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The Transoceanic Republic of Aguaria Major

“Out of friendship and brotherhood, we forge communism.”

Category: Liberal Democratic Socialists
Civil Rights:
Excellent
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Superb

Regional Influence: Squire

Location: The North Pacific

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Overview of Aguaria Major

The Transoceanic Republic of Aguaria Major

Fu'a Fetu

Great Seal of Aguaria Major


Motto: "Out of friendship and brotherhood, we forge communism."
Aguarian: Ie raika ue krineo, biue legia viarite.

National Anthem: "The Blue Revolution" ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1igy_qrlGiKhQAefBVppifwFO-ExS-cTj/view?usp=drivesdk )

March: "Aguaviara's Battle Cry" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ese_l6YCmM0 )

National Symphony: "Malaguena" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRv7VHD7GA )


Location



Map of the Main Archipelago, including its 10 largest cities (only shows main rocky islands, not coral atolls or small rocky islands)



Map of Lavendoria



Map of Nation of beefheart



Map of Every name i tried was already taken (layout of Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium is redacted for military reasons, as are the layouts of the air bases on Oeno and Ducie)



Population: 4,847,000,000
Density: 1,616 people/square mile


Capital: Aguarbanapolis
Largest Cities

Rank

City

Metro area population

Province

1

Aguarbanapolis

1,256,424,230

Aguarbana

2

Iknasonu

1,240,724,640

Iknasona

3

Anuquelia

586,650,099

Anuqueliana

4

Ignesaguia

372,189,877

Anuqueliana

5

Ionistenu

40,013,985

Goldensand Island

6

Azulinai

24,232,464

Northerly Archipelago

7

Ayonusinai

24,111,194

Southern Guardian Island

8

Irunasine

24,072,564

Iruna

9

Dar Es Salaam

4,364,541

Lavendoria

10

Arinusonruia

3,954,378

Arinusonruiana

11

Pyongyang

3,255,288

Nation of beefheart

12

Imeldinu

2,967,643

Middle Strait Island


Official Language: Aguarian (most prominently spoken language and an amalgam of all the many native languages, developed in ancient times for ease of communication between natives; it is similar to Bahasa Indonesia in this respect), Samoan, Hawaiian, Maori, Swahili (Lavendoria), Korean (Nation of Beefheart), English, French (both national Lingua Francas)


National Language: Over 700 native languages, as well as the Mainland Languages of Swahili and Korean, and many immigrant languages, the largest being Spanish, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Javanese, Arabic, and Zulu to name a few

Demonym: Aguarian

Government: Socialist Parliamentary Democracy
- Prime Minister: Solitarius P. Unenlagia
- Deputy Prime Minister: Prometheus Samej
- Presidium of the Tribal Council (Parliament): Kronos T. Agueri
- Chief Justice of the Higher Court: Seria Y. Onimaui


Legislature: Aguarian Tribal Council (Type: Proportionally Represented Bicameral Parliament)
-Upper House: National Tribal Presidium (formerly Native Assembly, changed to a non-discriminate-to-entry upper house to integrate the Western and native populations in Aguaria Major)
-Lower House: National Tribal Executorial (formerly Western Assembly, changed to a non-discriminate-to-entry lower house to integrate the Western and native populations in Aguaria Major)


Establishment: from Iknaguaviazerbaiju (ancient tribal name for the nation/Main Archipelago) and The United States (the refugees who introduced the nation to the modern world were from here)
Independence: FROM DICTATORSHIP: August 26, 1346 CE. FOUNDATION AS A MODERN NATION: April 21, 2016 CE.


Area, including nationally owned waters and mainland provinces: 3,436,582 milesē (5,530,642 kmē)
Water %: 40 (includes both ocean and freshwater)
World Area Rank: 5 (Below the United States but above Brazil)


Elevation
Highest Point: Mt. Anuquelia (18,315 ft. above sea level)
Lowest Point: Ignesaguia Desert Basin (approx. 200 ft. below sea level)


GDP (nominal): approx. 1,218,000,000,000,000 Inaguas
GDP (nominal) per capita: approx. 251,290 Inaguas


Human Development Index (as of 2158 CE): 0.9852 (extremely high)


Currency: Inagua


Time Zone: UTC -10 to UTC -11 (Main Archipelago), UTC +3 (Lavendoria), UTC +9 (Nation of beefheart), UTC -9 (Every name i tried was already taken)


Drives on the: Right


Calling code: +24


Internet TLD: .agm

Aguaria Major is the premiere power in the Pacific Ocean, occupying the region between Hawaii and Fiji. However, the nation has not always been located here, due to extremely fast continental drift over tectonic boundaries in the Pacific Ocean. This drift is caused by the absorption of seismic waves from a meteor impact millions of years ago, by vast reserves of a rare element known as Seismium.

