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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
Info: NationStates NSEconomy Pipian NS Tracker XML

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 Ashtoon 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".

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