Meland

Flag of Meland

**Meland**, officially the **Republic of Meland** (**Melish**: Posnino odda Melu) is a huge nation on Planet Xena. It was discovered long, long ago and independence for the country being reformed as "Meland" was made on February 25, 1615.

## Statistics and size

Meland is a nation that that borders several lands, including Tepricca, Galivian Kingdom, and The Salmonian Republic. Meland is so large that its a multi-continential nation, with it mostly being Meeven but some of Meland being part of the Azkik continent.

Meland is by-far the largest country on Planet Xena, with a estimated size of 1,127,758 km². Meland is one of the wealthiest countries, and as such they distribute a lot of food and materials to other lands. It has a estimated population of around 87,000,000+ people. The currency that is currently used in Meland is Melish Coins and Notes, which were first introduced in the late 1600s.

## History

### **Discovery**

Meland was first discovered thousands of years ago by a group of travellers. They were astonished, exploring every nook and cranny of the largest land on Xena. The original name for Meland was "Visi", which then became the "Republic of Visi", and finally in 1615 being renamed to the Republic of Meland.

### **The Rise of Meland**

In the 1600s, Meland would experience massive growth in population, and suddenly became one of the most populated nations on Planet Xena. In 1904, Meland allied for the first time ever with a country, Saturnia. The allyship formed because of how good Saturnia and Meland treated each other via distributing foods, technologies, and also a large amount of Saturnian people moving to Meland throughout the 1700s and 1800s.

### **SDR invasion**

On January 7, 1930, parts of Western Meland were invaded by the SDR of Saturnia, as it was currently being controlled by them. They managed to capture provinces "Teisa" and "Solar" for a couple of weeks before we recovered them, then the SDR leader got put under bars in Duckland, and SDR surrendered.

### **World domination / Grand-Melandian era**

Meland invaded many nations over the 1940s and 1950s, such as Kikun and Inizio. Later on a federation would be founded titled the Federation of Grand Melandia, which would get disbanded in 1960 by command of the Melish president Edith Clarkson. All the nations part of the federation were made free.

### **Saggto invasion**

In December 1963, Dello invaded a Melish province named Saggto overnight and succeeded with ease. Saggto would later become the Saggish Republic, a nation fully-operated by the Dellish government. Meland was not happy about this, and as a result are taking action to make sure no other land gets unexpectedly invaded.

## Linguistics

Over 98% of Melians are native Melish speakers, however a lot of Melians speak up to 4 languages. Meesian is often a Melian's second language, coming in at 46% of the population, but is used the least in the current day. Tepriccian is heavily spoken across Eastern and Northern Meland, especially near the Tepriccian-Melish border. Around 42% of Melians can communicate with conversational-level Tepriccian. Duckish has been on the rise over the 1950s and now a lot of Melish teenagers can speak the language to near-perfect fluency. The older generations, however, have little to no knowledge in this language. There are more languages spoken in Meland of course however these are the main 4.

* Melish, spoken by almost all of Meland.
* Meesian, spoken by almost 50%, however is declining rapidly and being used less.
* Tepriccian, spoken by over 40% of Meland, most popular in East and Northern Meland.
* Duckish, spoken by a lot of Melish teenagers and young adults, little appeal to older generations.