British Lemuria

The sovereign country of Lemuria, was a former colony commonly known as British Lemuria in the modern and officially known as the The United British Commonwealth of Lemuria.

It's compromised of several states and has a wide majority of ethnic groups, with Europeans making upwards of 70% of the population.

=History= After the British colonization and the establishment of the garrisons in 1706 there was an influx of settlers and disease, this paved the way for easy colonization in South Lemuria.
 * In the 1707 Act of Union, uniting the parliaments of Scotland and England lead to a few ideas preceding the British Reforms. It'd form the basic principles of the reforms and formed the basis for the union of the British Lemurian colonies.
 * 1708 The crown colonies of the Cape of Fernsby, New Hampstead, Werreurbro, Audenshyre were all united to form one colony from these the provinces, later named shyres, still bear names from. And as such the Colony of British Lemuria is formed.
 * After the 1720 South Sea Bubble the Lords Justice was trying to save the English Stock Market yet it still crashed. This lead to the BLLC (British Lemurian Lumber Company) and the ECC (Eindis Cattle Company), the 2 biggest companies and the main proponents of the BL market, led to a drastic drop in prices. They'd suffer a lot and it'd lead to a collapse in the very small BL company, it'd only impact the major cities as the internal BL market wasn't much impacted by the troubles of the major cities.
 * 1727 is when George 2 of England became king, he was in opposition to his father George the first and all of his policies. Due to the nature of what's called the "Ingrained Resistance" of British Lemurians, they sent a letter of congratulation to George the 2nd. He would later send them a gift of gold, they'd use a portion of the funds to erect a statue of him outside the governors house which would later become the house of the British Lemurian parliament.
 * 1740-1741 as a famine goes on in Ireland the Norman-Bretons would get a few Irish settlers, it'd boost their population a bit.
 * 1756-1763 The Seven Years War, it wouldn't influence the colony much as the colony was pretty much overlooked. A french ship would fire a salvo into the port-market in Deutsgrenstat but there were no casualties except 7 cows and a house.
 * 1759 Tearside Inferno, an event which scarred the people of Tinton, lead to the extinction of a Lemurian ethnic group and the destruction of Tinton. The town would be rebuilt but it'd lose relevance as its workshop-street burned down and a lot of lumber was lost.
 * With the Napoleonic Wars and the Revolutions of 1848 there was a sense of "nationhood" and "anti-British" sentiment building in the colony. A small revolution happened in New Hampshire, a captain and 20 men managed to capture the governor and demanded him to sign reforms which would say "No!" to a British tax on all products.
 * 1856 The 150 year anniversary of the formation of the Imperial Garrison, the major cities would see a weekend long celebration.
 * 1858 as the Big Ben is completed there's a small ceremony held in Pilesbury as their clocktower is dubbed "Small Stephen", being the name of Big Ben being St. Stephen.
 * 1859 saw the construction of a BL railway line which connected Deutsgrenstat and New Valkenburg. Dubbed the "German rail" as it was constructed by the NVR (New Valkenburg Railway) Company
 * 1887 saw men that were inspired by the culture war in Germany publish works criticizing the Anglo-Saxon culture. They'd be arrested in the Anglo-Saxon reforms, and 1/4th of them executed by firing squad outside in the country. This sparked an outrage and caused serious opposition to the reforms.
 * 1767-1895 was when the "First Generalship Program" ensured the expansion of BL, it was laid down in the reforms. The Generalship program was how BL expanded, how the elite gained new land for them to build estates upon and how the elite gained status. It was expected of a man of a noble title in BL to do at least 5 years in the Generalship Program.
 * 1897 the British Colony of Lemuria was officially declared the Dominion of Lemuria.
 * 1906 The 200 year anniversary of the formation of the Imperial Garrison. This would see parades in every city and town. This would also mark the first time they'd be officially a part of the celebrations themselves.
 * 1929-1936 The Second Generalship Program was started. Britain was trying to push some more money out of BL and in an effort to try and secure more resources they were forced to restart the generalship program. The generals send BL 25% of their industrial capacity to help pay for the tax set by the U.K.
 * 1911-1914 Saw an economic boom in BL, many new businesses and factories were opened.
 * 1919 saw the "Return of the Men" as ships came into ports with tired faces and bodies from the war, almost the entire reason for why BL maintains their military (Even though it's mostly demobilized) is so they can support their veterans, even though they're technically still in service.
 * The 1920-1932 period would see a massive rise in crime and Anglish being recognised by members of the BL parliament. A massive crime-wave would hit the major cities and they'd be mostly handled by the IG. There'd also be a small communist insurrection in 1928 in Shilvertown. It was quickly put down as the I.G. mobilized and managed to strike down the communists.?
 * British Lemurian Civil War yada yada yada
 * 1960s saw the emergence of the Southern Kumari Revolutionary Liberation front, a Leninist-Marxist organisation with Mandalist ties, which began waging guerilla war against the federal government. This lead to an intensive guerilla war, dubbed the Artura Policing Action in Lemuria, in which the Indo-Lemurians left British Lemuria in droves. Of the region, which had a make up of around 62% Indo-Lemurian before the conflict, only around 10% of the region was Indo-Lemurian following the conflict. Following this intense depopulation the white population of South Africa and Rhodesia fleeing the both regimes were given cheap land in Artura.

