Forum:Territory application/UL14d - Vesalija
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 | Territory ID and proposed name |
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| The Territory ID (from OpenGeofiction:Territories, e.g. AR123a) and proposed name of the country |
UL14d - Vesalija
The namely country is a private collab, owned by the users Poissott, Mie and lankusiek.
 | Physical geography |
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| An overview of climate, topography and landscape of the country. It is advised to also create a sketch, you can add a link to this (hosted on imgur or similar) |
Physical geography with subdivision lines: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1329590545542156288/1330006142126002197/image.png?ex=678e627e&is=678d10fe&hm=fb203072bbc3960822f9d3def8461b35e8b73c10549a0a12ee3dcdfe3850b0c9&
Climate
Vesalija has a temperate climate with mild weather towards coast and more extreme inlands.
Landscape and nature
The country is inspired by Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. The mapping is similar to what is already found in neighboring countries like Saave, Lany, Geklinia-Dregolesia (and the owners of these countries are all the owners of Vesalija).
Vesalija is mostly flat and has little forestation near the big cities of Valdīga, Lielkalne and Krienupe. Forest can be found in the mountains near the border of Lany and in the hilly parts near the border of Saave. Much of the forestation can also be found in the southern high plains. The tree species throughout the countryside is predominantly pine, but bigger cities like to grow pine and maple. There is very little swampland, the most significant bit can be found in the northernmost part of the Savian border.
River Balga is the most significant in the country as it begins from the lake Polnova and ends in Great North sea. Little less than half of the river is the bordering with UL14f and after that it passes through 2 major cities: Lielkalne and Valdīga. The river reaches the max width of 450 m near Valdīga.
 | Human geography |
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| A brief description of the territory demographics, economic development, land occupation, infrastructure and mapping style |
Other notable nationalities in Vesalija: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1329590545542156288/1330163629345210431/image.png?ex=678e4c6a&is=678cfaea&hm=dbbebb1c524f6e28b5ace6704ac6bb2886edee2d089c8a55016a9d1ec5d69013&
Road infrastructure: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1329590545542156288/1330005909392326656/image.png?ex=678e6247&is=678d10c7&hm=31c5c2492027a4a9331fe1dc4ebf669addbe0eb019aaa0a62cf5352baa063711&
Demographics
The population of Vesalija (Vesalia in English) is roughly 7.1 million people, where 5 million people are Vesalians (Vesalių in the native language). The second biggest nationality is Lanians, located mostly in the capital city and near the border of Lany. The third biggest nationality is Zamednovchians, located in the surroundings of Krasnava. Both minorities are well adapted to the society of Vesalija, but have also remain faithful to their native countries' language and customs.
The HDI of Vesalija is 0.852 and GDP per capita is 23 200 USD.
Cities
Valdīga - the capital city of Vesalija, home to 1.1 million peaople, is popular for its old town and annual festivities. Much of the country's wealth is generated here, most notably with electrical equipment, which is produced in industrial districts in close perimeter of Valdīga. Outside the old town, Valdīga has a diverse set of architecture, but most importantly there are wooden 2-story apartment buildings and social housing of the 60s-70s.
Krienupe and Lielkalne have also majority 2-story apartment buildings and social housing of the 60s-70s, but also much significant number of private housing than in Valdīga. Krasnava on the other hand is mostly private homes or modern apartment buildings due to its vacation city status. Krienupe has also an extensive old town like Valdīga.
Population of the bigger 4 cities:
Valdīga - 1 100 000
Krienupe - 450 000
Lielkalne - 220 000
Krasnava - 190 000
Infrastucture
The major cities are mostly connected by 2+2 highways, accompanied by 2+2 and 2+1 expressways in further streches. The condition of the roads in between cities are mostly great as they are mostly newly built. On the other hand secondary roads and high traffic roads in the middle of major cities are older and require more extensive maintenance. The railway network is fairly extensive and supports high-speed trains (except the strech from Valdīga to Saave).
 | History & culture |
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| A brief description of the intended culture and language |
Language
The state language of Vesalija is Vesalian ("Vesalių kelsas" in the native language). The language is similar to Latvian and a little bit to Lithuanian. Vesalian uses special characters from both Latvian (ā, ē, ī, ū, č, š, ž, ģ, ķ, ļ and ņ) and Lithuanian (ų).
