Nukigurun

Nukigurun (: Nuki gurun), officially the Federal Republic of Nukigurun (Nuki:  Nuki liyanbang gunghego), is a country located in Northwest Sinju and North Yoju and the world's largest country, with a total area covering over X sq km. It stretches from the Dangdo Sea in the east all the way to Mungnang Sea in the west, and also to the north borders much of the Northern Ocean. Approximately 52% of people live in Eastern, Sinju part of Nukigurun, while 28% and 20% of people approximately live in the less-populated Colkonwargia and Birawargia respectively. Its capital, Cingging, is one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Yungju, Siging, and Karman.

Nukic peoples first emerge in Sinju records during the 4th century BCE. Various Nukic peoples inhabited the coast as well as inland Nukigurun. For several centuries, Nukis along the coast of the Dangdo Sea were part of an extensive and intricate trade network which spread across much of Western Sinju. Between the 11th and 16th centuries, the Suju Federation dominated trade throughout the Dangdo Sea and actively engaged in trade in Sinju as well. It was not uncommon to find communities of Nukic traders throughout various port and trade cities across the region.

The Nukis were traditionally divided into the Sanhai and Yalu Nukis. Nukigurun was officially established in 1559 under the Yalu Nuki Holontu of the Aisin Solho clan and began its massive western expansion beginning in the latter half of the 16th century.

Nukigurun's economy ranked as the third largest by nominal GDP and second largest by purchasing power parity in 2019. Its extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is a recognized nuclear weapons state and possesses significant stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Nukigurun is both a great and regional power and has been characterized as a potential superpower.

Etymology
The earliest usage of Nuki appears in the X. While the actual etymology of Nuki is debated, it is widely believed to derive from the word nuk-, meaning "brave." Gurun means "country" in Nuki, and the name of the country can thus be translated as "Nuki Land" or "Land of the Nukis." Nukigurun is also widely referred to as Yunggo (國勇) or Daiyung (勇大), s based on the presumed Nuki meaning of Nukigurun popularized in the 14th century and then officialized in the 16th century, meaning "brave country" in.

Another name historically used for Nukigurun was Nuci (崎怒), a name applied that was applied to what is now Southeastern Nukigurun, Ilakuke, and X by visitors from Cheonje.

Prehistory and antiquity
Nukic peoples are first attested in Cheonjic records during the 4th century BCE, where they are said to engage in pig-farming and the hunting of wild animals.

Classical period


Several Nuki city-states operated along the coast of the Dangdo Sea. These city-states were part of a trade network which stretched from Mennefer in the west all the way to Bangju in the east. In particular, they traded significantly with Cheonje and its successor states, with many adopting aspects of Cheonjean civilization such as. A new form of writing emerged among the Sanhai Nukis, now referred to as the. In the mid-11th century, the Suju Federation was formed as a confederation between various market towns and merchant guilds along the Dangdo Sea. While non-Nukic peoples such as Heerads and the Koksoys participated, it was nonetheless dominated by Nukic towns and guilds.

In the 900s, the Heeradic X Empire conquered the Yalu Nukis in addition to many of the coastal Sanhai Nuki cities. This led to a significant mixing of cultures between the X and the Nukis, to the point where many Nukis knew how to speak X as a second language. Around this time, the was adapted for the Nuki language by the Yalu Nukis and increasingly used, replacing the Old Nuki script, even among the Sanhai Nukis, although their elites saw it as vulgar. Heeradic rule lasted until 1126, when a revolt led by Kuran Turan Timur drove out most of the X and led to their gradual loss of control in Sinju Nukigurun.

Imperial Nukigurun


Holontu was initially the chieftan of a clan known as the Aisin Solho, a previously minor clan that had risen in prominence under his father Turgaci. He had spent his youth being educated in the Cheonjean classics in addition to the general Forest Nuki martial education. In 1559, he unified the inland Yalu Nukis and declared himself Emperor Taidzu of the Great Yung, seeking to unify all Nuki tribes and peoples. By 1567, he had conquered most of the city-states in Yoju which made up the Suju Federation, including its capital, Nuhang. A new capital, Cingging, was constructed at the mouth of the Black River based on Cheonjic designs in 1569.

The period following unification saw significant efforts to emulate Sinju within Nukigurun. Whereas the coastal areas of Nukigurun had long had contact with Sinju and adopted many Central ways, the new ruling class under the Aisin Solho was primarily of the less developed, and in the eyes of much of Sinju, uncivilized Yalu Nukis of the plains and forests.

