Mantaly

Mantaly, officially the Solar Computers of Prajnasari and Vijayamanas, is a country located in the southern Sundic Archipelago, Capricornia. Clockwise from its metropole, it has a maritime border with Hyperaustrea in the south, and borders Sikorskia to its west - it is entirely surrounded by the Laharqan Ocean. As a, it has three capitals: Manasvātāyana and Svāpakūṭajaya being the capitals of its constituent magocracies Prajnasari and Vijayamanas, while Dēvasthapatiḥ is the ceremonial capital uniting the entire country.

Originally a collection of infighting native kingdoms, the region which would encompass modern Mantaly and much of the Sundic Archipelago would be united under the Devic Empire, after its ruler 's conversion to Infernalism at the Manifestation at Dēvasthapatiḥ in 192. This thalassocratic magocracy would become the premier Infernalist and maritime power in the Sundics, asserting its interpretation of the faith and the associated societal, political and economic consequences throughout its sphere of influence over the archipelago. Initially an unofficial hereditary monarchy, ambiguity over the succession of the Devic Nexus would mark the empire's fragmentation into several smaller states, all of which invariably laid claim to the magocratic throne. The ascendancy of Fengjiang as the standard-bearer of Infernalism in the 1000s saw these successor states enter tributary relations with the Fengese. This relationship which was maintained even as the Fengese collapsed into civil war in 1303, as Devic successors cooperated with the Great Houses emerging from the civil war to expand across the Laharqan.

The Infernalist hegemony over the archipelago would be challenged upon the arrival of Kursican missionary Sikorski in the early 1400s, who spread and converted many to Kaurissem - the culmination of a gradual decline in the legitimacy of local Infernalist polities through a mix of natural disaster, economic crises, and poor governance. Religious and later, colonial conflict grew to define Sundic politics for much of the following centuries, as Sundic polities split and warred with one another, often in proxy wars incited by Fengese, Kursican, and Avalonian colonial interests now collective known as the Pearl Games. Prajnasari and Vijayamanas, magocracies which would constitute the bulk of modern Mantaly, would be conquered by Sikorskia with TTO aid during the Great Serrataran War. Sikorskian occupation was maintained even after the war, sparking the Kesusahan - a period of revolutionary turmoil lasting until the two aforementioned magocracies formally regained independence in 1953. The Marriage of the Celestial Dream of the same year would see the two magocracies united as a singular polity, forming modern Mantaly.

Since then, Mantaly has underwent industrialization and modernization according to the Fengese model, considered to be an with significant investment from the GOCE, which it is a founding member of. Its modern status on the international stage is oft-defined through its historical and cultural rivalry with Kaurissemite entities. It supports various Infernalist movements (many of which considered terrorists by the TTO, like the Dissolutive School) around the Laharqan, but especially in the Sundics as part of its platform of Devic irredentism. As an magocracy, it has attracted consistent oriental criticism over its sponsorship of terrorism and its poor human rights record, exemplified by its extensive and sensationalistic implementation of  and human sacrifice on dissident populations.

Etymology
The name Mantaly is a corruption of the Cayacerama word matahari, which refers to the sun. Mantaly as a name was first coined by Kursican explorers mapping the approximate region corresponding to the modern country around the 1700s, in reference to the prevalence of the sun as a motif in native culture, influenced by local association of the sun as a symbol of erudite authority, in turn derived from the fiery motifs characteristic of Infernalism.