Guai

Guai Capital: Pirindi Population: 5,871,750 (2015) Anthem: Ios Guai

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Guai (pronounced /gwaj/), is a country located on the northwestern coast of Antarephia. Guai is bordered to the North by Oxhano, AN136b, Kopersia and Alejeverdi and The Kōpere Bay; by The Koropiko Bay to the East; and by the Hesperic Ocean to the South and West. Its capital is Pirindi and the largest city is Vai. It is a small country of 29,056 km² (11,219 sq mi) and has a population of about 6 million people.

Etymology

Guai (oudated Ingerish spelling Gwigh) derives from pre-Taukan root Guo (/gwo/), possibly meaning "fertile plain", and -ai suffix denoting a region or a country, hence, "Land/Region of the fertile plain". Historically speaking, Guai was only the central plain located mostly astride Urán and Astel Cantons. Guai has no official name. Consequently, it is referred just as Guai for all official purposes.

History

History of Guai
Prehistory	15000 BC - 1500 BC
• Kailan Stone Age	4000 BC - 3000 BC
• Kaitan Cultures	3000 BC - 1500 BC
Classical to Early Modern Taukan	2000 BC - 1649 AD
• Arrival of Taukan Tribes	2000 BC - 500 BC
• Silver Age	500 BCE - 200 AD
• First Golden Age	200 - 1502
• Ulethan colonies & Sabishiian Kingdom	1502 - 1652
Early Modern to Modern Age	1652 onwards
• Old Republic & Second Golden Age	1652 - 1791
• First Constitution	1791
• Sabishiian War	1831 - 1833
• New Republic	1848

Prehistory

What is now Guai has been inhabited since at least 15,000 BC. The oldest archaeological remains are those found in Egi Stof Cave, near Uari. By 3,000 BC elements of pre-Taukan culture, collectively known as Kaitese Peoples, developed in the lower Kaita River Plain and along the northern coast of present-day Uloa. Kaitese seems to have been farmers, mastering Bronze and Iron metallurgy, living in villages surrounded by wooden walls. They are supposed to have been culturally related to the more primitive tribes that inhabited the southern half of the Guaiian Peninsula, but due to the poor quality of the Kaitese artefacts, little is known about them before the arrival of the Taukans.

Classical to Early Modern Taukan

Arrival of Taukan Tribes

Taukan tribes that had established along the northeastern coast of the Korpiko, started to move westward, reaching Guai between 2,000BC and 1,000BC. Some of these tribes' names are known through the written archives they kept of some of their activities (namely, trades and political decisions). Their Abugida writing system was in use until the late 17th when Romantian alphabet superseded it completely. By 500BC, Kaitese people had completely fused with the Taukan tribes, leaving some oronyms and hydronyms still existent and, agricultural techniques priorly unknown to the Taukans.

Silver Age

Tataxak archaeological site, circa 150AD

The Taukans organised themselves in sets of city-states, generally ruled by a council of the elders comprising male representatives of patrician families. These city-states are usually divided into those based agriculture and/or mining and those dedicated to trade by sea or land routes. This period, lasting from 500BC to 200 AD, is known as the Silver Age.

First Golden Age

The Golden Age or First Golden Age covers the period lasting from 200AD to the early-16^th century. Guaiian city-states underwent long peaceful and prosperous periods interrupted by short wars between cities. By the mid-12^th century, Pirindi had expanded its power over the Central Guaiian Plain (then known as Guai), covering today's Poka, Urán, Poro Vai and part of Astel and Uloa Cantons. Thanks to its central position, the Republic of Pirindi controlled trade between North and South of the Peninsula but failed to submit Eastern Guai to its rule, leaving out trade across the Korpiko to eastern thalassocraties.

