Lany

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Grand Duchy of Lany Łany
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Anthem: Pieśń Witezi The Knights' Song
Capital	Basidwór
Official languages	Lanian, Veltic
Demonym	Lanian
Area
• Total	34,544.08 km2 13,337.54 sq mi
• Water (%)	24.10
Population
• Census (2018)	2,396,535
• Density	58.084/km2
GDP (PPP)	2018
• Total	$119.743 billion
• Per capita	$49,965
HDI (2018)	0.818 very high
Timezone	WUT+5
Currency	Nedelican/Lanian Universa (LNU, Ʉ)

Lany, Grand Duchy of Lany (Lanian: Łany, Wielikie Xięstwo Łanów; Veltic: Łany, Wielkie Księstwo Łańskie), is a country located in northern West Uletha and lies on the Great Rift.

Country borders Geklinia-Dregolesia in the southeast and UL14d in the east, from the west, on the other side of the rift, Velticia and UL13d.

History

Anti-Surian Union

After 1965 Dregolesian Revolution, countries north of Suria decided to make an anti-Surian Union. Lany, Geklinia-Dregolesia and Dregovine signed a pact in Nedelica in 1967. Since then, cooperation with other pact members grew. In 1992 border checkpoints were taken down, allowing free travel between the three countries.

Geography

Landform

The Lany coast stretches for over 1,000 kilometres and has nearly 50 islands and islets and most of them are located further north. The largest island, Obława, stretches for 135 kilometers and has an area of ​​over 2500 km². Obława together with other islands lying on the western side of the Great Rift, moves away from the mainland by 2 cm every year. Following this pattern, the Obława began to break away from the mainland around 2500-4000 years ago, and separated completely 1,500 years ago.

Transport

Roads

Lanian intercity road infrastructure is compiled of dozen national roads, several trunk roads and three highways A1, A2 and A7.

Railways

The country has a fairly dense railway network, facilitating the transport of passengers and goods from the east and south to the north and west. Ports dotted along the coast have transhipment hubs, enabling the transshipment of goods from trains to ships and vice versa in a Lo-Lo manner. The busiest ports for rail traffic are the ports in Basidwór and Kestrzanowo, which have special rail terminals equipped with an efficient roll-on-roll-off mechanism, where freight and passenger trains are pushed and board railway ferries without unloading, from where they sail to/from Veliticia or other countries in the region.

Train ferries are the only form of transporting trains across the Great Rift, although in February 2024 Geklinia-Dregolesia became interested in building an underwater tunnel in the narrowest section of the strait, but as it is still a site of tectonic movements, this idea remains on paper for now.

Culture

Language

The Lanian language is the progenitor of the modern Veltic language, or is an early branch of it. However, it is not certain whether it appeared in the area of Łany together with Velticians or before them.

Alphabet

Lanian	A a	ą	B b	C c	Ć ć	Cz cz	D d	Dz dz	Dź dź	Dƶ dƶ	E e	é	ę	F f	G g	H h	Ch ch	I i	K k	L l	Ł ł	M m	ḿ	N n	ń	O o	Ó ó	ø	P p	R r	Rz rz	S s	Ś ś	Sz sz	T t	U u	W w	ẃ	X x	Y y	Z z	Ź ź	Ƶ ƶ
respectively in Velitic	A a	ą	B b	C c	Ć ć		D d				E e	e~y	ę	F f	G g	H h		I/J i/j	K k	L l	Ł ł	M m	-	N n	ń	O o	Ó ó	ą~ę	P p	R r		S s	Ś ś		T t	U u	W w	-	-1	Y1/J y/j	Z z	Ź ź	Ż ż

¹ do not occur in words of native origin
² digraphs do not appear as letters of the Velitic alphabet

There are 43 letters in the Alphabet. In addition, there are also trigraphs: czi, dzi.
The softened consonants ḿ and ẃ are becoming less common in everyday spelling, remaining only in some regions, names of towns and streets.