Osameira

The national flag of Osameira, colloquially known as "Nossa Bandeira", "Our Banner" in English.

### Official languages

Brazilian Portuguese, English [New Thruxley A.P.], French [Camonéry A.P]

### Area

Northern Iapetus, centered around the [UNNAMED] Delta.

### Creator

Nyxana

The **Federal Kingdom of Osameira** (Portuguese: *Reino Federal de Osameira*), commonly shortened to **Osameira**, is a country which occupies the northeastern corner of Pholoris. It was originally a colonial nation of Regança until it gained independence in 1858. The country is made up of 7 provinces, 2 of which, Camonéry and New Thruxley, have the status of "Autonomous Province". It borders Syraglia to the north, Vallenada and Pimaza to the west, Osmua and Nova Britannica to the south, and the [sea] Sea to the east.

Its capital city since 2001 is Aracabral. Aracabral is an example of the phenomenon of "planned capital cities"; a practice intended to future-proof capital cities against expansion and to delay the onset of overpopulation and logistical deadlock. This has resulted in it being only Osameira's 8th biggest city, at 2,393,000 inhabitants as of the 2021 census. The official language of Osameira as a whole is Brazilian Portuguese, while English and French have co-official status in the Autonomous Provinces of New Thruxley and Camonéry, respectively.

Osameira is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a federal governmental structure; this system has been in place with few major alterations since Osameira achieved independence in 1858. Historically Osameira has been socially conservative, however in recent years a shift towards liberal and libertarian ideologies has occurred due to ever-increasing issues of wealth inequality, corruption, and organised crime.

## Ilha Aracabral

In 1944, the province of Ilha Aracabral seceded from Osameira, which, due to an economic downturn at the time, was unable to respond militarily. However, due to the province's lack of industrial and economic infrastructure, and the corruption of its government, which had rapidly become a dictatorship under the rule of the province's former governor Escobar Fernandes, organised crim cartels had soon become the island's effective controllers.

Over the next 30 years, the uptick in organised crime in Osameira due to this led to growing public pressure to reconquer the island, with a similar sentiment growing in neighbouring Nova Britannica. With the alleged onset of atrocities such as the starvation of "disloyal" cities, and the staging of so-called "Battle Royales" involving children of the ruling cartels' enemies, international sanctions began to be issued against the island's de jure government at the urging of the Osameirese government. It is unknown to what degree these allegations were true, and how much was simply a propaganda fabrication by Osameirese and Britannic interests.

However, these had little effect on the island's de facto rulers; the cartels. The final straw came in 1987, when a cartel-sponsored bombing occurred in the New Britannian city of Waterloo. In response a joint Osameirese-Britannican coalition was formed to invade the island. The resulting war lasted 5 months, during which time a large portion of the cartels' leadership on the island was summarily butchered by vengeful citizens, who were controversially ordered not to stop them by the Osameirese government; overall the death toll was around 2,500 on the coalition's side compared to 15,000 on the opposing side. Around 50,000 civilians, many of whom were cartel members, or suspected of being so, were also killed. This fact was supressed effectively until relatively recently, thanks favourable coverage of the war by the Britannican and Osameirese media; its revelation in 2014 caused a political scandal, with several key resignations occurring as a result. It was also a major factor in the landslide 2019 electoral victory of the Liberty Party.

However, due to economic difficulties affecting Osameira at the time, the Osameirese government agreed to sell the southern portion of the island to Nova Britannica, in exchange for assistance in its reconstruction, as its surviving infrastructure was by this time severely outdated. Very symbolically, a large portion of the province's population was either relocated to Lûziapolis & Apazeiro e Planalto provinces, or forcibly "volunteered" to populate the recently formed island of Nexum, with Aracabral Province then being gentrified to a massive degree over the course of the next 10 years; overall around 8,300,000 were relocated, with 2,844,000 moved to Nexum. At the end of this period, the old city of Vila Meã was almost completely demolished to make way for a 'new' city, which would serve as a modern administrative centre for Osameira. This 'new' city of Aracabral was officially adopted as Osameira's federal seat of governance in 2001, replacing Baía de Ouro as the nation's capital city.

## Geography

Western Osameira is situated primarily within the dense jungle of the [river] Rainforest; further east, and especially along the coastline, the terrain is considerably more open. The generally acknowledged point at which the jungle dramatically thins lies at about the middle of Lûziapolis Province. As a result of this, Baía de Ouro Province and Ilha Aracabral Province are where most of Osameira's naturally arable land is located.

Osameira features a large amount of mountainous terrain. The largest concentration of this is along the Syraglian and the Vallenadan border; this range of mountains is responsible for the well-known Syraglian Riviera on that country's eastern border with Osameira. Mountains extend further into Osameira the further west along the border one travels, with a large portion of New Thruxley Province and almost the entirety of Apazeiro e Planalto Province being mountainous in nature; in the latter case, this does include the much-flatter high plains of the Planalto do Osameira.