This shifting location, and the intense volcanism generated by the rapid tectonic movement, has led to the evolution of millions of endemic species, a very unique topography/climate, and large variations of ecosystems across the islands. Dense jungles, scorching deserts, alpine peaks (the most equatorial glacier in the world lies in the Anuquelia Range), coral reefs, karsts, and vast wetlands can all be found on Aguarian islands. Climate is highly varied depending on the island, but generally, the nation is tropical.

The shifting location has also led to the archipelago being colonized by all races of Pacific Islander. Within the nation's ancient culture, there can be found elements of Polynesian, Micronesian, Melanesian, and Maori influence, as well as many others. Because of this, Aguarian culture is said to be Pan-Pacific. These major groups collided as they explored the vast archipelago in ancient times to create each of the over 700 native Aguarian tribes, collectively known as the Aguarian Race.

The human inhabitants of the islands of Aguaria Major lived as hunter-gatherer tribes, until a warrior chief named Promite (pronounced "Proh-MEE-tay"), leader of the war-like Agua Tribe of Iknasonu (this then-irrelevant city was the birth place of the Agua nation, making the tribe a city-state), conquered the entire archipelago in a 10-year campaign that ended in the year 486 CE. He spread his forces in all directions from Iknasonu, slowly gathering more men, until he had an army capable of drinking lakes out of existence. The newly-unified nation, with the newfound capital Iknasonu, was called Iknaguaviazerbaiju, and experienced great economic growth and prosperity as a capitalist chiefdom for centuries afterwards. Iknasonu grew from a medium-sized village into a city that only stopped growing once its land area covered the entire island it occupied. The scale of Iknasonu (as well other cities such as Ionistenu, Ayonusinai, and Azulinai once they expanded with the spread of industry) rivaled Angkor, Tenochtitlan, and London, and their collective economy rivaled that of the whole of Europe at the time. The people were granted freedoms by the chief and lived freely, for the most part. Promite did impose one law that has never changed to this day: all new settlements must either begin with the sound of the English letters "a" or "i". No one is really sure why this is. Despite the peace, the war-like tendencies introduced to the nation by the now culturally dominant Aguas never went away, and persist even to this day (the explanation for why, today, a nation "this left-wing" has such a massive military).

But in 1342 CE, the reigning chief was murdered by an advisor who believed he was on a mission from the Gods, and that this mission was to utilize the entire economy of the archipelago as a the means to become immortal and join the Gods in their pantheon. He transformed the benevolent chiefdom into what we'd now call a far-right totalitarian dictatorship, and slaughtered millions of his own people in attempts to force them to surrender all of their possessions to him, without compensation, so he could use this wealth to extract all the Seismium from the ground of the archipelago. Back then, the bizarre element was thought to have magical properties. He forced millions into the slavery of the mining guilds of the time (which he effectively unified with the state), and used their profits to grow his military even more so.

This man is only known as "the Warlord" today, in order to prevent him (and his name) from achieving true immortality.

Then, in 1345, a man named Aguaviara (named for the Agua tribe of Promite due to his tenacity), hailing from Aguaria Minor Isle (posthumously named in his honor; "Aguaria" and "Aguarian" are words derived from his name) and possessing bright blue skin due to the fact that trace amounts seismium leaked into his family's well (thus mutating his skin cells), started a revolution.

He was walking down the street of his home village one day to his job as a toolmaker, when two employees from the local mining guild tried to capture him with the goal of forcing him into slavery. He fought back and won, being trained from childhood how to wield the traditional Aguarian weapon known as a Sawtooth Sword (a flat, wooden club whose edges are lined with sharks' teeth) by his father. The crowds on the street started beating the guild employees to death after he'd disarmed them, and this sparked a riot village-wide riot which expelled the mining guild.

