Byasa
Republic of Byasa | |
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Motto: ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ Om mani bêmê hum | |
Anthem: ཤིང་ཉི་ཤར Shing nyi shar "Tree rise" | |
Capital and largest city | Rigrongseb |
Official languages | Byasanese Şovunkeln |
Recognised national languages | Baltanian Monsilvan Uulgadzan |
Recognised regional languages | Slavic Stepadnó Zulu |
Ethnic groups (2020) | 32.9% Byasanese 29.4% Şovunkyn 10.3% Monsilvan 10.1% Uulgadzan 8.2% Baltanian 9.1% Other |
Religion (2020) | 59.9% Buddhism 23.2% Christian 11.3% Ariunxavč 5.6% Other |
Demonym(s) | Byasanese |
Government | Unitary presidential republic |
Legislature | Parliament |
Area | |
• Total | 376,697 sq mi (975,640 km2) |
Population | |
• 2022 estimate | 37,944,022 |
• 2020 census | 37,506,225 |
• Density | 99.6/sq mi (38.5/km2) |
GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | ₵23,770,000,000 (37th) |
• Per capita | ₵633.83 (40th) |
Gini (2020) | 61.4 very high |
HDI (2020) | 0.479 low |
Currency | Byasanese dngul (BYD) |
Time zone | AMT+12 (BYT) |
Mains electricity | 120 V-60 Hz |
Driving side | right |
Calling code | +74 |
ISO 3166 code | BY |
Internet TLD | .by |
Byasa (Byasanese: བྱ་ས; Şovunkeln: Биаса), officially the Republic of Byasa (Byasanese: སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་བྱ་ས; Şovunkeln: Таңһч Биаса) is a landlocked unitary presidential republic in central Ostlandet. It is bordered by Monsilva to the north, Kwazulu-Ciskei to the east, Zloveshchiy to the southeast, Uulgadzar to the south, and Baltanla to the northwest. It is one of the poorest countries in the world and has the lowest GDP per capita in the world. Its total population, according to the 2020 census, is 37,506,225. It has a land area of 975,641 square kilometers, making it one of the world's smallest nations. Its capital, Rigrongseb, is the largest city and political center of the nation. It has a population of almost 10 million.
The first Byasanese people likely appeared in the area making up modern Byasa around 4000 BCE. The area's history has consisted mostly of colonization. In the 8th century CE, the Union of Uul conquered an area consisting of the majority of the southern half of the modern nation. They likely held on to this land until the 1300s. The northeast of the country has been a part of various Monsilvan dynasties throughout history. In the 1500s, the area was conquered by the Empire of Baltanla and remained under its control until the late 1700s. Since the 18th century, the nation has been plagued by destabilizing coups and civil wars. The most notable civil war is the Second Byasanese Civil War between 1928 and 1949, where almost 8 million people died after spillover from the Uulgadzan Civil War turned into a massive ethnic conflict. The conflict was characterized by massive genocide and destruction of infrastructure. It is commonly said the nation has not recovered from the conflict, even nearly 100 years later.
Since 1950, ethnic violence has remained one of the leading causes of death in Byasa. In Rigrongseb alone, almost 100,000 people died from ethnic violence-related causes in 2020. Byasa has one of the lowest life expectancies in Ostlandet, and has the second-lowest HDI in the world. The lack of infrastructure in the nation has caused it to have one of the highest rates of poverty and lowest GDP per capita in the world. It has the highest intentional homicide rate in the world, and has an extremely high crime rate with very little government involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the people.
Byasa's economy is heavily agriculture-reliant, with nearly 70% of the nation's GDP coming from agricultural sources. In recent years, the nation has begun to invest in mining operations and manufacturing. The manufacturing industry has seen lots of foreign investment, with the government attempting to attract investors by moving police and military units to protect foreign-owned factories. However, since the 2011 factory bombing in Ringrongseb, investors have been wary to operate inside of Byasa and the economy has stagnated as a result.