Kirav

This article is about Greater Kirav. For Kirav's nation and territories, see Kiravian Empire.

Kirav is a technologically advanced nation of NationStates

500,000,000th Citizen

On December 11, 2006, the five-hundered millionth Kiravian was born. This gave Kirav a giant leap ahead in the international community, and merited a federal holiday and a festival in San Xaviero.

History

Kirav began as a colony of Coscivia, and became the most prominant Coscivian nation after Coscivia's demise. The first settlers arrived in the year 27470 of the Coscivian calendar aboard the CCS Newfound. The fist permanent settlement was constructed on the sandy islands near the mouth of the Kiygrav River. Kirav expanded over the continent of Sovereignia's western region, encompassing 47 political subdivisions. Kiravwas involved in a war with the neighboring country, of Æonara, until the latter was finally brought to peace. As a stable nation, Kirav has formed a total of 15 colonies, including Iscova, Scæve, Svit-Kona, Evergreena, Westcoastmar, Khakia, and Ceuvara. Through colonization and conquest, Kirav has become a powerful Empire. Lately Kirav has been involved militarily with Brarock ending in the conquest of the latter.

Government

Kirav has a unique form of government. It is Democratic, but nonpartisan. Federal funding is given to electoral candidates equally to ensure fair elections. Non-electoral positions are filled through technocracy and meritocracy. Unlike other nations, Kirav's legislature is not organized geographically, by provinces, but rather by certain social societies that apply themselves to a Senator who supports their views. The Kiravian Imperial Government system is very centralized. There is no Judicial Banch, as a panel of Senators called Imperial Judges decide on matters of constitutionality.

Civilography

Kirav is a strange nation in terms of civilography and urbanology. For example, Kirav has no suburbs or continuous settlements. Towns are centralized and do not expand into one another. Also,, because of Kirav's special economy, wealth and population seem to be spread fairly evenly throughout the Empire.

Economy

The Kiravian economy is based largely on Services and Industry.

Natural Rescources

Kirav is rescource-rich, strewn with everything from valuable energy mineals to crystal-clear water.

Minerals

Kirav's most important natural rescources are the minerals found in its many mountain ranges. Most of these are metals, Cheifly ferroalloys, compound minerals, rocks and stones, and gems. Clay, sand, and other such things are also mined. Kirav exports little of its silicon, copper, or silver, using these metals instead for the electronic goods that make up Kirav's trade base.

Kiravian oceans are mined as well as it's landmass. Vessels like the Kiravian Oceanic Mining Ship are used to collect mineral deposits on the seafloor.

Soil and Forests

Kirav also has botanical rescources, namely it's vast conifer forests. Kiravian law strictly governs forestry, mandating that 3 trees be replanted per every forest tree cut, and putting funding into Arboculture and forest-herding to protect the evergreens. Kiravian soil is also important. While most is of little major agricultural value, there are small pockets in the midwest of rich mollisols.

Energy

While many petroleum sites exist in the Kiravian Empire, almost none is in Greater Kirav. Kiravian cities are powered by hydroelectricity or wind power rather than coal or oil. Geologic Gas is used in further inland areas, and fusion energy is under research at Sardson University and Kirav University.

Education

Unlike most industrialized nations, Kirav's juvenile education is not compulsory. The government recognized the need for specialization of workers. Despite this, most memmbers of the Technocrat caste and Manulab caste attend schools until reaching maturity.

Krav has a total of 153 universities. This does not include Colleges or Institutes(These are defined seperately by yht Kirav Secriat of Education). The most prominaent are the Imperial University in San Xaviero, Sardson University, in Saar-Kaleforest, and the Kiravian Military University in Westron Mountain. These Universities are more than educational establishments, but scientific institutes, art centres and cultural monuments. Often operating expeditions and Research projects.

Science & Technology

Kirav is an extremely advanced nation. It has eliminated the need for factory labor by use of industrial robotics, and the need for fossil fuels by creating a hydropower net massive enought to provide electricity to vehicles and settlements. Information Technology has thus been made a major industry. 40% of Kirav's uiversity students study in the Scientific and Engineering fields, as opposed to buisness andArtistic areas. Computers are an intergal part of daily life, taking care of waste management, household economics, and communications. However, there is a downside to this advancement: Social Division. demand for technical experts has created a surperior Technocratic class to manage and devlop scientific articuli. The members of this caste are financially prosperous, and socially refined, more so then the commoners. The Technocrat to Manulabic ratio is 53% in favor of the Technocratic portion. This does not play a factor in daily life, as Kiravian philosophy values equality.

Flags

The early version of the Kiravian Standard Flag was approved for land and sea usage by the Kiravian Senate in 2001 This flag was approved for Land & Sea use in 2005. This flag was introduced when Humanism was ratified as the National religion, and is approved for Land use only.

Geography

Kirav occupies most of western Sovereignia, and controls territory on northwestern Calienta. Several mountain ranges span the nation, providing enormous mineral wealth. 7 rivers flow through Kirav, the Siber, the Osèll, the D————, the Erbríll, the Êilid, the Coin, the Kildar, and the Këlm. Most of Kirav is either Forests, Tall grasslands, or Tundra and Ice Cap. Newly acquisitoned lands provide Steppe, Rangeland, Tropical Forests and Mammoth Steppe land types.

Climate

The Cœšŧ-Rêan mountains are a coastal range of mountains. These mountains provide a moist climate for Northwest Kirav. Southwest kirav has a Mediterranean climate, while Subarctic, Laurentian, and oceanic Moist areas are common covering most of Kirav in forest. Colonization and COnquest rapidly Expand Kirav's empire, so information on all climatic data is difficult to calcualate.