Suthland

The Kingdom of Sudland (: Königreich Südland; commonly called just Sudland or Südland) is a located in. Sudland is an, sharing no land borders with any other state, though it does have extensive maritime borders because of its large. Sudland has a total population of 18,386,800 people as of 2014, making it the nation in the world. The country also as a total land area of 268,021 square kilometres, making it the nation in the world. The capital of Sudland is Plummack, while the largest city is Sonwick.

Sudland is a with a, in which the monarch is the  and the prime minister is the. The is upheld by the House of Ehrenhaft, a family descended from the rulers of the medieval. The prime minister is elected through a in the  parliament, which holds  over the government in trust of the monarch. This system of government was instituted after the First Sudlander Civil War, which ended in 1702, in which the monarch was forced to relinquish many powers to the appointed and elected members of parliament. A series of constitutional laws make up the collective, with fluid nature of the government changing with the ruling philosophy of the government over time.

Although Sudland was settled by indigenous peoples as early as the 13th century, it was not until the 16th century that the islands would be explored by the Johannes Sonnretter in service of Count Henry von Ehrenhaft. Sonnretter claimed the islands for the Ehrenhafts, and the north island would be settled in 1558 by Henry von Ehrenhaft the Younger, who would later be crowned King Henry I in 1569. After series of conflicts with the natives, known as the Marcher Wars, which led to their subjugation in 1603, the kingdom enjoyed relative stability. In 1643, the kingdom became a haven for escaping the. The influx of English settlers would ultimately lead to the outbreak of the First Sudlander Civil War in 1694, and the creation of an elected chamber of parliament in 1702. Throughout the rest of that century, the kingdom would see a massive influx of English-speaking settlers, primarily and  peoples. This would lead to the British-Sudlander War in 1808, in which the British unsuccessfully attempted to conquer the islands. The resulting Treaty of Sonwick lead to the recognition of Sudland as a regional power in the largely undeveloped region, with the idea of Greater Sudland emerging from the absence of other colonial powers. This idea proved to be highly divisive, leading to the Second Sudlander Civil War in 1846. After the end of the conflict in 1851, the government of Sudland underwent a shift to economic development, with the reaching the islands by 1860.

Sudland entered into a golden age of throughout the later half of the century, which would be interrupted only by the outbreak of the  in 1914, with the Sudlanders using the opportunity to seize German Pacific possessions, which would cause initial tensions with. Struck by the in 1929, Sudland entered into a brief period of stagnation. Governmental recovery policies and the implementation of heavy military spending with the outbreak of the in 1939 led to a rebirth of the Sudlander nation, and, after a tumultuous beginning to the war, the victory over Japan would secure the kingdom a prominent place on the Pacific stage. Although officially neutral in the following, Sudland largely aligned itself with the -led west. After a period of economic stagnation, Sudland was revitalised by the advent of, and a major push for Pan-Pacific relationship development became a large platform throughout the country, which has been a defining feature of the economic and political aims of Sudland to the contemporary period.