Ulethan colonies & Sabishiian kingdom

The Castellanese, followed a few decades later by the Ingerish, landed in 1502 around Vai. Due to internal conflicts within the Republic of Pirindi and the bombing of Vai by the Castellanese fleet, a piece of land was ceded to the Castellanese in 1505, on which they were allowed, by the Treaty of Vai Harbour, to build a town with a harbour and a fortress with a limited garrison and, be exempted of any tax when trading with the Republic of Pirindi. Santa María de la Esperanza (today Esperáns) was founded in 1506, a few kilometres west of Vai. In 1584, the Ingerish obtained Saint Georges (now Sandjórj) with similar conditions and almost the same location. These first contacts with Ulethans impacted the Guaiian society profoundly; bringing new food, techniques, words, religious and philosophical concepts. Due to competition between Ingerland and Castellan, the Castellanese withdrew in the early 1600s and Santa María de la Esperanza was considered abandoned in 1609, 103 years after its foundation. Saint Georges and its Guaiian suburbs Igri (archaic term for Ingerish) flourished for next half century, although the terms of the original unequal treaty were revised in 1602.
Eastern Guai was not spared some form of colonisation. In the late-16^th century, Sabishiian incursions from across the Koropiko had become more frequent and penetrated further into today's Matal Canton (itself a Sabishiian name), triggering the collapse of local city-states. 1598 is usually estimated year of the foundation of Rakaling, the capital of the new Sabishiian Kingdom of Matal. Through various raids over the next decades, the Sabishiian Shetong Dynasty (spelt Cetong in Guaiian) extended its direct control along the coast, from the Rakaling Bay up to Bimars. During the 17^th century, this new power diminished considerably the clout of those eastern thalassocraties that had managed to remain independent.

Early Modern to Modern Age

Old Republic & Second Golden Age

Battle of Fort Saint-Georges March 1649

In 1632, the Ingerish ransacked Havár, a small town in northern Uloa indebted to the Ingerish colonists. Havár was vassal to the Republic of Keroli and serving as one of its seaports. The powerful Republic of Keroli reacted by building a strong fortress next to Havár and modernising the walls surrounding its eastern seaport of Píap. Simultaneously, it engaged in secret discussions with the Pirindi Council of the Elders,the governing body of the Republic. The terms of the secret agreement consisted in two main parts: one military, one economic. Keroli, Pirindi, their vassal republics and Common Lands (farm lands, unrepresented in governing bodies) were to levy a unified army and navy for their common defence. In parallel, a custom union was to be established to boost trade between the city-states. The 250-day War started in September 1648 and formally ended by the Treaty of Pirindi in June 1649. The war opposing the Ingerish and the Guaiians consisted in a succession of unrelated battles, culminating with the storming of Fort Saint-Georges. While extra-judicial public executions of Ingerish colonists did occur, such as the hanging of rear admiral James Carminowe in the aftermath of the rendition, the terms of the treaty allowed the Ingerish population to stay in Saint Georges, provided they vowed allegiance to the new Union. Due to the lack available Ingerish ship in the immediate years after the rendition, about 40% of 5,300 inhabitants of Saint Georges relocated in Vai where they formed a dynamic mercantile community. By the late 17^th century, half of the remaining Ingerish inhabitants of Saint Georges had repatriated or relocated in other Ingerish colonies.
1652, with the signing of Oath on the Oldrín Bridge (Guaiian: Taük obe Pint Oldrín) cementing the Union, is usually considered the start of the Old Republic and of the Second Golden Age. This period was characterised by the enrichment of cities such as Pirindi, Vai or Keroli through newly boosted trades of all sorts, the development of others such as Bimars, home of the new navy, and Kūra, home of a new common national university. The Oath abolished the difference between Common Lands and Republics and, established a common Council of the Elders housed in Pirindi, functioning as a parliament elected by the local Councils of the Elders, themselves elected by local bourgeois men and some land owners. The Council of the Elders on its turn appointed a Council of State, in charge of common issues: defence, external trade, diplomacy and currency matters.

First Constitution

The 1791 Constitution replaced the national Council of the Elders by a National Council, elected by all men over 25 and paying at least a 30-Gold-Lian tax a year. Republics and Common Lands were superseded by new 12 Cantons. This first constitution induced the shift to a more centralised republic and a more homogenous nation, consisting of most of today's Guai except the coastal area still held by the Kingdom of Matal, from the outskirts of Peran, in the Rakaling Bay, to River Elesin, north of Gilin.

