Ransuğaral

Ransuğaral is a country in northwest Sinju.

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 Kaghans. 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 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
the entire island was once under our control at this time

Jeongmic Ransuğaral
got vassalized and broken up into tiny pieces baby

Nationalist Tide
national revival movement and modernisation

Contemporary Era
TBD

Government and politics
Ransuğaral is a  with the Qaghan as a ceremonial head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of government.

Foreign relations
sinju aligned TBD

Administrative divisions
Ransuğaral is divided into 9 states, one special capital region, the special capital region of Suqağanqal.

Geography
mountainous, hilly, and forested

Climate
Temperate.

Flora and fauna
Orchids.

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.

Demographics
The population of Yeongdoku 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 or 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
a bit like yoju with jeongmic characteristics

Art
TBD

Music
we have throat singing (?)

Literature
we have indigenous philosophy and deep ecology

Sports
wrestle me