Banana Island

Location of Banana Island

Flag of Banana Island

Banana Island, also known as Potasibar, is a very large island in the Pacific. It is a P.P.O and BingTO (left at end of the Bingustani Wars) member, and is the leader of the P.P.O Combined Navy, and the BingTO Protective Navy. (until 2015)

It is a three party system with 3 major parties: Nationalist "Country First", the Democratic Party, and the communist "Peoples Party". These parties were formed in 1912 (with the fall of the Balagi dynasty), 1932 (due to influence from the UFA), and 1954 (due to influence from Floppaslavia). A newer party, the Indofloppia-Fatherland Islamic Party was formed in 2017 due to a mass exodus of refugees from Indofloppia to Banana Island.

Its military is lacking, with only its air force and navy showing stride, especially its navy, one of the strongest in the world.

Banana Island is considered to be a regional "Great Power" with significant control over trade by Pacific Countries.

## History

The history of Banana Island began a million years ago, when the first cats, likely Soggas arrived on the island. They were likely from Indofloppia. Due to the lack of food, these Soggas, over a few million years eventually evolved into Banana Cats. In 543, the Banana Cats had united into 5 great tribes, comprised of 50 different tribes combined, they formed when the tribes figured out agriculture. In 600, the tribes fought in a great war which resulted in the tribes merging into 2 "mega tribes" known as the Alcuri and the Balagi.

In 650, Balegalega, leader of the Balagi declared war against the Alcuri, and defeated them in a series of crushing defeats, particluarily in the Battle of Komodo Mountain, where a Flopodo Dragon killed the Alcuris best commander, Gergoog Linage. The Flopodo Dragon was found next to Gergoogs corpse, and the Balagi named him Barrajuda and even domesticated him. To this day Barrajudas children (more specifically his great x60 as he died in 667) still live at the Castle of Balegalega. In 1423, Indofloppian explorers found Potasibar and set up a small settlement. This settlement was disocovered by Banana Cats but instead of attacking they let the settlement be. The settlement is still there, now known as Flipia Village. In 1646, the great explorer Bonga discovered Potasibar and later that year, a Soggish military force landed in Potasibar and attempted to take it for Great Sogtain, however the locals beat them. From 1646 to 1649 a bloody war raged claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. At that point both sides were sick of it and a compromise was reached. Until 1805, Banana Island was largely peaceful and isolated from the rest of the world. However, the Soggish attempted to conquer the island a few times more between 1805 and 1815. From 1815 and till 1876, there were not many wars involving Banana Island, and in the Pacific in general. However, there were a few invasion attempts by a series of Indofloppian emperors.

However, in 1895, one of the Indofloppian invasion attempts actually succeeded in taking over Banana Island, and succeeded in converting it into a puppet state. From 1895 to 1910, all of Banana Island was strictly ruled by Indofloppia, and hundreds of thousands died in violent attempts to convert the island to Islam. However, in 1910 a large-scale uprising of nationalists broke out, with weapons supplied by Chiflop (who got these weapons themselves from the UFA) they quickly wiped away the Indofloppian occupiers, and formed their own nation based on ideals of patriotism, militarization and trying to limit ties to the outside world.

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## Economy

The majority of Banana Islands economy comes from banana exports, which is a billion-flop industry for them.

The other largest are manufacturing, general trade, professional industries (office work) and non-banana related agriculture.

Banana Island has 3 officially-recognized and approved currencies, Flops, Bokens, and Flopcoins.

Flops are used most widely, basically all industries and the average citizens use Flops. Banana Island has managed to get the rights to print Flops in Jumpla, the financial center of the island and essentially serves as the "hub" of all trade in the Pacific. Currently the printing facility is small but the government is working on getting the rights to increase its size.

Bokens (banana + token) are the traditional currency of Banana Island, mainly used by the tribes or smaller isolated communities. All Bokens are considered cultural items and are thus forbidden to be destroyed or consumed intentionally (only the tribes in the T.A.Z may do this) may result in a 10-125 flop fine or 2 weeks in prison. Bokens themselves are banana slices with the skin still left on, and carved in the middle.

Flopcoin has been only adopted recently, and is mainly used by the professional sector and some other industries. It has little use in Banana Island itself, but is very valuable outside of it. Jumpla contains a large Flopcoin mining facility, approved by the government and operated by Pacific Finance.

## Armed Forces

The Army is fairly scuffed, and is mainly focused on the defensive, as the Air Force provides most offensive support. The Air Force generally contains air superiority fighters, and anti-ship fighters. It contains a sizable amount of strike fighters, and dedicated CAS fighters. However, the navy is the largest by a wide margin. It has 1500 total ships, and 45% of Banana Islands air force is carrier-oriented. The government spends 4 billion flops every year on the Armed Forces, with the Army and the Air Force recieving 1 billion and the rest going to the Navy.

## Relations with Floppa Clan

Relations with Floppa Clan are very tense, especially due to Admiral Yelgus who opposes friendly relations with Floppa Clan and the P.P.O extremely hard and frequently calls out for all out war against Floppa Clan. Tensions peaked in 2018, when a Floppa Clan vessel was sunk by Potasian anti-ship fighters, a Floppa Clan base was raided by Potasian marines, and a spy plane from Floppa Clan was shot down. After this incident, and the death of Big Floppa, Mikhal has called for improving relations with Floppa Clan. Floppa Clan and Banana Island will never be friends or even neutral, as Yelgus is too politically influential and will use that influence to stop any progress dead in its tracks.

## Biology

### Fauna

Banana Islands main demographic is that of Banana Cats, bright yellow cats who are native to Banana Island.

Banana Cats make up 90% of Banana Islands population, the other 10% percent being Binguses, Floppas, and other species.

It is also one of 15 countries where wild Flopodo Dragons can be found. Flopodo Dragons are the worlds largest lizard, and are very dangerous, with powerful venom and thrashing bites. Flopodo Dragons also have very keen senses of smell. They are related to Googitor Lizards. Flopodo Dragons are endangered due to poaching and flopnapping. The reason Flopodos are poached is because of their hide and meat, prized on black markets, particiluarily in Bingia, Banana Island, the UFA, Flopxico, and Isla Flopia. Using Flopodo Dragons for any purpose not approved by the goverment is punishable by 2 years imprisonment or a one thousand to a million Flop fine.

Other species include: Bingian gharials, Banana Cookoos, Googitor Lizards, Bota Flant, and approximately 1200 other species.

In the oceans, the Pacific salmon and various other fish are extremely common, hunted by the open-water floppacuda and the great-flop shark. Recently, the waters have become overpopulated by Cheems Lobsters, which has caused damage to the local ecosystem and even to the people of the island themselves. Fortunately, due to the abundance of food, many Indofloppian spear-arm crabs have moved to the area and are keeping the lobster population down.

### Flora

The Island has a wide variety of beautiful plants and other flora. Its most common flower, the Pacific daisy is a common sight in spring, while the island bellflower is sighted around summer and winter. For the rest of the year, the fake banana is very common, and the Bafy wingmuncher is an all-year threat for insects. However, the most common plant on the island are by far bananas, both domestic and wild. It also is home to large variety of poppy, mainly floppies. Harvesting flopium is illegal and may warrant 2 years in prison, but the tribes are free to do this.

Overall, there are 9540 other documented plant species on Banana Island.