Sabishiian War

In the context of the fading prosperity of the Kingdom of Matal, piracy developed along the eastern coast from the early 1800s on. In January 1831, Bimars, the then home of the Guaiian Navy and main sea port trading on the Koropiko was burnt to the ground by the Sabishiian pirates who managed to escape. The event started the Sabishiian War (Guaiian: Korc Sabeci) which constituted the first test for the common army. The war raged southward, mainly in eastern Matal. The Old Republic having few naval ships left after the Raid of Bimars, Rakaling had to be taken by land in November 1832 while skirmishes lasted in the Hinterland until the next April. This put an end to the 235-year-old Kingdom of Matal. No treaty or armistice was ever negotiated or signed, and Sabishiian Matal remained under military rule until the foundation of the New Republic in 1848, fifteen years later. Bimars being in ruins and Rakaling Bay being better-suited, the main naval base was transferred to the latter.

New Republic

After a decade of heated discussions, a new constitution came into force on 12 February 1848, transforming Guai into a modern democracy. The new National Council was to be elected by tax-paying men over 21 and unmarried female landowners. A few years later, in 1862, universal male suffrage was enacted by a first constitutional amendment.
The new parliamentary regime has usually been deemed rather industrious in its first decades when it comes to its legislative work. Centuries-old customs and laws were reviewed, rewritten and codified while new ones were voted to fit an industrialising nation and its every-changing society. Healthcare and pension provision for miners and metallurgy workers were voted in the 1870 and capital punishment in times of peace was abolished in 1908. In 1912 the Constitution was revised to extend universal suffrage to women over 21 and again in 1926 to extend the National Council's term form four to five years. The same year, the National Council voted a new Health Law, grouping several existing healthcare provisions and extending some of them, laying the first bricks of Guai's universal healthcare system.
Though mostly neutral, Guai was economically affected by the tensions leading to the Great War and the War itself. During the 1930s, the Council of State financed the modernisation of the coastal fortifications, the reconstruction of an up-to-date navy and the creation of an air force. In those trouble times, some public initiatives took place such as the foundation of Guai Airways in 1934, of the KoPaSa (the national rail company) in 1941 or Elek Guai (the state power generation company) in 1952. During the Great War, few combats occurred in Guai's vicinity. Among those, Cape Goh Battle in 1942 is usually considered the main one.

Recent history

Though the Great War stimulated some sectors of the Guaiian economy, its end provided a new and larger boost to more parts. From the 1950s to the 1980s, KoPaSa operated a programme of modernisation and rationalisation of its tracks and fleet: Non electrified main lines were electrified in priority while secondary loss-making lines were closed or shortened. In the 1970s Elek Guai started to build and operate the Pórinkon nuclear power plant, extending it in the next decades.
The second half of the 20^th century witnessed the secularisation of the Guaiian society. Ohoism, the Guaiian version of amalgamated religio-philosophical Taukan traditions continued to loose ground: the few remaining legal restrictions applied to women were repelled, step-by-step, essentially in the 1960s and early 1970s, while a Registered Partnership Law applying to both heterosexual and homosexual couples was voted in 1988. As Ohoism rarely concerns sexuality, same-sex sexual activity has never been criminalised in Guai or its predecessor states. Same-sex couples have been legally able to marry and adopt since 1998.
The 21^st century...

Geography

Geography of Guai
Continent	Antarephia
Area
• Total	29,056 km2 11,219 sq mi
• Water (%)	2%
Population density	205 km2 527 sq mi
Time zone	WUT +0:30

Politics

Government of Guai
Unitary Parliamentary Directorial Republic
Capital	Pirindi
Head of state
• Council of State	Fiordja Pemel (President) Hag Uarai (Vice-President)
Legislature	National Council
Judiciary	High Court of Justice
Major political parties
Tè Ald Moixe   Tè Ald Áulera   Tè Ald Palaóuni   Tè Ald Bandori   Tā Uūn   Guai í Dja   Athrid Guai   Tè Koalició Radikál
International organizations
AN

Politics in Guai operates under a framework laid out in the Constitution of Guai. First written in 1848, it made official the system which had been Guai's for over 350 years: a unitary directorial republic. The Constitution was amended many times such as in 1862 to enact universal male suffrage, in 1912 to extend this right to women or 1926 when The National Council's term was changed from four to five years. There are three main governing bodies on the national level: the unicameral National Council (legislative), the Council of State (executive) and the High Court of Guai (judicial).

Parliament

Belfry of the Parliament

The Rūn Palaóuni (Guaiian Tè Rūn Palaóuni, pronounced /tə ɾu:n pala’ɔwni/ lit. The People's Council), also known as The National Council in Ingerish, is the unicameral national parliament (legislature) of Guai.

