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Siha-Silulu (Swara: སིཧ་སིལུལུ, RSST : siha silulu; pronounced: [siha-silulu]), officially the United Realms of Siha-Silulu, colloquially known as Sihailu, and formerly known as Luanha, is a country in southwestern Kesh. It is bordered to the west and southwest by the Iapetus Ocean, to the southeast and east by the South Kesh Bay, and shares maritime borders with Ramay and South Kesh; covering an area of 929.097 square kilometers (358,726 sq mi) and with an estimated population of over 100 million. The country’s capital and largest is Pelankan. Siha-Silulu is a.

Etymology of Luanha
Prior to the establishment of democracy in the and the shaping of the current Sihailese government system, the nation that occupied the territory of present-day Siha-Silulu was the Swari Empire of Luanha. By outsiders, and prior to 1872, it was usually known by the exonym Luanha (Swara: ལུཨང, RSST: ‘luanga’, pronounced [luaŋa]). The word luanha is an altered version, by outsiders, of the Swara word luanga (meaning ‘coast’ or ‘shore’), that originated from Savi (makaluanga, ‘ending land’) and was used to refer to the western side of the peninsula.

Etymology of Siha-Silulu
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Geography

 * Main article: Geography of Siha-Silulu

Siha-Silulu is the seventh-largest country in Kesh, and seventeenth-largest in Anterra; bordering the Iapetus Ocean to the west and southwest, the South Kesh Bay to the east and southeast, and sharing maritime borders with Ramay and South Kesh. The Sihailese territory covers a total area of 929.097 square kilometers (358,726 sq mi).

Siha-Silulu comprises two main geographic regions. The north and center of the country is home to dry forest and savannas, while being the area with the highest elevation in the country, with the northeast being characterized by a portion of a massif, expanding into Siha-Silulu from neighboring countries. The southern region, particularly along the coasts, experiences a greater wet season in comparison to the rest of the country.

Siha-Silulu is also home to several rivers that feed into the many lakes in the country, particularly along the southern and western coast, among which is the Baran Lake, the largest body of water in the country, and, as of 1987 and by decree of the Royal Secretary of Environment and the Ministry of Environment and Landscape, a protected natural area and a no-disturb zone, with a set ratio around the lake where the construction of any structure is prohibited by law.

Due to its rugged coast, Siha-Silulu is subject to many major and minor peninsulas and bays, with about fifteen islands offshore, eight of which are currently inhabited.

Climate

 * Main article: Climate of Siha-Silulu

Most of the country is classified as ’s, while a majority of the south, as well as the entire eastern coast, and part of the western coast have a majority climate. Along the northeastern border of the country, a sliver of land is also classified as having an and  climate.

Government

 * Main article: Federal government of Siha-Silulu, Politics of Siha-Silulu, Realm governments of Siha-Silulu

Siha-Silulu is a federation under a semi-constitutional monarchy comprising five realms. The country’s head of state and monarch is the Queen of Siha-Silulu, the head of government is the Grand Secretariat. Each realm is governed by a Noble, who holds the title of either Prince or Princess of Siha-Silulu, and a Governor acting as the head of government of each realm. The Constitution of Siha-Silulu is codified and consists of a few unaltered principles, most of them rooted in Buddhism; the Constitution states the government is to be divided into three branches responsible for each other: the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary. Apart from the sihailese constitution, is Realm has a Regional Mandate that holds the laws and principles of each Realm. The National Parliament of Siha-Silulu can perform constitutional reform to any aspect of the constitution simply by passing Acts of Parliament, this means no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change. Regional Parliaments cannot perform “constitutional reform”, but instead are free to modify their realms’ Regional Mandates. All constitutional and mandated reforms must get Royal Assent.

