Daytanistan

The Democratic Republic of
Daytanistan

Flag of Daytanistan
National motto: O Glorious Daytan Motherland
National anthem: Hymn of the Daytan Proletariat
Region	Central Asia
Capital	Yerbel
Largest City	Yerbel
Population	About 6 million
Suffrage	Eligible members of the Daytan Communist Workers Party
Official Language(s)	None (Dushtoo de facto)
Government Executive Legislature	Proletarian Dictatorship Supreme Daytan People's Council Supreme Soviet of Daytan People's Deputies
Established Straw Hat Revolution Declared Recognised	6 November 1932 21 January 1933 28 October 1945
ISO Nation Code	DAYT
Currency	Zoat (ζ) (ZOAT)
Time Zone	+4:30
• Summer (DST)	+4:30
Internet TLD	.dt
Calling Code	+432
National Symbols  • Sport  • Animal  • Fruit  • Flower	Cock fighting Goat Pear Poppy
UN Status	Non-member
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Daytanistan, officially the Democratic Republic of Daytanistan (Dushtoo: ee Dimankratan Ripooblykan al Daytanistan), is a small nation in Central Asia.

People

Although its people all share the one nationality, before the Straw Hat Revolution, Daytans lived in dozens of different tribes, which can themselves be grouped into three different groups. The largest group comprised the native tribes, spoke Dushtoo and were referred to as Daytars. The second largest group consisted of northern tribes who settled in Daytanistan in the second century CE, who spoke a corrupted Greek dialect, and were called Ashoons. The smallest group, called the Zirkshes migrated eastwards to Daytanistan in the tenth century, and spoke Farsi. The Ashoon language was incorporated into Dushtoo as Ashoon and Daytar tribes intermixed, traded, made war, and formed alliances between each other over the centuries. Farsi, on the other hand, had very little influence on Dushtoo, although the Zirkshe religion, Islam, eventually became the predominant religion amongst most Daytar and Ashoon tribes. Although today most Daytans have forgotten their tribe, they are all aware of their tribal group, which is referred to in Dushtoo as one's shoobdiman.

Geography

Daytanistan is a geographically diverse nation of barren, rocky, seemingly lifeless mountains, plains running the gamut from fertile to arid, deserts and surprisingly lush oases. It is completely landlocked, and most of its borders are defined by harsh mountain ranges. Daytanistan consists of six provinces - Ashta and Kashoun in the north, Parshea in the south west, Dalysh and Jalaalalaal in the centre, and Yshtafha in the east. Most of Daytanistan's large towns and cities are in Dalysh and Jalaalalaal, and these provinces are the heaviest populated and most industrialised. The majority of Daytanistan's poppy crops are grown in Kashoun, where the country's most fertile plains are found.

Government

Executive Branch

Today Daytanistan is ruled by the Daytan Communist Workers Party under the leadership of General Secretary Farrokh Nugat, the grandson of one of the leaders of the Straw Hat Revolution. There is, however, no individual official head of state or government in Daytanistan, with those roles instead being held by the Supreme Daytan People's Council, a body of twelve members of whom Nugat is only one. Six of the members of this council are appointed by the Central Administrative Committee of the Daytan Communist Workers Party, and the other six are elected by each provincial conference of the Daytan Communist Workers Party as representatives of the Party in their region. In practice this means that the General Secretary has complete control over appointments to the Supreme Daytan People's Council. The Supreme Daytan People's Council has no official leader but the General Secretary has always been its de facto head and consequently the de facto head of state and government of Daytanistan.

The Supreme Daytan People's Council appoints ministers to various portfolios of its choosing - these ministers are styled Supreme People's Commissioner of (Portfolio Name). A Supreme People's Commissioner is answerable to the Supreme Daytan People's Council, and cannot be a member of the council. The Supreme Daytan People's Council also creates ministerial portfolios for each province, which are taken up by a People's Commissioner of (Portfolio Name) for the Socialist Province of (Province Name), often called Provincial People's Commissioners for the sake of convenience. Provincial People's Commissioners are elected by members of their province's branch of the Daytan Communist Workers Party from a list of candidates for office approved by the appropriate provincial conference. Once the provincial branch elects its commissioners, the General Secretary presents the results to the Supreme Daytan People's Council, which officially ratifies the election of all Provincial People's Commissioners.

Legislative Branch

The Supreme Soviet of Daytan People's Deputies is Daytanistan's national legislature, with ninety six deputies in total, sixteen from each province. The national deputies for each province are theoretically elected by their province's own legislature. In reality, the General Secretary selects sixteen members of that province's branch of the Daytan Communist Workers Party and the provincial soviet ratifies that selection. The Supreme Soviet elects one of its own members as its chairman. The Chairman of the Supreme Soviet cannot vote, move, second, debate, or co-sign legislation, but is the leader of the Soviet, and presides and adjudicates over its proceedings. For a piece of legislation to be introduced into the Supreme Soviet, it must be co-signed by a deputy from each province, and a member of the Supreme Daytan People's Council. It is then moved and seconded, and debated on. If needs be it can be amended, but this has never happened in the Supreme Soviet's history. After the debate is over, a vote is held, and if a majority of deputies present vote in favour, the bill is sent to the Supreme Daytan People's Council for ratification and enactment. If the Supreme Daytan People's Council rejects the legislation, it cannot be considered again by the Supreme Soviet until another member of the Council co-signs the bill. A ratified bill becomes national law.

