Ransuğaral

Ransuğaral is a country on the island of Yedal in northwest Sinju. It is surrounded by the west Sinju sea on the east, north, and west as well as sharing a land border with XXXX.

Etymology
The name is believed to be derived from the first major unifying Khaganate under the name of Ran Qaghan. Alternative sources suggest it was an exonym by Sinju traders who came across the abundance of orchid-like flowers in the palaces of the Qaghans or that it was a translation of blue from the Old Turkic language to middle Tianqi language. For the most part, the historical account does suggest that the namesake stems from Ran Qaghan (Lan Kehan, Ran Gahan), the individual who successfully united what would become Ransuğaral and the Turkic words for water and island, su aral.

Prehistoric Ransuğaral
Ransuğaral was mostly covered in ice in the last glacial period 10000 years ago. The archipelago that Ransuğaral is located was first inhabited by proto-Tungusic hunting-gathering settlers in around 3000 BCE by way of land bridges from Yoju, who established the Dongyn culture. Archeological evidence from this time period shows that these people were nomadic pastoralists. It is also around this time when the first instances of the great mythologies were told that spread around the coasts of west Sinju and east Yoju.

Tujue Qaghanate Era
During the 700s in Yoju, one of the largest land based empires began trading with existing populations on Yedal, then known to the Tujue as Gokaaral and establishing contact with Tianqi. This resulted in coastal settlements and trade outposts by both Tianqi and the Tujuen Qaghanate. Although meant to be temporary, the Tujuen settlements grew into fully fledged permanent towns.

Ten Cities Era
Remember those towns? Ten of those got big enough and started to conquer the island and settle the northern portion. Turkification of the native population happened. TBD

Ran Qaghanate Era
we big n unified

Jeongmic Ransuğaral
got vassalized and broken up into tiny pieces baby

Nationalist Tide
The fragmentation and reduction of the Ran Qaghanate to a mere rump state in the north of Yedal lead to growing discontent among lesser nobles, urban bourgeoisie, nouveau riche, and farmers. Some of these individuals created the first of many political associations aimed at restoring the national integrity of the country during the late 1700s and throughout the 1800s.

The nationalist sentiment peaked in the 1920s which lead to belligerence and becoming a contingent power during Eulhae. After Eulhae the country began a restructuring in accordance to the third constitution.

Contemporary Era
The country joined the Sinju Union in 199X.

Geography
Ransuğaral is located on the northern portion of Yedal island. To the southern border the country is rather mountainous and densely forested and as such has very few inhabitants. The eastern coast is rocky with fjords and open coves which have become among the most densely populated regions due to migration, trade, and urbanization. The eastern plateau is hilly and makes up most of the arable land, and in the past was the home of the pastoral Dongyn culture as well as early Turkic settlers.

Off the northern coast there are three major islands in the north ocean, with only Aqqa island having permanent settlements.

Climate
The country enjoys 4 seasons, with wetter winters and cooler summers than mainland Sinju.

Flora and fauna
Orchids. Trees.

Government and politics
Ransuğaral is a  with the Qaghan as a ceremonial head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of government. The country's legislature is unicameral and its members meet in the Kurultay, the Constituent Assembly. Historically the Kurultay was a gathering of the leaders and their cadre of the 10 clans of the 10 founding cities and would decide who would become the Qaghan in transitions of power. Since the late 1800s this began to include the urban bourgeoisie and those of the peasantry, which would eventually become the legislative branch of the government elected by the people in universal suffrage once every five years.

The Kurultay is made of 225 seats, with 30 seats that are reserved for indigenous representatives. It is currently dominated by 138 seats by the People's Progressive Front; a nationalist populist, progressive party lead by environmentalist activist Uldus Onoqğul.

Law
TBD

Military
Ransuğaral spends 1.8% of GDP on defense.

Foreign relations
sinju aligned TBD

Economy
Ransuğaral is considered a mixed market economy with a high degree of industrial diversification. Due to its abundance of minerals and other natural resources, it has historically been a resource extraction economy. In the contemporary era, the economy is more service based with a focus in IT, tourism, and logistics as a trade hub for goods going to and from Sinju and Yoju. Considered a pioneer in geothermal and offshore tidal energy.

we also have a lot of dairy farms and fish farms

Infrastructure
Public transport expenditure is among the highest in Tiandi.

Administrative divisions
Ransuğaral is divided into 15 states and one special capital region, the special capital region of Suqağanqal.

Demographics
The population of Ransuğaral was 22,804,190 in the 2018 census. The largest city is Suqağanqal with around 1,789,000 inhabitants. The country is made up of 75% ethnic Ransuğaralese, 15% ethnic Dongyn people groups, 5% Jeongmian, and a final 5% of other Sinju and Yoju peoples.

Religion
Religious practices are slightly different from mainland Sinju although not too dissimilar from northern Sinju (Jeongmi), Yoju (other Turkic and Mongolic nations), and Uju. Animism and shamanism, as well as worship of a henotheistic heavenly order, is characteristic of Ransuğaralese spirituality. Buddhism is especially popular among urban communities, although the practice is much more limited in scope and considered a faith of academics, much like other non-native and non-indigenous religions.

Languages
The official language of Ransuğaral is Ransuğaralese, an Eastern Turkic language. It is a language spoken as an L1 by roughly 90% of the population. After the unification of the Qaghanate and with increased trade with Jeongmi, Early Ransuğaralese gradually became more Sinicized. The nobility and merchant classes would speak and the Ransuğaralese language gained many loan words. The influence extended to its written form, which by the 1700s used Hangul in favour of the old Uyghur script.

Education
99.9% literacy meme here

Health
yes.

Culture
Central to Ransuğaral's cultural identity is the history of movement and appreciation of the natural world's entities, from the very sky to the plants, all things are understood in the cultural worldview to be connected and intertwined.

Art
TBD

Music
we have throat singing (?)

Literature
we have indigenous philosophy and deep ecology

Sports
wrestle me