Legislature

 * ''Main article: Federal legislature of Siha-Silulu

The National Parliament of Siha-Silulu meets in the Esteemed Palace of Ahn Luman and has two elected houses: the (Swara: tempua kamar / ཏེམཔུཨ ཀམར), formed by the, and the  (Swara: ruanta kamar / རུཨནཏ ཀམར), formed by the realm representatives. The five Regional Parliaments meet in the Regional Palaces of Siha-Silulu and are all, comprising two houses: an elected General Assembly (Swara: inta permua / ཨིནཏ པེརྨུཨ), formed by the members of the court, and an appointed Chamber of Lieges (Swara: mantan semula / མནཏན་སེམུལ), formed by the lieges (lords and ladies) appointed directly by the Nobles of Siha-Silulu.

For national parliamentary elections, Siha-Silulu is divided into constituencies, each electing a single member of parliament and five realm representatives by national simple plurality and regional simple plurality respectively. For regional parliamentary elections, the same constituencies are utilized for electoral purposes, each electing a member of the court; the two candidates with the most votes per realm are then admitted into the General Assembly. Parliamentary elections have a non-fixed six year term; this means that the monarch and the nobles, despite being advised against it by the heads of government, have the power to call elections whenever they see fit, whether it be before or after the six year period, however, the Constitution mandates they don't wait longer than nine years to call for elections. The Realms’ Chambers of Lieges have a fixed renewal term of four years. Members of parliament and realm representatives can run for office a maximum of three consecutive times; members of the court can run for office a maximum of two consecutive times; lieges can be appointed a maximum of two consecutive times.

Executive

 * ''Main article: Federal executive of Siha-Silulu, Regional executive of Siha-Silulu
 * See also: List of Sihailese heads of state, List of Sihailese heads of government

The national executive power is vested in the Monarch of Siha-Silulu as the head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces for life or until abdication, and in the Grand Secretariat as head of government and cabinet. The title of Monarch of Siha-Silulu is hereditary under a system of succession by female-preference primogeniture. The Grand Secretariat is elected during national general elections and has a fixed term of six years.

The grand secretariat chooses a cabinet and its members are formally appointed by the monarch to form the Royal Sihailese Council. By convention, the monarch is expected to respect the grand secretariat’s decisions of cabinet, nonetheless, they reserve the power to make as many changes as they see fit. The cabinet tends to be drawn from members of the grand secretariat’s party, and always from the House of Commons. Due to a technicality in the unaltered section of the Sihailese Constitution, realm representatives can’t be drawn from the House of Peers to form cabinet, as cabinet members are required to take an oath of allegiance to the monarch, which is deemed as constitutional treason to their respective realms

The regional executive power is vested in the Nobles of Siha-Silulu as the heads of state, for life or until abdication, of their respective Realm, and in the Governors as heads of government and regional offices of their respective Realm. The title of Prince or Princess of Siha-Silulu is hereditary under a system of succession by absolute primogeniture. The Governors are elected during regional general elections and have a fixed term of six years.

The governors choose a regional office and their members are formally appointed by the nobles to form the Prestigious Offices. The nobles are expected to respect the governors’ decision of office, and while in some Realms they hold the reserve power to make changes as they see fit, certain Regional Mandates prohibit the head of state from intervening in the governors’ decision. The members of office are always drawn from the General Assemblies.

Judiciary

 * ''Main article: Federal judiciary of Siha-Silulu, Regional judiciary of Siha-Silulu

On a federal level, the highest form of authority in the judicial branch of government is Her Majesty’s Divine Court of Justice. Federal judges for this court are called Ladies of Justice, of which there are nine, and it is the only position in government inaccessible to men, as stated in the Constitution of Siha-Silulu. Ladies of Justice are granted a lifetime tenure; they are directly appointed by the Queen of Siha-Silulu to form Her Majesty’s Honourable Court, but must earn a majority vote of confidence from the nation’s Nobles. The Ladies of Justice are in charge of interpreting, defending and applying the law across the country, as well as making sure all lower Sihailese courthouses follow them.

All federal courts can be identified by the words “Her Majesty’s” (abbreviated to H.M. or simply HM) in their official names; no realm court may include this designation as part of their name.

