Destland

The Free state of Destland more commonly known as Destland is a sovereign state in northern Eastern Artemia, it borders Kironia and is across the White Sea from Gardarike. A Military Dictatorship iut is run by Grand High General of the lands of Dest Ifan Woodward, a former Republic of Destland General. It has a population of over 23 Million. Its capital Gainsk is populated by 3.45 Million. The Nation is known for its Wood and Mining industries aswell as their large military.

Settling of Modern Day Destland
Originally Discovered an Unknown Tiperyn Druid sometime in the 860s AD, Destland quickly became a trading post for Tiperyn Merchants. The Tiperyn Druid an his men set up their first post in Modern day Odonbert. With its access to the White Sea this post quickly became a fledgling town. With the expanse in Odonbert several settlers moved south setting up towns all down the Destland Coast. although in the mid 900s AD Destland and Tiperyn broke apart from each other Destland still kept its Celt culture and a close language to Tiperyn. The Tiperyn settlers expanded East into the rurals setting up small logging and Mining towns with the settlers still on the coast settling the bay and forming small fishing communities

Destland Republic
The Destland Republic was officially formed on June 22nd 1678, making it an early pioneer is the Modern Republic form of government. Destland was split into 11 States to coincide with the 11 separate bands of Dest citizens with all electing their own representatives to appear in the House of State, where they discussed matters at hand, this voting took place every 5 years. A President was also elected every 3 years although this would be changed to every 4 years in 1835.

Military
The Dest military consists of 5 Branches, The Dest Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard. It is belived the Dest Military has a total of 749,600 men in regular service and another 800,000 as reserves, Destland spend a disproportionate ammount of their GDP on their Military, meaning their Military is a large and powerful military with a large Navy and Air Force with Ships and Planes, New and Old aswell as most of their other equipment.

Every man and Woman aged 18-20 is required to undergo basic Firearm and small squad tactics making almost every Dest citizen a junior soldier

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Army
The largest branch of the Destland Military. The army consists of 404,600 regulars split into 2 armies and a corps aswell as 515,000 in reserves

Navy
The navy is the 2nd largest branch with 156,000 Regular Personnel split between 163 Ships, 1 Aircraft Carriers, 1 Cruisers, 13 Destroyers, 5 Frigates, 3 Ballistic missile submarine, 7 Attack submarine, 2 Amphibious assault ships, 3 Mine countermeasures vessel and 106 support ships. Not all of these ships are up to date with some ships dating back to the early 1970s and even a one from the 1960s. The navy also has 150,000 Reserve personnel

Air Force
The DAF is the 3rd larges branch with 135,000 Regular personnel and 110,000 Reserve personnel

Marines
the Marines are the smallest Dest branch with only 20,000 Regulars and 9,000 reserves. Often underfunded more than the other branches the Marines steal to get by

Coast Guard
The Coast guards role is the defence of the coastal border of Destland. The CG consists of 34,000 Regulars and 16,000 Reserve personel. The coast guard operate a small fleet of 30 Patrol boats, 24 Active Response boats, 8 converted fishing Large purse seiner boats aswell as 53 smaller and support craft. '''

Budget
The Destland "goverment" dedicate roughly 16% of the countries GDP to military spending giving the Miltiary a budget of 24,255,000,000 with that being seperated between all 5 branches

Logging
A large percentage of the Destland GDP comes from Logging, not only do the Dest cut the trees they also refine them into paper, pulp and furniture. The Dest have several refining plants across the country with 3 in Kicgron alone and 12 in other cities and rurals and 2 under construction as of July 29th 2019. Furthermore, several of large international corporations in this business are based in Destland including Swyt Ceg one of the largest Paper and Pulp companies in the World.

Energy
The primary source of nation wide energy are the 12 Nuclear Power stations. These power stations make up 85% of the energy with the other 15% coming from Fossil fuels.

Transport
The public transportation is consider lackluster with irregular times for busses and trains. The primary source of public transport are taxis in most areas and in the Capital of Gainsk is the surprisingly good Trams

Population
8,300,000 of the population live in the 902 Municipalities spread around Destland and the other 464,000 live in over 2,300 settlements in the Rurals

Language
The official language of Destland is Dest, close to the Tipsprek language of their Tiperyn ancestors. the language is belived to come to its modern form in the 1630s with Tipsprek still being the recognised language before this time it was realised that the language had changed enough it was essentially a new language

Education
Education in Destland is mandatory for Boys and Girls aged 5-16, Since 1895 the Republic government brought in the mandatory Education system and the Junta continued that system.

Childern aged 5-12 gain education through the Junior School sytstem and childern aged 13-18 are taught in the Senior School System. The school leaving age is 16 for children with no permission needed