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Ovantia, officially the Republic of Ovantia (: République d'Ovantie) is a constituent republic of the Metropolitan Fraternity in Western Artemia. The Ovantic mainland spans a total of 366,499 km2 (141,506 sq mi) from the Ovanti-Legantine Plain in its west, bisected by the Valeine River, to the Séme Plain in the southwest. It possesses coastline facing the Iapetus Ocean, West Balearic and East Balearic Seas. Ovantic borders its sister republic Legantia to the east, Teutonia to the south, and shares maritime borders with Tiperyn across Saint's Channel and Mespalia across the Sardennes Strait. The republic has a population of 49.47 million as of 2021, making it equivalent to the 7th largest country in Western Artemia by population and approximately 22% of the Metropolitan Fraternity's population.

The Republic of Ovantic was founded towards the end of the Grand Campaigns as an amalgamation of several republican militia groups supported principally by the Legantine and Brigantic governments during the war. It replaced the Ovantic Empire, which had been backed by the Crown Alliance during the war and ultimately pushed off the continent by republican forces. The nascent republic existed for a brief period as an independent country, but formed a federation with the Republic of Legantus in 1933 to ensure security, economic prosperity, and the survival of Ovantic republican values going into the future. This is cited as having been the direct result of economic depression following the devastation of the Grand Campaigns and post-war conflicts with Tiperyn in the late 1920s that revealed the ineffectiveness of the new Ovantic military.

Historically, Ovantia was a major colonial power, having conquered parts of modern Brigantica, Tilenno, Chezzetcook, and Mespalia at different times. It rivaled several other colonial powers at the time; most notably Tiperyn and Agrana y Griegro which the Ovantic Empire engaged in a number of wars with. Although in modern times Ovantia is not the largest Ovantic-speaking country, the republic is noted as the home of the language and a major hub of Ovantic culture.

Ovantia is a   under the Metropolitan Fraternity—a federation of the Republic of Ovantia with the Republic of Legantia. It is headed by a President—currently Maeva Lebeau—who is elected via a national at-large vote. The President is the official representative of Ovantia on the Metropolitan Fraternity's ministerial cabinet advising the federation's Prime Minister. They also chair the National Forum, which is a meeting of Ovantia's 10 provincial chief ministers—all of whom are selected via a parliamentary system on the provincial level. Today, the federal Ovantic government has few powers, with most decisionmaking being centralized within the federation government or delegated directly to provincial governments. As such, Ovantia does not have significant powers with regard to foreign policy, but its parent federation is a leading member of the pro-democracy League of Free Nations, historically opposed to the North-South Concordant and International Movement for Socialism.

Etymology
The name Ovantie originally comes from the Ovanitus, which was the name applied to the people living in the area during the early Romantic period. The Romantic term is derived from ob- meaning "towards, facing" and vānitās meaning "emptiness, nothingness". This was in reference to the thought that beyond Western Artemia to the west was a neverending expanse, meaning those who lived in the area faced the abyss. This was then modified in the 13th century during the emergence of a unified Ovantia and the Ovantic national identity with -ie, borrowed from the Romantic -ia, to mean "the realm of those who face emptiness".

Late Imperial Period (1870–1915)
The final decades of the Ovantic Empire were fraught with conflict and a sharp decline in national prestige.

Climate
The majority of Ovantia is of an, affected by the warm of the North Iapetus. It experiences consistent percipitation throughout the year with mild summers and cool winters. The exception is in southwestern Ovantia around the Séme Valley where the cold wind-driven Tiberian Current cause a transition to a characterized by warm and dry summers and mild winters. The cold currents in this region experience whereby wind drives cool deep-ocean water to the surface. This stabilizes the air in this region, as cold air is less ready to hold water as warm air, resulting in less percipitation and cloud cover on average. The area is part of a climatic transition zone between the oceanic climate of Northwestern Artemia and the hot-summer mediterranean climates of the Western Eurybian region, particularly Agrana y Griegro.

Administrative divisions
Ovantia is divided into 10 contiguous provinces, making up half of the Metropolitan Fraternity's 20 provinces.

Economy
Ovantia has a highly developed, diversified, coordinated market economy driven chiefly by services and supported by healthy manufacturing and chemical processing industries. In liberal Western Artemia, Ovantia is known for its financial services and insurance industries. Its national capital of Belfort is considered to be the banking capital of the Metropolitan Fraternity, with its federation-level financial ministry being the only ministry to maintain concurrent offices in both Belfort and the federation capital of Proventia.

Unionization rates are high in Ovantia, as are heavy consumer protections and monitoring standards imposed at the federation- and provincial-levels. A substantial social welfare program is ran by the government, including unemployment benefits, healthcare subsidies, food support subsidies, subsidized public housing, and free public transportation and tertiary education for those earning below a certain threshold.

Demographics
With an estimated population of about 49.5 million people as of 2021, Ovantia is the 7th most populous country in Western Artemia and consistutes about 22% of the Metropolitan Fraternity's overall population.