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Kingdom of Deacarsia
Rígdacht Descirt (Deacarsic)



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Motto: Pro Deo, Rege, et Patria


Population Density: 168.639/square mile


Capital and Largest City: Donphitt, County Owenvra


Official Language: English, Deacarsic, Latin


National Language: English


Religion: Roman Catholicism (4th century - 1966)

- Church of Deacarsia (1966 - present)


Demonym: Deacarsic (plural Deacarsi)


Government: Unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy
- High-King: Proinsias II
- Lord High Steward: Searlas Dunscuaibe


Legislature: Crinalvar
- Upper House: Colamra
- Lower House: Datai


Establishment:
Unification: 4 April AD 432


Elevation
- Highest Point: Slaibh Dáithí
- Lowest Point: Abhainn Theas


Currency: Deacarsic pound sterling


Time Zone: UTC-5:20


Date Format: MM/DD/YYYY


Mains Electricity: 110 V–60 Hz


Drives on the: Right


The Kingdom of Deacarsia (/‚diːə'kɑːɹ̠.siːə/; Deacarsic: ind Rígdacht Descirt /ɪn.dʒˈɹ̠ɪːg.dɛkt ˈdɛʃkɚd/) is a country in Albosiac, consisting of five provinces. The capital and largest city in the kingdom is Donphitt, which is located in County Owenvra in the province of Seánachta, which is located in the western part of the country. It is bordered by the Sea of Albosiac to the north and east and the Abalaisic Mountains to the south and west.

Deacarsia is traditionally believed to have been founded on 4 April A.D. 432, when the legendary high-king Pátraic the Great officially united the five petty kingdoms of Seánachta, Cóemtír, Seltír, Saratír, and Maclím, which then became the provinces of the new united kingdom. Each province is ruled by a lesser king, with the ruler of the whole kingdom being titled the Deacarsic high-king. The royal Muad clan has ruled Deacarsia uninterrupted since this time, with the succession to the Throne following strict agnatic primogeniture. The current high-king is Proinsias II, who has reigned since 8 July 1996.

Deacarsia is a largely Gaelic country, with the kingdom having strong diplomatic, social, and cultural ties to Ireland. Despite its monarchical system of government, Deacarsia has strongly supported Irish nationalism from its beginnings in the sixteenth century. The kingdom was an important supporter of Confederate Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and a major backer of the Jacobite rebellions of the eighteenth century. Deacarsia also sided with the Irish Republic during the Irish War of Independence.

As a Catholic confessional state, the kingdom also formerly maintained strong positive relations with the Holy See, but relations became strained starting in the twentieth century, until the Church of Deacarsia formally split with the Catholic Church in 1966 over the Second Vatican Council, after which its state church became one of the largest sedevacantist organizations in the world.

Etymology


The name Deacarsia is a Latinization of the Irish word deisceartach, meaning “southern.” Deacarsia primarily was settled by explorers from Connacht and Munster, which are in the western and southern parts of Ireland respectively.

History


According to archeological evidence, Deacarsia does not appear to have been inhabited by humans until the late-second century, when settlers from western Ireland colonized the area. It is unclear why exactly Deacarsia was colonized by Gaelic tribes, as Albosiac is more than three thousand miles away from Ireland and at the latitude of Spain. Nevertheless, by the mid-second century the settlers had formed five small chiefdoms, from which the five provinces of Deacarsia originally derive.

The date of the introduction of Christianity to Deacarsia is uncertain, but there are records of missionaries being sent by Pope Sylvester I during the reign of Constantine. The population of Deacarsia largely was Christianized by the late-fourth century, though it remained outside of the Roman Empire. Much like its sister Ireland, Deacarsia became renowned throughout Europe for its monastic learning and scholasticism.

In the beginning of the fifth century, King Pátraic of Seánachta began a campaign to unite the five Deacarsic petty kingdoms, culminating in his coronation as high-king at Donphitt in 432. Pátraic became highly regarded by his contemporaries as a strong leader and defender of the Church, befriending figures like Saint Patrick and Pope Saint Leo the Great during his reign.

In 767, Cleirach the Imbecile became high-king. Suffering severe physical and mental disabilities, his short reign lasted one month before he was succeeded by King Einrí I. A contemporary of Charlemagne, Einrí followed his example by being crowned by Pope Saint Leo III on 1 January 801, which became traditional for all high-kings until 1955, with the exception of Saoirbhreathach the Usurper in 1321. Well-respected and a patron of the Church, Einrí developed a close friendship with Charlemagne until the latter’s death in 814.

Deacarsia was a major participant in the Crusades, and Deacarsic armies were well-represented among the forces fighting against the Islamic occupation of the Holy Land. Included among the participants were several high-kings of Deacarsia.

In 1321, King Dónaill II was murdered by his brother Saoirbhreathach, who occupied the Throne for four years before being killed by his nephew Édbard in the Battle of Anpointe.