This band of rioters were coordinated into a ragtag fighting force by Aguaviara after expelling the mining guild. Spurred on by their victory, the guerilla band swept into village after village, violently forcing the mining guilds out while gathering more followers. After a week of liberating villages, they started dressing in armor adorned with feathers of the native blue bird-of-paradise, thus earning them the name "Blue Revolutionaries" (they chose this color because Iknaguaviazerbaiju's flag was mostly red). The Blue Revolutionaries were seen as demons by the mining guilds and the national army for their merciless slaughter of their enemies. To those they freed, however, they were seen as heroes. Their guerilla army grew until they attacked a major city, Ionistenu, where a branch of the national army was stationed. In this attack, they burned Ionistenu to the ground, overwhelming the local garrison.

They gathered more followers and moved like lightning across the land in a 4-year-long guerilla campaign against the national army, until they had liberated enough people to outnumber the national army. Then, they closed in on Iknasonu, and met the national army head-on.

A bloody battle ensued, but under the leadership of Aguaviara, the people won. Aguaviara executed the Warlord, and that was that. The spot where that happened is memorialized today Foundation Square in Iknasonu.

After the Blue Revolution was over, Aguaviara gathered all the followers he'd amassed who had been involved with politics prior to the Warlord's takeover, and discussed how to avoid anything like the Warlord's reign ever happening again.

After weeks of deliberation among Aguaviara and his politicians, the solution they came up with was what we'd now call a socialist democracy: civil leaders would be elected locally by popular vote to meet in a national assembly of tribal representatives once a year. The overseer of this assembly, they decided, would not be a chief, but directly elected at the national level, with ease of removal should he go power-mad. Matters of the economy would be voted on directly by the people at the village level, and resources would be distributed primarily based on need, with everyone being guaranteed a home, food, and water, regardless of employment status. Leisure activities such as theater and musical performances would be open to all and admission would be free. No one, including the nation's civil leaders, was allowed to possess more than a certain amount of monetary or material wealth.

Since the Warlord was religious, Aguaviara and his men agreed that the notion of religion should be banned. They also decided that since Iknasonu was the capital then, a new one, on the other end of the archipelago (a symbolic gesture of distancing the new government from that of the Warlord), should be built instead. This city would come to be called Aguarbanapolis.

As such: the Aguagargantuis Pluribiastribas Unumiasnaturalis (one of the world's oldest parliaments) was formed to meet once a year to oversee matters of national decision, and to conduct the Eastern/Oceanian world's first census, the Iknakose - this was done to understand how the nation operated beyond the local level, so problems which affected multiple villages/islands could be understood and addressed without them all having to band together.

Religion was abolished, and Aguarbanapolis was created. Aguaviara, due to his fighting skill and heorism in the revolution, was elected the first leader of the new Iknaguaviazerbaiju, and brought the nation into an era of even greater prosperity than it experienced under capitalism. He stepped down after 4 terms, because he did not want to seem himself become the nation's newest oppressive force. As his last motion, he implored the Aguagargantuis Pluribiastribas Unumiasnaturalis to impose a term limit on the leader, which, since he was so well-respected, they did.

Aguaviara would live to the ripe old age of 107, and he would become so popular as a leader that when he died, a new tribe was formed to carry on his spirit so he'd never leave the people of Aguaria Major. They were called the Aguaviaras. They tattooed their skin blue, and managed to get enough support behind a motion they drafted for it to pass through the Aguagargantuis Pluribiastribas Unumiasnaturalis and make the tattooing of one's skin blue from birth compulsory for every citizen (this law, since the nation's introduction to the modern world, has been abolished in favor of leaving newborn children unmarked, but deciding when they're 18 whether or not to receive the tattoos. Around 60% still do, even among the Westerners, to whom this is an alien custom. Most that do receive them are men, who treat the process as a sort of rite of passage given the intense pain of full-body tattooing). They taught themselves military strategy and hand-to-hand combat early on, and a strict code of honor. They also used marine symbolism, as Aguaviara was quite fond of whale sharks.

After this, Aguaria Major would remain a stable, tribal socialist democracy, undiscovered by the rest of the world until 2016 due to its rapid tectonic movement. This era of isolation ended when a group of refugees from a crushed socialist uprising in the United States, having stolen a cruise ship to flee the new fascist government there, stumbled upon the previously undiscovered islands. These refugees saw the Aguarians' stable, free socialist society and ask to call the islands home. The blue-skinned natives agreed.

These Americans would introduce Aguaria Major to the modern world. The natives saw how the rest of the world operated and knew they had to modernize, and fast. Their government was reformed, with the Aguagargantuis Pluribiastribas Unumiasnaturalis becoming a modern bicameral parliament, the Aguarian Tribal Council.

