Karsylvania

**Karsylvania** (Karsylvanian: *Karsîlvania*), officially the **Kingdom of Karsylvania** (Karsylvanian: *Regata Karsîlvaniei*), is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Eurea, bordered by Muldania to the east and southeast, Lima to the west, Asbania and Magoria to the northwest, Akraine to the northeast, and Borgizstan and Berat to the southeast. Its capital and most-populous city is Caratina, located in the center of the country. Karsylvania has a population of about 16.2 million inhabitants.

Organized civilization first began in the territory of modern-Karsylvania in the 5th-century, with the establishment of numerous small city-states. By the 9th-century, these city-states had unified, resulting in the first Kingdom of Karsylvania. After existing as an independent and sovereign nation for several centuries, the Kingdom unified with the neighboring Kingdom of Magoria to create the Mago-Karsylvanian Empire in the 17th-century. A politically powerful state, the Empire dominated the region, despite having little interest in imperialism of its own. Following growing nationalist sentiment in Karsylvania during the 19th-century, the Mago-Karsylvanian War (1872–1879) errupted, resulting in a Karsylvanian victory and the restoration of Karsylvanian independence. After about fifty years of independence, a *coup d'état* deposed of the monarchy, assassinating most of the royal family and leaving only their youngest daughter to flee to Framland and live in-exile. The fascist revolutionaries established the Republic of Karsylvania in 1935, looking to model themselves after the Kashan Union. Civil liberties and freedoms were greatly diminished in the era of the Republic, although not to the extreme extent that they were in the Kashan Union, and the nation was largely seen as a satellite state of the Kashan Union. Fascist hold on the country began to weaken in the 1980s, with growing oppositional movements. A second *coup d'état* deposed of fascist leadership in 1987, restoring the Kingdom and allowing the royal family to take the throne in Karsylvania for the first time in more than fifty years.

Since the restoration of its independence, Karsylvania has functioned as a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Its head of state is the Monarch, who serves as a ceremonial figurehead with no real powers. The Monarch formally appoints all ministers, is the ceremonial commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and signs all pieces of legislation into law, although they hold no veto power. They are also tasked with greeting and entertaining foreign heads of state. All political power is vested in the Prime Minister, who serves as the head of government. The Prime Minister is most often the leader of the governing coalition in parliament, and they thus serve as the chief legislator of the nation. The Prime Minister is tasked with implementing their own policy agenda through legislation and leading a council of ministers. The parliament of Karsylvania is the Chamber of Deputies, a unicameral 445-seat legislature.

Of Karsylvania's population of about 16.2 million, approximately 80.2% identifies as ethnically Karsylvanian, while a further 10.1% identifies as Magorian, 6.1% as Dorshan, 1.6% as Muldanian, and the remaining 2.0% as other ethnic groups. Its Magorian population has dwindled in recent years, with widespread immigration to Magoria; in 1925, approximately 30.4% of the poplulation was ethnically Magorian. The national and sole official language of Karsylvania is Karsylvanian, a Proto-Regian language, distantly related to Regian. Magorian, a Mundaric language, also holds special recognition as an official minority language. Karsylvanian is spoken natively by approximately 83.5% of the population, while Magorian is spoken natively by about 9.5%, and the remaining 7.0% speaks a different language natively, primarily Dorshan. Karsylvanians are a highly religious people, with approximately 76.5% adhering to Eastern Eurean Christianity. A further 5.7% adheres to Eurean Catholicism, 5.4% adheres to Dorshan Shamanism, 1.0% to Eurean Islam, and 1.2% to other religions, while 10.2% identifies as atheist, agnostic, or irreligious. Weekly religious attendance is rather high, with 40.5% of the population reporting attending religious services at least weekly.