Wokajoor

From Tiandi Encyclopedia
Republic of Wokajoor

𞤳𞤵𞤻𞤱𞤮𞤮𞤺𞤮𞤮𞤺 𞤱𞤮𞤳𞤢𞤶𞤮𞤮𞤪
國和共橋悟
Kuŋwoogoog Wokajoor
Ng Kiu Gung Wo Gwok
Flag of Wokajoor
Flag
Motto: Together, we Prosper
Anthem: Jarabi
Abbreviation
悟 (o)
Capital Kajoor
Largest city Gemba
Official languages Lakajoor, Meisaani
Recognised regional languages Jantani, Tundar, Siyan, Denne, Songhai languages, Central Sudanic languages, Akan, Dogon
Demonym(s) Wokajoorian
Government Parliamentary multi-party Federation
• President
Yakuba Gassamah
Makuto Jobateh
Legislature Suŋtéŋ
Establishment
1581
1863
1945
Population
• 2020 census
401,450,969
GDP (PPP) 200 estimate
• Total
$3.21 trillion
• Per capita
$8,001
GDP (nominal) 2020 estimate
• Total
$780.01 billion
• Per capita
$1,943
Inequality (2013) negative increase 63.4
very high
HDI (2020) Increase 0.680
medium
Currency Jaira (JRA)

Wokajoor, officially the Republic of Wokajoor (Lakajoor: 𞤳𞤵𞤻𞤱𞤮𞤮𞤺𞤮𞤮𞤺 𞤱𞤮𞤳𞤢𞤶𞤮𞤮𞤪, Kuŋwoogoog Wokajoor), is a sovereign state encompassing much of the Ogyo Subcontinent in Northern Miju. It shares borders with Wedtenga to the north, as well as Ile Orim, Obundu, and Asimaman to the south. With a population of over 400 million people, Wokajoor is the fourth most populous country in the world and the second most populous country in Miju.

The Jeliba River basin in west-central Wokajoor is considered one of the world's major cradles of civilization. Modern Wokajoorians are genetically descended from the first agricultural communities that arose around 4500 BCE in the Northern Jeliba valley, most prominently the Sammkat Culture. The Gajanŋaanadou Empire brought much of the southern Ogyoan lowlands into a unified, centralized state. Gajanŋaanadou's successor state, the Jantani Diouldé Dynasty which arose in the 8th century CE, firmly cemented Western Ogyogic cultural influence beyond the Jaxaay Desert and into the Singye Sea. Diouldé rule saw the introduction of Sabbatarianism to Ogyo and the invention of the Jantani Script; many of Wokajoor's most famous works of classical literature, such as the Epic of the Acacia and Jackal, were written during this period.

Medieval Wokajoor was dominated by the Sankara[placeholder name] and Adafo[placeholder name] empires, with the latter emerging as the most powerful polity in Ogyo by the mid 15th century.

Wokajoor is a rising industrial power with a growing population, though economic gains in recent years have largely failed to improve conditions outside of urban areas. Wokajoor suffers from endemic corruption and some of the world's highest levels of inequality— the country has the world's third largest number of billionaires, yet 28% of the population languishes below the poverty line. Wokajoor is often classified as a mature democracy, and scores highly on global indices of democracy. Wokajoor is a founding member of the non-aligned movement and has historically maintained close relations with the OSDMA. Wokajoor is a member of the Congress of Nations and Jeongeogwon Organization. Wokajoor is one of the world's few megadiverse nations, with biomes ranging from desert and arid savannah to tropical rainforest. Its waters are home to some of the world's largest coral reefs and a wide variety of marine life. However, deforestation, industrial pollution and the effects of climate change threaten Wokajoor's uniquely rich biodiversity.

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Prehistoric and Classical Wokajoor[edit]

Ruins of the ancient Gajanŋaanadou capital.