The Western minority from the US would be represented with their own house in the Aguarian Tribal Council (known as the Western Assembly) since they were both the largest individual tribe, and knew the ways of the outside world so as to guide the nation to modernity. The Western Assembly served as a lower house so their voice did not overwhelm the individual native tribes in the Native Assembly (however, this layout has recently been abolished so as to encourage racial harmony by the Unenlagia administration).

The nation's name was changed to Aguaria Major via a collaboative Western-Aguarian vote, in the spirit of progress. A modern constitution was drafted. However, the nation was maintained as a socialist democracy, the way it had been for centuries. This arrangement is now known as the Old Democratic Republic.

Modern ships, guns, and planes were brought in from all over the world to construct a military for national defense (especially from outside capitalist forces), computers were introduced, and massive re-arrangement of city layouts was started.

Aguaria Major, upon its introduction to the modern world, rapidly modernized its economy;

Among the ancient cities now fly record-breaking sky-scrapers, including the Aguarbanapolis Space Elevator, constructed after the Lavender War as a monument to the terrorist bombing that started it. This building is so tall that the International Space Station regularly passes by it, 100 stories below the top floor.

The rapid construction of modern infrastructure in Aguarian cities as the country modernized, and continues to do so, is what forms the backbone of the Aguarian economy.

Some of this infrastructure includes sparkling new 350 mph mag-lev trains, the quickest in the world, which connect major cities and large towns across the nation, bridging the gaps between islands and making for some of the longest bridges in the world. It also includes power-plants of wind and geothermal energy (both are plentiful here thanks to the ocean breezes far offshore and the intense volcanism of the archipleago; Aguaria Major is 100% renewably powered), and boat services that act as taxis and buses between towns and cities and, in some cases, through their streets, as most towns and cities here are ether built on low-lying coral atolls, or just off the shore from rocky islands to avoid the rampant volcanic eruptions.

The nation maintains a ban on cars, however, to preserve the pristine environment on the islands and the walkable structure of Aguarian cities; the Department of the Environment states that wherever cars are brought, regardless of their emissions, they still bring environmental degradation and destruction of human-friendly urban environments/living accommodations.

The government runs a program that provides citizens in more remote villages with their own sea planes to get from place to place.

Education is extremely rigorous, follows a year-round calendar, and begins when a child is 3. Immediately, instruction in mathematics, science, and a second language (which students are required to be as fluent in as their home language as their education progresses) begins. Through the end of high school, students are required to be proficient in a musical instrument, and are required to participate in some type of sport. By the time Aguarian children reach high school, their working knowledge of the world is on par with high school graduates across the rest of the world, so high school here is centered around critical thinking, both scientifically and philosophically. The importance of questioning of authority is heavily stressed so as to produce future generations who will never let Aguarian society relapse into either civil, or economic dictatorship;

a requirement for high school graduation is for each student craft a lengthy project in which they outline a flaw with current Aguarian society, and suggest practical ways in which this flaw could be remedied. These projects are not just presented to the schools for grade consideration, but to the local governments that the students live under, as well.

Aguarian colleges are renowned the world over. The University of Aguarbanapolis is known for its political education program (the current Prime Minister went to graduate school here), Iknasonu for its STEM education (Sharai Desproa, developer of the Insignis bomber, designed the planes as part of his thesis in aerospace engineering here), Azulinai for its music program (Azulinai recently surpassed the Paris Conservatory in the quality of ts music education program, according to the World Census), and Ayonusinai for its economic education program.

A requirement of all Aguarian college students is that during their junior year, they are required to study abroad in a nation of their choice to get a larger world view that will inform them as adults.

Healthcare here is free, and a year paid leave, regardless of gender, is granted to every Aguarian parent. A national babysitting service is in place so parents can maintain careers after becoming so. Aguarians are granted 3 months of annual paid leave from their careers, as well.

The development of completely Aguarian military technology has spurred an economic boom as well; with their massive warships, some of which maintain their almost mile-long size as 400 mph hydrofoils (while the others, should they be conventional hull-types, maintain this size while traveling at 70 mph - record-breaking speeds for ships of this size - thanks to channels carved down their lengths filled with turbines that speed up the water travelling to the propellers in a phenomenon known as aquatic jet propulsion), and the Insignis line of bombers, Aguaria Major's military ensures that no outside power will ever threaten the islands.

