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 quicjly became a fledgling town. With the expanse in Odonbert several settlers moved south setting up towns all down the Destland Coast. Alough 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. With the expansion of the Tiperyn settlers they slowly began to discover groups of Men and women they would come to call the Pre Settlers despite their Being them beforwe the Tiperyn settlers. The Pre Settlers are belived to of been in Destland from anytime between 650-820. The Pre Settlers banded togehter in small communties of 30-100 men and women living in small Wooden huts with often a large firepit/Communtiry area in the Middle of the village. Bands of Destland

With the Ammount of Tiperyn settlers making their way to the New Lands the population grew fast with an estimate of 870s being anywhere from 5,000-10,000 settlers. These settlers gradually made their way south to modern day Gainsk and Kicgron becoming large settlemnets. These settlements slowly became states of their own, from 900AD-1400AD 11 states were formed all over Dest with the state of, An-asaidh, Dest for Freedom becoming the largest and most powerful with Gainsk for it's capital.

Destland Republic
Around 1690 the leaders of 5 of the 11 states, the 5 larges states came together and an attemot to form a dest republic from the fractured States. These leaders went to the 6 other states and pled their case to the leaders all bar 1, Jock Ailbert leader of Dorchadas the furtheest west state refused. All 10 other states brough their military together and this stated the Unification war from June 1690 - October 1690. This war claimed an estimated 32,000 lives. The Republic was officaly delcared on Juen 7th 1691

1st Desland Civil war- July 1935-Mar 1939
The 1st Destland Civil War was fought between the Republic of Destland goverment and the Communist Party of Destland. The fighting resulted in the defeat of the CPD The first signs of the civil war occurred in 1932 to 1935 with the CPD gradialy growing in power with an estimated 3,000,000 members in the party with 1,000,000 being in the Destland Liberation Front, the military wing of the CPD. The DLF were suspected to be armed with weapons stolen from the military and foreign arms dealers supplin them.

2nd Destland Civil War
in 1985 Destland Republic General, Ifan Woodward organized the army against the government over throwing it (More to be added rough outline)

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 xxx,xxx regulars as well as xxx,xxx in reserves. The Army also always has atelast 20,000 men on standby

Navy
The navy is the 2nd largest branch with 156,000 Regular Personnel split between 141 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

Mining
Although not rich in minerals, Destland has been found to have small deposits of iron ore, nonferrous metal ores, dolomite, potash (for fertilizer production), rock salt, phosphorites, refractory clay, molding sand, sand for glass production, and various building materials. Destland also has deposits of industrial diamonds, titanium, copper ore, lead, mercury, bauxite, nickel, vanadium, and amber.

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