Provincial soviets are called Soviet of People's Deputies for the Socialist Province of (Province Name), and are themselves elected by Regional Soviets of People's Deputies, which are in turn elected by local soviets representing individual factories, farming communes, mines, and so on. These local soviets consist of all the workers in a workplace. The members of all soviets at the provincial and regional level must be members of the Daytan Communist Workers Party's branch in their province/region, and their election must be approved by the provincial/regional secretary of that party branch. The provincial and regional soviets operate in a similar fashion to the Supreme Soviet, except only a mover and seconder are required for a bill to be introduced, and their legislation requires no ratification. A higher-level soviet's legislation always takes precedence over a lower-level soviet, so national law overrules provincial law which overrules regional law which overrules the decisions made by local soviets. A higher-level soviet may repeal the legislation of its subordinate soviets and the lower-level soviet cannot reintroduce that legislation until the higher-level soviet's repeal has been repealed.

Judicial Branch

The Supreme Daytan People's Council appoints judges to the Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Daytanistan. There are a total of twenty judges on the Supreme Court and all are of the same rank, although the order in which they were appointed determines precedence for the purposes of seating arrangements. The Council may remove judges and replace them at any time from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is the highest court in Daytanistan, from which there can be no appeal, and hears cases from all jurisdictions in Daytanistan.

The Supreme Daytan People's Council also appoints judges to the Daytan People's Court, some one hundred and sixty in all, in the same fashion as it appoints judges to the Supreme Court. The Daytan People's Court hears cases regarding national law. Its decisions may only be appealed to the Supreme Court.

The chairman of each provincial soviet nominates judges for appointment to the People's Court of the Socialist Province of (Province Name). This nomination is then considered and accepted or rejected by the provincial soviet. If the nomination is accepted, the judge in question is appointed to the provincial court. If the nomination is rejected, the chairman must make a new nomination. Provincial courts hear cases regarding provincial law. Their decisions may only be appealed to the Supreme Court.

The chairman of each regional soviet nominates judges for appointment to the Regional Court of the People of (Region Name). This nomination must be considered by both the provincial soviet and the regional soviet, and accepted by both for the judge in question to be appointed to the regional court. If it fails in either soviet, a new judge must be nominated. Regional courts hear cases regarding regional law. Their decisions may be appealed to the appropriate provincial court, and to the Supreme Court after that.

All judges must be members of the Daytan Communist Workers Party in good standing. The secretary of the appropriate party organisation provides membership lists for this purpose. Judges are referred to simply as "Comrade Judge".

History

Ancient Daytanistan

Before the second century CE, the region now known as Daytanistan was inhabited by nomadic Daytar tribes. These tribes were never united politically, but were significantly culturally homogeneous, and all spoke dialects of Ancient Dushtoo. It is the general opinion of historians that although different tribes had different social traditions, all were organised along very similar lines and the day to day life of tribespeople differed little between tribe. Some anthropologists draw a distinction between a large group of northern tribes (the Kamuni tribes) and the rest of the population of Ancient Daytanistan. This distinction, between the early Daytars and Kamunis, is hotly disputed by many academics, not least within Daytanistan itself.

Ashoon Settlement

It is unclear as to whether the lands of Daytanistan were amongst the conquests of Alexander the Great, however, tribal oral (and later written) tradition amongst the Ashoons maintains that Alexander conquered the country and left behind a corps of soldiers to garrison it. According to tribal tradition, this garrison left Daytanistan after the death of Alexander, but, unable to navigate a path home to Greece, settled in what is now Espandorra and mixed with the local population. After several generations, the Greek-speaking descendents of the garrison were driven from Espandorra by warring tribes, and retraced the steps of their forefathers to Daytanistan, where they became known as the Ashoons. There is no real archeological evidence to support this tradition.

It is known, however, that in the second century CE, the Ashoon tribes arrived in Daytanistan. There seems to have been no organised resistance by the Daytars, and within a few generations the Ashoon tribes were integrated into the tribal system of Daytanistan. The corrupted version of Greek spoken by the Ashoon tribespeople started to influence Dushtoo as the tribes traded with one another, formed alliances, and intermarried. The arrival of the Ashoon tribes also saw the arrival of the Greek alphabet, and soon, the first Dushtoo literature was written in it. Some scholars speculate that the arrival of the Ashoon made the Daytar and Kamuni tribes appear to be more similar to one another, and thus began the process of eroding the distinct Kamuni identity.

