Kübeliye

Kübeliye, official the Union of Kübeliye (: Kübeliye Birliği) is a country in south-eastern Artemia, across the Straits of Gweongjji from Hwangchu. It borders Madonia and Lepodonia to the west, Rovsnoska to the north, and Zaporizhia to the east, and covers an area of 343,251 square kilometres (132,530 sq mi), with a population of 42,896,500 people. A land of many peoples, faiths, and tongues, it has been eternally defined by its position at the junction of southern Artemia, eastern Artemia, and north-eastern Kesh.

Kübeliye has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic. The Bronze Age saw the development and importation of writing systems and the development of a distinct cultural sphere centred on the Kemçarya and Teğo river valleys. During the transition to the Iron Age, the city-states of the upper Teğo valley formed the League of Arinna, a hydraulic empire whose hegemony would last centuries. The unity of Arinna was followed by the Age of Fragmentation, when the first Slavic tribes arrived. The rise of the Tovik Empire restored unity to the region, and its retreat heralded the enduring dominance of Turkic khanates.

The modern history of Kübeliye is agreed to begin with the rise of the Berilid Khanate after the civil war of the previous dynasty led to the collapse of centralised authority for much of the early 1700s. Much of Kübeliye had grown used to independence, and foreign powers extracted extracted tribute from coastal cities and even settled colonies. By 1800 however, the majority of Kübeliye paid either taxes or tribute to the Berilid khans. The re-establishment of a centralised bureaucracy allowed the Berilid state to thrive, but with each succession more power lay with the bureaucrats than ever before. From 1836 to 1845 Khatun Aygün issued the Edicts of İznap, which regularised succession, abolished slavery, reformed the tax code, and promoted the existing parliament from an advisory body to an executive one. Under this new system the country began to industrialise.

The Kübeliler Revolution began at the end of the 19th century, during which the Khan abdicated and the Khanate was abolished. The Republic brought universal suffrage, land reform, the secularisation of government and the establishment of freedom of religion. A military coup in 1940 led to the rise to power of a junta led by Admiral Evrim Göktaş. A decade of increasing tyranny led to start of the Kübeliler Civil War in 1951. The Karabolu Accords of 1963 ended the fighting and began an era of reconciliation and reconstruction during which the modern constitution was developed.

Today, Kübeliye is a federal directorial multi-party parliamentary socialist republic. It is a developing country with a middle-income economy and a growing service sector. It has a hybrid economy, consisting of cooperative, public, and private enterprise. Worker's cooperatives form the bulk of the modern economy, while key sectors of the economy remain nationalised, and the small private sector operates under certain constraints.

Etymology
The name Kübeliye derives ultimately from Kuvala, the name of an ancient goddess.

Paleolithic
Primitive stone tool use in Kübeliye is documented from 21,000 years ago. During the earliest periods of human settlement in Kübeliye, people lived nomadically, spread sparsely across the land. Early humans in the region lived primarily by hunting, fishing, and gathering edible vegetation.

Mesolithic
-12000 to -7000? Development of textiles and pottery

Neolithic
-7000 to -4500? First adoption of agriculture in the region

Chalcolithic
-4500 to -3000? Development of metallurgy

Bronze Age
-3000 to -1000? Development of first cities and early writing

Iron Age
-1000 to 200 Development of first states, and widespread adoption of writing

League of Arinna
-100 to 600 An alliance of city-states dominates the region for centuries

Age of Fragmentation
600 to 900 The stability of the alliance system falls apart

Tovik period
900 to 1200

Wars of Independence
around 1200

Two Kingdoms era
1300 to 1500

Three Kingdoms era
1500s

Berilid Dynasty
1600-1800s?

Berilid Civil War
1770s?

Reform period
early 1800s, later Berilids?

Industrialisation
mid 1800s

Revolutionary period
late 1800s

Junta
1950s?

2nd Civil War
1960s?

Geography
Kübiliye is found on the southern coast of eastern Artemia, on the west coast of the Green Sea. To the west lies Madonia and Lepodonia, to the north Rovsnoska, and the north-east Zaporizhia. Kübiliye's geography is defined by its various river valleys, and the plain in the south.

humid continental climate

Politics and Government
Kübeliye has been a federal parliamentary directorial republic since 1969. It is a multi-party representative democracy with a constitutional commitment to socialism and six branches of government: the executive, legislature, judiciary, electoral commission, civil service commission, and supervisory (auditory & human rights/ombudsman) commission. The Executive Council has seven members who are directly elected by popular vote and act as collective heads of state, with a rotationing chair who appoints the leader of the largest party in parliament as Prime Minister, who assembles a Cabinet. The Parliament, or General Assembly, is tricameral. The largest chamber is the Popular Assembly, numbering 350, in which seats are allocated proportionally between parties according to federal popular vote share. The National Assembly, in which seats are equally distributed among recognised nations, numbers 210. The smallest chamber is the Constitutional Assembly, with 140 members.

Military
The largest branches of the Armed Forces of Kübeliye are the Army, Navy, and Air Force. They are supplemented by the Territorial Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Gendarmerie, and the Medical Service.

Economy
Kübeliye is a middle-income country with a hybrid economy, described by the state as a socialist economy with market elements. After the civil war, the infrastructure of the country was significantly damaged, and its industrial capacity reduced. The post-war government's reforms were aimed toward ensuring the agricultural self-sufficiency of the country, encouraging the growth of industry across the country, and mending the historic social and economic divides between the coast and the interior, and the central valley and the highlands.

Following the civil war, any key industries still in private hands were nationalised. This was a period of strong central planning, with enterprises subject to production quotas. Over the decades, non-essential industries have been granted more independence. Today, key industries remain under state control, with the rest of the economy largely operating according to the principle of worker self-management. Workers' unions remain an important aspect of the Kübeliler economic landscape, and there is a small but burgeoning private sector which largely consists of small enterprises, often family businesses, with rarely more than a dozen members or employees.

Industries
While the economy was traditionally agriculture-driven, today the primary sector, including agriculture and fishing, forestry and mining, accounts for only 7% of GDP. Agricultural cooperatives are the dominate mode of organisation within the industry. Key crops are rice, millet, peanuts, potatoes and sweet potatoes, soybeans, tobacco, tea, coffee, various fruits, and olives in the south. Resource extraction is all state-managed. The secondary or industrial sector of the economy is considerably diversified, and accounts for 33% of GDP. Traditional industries of textiles, clothing, printing, woodworking, pottery, and glassblowing remain a visible part of the industrial sector, but they have largely been supplanted by the growing pharmaceutical, computer parts, and vehicle manufacturing industries. The construction industry and the management of infrastructure and public utilities continue to be state-owned, but much of the rest of this sector consists of independent cooperatives. The tertiary or service sector of the economy is today the largest sector of the economy, accounting for 60% of GDP. State-owned industries in this sector include healthcare, finance and banking, transportation, education, real estate, waste management, and telecommunications. The retail sector is divided equally between worker's cooperatives and small private enterprise, as is true of the tourism, entertainment and media sectors, though these sectors feature more state involvement than retail.