Asbania

**Asbania** (Asbanian:  *Fliqitatë*) is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Eurea, bordered by Magoria to the northeast, Karsylvania to the southeast, Lima to the south, Gornia to the southwest and west, Lorbia to the west, and Notosha to the northwest. Its capital and most-populous city is Liana, located in the southeast of the country. Asbania has a population of about 3.5 million inhabitants.

Organized civilization first began in the territory of modern-Asbania in the 7th-century, with the establishment of numerous small city-states. The city-states were then unified in the 14th-century, with the establishment of the Kingdom of Asbania. Prone to internal struggles, the Kingdom eventually was invaded and annexed by the Limian Empire in the 16th-century, operating as the Province of Asbania. In the 19th-century, the Empire was disbanded and reformed as the Kingdom of Lima. With growing nationalist sentiment towards the end of the 19th-century, Asbania had its independence restored in 1904.

As an independent state, Asbania first established itself as a unitary presidential constitutional republic. The President served as both head of state and head of government, and held almost all supreme power. They appointed a Prime Minister in order to carry out their policy agenda in parliament. Following the beginning of the Scarlet Revolution in 1975, protestors eventually pushed for the resignation of the government and constitutional reform, resulting in Asbania rewriting its constitution to become a parliamentary republic. The President lost most of its power, now serving only as a head of state with ceremonial powers; the President is elected by an electoral college to serve a term of four-years that is renewable once. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister now serves as the head of government, often the leader of the governing coalition in parliament. The Prime Minister is in charge of the policy agenda and also leads a council of ministers. The parliament of Asbania is the Avilandi, a 145-seat unicameral legislature.

While Asbania has a population of 3.5 million residents, the government does not take records of ethnic groups. However, approximately 93.4% of Asbanian residents hold Asbanian citizenship, either through birthright or naturalization. Most of those who do not hold citizenship are Limians who reside on the border, and ethnic Asbanians from Notosha and Travenia who have not yet filed for citizenship. The national and sole official language of Asbania is Asbanian, the only known member of its own branch of Eurean languages. Asbanian is spoken natively by about 96.6% of the population, with the remaining 3.4% primarily speaking Limian natively; Limian-speakers primarily reside on the southern border. Approximately 64.5% of the population adheres to Eurean Islam, while a further 19.6% identifies as Christian, – 12.5% as Eastern Eurean Christians, 6.1% as Eurean Catholics, and 1.0% as belonging to other Christian churches – 0.5% belongs to other religions, while 15.4% identifies as atheist, agnostic, or irreligious. There are high levels of religious harmony in Asbania despite the religious diversity, and religion tends to remain unimportant in Asbanian society. Weekly religious attendance is seen in approximately 12.4% of the population.