Panstivo

### Religion

Primarily Christianity and Unaffiliated, though small pockets of Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and many others are present

### Climate

Oceanic, temperate with occasional rainy days (South and east)
Cold, semi-arid and sunny with wet snow in the winters (West)

### National Animal

Panstivo veery

**Panstivo** is a country directly east of Minuka located in the northern Marima Ocean. It is a temperate island being located at the median latitude of Parania with rare instances of snow, except for portions of the northwestern seaboard. The capital city is Dimish, and the most populous is Bondar. The name Panstivo comes from the Minukan word "Panstiv" meaning dominion or superiority. The province has extremely high GDP and is considered safe compared to most parts of eastern Parania and is on par with Obnivir and The Royal North in terms of country rating, the country is considered one of the most developed areas of Parania. Panstivo ranks highly in quality of life, education, economic freedoms and many others, and is ranked number two best place to live in in eastern Parania, and number five in Parania as a whole. Many consider Panstivo a different country from mainland Minuka due to how different they are. English and Nareemian peoples call the state of Panstivo "Dominion Island".

## Geography

Panstivo is located directly off the coast of mainland Minuka and is the easternmost portion of Minuka with the capital city of Dimish being not just the easternmost point of Minuka but is considered one of Parania's easternmost major cities. East of the island is the open northern Marima Ocean. Panstivo is located roughly on the same latitude as Kamver and the Soon Islands in Siere and shares many similarities in weather and climate to the Soon Islands. The climate varies in the island with the northern top pointing to mainland Minuka having dry, sunny, and hot summers and dry, sunny, and cold winters making it have similarities to portions of northern Parania, the east and south tends to have similar climates to The Isle of Chark and is said to be among the wettest portions of eastern Parania which tends to be extremely dry with almost-desert conditions to the south on the way to Mecirhan and extremely cold, dry tundral conditions to the north, Panstivo differs from the two. Snow is especially rare in the island but the northern tip has higher latititudes which allows for skiing and snowboarding to occur more frequently, as well as attracting different animal and plant species then the south and east.

## Flora and fauna

Panstivo is very well known for its wildlife and closeness to nature and wildlife sightings are a normalized thing with locals likely seeing at least one specie from their own backyard daily. A large number of the flora and fauna on the island are endemic and some notable fauna species include Panstivo veeries, Panstivo otters, Panstivo flying foxes, Panstivo jumping bean moths, Panstivo house shrews, Panstivo giant mantises, island moles and island shrews, though multiple other endemic fauna are present, endemic flora include Panstivo junipers, blue orchids, black-faced orchids, Wild bouquets and Paranian sword ferns. Other species in the island include darolles, black deer, culpeos, jackals, cats, gray foxes, beavers, white-tailed deer, mice, rabbits, gerbils, squirrels and less commonly, red foxes and moose. The island is also a favorite spot for bird watchers as it is home to over 553 species of birds including veerys, rooks, great cormorants, yellow-legged gulls, common bronzewings, pink-headed fruit doves, blackbirds, house sparrows, mute swans, crested larks, and mallards. The island is known to have the highest density of eastern black deer, a heavily endangered species, in the world; it is also home to one of the largest mallard duck populations next to Chuliana. Their national bird, the Panstivo veery, is very numerous on the island.

## Demographics

### Religion

About 56.7% of the population identifies as Christian, 23.7% Roman Catholic, 13.4% Orthodoxy, 12.0% Mormon, and 7.6% Mainline Protestant. The island houses the most Roman Catholics in eastern Parania and the most Mormons in all of Parania. 37.7% of the population identifies as Unaffiliated, 33.2% Unaffiliated with any religion, 3.1% Agnostic, and 1.4% Atheist. 4.4% of the population is Islamic, 3.6% Sunni Muslim and 0.8% Shia Muslim and 1.2% of the population identifies with other religions. About 62.3% of the population is religious in total.

### Ethnic origins

44.1% of the population is British or Irish, 26.7% of the population is Ukrainian, 19.4% of the population is Arabic (13.1% native born), and 9.8% other groups. The island has the second highest British population in Parania after, obviously, the Isle of Chark, and is before Obnivir.