Kaarti
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The Republic of Kaarti Kaartin tasavalta () Capital: Väinölä
Population: c. 6,000,000 (2024) Anthem: Kansanveisu |
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Kaarti, officially the Republic of Kaarti (Kaartian: Kaartin tasavalta) is a country located in East Uletha, next to Eelanti in the west, UL19a in the north, UL23c in the east and Emerald Sea to the south.
Etymology
The name of Kaarti is quite old, and has been written for the first time of texts likely from the 11th—12th century, which mention Kaarti as ”Cárti”. Two etymologies for the name Kaarti are often cited, but neither one is preferred over the other:
Of Gaermanic origin
The word kaarti means in Kaartian literally guard(s). This suggests that kaarti derives from a Gaermanic word, such as garde. This could have related to the guards (or soldiers) of Kaarti, and later the meaning broadened to the whole Kaartian folk. The similarities of kaarti and garde can be also coincidental, and thus there is another theory of the word being of Finnic origin.
Of Finnic[1] origin
The historical usage of the name Kaarti was used of the coasts of Väinölä. The name later broadened in its meaning to mean the whole country. The coast is bendy towards the capital, which can be described in Kaartian as kaartua, and this is where the name of Kaarti comes from. In Proto−Finnic kaartua is kaartadak.
From Kaartian to Ingerish
The Ingerish name for Kaarti is Kaarti. The name comes from the original from the Kaartian one, but written as Caarti (especially in the 15th-19th centuries), but writing it like that is obsolete and historic.
History
Government
Administrative divisions
Geography
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| Geography of Kaarti | |
| Continent | Uletha |
| Region | Northeast Uletha |
| Population | c. 6,000,000 (2024) |
| Area | |
| • Total | c. 91,500 km2 |
| Population density | 65.57 km2 |
| Time zone | WUT+9 |
Economy
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| Economy of Kaarti | |
| Mixed economy (welfare capitalist) | |
| Currency | Kaartin raha (ɾ) (ingerish: Kaartian raha) |
| Monetary authority | Kaartin keskuspankki (ingerish: The Central Bank of Kaarti) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2023 (estimated) |
| • Total | $342.5 billion |
| • Per capita | $57,083 |
| HDI (2022) |  0.911very high |
Infrastructure
Demographics
- ↑ There seems to be no better word for names of Finnish languages in the OpenGeofiction world, as ”Karoic−Ugric” is outdated. Thus I shall use ”Finnic” for now.