Geare

Geare Capital: Bellavance Population: 8,358,182 (2023) Motto: << Paix, Liberté, et Prospérité >> Anthem: "Eternal Glory to Geare"

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Geare, officially the Republic of Geare, is a transcontinental country along the Strait of Lyc in northern Antarephia and southern Tarephia. Mainland Geare borders AN127 to its northwest, AN1335 to its southwest, and AN133a to its south. It lies across the Strait of Lyc from Mandatory Meilan, and Saint Fisher, an overseas island province, shares a maritime border with Free Reedeemia. The capital and largest city is Bellavance, with an urban population of 3.1 million and a metropolitan population of 4.1 million, a cultural and economic center of Geare and Lycene Antarephia.

Geare is a parliamentary republic consisting of 7 provinces and an independent capital district. South Geare, consisting of Bellavance and the surrounding province of Veniot, accounts for over sixty percent of its population. Geare is an upper-middle-income country with an HDI of 0.810 and a high degree of economic and personal freedom. Still, trenchant inequality between South Geare and the rest of the country persists, making Geare one of the most unequal countries in the Lyc. The Geais economy is dominated by copper and lithium mining in West Geare, farming and ranching in Central Geare, and banking, biotech, and IT in Bellavance. Although primarily located in Antarephia, Geais people typically do not consider themselves Antarephian, instead self-describing as Lycene or even Tarephian. Geare is a member of the Tarephia Cooperation Council.

Geare was first colonized by Valonne, becoming part of the Rivages around 1420, with small Rivagien populations extant in Innsmont and Saint Fisher. By the time of the Collapse of the Rivages in 1695, Geare's population was still small, with a large indigenous Parimiri majority. Pro-independence sentiment was limited, and the Ingreans colonized the territory in turn. At this point, the capital was moved from Innsmont to Bellavance, and Ingrean was established as the national language. Over the course of a century of Ingrean rule, over a million Ulethan settlers moved to Geare; the Parimiris were violently repressed and forced into West Geare. In 1800, during a perigee of Ingrean influence in the Lyc, Geare became a sovereign state after the short and bloodless "War of Geais Independence".