Saint Tamieré & Omen

**Saint Tamieré & Omen** (commonly abbreviated as **STO**), officially **Kingdom of the Isles of Saint, Tamieré Islands and Mainland Omen** is a country taking part in the Sunnie Song Contest. It debuted in the 3rd edition and has participated in every edition since then, being the only country so far (May 2022) to have a 100% Q-streak.

Saint Tamieré & Omen has a population of roughly 57.8 million, 21% making out citizens of a different country. The capital, Alpha, is situated on the mainland (Omen) and with a population of 30.1 million populates 52.08% of the STO population. The country is a parliamentary-monarchial democracy, one of its kind.

## Name

The name Saint Tamieré & Omen, aside from historical namings, serves the naming of all 3 main parts of it - the Isles of Saint, Tamieré Islands and the Mainland Omen. Through this name, future distinction problems have been avoided and the country is united under one name.

While Saint and Tamieré get their names through their native inhabitants (Sint ҇ah and tribes starting with Ta-), Omen got its name through a saint that went sometimes by the name "Omen".

The second (and the last) name change was 1904 while Saint Tamieré & Omen were named "Ghara’ffi and The Isles". A Tami suggested that instead of "The Isles" it changes to "Saint Tamieré" while an Omenese suggested to change from "Ghara’ffi" (which meant "Land of the Natives" in Raven) to "Omen" because of a patron saint which stood against the torture and lies of the church towards the people.

Since 1904, the nation hasn't changed the name nor were any suggestions sent to the Parliament. There are no name changes planned for the near future aswell.

## Geography

Saint Tamieré & Omen is one of the biggest countries in the Sunnieverse, almost 1.5-times the size of Democratic Republic of Congo. It borders Laflania to the west and southwest, and Landonia to the south and south-southeast. Otherwise, it is surrounded by the sea.

As it is a big country, everything topo- and geographical varies from one region to the other more than one province to the other. For the purposes of bringing this topic further, this section is cut in the three main parts of the Kingdom - Saint Isles, Tamieré Islands and Mainland Omen.

### Isles of Saint

Isles of Saint are a group of three islands, however on two different ends. While the closest, biggest and by far most populated isle - **Lagune**, or as is known with the locals *Mau'nokko'li* - is 1.5K kilometers away from the Tamieré Islands (and therefore 2.1K from Omen), the second-smallest, **Ai**, is about 8.000 kilometers away from Lagune.

#### Lagune and Leii

Lagune is the biggest isle. It is comparable to the size of Saudi Arabia. The island is traversial along the coastline (although there are no cliffs whatsoever) and inland, except for the capital, Lagune, which is on a mostly flat area. The island itself is covered by palms and trees, with dirt roads leading outside of Lagune. The highest elevation is 6m at the center of the island.

Leii is a small island off shore of Lagune. It is not populated by humans at all while still offering 3 hotels for tourists. Leii is known for the Imma Volcano, which is a dormant (volcano that has not erupted yet but might in the future). There is a boat from Lagune to Leii operating daily during summer, even at night time.

#### Ai

Ai is an island roughly eight thousand kilometers away from Lagune. It is often described as *Emoo* - a island completely closed off from the rest of the world. Though South Bielzil is not far from it, Ai does not have any access to or from it, not even by helicopter. The island itself is a 35m elevation without a single beach. On occasions, it communicates with both Lagune and Alpha authorities, is still an emoo, with noone being able to get in or out, no power supply and so on. It is prone to discussion if it should be cut from STO and given either independence or to a different country, but no decision has been made. Ai is lush without any elevation on the island itself, though it is 35m above sea level. It's climate is regulated by the ocean that surrounds the island, but with an overall sunny and warm climate.

### Tamieré Islands

The Tamieré Islands (usually just called 'Tamierés') are also a group of three islands, however in close proximity to each other. The biggest island is Western Tamieré by 1 km² from East Key Island. The smallest is Oxyo, a fully uninhabitated island in the middle of the other two islands. The demonym for someone from these islands is not, as is always thought by non-STO, Tamieré, but Tami. The Tami capital, ***Xoffimiqq***, is located on the Western Tamieré island