Lilletland

**Lilletland** is a country in the Vanellian Jewel continent.

## History

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

In 1540, the Spanish Empire occupied the country until 1731, when the British took control, and it remained a British colony until 1856 due to the Lillian Revolution, which experienced years of state atheism until 1862. Lilletland opened its first school for witches in 1864, and created a new calendar based on the Wheel of the Year which also brought Halloween into the country.

In 1901, Lilletland entered an agreement with Hong Kong, Korea and the Japanese-controlled territory of Taiwan to help emigrate 50,000 Chinese people to the country. Lilletland also entered agreements with the Middle Eastern countries as well as India to help more than 100,000 Hindus and Muslims to come into the country.

Lilletland mostly never had racial segregation as opposed to other countries in the Anglosphere. Instead, Lilletland opted for a multi-racial society. Television was introduced in 1954 using a 625-line system and Lilletland went colour between 1969 and 1973 using PAL.

Lilletland converted to metric system in 1975.

## Description

Lilletland is a highly developed country.

### Languages

Lillian English is a variation of English language. It uses British spellings and terminology in general (examples: *colour*, *favourite*, *nappy*), but it has some American terms (example: *conductor* instead of *guard*, *truck* instead of *lorry*) and some words from Romance languages (examples: *carnaval*, *friterie*). This version is the official version of the English language spoken in Lilletland.

### Currency

Lillian dollar, $, is the currency of Lilletland.

### Economy and government

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

### Censorship

Like Enchancia but unlike other countries in the Anglosphere, Lilletland is more concerned about sex than violence and is the second strictest censorship board in the Anglosphere after Enchancia.

A controversial matter came into effect in 1974, when *The Herculoids* – an American cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera that aired on CBS in the United States during the 1967–68 season and reran during the 1968–69 season, was banned by the Office for Animation in Lilletland for featuring excessively violent content (it has since been lifted, but it was only released on home video and remains barred from television). Also, before *The New Adventures of Superman* from Filmation could be broadcast in Lilletland, the comic book violence was toned down.

### Date and time format

Dates are written in day-month-year order.

Lilletland is the only country in the world where the French revolutionary decimal 10-hour clock is still in use. Thus, the 10-hour clock divides one day into 10 decimal hours (counting from 0 to 9), one hour into 100 decimal minutes and one minute into 100 decimal seconds. The purpose of the 10-hour clock is for recording witches flights, and it is mostly written with a semicolon separating hours, minutes and seconds like 6;45 for 15:30.

Outside of the witches society, both the 12- and 24-hour clock are commonly used. All witches councils use the 24-hour clock instead of the 12-hour clock and as an addition to the 10-hour clock. Similarly, public transport companies, hospitals, ICT and the military also use the 24-hour clock, but in everyday language and other instances such as road signs that depict hours, TV schedules and opening hours of businesses, typically use the 12-hour clock. The "a.m." and "p.m." abbreviations are never used with the 24-hour clock or the decimal 10-hour clock.

Midnight or witching hour is marked as 0;00 (10-hour clock), 12 a.m. (12-hour clock) or 24:00 / 00:00 (24-hour clock).

### Holidays

Lilletland's holidays calendar is based on the Northern Hemisphere's Wheel of the Year, however, a few are not based on the Wheel of the Year. The two common holidays (Yule/Christmas and Samhain/Halloween) are identical to those used in other countries of the Anglosphere, and Lilletland has also Walpurgis Night (as in Germany) and Winter Nights. 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.

**Celebrations by calendar**

* New Year's Day (1 January)
* Day after the New Year (2 January)
* Witch's New Year's Eve (13 January)
* Witch's New Year's Day (14 January)
* Lillian Independence Day (1 February)
* Valentine's Day (14 February)
* Good Friday (March/April)
* Holy Saturday (March/April)
* Easter Monday (March/April)
* Walpurgis Night (30 April)
* Beltane (1 May)
* Midsummer (21/24/25 June)
* Lughnasadh/Pentangle Night (1 August)
* Winter Nights (mid-October)
* Samhain/Halloween (31 October)
* All Saint's Day (1 November)
* Double One Day (11 November)
* Yule (21-25 December)
* Christmas Eve (24 December)
* Christmas Day (25 December)
* Boxing Day (26 December)
* White and Black Night (28 December)
* New Year's Eve (31 December)

## Geography

Lilletland is divided into three regions. The capital region, known as the Limedalk Capital Region, contains the country's capital city.

* Limedalk Capital Region (Limedalk)
* Northern Region
	+ Llanmelin (Marrilyn)
	+ De Witt
	+ Stavershult
	+ Macibini
	+ Lahngeismar
	+ Cudthal
	+ Alengny
	+ Midlereen
	+ Eldonsland
	+ Bredwardine
	+ Goulcrest
* Southern Region
	+ Holmfirth
	+ Ardglass
	+ Penshaw
	+ Ildenbourg
	+ Carlisle

## Transport

### Road

In Lilletland, most of the roads are paved, but fuels and other costs for driving are expensive, just like in Europe. Lilletland drives on the left. A car is usually the most practical vehicle for moderate distances (10–300 km) in the countryside. In big cities, street congestion often makes public transportation and cycling better options and cars are often a liability. On long distances, rail or air travel is usually faster between cities, and intercity buses are often cheaper. The maximum width for vehicles is 2.6 metres, and the maximum height for vehicles is 4.6 metres.

#### Road signs

Main article: Road signs in Lilletland

While Lillian traffic codes are similar to those in Europe, its road signage closely follows those used in the United States, due to American influence. Lilletland adopted American-style road signage in 1938. Many signs are in English, and the standard road sign colours used in America are followed in the country.

Most road signs in Lilletland that included units follow the metric versions of the MUTCD signs. Only the speed limit signs seem to be a major difference, which follows the standard set out by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.

* **Red:** Used for stop and give way signs, do not enter and wrong way signs, for legend or symbols on some regulatory signs, and on maximum speed limit signs
* **Fluorescent pink:** Used as background colour for incident management signs
* **Orange:** Used as background colour for temporary traffic control signs
* **Yellow:** Used as background colour for warning signs (except temporary signs) as well as priority road diamond signs
* **Fluorescent yellow-green:** Used as background colour for pedestrian, bicycle, and school warning signs
* **Green:** Used as background colour for guide and information signs, and for legend on permissive regulation and parking signs
* **Blue:** Used as background colour for services information signs and emergency evacuation route signs
* **Brown:** Used as background colour for guide and information signs related to points of recreational or cultural interest
* **Black:** Used as background colour for one way and truck regulatory signs, and as legend colour on signs with white, yellow, orange, fluorescent pink, and fluorescent yellow-green backgrounds
* **White:** Used as background colour for most regulatory signs, and as legend colour on signs with red, green, blue, brown, and black backgrounds

### Rail

Lilletland's rail network qualities are the same as Europe.