Dalamatia

### Climate

Hot, arid with prevalently sunny days and very rare rainfall though northern portions of the island become more and more humid and wet

### National Animal

Roe deer

**Dalamatia** is a country in Parania under Isle of Chark rule located halfway between southernmost Cagneux and the northernmost portion of the Celestial Islands in the Marima Ocean. The country's capital is Featherswallow located on the northern coast of the island. It is a very popular tourist and honeymoon destination and can be enjoyable for both adults and families due to wonderous cliffs and hiking, unique culture, charming medieval towns, a harsh but intriguing history, excellent nightlife, and the finest gambling. It is sometimes referred to as The Little Celestial Islands due to its location being directly above the Celestial Islands and due to its known nightlife, gambling, and partying which are also extremely common in the resort city of Paya Santa Maria in the southern Celestial Islands.

## Geography

Dalamatia is located at the same latitude of Barerra and central/southern Orirbella as well as southern Hartnett/Kosna's latitude and does have the same climate as the countries with hot, arid sunny weather with very rare occurences of snow and rain. The island is very rocky and arid plants such as oleanderbushes (Nerium oleander), oasis palms (Brahea armata), saguaro cactuses (Carnegiea gigantea), and windmill palms (Trachycarpus fortunei) can tolerate the weather, with the non-native saguaro and windmill palm being completely naturalized and extremely common throughout the country with the two dominating forests and plant regions alongside the native olive tree (Olea europaea), almond tree (Prunus dulcis), and pomegranate (Punica granatum). The country houses around over 60 islands, but only about 15 of them are inhabited. There are only two mammal species native to the island, likely due to its convenience from mainland countries, and they are the monk seal (Monachus monachus) and the spiny mouse (Acomys nesiotes), both species in high numbers, this is especially unique for Dalmatia as the monk seal is endangered in most of Parania but over a third (45%) of the Paranian monk seal population reside in the country of Dalmatia. The spiny mouse, though native, is considered a pest in the island due to increasingly high numbers due to a low amount of predators on the island and act in ways a normal rodent would. Introduced mammals include brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), common rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and stink badgers (Mydaus javanensis), which were all introduced by "accident".

## History

The country is one of the only countries in Parania, next to the northern Celestial Islands, that had indigenous peoples, closely related to the indigenous peoples of Nareemia and Siere, as well as of the indigenous Farma of Mako Mako, Kutwhe, and The Marima Islands. The indigenous peoples are known as the Devorado peoples, known from the word devorador, as they were known to hunt daily and knew where and when the finest foods were and came. Unfortunately, when the colonizers, the Bilvans, came to conquer and colonize the island as it's own, they mass-murdered a mere 50% of the Devorado peoples, but when treaties were signed sometime in 1950 to not murder them, they placed them into *escuelas de regularización* to make them "embrace" the white/Bilvan culture. This sparked millions of protests around 1962 when the truth has been shown to the rest of the world with a postcard in black-and-white and many protests sparked in Bilva, Orirbella, Cagneux, and major Nareemian cities such as Marima City, Vitena City, and Lincoln. By 1988, A large British population came in to the island and a treaty was signed to change the capital city name from Dabilla to Featherswallow after the mayor of the capital of The Isle of Chark, though, today, the British population remains intensely small, only representing 4-6% of the total population (7,732 peoples). In the early 1940s, the Bilvans desired leisure and a place to relax from all the exploring they have done so they introduced gambling, grand hotels, and many other things that shaped Dalamatia as it is today, they called the region of Dalmatia, The Celestial Islands and southern Cagneux "*Terrenia"* which meant "*entertainmentia*" in ancient Bilvan and built the region gambling machines and grand leisure hotels which attracted the attention of millions of peoples around the world, but most especially in Parania.

## Demographics

The country, though very small, has a large diversity in ethnicity and religion. About 65% of its ethnic population is white with majority being of Bilvan and Lobelian ancestry (Both comprising 58.5% of its total population), 29% of the population is Indigenous with a large majority of them being Devorado peoples, and 6% Arabic. The country is 63.5% Christian (98,202 peoples) with the highest Christian group being Roman Catholic at 56%, following groups are Protestantism and Orthodoxy which are both tied at the same percentage each (3.75%). The second highest religious group are the unaffiliated at 29% (48,848 peoples), Atheists at 1.82% (2,814 peoples), and Agnostics (2,814 peoples). The Islamics come at the third largest religious group at the same percentage of the Atheists and Agnostics of the country at 1.82% (2,814 peoples), though the Arab population is 6% of the population. Other religions come at 2.04% such as Buddhists, Jews, and Pagans. In total, the country is about 67.36% religious making majority of the country apart of a religious group, this would make the country one of the least religious in Southern Parania and is tied nearly with Silegre. The country has a prevalent LGBTQ+ population with nearly 17.5% (Around 1 in 5 people) of the country identifying as bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual or other. The male population was 19.5% LGBTQIA+ and the female population was 16.2% LGBTQIA+, this is nearly as high as Kosna's LGBTQ population and Dalamatia can be considered the second country in Parania with the highest LGBTQIA+ population and possibly in the world.

## Culture

Dalamatian's original culture are mainly indigenous tied with Bilvan culture. Dances are inherited from the Bilvan cultures, and foods are a hybrid between Bilvan and Indigenous cuisine, such as guava and prickly pear pies. Modern cultures include its cultural life depending on casinoes, parties, and gambling. Though some small towns outside Featherswallow still have the original Bilvan and Indigenous charm in its architecture and are worth seeing, especially for families with younger children, who can't really participate in any of the "adult activities" held in Featherswallow. Other cultures include Spiny mouse hunting which is more common in the northern portion of the island due to the mouse population being extremely higher on that end, and is still done today by the Indigenous peoples.