Magoria

**Magoria** (Magorian: *Lyapóforszagy*) is a sovereign state located in Central Eurea, bordered by Alachus to the north, Akraine to the northeast, Karsylvania to the southeast, Asbania to the southwest, Slaveria to the west, and Zatrania to the northwest. Its capital and most-populous city is Raves, located in the north-center of the country. Magoria has a population of about 8.9 million inhabitants.

Organized civilization first began in the territory of modern-Magoria in the 5th-century, with the establishment of numerous small city-states. By the 10th-century, these city-states had unified, resulting in the first Kingdom of Magoria. After existing as an independent and sovereign nation for several centuries, the Kingdom unified with the neighboring Kingdom of Magoria to create the Mago-Karsylvanian Empire in the 17th-century. A politically powerful state, the Empire dominated the region, despite having little interest in imperialism of its own. Following growing nationalist sentiment in Karsylvania during the 19th-century, the Mago-Karsylvanian War (1872–1879) errupted, resulting in a Karsylvanian victory and the restoration of Karsylvanian independence. The Mago-Karsylvanian Empire thus reformed itself as the second Kingdom of Magoria. After about fifty years of independence, a *coup d'état* deposed of the monarchy, assassinating all of the royal family and ending their bloodline. The fascist revolutionaries established the Republic of Magoria in 1934, looking to model themselves after the Kashan Union. Civil liberties and freedoms were greatly diminished in the era of the Republic, although not to the extreme extent that they were in the Kashan Union, and the nation was largely seen as a satellite state of the Kashan Union. Fascist hold on the country began to weaken in the 1980s, with growing oppositional movements. Eventually, free and fair elections were held in 1982, and democracy was restored. The nation removed the "Republic of" from its official name in order to distance itself from the era.

Since the restoration of democracy to Magoria, the nation has established itself as a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic. Its head of state is the President, who is elected by parliament for a five-year term that may be renewed once. The President is a ceremonial figurehead in Magorian politics, who holds no real powers, even less than that of most ceremonial presidents; the President acts as a symbol of national unity, formally appoints ministers, and greets visiting foreign heads of states, but may not veto bills and is not commander-in-chief of the armed forces. All political power is vested in the Prime Minister, who serves as the head of government. The Prime Minister is most often the leader of the governing coalition in parliament, and they thus serve as the chief legislator of the nation. The Prime Minister is tasked with implementing their own policy agenda through legislation and leading a council of ministers. The Magüsarúvagyés is the 155-seat unicameral legislature of Magoria.

Of Magoria's population of about 8.9 million, approximately 92.6% identifies as ethnically Magorian, while a further 4.6% identifies as Dorshan and the remaining 2.8% as other ethnic groups. The national and sole official language of Magoria is Magorian, a Mundaric language. Magorian is distantly related to Rann and Mortonian, but other than that has no close linguistic relatives. Magorian is spoken natively by about 95.3% of the population, while the remaining 4.7% speaks other languages natively, primarily Dorshan. Magoria is a highly irreligious nation; approximately 35.5% of the population adheres to Eurean Catholicism, while 4.3% adheres to Dorshan Shamanism, 3.6% to other Christian churches, and 0.8% to other religions, while the remaining 56.6% identifies as atheist, agnostic, or irreligious. Weekly church attendance is also low, with only 18.5% of the population stating that they attended religious services at least weekly.