Kawagoeland

The Republic of Kawagoeland (Japanese: 川越国 *Kawagoekuni*; Chinese: 川越国 *Chuānyuè guó*; Gujarati: કાવાગોલેન્ડ *Kāvāgōlēnḍa*) is a fledgeling, genial nation, renowned for its burgeoning lion population. The hard-working, democratic, devout Kawagoenese enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct. It is a country in the continent of Granhaul.

The Kawagoenese government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 33.5%.

The Kawagoelandian economy, worth 859 billion dollars a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 2,638,958 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 8.6 times as much as the poorest. Lion is Kawagoeland's national animal.

## History

In 1500, the first Japanese people arrived in East Kawagoeland, establishing a colonial post in Kawagoeland. The province of Upper East Kawagoeland (which later became the states of Kawagoe, Kikuna and Nanairoyama) became a colony of the Japanese Empire, and the Tokugawa shogunate kept the people of East Kawagoeland from leaving the country from 1681 to 1733, however under the Japanese *sakoku* policy, a colony could be unlocked when the country becomes independent from Japan. Similarly, during the 1600s and the 1700s, the western portion of Kawagoeland was occupied by Western powers: English (today's states of Fukui and Takazawa), French (today's states of Himeji and Abe), German (today's states of Sujihime, Hakone, Fujihama and Echigawa) and Portuguese (today's states of Sakaibara and Mitsudo).

East Kawagoeland became independent from the Empire of Japan on Lunar New Year in 1733 (Kyōhō 18) with fireworks. Thus, Kawagoeland's independence day is celebrated as a public holiday according to the date of Chinese New Year of 1733.

In 1844, the city of Hakone (in the state of Hakone) became a major port for vampires and witches. Kawagoeland's first ghost hunters appeared in 1874. During the Great Depression, Kawagoeland became one of the major builders of haunted house attractions, as well as vampire and witch costumes. This made Hakone, Kawagoeland designated as the Halloween capital of Granhaul in 1936 and thus this resulted in many Western immigrants.

## Description

Kawagoeland is an island country. The capital city is Kawagoe.

### Languages

There are four official languages: Japanese, English, Mandarin Chinese and Gujarati. Only Japanese and English are "traditional" languages, with the other two mainly used in non-government settings. Gujarati and Mandarin Chinese became one of the official languages of Kawagoeland since 1980.

Kawagoenese Japanese uses a orthography slightly different from Japan, although keeping the hiragana, katakana and Chinese characters ("kanji"). Over the years, Kawagoenese Japanese went under influence from Kawagoenese Hokkien and other non-Mandarin Chinese varieties (such as Cantonese), resulting in a lot of Min Nan, Hokkien and Cantonese words in Chinese character forms entering the Kawagoenese Japanese vocabulary. Thus, the vocabulary is different from Japan: for example, in Japan, the word *condominium* is translated as "コンドミニアム" (*kondominiamu*), but in Kawagoeland, the word *condominium* is translated as "共管公寓" (*kyōkan kōgū*). From 1964 to 1966, over 120 Kawagoenese Japanese words with Traditional Chinese character forms in the Fujisawa orthography have been replaced with simple English loans in katakana in the newer Kanazawa orthography (however, the Chinese character forms are still taught in higher grades in education); for example: the Kawagoenese word for "party" was changed from 晚會 *buanfue* to パーティ *pāti*.

Kawagoenese English is based on British spelling, with newer vocabulary coming from American English, Indian English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English and non-English languages.

Kawagoenese Mandarin uses Simplified Chinese characters, which adopts the character set from the People's Republic of China. Some of the Simplified Chinese characters have also been borrowed to Kawagoenese Japanese as well to simplify several characters in that language in the 1950s.

Kawagoenese Gujarati was brought by Indians from Gujarat when they arrived in Kawagoeland in the 1870s, however, it did not became one of the official languages until the 1950s.

### Religion

Kawagoeland is a secular state, and recognises Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Protestanism and Judaism. In the 1780s, there was an attempt to suppress the spread of Shinto as part of Kawagoenisation, and to convert all Kawagoenese Shintoists into atheists.

### Politics

Kawagoeland runs on capitalism, and the governing party is the Kawagoenese Democratic Party. The promotion of communism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, socalism, and other far-left ideas are banned by the government in 1942 following the internment and extermination of Marxist-Leninists Nazists and Maoists (and these far-left ideas are banned to date), and all political parties following these far-left ideas have been outlawed (including the Kawagoenese Communist Party). Works found to be allegedly promoting communist, socalist values or neo-Nazism are banned from Kawagoeland. However, symbols of communism and Nazism are not banned in Kawagoeland.

### Number formats

The all-numeric date format was simplified to ISO 8601 date format "year, month, day" in the 1980s (for exmple, 2015-10-31) to harmonise all-numeric date formats in all official languages of Kawagoeland.

Kawagoeland uses both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock. The 12-hour clock is widely used in everyday communication.

The country calling code is +1225.

The currency is the Kawagoenese dollar.

### Holidays

In Kawagoeland, public holidays include the four major ones: New Year's Eve, Christmas, Easter and Halloween. Carnival is designated as a working holiday in the state of Nanairoyama.

When Kawagoeland adopted Halloween in the 1790s, Christmas was largely erased from Kawagonese national holidays calendar, and the government declared Halloween as a national holiday. Easter days became normal working days. In 1962, Christmas and Easter were added back into the official calendars as national holidays.

In the state of Sujihime the Diwali–Halloween Corridor is a major shopping period. The dates specified are from day one of Diwali to the day after Halloween, 1 November, if Diwali comes first before Halloween. Shops in Sujihime are closed from day five of Diwali to 1 November.

The Witches Interrim Day is similar to Walpurgis Night as celebrated in Germany. First lsited on the calendar in 1803, it became a national holiday in 1810.

## States

Kawagoeland has 17 states.

1. Kawagoe (川越) - Central
2. Hakone (箱根) - West
3. Kikuna (菊名) - West
4. Fukui (福井) - West
5. Takazawa (高沢) - West
6. Nanairoyama (七色山) - Central
7. Echigawa (愛知川) - Central
8. Himeji (姫路) - West
9. Sakaibara (境原) - Central
10. Mataura (又浦) - Central
11. Mitsudo (三土) - East
12. Tokorozaki (所崎) - East
13. Abe (安倍) - East
14. Fujihama (藤浜) - Central
15. Wako (和光) - Central
16. Obi (王美) - East
17. Sujihime (筋姫) - West

## Cities

* Kawagoe (川越): Capital and largest city of the country.
* Echida (江知田)
* Hakone (箱根): This city is the Halloween capital of Granhaul.
* Takazawa (高沢)
* Kikuna (菊名)
* Sakaibara (境原)
* Akumayama (悪魔山)
* Mataura (又浦)