Lilletland

**Lilletland** is a major country in the Vanellian Jewel continent, notably for its witches industry.

## History

Lilletland was never part of the Jewellian Empire. Its colonisation by Europeans started in 1634 when a Swedish colony was established in what is now the Northeastern region of Lilletland. In 1721, the British colonised the remainder of Lilletland and annexed the Swedish colony of Lillet-Gothenburg in 1790. Lilletland remained a British colony until 1849.

In 1849, the Lillian Revolution started, which declared the independence of Lilletland as a sovreign state and started a makeover that led to the country becoming a witch's republic, including the removal of the British monarchy as the head of state. During the Lillian Revolution, state atheism was enforced (but from 1857, religion, including Christianity, began to be restored).

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 never had racial segregation as opposed to other countries in the Anglosphere. Instead, Lilletland opted for a multi-racial society. As of 1903, 38% of Lilletland's population praticed witchcraft, 43% were Christians, mostly belonging to Protestantism or Catholicism, 15% were "special status" (vampires, ghosts, ghouls etc.) and 4% were those practicing Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism or Hinduism. At that time, Christianity and witchcraft were popular religions, while Taoism was the rarest religion in Lilletland, mainly found in the state of Cudthal.

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.

One of the controversial censorship events occurred 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.

The other controversial censorship event was that the Office for Animation in Lilletland banned a total of 371 *Looney Tunes* and *Merrie Melodies* cartoons (in comparison, Enchancia banned 375, Kawagoeland banned 268, and Donegalland banned 153), among these were *Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips* (in 1951, for poking fun at Japan), and *The Ducktators* (in 1947, accusing it of "promoting totalitarianism"). Out of the 371, only 28 are banned today.

### Date and time format

The decimal 10-hour clock is 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. The "a.m." and "p.m." abbreviations are never used when using the 24-hour clock or the decimal 10-hour clock.

Schools for witches built since 1905 install a 24-hour analogue clock on the exterior, with the third hour highlighted (as 03:00 is the witching hour), and hours were usually shown in Roman numerals from I (01:00) to XXIV (for 24:00); some clocks use IIII, XIIII and XXIIII instead for 04:00, 14:00 and 24:00 respectively. Witches councils in Lilletland are among the earliest organisations to use a 24-hour clock. Public transport companies also use 24-hour clock, as do hospitals, airports and computer programming. Much of everyday speech, however, is dominated by 12-hour clock, with a.m. and p.m. abbreviations.

Midnight or witching hour is written as 0;00 (10-hour clock), 12 a.m. (12-hour clock), 24:00 (24-hour clock, end of the day) or 00:00 (24-hour clock, start of the day). Rarely, times can be counted beyond 24:00, especially in public transport timetables, with some services extending up to the 25th hour during late nights. The platform information systems of commuter railway services are programmed to display times beyond 24:00.

### 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 (Christmas and Halloween) are identical to those used in other countries of the Anglosphere, and Lilletland has also Spring Night (Lillian version of Walpurgis Night) and Winter Nights.

**Celebrations by calendar**

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

**Former celebrations**

* Bonfire Night (5 November), officially celebrated in Lilletland until 1851

## Geography

Lilletland has 16 states. The state of Limedalk contains the country's capital city. The name of the capital city is listed in brackets.

### States

* Limedalk
* Northeastern region
	+ Mildred (Middlesburr)

## Transportation

### 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 1948. 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
* **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.