Gyre
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| Motto: Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam | |
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| Region | Western Atlantic |
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| Leader | Premier Astrid Beck |
| Population | 3.67 billion |
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The United Socialist Republic of Gyre is currently under reconstruction whilst I turn it into somewhere actually nice to live in. Please check back later.
History
Colonial History
Gyre was first sighted by Europeans in 1503 by the Portugese navigator Tristan da Cunha, who dismissed it as a minor island due to poor visibility and did not land. The discovery of Gyre was left to a German explorer in Portugese employ, Ernst von Gyr, who discovered the island by accident in 1626. Von Gyr, unlike da Cunha a century earlier, readily recognized the island as a large landmass, believing it to be a northward extension of the mythical Terra Australis. He explored much of the north and west coasts, and then - apparently believing his reward would be greater - he defected to the British with his charts.
Britain was preoccupied with North America, but readily stationed a Royal Navy squadron in "Von Gyre's Lande" to ward off other colonial interests, and soon discovered that Gyre's Land was not connected to a great southern continent at all. Colonization waited until 1650, when Lord Elliot Tremaine - notorious freethinker, libertine, natural philosopher and minor nobility - petitioned Oliver Cromwell to establish a colony in the distant territory. The island was divided between Tremaine and fellow nobles Ashton, Ellory, Fletcher, Hargreave, Haughton, Hollinworth, Leigh, Morne, Seele, and Sykes, who pooled their finances to establish a colony at New Cambridge on the north coast.
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Geography
At 1,094,061 square kilometers in area, Gyre is a large nation (a little under twice the area of metropolitan France), most of which is composed of the large subcontinental island of Gyre in the South Atlantic, east of Ambara between 25 and 40 degrees south. It is warmed by the southern extension of the Southern Equatorial Current and possesses a cold but temperate climate, save in the far south where approximately one sixth of the nation is covered in taiga. The landscape ranges from littoral plains and deeply indented bays and river valleys in the west to mountains in the east and south. The south country is intersected by extensive fjords. Snow cover ranges from several months in the north to nearly half the year in the south and the mountainous regions.
Crops grown include wheat, barley, oats, rye, and potatoes, as well as commercial timber plantations, and sheep, llamas, cattle, and dairy cows are farmed.
Natural hazards include avalanches, blizzards, and occasional flooding. Environmental issues include air pollution from vehicles and industry and agricultural runoff.
Natural resources include iron, coal, copper, gold, uranium, fish, timber, and zinc.
