Sataria

Sataria (Satarian: Satarska), officially the Satarian Federation (Satarski Savez), is a sovereign state in Zemlya. Sataria is a Federation of 14 regions, 1 having a high level of autonomy. Sataria covers an area of 462,991 square kilometres (178,762 square miles) with a mostly boreal climate. Sataria has a population of 24.9 million people, with the population starting to increase for the first time in 93 years. The capital and largest city of Sataria is Mirovec. Other major cities in the country are Punat, Samoborine, Sveti Petar Ka Razovana, Vrhovine, Šumogoj, Raspatani, Mozavice, Novi Čereski. Sataria has access to lake (TBD) and borders Bloodia, Kadolha and Lipnitia.

Early history
The first common appearance of Sataria was when Slavic tribes formed Proto-Sataria in 810. This country is largely unknown, the only records of it available are from an unknown writer. The records state that Proto-Sataria was a country of illiterate, technologically stagnated inhabitans. Nothing else is known about this period of time in the Satarian history.

In 1207, king Jećanin formed the Kingdom of Satarica. He focused on getting the country literate and un-impoverished. He brought new concepts like Feudalism into the kingdom. He was largely popular with the populace, and because the literacy of the kingdom increased, a lot is known about this period of time and onwards. Satarica was called "The land of intellectuals and drunks" since it had many universities and schools, but its fertile golden fields allowed for a huge production of beer. Satarican beer was a highly sought-after comodity in this time. king Jećanin even sent barrels of Satarican beer as pay for the nobles that worked for him.

First Satarian Kindom
In 1482, king Marko Marojić siezed power and crowned himself absolute monarch. The kingdom of Sataria,the first usage of the name "Sataria" was founded. He brought in strict rules, raised taxes to absurd ammounts and prosecuted anyone who didn't want to or was unable to pay them. Marojić also siezed all land from Farmers and workers, making them pay a hefty rent just to live in their own homes. Any rebellion was ended with massacre of the rebels. The whole population of Sataria lived in fear.

Satarian-Bloodian union
After 22 years, the Bloodian-Satarian Union was formed. It formed from a personal union between 1504 and 1797. The Krzywicki dynasty ruled Sataria for 293 years. The Satarian population was mistreated and had less privileges than the Bloodian population at this time, and a few genocides upon the Satarian population commited by Bloodian Forces happened in the region of Rudnikowa, after a rebellion killed 201 Bloodian soldiers. This union was highly unpopular with Satarians.

Second Satarian kindom
The second Satarian Kingdom was formed in 1797, when Bloodia had an revolution, and the Bloodian monarch, King Włodzisław IV, claimed the Satarian throne. His rule was highly unpopular though, with many rebellions and coup attempts. During His rule, support for a Satarian tzardom grew extremely quickly, and in 1803, a tzarist coup claimed King Włodzisław IV's life. In the short time span that King Włodzisław IV ruled Sataria, so many coup attempts and rebellions took a huge toll on his mental health, and so, during the last coup, he committed suicide just before the rebels reached his chamber.

The Tzardom
The Tzardom of Sataria was founded in 1803 following the death of Włodzisław IV. The first Satarian tzar was Tzar Jozef Pisčin. To commemorate the victory, a huge palace was built outside of Mirogoj, called the "Palace of Spring" (Since the coup happened in April), where Satarian tzars would rule until the fall of the Satarian Tzardom in 1923. The early Tzardom took Sataria out of feudalism, creating many new factories and farms. In the mid to late 19th century, a network of railways was built connecting the major Satarian cities. Sataraian citizens were mostly happy with the Tzardom until the early 1910s, when the ideals of Communism started to spread. At this point, living standards fell down in Sataria, wages and work conditions became miserable. After a big recession hit Sataria in 1921, the government tried frantically to fix it by printing more bank notes, which led to inflation. Prices of food stayed the same though, which led to huge anger within the populace. Communists overthrew the Tzar in 1923 in the "Satarian Red Revolution"

Socialist Republic of Sataria
The Socialist Republic of Sataria took power in 1923. From 1923 to 1945, the Satarian SR hugely industrialized the country. This industrialization partly originated from a discovery of large oil deposits in the north-east of the country in 1929. Huge oil wells and oil pipelines and refineries were built in this time. The cities became more connected, as automobiles became cheaper and more wide-spread, with the invention of the assembly line. Train lines were also built to the smaller towns and rural areas of Sataria, and a huge surge in ship building occurred. The standard of living skyrocketed, as did the life expectancy. With the invention of vaccines in 1954, the life expectancy got even bigger, now at 61.3 years During this time, the Satarian space program took shape, as well as the Satarian Automobile industry and the Satarian Iron, steel, Tungsten and Chromium industries. The first Satarian nuclear power plant was built in 1969, and the first Satarian nuclear weapon was built in 1971.

Contemporary era
The Republic of Sataria formed following the downfall of the communist government, which was caused by civil unrest and a failing economy. The Satarian Progressive Party, or SPP, took power after the downfall of the communists, in the 30th November, 1992. This republic, although seeming good an the start, was a corrupt dictatorship. Politicians often took bribes, taxed the poor much higher than the wealthy, and the tax money was being taken by politicians for their own personal needs. Spy satellites were also launched, and spy drones were often sent to spy on important facilities in Bloodia and Lipnitia. The economy spiraled even more downwards at this time. The standard of living also fell by a significant amount. Many people emigrated from Sataria at this time to neighboring Lipnitia and Bloodia.