The Insignises are the bombers of bombers: ultrasonic, delta-winged high-flyers that are faster, and fly higher than any anti-aircraft missile (the service ceiling for the standard variant, the Insignis-1500, or I-1500 is 150,000 feet, in the Space Equivalency Zone of Earth's ionosphere), with even the smaller variants being capable of doing 25,000 mph in atmosphere due to a hybrid propulsion system of scramjet engines (google what that is if you don't already know) rockets, and 10 enormous turbojets (the jets push the plane to hypersonic speeds, the rockets jump it into the ultrasonic range, and the scramjets, with their rocket speed and jet efficiency, keep the plane there). These planes can all circle the Earth multiple times on one tank of fuel, so as to fly from the secure bases on the home islands in Polynesia to anywhere in the world within mere minutes, and hit the same target multiple times on one run without fear of being shot down. Aguaria Major has commissioned so many Insignises (over 10,000 planes in total), with over 40 orbital refueling stations (massive space stations, thousands of feet across, that are full of munitions and fuel, capable of refueling and resupplying dozens of planes at once) for the bombers in place, that continuous carpet-bombing of a country is a routine capability for the AAF.

The industries of Aguaria Major are vast and diverse. Aguaria Major has become a hub for global trade, with Australia and Ceruleus our biggest trading partners. Our best friends culturally are the other Polynesian and Micronesian nations, Indonesia (since we're the 2 most diverse archipelagic nations in the world and have shared Austronesian ancestry), New Zealand, and of cousre Ceruleus (since they're descended from us).

The strongest industry, though, thanks to rapid modernization to stay ahead of the rest of the world now that the national economy is strong, is information technology. The design of advanced city-planning systems and architectural software as well as targeting systems for the Insignises and the navy, has led to numerous practical applications for this type of advanced technology that is not only popular in Aguaria Major, but across rest of the world.

The violent surfing-soccer-lacrosse-hockey-quidditch hybrid sport Iknashma gained popularity as a profession after the Americans observed it being carried out to settle disputes (its origins are that of a war-ending contest mediated by the old Aguagargantuis Pluribiastribas Unumiasnaturalis). The Iknashma League of Aguaria Major dominates weekend television ratings. The rivalry between the Aguarbanapolis Fire-Throats and the Iknasonu Whale Sharks is now famed across the world for its intensity. Other notable rivalries include Ionistenu vs. Azulinai, and Ignesaguia vs. Anuquelia.

Only a few years after this rapid modernization began, however (and thus not giving military development enough time to take hold), an imperialist region known as Europa Alternis, headed by the fascist Alpenraum, tried to invade the islands for colonization. The Europa Alternian War (sometimes called the Emergent War) ended in an Aguarian victory after the genetically-engineered super-soldiers of Every name i tried was already taken were created by The Communist Bloc to assist the left-wing nation's fight against fascism, thus turning the war from a tireless, valiant, but ultimately doomed defense of the archipelago into a curb-stomp that wiped Europa Alternis off the map.

The victory in the Europa Alternian war cemented the popularity of President Jatt Mames, who (after attempting to lead the soldiers of Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken to their deaths by having them sail into a hurricane due their militaristic nature causing them to attempt a military coup of the nation and establish a dictatorship) would grow so mad with power that he would ironically bring the nation into an era of imperial capitalist rule, with himself as Hummingbird Emperor.

His reign is now known as the Imperial Era, and said reign would cause refugees from this military coup to steal warships and colonize a trio of Antarctic islands to become Ceruleus, an arch-enemy of Aguaria Major for years to come thanks to their democratic ways. He would eventually turn benevolent, and re-establish the position of a democratically-elected prime-minister (but as a meaningless title). He would reign as emperor for decades before he became so senile and old, while still in absolute rule (meaning that none of his supporters could set forth what to do should he become unable to rule without his consent), that Solitarius Unenlagia, the prime-minister at the time, was able to assume de-facto control and legislate leadership and capitalism right out from under the emperor, with popular support due to his fiery oration,

thus restoring the power structure of the Old Democratic Republic.

This current era and establishment is called the New Democratic Republic.

Aguaria Major, briefly an empire, would be a socialist democracy from then on. They'd retain the word "empire" in their national pretitle for some time as a kind of political Stockholm Syndrome (though this was recently abolished via referendum), as well as keep the old emperor as a kind of figurehead until his death.

