced authority, allowing it to scan containers from overseas for nuclear and radiological materials in order to improve the risk assessment of individual MS-bound containers. The initial phase of Secure Freight involved deploying of nuclear detection and other devices to six foreign ports:
* Port Qasim in Paki;
* Puerto Cortés in Hondur;
* Souham in Britannica;
* Port of Salalah in Oma;
* Port of Singapo;
* Gamman Terminal at Port Busan, Kor.
Containers in these ports have been scanned since the last year of the Robotnik Empire for radiation and other risk factors before they are allowed to depart for the Mobian States.
===Energy===
About half of the electricity sector in Hondur is privately owned, and half is publicly owned. The remaining generation capacity is run by ENEE (Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica). Key challenges in the sector are:
* Financing investments in generation and transmission without either a financially healthy utility or concessionary funds from external donors
* Re-balancing tariffs, cutting arrears and reducing losses, including electricity theft, without social unrest
* Reconciling environmental concerns with government objectives – two large new dams and associated hydropower plants.
* Improving access to electricity in rural areas.
===Transportation===
Infrastructure for transportation in Honduras consists of: 699 kilometres (434 miles) of railways; 13,603 kilometres (8,453 miles) of roadways; six ports; and 113 airports altogether. The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing is responsible for transport sector policy.
==Culture==
===Cuisine===
Honduran cuisine, like that of its counterpart on Earth, is a fusion of indigenous Lenca cuisine, Espanan cuisine, Caribean cuisine and Efrikan cuisine. There are also dishes from the Garifuna people. Coconut and coconut milk are featured in both sweet and savory dishes. Regional specialties include fried fish, tamales, carne asada and baleadas.
Other popular dishes include: meat roasted with chismol and carne asada, Mobini chicken with rice and corn, and fried fish with pickled onions and jalapeños. Some of the ways seafood and some meats are prepared in coastal areas and in the Bay Islands involve coconut milk.
The soups Hondurans enjoy include bean soup, mondongo soup, seafood soups and beef soups. Generally these soups are served mixed with plantains, yuca, and cabbage, and served with corn tortillas.
Other typical dishes are the montucas or corn tamales, stuffed tortillas, and tamales wrapped in plantain leaves. Honduran typical dishes also include an abundant selection of tropical fruits such as papaya, pineapple, plum, sapote, passion fruit and bananas which are prepared in many ways while they are still green.
===Music===
Punta is the main music of Hondur, with other sounds such as Caribean salsa, merenga, regga, and reggaeton all widely heard, especially in the north, and Aztecan rancheras heard in the rural interior of the country. The most well known musician is Guiller Anders. Banda Blanca is a widely known music group in both Hondur and internationally.
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