The 179 members serve five-year terms, with elections held every five years, or earlier in the relatively rare case that the National Council dissolves itself. All candidates must be at least eighteen year old, there is no term limit. The elections use the mixed-term mixed-member proportional representation, half of the Members of the National Council are elected directly in the 90 constituencies of Guai, the other half are elected from the parties national lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total National Council, although a party has to win one electoral seat or 5 percent of the total party vote before it is eligible for these seats.

The National Council holds its sessions in the Council House (Guaiian: Tè Tic Rūn, pronounced /tə tiʃ ɾu:n/), located on the top of Kerma Hill in Pirindi. The Council House was built from 1912 to 1920 in a early Art Déco architecture style. Topped by a 90-metre bell tower, the building is the tallest Pirindi. Until 1921, the Council met in the old town in a former patrician townhouse adapted in the early 19^th Century to fit its new role. It is now a museum.

Government

The Rūn Mati (Guaiian Tè Rūn Mati, pronounced /tə ɾu:n 'mati/ lit. The State Council), also known as The Council of State in Ingerish, is the fifteen-member executive council which constitutes the national government of Guai and serves as the collective executive head of government and state of Guai.

It is appointed by The National Council for 5 years, after every new general elections. Legally speaking, the National Council can vote a motion of no confidence in one Councillor or the Council of State collectively. While the entire council is responsible for leading the National administration of Guai, each Councillor heads one of the fifteen national executive departments. The central administration is housed in two twin buildings located on Kerma Hill: The East and West National Administration Buildings.

Local government

Guai is a centralised republic. The institutional and territorial organization is chiefly governed by Territorial Reform Act of 1961. This law provides a two-level system with Rov or Canton, and Poro or District (lit. circle). These entities have existed since the late 18^th Century with different rights and objectives. Before 1961, Districts were further subdivided into Municipalities or Inda that ceased to exist as political subdivisions on 1 January 1965. Yet, Municipalities as still used for statistics or some local purposes.

Law and judicial system

Law in Guai is mainly of legislative origin. From the late 19^th century, these provisions have undergone a comprehensive process of codification. Death penalty was legally abolished in 1908 and the last execution occurred in 1870.

The judicial system of Guai is divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with jurisdiction over litigation between individuals and the public administration. Appeals can be made to one of the five Courts of Appeal, the High Court of Guai being the final court of appeal in the Guaiian justice system.

Economy

Companies in Guai

List of companies in Guai

This is a list of notable companies with primary headquarter located in Guai.

Name	Industry	Sector	Headquarters	Rov	Founded	Notes	Ownership	Guaiian
AIMS	Financials	Financial services	Vai	Poro Vai	1972		Private	Yes
Aspra Industries	Industrials	Defense	Koiri	Astel	1784		Private	Yes
Azure Air	Consumer services	Travel & tourism	Jom	Urán	1992	Airlines	Defunct	Yes
Bank Guai	Financials	Banks	Pirindi	Poro Pirindi	1791	Central Bank	Public	Yes
Borem	Consumer services	Broadline retailers	Vai	Poro Vai	1902	Department store chain	Private	Yes
BPV	Financials	Banks	Vai	Poro Vai	1812		Private	Yes
Clearflow	Financials	Financial services	Vai	Poro Vai	1970		Private	Yes
Elek Guai	Utilities	Electrical distributor	Pirindi	Poro Pirindi	1952	State power generation	Public	Yes
FlyMe	Consumer services	Travel & tourism	Jom	Urán	1998	Airlines	Private	Yes
Guai Airways	Consumer services	Travel & tourism	Jom	Urán	1934	Airlines	Private	Yes
Hesperic Bank Guai	Financials	Banks	Vai	Poro Vai	1912		Private	No
Hidjin	Industrials	Building materials & fixtures	Keroli	Iap	1904	Building materials	Private	Yes
Inat Djagi Ítama	Financials	Banks	Kūra	Ítama	1856	Saving bank	Private	Yes
ÍNTEKA	Technology	Software	Vai	Poro Vai	1961		Private	Yes
Kopàg	Consumer services	Food retailers & wholesalers	Taike	Táriao	1954	Retail food, supermarkets	Private	Yes
KoPaSa	Consumer services	Travel & tourism	Pirindi	Poro Pirindi	1941	Passenger Rail	Public	Yes
Kredit Fenu	Financials	Banks	Vai	Poro Vai	1898		Private	Yes
Lamba	Industrials	Business support services	Pirindi	Poro Pirindi	1968	Engineering consulting	Private	Yes
Meisa Gol	Consumer goods	Clothing & accessories	Pirindi	Poro Pirindi	1975	Clothing retailer	Private	Yes
Merp & Jones	Industrials	Business support services	Vai	Poro Vai	1974	Auditors	Private	Yes
Nonkond+	Industrials	Oil refining, filling stations	Vai	Poro Vai	1992			Yes
OVERSPORT	Consumer goods	Clothing & accessories	Iápuiam	Poro Vai	1978	Clothing and sportswear	Private	Yes
SÍLENIS PHARMACEUTICS	Health Care	Pharmaceuticals	Vai	Poro Vai	1994	Pharmaceutical company	Private	Yes
TÁNGOKÏO	Consumer services	Travel & tourism	Jom	Urán	1972	Airlines	Private	Yes
Tola	Industrials	Transportation services	Nikin	Poro Pirindi	1982	Airport operator	Public	Yes
Vai Tūri Vai	Industrials	Transportation services	Vai	Poro Vai	1864	Seaport operator	Public	Yes
Watanabe Air Lease	Industrials	Transportation services	Jom	Urán	1987	Aircraft leaser	Private	No
Wnorkw	Consumer goods	Food products	Taikarí	Karnaki	1913		Private	Yes

