Sherryland

**Sherryland** is a country in the Vanellian Jewel continent. Sherryland has been a witch's republic since 1867.

## History

Like Lilletland, Sherryland was never part of the Jewellian Empire.

Sherryland was first occupied by the Portuguese Empire in 1522, and the British Empire took control of Sherryland beginning in 1720. It remained a British colony until 1814, and was controlled by the British Empire until 1851 as part of the Sherrian Revolution which also removed the country's Commonwealth government. Sherryland opened its first school for witches in 1862, and created a new calendar based on the Wheel of the Year. The year of 1867 is Sherryland's both first Halloween and first Walpurgis Night.

Like Lilletland, Sherryland mostly never had racial segregation as opposed to other countries in the Anglosphere. Instead, Sherryland opted for a multi-racial society. At the end of 1940s, Sherryland got into an agreement with Japan and Tibet to bring 80,000 people of Japanese descent and 90,000 people of Tibetan descent to the country.

Television was introduced in 1961 using a 625-line system and Lilletland went colour between 1968 and 1976 using PAL.

Sherryland converted to metric system in 1978.

## Description

Sherryland is a highly-developed country.

### Languages

Sherrian English is a variation of the English language. It is mostly similar to British English, while Sherrian English contains a number of American terms, Sherrian English retains a number of British terms that Lillian English abandoned in favour of American ones. This version is the official version of the English language spoken in Sherryland.

### Currency

Sherrian dollar, $, is the currency of Sherryland.

### Economy and government

Sherryland is a democratic capitalist government. Like Lilletland, Sherryland prohibits promotion of socialism or communism.

### Censorship

Unlike Lilletland which is more concerned about sex and language than violence and has been fairly restrictive, Sherryland's censorship board is more liberal, although more concerned about violence but a little bit of sex is allowed.

Although Sherryland's culture has been a melting pot of cultures of Britain, America, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, India and Tibet, most of the television broadcasts of Sherryland prior to the 1990s were programs produced in the Anglosphere. Most of them came from America like *Batman*, *The Munsters*, *I Dream of Jeannie*, *Yogi Bear* etc. In the 1990s, anime started to show up in the airwaves, like *Dragon Ball,* *One Piece*, *Sailor Moon*, *Saint Tail*, *Detective Conan* etc.

### Holidays

Sherryland's holidays are similar to Lilletland. Thus, Yule/Christmas and Samhain/Halloween are identical to Lilletland's. New Year's Day marks the start of the people's new year, and the Witch's New Year's Day marks the start of the witches' new year, which uses Julian instead of Gregorian calendar. Sherryland has four additional holidays Lilletland does not: it includes Witch Worker's Day, Devil Night, Taunton Day and Guy Fawkes Night. Witch Worker's Day in Sherryland corresponds to Walpurgis Night in Lilletland. Sherryland, along with Enchancia, are the only non-Commonwealth countries that officially celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. Guy Fawkes Night became less common in the country beginning from the 1850s due to the Sherrian Revolution which enforced a strict policy of state atheism, although it was re-instated in 1902. In contrast to Sherryland, Lilletland entirely removed Guy Fawkes Night in 1856.

## Geography

Sherryland is divided into three regions. The capital region is known as the Sijngel Capital Region and contains the country's capital city.

* Sijngel Capital Region
* Upper Sherryland
	+ Landdriesch
	+ Hollwarden
	+ Salmdorph
	+ Totoshani
	+ Vagaljoti
* Lower Sherryland
	+ Regenstein
	+ Barger
	+ Amersworth
	+ Malsenburgh
	+ Ravenruth

## Transport

### Road

Sherryland shares the same road transport qualities with Lilletland. Thus, in Sherryland, street congestion often makes public transportation and cycling better options and cars are only used for the countryside.

Road signs in Sherryland are much closer to Japan as a whole. Sherryland uses symbols to convey meaning of the hazard, and metric speed limits in kilometres per hour placed on a red circle are used.

Warning signs follow the MUTCD standard, with yellow used for permanent warnings, fluorescent yellow-green used for warnings related to pedestrians, orange used for temporary warnings and pink used for incident management.

Regulatory signs mainly follow Japanese standards, with red rings to indicate restrictions or turns that are explicitly forbidden in the intersection, blue circles to indicate required actions, and blue squares to indicate required directions or instructions.

Blue guide signs are used on motorways, green guide signs are used on non-motorways and brown guide signs are used on tourist attractions and museums.

These road signs were introduced during metrication of Sherryland in 1975.

### Rail

Trains are a convenient mode of short, medium and long distance travel across Sherryland. Trains are mostly a "greener" way to get around than planes, cars and – in some cases – buses, generating much lower CO2 levels per passenger over the same distance, and often the fastest option.