Nuren Aza

Nuren Aza was one of the first "countries" to form, operating as a large unit with smaller cities within rather than an individual settlement. Over the years, the country has slowly grown into an entire empire, spanning multiple continents and islands around the globe.

Structure

The top of the Nuren Azan command structure is the leader, the one who got their position by winning a duel and has enhanced magical/physical abilities due to their status. While it usually depends on who is ruling regarding how much power they have, Nuren Aza has operating for years with leaders who have a lot of control over their citizens and the inner-workings of the country itself.
Underneath the leader are the counsels - these are the groups of people who make smaller decisions but still defer to the leader for most of the things they do. If you're a counsel member, or one of your family members is one, then you are almost guaranteed to be a high-standing citizen with protection from the state and political/social influence. Many powerful families in the country are filled with counsel members.
Then there are city rulers, who work underneath the councils to enact decisions. They're more figureheads than anything, but they do have a sense of political power in that they're the ones who propose laws for their people and control local militaries. Cities can decide what they want their individual governments to be, as long as the leader approves it, but they still fall under the rule of the leader.

Public Agenda

At the moment, Nuren Aza's main public goal is "to unite the countries of the world under one banner of peace and prosperity." It's a pretty basic claim, but Olando's campaign has always been about providing for their people in an effort to balance out their other actions, so they are viewed positively in the public eye.

Assets

Nuren Aza is a very rich countries, with many colonies and trading allies around the world. In fact, in terms of actual wealth, they are the richest country on the planet (they come very close when it comes to net worth - within the top three). They mostly specialize in metals and stonework when it comes to raw materials, which they are able to access through both their colonies and their own mines within the country. Food productions are steady, but there isn't quite enough to feed the many people who live within the country's walls, so much of their food is imported instead. Other building materials such as wood and clay aren't needed often, because most structures make use of materials Nuren Aza already has easy access to, but when they're needed, they are also imported.
However, the largest part of the economy of Nuren Aza has to be everything in regards to military and defense. The country is a mass producer of weapons, mostly for themselves, although they occasionally sell to other countries for high prices. The country is very well fortified with walls, drawbridges, and troops stationed in every city. Speaking of troops, Nuren Aza has the largest army in the world, which is one of the many reasons why they were able to win the All-War in 1759.

History

The country was founded by one of the Original Six, named Aza. As the tradition at the time was to name your new settlement after yourself, the country was also known as Aza, with the prefix "Nuren" added later as a way to separate the ruler from the country slightly.
Nuren Aza was, and still is, notorious for nepotism, with the people in power largely consisting of either friends or family of Aza themself. For many years, leadership remained in the hands of Aza's descendants. This only changed a few times early on, but those rulers were quickly replaced in time.
The country has stayed very powerful from it's conception to the present day. During a short period in the early 1000s, Nuren Aza tried to stay out of conflicts as much as possible, which might have let to its demise had a new ruler not stepped in and prevented this from happening. This is not the only time in history when the right circumstances might have led to the end of Nuren Aza, but it was certainly the closest the country ever came to being destroyed.

Demography and Population

Nuren Aza has a population of 239 million people - with a total world population of about 1.5 billion, Nuren Aza is the largest country on the planet. This number is steadily growing, as birth rates are up due to plenty of resources and death rates are down due to new medicines and other technologies. For a brief period, the All-War took a toll on the population of the country, but it's only been increasing since then.
Most of the people in Nuren Aza live in the cities, as it is with many countries. However, while city-dwellers are the majority, the difference isn't that stark - about 35% of Nuren Aza's population lives in rural areas, while 65% live in urban areas. The majority of the population also tends to stay towards the middle of the country, with smaller cities settling in the colder climates in western Nuren Aza. 80% of the population lives in the deciduous forest biome, while 17% lives in the grassland and 3% lives in the taiga or tundra.
The most populated city in Nuren Aza is Drear, the capital of the country. Drear is less of a city and more of a state in size, containing 48 million people. The concentration of people per square mile is denser in Drear than any other state in Nuren Aza - most other cities and towns have similar population concentrations, while Drear is a major outlier.

Territories

The main land that Nuren Aza controls is, of course, their homeland, where they had lived for about a thousand years before the All-War. This is the only place that is officially called Nuren Aza, despite other countries being under their control.
Speaking of those other countries, aside from the odd handful of nations, Nuren Aza controls almost the entire world. This land is called the Azan Empire, stretching from continent to continent.

Military

As one of the most funded parts of Nuren Aza, the Azan Military is the strongest and largest in the world.

Foreign Relations

Nuren Aza essentially oversees every country on the planet, but relationships still vary.
Countries with valuable resources usually view Nuren Aza as a bully, but the nuances of each country's relationship with Nuren Aza are wildly different depending on how complacent the country was with getting absorbed into the Azan Empire. Many countries chose to willingly surrender to avoid more death and suffering for their people, and those countries have a fairly neutral view of Nuren Aza. However, other countries chose to fight back, and once conquered, they're left with vendettas that might never go away.
Most countries and cities have at least one abundant resource that Nuren Aza can use, which explains why they have so many colonies and control so many other countries. However, extremely small countries, or countries that either don't have a resource or have one that's abundant elsewhere, may be left alone. The relationship between countries like this and Nuren Aza also varies, although it tends to be more in the neutral than many other countries. They see what Nuren Aza is doing, and they don't agree with it, but their relationship with the country itself is fairly limited in its scope.

Jarat Vero ("All together," unity, cooperation)

Founding Date

1/17/1

Type

Geopolitical, Empire

Demonym

Azan

Government System

Dictatorship

Power Structure

Transnational government

Economic System

Market economy

Currency

The country uses the same currency as most of the world powers, which is a coin-based currency with five different tiers of amount, based on the type of metal used. These metals used to cost varying amounts to produce, thus the difference in prices they represented, but now it's more symbolic than anything.

Legislative Body

The leader of the country is the only one who makes the decision of what laws govern the country, as Nuren Aza is a dictatorship.

Location

Alpha (WIP)

Controlled Territories

• Drear