Nordestan

7, -23.00, 118.40
Nordestan Federation Federação do Nordeste (Florescentian) Federación Nordestán (Castellanese)
Flag
Capital and largest city	Charlestown
Official languages	None (de jure)
• Regional languages	Castellanese, Florescentian
Demonym	Norde or Nordo
Government	Federal Presidential Republic
• President
Area
• Total	220,537.522 km2
Population
• Census (2010)	15,231,888
• Density	69.0/km2
Drives on the	right
Internet TLD	.no

Nordestan (official name: Nordestan Federation) is a country located on the central part of Gwynian subcontinent, part of the continent of Archanta. It is one of the largest country in Gwynian by land area. About 15 million people live in Nordestan according to the 2010 census. The capital city of Nordestan is Charlestown. Nordestan shares borders with Ardisphere, Dandria, AR017b, AR021, Saneusitania, AR035, AR059a and AR059c. It also has borders over water with Aorangëa by the Gwinian Sea.

About 15 million people live in Nordestan, and up to 80% of them live on the northeastern parts of the country where the climate is not so dry. Its government is now based on a democratic form of rule. The president is chosen in direct elections.

The name of the country is from the Nordos people.

History

The dry lands of Nordestan were lived in since early times by pantanus tribes. About the 14th century AD, nordestanis came to the area from central Archanta.

For much of its history the area was simply called Sirenoa Ardispheric and was a least inhabbited region, except its northeastern borders. The last few 2 centuries several foreign peoples involved themselves with the area, in search for areas for pasture and minerals. After the Ardispherian Civil War between 1855-1858 the land that named Sirenoa Ardispheric separated from Ardisphere and from Saneusitania to form a new country called Nordestan.

Geography

Nordestan is divided into seven regional federal subjects (administrative territorial divisions of 1st level):

Flag	2-letter codes	Subject	Capital	Area (Km²)	Population	Dens. (p/Km²)
	CS	Casine y Salón	Nuevo Castillo	32,467.281	838,000	25,8
	GO	Grande Oeste	Mimosa Hostilis	46,415.815	447,900	9,6
	MO	Meio Oeste	Villa Chica	19,137.616	416,057	21,7
	EN	Nova Luslândia	Charlestown	37,747.000	9,714,056	257,3
	AN	Arco Nordeste	Guaiavas	20,336.242	2,626,975	129,1
	SI	Sirenoa	Droge Rivier	33,723.719	1,018,500	30,2
	SL	Sirenoa Litoral	Porto	30,709.849	170,400	5,5
	NO	Nordestan	Charlestown	220,537.522	15,231,888	69,0

Subdivisions

Nordestan subdivisions is complex, multi-layered and non-uniform. It is administratively divided into seven regional federal subjects (administrative territorial divisions of 1st level), then republics, major and minor regions, municipalities and districts.

Province	Republic	Major region (Região superior)	Minor region (Região inferior)	Municipality	District
Casine y Salón	Casine
	Salón
Grande Oeste		Região 11
		Região 14
Meio Oeste		Região 6
		Região 7
		Região 8
		Região 9
Nova Luslândia	Grande Ruslândia	Ruslândia
		Serednya
		Putanitsa
	Nordik N	Lammas	Base de Aguasul Ags
		Maradvane
	Ocidenta		Oéstia O
			Independenta O
	Przełom Rzeki PZ
	Rio Seco	Sankt Joseph RS
		Westerline RS
	Selsovétia		Selsovétia Inferior S
			Estãos S
			Forte S		Zona 1, Zona 2, Zona 3 and Zona 4
			Vermelha S
			Faixa Norte S
			Dalnit S
			Faixa Leste S
			Korolevstvo S
	Sudeste Exterior SU	Lindore
		Guneydogu
	Sul Exterior SU	Yuzhen
		Tsentralna
	Volkslândia V
Arco Nordeste	Arco Leste A	Região 1
		Região 2
	Arco Norte A	Região 3
		Região 4
		Região 5
Sirenoa		Região 10
		Droge Rivier
		Região 12
		Região 13
Sirenoa Litoral		Sirenoa Litoral

Languages

Nordestan has no official languages at federal level and a multitude of languages are used.

