The Royal North

**The Royal North**, more commonly known as *The North Island*, *The Kingdom of Vanathummia* and *Vanathummia* is the northernmost state of Chuliana and one of the easternmost points of Parania. The island is known as very rain-drenched, overcast, misty, and having a very oceanic and temperate climate, one of the most rainiest and lush areas of Parania. The temperatures of the island are moderated by the adjacent Marima ocean, the Bastephort Lake, and the Tomireek Lake. The Royal North's capital is St. Beldamint which is given the title "The Easternmost major city in Parania" and it's largest city is Vanathummia.

## History

The island received the name "The Royal North" due to being a favorite location for the monarchs of the Isle of Chark to vacation in due to its lush, green, and beautiful environment and similarity to the Isle of Chark's weather. The area has also been deemed by the monarchs as "The Safe North" due to an extremely low crime rate and friendly population.

## Geography

### Climate

The entire island is in the moderate, oceanic climate and is at the same latitude as The Borogoves and the southern end of the Isle of Chark. Despite most of the island being rain-drenched, cloudy and fairly green and lacking snow year round, the northern tip of the Royal North is plump full of fold mountains with a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters and mild summers.

### Flora & Fauna

#### Flora

The Royal North is described by the monarchs as like a "big giant golf course" with beautiful flowering plants and trees as well as being very, very green. The trees and plants making up The Royal North include copper beeches, black poplars, western hemlocks, bigleaf maples, red and white roses, lilacs, hydrangeas, peonies, oaks, pines, redwoods and cherry trees.

#### Fauna

Red foxes were introduced by monarchs to the flat green meadows west of Vanathummia and St. Beldamint to practice their fox hunting and to hunt the rouge mice, a rodent species native to southeastern Cheskachena and the island of the Royal North. Other animals include brown and black rats, house, mound-building and striped field mice, Panstivo snails, gray squirrels, brown bears, black deer, roe deer, red deer, raccoons, and sika deer. A plethora of birds are also present on the island with the shoreline of Vanathummia and St. Beldamint being deemed "the bird-watching capital of the world" with a large number of dunlins, toddleducks, mute swans, mallards, goldeneyes, cormorants, gulls, gannets, and puffins being sighted on the daily; in the oak and cherry tree forests adjacent to the shoreline, large numbers of linnets, falsents, hoopoes, hawfinches, egrets, black-naped monarchs, slaty woodpeckers, screech-owls, and ravens being present.

## Demographics

### Population

#### Density

Population density is variated across the island. The St. Beldamint and Vanathummia corridor has a population of about a million combined and the area has a population density of about 10 per kilometer. The natural areas west of the cities have a low population density of between 0.1-3 people per kilometer, making the island very spacious and many natural areas untouched and unpopulated.

#### Religion

The population of the island is about 60.00% Christian (Mainly Orthodox or Protestant), 39.00% Unaffiliated and 21.00% Other Religions.

#### Ethnic Origins

English, Irish & Scottish diaspora make up the majority of the population at about 52%, Ukrainians & Russians make up about 39%, and minority groups such as Kutwheans, Asians, Africans and Arabs make up about 19%.