The Coming of Islam

In the tenth century CE, Persian invaders swept into western Daytanistan, bringing with them the Qu'ran. The Farsi-speaking invaders began settling what is now known as Parshea province, and waged holy war on Daytar and Ashoon tribes alike. The Persians were better armed, organised and equipped than the Daytars and the Ashoons, but were vastly outnumbered and were thus unable to achieve political dominance over the pre-existing population. What the Persians did accomplish, however, was the gradual conversion of the Daytar and Ashoon tribes by the sword. Within a few generations, the descendents of the Persian invaders spoke Dushtoo as much as they spoke Farsi (although they wrote Dushtoo in the Arabic alphabet), and began to adopt a nomadic tribal structure which best suited life in the political scene of medieval Daytanistan. Thus in a sense, while their religion conquered Daytanistan, Daytanistan conquered the Persian invaders, who became known as the Zirkshe.

The Khans

The Persian invasion brought new political concepts to Daytanistan. The nomadic peoples had previous never considered themselves the owners of territory so much as its temporary occupants. Whilst tribes broadly tended to move about the same sort of areas, there had been little to no permanent settlement. The few cities which did exist were only permanently occupied by merchants and foreigners seeking trade. When a tribe had goods to trade it would come to the city, set up camp within the walls with permission of the municipal government, and then leave a few weeks or months later when its trading was complete. These cities, barely worthy of the name, were considered to belong to nobody. With the Persians came the concept of control and ownership of territory, as well as modern military techniques, and before long dozens of wars broke out amongst the various tribes for territorial control. It was during this period that a defined concept of what constituted Daytanistan evolved, along with the concept of a unified nationality which transcended one's tribe and shoobdiman alike. These concepts were developed because of the great warlords - the Khans.

As tribes conquered other tribes, the chief of a conquered tribe would be forced to swear fealty to the chief of the conquerors. The tribes would then combine their forces to conquer another tribe, and another, and so on, eventually creating great chiefs who commanded the loyalty of dozens of others. These great chiefs took the name "Khan", and the group of tribes they commanded became known as great tribes. Many great tribes combined tribes of two or even all three shoobdimans - contributing to the concept of a larger national identity. Some great tribes began to permanently settle territory and the cities in particular, replacing the municipal governments of merchant guilds with the khan or his governors. A permanently settled area was known as a khanate, and there were soon dozens of khanates, all locked in various form of constant war and in a constant state of flux.

The Troubles

The great tribes spent most of the 17th Century involved in on-going petty wars with each other, which by the end of that century escalated to the point that agricultural activities throughout every province were disrupted sufficiently to induce a famine across the whole country. This whole period of internecine warfare followed by famine is referred to by Daytans as the Troubles (Dushtoo: ta Katafai). The famine brought an end to the dozens of minor conflicts to the extent that by 1710 all the khans were able to agree to meet in an effort to find a lasting settlement. This meeting was called the Great Council of the Tribes, and it lasted for two years. The Great Council was to create, for the first time, a united Daytan state, the Shahdom of Daytanistan, under the leadership of Daytanistan's first ruler, an Ashoon khan named Amad Ali Sha.

The Shahdom of Daytanistan

(Main article: Shahdom of Daytanistan)

The reign of Amad Ali Sha is remembered as a sort of Daytan golden age, which brought on a wave of modernisation unseen since the Persian invasion. A national capital was established at Yerbel, which became the seat of the Shah's government. The Shah created a governmental bureaucracy, which collected information from the provinces and allowed centralised decision making to take place in a far more efficient and effective manner than had previously been possible. Schools and universities were established, and foreign trade, especially in opium, was encouraged. This foreign trade led to a desire for further modernisation in the 19th Century, when Abdoola Faad Sha began actively courting Western powers. As part of this courtship with the West, the Shah began to implement westernising reforms, which would continue through the reign of his son.

The Islamic Republic of Daytanistan

(Main article: Islamic Republic of Daytanistan)

The Westernisation of Daytanistan was vigorously opposed by the religious establishment, especially the Mufti of Daytanistan, Sheikh Ali Madi. In 1892 Ali Madi and his supporters seized control of the palace in Yerbel, and forced Mamood Amad Sha to abdicate. They quickly seized the instruments of government, cut off contact with the West, and imposed strict religious rule on Daytanistan. Most dramatically, Ali Madi and his new government ended the tribal system.

The Straw Hat Revolution

(Main article: Straw Hat Revolution)

The Straw Hat Revolution of November 1932 in Daytanistan overthrew the theocratic government of the Islamic Republic of Daytanistan and eventually led to the establishment of the modern Communist state. It is called the Straw Hat Revolution because revolutionaries and their supporters eschewed the clothing mandated by the Muslim government, which included turbans for university students and academics, many of whom visibly demonstrated their dissent by wearing inexpensive and easy to make straw hats. As the mood for change spread throughout the country, many followed their lead and wore straw hats to demonstrate their solidarity. When women began to remove their headscarves and replace them with straw hats, the shock of seeing women both uncovered and taking part in an act of political defiance of the religious authorities was profound enough to give the name of the headwear to the entire revolution.

Daytan Nations
Preceded by: Islamic Republic of Daytanistan	1932-Present Democratic Republic of Daytanistan