=Government and Politics= The United Commonwealth of Lemuria is governed by a federal parliamentary system with a constitutional monarchy, of which Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom is the monarch. The government is often compared to Canada, mostly due to the status of the House of Lords and Representatives and the British style dress of the courts.

The country is divided into shyres and historical regions. Of these the the more important are the shyres which serve as regional government subdivisions and are often the basis of election maps and occasionally regional identity. Along these are historical regions which are divided between mostly ethnic lines and are to the ethnic minorities a larger sense of pride.

Political parties
Lemuria had for many years only one major party, and the longest standing one the High Tory Party has often remained one of the most popular only being dethroned from its spot as the most popular party 3 times in history. The High Tory party, formerly called the Homeland Party, was founded in 1885 between several monarchists they managed to gain a significant amount of power and contrary to the name did not want to seperate from Britain but rather focus on militarising and expanding the Dominion to include more of Lemuria, including the inclusion of the 2 Generalships of Arturia and Suisse. Along with this became the first conflict as a party calling itself the Party for Lemurian Peace and Justice began challenging it, aiming for a de-escalation of tensions and a focus on growing the civilian industry and industrialising the cities. The Anglish parties still exist, although unrepresented in parliament besides the internal Anglish Party which forms a part of the Peoples Christian Union in Anglish territory, despite the main parties being banned during the civil war. Of those there emerged 2 Anglish parties, one was the Anglish Unionist Party which advocated for Anglish territories to become a recognised community and the other the Anglish Fascist Front which advocated for the formation of the Anglish State of Lemuria. During the time Anglish was spoken by a large degree of people and Anglish identity was seen as quite seperate from the British.

House of Lords and Representatives
Officially there are 140 members of the House of Lords and Representatives, of those 50 are elected, 50 are assigned by the queen or prime minister and the remaining 40 are heavily divided. 5 are religious leaders, 4 are honorary representitives from the United Kingdom, 6 are military officials, 3 are Qlach tribal chiefs, 2 are mandatory Werreurbro Parliament representitives. The remaining 20 are all members of the high nobility and carry hereditary titles, often being descendants of the Expedition Generals which conquered land for the dominion during the colonial days. Political parties are banned from the House of Lords and are the members to align based on interests of their community.

House of Commons
The House of Commons is purely electoral and is based on the national vote.

Military
The Military of the Commonwealth is still based in large part on the Imperial Garrisons, which were the original settler guards of the colonies during the initial settlement of the continent of Lemuria. The Commonwealth maintains a large reserve as many seek to join the reserve legion of the Imperial Garrison for many benefits, including a monthly wage for reserve status. Conscription was mandatory between 1937-1978, with even in 1978 the numbers barely dwindling as many continued to join the ranks of the military. They maintain a 3,4% GDP expenditure on the military and have developed their own home brewn military industry, alongside their own internal hunting weapons and military weapons industries they are an exporter of their own variant of the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle, developed for their own specific qualifications.

Foreign relations
Lemuria maintains friendly relations and hosts regular military drills. They are a part of the Commonwealth of Nations. =Economy= The economy of Lemuria is still mainly agriculture, construction and tools/weapons orientated. In the last few years the development of a minor electronics production industry and the construction of nuclear power plants. Though considered a first world country, compared to the other first world countries, British Lemuria has a lower GDP per capita. British Lemuria has a unemployment rate of 3.7%. The British Lemurian automobile industry is one of the biggest in the world, with most British Lemurians driving homemade vehicles such as the RLAC, NHVC and Verisaliaos Automobiles.

Agriculture
The Commonwealth of Lemuria maintains one of the biggest agricultural product export economies, not just exporting food, fertilizer and livestock but also tools and vehicles for farming related industries. British Lemuria has a

Energy
Lemuria relies still very much on coal and oil powered electricity but in recent years the shift towards nuclear energy and the construction of minor solar and wind energy farms has begun.