Mirovec revolution
The Mirovec revolution started in the 13th of July 2014, and lasted until the 22nd of November 2014. It was a revolution against the Satarian government and all of their illegal and oppressive actions. At first, the Mirovec revolution was a peaceful protest, but after the Satarian special forces were ordered to gun down the crowd, a highly illegal action, it turned into a violent revolution. 107 people were killed and 412 were wounded in that event, which came to be known as the Mirovec massacre. The revolution ended when protesters broke into an arms storage facility in Mirovec and armed themselves. They sorrounded the Mirovec palace and rushed it, killing 78 policemen. The President, Marek Razenow, was killed after taking 17 bullets to the back. 26 politicians were also killed in the gunfire, and the rest were taken hostage and imprisoned by the new government. The Mirovec revolution brought the current government, Centrist Democracy.

Geography
Sataria is in the Eastern and Northern hemispheres of Esquarium, and it is located in West Borea. It shares a 347 kilometer (216 mile) border with Ceresnia in the East, and a 631 kilometer (392 mile) border with Razaria to the South. The Satarian coast on the Central Ocean can be found in the south-west. It is known for its gravel and sand beaches, along with river deltas, as 2 rivers feed from Sataria into the Central Sea.

In the North-West of the country, you can find the 'four great lakes of Sataria'. Theese are (in descending order of size): Lake Razovan, Greater Konev, Lesser Konev and Lake Konev, although there are 8 adittional lakes, known as the 'Konavice'. Theese lakes have an average depth of 231 meters. The deepest point is in lake Razovan, at a depth of 412 meters. They are also located in the Satarian lowlands. Lake Razovan is very near the Novieski mountains in the north. During spring, the melting ice from the Novieski mountains creates small rivers and streams, feeding into the lake. It is thought that this, along with underground waters seeping to the surface, is how the lake built up over time.

Sataria has 2 major mountain chains, the Novieski Mountains in the North and the Jurivy mountains in the South-East, at the border with Ceresnia. Hugging the coast are the vast Punatian lowlands (named after the largest city in the region, Punat), which stretch from the North-West to the South-West of the country. The lowlands have a collective population of 8,131,923, about 1 third of Sataria's total population.

The Eastern regions of Sataria are the most densely populated, Mirogoj being the largest population center in the west and in the whole country. Sataria has 4 major lakes: Savorica, Jovonica, Sinav, Konevica. Theese rivers shaped Satarian culture and folklore, with many legends and stories connected with them.

Geology
The Satarian landscape is made up of many different materials. The Novieski mountains are made up of mostly basalt and granite. The Jurivy mountains are made up of mostly limestone and marble. The composition of the Punatian lowlands is mostly limestone under the soil. The soil in the lowlands is extremely fertile, due to the presence of the lakes, rivers and underground reservoirs of water, which all bring valuable nutrients and minerals. The plains between the two mountain chains, known as the Valley of Mirovec, have mediocre soil fertility and mostly granite, basalt and various sillicates below. Sataria has many iron, tungsten and chromium deposits. This sparked a large mining industry, that still goes on today. Many lakes throughout the country are actually abandoned iron mines, filled up by ground waters seeping in. Satarian mountains reach from 1,200 to 6,000 meters high. The highest peak is Peak Lavinski, in the Novieski Mountains.

Energy
Most of the Satarian Federation's energy comes from renewable sources like wind, solar, tidal, geothermal and nuclear sources. A strict environmental policy bans greenhouse gas emissions over 10 million tons annually. This created a huge spike in scientific research of environmental energies.

Only 23.4 percent of the nation's energy comes from greenhouse gas emitting sources. Researches at the Punatian Institute of Technology and applied physics recently had a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, and are very close to making it a reliable source of energy. Most funding for research and development of reliable renewable energy sources comes from the government and the company Envirokor, which owns most factories where most parts for renewable power plants like wind turbines, solar arrays, tidal arrays and geothermal power plants are manufactured.

Sataria is a very energy-efficient nation, with energy consumption per capita in 2016 being only 4,812.32 kilowatts an hour. Following the Urban Energy Efficiency Act in 2017, all new residential, commercial and industrial development needs to be fitted with 1 solar panel per 25 square meters of floor space

Space program
The Satarian federation has a notable space program. It was founded in 1961 to compete with other nations in the space race. The Communist government directly owned the space program, which meant it had a lot of funding. The space program under the communist government lasted from 1961 to 1993. The most notable missions from that time period were: SMCP-1 (Satarian Millitary cosmic probes 1) Which were 4 satellites in orbit, designed to detect gamma rays from possible nuclear detonations, the Mirogoj 1-3 missions, which sent 9 Satarian astronauts into orbit. They were one of the first humans to ever leave the planet, and the attempted SSH (Satarian space hub), which was a Satarian attempt to create a space station in low orbit, but it failed in the later stages of construction, when a malfunction in a liquid oxygen engine blew up the whole project, killing 3 astronauts.

During the Satarian Republic, there was an idea to create nuclear weapons in geostationary orbit, but the project was scrapped due to legality issues. Besides various GPS, communications and weather satellites, not much was done during this time frame.

2 years after the Revolution in Mirogoj, the Satarian Federation's government founded the Satarian Space and Aeronautics Organisation, SSAO (Satarian: Satarska Kozmićna i Ajronotićna Organizocja). Many of the Satarian's most educated scientists were put to work researching better rocket propulsion and various other issues. In late 2017, they finished a small space station, made up of 4 modules. A new expansion was added in February 2018, which is a science lab to test effect of zero gravity on various materials.

A private organisation by the name of Cosmic-S is planning to develop better rocket propulsion and test it, and launch satellites for various firms for cash. The company is currently in its infancy.