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Gruenberg
Region: Malibu Islands Map: [1] Capital: Flurthwel Court Language: Bazhtan State Language: Rukialkotta State Religion: Wenaism Monarch: His High Holiness Grand Sultan Gardab Woltzten IX Currency: Opst National Animal: Moon Ram National Anthem: Kab-sez Schialnach Brachtrauron ['There's Nothing Wrong']

The Sultanate of Gruenberg is a small nation in the Malibu Islands region. The country is devoutly Wenaist.

NOTES:

1. In order to comply with NSWiki's NPOV policy, this factbook has been assembled by a team of independent researchers. However, we cannot guarantee the validity or accuracy of any information presented in this factbook.
2. Gruenberg adopted the metric system in The 724th Year. All public signs now display distances in metres and kilometres, and weights and measures are fixed in metric standards. However, use of antiquated tribal systems of mensuration may be encountered in more remote areas. All figures in this factbook are given in metric terms.
3. Gruenberg has however not chosen to convert to the CE classification of dates, instead retaining Tak Perda Rarapsant (lit. The Blade Of Light in Rukialkotta), the traditional Wenaist calendar. Dates within the factbook are given in the traditional form, and as such, readers are recommended to familiarise themselves with the outline of the calendar, detailed in a separate section. Basically, however, The 1st Year equates to 1274 CE - so, for example, 1789 CE would be The 516th Year.

PEOPLE

Unless otherwise stated, all figures come from the Gruenberg State Institute for Research and Development, and apply to The 731st Year.

Demographics

POPULATION:

• Census Of The 720th Year: 97,426,000¹
• Census Of The 730th Year:
  • Males: 65,677,806
  • Females: 60,984,623
  • TOTAL: 126,662,429
• Current estimate (mid-The 732nd Year): 129,000,000

BIRTH RATE: 32.6 live births per '000 head

DEATH RATE: 9.6 registered deaths per '000 head

POPULATION GROWTH RATE: 2.16% per annum

AGE STRUCTURE:

• 0-14 years: 38.2%
• 15-49 years: 55.4%
• 50+ years: 6.4%
• Median age: 20.4 years (males 19.6, females 21.0)

GENDER RATIO:

• Birth: 1.02 male:female²
• 0-14 years: 1.07 male:female
• 15-49 years: 1.05 male:female
• 50+ years: 0.96 male:female
• TOTAL: 1.05 male:female

LIFE EXPECTANCY:

• Males: 60.1 years
• Females: 60.7 years
• TOTAL: 60.4 years

Health and Welfare

INFANT MORTALITY RATE: 106 per '000 head³

FERTILITY RATE: 4.4 children per woman⁴

HIV/AIDS ADULT PREVALENCE: 0.05%

BASIC ACCESS:

• To water: 92%⁵
• To sanitation: 58%⁶

AVAILABILITY OF HEALTHCARE:

• Physicians: 0.38 per '000 head
• Hospital beds: 0.47 per '000 head

HEALTH EXPENDITURE:

• Per head: ⁷
• % of GDP:
• Public: ⁸

MAJOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES:

• Food or waterborne diseases: Bacterial diarrhoea; Hepatitis A and E; Typhoid fever.
• Vectorborne diseases: Dengue fever; Malaria.⁹
• Water contact diseases: Ampirspirosis.¹⁰
• Animal contact diseases: Rabies.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX: 0.48¹¹

Nationality

ETHNIC GROUPS: Gruenberg has no major ethnic divisions, and it is important to note that Gelziens who seek autonomy do so for national and cultural, not ethnic, reasons. Differences between tribes have always been slight, and have all but disappeared.

LANGUAGES: Rukialkotta is the state language of Gruenberg and is being taken up rapidly by the population at the expense of more traditional tribal languages. Bazhtan is the holy language of the Wenaist religion, but may only be spoken by a very select minority. Figures here apply only to the first language of respondents:

• Rukialkotta: 62.4%
• Salsaffron: 8.9%
• Malhiati: 6.2%
• Deshpatt: 5.3%
• all other: 17%

RELIGION: Wenaism is the state religion of Gruenberg, and over 99% of Gruenbergers are Wenaists. A few thousand citizens are registered as atheists, Christians or otherwise, mainly in the Gelzien Nub.

GEOGRAPHY

Details of Gruenberg's geography, including geological analysis and information about major settlements, can be found in a separate section.

Area

TOTAL INLAND WATER AREA: 35,310 sq km

Location

REGION: Malibu Islands

BORDERS: Gruenberg has a total of 10,120 km of land boundary. The largest border with a single nation is with Kinesrra, totalling 6,965 km in all. This is however split between Naffarron (2,912 km) and the Gelzien Nub (4,053km).

APPENDIX

1. Including adjustment for net underenumeration, estimated to have been 3.2%.
2. Registered live births only. The practice in remote rural communities of killing or abandoning unwanted female children means that these figures are unreliable.
3. Ratio of registration of under-5 deaths to registration of births over same period.
4. Figures assume a 0% mortality rate for women of child-bearing age.
5. The availability of at least 20 litres of water per person per day from a source within 1 km from the user's dwelling, including domestic connection, public standpipes, boreholes with handpumps, protected dug wells, and protected spring and rainwater collection.
6. The availability of access to sanitation at a source within 1 km from the user's dwelling, including connection to a sewer or septic tank system, pour-flush latrine, simple pit latrine, and ventilated improved pit latrine.
7. Standardised estimate derived by dividing the value of the Opst by an estimate of its purchasing-power parity (PPP) compared to international currency units.
8. State health-related outlays plus expenditure by social schemes compulsorily affiliated with at least 40% of the population, and extrabudgetary funds allocated to health services. Figures also include grants or loans provided by international agencies, other national authorities, and commercial banks.
9. Risk of infection is dependent on location.
10. Lethal, water-borne virus found in the Chaubhan river in the Gelzien Nub.
11. The HDI is a summary of human development measured by three basic dimensions: life expectancy, knowledge (weighted in a 2:1 ration between adult literacy rate and universal enrollment in all levels of education) and a PPP assessment of GDP per capita. The index range runs from 0 to 1: a value above 0.8 indicates high development, whereas a value below 0.5 indicates low development.