Over the next eight years, during Unenlagia's 1st term (Aguarian terms are 8 years), the nation would open friendly relations with Ceruleus, which led to the formation of the Ceruleo-Aguarian Commonwealth (CER-AG-COM).

The nation would also undergo 4 massive military conflicts, 3 of which would gain them new territories: the Lavender War, which gained Aguaria Major Lavendoria in Africa, the Revengean Re-emergence (during which the people of Every name i tried was already taken, who had in reality survived the storm and set up a base on a small Southeastern Pacific island, would attack the home archipelago of Aguaria Major, but be defeated, thus gaining Aguaria Major that nation as a colony) and the War of the All-Seeing Eye (which would liberate Nation of beefheart in East Asia from an insane dictatorial regime and see it integrated as a full province of the nation (Lavendoria, Nation of beefheart, and Every name i tried was already taken are all fully integrated parts of the nation, with their inhabitants being full Aguarian citizens).

A Map of CER-AG-COM, including the full Transoceanic Republic of Aguaria Major (below in Blue) and the rest of the Ceruleo-Aguarian Commonwealth (Ceruleus, below in Pink), at its full, most modern extent, looks as follows:

The 4th, the Senelo-Aguarian War, would be a victory as well, but would end with 100,000s of Aguarian soldiers dead.

The nation is still reeling from the shock of this war, despite the victory.

To those outside the nation, Aguaria Major looks like a collision of worlds.

The nation is filled with blue-skinned indigenous folk, with idols and totems in their homes, eating their fish and mangoes and doing their native dances at family gatherings.

And with the provinces outside the main archipelago, this culture is fused with that of the Bantus of East Africa, as well as Korea through the crucible of technology and economic expansion. Lavendoria and Nation of beefheart are thus totally unique in the world;

Aguarian culture is an explosion of America, Polynesia, Africa and Korea.

The country has this constant air of rushedness to it as it becomes more advanced, having already surpassed the rest of the world in many areas.

But only a few decades ago, most of these people were still living in what is essentially 14th-century Polynesia. They have to rush just to understand this brave, new world. But they love and revere their world, as all Austronesians do.

All across the nation, and across continents, Aguarians are fiercely egalitarian and democratic. They are passionate to the point of sounding angry, amidst all their rapid development. Talking with an Aguarian is, to some cultures, like being screamed at. A joke often made by Aguarians is that, "if they're not tattooed blue, the way you tell someone is an Aguarian, in a foreign country, is by walking up to them and starting a conversation. Even if they are saying something as simple as, 'the post office is that way', they sound like they're in an argument with you."

Robots now walk the streets as intelligently as people.

It is a fusion of ancient and the future.

It truly takes someone who has not witnessed the gradual development of technology to be awed by it, and respect it enough that they can innovate with it.

Gallery:

Downtown Aguarbanapolis, with Stenunoea Iknashma Stadium clearly visible.


The Aguarbanapolis Space Elevator, tallest building on Earth, looking Southeast from the International Space Station.


Iknasonu Harbor, gateway to the second-largest city in Aguaria Major, looking South, with the buildings lit up in the national colors,. The Downtown is about a mile down the Iknasonu River, the mouth of which is on the far end of the harbor and not clearly discernible from this view.


Downtown Iknasonu.


A sawtooth sword, the most prolific pre-modern weapon of the native tribes of Aguaria Major.


Various other pre-modern native weapons.


A fiery-throated hummingbird (Panterpe insignis), national emblem of Aguaria Major and namesake of the Insignis bomber.


A common sight in Aguaria Major...


The various ethnic lineages that make up the native population's, "Aguarian Race". And we're proud of it!


Statue of Chief Promite, who first unified the Aguarian islands into one nation, in the nation's old capital, Iknasonu (prior to the 1345 Blue Revolution, in which the Warlord was deposed and the system of communist democracy set up, this was the capital because Promite and the Aguas hailed from here). He is often called "the Qin Shihuangdi of the Pacific," for this achievement. Only difference is, he was an easy-going, benevolent ruler once his conquering spree was done, unlike the dictatorial Qin.


Painting of the revolutionary Aguaviara, liberator of the nation, in his characteristic "third eye" war paints, ca. 1348 CE. The blue is not paint, but a medical condition caused by a contaminated well growing up.


