Deseret

The Deseret (Serran: ) is a that is one of the three  parts of the Kingdom of Sierra (the others being Hawaii and Sierra. It shares a border with Sierra to the west and south, Columbia and the  to the north, and Brazoria to the east. The Deseret has a population of nearly 3 million, 80% of whom live in the region of the  around the capital, Salt Lake City.

Featuring a  government,  exerts and wields tremendous power in the Deseret, with its organization and leadership incorporated into the framework of the Deseretian government. The model of government is directly inspired from the system church leader attempted to implement during the 1850s. When the Deseret was a territory of Sierra, it unilaterally during the Sierran Civil War. Following the war, the Deseret was granted substantial although its government was officially  and lacked the religious elements the modern government has today.

Over 60% of Deseret's citizens are, most of whom are descendants of early Mormon settlers in the region who came from the. The Canaanites, a non-Christian with similar background and development, forms the next largest group in the Deseret, accounting for 20% of the population. Historically, the Mormons and Canaanites held a bitter rivalry, fighting for control over the Deseret and other portions of North America. The most violent of these conflicts occurred during the Canaanite-Mormon War, a war that happened simultaneously with the Sierran Civil War. Although tensions have eased over the decades since then, Canaanites remain largely underrepresented in the Mormon-dominated government, and their status remains a controversial and contentious issue for the Deseret. Both groups have great influence on the country's culture and daily life, with the Canaanites' Serran language one of the country's official languages (the other being English).

Although the Deseret is a part of the Kingdom, its political and social history remains distinctively separate from Sierra. In addition, it retains its own legal system which is a combination of - and law applied directly from the, the , and the other. It has its own, the unicameral Council of Fifty, whose members are elected from one of the 50 , areas of which are organized by the Church, not the state. Although the is established by the Deseret, the official religion in the Deseret is Mormonism, with the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the state church. Although while in theory, the President of the Deseret can be a non-Mormon (as there is no law expressively prohibiting this), the President is also, by constitutional stipulation, the President of the Church, who is selected by the. Since the Deseret's incorporation, all of its presidents have been Mormon and members of the church leadership.