Mennefer

Mennefer, officially the Popular Menneferian State, is an industrialized  in Yoju. It has the third highest population in the world and covers 1.7 million km² in area. It shares land borders with Nukigurun to the northwest, Tumpangia in the far north, Olokundem and Nesh to the northeast, Seogwan in the southeast, Gelgelia and Habdah in the southwest, and faces the Mungnang Sea in the west and a strip of the Red Yi Sea to its far south. The country is roughly divided into a in the south and a  in the north. Large parts of the southern deserts are irrigated thanks to the Seven Rivers Basin, which nurtures most of Mennefer's agriculture and population. The capital is Timinouro, while the most populated urban area is the Toowan River Delta with over 70 million residents.

Mennefer emerged as one of the world's roughly 6000 years ago and facilitated the development of writing, agriculture, urbanization, organized religion and central government. The nation has constructed a myriad of highly elaborate and iconic monuments over its history, which together with its ancient religion and language form the core of its. Mennefer had a pivotal role in the spread of throughout Yoju up until the 14th century, and still plays a major role in cultural, economical and political affairs both in the entire continent and globally.

Mennefer as a unified state has its origin in the established by Zet I in 2239 BCE after Zet's unification of the Seven Rivers. Over thirty monarchical dynasties have controlled Mennefer for varying lengths since, with the Twenty-seventh Dynasty (26 CE- 714) considered Mennefer's greatest. Most of modern Mennefer was ruled by various polities at some point from the 8th and gradually outwards to the 13th century, though the majority of it had been reclaimed by the 11th century. While Abrahamist rule left a significant influence on Mennefer, Abrahamist beliefs have experienced significant since their political downfall.

Mennefer is a constitutionally with a. The country has been governed by the movement of the Menneferian People's Party since 1955. The monarchy was not abolished in the revolution, and the country still has a king; but he has no official powers and operates as a figurehead. The country is nominally governed through the will of the nation's, the National Consortium, but all governing decisions are in effect made by the Central Committee after the ousting of the Politburo in 1987. It is a divided into 33 Provinces. While the nation is both linguistically and ethnically diverse, millennia of has established a Pan-Menneferian culture that includes use of, practicing  and use of the national language, Remunmenni. The country is considered a globally, a  in central-southern Yoju, a  and is recognized as a. It is a member of the Congress of Nations, OSDMA and the International Communalist Forum.

Politics
The Menneferian states that the Popular Menneferian State is a  guided by Sasobek Thought. The PMS is explicitly aimed to build and is often described as such, but is also noted to be both  and  with heavy restrictions on many aspects of citizen's daily lives. The ruling Menneferian People's Party's (MPP) ideology has shifted dramatically over the years.

People's Party
The MPP is the dominant party in Menneferian politics, which effectively controls the country in a. The MPP and fifteen other parties representing economic groups and ethnic minorities fill all of the seats in the National Consortium, the nation's. The MPP has always held a supermajority in the National Consortium, which is widely considered a as it always votes in accordance with the Central Committee's policies.

Administrative divisions
Mennefer is divided into 33 provinces, which are further divided into nomes. The nomes are divided into cities, towns, villages and rural areas. Each province has a capital, sometimes carrying the same name as the province.

Foreign relations
Mennefer maintains some degree of diplomatic relations with almost every country in the world. However, since the overthrow of the Republic of Mennefer in 1955, it has both faced and levied from various members of the international community, particularly with neighboring Seogwan. Mennefer has at times maintained an foreign policy in certain international conflicts, but has largely focused its foreign relations on establishing cordial relations in cultural, political, environmental and economic issues.

Trade relations
Much of Mennefer's historically went to Sinju states during. During the time-period when Sasobekism was the ruling ideology from the 1950's and extending till the 1990's, Mennefer was largely isolated from the capitalist-industrialist world economy and relied on other socialist states for trade, causing great stress to the economy. After the declaration of the Opening Up Policy following the 1987 ousting of the hardline Politburo, Mennefer has largely re-integrated itself into the global economy and has rapidly increased both industrial output, exports, efficiency and global economic clout. While currently the 6th largest economy by Purchasing Power Parity and the 12th largest by nominal GDP and per capita incomes far below the global average, the Menneferian economy has grown strongly every year since the 2000's, with GDP growth by year exceeding 10% in some years. As a result of this, Mennefer's political prowess across Yoju has also increased, which has caused increased friction with several politically opposed countries, resulting in.

Weapons of mass destruction
Mennefer is known to possess, , and. It is one of the world's X recognized nuclear-weapon states and possesses an estimated 450 nuclear warheads, the Xth most in the world. It first acquired them in 1965 after developing its nuclear weapons program with researchers from Yahuimilco the decade prior.

Demographics
Mennefer is the most populated country in Yoju and the third-most populous in the world, with 413 million inhabitants as of 2019. Its population has grown rapidly from 1960 to 2020 due to and increases in agricultural productivity enabled by the. The annual population growth rate has remained consistently above 2% for half a century, and the country has a among the world's largest. Mennefer's population is very urbanized, being concentrated in the Seven Rivers Basin, the Toowan River Delta, the coastline of northwest Mennefer and the Red Yi Sea and the riverbeds of the nation's major rivers. In the northern much of the land is dedicated to, while  roam across the vast Southern Desert; both of these areas are thinly populated and mostly.

Ethnic groups
Mennefer's population is overwhelmingly, though this term is somewhat ambiguous; not all Menneferians can understand each others. However, common to them all is a shared written language, a common culture and set of religious beliefs, and a shared national identity. Major non-Menneferian groups include the, , , and. Mennefer has roughly 6 million, most of whom come from either neighboring countries or other OSDMA member states.

Religion
The overwhelming majority of Menneferians follow some form of, which has been the predominant religion among the population since the 2nd century BCE. Jaatunists often combine the core Jaatunist dogmas with elements of other belief systems present in their area, such as, , , or.

Urbanization
Mennefer has significantly after Mennefer achieved its independence after the Great Eulhae War. The percentage of the population living in urban areas has increased from 35% in 1960 to around 70% in 2020. As both the percentage of urban citizens and the total population of Mennefer increases rapidly, cities across the Seven Rivers Basin are expected to continue swelling in size significantly, possibly forming a single inter-connected, a scenario the government has declared an "ecological and human crisis". The country has over 80 cities with a population of over one million and 7. In recent decades the government has invested heavily into constructing and connecting them to  systems to manage the problems of, but most cities still suffer from extensive. Urbanization has also put pressure on the extremely fertile agricultural areas in the Seven Rivers Basin, prompting the government to heavily encourage the settling of Mennefer's less populated northern provinces; some critics view this as the MPP attempting to stamp out the traditional cultures of these less-populated areas, which are usually not majority-Menneferian. As an example, the province of Imeeritin was 84% in 1970, but this percentage is now down to 34%.

Literature
Menneferian literature traces its origins to ancient Mennefer and is some of the world's earliest known literature. Menneferians were the first to develop and through seven thousand years of royal, religious, and, Mennefer's literature is considered the nation's greatest. It has extensively shaped the writings across Yoju and Miju, with the indigenous being the origins of the various alphabetic scripts used throughout Mennefer's. Major historical figures from Menneferian literature include X, X and X. World-famous writers from the modern day based in Mennefer such as X and X have received critical acclaim, and there also exists sizeable authorship among Menneferian.