E-Tarin

e-Tarin, officially the People's Administration of e-Tarin, is a country in western Artemia.

The area that is now e-Tarin has been continuously inhabited by the Tari people and their ancestors since the Paleolithic era. The first human settlement has been dated back to the mid-Neolithic, belonging to the Marir, Rana, Yasisna, and Iramnir cultures. The arrival of the Veikan people in the 9th century meant the end of Tari rule in their lands. The Veikans used the area as a base to expand their conquests further westward towards the coasts. With these conquests and in the subsequent centuries, e-Tarin would become little more a border region within the Veikan kingdom, ruled by various Tari and Veikan marcher lords.

The Veikan dominance was not unchallenged. Numerous ethnic revolts and separatist movements occurred but were crushed through brutal repression by the Veikan crown. These revolts would come a head as nationalism increased in prominence among the native Tarini elite who had previously supported Veikan rule. The Tarini Revolution began in 1897 and resulted in Tarini independence with the recognition of the Kingdom of e-Tarin by Veikaia on 4 September 1899. The Kingdom would rule e-Tarin until the 15 March Coup of 1941 saw the fall of the monarchy with the slaughter of the royal family by a cabal of ethnic Veikan military officers who established a junta to rule the nation. The new government renamed the state to the "State of East Veikaia" and received extensive financial, martial, and diplomatic support from the Veikan monarchy.

This minority rule would persist until 1994 when the 4-year long Blue Revolution came to an end with the fall of the junta and the rise of the Republic of e-Tarin. The Republican government was no less infamous. Its ruling party, the Tari Liberation Front, immediately continued the campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Veikan minority that they had conducted during the civil war. The one-party Republic is estimated to have killed nearly 200,000 ethnic Veikans with nearly 500,000 more fleeing the country over the course of its rule. The Republican government, in turn, fell following the devastating multi-sided civil war that ravaged the nation for nearly fifteen years from 2003 to 2018 when the Republican forces surrendered to the People's United Front for a Free Tari and the People's Administration was established.

Etymology
The country's name in Tari, Maqda i e-Ula i e-Tarin, literally translates to "Administration of the People of the Hills". The Veikan language holds co-official status and so another official form of the nation's name is Kejandi Admistraca di ale Keminua.

Prehistory
The area that is now e-Tarin has been continuously inhabited by the Tari people and their ancestors since the Paleolithic era. The first human settlement has been dated back to the mid-Neolithic, belonging to the Marir, Rana, Yasisna, and Iramnir cultures. Neolithic settlements developed into hilltop towns whose rule was largely restricted within the valleys and hilltops in which farmed what they could in the rocky soil and raised sheep and goats. The lack of a written language prior to the Veikan migrations has led to little being known about these ancient civilizations.

Classical antiquity
These hilltop settlements evolved into fortified city-states as the Iron Age entered the region. Wars and alliances between these city-states resulted in constantly changing and developing borders and cultures. It was in the 2nd century BC that the idea of a united Tari people arose. Ancient writers defined this common identity as those who spoke the Tari language, believed in the Tari pantheon, and lived in the Urari Mountains and along the banks of Lake Salzee. The name of this people, Tari, itself means "hill-people".

Demographics
According to the 2020 census, e-Tarin had a population of 68,548,283. It is estimated this has increased to as much as 72,300,000 as of 2023 as part of the post-war baby boom and as refugees return from the camps in Veikaia and Ostboland. e-Tarin has yet to recover to its pre-war population of an estimated 78,485,290 as refugees remain in their place of asylum and due to fatalities sustained in the war.

Ethnic Groups
e-Tarin's population is made up of two main ethnic groups: the native Tarin and the local Veikans. As of the 2020 census, the Tarin made up 89% of the population while the Veikans make up a further 9%. Numerous other ethnic groups make up the remaining ~2%. Relations between these two main ethnic groups is the main guiding factor in Tarini domestic and foreign policy. A history of strife between the two groups has been partially overshadowed by the positive interactions and cooperation between the Veikan resistance groups and Tari socialist factions in the civil war against the Republican government.

Economy
The economy of e-Tarin is classified as a transitioning economy and has been left severely damaged by the civil war. The nation's GDP has yet to reach its pre-civil war level of $584 billion. As of 2022, the nation's GDP was estimated at $332 billion. Mining is by far the economy's largest sector, accounting for nearly 29% of the national GDP. Mineral refining and automotive manufacturing additionally make up large sectors of the economy. Factories which had been used to produce, repair, and modified armored vehicles during the civil war have been retooled to produce civilian vehicles and machinery today. Additionally, the cottage firearm industry which blossomed during the war has grown into a moderately sized and widespread industry with factories producing firearms, explosives, and crew-served weapons which have begun to see use around the world.

The Tarini economy is based around a worker-managed system which has resulted in average wage being higher than it would be otherwise in the devastated economy. Factories and mines are ran as cooperatives by their workers and communes who distribute profits according to votes held semi-annually among its workers and citizens. Natural resources are mined by corporations owned by the commune which administers that region and treated as being commonly owned by the citizenry of that commune. This follows the ancient Tari custom of villages and towns being based around the mines which dominate the hills and mountains that make up the center of their nation.