Vesalian has very little regional dilects, as people have adapted to the main language, but one notable has remained. Linova ("Linų kelsas" in the native language) is a dilalect that is spoken around Polnova lake and has a strong slavic influence. Due to its isolation, it has remained healthy enough, with native speakers of approx. 220 000 people, out of which 160 000 live in Vesalija.
History
(not enough external info to describe older history)
After The Great War, Vesalija became a conservative authoritarian country, governed by Artjoms Krūmiņš, who governed the country until his death in 1965. After that, many of the repressed institutions started to protest for the democracy. It took 5 years and 22 exchanges of prime ministers, to finally get democratic in 1970 after the resignation of Leonīds Ozolnieks. Since then, the country has steadily improved, but still faces major political instability with sprawling corruption.
 | Past mapping |
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| To support your request provide links to areas of OGF mapping which showcase your mapping skill. Mapping relevant to the requested theme & geography is especially useful. | |
| The {{coord}}, {{node}}, {{relation}} or {{scalehelper}} templates can optionally be used to link to the OGF map - they result in nicely formatted links. Or you can paste in a URL. |
https://opengeofiction.net/#map=8/61.179/83.727&layers=B
https://opengeofiction.net/#map=8/59.281/76.948&layers=B
https://opengeofiction.net/#map=7/56.996/77.498&layers=B
The links take to countries of Saave, Lany and Geklinia-Dregolesia, that Vesalija will be similar to.
| Username & date |
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| Sign and date the application by typing four tildes (~~~~) without spaces or "nowiki" tags. |
Poissott (talk) 20:11, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
 | Discussion |
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| Discussion for clarification & decision |
- Hi, I'm the former owner of UL13f, a Latvian country. I could help with the place names in Latvian since I'm a native speaker of it, Thanks - Petons (talk) 05:07, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- Dear lankusiek, Mie and Poissott. All three of you are incredible mappers and all of you provide some very high quality mapping in your territories, there's no doubt in that. However neither of you have really filled your territories to acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that I can see that all 3 of your are leaning more towards higher detail mapping on smaller areas as opposed to larger scale mapping like nature covers and similar. I am inclined to approve this application because of your qualities, however I would like to see a different approach from all of you in the case I do approve it. I'd like you to focus on large scale mapping first and cover most of the territory in intermediate mapping, nature cover, and rough infrastructure. You are of course welcome to map whatever you want, but I'd like to see this as a compromise between getting a territory and having your current territories only somewhat filled in. Likewise, with this territory neither of you should seek to expand in the near future, and should focus on the territories you have.
Another, minor thing is that I believe the population is too high for the region. I calculated the population density to be about 100 inhabitants per square kilometer. I suggest you lower those population numbers.
Do you agree with the points given? ⸺ Bixelkoven (talk) (West Uletha Admin) 13:39, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Dear lankusiek, Mie and Poissott. All three of you are incredible mappers and all of you provide some very high quality mapping in your territories, there's no doubt in that. However neither of you have really filled your territories to acceptable levels. Notwithstanding that I can see that all 3 of your are leaning more towards higher detail mapping on smaller areas as opposed to larger scale mapping like nature covers and similar. I am inclined to approve this application because of your qualities, however I would like to see a different approach from all of you in the case I do approve it. I'd like you to focus on large scale mapping first and cover most of the territory in intermediate mapping, nature cover, and rough infrastructure. You are of course welcome to map whatever you want, but I'd like to see this as a compromise between getting a territory and having your current territories only somewhat filled in. Likewise, with this territory neither of you should seek to expand in the near future, and should focus on the territories you have.
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Territory application approved |
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| Approved. Users agreed to the requirements above. ⸺ Bixelkoven (talk) (West Uletha Admin) 17:18, 22 January 2025 (UTC) | |
| Please consider the fact that since this is a private collaborative project, it is also subject to activity checks and can be marked for withdrawal, unlike community-owned collaborative projects. Happy mapping! |