Following his death in 1572, his son, the Ginghung Emperor, took power and began Nukigurun's rapid and significant western expansion. The Ginghung Emperor was the first to expand into traditionally non-Nuki territory beyond the Colkon River following his conquest of the X Khanate in 1578. Birawargia was then reached by 1610 under the Inyan Emperor. Already a major source of furs, Nukigurun's expansion into these new northern territories allowed to the empire to supply and export furs on a scale which had never before been seen in history, which greatly enriched the treasury for much of the 17th and 18th centuries before their overhunting resulted in mass depopulation and imperial edicts regulating the trade.

In 1634, under the Jengdzung Emperor, Nukigurun became a recognized empire of the Sinju Congress.



The greatest and most wide-ranging reforms and accomplishments occurred under the reign of the Šijen Emperor, from 1639 to 1703. In addition to subjugating the Komosirese, he expanded the empire's borders further into Birawargia and Central Yoju. He encouraged Nuki settlement into frontier areas in Colkonwargia and Birawargia. He also created literary works such as the compilation of his Šijen Dictionary, which was written and compiled to standardize the Nuki language and "teach correct pronunciation," which he believed was necessary after being unable to understand a visiting official Yungju. However, the most prominent of his works was the creation of the Long Canal. While at the time of construction the area was still too sparsely-populated for the canal to give that large a boost to trade and development, it nonetheless greatly strengthened the empire's grip on the region and rapidly increased Nuki settlement into the region.

During the imperial era, as Nukigurun's expansion put it in control of a myriad of different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, imperial ideology expanded to see itself as a multinational, universal empire. Nuki emperors justified their rule by imbuing themselves and their rule with symbolism from local cultures and mythologies.

Civil war and modern era
Nukigurun emerged out of the Eulhae War devastated and humiliated. It was the first time that Nukigurun had been occupied by a mainland Sinju power. A new constitution was written up and approved by occupational forces in 1947 before they left the newly-established Federal Republic of Nukigurun the following year, with full control handed over to its new president, Irgen Sulin Yanjen, a liberal intellectual who had been imprisoned for the duration of the war. The new government, however, proved unpopular, and a disastrous civil war broke out after government forces under Irgen Sulin fired live bullets at protesters in 1951. Opposition forces were fragmented but were primarily led by communist forces.

Eventually, the Federal Republic forces under Irgen Sulin emerged victorious in 1957. All real opposition was subsequently crushed. Citing national security reasons, he placed the country under martial law and regularly interfered with the election process. While the country was nominally a federation, power was concentrated in the hands of the central government and the nominal autonomy of ethnic minority areas came to mean virtually nothing.

As relations with his former allies in Sinju deteriorated, he started his own nuclear program; the first successful test was conducted on April 7th, 1962, on the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the federal republic. After his death in 1964, his handpicked successor Injen Nara Muke took power. Following mass protests following an economic downturn in 1973 and the potential risk of another civil war, he ended martial law and held open and free parliamentary elections in 1974. Free presidential elections were held alongside parliamentary elections in 1979, but Injen Nara narrowly won due to a split in the opposition vote between Tunggiya Šugu Ayan and Andung Migiya Eihengge. In 2020, records revealed Injen Nara did not actually plan on conceding power if defeated in the election.

In 1984, opposition forces were shocked as Tunggiya Šugu not only joined Injen Nara's National Restoration Party, but was the party's candidate for that year's presidential elections, which he won. Amidst another economic downturn and various scandals, a deeply unpopular Tunggiya Šugu was ousted in 1989 by Andung Migiya, who had allied himself with discontent members of the NRP, marking the first peaceful transfer of power since the beginning of the Federal Republic. Andung Migiya won reelection in 1994 and his People's Party subsequently won the 1999 presidential election with Menggun Molciri Hutūri. After an attempted coup in 2003, Menggun Molciri reformed the military to prevent future threats to civilian rule, forcefully retiring many military officials in the process.

In 2019, Aisin Solho Saikan became the first female president of Nukigurun. Her election was particularly notable due to her being a member of the former imperial line.

Military
Nukigurun has a large and fully indigenous arms industry, importing only a few types of weapons and exporting weapons to about 90 countries.

Agriculture
Having coasts on the Northern Ocean, Dandgo Sea, and the Mungnang Sea, Nukigurun is one the world's largest fishing suppliers.

Transport
Large cities in Nukigurun generally have well-developed public transportation systems, with the most common forms of transportation being buses, trolleybuses, and trains. Several large Nuki cities such as Cingging, X, and X have underground metros. The Cinging Metro is among the fastest and busiest metro systems in the world.

A significant amount of marine traffic passes through the Long Canal, which connects the Northern Ocean to the Mungnang Sea.

