Saminorr

Saminorr

Flag of Saminorr
Motto: Sinuk nil Saminorr
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Region	The Meritocracy
Capital	Inuksuilat
Official Language(s)	Saminorr’s two official languages are Samiktitut and Kiriki. Legal minority languages are English, Inuktitut, Nunuquat and Aedrusii.
Leader	Jack Saluit
Population	hundreds of millions
Currency	New Merit and Saminite Pound
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The Free Land of Saminorr is a medium formerly isolationist country located on the north of the Asshat Sea, in the Meritocracy. It is bordered by Bumpivania on the south east, the Asshat Sea in the south, and uninhabited wilderness in other directions. Due to its low population density, especially in the central plateau and far east, Saminorr is known as a peaceful, quiet and beautiful country. At the same time its large metropolises, especially Saminirik, are known for their wild night-life and excessive drug use. Saminorr is a founding member of SATO (Sea of Asshats Treaty Organisation), a member of MNM (Meritocratic Nations for Marijuana), and has a Senatorship in The Meritocracy.

History

Ancient History

Saminorr has been inhabited by various hunter-gatherer tribes for thousands of years, notably the Saminirik, Inuit, Kiriki and Nunuquat tribes. Agriculture was developed in these four tribes as early as 300 BC and late as a 600 AD, and independently from neighboring cultures. Around 1000 AD cities started to develop, centered around the Asshat Sea and Lake Kiriki, which provided sources of nutrition and transportation.

Asshat Sea: 500 AD

With these cities came complicated cultures and sophisticated societies. The Saminirik culture especially  was very successful, trading with various other groups around the Asshat Sea and establishing trading outposts all over the area. Their cultural influence can still be seen today on islands which do not even belong to the nation of Saminorr.

Very few wars were recorded between the four cultures; they respected each other as People of the Snows and shared many aspects of their cultures. Except for a few instances of isolated pillaging, there was peace in the area for hundreds of years, and the cultures flourished.

Asshat Sea: 1000 AD	Asshat Sea: 1250 AD

Colonial Age

In 1503 AD the first Aedrusii ships arrived. This was in Aedrus's golden age of imperialism when it controlled small cities, huge countries and vast empires all across the globe. Spotting an opportunity for conquest, the Aedrusii captain Sakarik Obilix returned to Aedrus and then came back to Saminorr with a huge military fleet which quickly subdued the Saminirik and Inuit. For 257 years the whole region was controlled by the Aedrusiix, except for sporadic warfare with the Kiriki in the north and the Nunuquat in the southeast.

During this period the native culture was brutally suppressed by the Aedrusiix. Whole cities in the mountainous interior were abandoned as their populations were forceably relocated to plantations in the south where the natives worked as slaves for the Aedrusiix. Eventually the Aedrusii armies came to control even the areas that had histroically fought the invaders, but resentment simmered among the enslaved society.

Asshat Sea: 1515 AD	Asshat Sea: 1700 AD

Revolution

In 1750 the Marxist Saminite nationalist Ijivuin Saluit instigated a nation-wide revolt against the Aedrusii, which was widely succesful. Alarmed, Aedrus sent in the imperial armies to subdue the revolting slaves, but the Freeman's Army as it came to be known fought back with a vengeance. Due to a lack of strong leadership and a low morale among Aedrusii troops they soon began falling back south and concentrating in the cities on the Cannibis Coast. For a decade the bloody war raged.

In 1760 Aedrus finally gave Saminorr its independence; in the south it was called Asshat and in the north, Kiriki. In 1769 the two countries joined together to be called the Free Land of Saminorr, a democracy with a parliament, a Constitution, and a Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Politics

Saminorr has a 300-seat unicameral Parliament, located in the capital, Inuksuilat. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party with the majority of the seats in Parliament. Members are elected on the basis of proportional representation. The Constitution and Bill of Rights may only be changed with a supermajority (2/3+ support).

The Parliament of Saminorr

The party currently in power is the Conservative Party with 37% of the vote. Other parties, in order of vote percentage:

Marijuana Party of Saminorr/Green Party - 19.25% Anti-Isolationist Party of Saminorr - 17.75% New Democratic Party - 12.5% Liberal Party - 6.8% Libertarian Alliance - 6.2%

Geography

[has a temperate climate owing to its southern location, however since almost the entire country is elevated on the Saminite Plateau and the Inuit and Nijivit mountain chains, Saminorr has one of the lowest average temperatures in the Asshat region. Saminorr’s coast on the Asshat sea is predominantly urban or agricultural. The Januire region in the east is also mostly agricultural although large portions remain unexploited mountain or forest. The north, around the Kiriki lake region, is highly urbanized and has extremely low elevation. Saminorr has sovereignty over no islands. ]