Pandapajamastan

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Pandapajamastan
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Flag of Pandapajamastan
Motto: "..."
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Region Final Fantasy
Capital Senate City
Official Language(s) English, The Toungue of the Realms
Leader Emperor Radz IV
Population 300 million
Currency Pandapajamastani Dollar 
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Pandapajamastan, officially known as the Empire of Pandapajamastan, is an empire centred in the Final Fantasy region. It has been called the greatest nation in the world, though usually only Imperial Mages and the Emperor himself actually refer to it as that. The nation materialized in this world seemingly out of nowhere, and as such was referred to by initial observers as "Weird Island".

The nation itself is a large island, as well as a few smaller islands, primarily to the north. It has few allies and fewer enemies, which can be attributed to the Pandapajamastani Document on Foreign Policy, which consists entirely of the phrase "If diplomacy doesn't succeed, cast Firaga on them and forget about it."

Pandapajamastan's government consists of the Imperial Government and the Senate, the latter of which actually a House of Commons. The government style is interesting because both bodies have the ability to veto decisions of the other, and to go as far as remove each other from office. Due to this, both try to stay in the other's "good book", creating pseudo-harmony. Nonetheless, several Emperors have been dethroned, and more than half of the Imperial Declarations on record involve firing a Senator.

The name Pandapajamastan comes from the traditional names for the Four Elements: pan, da, pa, and jama, with stan added at the end "because other nations were doing it".

History

Little is known about the history of Pandapajamastan previous to the year 4593 YO, when the earliest incarnation of what is now Pandapajamastan was founded following a revolution led by a group of Elementalists. At that point its rulership was taken by King Zur I (though it isn't known who ruled it previously). In 4798, most nearby nations were democracies and the people of Pandapajamastan wanted power, but at the same time they did not want a violent revolution. King Radz II, monarch at the time, was sympathetic to their cause and began negotiation with representative of the population, leading to the formation of something resembling the government structure in use now. It was then that it declared itself an Empire, due to the rapidly increasing size of its territory. In 5000 YO (the present year), the magic in the plane of existance Pandapajamastan was in collapsed on itself, causing the plane to disintegrate and many areas of it to move to other planes. The majority of Pandapajamastan ended up as an island in Final Fantasy, at which point reports say the emperor "ordered a soda from Flibbleites and continued on as though nothing happened." It later colonized the islands surrounding it.