Girnas

Girnas is the fourth planet orbiting Rican and the only object in the universe known to harbour life. Girnas' gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially Rican, the other eight planets of the Ricanor System and Girnas' three natural satellites, Erpen, Pict and Hersen. Girnas revolves around Rican in 336 days, a period known as a Girnean year.
Girnas' axis of rotation is tilted producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface. The gravitation interaction between Girnas and Erpen (and to a lesser extent Pict and Hersen) produce ocean tides and stabilise Girnas' rotation on its axis.
Girnas' lithosphere is divided into eight tectonic plates that migrate across the surface of the planet over the course of millions of years. The majority of Girnas' surface is covered by water, mostly by oceans, the remainder is land, consisting of continents and islands that together have many lakes, rivers and other sources of water which contribute to the hydrosphere.
Girnas has five Continents, Cellandine, North Essat, Ogulas, South Essat and the Western Archipelago, two oceans, The Great Western Ocean and The Eastern Ocean and the two Polar Regions (which are entirely covered by ice).
Girnas has a surface area of 89,666sq². Politically, Girnas is divided into 124 sovereign states, of which the Arishlar Empire is the largest, and a number of dependent territories.
== Name ==
The name Girnas comes from the Thanorian Girn from Girenen, the pre-Rethist God of Creation (of which the world was believed to be his resting place), and the suffix -as meaning "place, position" or less directly "land".
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