Forum:Territory application/UL12k - Veridia

Forums → Territory application → Territory application/UL12k - Veridia

Please fill in the information below to make a territory request.

File:Noun Project Signature icon 619326 cc.svg	Territory ID and proposed name
	The Territory ID (from OpenGeofiction:Territories, e.g. AR123a) and proposed name of the country

UL12k - Republic of Veridia

File:Noun Project Map icon 1463108.svg	Physical geography
	An overview of climate, topography and landscape of the country. With the exception of Beginner territories, you should always create a sketch map to illustrate & explain your plans. You can add a link to this (hosted on imgBB, Postimages or similar, but not imgur.com)

Veridia has a mountanious and hilly inland and a fertile, mostly flat, coast. The highest peak would be ~1030m. The country is very forested, which is its main industry.

https://imgur.com/a/Q42Awxs

File:Invest - The Noun Project.svg	Human geography
	A brief description of the territory demographics, economic development, land occupation, infrastructure and mapping style

Veridia is a small country. Its population would be centred around the coast in one of the three cities, or in more rural areas where small towns and villages are very close to eachother. In non coastal regions, people might live in the larger towns in valleys or in smaller towns or villages which are isolated from the rest of the country by dense forest or tall mountains. The more remote regions might have some tourism industry, helping with infrastructure in the town.

Motorways and roads that are more than single-carriageway would be few and far between and concentrated in the cities. The road network is well maintained, but is made up of lots of small rural lanes, often made with tarmac or dirt.

Most people live in single houses outside of the cities, but in population centres some people might live in flats or in social housing estates. Buildings don't usually go higher than five stories with the tallest being an office building at 7 stories, in the capital city of Mortar.

The country makes its wealth from exporting lumber and also industrial products like airplane parts, pharmeceuticals and (most importantly) military and commercial aircraft with the state owned Aeris company. Veridia is expensive to live in (atleast in the cities) but has high social benefits and a good healthcare system. Crime is low, but not non-existent. Veridia's unguarded ports are a hub for smuggling narcotics into larger, neighboring countries. For this reason, the country has tight border controls in place.

Veridia has an aging population almost everywhere except the cities, as most young people are moving there for education or work. The population of the country is still rising, however.

File:Noun Project languages icon 105908 cc.svg	History & culture
	A brief description of the intended culture and language

The language spoken in Veridia is Veridian, which is English but with a few word changes and it follows more rules. It is a bit systematic, with almost all rules being followed (Mouse, Mice - Moose, Mooce - House, Hice - Why, Whye - Glyph, Glyphe)

The country has an ancient language, Tróman (a naming conlang i have made) which is used in place names. Mortar = "Mótarborg" (Gold/Rich Castletown)

The culture in Veridia is diverse but the country is primarily roman catholic. Most events revolve around pubs, or Tróvars, which are everywhere (for example some small villages can have two or three Tróvars) and drinking is a big part of the culture. The legal drinking age is 16 in Veridia. In recent years, the National Guards (police) have been trying to crack down on DUIs and other drinking related crimes by instilling harsh punishment for alcohol related crimes for the last 30 years. People in Veridia are very welcoming. Traditionally, this is because the country can reach freezing temperatures most of the year so leaving someone out in the cold is leaving them to die. Until the '90s, when new guidelines were put in place, most front doors in the country weren't locked or didn't have locks. Veridia has a large immigrant population but is having trouble housing them all. This has lead to a recent change in planning laws which will allow for the counstruction of more houses quicker.

There is a rivalry between two regions in Veridia, the Centar Region and the Socialist Republic of Veridia (1940-1986). In the early 80's a civil war broke out on the mainland part of the country and the areas are still scarred by it. War broke out was because the Centar region (which was more traditional, and opposed to the socialist government at the time, who were exploiting their land and trying to plan an atomgrad there) was being neglected, discluded from voting and even had their borders on lockdown at one point. The war ended in 1986 with a coup d'etat in Mortar, leading to a series of reforms and the current government being put in place.

File:Noun Project drawing icon 2123401.svg	Past mapping
	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.

I've been mapping over the past few months on BG36 (though I only really picked up about a week ago).

Some parts of the map haven't been updated in a while, like Kilkarnal Town, which is way off in scale (though nearby Toolavally goes in the other direction). The place on the map I think is most up to real life scale is Oliver City (only the city centre exists) which I've been using the OGF scale helper tool on (Cork, Ireland). I have started using JOSM - which can be seen in the only fully modeled town, Nurling which i think unfortunately is way off in scale (and also has a few inacuracies like buildings clipping inside eachother which I haven't got round to fixing.) The Abha Mountains and Caliban River are the regions I'm most proud of because theyre inspired by my locality. ([1]) and they would also be relevant to the theme of this territory.

File:Noun Project Signature icon 619326 cc.svg	Username & date
	Sign and date the application by typing four tildes (~~~~) without spaces or "nowiki" tags.

Veni Vidi Vici (talk) 10:12, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

File:Noun project 579150 Conversation.svg	Discussion
	Discussion for clarification & decision

Previous application is here.

-Veni Vidi Vici (talk) 10:12, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

• Hello! I am not an admin but I have some tips for mapping to scale. Firstly though it would require JOSM but when you download it and set it up you can use the scale box in the bottom left of your screen to get lengths of items. It also gives you some other details next to it that can be helpful with angles. And if you want to go the next step and get really accurate buildings you can download the "Measurement" Plugin. It would give you total area of the areas selected. I would say that JOSM is just easier to use for OGF because you are not tracing anything and its satisfying getting the scale right and make a nice area. Hope this helps! MiniMapper (talk) 00:43, 27 July 2024 (UTC)