Federal Republic of Vinland

National Flag of Vinland

Location of Vinland

**Vinland** (Vinlandic: *Vienaland*; in runes: ᚠᚹᛁᛖᚾᚨᛚᚨᚾᛞ), officially the **Federal Republic of Vinland** (Vinlandic: *Sambandſłyeðveldið Vienaland*; in runes: ᛊᚨᛗᛒᚨᚾᛞᛊᛚᚠᛃᛖᛞᚺᚠᚹᛖᛚᛞᛁᛞᚺ ᚠᚹᛁᛖᚾᚨᛚᚨᚾᛞ) is a country located in northern and northeastern parts of North America. It is a country of 1.9 million inhabitants, with official language being Vinlandic (1.3 million speakers in Vinland, 1.5 million worldwide), with Naskapi, Nunavimmiutitut, Qikiqtaaluk nigiani and Cree indigenous people having recognized minority status.

## Political subdivisions

Vinland consists of four regions, one capital area and one autonomous territory.

### Regions

There are four regions in Vinland. Those are the:

* Plaventura region (Vinlandic: *Plałentuerſväðis*) - administrative center Plałentuer
* Silfur region (Vinlandic: *Silfŕſväðis*) - administrative center Vialhala
* New Castle region (Vinlandic: *Nyejumkastalſväðis*) - administrative center Nyejumkastal
* Ilangagh region (Vinlandic: *Ilangaghſväðis*) - administrative center Sungitötik

All regions have local governments, which have the right to impose local taxes and decide on local planning. Each region runs their own elections, the elected politician becomes the *syeninkiar* (could be translatted as a "procurator", "commander" or "chief"), which is the highest authority in the region.

### Capital area

The capital of the country, Atgłarf Uelfa, has about 380,000 inhabitants and is located on the northern shore of the Lake Iaþvarf. It is located in the Capital Administrative District (Vinlandic: *Stöſyesluſſtjohrń Höfuðborgłarinahr*). Unlike other regions, capital administration operates on the basis of a city council rather than a local government, and the central planning is done rather by a appointed comission than elected officials.

Atgłarf Uelfa is the only city in Vinland to operate a tram system and is the central hub to the four highways in Vinland as well as a central knot to the train system.

### Northern territories

The Northern Territories (Vinlandic: *Norðäna Sjiałfstjohrń*; Qikiqtaaluk nigiani: ᕿᑭᖅ ᑖᐅᕙᒍᑦᓗᒃ) is a autonomous territory, that controls the Jiarnſmieðŕ Island and islands in the Huraghier Bay. It is named Northern as it is reached by sailing from the capital to the north, not as a geographical feature. The side effect of this label is, that thanks to islands such as Vinalehgŕ Island, contraintuitive, as besides the northernmost point in Vinland, Northern territory also includes the southernmost point and westernmost point.

The territory is rulled by a local governmental assembly, in which 75% of seats are assigned to the indigenous people. This is the only region that is given this amount of self-governance, as it is the only region, where the indigenous people are a majority of the population.

## Politics

Eversince the 1978 merger of the two cameras, Vinland is a unicameral representative parliamentary democracy. The legislative chamber, named the "National Assembly" (Vinlandic: *Landsfundŕ*) has 113 seats and there are currently 7 parties being represented in the parliament, with last elections in August 2019 and 4 year terms.

## Language & Culture

### Vinlandic language

Main article: Vinlandic language

The Vinlandic language is a West Scandinavian language, being etymologically closest to Icelandic and Riksmål Norwegian. It is spoken by some 1.5 million people worldwide as their native or second language, of which 1.3 million live in Vinland. Outside of North America, there are notable communities of Vinlandic speakers in Iceland, Norway, Poland and Australia.

The language has two orthography norms, known as Fjölteg (written "Fjølteg" in Fjölteg, literally meaning "Mountainous") and Sjilteg (written "Sjiltek" in Sjilteg, literally meaning "Marine"), which differentiate in notation of multiple sounds (Ⱥ×Æ; Ɑ×Ꜵ; Gh×Ȝ; Ø×Œ). The international standard introduces the umlauts and rings as writing versions replacing Fjölsteg and Sjilsteg characters with Ä, Å and Ö, while using the Fjölteg digraph Gh instead of Yogh (Ȝ) and Sjilteg letter W instead of Wynn (Ƿ). The two forms also diverge in pronunciation of some letters, most notably the Sſ (ʃ×ɕ), R (r×ɹ) and Ŕ (r̩×ɹ̩).

Fjölteg is considered to be the older of the two dialect groups, developing and stabilising in the early middle ages. It has more loanwords of Cree, Naskapi and Nunavimmiutitut origin (such as Fjölteg term "Oþaſskegh" ("Homeland" in English) was derived from the Cree word "Otaskehk"). Sijlteg has been more influenced by other European languages, notably the English, French, Dutch and Swedish languages, which reflects on a more "international" vocabulary (such as Sijlteg "Televisin" compared to Fjölteg "Fehrńsier", both words representing "Television").