The Judiciary has a hierarchical system, atop which stands HM Divine Court of Justice; following it are, in descending order, HM Court of Appeals, the Realm Court of Appeals, HM Realm Divine Courts, the Realm Divine Courts, HM County Courts, the Realm County Courts and the Sihailese Honourable Tribunals; all courts have different purposes and levels of jurisdiction. There are two types of courts: courts of inquiry, which hear cases in the first instance, and courts of entreaty, which review specific contested decisions made by lower courts.

Administrative divisions

 * ''Main article: Realms of Siha-Silulu, Counties of Siha-Silulu, Constituencies of Siha-Silulu

Siha-Silulu is divided into five realms that act as the principal political divisions of the country. Each realm holds jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, where it shares sovereignty with the federal government. They are subdivided into counties, and further divided into constituencies or electoral districts. The Capital District, also known as Greater Pelankan, is an agglomeration of different districts that contains the capital of Siha-Silulu, the city of Pelankan, and falls under federal jurisdiction. As of 1987, the Sacred Territory of Baran, simply known as Baran, is under the constitutional principle of tak bertuan (Swara: ཏཀ་བེརྟུཨན, ‘terra nullius’), stating the Territory is to remain with no jurisdiction and under the protection of the federal government, prohibiting any form of alteration to the land within its boundaries.

Realms, counties and constituencies
The five Realms of Siha-Silulu follow the boundaries of the former realms of the Liberation Age, prior to the Royal Reunification. Each realm is administered by a head of state, the Sihailese Nobles, who hold the hereditary title of Prince or Princess, and an elected head of a government, the Governors. The realms are subdivided into Counties and further divided into Constituencies. Counties have ceremonial heads of state in the form of Counts and Countess, who are usually members of the Royal Family of Siha-Silulu appointed by the Monarch or the Nobles, and have virtually no power; the executive head of the counties are the Chancellors, who are elected by the citizens of their respective county during general elections. Constituencies are the smallest and newest subdivision level, having come into place in the early 20th century; constituencies have a merely electoral and statistical purpose and fall under the jurisdiction of whichever county they’re in, nevertheless, chancellors will usually appoint a Mayor, usually someone of the same political party, to help run the constituencies.

Demographics

 * ''Main article: Demographics of Siha-Silulu, Ethno-linguistic groups of Siha-Silulu

Population

 * ''See also: List of Sihailese realms by population, List of Sihailese counties by population

As of 1 December 2019, and according to the Subsecretary of Census and Population, Siha-Silulu had a total population of 97,987,034; and as of 1 January 2021, an estimated population of 102,980,909.

Despite never having been colonized, Siha-Silulu’s ethnolinguistic background has fluctuated and changed over the years, having been subject to exposure to multiple different cultures and languages. As of 2019, 98 percent of the population identifies as ethnically Swari, a distinct people group native to the peninsula and believed to have started differentiating themselves from other people groups in the continent around (TBD year) BCE, however, it is believed nearly 57 percent of the population to have some sort of mixed ancestry between Swari and other people groups.

Language

 * ''Main article: Swara language, Ramayan language, Tili language

The country’s official language is Swara, a descendant to the Savi language and distant sister language of Ramayan, spoken in modern day Ramay and South Kesh; due to proximity and being the common language spoken in the region, particularly for trade, Ramayan also holds co-official status in Siha-Silulu, usually being taught in most schools as a second language. During the 1850s, the Empire that stood in modern day Siha-Silulu adopted Buddhism as the country’s religion, and the from the Samotkhe-Seratofian Empire’s colonies in South Kesh and Ramay. The script was applied to the already existing Swara script and was only used to name religious and political terms.

With the years, the Tili script was adopted on all levels of written speech, and an official equivalent to the Swari script was put in place in the mid 20th century, referred to as the RSST (the Royal Sihailese System of Transliteration). Today, the Tili script has begun to fall out of use, mostly due to the rise of globalization and contact with foreign nations becoming more common. Apart from the Tili and Swara scripts, Siha-Silulu also utilizes the when writing in that language.