Photo, taken by Russian media photographer Anton Ivanov for Shutterstock, of Prime Minister Solitarius P. Unenlagia in ceremonial native garb (or lack thereof) at Foundation Square, Iknasonu in 2158, giving a speech celebrating the anniversary of the defeat of the Warlord. His tattoos are an example of standard Aguarian full-body tattoos - just plain aqua. The facial war paint he displays here demonstrates the personal significance a native Aguarian male's war paint has to him. He picks his designs early on, and modifies them as he reaches adulthood. Then, once he's 18, the design is finalized. Unlike Aguaviara with his "third eye", Unenlagia has opted for a, "war goggles" sort of design, with, "fish hooks" added to accentuate his teeth, were he to bare them in aggression. Usually, you can see him wearing a dark blue suit.


Mount Anuquelia, just north of the city of the same name, which is the 3rd-largest in the nation. This the highest point in Aguaria Major and Oceania.


A ferry-bus transports people between two small islands in front of the power that supplies most of Aguaria Major - oceanic wind.


Ionistenu, 5th-largest city in Aguaria Major (behind Aguarbanapolis, Iknasonu, Anuquelia, and the Desert City Ignesaguia), but its most popular tourist destination - Ionistenu beach is famous the world over for its enormous huge waves (the largest in the world), great for extreme surfing, its ease of access from everywhere in the city, and the fact it is the only beach in Aguaria Major that requires its goers to be completely nude. A clerical error in Ionistenu's city law that legalizes public nudity caused this strange policy (the specific clause where this occurs was originally supposed to read, "Public nudity is hereby legal within Ionistenu city limits. On land overseen by the City Council of Ionistenu, it shall be enabled, and as the beach is a free space, communally owned to ensure equality of access, it shall be enabled here as well." Instead, the second "enabled" was changed to, "enforced" by mistake). It has since never been changed because this policy generates tourism hype for the city (and because the Ionistenu police have never actually enforced the law). This is the beach where Rekaia Chenua offered to take the Prime Minister surfing, so one could understand the implication there...


On the oustkirts of Anuquelia, Aguaria Major. It is the highest city in the nation, with Mount Anuquelia, the nation's highest point, being within city limits. The city shares Anuquelia Island, the largest in the archipelago and most varied in climate (the rain shadow of the Anuquelian range produces a vast desert on 1/3 of the island, so high and dry that this is where the main Insignis fleet base is), with rival city Ignesaguia, often referred to as the Desert City Ignesaguia due to the uniqueness of this biome in the archipelago. The main cityscape of Anuquelia is just beyond the leftmost cluster of buildings in this photo. The scene is a metaphor for the nation itself - wild ecosystems meet advanced technology - and was taken for a Chinese hiking magazine, hence the characters in the lower right. The man in the photo is Pong Li, a journalist for said magazine.


A typical Aguarian rocky island, along with a general picture what rural towns or small suburbs look like in Aguaria Major.


The other half of Aguarian power generation - a geothermal power station on Aguarbana Isle, powering Aguarbanapolis.


The city flag of the capital, Aguarbanapolis. They take pride in being the administrative center of the country, and thus many aspects of the national flag are mirrored here.


The city flag of Iknasonu, Aguaria Major's, "second city", and one which has been attacked or had parts of it destroyed or damaged by enemy attackers in war more than any other city in the nation Across the world, it's described as the "Punching Bag City". Most recently, a Seneluxian flying aircraft carrier, a P-1115, blew an enormous crater into the middle of the city with a Shock Cannon during the Senelo-Aguarian War. The city has gotten extremely quick with its rebuilding thanks to this history, and has since completely re-constructed the infrastructure and buildings destroyed in this attack. This flag is the oldest in the nation, and the 4-pointed star element on the current national flag was taken from this one. Until the Blue Revolution, since Promite hailed from here (and because the conquering Aguas had the city as their ancestral home and thus made it the capital) this flag was that of the entire nation!


The city flag of the Desert City Ignesaguia, 4th largest in the nation. This is one of the only banners in Aguarian vexillology to have white anywhere in it. The white in question is used to represent the dried salts of the the Ignesaguia desert, and the snow that can be had in the winter in the higher parts of the desert; the high plateau which transitions the Ignesaguia Desert Basin to the high Anuquelia Range of the same island gets cold in the winter. Anuqelia Island is so brutal in climate that Anuqelia city and Ignesaguia city are the only major settlements there.


