Ditrovian Kingdom

The **Ditrovian Kingdom**, officially the **Kingdom of the Ditrovian Isles and Northern Gumberland**, is a sovereign state located in Western Eurea. An archipelago nation, the Ditrovian Isles has a border with Gumberland, due to the northern quarter of the island belonging to the constituent country of Northern Gumberland. Its capital and most-populous city is Dollchester, located in the southeast-central region of the country. The Ditrovian Kingdom has a population of about 70.4 million inhabitants.

Organized civilization first began in the territory of the modern-Ditrovian Kingdom in the 2nd-century, with various small city-states and kingdoms being established. In the 8th-century, the territory of Orgland unified to form the Kingdom of Orgland. The Kingdom became powerful nation, later conquering the neighboring Kingdom of Dales in the 14th-century, the Kingdom of Oxland in the 17th-century, and the Kingdom of Gumberland in the 19th-century. Additionally, beginning in the 18th-century, the Kingdom amassed a colonial empire after founding numerous colonies in both Helonesia and Tarfica. The 20th-century brought change for the Kingdom, losing their control over Gumberland (apart from the northernmost quarter of the island) in 1903, and later losing the entirety of their colonial empire to independence movements by the 1970s. Nevertheless, the nation has still managed to remain immensely powerful, and is considered to be both the most powerful nation in the world and the largest global superpower.

With its foundation, the Ditrovian Kingdom functioned as an absolute monarchy, with all power being concentrated in the Monarch. Following reform in 1786, the nation became a constitutional monarchy. Since 1786, the Ditrovian Kingdom has been a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Despite its status as a unitary state, the nation is made up of four constituent countries: Dales, Orgland, Northern Gumberland, and Oxland. Each of the constituent countries, apart from Orgland, has their own devolved government with a various array of powers, which were first introduced in 1998. The head of state of the national government is the Monarch, who is a ceremonial figurehead and holds no real power. The Monarch formally appoints all ministers, is the ceremonial commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and signs all legislation with a *de jure* veto power that is not used in practice. All real political power is vested in the Prime Minister, who is typically the leader of the governing coalition in parliament. The Prime Minister is the chief legislator of the nation, is responsible for proposing their own policy agenda, and leads a council of ministers. The bicameral parliament of the Ditrovian Kingdom consists of the House of Lords – the 235-seat unelected upper house – and the House of Commons – the 550-seat elected lower house.

Of its population of about 70.4 million people, approximately 78.4% identifies as White Ditrovian, referring to white ethnic groups who originate in one of the constituent countries of the nation, including those from the Republic of Gumberland. A further 10.1% identifies as Helonesian, primarily coming from former Ditrovian colonies in East Helonesia, 4.6% identifies originating from a different Eurean country outside of the Ditrovian Isles, 4.1% as Black Ditrovian, referring to black ethnic groups from the former Ditrovian colonies in Tarfica, 2.7% from other Tarfican nations, and 0.1% as other ethnic groups. The sole official and national language of the Ditrovian Isles is Ditrovian, a Lungaric language. Despite its name, Ditrovian is not a Ditrovic language. There are three languages which hold official minority language status: Delsh, Gumber, Oxish, which are all Ditrovic languages and are somewhat related to each other. Delsh holds co-official status in Dales, Gumber in Northern Gumberland, and Oxish in Oxland. Approximately 86.4% of the population speaks Ditrovian natively, while 13.6% speaks a different language natively. Approximately 55.9% of the population identifies as Christian, – 37.8% adheres to the Church of Orgland, 13.1% adheres to Eurean Catholicism, 3.5% to other Christian churches, and 1.5% identifies as nondenominational Christians – while 6.8% adheres to Tirism, 4.5% to Eurean Islam, 0.9% to other religions, and the remaining 31.9% identifies as atheist, agnostic, or irreligious. Approximately 29.4% of the population states that they attend religious services at least weekly.

## Politics

### Administrative divisions

*Main article: Countries of the Ditrovian Kingdom*.

The Ditrovian Kingdom is divided into four constituent countries. Although a unitary state, three of the four countries have held significant autonomy since constitutional reform in 1998. All countries besides Orgland have their own devolved government, which allows them to pass laws and hold elections for solely their country. Due to this, the countries have far more power than the administrative divisions of other unitary states.