Starblaydia

Starblaydia

Flag of Starblaydia
Motto: "Fides, Gloria, Sangius"
National Anthem: Starblaydia Triumphant
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Region	Atlantian Oceania
Capital	Jhanna
Official Language(s)	English
Leader	Lord-Protector Tiberius Starblayde
Population	1 billion
Currency	Credit
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Geography

Starblaydia are a relatively young nation in the Grand History of NationStates, having a population of nearly 2 Billion people.

With ten provinces, Starblaydia encompasses the territory formerly owned by the Holy Empire of Nemya to its east. A Mountain-City of Dwarves, exiles from the nation of Cockbill Street, also have residence in Starblaydia, in Karak D'Ragh, the City of Quiest Fire.

To the north-west border lies the Loose City-State Association of Nova Britannicus, a puppet of Starblaydia, while across the Bekk lake to the west lies the nation of Druida.

Starblaydia is active in both the Sport and Military side of NationStates, on the Jolt hosted forums and those of its Region, Atlantian Oceania.

Sport

Football

On the sporting side, Starblaydia are currently one of the top Under-21 World Cup teams, as well as recently Qualifying for their second World Cup. They were recently defeated 3-4 in the 3rd Atlantian Oceanian Cup of Association Football (AOCAF) by NEWI Cefn Druids, three-time winners. In AOCAF4, however, in Starblaydia itself, we once more met and this time defeated NEWI Cefn Druids 2-1 in the Final. Regional Champions were they! AOCAF5, however, saw Starblaydia out at the Quarter-Final stage to Turori, while AOCAF6 saw them defeated 2-0 by Hosts Vilita, won won their first ever Regional Footballing Title.

They were ranked 21st in the World after their Quarter-Final exit to Melmond in the 17th World Cup. They also qualified for the World Cup 18 Finals, but went out at the Group Stage by just a single goal on goal-difference to Iansisle, huge sporting rivals in more than one sport.. The Starblaydia Footballing Under-21s are one of the better teams in the world, having been placed Third in three seperate occasions in the tournament hosted perennially by Total n Utter Insanity.

Starblaydia won the hosting bid for World Cup 20 with Druida, though failed to make it past the Second Round of the Finals after a defeat by Bedistan in Extra Time. Starblaydia has also co-hosted the Pre-World Cup Baptism of Fire on two consecutive occasions with Vilita.

The Starblaydi Football League contains three divisions (Alpha, Beta and Gamma), which incorporate 21 teams in total from Starblaydia and Nova Britannicus. Current Champions are Iskara Daii, who won a Regional Invitational Tournament, as well as getting to the Knock-out stages of the Melmond Invitational.

Ice Hockey

The Starblaydia 'Rayzors' Ice Hockey Team won the 5th Cherry Cup which was their debut tournament, they also won the 8th Cherry Cup with a team completely made up of Dwarves, becoming the first team to win the Cherry Cup twice. On both occasions they beat Tanah Burung in the Final, and a 7-0 victory over Kalaallit Nunaat in the Semi-Finals of Cherry Cup 8 resulting in the banning of Dwarven races (and any male or female under 5' and 4'6" respectively) from the Inuit nation.

The National Ice Hockey Incorporated League (NIHIL) contains two Divisions, East and West, each containing 7 teams. The Starblaydi Dwarven League (SDL), however, is a far more popular Ice Hockey League, as Dwarves can overcome their natural... 'physicality' to become much more graceful on the ice.

Military

As far as military goes, Starblaydia are the current President-Nation of the Atlantian Oceania Regional Defense Organisation (AORDO) and take an active role in that Organisation.

Starblaydia maintains a current/near future Military, and spend over a quarter of their GDP on the military, with another quarter on Law and Order

You can usually find Starblaydia on the Esper IRC channel Sport

Puppets

Nova Britannicus is Starblaydia's only active puppet, Chicken Tikkastan having long been demolished.