Vrtgora

Vrtgora (: ვრთგორა), officially the Republic of Vrtgora (: რეფუბლიქა ვრთგორა), is a located in Central Artemia. Vrtgora borders Samotkhe to the west, Lusjki and Propyrgia to the southeast, and Gradinska to the northeast. It has an overall surface area of a bit above 196,300 square kilometres. The capital and largest city of Vrtgora is Pakadolina, which boasts a population of 2,461,563. Other major, are Belapečina, Reznograd, Falnagrad, Vratnomesto. As an Industrialized, developed, and stable nation, the Vrtgoran economy is quite robust. As of 2020, Vrtgora has a of $865.2 billion.

Before Independence
Vrtgora was first unified as a Principality in 1349, with the old duchy of Vrtgora (found in the valley of the river Paka and the areas to the north, up to the Vrtgora Massif) unifying the various small duchies, counties, and lands in the valleys of the river Falna and the river Rezno, as well as the area in between, the Vrtgora massif. The Principality, under the Vladardolin Dynasty, lasted for huge amounts of time, expanding in small ways to the north and the east by annexing small counties of the regions of Sivegore and Idrijkadeželena. Later, it was placed into a personal union with Samotkhe and later became part of the Samot-Seratofian Empire. During it’s period as part of Samotkhe and the Samot-Seratofian Empire, the large reserves of coal and iron in the valleys of Vrtgora led to the rapid Industrialization of the Principality (now just a division of the Empire), and the railroads that would one day define Vrtgoran transportation came soon after.

This industrial revolution led to the increased importance of Vrtgora, and most areas around the older principality that where majority Vrtgoran, like the rest of Sivegore and Idrijkadeželena, and regions with significant Vrtgoran majorities, mainly the city of Vyalakent and it’s surroundings, which are called in Vrtgoran the city of Belapečina, and the region of Belaravnice, respectively. Later, the Treaty of Holmgrad dissolved the Samot-Seratofian Empire, and the area of the Principality of Vrtgora gained independence. Soon after independence, an election for a constituent assembly and a referendum on the form of government the nation would take (nicknamed the “Crowns Referendum”, as the representation of the “Republic” option in the biggest republican newspaper in the country was a woman wearing a traditional dress wearing a flower crown, and the representation of monarchy was a man with an oversized crown filled with embroidery). In the referendum, Republic won out, with 63% of the population voting in favor of a republican form of government, and the Republic of Vrtgora was established when the constitution of 1926 was passed.