Qonklaks
Union of Democratic Revolutionary Qonklaks yàn yawnkày kãju kway kwan Yàn Yaunkài Kãju Kwai Kwan | |
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| Motto: m1àyn ŋeyˀ ŋa liˀ Mhàin ngeiq nga liq "Millions of people as one heart" | |
| Anthem: Okwai Yàn Yaunkài Kãju Kwai Kwan "State Anthem of the Union of Democratic Revolutionary Qonklaks" | |
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 Qonklaks' territorial extent | |
| Capital and largest city | Jikhein |
| Official languages | Standard Kwang |
| Recognized regional languages | Kufa, Öwi, Karduvic, Ru, Tselsanthe |
| Ethnic groups (1995) | 91.77% Kwang 4.05% Iwwai |
| Religion (1995) | 55.3% Non-religious 31.6% Hanctheist |
| Demonym(s) | Qonklese |
| Government | One-party cenonist federal union |
| Jiq Zàw | |
• Premier | Dai Chì |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 962,445,000 (1st) |
| GDP (nominal) | 1995 estimate |
• Total | $5.320 trillion |
• Per capita | $5529.58 |
| HDI (1995) | 0.712 high |
| Currency | Qonklese chih ($) (QKC) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +01 |
Qonklaks (Standard Kwang: kway kwan Kwai Kwan /kwɛ́ kwã́/, lit. "The Kwang nation"), officially the Union of Democratic Revolutionary Qonklaks, is a country located in Southern Tammuz. It shares a border with Ö, Zaizung, Karduv, Rongyo, Mai Thi, and Riyana. With a population of 962.4 million and an area of over 7 million square kilometers, it is both the most populous and and second largest country on Abzû.
As one of Abzû's cradles of civilization, it enjoyed its status as a high culture. Its influence traditionally encompassing the entirety of Southern Tammuz, with many surrounding countries within the Quoncosphere adopting its language, culture, food, and dress habits. For over four millenia, Qonklaks' political system was ruled over by dynasties. Since the Kingdom of Wa, the controversial political entity traditionally considered to be the first Qonklese dynasty, Qonklaks has undergone periods of varying degrees of political unity, with long periods alternating between regional warlordism and unified rule under one supreme monarch.
Under the Byàn Dynasty, Qonklaks officially adopted Hanctheism, an organized, monotheistic interpretation of Haomism that had been in practice for the past millenium. Qonklaks became a constitutional monarchy in 1732 after of the Jiqjõ Reforms, adopting a tricameral parliamentary system.
The country fractured and fell to petty warlordism in 1903 after a brief period of military junta rule by Grand Marshal Lyĩ Bain, only uniting in 1928 under Dain Pain's new Qonklese Empire. The country would experience a mild economic boom and various military reforms to unite the warlord armies into the Qonklese Imperial Army. Dain Pain lead the nation into a period of aggressive territorial expansion against its neighbours, only for its war efforts to be halted via an internal revolution led by the cenonist Ngonku 88th Division in 1942, which led to the start of the Qonklese Civil War. The Ngonku, led by Mheiq Ku, abolished the four-millenia-old dynastic monarchist system, replacing it with its current political structure in 1950. The Qonklese Civil War officially ended on May 10th, 1950, but several imperial rump states continued to fight on until 1962 despite the capture and subsequent death of Dain Pain.
The country was a participating member of the space race, where it successfully sent the first ipanaut into space in 1967. It also launched a manned mission, the Hayai 7, to the moon in 1972.
Ideological tensions with the rest of world led to a soft coup in 1975 to initiate reforms to partially privatize the economy, led by Jiq Zàw, who replaced Mheiq Ku as Supreme Overseer. The country experienced a period of economic prosperity and loosening of political and religious expression under the New Spring Initiative during the 80s, known as the Golden Age of Commerce. The decade was also known for its political instability, stemming from the state's draconic response to the 1985 SARS epidemic that started in Yiu Province that eventually culminated with the 1986 Downtown Stadium Incident. As a direct response to the turmoil, the Golden Kwang clamped down on various freedoms previously guaranteed by the state as a preventative measure against mass protests and gatherings.
Today, Qonklaks is a one-party cenonist federal union, which de jure claims allegiance to cenonist ideals despite being a market economy. It has one of the world's most powerful economies, though ranking poorly in basic freedoms. Qonklaks is one of several Abzû nuclear powers, and is a founding member of the Alliance of World Nations.