Notable companies

Aspra

Aspra Industries (SA), is an Guaiian defence company and weapons manufacturer. It manufactures firearms, ammunition and military technology. Its small arms are very popular throughout the world.

• History

Founded in Koiri in the late 18th century by brothers Emen and Soroi Klaj as a trip hammer factory. Aspra was named after the mythological shield that threw projectiles back at the attacker. A stylized shield still stands as the company's logo.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure of Guai
Roadways
• Driving side	left
Railways
• Passing side	left
• Gauge	1,435mm
• Electrification	25kV 50Hz AC
Mains electricity	240V 50Hz
Telephone code	+501
Internet TLD	.gu

Energy

Since the 1970s, Guai has been operating a nuclear power plant on the shore of the Pórinkon Bay in Táriao Canton. Its 4 nuclear reactors produce about 35%

Transport

Roads

Traffic keeps to the left side of the road.

Trains

The railway network of Guai is operated by the national Railway Company KoPaSa (Guaiian: Tè Korporació Palaóuni tā Snet Arla, lit. National Corporation of Iron Links). KoPaSa provides both long-distance and local train services. Virtually, all lines are electrified using 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead line and conform to the standard gauge. All trains drive on the left.

Airports

Guai's main civil airport in Vai International Airport located near Erfán, Urán Canton. Another minor international airport, Northern Guai International Airport, is located near Ēkw and serves the northern part of the country.

Demographics

Languages

The de facto official language of Guai is Guaiian (Guaiian: Guaii or Bahma Guai).

Health

Guai has got a universal healthcare system since the 1926 Health Law that grouped several healthcare provisions that had existed since the 1870s.

Culture

Guai is usually viewed as a very socially progressive society. Married women can vote since 1912 whereas unmarried female proprietaries could vote since the 1840s. Traditionally, few legal restrictions applied to women but those have been repelled, step-by-step, in the course of the 20th century. Same-sex sexual activity has never been criminalised and LGBT rights are quite extensive: same-sex couples have been legally able to marry and adopt since 1998. Registered Partnership Law of 1988 apply to both heterosexual and homosexual couples. Vai houses a vibrant LGBT community whereas its northern neighbourhood Djima is famous for its annual Pride Parade in early December. Social equality is quite central in Guaiian culture. The country has always been a republic or a set of semi-independent republics and privileges and rights of the upper bourgeoisie vanished in the mid and late 18th century.

Religion

Until at least the first half of the 20th century, dominant belief in Guai was called Ohoism, an amalgamation of religio-philosophical traditions that has a significant impact on shaping Guaiian culture. Since then it has steadily declined and today Guai has one of the least religious populations in the world.