According to the last census Florescentian and Castellanese are the are the two main languages spoken in the country, and the de facto the two national languages.

The two most populous subdivisions have Florescentian as the most used language, while the other provinces speak mainly Castellanese.

Language	Native speakers	Second-language	Total speakers
Florescentian	10,650,000	2,500,000	13,150,000
Castellanese	3,800,000	3,400,000	7,200,000
Russkie	310,000	1,600,000	1,910,000
Other	471,000	450,000	931,000

Time zones

There are two time zones in Nordestan, UTC+07:00 (West hour) and UTC+08:00 (East hour). Some parts of the country observes daylight saving time. These areas are the Southeast and Central-eastern parts of five regions.

During the summer time the country observe 3 time zones, from UTC+07:00 to UTC+09:00, starting on the second Sunday of October and lasts till the second Sunday in March.

	UTC	Area covered	Map
	UTC+07 (All year)	Grande Oeste, Meio Oeste, Sirenoa and western parts of Nova Luslândia, Arco Nordeste and Sirenoa Litoral west of the Sirenoa River.
	UTC+07 (Winter)/ UTC+08 (Summer)	Sirenoa Litoral west of the Sirenoa River, most of Sirenoa (except its northwestern border), central parts of Nova Luslândia and western parts of Arco Nordeste.
	UTC+08 (Winter)/ UTC+09 (Summer)	Sirenoa Litoral east of Sirenoa River, Casine y Salón and eastern parts of Nova Luslândia and Arco Nordeste

Climate

There are three predominant climatic zones in Nordestan, based on temperature and humidity:

• hot semihumid summer (far north and east)
• hot dry summer, mild winter (central west)
• hot dry summer, cold winter (southern west)

The highest maximum temperature observed in the country is 49 ºC at Sirenoa Desert, Great West region, and the lowest minimum temperature ever recorded is -13 ºC at Monte Dykhtau.

Territory	January Max. Temp	January Min. Temp	July Max. Temp	July Min. Temp	Annual Rainfall
Casine y Salón	34	21	22	10	372
Great West	36	22	21	12	153
Middle West	35	24	21	13	200
Nova Luslândia	32	24	25	14	492
Northeast Arc	31	18	16	5	562
Sirenoa	37	26	26	14	182
Sirenoa Litoral	33	26	26	10	112

Culture

The culture of Nordestan is a Western culture, but presents a very diverse nature showing that an ethnic and cultural mixing occurred in the colonial period.

Nordestan, is one of the "least religious" countries in the world, with about 20% of the population declaring religion an important part of their daily life.

Music festivals have a long history in Nordestan. The major outdoor music festival is the Spring Festival (Festival da Primavera), held every year in 9 cities over the country, between September and November.

Sports

Rugby union and football are the national sports in Nordestan and the national teams of both sports, are consistently competitives against teams worldwide.

At club level, there is the National Championship (Campeonato Nacional) for football teams, the National Provincial Cup (Copa Nacional) for provincial teams of football and the Nordestan Rugby Cup (Campeonato Nacional de Râguebi).

The National Games (Florescentian: Jogos Nacionais) is a high-level multi-sport event with a National Artists Program held every two years in the country, alternating between the National Winter Games and the National Summer Games. Athletes are strictly amateur only, and represent their territory.

Notes

• Bold: Indicates that the entity is legally formed by a constitution;
• Italic: Indicates that the entity is formed by treaties, without constitution;
• ^[Ags]:It is a special region, in which treaties guarantee its formation. There is, however, no equal subdivision in the rest of the republic;
• ^[S]:These subdivisions are similar to municipalities, but have greater rights guaranteed by the central constitution to protect local minorities.
• ^[V]:Although it does not have Major or Minor Regions in its formation, this subdivision is historically classified as Republic.
• ^[PZ]:Although it does not have Major or Minor Regions in its formation, this subdivision is historically classified as Republic.
• ^[RS]:The classification of these subdivisions is not clear in the Constitution, however, its historical classification remains.
• ^[SU]:The union of these two Major Regions is guaranteed through treaties.
• ^[N]:The two Major Regions that form this subdivision have a kind of parliament, without having, however, a constitution that guarantees their legal formation.
• ^[A]:The union of these two Major Regions is guaranteed through treaties.