Etymology
The demonym Kwan can refer to both the ethno-linguistic Kwankyaiq people (where one would use the adjective 'Kwang'), or to the nation of Qonklaks regardless of ethnic or linguistic specification (the adjective 'Qonklese'). The word can be traced back to the Proto-Macro-Kwang root *kʷaːŋ 'sun'.
Names of Qonklaks
Qonklaks bears several other names, usually used poetically or as epithets.
Four Realms
The term Four Realms (Standard Kwang: Hài Lhain /hɛ̀ ɬaɪ̃́/) has been used to describe the territories controlled by various Qonklese polities over several millenia. The term first arose during the Lya Dynasty as a way to contrast themselves with their non-Kwang neighbours, who were collectively referred to as the Four Barbarians. In its current usage, the Four Realms refers to Qonklaks' four first-level subnational administrative divisions: Central Realm, Northeastern Realm, Northwestern Realm, and the Southwestern Realm. In practice, provinces are treated as the first-level administration division, as the sheer size of these realms has little practical use in daily administration. This fact can be seen by the fact that only Qonklese provinces have flags.
History
Prehistory
Neolithic Qonklaks
Early Kingdoms
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Warring States
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Imperial Dynasties
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Yain, Shèin, and the Three Kingdoms
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Two-Hundred-Year Unrest
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Warlord Era
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Qonklese Empire and the Qonklese Civil War
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Union of Democratic Revolutionary Qonklaks
Qonklaks was in no rush to organize the economy into a kúúlist agrarian utopia, as Mheiq Ku's focus post-war was to jump start the national economy from its war-torn state. He proclaimed the "Stability Now, True Cenonism Later" Initiative, which would last from 1950 to 1970. The state would run a twenty year trial in Anbaipaw to determine whether or not true communal living was indeed possible.
Operation Songbird was the campaign against imperial holdouts in Qonklaks. Launched in October 1950, the operation aimed at dismantling the remaining pockets of imperial resistance and consolidating the power of the regime. The Revolutionary Grand Army engaged in multiple battles and skirmishes across the nation as part of this operation until August 5th, 1962, when the last remaining imperial holdout forces finally surrendered. With the successful conclusion of these campaigns, the Golden Kwang was able to consolidate its power, paving the way for the nation's reconstruction and development.
Despite these challenges, Qonklaks continued to strive for progress. In 1956, the Golden Kwang began mass-producing cheap ice cream, turning it into a symbol of cenonist success. The country also became a nuclear power in the same year, successfully detonating a thermonuclear weapon in the X Desert. In 1961, the Third Five Year Plan began, focusing on scientific advancement and space exploration.
Culture
Etiquette
Cuisine
Politics
Political freedoms
In the period since the Jiqjõ Reforms in 1732, Qonklaks enshrined many political freedoms into its constitution. However, the advent of the Qonklese Empire revoked several constitutional rights and freedoms in order to bolster the ultranationalist ideology of its ruling party.
The Union, despite having incompatible ideologies with the Empire, continued its suppression of basic rights following its founding in 1950, to ensure a smooth transition of ideology. As Qonklese citizens under the Empire soon grew disillusioned with the constant militarism of the 1930s and 1940s, a regime change that promised a proletarian utopia for all was seen as highly attractive. However, as the Golden Kwang initiated its own ideological purges against potential critics, this illusion was soon shattered as the common folk realized that their situation merely received new branding, and the suppression basic rights were never intended to be lifted by the state. The State Security and Investigation Service (SSIS), the Qonklese secret police under the Union, grew into a well-oiled machine, surpassing its previous incarnation, the Empire's Imperial Bureau of Control. As such, the 1950s to the mid-1970s was characterized by a constant state of surveillance.
At some point in the 1970s, the SSIS implemented lyanwhìlhàlhi (lit. 'tormenting life from the shadows'), characterized by removing its previously overarching presence in public life, as the Golden Kwang rightfully decided that a constant climate of fear was not-conductive to attracting foreign market participation and growing the national economy. Instead of maintaining public order and allegiance to the party line by the presence of physical SSIS officers in public spheres and harsh punishments to discourage subversion, the motivation behind lyanwhìlhàlhi was that if a potential political opponent could be overwhelmed by a multitude of stressors in their lives, they would be too distracted or tired to act against state interests. It entailed the systematic destruction of normalcy in a target's life to ensure that they no longer have the mental or physical capacity to subvert the state. This was done in such secrecy that targets would have no clue why this was happening to them.