Demographics
Ethnic Nukis made up 65.71% of the population in the 2015 census. The same census showed a population of 255,379,706, making it the X most populous country in the world. Nonetheless, it has a relatively low population density due to the country's enormous area. Population is most dense in Sinju Nukigurun, around the Long Canal, and near the coastal areas of Colkonwargia and Birawargia.

In 2018 the average total fertility rate (TFR) across Nukigurun was 1.92 children per woman, below the replacement rate of 2.1. In 2018 the median age of the Nuki population was 38.2 years.

Largest cities
Cingging, Yungju, Siging, Karman, Eyen, Wesihulen, Singceng, Orin

Ethnic groups
Nukigurun is a multi-ethnic state with over a hundred officially recognized ethnic groups. Ethnic Nukis comprise the largest group by far, making up 65.71% of the population in the 2015 census.

Nuki: 65.71% Selabianese (EAST SLAVIC): 4.18% Kipchak: 3.42% Ket: 2.91% Nanai: 2.60% Roci (SCANDINAVIAN): 2.53% Oroqen: 2.03% Hilese (GREEK): 1.98% Arab: 1.57% Heeradian (KHALKHA): 1.02% Buryat: 0.98% Olokundemese (MARI): 0.93% Finnish: 0.76% Oirat: 0.56% Uzbek/Uyghur: 0.44% Karelian: 0.24% Tuvan: 0.23% Komosirese (SAKHA): 0.12% Mansi: 0.11% Sami: 0.10% Mixed: 3.46% Other (below 0.10%): 4.12%

Language
In addition to Nuki, 56 languages are officially recognized in Nukigurun in various regions by local governments.

Religion


The traditional religion among the Nukis and Nukic peoples was shamanism. Beginning in the 6th century CE, Buddhism began to spread among the Nukis living in the coastal trading communities along the Dangdo Sea and gradually syncretized with Nuki shamanism. From there, Buddhism slowly began its way into the inland Nuki communities, though inland Nukic peoples did not adopt Buddhism to the extent which the Sanhai Nukis did.

As Holontu was unifying the Nuki peoples, he began to absorb the rituals and traditions of other Nuki clans into those of his own. This absorption of other clans' shamanic rituals into those of Holontu's Aisin Solho clan started a process of state codification of religion. In another transformation that mirrored the process of political centralization in Holontu's state, the traditional Nuki belief in multiple heavens was replaced by one Heaven called "Abka ama" or "Abka han."

Following unification, Confucianism and Sinju rituals were increasingly adopted throughout Nukigurun, particularly among the elite.

Nukigurun's imperial expansion from the 16th century saw the absorption of numerous different people groups with diverse religious practices fall under the authority of the empire. Many of these groups were tolerated and the Nuki Emperor was often presented in non-Nuki and non-Sinju communities as the temporal manifestation of a great local spirit or deity. However, many Abrahamists resisted following Nuki rituals and the monarch and their religion was often suppressed.

Today, as traditionally, most people in Nukigurun do not affiliate with any religion. However, most partake in traditional shamanist, Buddhist, and Confucian rituals, which are difficult to separate from one another for ethnic Nukis. Today, the largest minority religion in Nukigurun is, which is practiced by 5.6% of the population. In addition to this and X Buddhism, there are several ethnic groups in Nukigurun who maintain their traditional autochthone religions.

Cuisine


Traditional Nuki staple foods are, wheat, broomcorn millet, , peas, corn and. It relies heavily on s (often ) due to the harsh winters and scorching summers of much of Nukigurun, the most popular by far of which is. Nuki cuisine is also known for grilling, wild meat, strong flavors and the wide use of.

is a common that is widely incorporated in much of Nuki cuisine. Many Nukis enjoy eating raw vegetables in the summer, and meju is used like a salad dressing to add flavor. It is frequently mixed with other ingredients to serve as a dip for meat and vegetables.

As much of Nukigurun is heavily forested, traditional Nuki cuisine included large quantities of game meats such as deer and hare, and even bear, although none of them enjoy their historical prevalence in the modern day. Although there are farms that raise these animals for consumption, the prohibitive cost and prevalence of more traditional farm raised animals such as pigs, has led to a decline their use in Nuki cuisine. Indeed, the most prevalent meat consumed in Nukigurun today by far is pork. Meat is commonly consumed through the form of hot pot, stews, and sausages.

Foraging was a common way for many Nukis to acquire food, particularly inland; Nuki cuisine thus historically incorporated a lot of roots, mushrooms, and wild vegetables.

Popular dishes include hot pot and mixed stew.