In 2016 the energy company Lemurian United began experimenting with off-shore tidal generators, however due to governmental regulatory hurdles the project was never brought to completion. This was primarily due to the projected impact on the Lemurian Orca population, a closely related to the other Type D orca populations of the circum-Antarctic ocean. Lemurian United projected its revenue and investment losses at 200 million Lemurian dollars (2016) however governmental accounting reports have classified this number as likely higher (est. 430 million Lemurian dollars).

=Demographics=

70,7% Euro-Lemurian, 13,2% Nakbishi, Indo-Lemurian & Mixed, 7% Native Lemurian. Will go into more detail soon or fix

Religion
Majority Christian, with prevailing atheistic/agnostic communities and the minor native faiths followed by mainly Qlachian native Lemurians and to some degree Nakbishi peoples.

Language
English is spoken by a large majority of the peoples, Nakbishi speak mainly English but parts of the community speak a creole of English and native-Lemurian languages. Anglish, a language which is a composite of German and "purified" English words which was spoken and advocated for to try to better integrate the large amount of German communities, which is not officially endorsed by the government besides in the Anglish-speaking regions near Werreurbro and near Audenshire. Qlachian is spoken by the 7% native Lemurian population Kumari, Southern Kumari specifically, is spoken by a small population. Werreurbro features its own recognised minority language of Werreurbro French which features many Breton and English loanwords and conventions. French speakers sometimes describe it as a "Brutish" language. Arcadian, a language which is similar to a "frozen in time" Italian from the 18th and 19th century, is spoken by fewer and fewer people. The language which was spoken in all parts of Arcadia has been relegated to only parts of the north and sparse communities in the Southeast. =Culture= They are very similar to British culture.

Architecture
A large amount of traditional architecture is similar to British South African, Australian and British homeland architecture from the 1700s, 1800s and early 1900s though unique Lemurian architectural movements have spun up mainly in the 1890s and in the 1970s with the Lemurian Naturalist movement which aimed to integrate brutalism and natural features together.

Literature
British Lemuria hosts a wide variety of famous poets and the leading gentry hold a long and proud literary tradition.

Music
Lemurian Pop movement, Lemurian rap, Werreurbro language music, etc.

Media
There's a large film industry as a thirst for homemade films, mostly from the Werreurbro and Nakbishi communities, allows for easy profits.

Cuisine
While initially based in English cuisine, over the years of its existence Southern Lemurian cuisine has adapted and grown into a distinct entity. Incorporating many ingredients native to the continent of Lemuria, such as hellpig meat, whitestalks, and kambali ants (and the rainforest honey used to preserve them). Southern Lemurian cuisine has also adapted to the numerous spices available from the northern parts of the continent which have been popular in Indo-Lemurian nations for centuries. Following WWII the American technique of pit barbecue was brought to the country after Lemurian soldiers learned it from American GIs occupying Southern Germany. The Lemurian version of barbecue, "pitty" features a mixture of honey, vinegar, molasses, Indo-Lemurian spices (including nutmeg, cumin, coriander and cloves), chiles and caramelized whitestalk that is blended and brushed onto smoking/low cooking meat (usually myoula, pork or hellpig meat) for hours until it forms a thick, sticky glaze with a flavor that has been described as "somewhere between a spice market and heaven!" by renowned food critic Jonathan Gold. Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, was detained in 2010 at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport in the American state of Georgia after TSA sniffer dogs tore his bags apart, all because he had failed to declare some jars of Lemurian pitty sauce (Argamund's Gold Pitty Sauce) in his customs declaration and "the dogs just went nuts! I could believe that something so divine would drive them crazy, too!" said Zimmern in a Food Network interview later that year.

There are also numerous indigenous and regional cuisines known throughout the nation, from Qlachian spiced, sun-dried meats to rich, cream-filled dishes from Werrerubro and spicy tomato and pasta dishes from the Arcadia region. Despite being a nation with less than half of population of the US Lemuria is known for having an outsized number of Michelin starred restaurants, a total of 122 compared to the US's 200 (2018 Guides Michelin series).

Sports
Lemuria has a world renowned football team which fails to win world cups but often places well at the top, as well as a popular and strong cricket team. Football, also referred to as "foot-soccer" in daily speak, is the national sport of the country and the most popular sport among young people.

Education
Lemuria has been undergoing several different reforms to the education system, it is now called one of worlds foremost education systems with one of the highest rates of satisfaction in the developed world.