Novelia

# **About**

Novelia (Officially The Republic of Novelia) is a country located in North America. It consists of 12 states and occupies a long strip of land besides the north pacific ocean. It borders the United States, Mexico and Canada. The land stretches for about 6.060.874 km².

Novelia's capital city and largest city is Goldencity. It is also one of the oldest cities in the entire country. Novelia's 12 states are Resneck, Alanate, Kakti, Origin, Goldencity (State), Feng, Monsears, Murdach, Abaliet, New Bevis, New Alaska and Longname.

The main exports include Oil, Beef, Coffee, Cocoa Beans, Gold, Iron Ore and Uranium.
Novelia has an economy based on high technology industries such as manufacturing and engineering. These sectors are largely centered around Goldencity. It is estimated that there are roughly 40% of the population who work in the service industry. This includes various businesses and the police force. This percentage is higher for smaller towns where the service industry is more prominent.

# **History**

The History of Novelia is complicated and the initial founding of Novelia is extremley confusing as well, earliest signs point to a effort of colonisation around 1200. The Museum of Novelian History believes that delegates of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Denmark, along with their allies found the new land by accident. In Novelian Folklore it is told that a great power overcame the delegation ship and set them on course to finding the new land, or that they were transported there by the same great power. The land itself was incredibly rich with ressources and the colonies expanded rapidly, however due to extremley poor mapping and unknown waters the colonisers were unable to manage them, prompting them to rebel. The overlapping colonies merged, creating their own Identity and Culture. Novelia had been born, Novelia was abbriviated from Nova which meant new, here meaning new land.

Through unknown means, the colonising Empires lost complete knowledge of the Americas and the Kingdom of Novelia was left to itself. It rapidly expanded, covering almost half of North America stretching from Alaska to the Californian Peninsula by around 1500.

The Kingdom of Novelia was then discovered by British and Spanish expeditionary forces, which entered a uneasy relationship between the British. The Spanish were seen as a much lesser force by the Kingdom of Novelia. The British influenced the language of Novelia as it was very varied and there was no set national language at that point. English became one of the more dominant languages within Novelia, but not it's main one.

During the American Revolution Novelia remained neutral, however later on it was involved with wars between the Mexicans, the Americans and the British as they were all aggressors trying to get more land. The influx of new people and colonisation had severley weakend the Kingdom and it was easy to attack and gain land from. Novelia had been pushed back severley, the British and Americans successfully expanded their spheres however the war against the Spanish was successfully repelled. However the Kingdom of Novelia decided to attack America, trying to get its land back, this however was a massive failure and saw Novelia pushed back into its capital, the City of Golt. In the Treaty of Golt it was declared that Novelia has to enter trade with America, it has to be turned into a democracy and that it must reorganize itself with the superivsion of America.

The National Language turned to English and the King was forced to abdicate, today in Novelia there are remnants of the monarchy such as the Ostwald region or royal families that still exist, or Lord/Lady or Count/Countess titles. Conspiracy theorists believe that there are many rich royal families that influence Novelia with their enormous wealth, however this cannot be proven. The Kings Family, Tungburg, remains in Novelia to this day and are seen as a small star family.

# **Modern History**

## **Civil-War**

The Civil-War was a period of high scale outbreaks of the IDS-21 virus along side multiple openings of "portal storms" that brought unknown alien-like creatures into parts of earth.

## **Novelian-American War**

The Novelian-American war was a political conflict between The Republic of Novelia and The United States which escalated into a short termed war. The war ended in a ceasefire with a strategic failure for US.

# **Trivia**

Though the country has a low GDP compared with other countries the avarge wage for a Novelian Citizen without income tax lies at around 1800 ND, which makes Novelia a primary spot for immigrating.

The majority of the population are Christians. There are also different religious groups that exist within the country, including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Sikhs.

Novelia is currently not a member of the UN or any other global alliances due to the fact that it does not want to lose control of its own decisions. Despite this the nation is very well known and respected by several nations across the world.

The newest state is Murdach and was added after the Novelian-American war in 2023.