Nasiria

Nasiria (: ٱلنَّاصِرِيَّة, tr. Nāşirīyah; Tipsprek: Naserye), officially the Realm Dominion of Nasiri Aravania, is an overseas territory situated in North Kesh partially covering regions of Aravania and Mihranestan and bordering Aftarestan to the east, Asharistan to the west, and Qurac to the north across the Gulf of Qurac. The federated constitutional is a  of the Apostolic  Tiperyn and is a federation of one hereditary monarchy, two elective monarchies, and three provisional tribal confederations under Tiperyn Realm Defence administration. The northeastern disputed territory of Amedi is internationally recognized as being within Naseristan's borders, but is de facto administered by the Koryeo-supported Amedis. Although the elective monarchies of Darbandikhan and Naqadeh enjoy some administrative through the real union, the hereditary Nasiri tribe is considered to be the dominant in Nasiria's federacy and the country's ruling family. This asymmetric dynamic has historically been enforced in part with support from the Tiperyn military.

As of 2019, Nasiria's population was 29.9 million—being the smallest of its direct neighbours in population. However, with a GDP PPP of $795.5 billion Nasiria is the most economically productive of its neighbors due in part to its lucrative energy and mineral exports. The Keshan state's economy is based primarily on resource extraction, namely oil and gas from the northern Great Nasir Desert and minerals in the southern mountainous region. Nasiri Aravania also hosts a significant agricultural sector, based primarily around irrigated farmland in proximity to the Nasir River. However, agriculture is considered to be a industry and Nasiria remains a net importer of food. Despite recent attempts by the Nasiria and Tiperyn governments to diversify the country's economy to combat, these attempts have largely failed due to civil unrest, low education, poor standard of living, and limitations of the labor pool. remained chronically high as of 2019 and its rating on the has worsened in the past decade due in part to escalation in the Nasiri Civil War in the country's southern Mihrani-dominant provinces.

Nasiria as a concept began in the early 18th century when Tiperyn stepped up its efforts to colonize the northern coast of Kesh. Although only partially successful, by 1732 it gained two treaty ports in what is now the Nasir capital area with the aid of a tribe that would eventually be known as the Nasiris. Most of what is now Nasiria was not so before the 20th century, being a part of the Maghreb region of the Caliphate inhabited by both Aravans and Mihranis. Following the Grand Campaigns, Tiperyn gained control of most of the Aravan-dominant regions of northern Nasiria while southern Nasiria was seized by nationalist and communist Mihrani groups in the wake of the Caliphate's collapse. These areas would be conquered by Tiperyn, the Nasiris and Koryeo during the Kesh War, but the south has remained in an ongoing insurgency ever since. Because of the majority of Nasiria's southern provinces are active combat zones, these areas are nominally under the control of the Tiperyn military with only a token local council of tribal chiefs sympathetic to the North-South Concordant. Additionally, Koryeo never ceded control of the northeastern province of Amedi after the end of the Kesh War and it is currently under autonomous local administration.

As a Realm Dominion of Tiperyn, Nasiria is considered to be a semi-autonomous polity. Although its government has nominal control over the northern areas, Tiperyn may reassert control over certain areas via military mandate without recourse. Additionally, Nasiria guard regiments may be called by the Realm to serve overseas, although this power has not been executed because of southern Nasiria's status as an active warzone. Nasiria is also a member of the North-South Concordant, an, through its dependency on Tiperyn.

Etymology
The formal name Nasiri Aravania is an that the Tiperyn government adopted for the region of North Kesh roughly north of the 5°N latitude and between the 46°E and 54°E longitudes following the foundation of the Realm City of Greater Nasir in 1732. Most of this area was a part of the Maghreb region of the Caliphate at that point. Nasiri Aravania is derived from the words Nasiri—an ethnonym for the people who inhabit the region of Nasir, which is in itself an exonym—and Aravania—an Anglicized name for the area in North Kesh inhabited by the Aravan peoples. The common name Nasiria is derived from Nasiryah, the Aravan word for the geographic region the exonym applied.

The word Nasir—an Anglicization of the Aravan word Nāṣir which means "helper" or "one who gives victory"—was the name Tiperyn applied to the conglomeration of tribes living near the mouth of the Nasir River—then called Nahr el hayat (River of Life)—after they aided Tiperyn forces in wresting control of two port cities in the region from the Caliphate. In reality, there was a diverse number of ethnicities inhabiting the area, living primarily from agriculture dependent on the Nahr el hayat's seasonal flooding. The dominant tribe of the newly formed Realm City of Greater Nasir, the Mazzari, was favored by Tiperyn and thus became the local proxy rulers of what would eventually become Nasiri Aravania. After the end of the 18th century the Mazzari dropped their original name and acquired the name Nasiri.

Although the demonym Nasiri is internationally applied to all peoples living in Nasiri Aravania, only the tribe Nasiri identifies with it domestically. Aravans living in Nasiri Aravania identify with their own tribe or their geographical location based on major landmarks such as deserts, peninsulas and mountains. In the southern provinces, only 10% of inhabitants are Aravan, with the large majority being Mihrani.

The Mihrani term for Nasiri Aravania is Naseristan, which is derived from the ethnonym Naser and the suffix -stan meaning "place of". However, Mihranis living in Nasiri Aravania rarely use this term to describe themselves, with the greater Mihranestan region encompassing parts of southern Nasiri Aravania and Asharistan being considered separate from Aravania.