North Ranomia

The Republic of North Ranomia ( Rєπubλık Nopδ-Rʟⲛoмıʟ, tr.: Republik Nord-Ranomia), commonly referred to as North Ranomia, is a Republic in south Ozara, located north of the Malag Straits and adjacent to Eldran Bay. It consists of 8 provinces covering an area of over 406,752 square kilometers (157,048 sq mi), making it the XXXth largest country in Ozara and the XXXth largest in the world. The capital city is Lorelei-Point, and with a population of over 1.8 million, this also makes it the largest city followed by Maxfield, Bourdieu, Marne, and New Porte.

Before its inception as an independent state, the area now known as North Ranomia was under the control of Saesland as the Harper Territory, named after the local Saessish explorer, Sir Eadwulf Harper. During the early century of its existence, the Harper Territory was a hub for trade between Hatar merchants and the native tribes upon the mainland, allowing it to garner a sizable immigrant community made up of a mostly Saessish and Sundish upper class. After the territory was made an official colony of Saesland in 1910, most of these merchants would cease business and settled down into the country, developing permanent and sizable estates where grapevine and sugarcane plantations gave them a new source of income. It remained firmly under Saesland's control until South Ranomia's independence, which began some rising contempt within the Harper Territory, including its local government, which began to slowly see it's own independence as an inevitable reality. In 1961, North Ranomia's local government declared unilateral independence from Saesland and began to take local matters into its own hands under its first president, Harrison Hunt. After some negotiations with South Ranomia's president and Harrison Hunt himself, the three parties signed the 1962 Watson Agreement, which would recognize North Ranomia as an independent entity and transition local power over to Hunt's cabinet. In 1963, North Ranomia would officially join the Ozaran Economic Community after a short referendum, allowing it to gain economic growth from its neighbors.

Like its southern counterpart, North Ranomia is an state, where only the white minority hold legal and political power within the country, while the native black population is left with little to no representation in internal and foreign affairs. Comprehensibly, this has lead to unrest within the country, although with the white minority holding a monopoly over the agricultural sector due to the rich, sentiment against the government has lead to discriminate famines in the native communities, while the government exports grain to other countries. South Ranomia still maintains a military presence within the country to this day, helping it quell native uprisings, training North Ranomian troops, and keeping eye on the native Ozarans with its North Ranomian branch of the NGNC.

Military
North Ranomic Security Force