One of the many 350 mph mag-lev trains that connect the nation's major cities. This photo was taken for a Chinese magazine article praising the development of the trains, as an example of how Chinese technology (namely the Shanghai mag-lev) influences the rest of the world.


Surfing: the national pastime, besides Iknashma.


Aguaria Major is often described as a "labyrinth of islands".


As public nudity is fully legal in Aguaria Major, a popular fad now, particularly among women, is to get super artistic with their blue tattoos and bare it all to show them off.


An example of how some choose to have their houses built, should they live near one of the many reefs in Aguaria Major. This underwater architecture is a current Aguarian fad. The owner of this house has paid French designer Karine Rousseau to do their decorating.


Example of a traditional Aguarian boat. The hull shape's influence can be seen in the oblique-angled prows of modern Aguaria Majorian warships.


A typical suburban or large-town scene in Aguaria Major. Boats are used here like cars, buses, and taxis.


Economic activity thrives in Aguaria Major.


If you live in a remote area here, the government will provide you with a personal seaplane to be used like a car, these being parked as such. They are even available to more cosmopolitan citizens as their construction is hugely subsidized by the government. These planes' vertical stabilizers bare the initials of the government firm that subsidizes their construction - Tuneia Menoa Aguaria, which is Aguarian for, "Aguarian People's Aircraft".


One of Aguaria Major's crowning achievements in action - the view of Earth from an Insignis-900, or I-900, Orbiter as it rockets round the Earth.


Provincial flag of Lavendoria.


Dar es Salaam, capital of Lavendoria, the most resource-rich land in Aguaria Major. From when it was conquered during the Lavender war, the city was called New Aguarbanapolis in defiance of the citizens, who had provoked a war with Aguaria Major. Since Lavendoria has been acknowledged as the most important single province in Aguaria Major for a while due to the fact this is where most of the foodstuffs and raw materials used to fuel economic activity in Aguaria Major come from, Lavendorians recently protested the name. They claimed that the name was a symbol of a violation of human rights of behalf of Aguaria Major (the Lavender War). They had a petition to change the name to a native one - Dar es Salaam, and it had almost the entire province's backing. They sent it through the Tribal Council, and the resolution passed.


African elephants roam the wild of Lavendoria.


Provincial Flag of Nation of beefheart.


Pyongyang, capital of Nation of beefheart.


The wilds of Nation of beefheart are a maze of medium to low-height mountains carpeted in misty, temperate rainforest. Since Nation of Beefheart was a secretive, underdeveloped tinpot dictatorship before Aguarian liberation, much of its wilderness remains unspoiled.


Provincial Flag of Every name i tried was already taken.


The foreboding skyline of the ocean fortress of Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium, capital of Every name i tried was already taken. After the President Mames (later the Hummingbird Emperor) attempted to rid Aguaria Major of the dangerous Revengean super soldiers, they landed on a small, scattered group of 4 islands in the Southeastern Pacific, and since they were a fully-equipped army with cutting-edge tech, rapidly started constructing a base of operations on the Southernmost island to exact revenge on Aguaria Major. It grew into a citadel that consumed the whole island. And this was just on the surface - Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium has many subterranean levels built into the island and surrounding continental shelf which extend thousands of meters below what you see here. However, since after the Revengan Re-Emergence in which Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken was defeated by the combined forces of Aguaria Major (including Lavendoria) and Ceruleus on the Main Archipelago, the 4 islands of Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken were re-incorporated into the nation as a fully-integrated province, with Revengean super-soldiers living their aggressive, militaristic ways separately until they are called on for war, what they are designed for (the Revengeans are basically just left to their own devices training, planning for war, staying in top physical condition, etc. on their islands until there is a war, and they are called into action as the deadly Phoenix's Breath division of the Aguarian Red Marines). As such: Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium serves namely as the world's largest military base, with the layout of the subterranean parts of the city remaining classified. The population of this city is classified as well. Not even estimates are published, to keep the enemy guessing.


Other than Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium, this is a general view of what the other 3 islands of Every name i tried was already taken look like. They are either small and rocky like this one (called Henderson), with only accommodations such as infirmaries, hospitals, or amenities like general stores for the soldiers of the fortress of Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium to travel to from time to time. The rest are coral atolls. 2 of these atolls, Oeno and Ducie, contain Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken's air bases. Both Oeno and Ducie are Insignis Fleet bases, and are thus top secret and not able to be photographed.

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