The mountainous regions in the northwest of the country are known to contain large amounts of rare minerals and ores; this was one of the reasons that led to the city and province of New Thruxley's growth, despite its isolated upriver location and the harsh jungle terrain of that region. Notably, uranium mined by the Bernard Scovell Mining Company and sold to the Nova Britannican government was used in the first known successful nuclear test in [year].

## Government & Politics

Osameira is dubbed a "Federal Parliamentary Monarchy", wherein the monarch takes only a limited political role, and the Federal Parliament (Portuguese: *Parlamento Federal de Osameira*) has limited powers over the individual Provinces. The current monarch is *Queen Adelaide I (Adelaide Bárbara de Andrade di Rienzo Marques)*, who acceded to the throne in 2005, and the current Prime Minister of the Federal Parliament (Portuguese: *Primeiro Ministro do Parlamento Federal*) is *Mateus Dutra* of the *Liberty Party*. In spite of this decentralised system, however, independence movements in the Autonomous Provinces of New Thruxley and Camonéry remain politically relevant, although these provinces' relatively high level of autonomy limits their popular support to a degree.

Since 1948, the provinces' degree of autonomy, aside from New Thruxley and Camonéry, has been reduced significantly in reaction to the secession of Ilha Aracabral province in 1944. This governmental centralisation was highly popular at the time, but caused administrative issues due to the difficulties of communication within the often difficult to traverse terrain of Osameira, providing the impetus to establish the Rotas Nacionais in 1962, thereby lessening the difficulties.

While generally a somewhat socially conservative nation, liberal and libertarian ideologies have gained massively popularity in recent years, largely thanks to the Democratic Party's failures in its efforts to alleviate poverty and tackle organised crime. This led to a shock victory for the Liberty Party in the 2019 election, and the implementation into law of their cornerstone campaign promise; Article No. 215, which formally decriminalised possession and sale of certain formerly restricted substances, recognised prostitution as a legal and regulated trade with the rights which that entails, legalised firearms ownership for those not convicted of major crimes, and established a framework with which to root out corruption both in local government and police forces and on a national level.

### The Federal Parliament of Osameira

Parties, going clockwise from left, are: Communist Party of Osameira (8 seats), Social Alliance (23 seats), Green Party (19 seats), Liberal Party of Osameira (57 seats), Camonéry Independence Front (4 seats), Liberty Party (273 seats), New Thruxley Unionist Party (12 seats), Democratic Party (45 seats), Osameirese Nationalist Party (4 seats), Visokian National Party (1 seat), Pirate Party (3 seats), United Brotherhood of Faith (1 seat), Conservative Party (1 seat).

Numbers are as of the 2019 election.

## Demographics

While the majority of the 89,332,000-strong Osameirese population are of Brazilian-derived culture and speak Brazilian Portuguese, there is a significant Anglophone minority in New Thruxley Autonomous Province, and a Francophone minority in Camonéry Autonomous Province; there is also a notable Anglophone population in Ilha Aracabral Province. The Anglophone minority comes to 9,470,000, and the Francophone minority to about 12,865,000, meaning that together they form approximately 25% of the Osameirese population.

Its top 10 largest cities in order of size are Lûziapolis *(pop 17,338,000)*, Fortalina *(pop 12,205,000)*, Baía de Ouro *(pop 9,518,000)*, Camonéry *(pop 6,144,000)*, New Thruxley *(pop 5,289,000)*, São Estevão *(pop 3,356,000)*, Saint Anthoine *(pop 2,511,000)*, Aracabral *(pop 2,393,000),* Apazeiro *(pop 1,403,000)*, and Cabo Oriental *(pop 1,248,000)*.

Altogether around 69% of the Osameirese population lives in these 10 main cities, 5 of which are focused around the rivers of the [river] Delta, as these formed the main trade routes between the colonial nations that would become Osameira, and their respective homelands. Most of those outside the main cities live in Baía de Ouro Province, as it contains much of the arable land of Osameira. However, 6.5% of the Osameirese population lives in the 11th through 20th largest cities, putting just over 75% of the country's population in its 20 most populous urban agglomerations.

### Languages

Brazilian Portuguese is the nation's primary official language, and the one spoken by the largest portion of its population, at 71.1%. French with 14.4%; and English, which is spoken by 10.6% of the population, are also recognised as official languages in their respective Autonomous Provinces. The most commonly spoken non-indigenous language without official status is Galician, which is most commonly found on the nation's northern and north-eastern border with Syraglia, and historically was an important language on Aracabral Island, although it is classified as "endangered" there now. Overall, Galician is currently spoken by about 2,425,000 speakers in Osameira, accounting for approximately 2.7% of the total population.