The neolithic and Proto-Mandé Sammkat Culture, emerging around 4500 BCE between the northern reaches of the Jeliba River basin and X lake[placeholder name], was composed of pastoralist peoples who adopted agriculture and sedentary lifestyles upon their migration into the Northern Jeliba Valley. During this period complex societies took shape in the Jeliba River basin. The Sammkat were the first peoples to domesticate millet in Miju. With the development of iron metallurgy in the second millennium BCE, large centralized states arose in western Wokajoor. In 138 BCE, the Gajanŋaanadou Kingdom united the tribes and city-states of the western Ogyo lowlands. Gajanŋaanadou's expansion brought the Jeliba River civilization into the wider North Miju-Napsalic trading complex, marking marking the beginning of the classical era in Wokajoor.

Gajanŋaanadou's decline in the 5th century CE plunged the Ogyo lowlands into turmoil. Jantanis, a hybrid pastoral and seafaring nomadic raiding group based around the X river[placeholder name] in modern northwestern Wokajoor, overthrew the last Gajanŋaanadou king and established the Diouldé Dynasty[placeholder name] in 523 CE. The Diouldé period marked a high water point in Wokajoorian seapower, with conquests throughout the Mungnang and Singye Seas regions. X Emperor[placeholder name] converted to Sabbatarianism in 589 CE. The Jantani script, which evolved out of Dembiyan Azebic, was officially adopted by the Diouldé as a liturgical script and slowly replaced other indigenous scripts in southern Ogyo.

Medieval Wokajoor[edit]

After Diouldé’s collapse in 1150 CE, southwestern Ogyo found itself divided between the Sunkara[placeholder name] and Adafo[placeholder name] Kingdoms. The Dual Kingdom period was defined by the maturation of trade networks between Ogyo, Napsal, and West Yoju along with the advanced exploitation of gold mines in the western Jeliba region, processes which greatly enriched both Kingdoms.

Premodern Wokajoor[edit]

By the early 16th century, the ascendant Sinjuan empires had established sustained trade ties with Ogyo through the Mulberry Ocean via Yahuimilco and Cheongju. The introduction of gunpowder from Sinju empowered the Lakajoor and Tundar princes of coastal west Ogyo, who toppled the weakened Sunkara state in 1581 CE and unified the rest of southwestern Ogyo in 1585 after a series of wars with Adafo, establishing the Empire of Wokajoor. Under the Lakajoor-Tundar confederation, Wokajoor reached the peak of its territorial extent; subjugating almost the entirety of the Ogyo subcontinent from the Central Sudanic[placeholder name] states of the northeastern Ngambay peninsula to the Denne Kingdom of far southern Wokajoor and modern-day Ile-Orim. Lakajoorian and Serer cultural dominance resulted in the marginalization of the myriad Sabbatarian faiths in favor of Roogism. At the same time, Lakajoor language also supplanted Siyan as Ogyo's lingua franca.

X rebellion against the Wokajoorian Empire broke out in the Siyan territories[placeholder name] in 1731.

While many Sinjuan maritime powers had established trading posts along the Ogyoan littoral from the 1500s onwards, Meisaan pushed out others to become the the dominant colonial power in the region by the early 18th century. Meisaani interests in Wokajoor were managed by the Meizau Gungsi Lyunbong (MGL), a federation of Kongsis closely tied to the imperial Meisaani state. Instability across the Wokajoorian realm in the 1740s strengthened the MGL's hand, which won a war against X governor[placeholder name], giving it unchallenged influence in the Gulf of Kaedi and much of eastern Wokajoor.

Modern Wokajoor[edit]

The 1862 Treaty of Minghoi following Meisaan's victory in the Jaamseot War against Fusen and Wokajoorian rebels brought all of Wokajoor directly under the control of the Meisaani Empire. Meisaani Ogyo, part of its wider North Mijuan colony, became an important source of cheap cotton and other cash crops (such as coffee and bananas) for Meisaan, as well as a major export market for Meisaani finished industrial products. The Eulhae War and the occupation of the Meisaani metropole dramatically weakened Meisaani legitimacy in the region, and strengthened the Pan-Ogyoan nationalist movement. The country gained independence peacefully in 1945, although independence was followed by mass reprisals against the Jantani minority, whom were seen as Meisaani collaborationists. As the process of decolonization proved much more difficult and bloody in the rest of Meisaan's northern Miju colony, Wokajoor found itself drawn into several conflicts on its southern borders.

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