Deacarsia never engaged in colonization of the New World, though Deacarsic missionaries often traveled with the Spanish conquistadors, and the kingdom engaged in extensive trade networks with the European colonies. However, the emergent slave trade was forbidden from Deacarsic ports, and Deacarsia actively blocked slave ships from passing to the New World.

During the Protestant Reformation, Deacarsia remained fiercely loyal to the Catholic Church, and Deacarsi became strong supporters of the Council of Trent and proponents of the Counter-Reformation in Europe. The Deacarsic Inquisition was revived in 1520, and the Act of Settlement was passed in 1537, which formally restricted the royal succession to faithful Catholics, which institutions, amended by the separatation from the worldwide Catholic Church in 1966, remain in place to the present day.

Starting in the sixteenth century, Deacarsia began a long-term campaign to free its sister country Ireland from Protestant rule. Deacarsia supported every major and minor rebellion in Ireland, from the Irish rebellion of 1641 until the Irish War for Independence in the early-twentieth century. As part of the larger Thirty Years’ War, in which Deacarsia supported the Imperial Alliance, the kingdom also backed the Royalists and Confederate Ireland in the War of the Three Kingdoms, as well as the later Jacobite rebellions following the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

During in the nineteenth century, Deacarsia experienced an era of rapid economic growth and industrialization, with steel, coal, and glass becoming major products. Deacarsia managed to stay out of any major conflicts for the duration of the nineteenth century, instead focusing its energy on becoming an industrial giant. In religion, Deacarsia became known as a bastion of integralism and ultramontane Catholicism, and the Deacarsic clergy strongly approved of the First Vatican Council.

Deacarsia was officially neutral during the First World War, although a majority of the public was sympathetic to the Central Powers, and the kingdom did take steps which were detrimental to the Allied powers, such as allowing the Germans to use Deacarsic facilities to transmit secret messages to their overseas embassies. Deacarsia also allowed volunteers to fight for the White Guards alongside the Germans against the Red Guards and Russians in the Finnish Civil War. In the aftermath of the war, Deacarsia provided aid and arms to the Irish Republic during the Irish War for Independence.

Deacarsia was largely unaffected by the Great Depression wracking the rest of the world. During the Spanish Civil War, Deacarsia strongly supported the Nationalist faction, sending arms and troops to fight alongside Nationalist forces, as well as logistical and propaganda aid. A signatory to the Anti-Comintern Pact, Deacarsia remained chiefly “neutral” from a nominal standpoint in the Second World War (it briefly switched its position to “non-belligerent”), although it was sympathetic to the Axis and provided Deacarsic volunteers in the Eastern Front.

Starting in the late-1940s, relations with the Holy See became strained after Deacarsic bishops refused to condemn the teachings of American priest Leonard Feeney and continued to deteriorate throughout the following two decades. Rejecting the Second Vatican Council, the Church of Deacarsia formally split with the Catholic Church in November 1966 after the Seventh Synod of Donphitt.

After the war, Deacarsia was politically and economically isolated, but this changed during the Cold War period, when it became strategically important as a strongly anti-communist state. Despite this, Deacarsia never joined the United Nations or N.A.T.O. out of concerns for national sovereignty, and following the Cold War it has adopted a strict policy of non-intervention in foreign conflicts, which causes tensions with the rest of the Western world.

Since the end of the Cold War, Deacarsia has developed closer diplomatic relations to the Russian Federation, particularly during the presidency of Vladimir Putin, as Russian society has grown far more similar to Deacarsia than the Western world.

Geography


Deacarsia is 157 miles (253 km) north to south and 216 miles (348 km) east to west. Of a total 20,823 square miles (53,933 km2), 19,412 square miles (50,277 km2) are land, 212 square miles (550 km2) are inland waters, and 1,199 square miles (3,106 km2) are coastal waters. Deacarsia has 347 miles (559 km) of coastline along the Sea of Albosiac.

Cities include Donphitt in the central west, Spukey in the north, Willin and Morgueton in the south, and Alruna and Seanstown in the east. Deacarsia lies entirely within the Owenvra Plateau, and it is bordered to the southwest by the Abalaisic Mountains, the area beyond which remains little explored.

Deacarsia has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa, Trewartha climate classification Dc) with extremes of both heat and cold. There are four distinct seasons, with hot, humid summers, and cold and often-snowy winters. The warmest month of the year in Deacarsia is July, with a 24-hour average of 73.5 °F (23.1 °C). The coolest month is January, when the 24-hour average is 31.0 °F (−0.6 °C).

Average annual precipitation is 36.4 inches (926 mm) and precipitation is greatest in May while least in October. Snowfall averages 35.4 inches (90 cm) per season. There are an average of fifty-nine clear days and one hundred and three partly cloudy days per year, while two hundred and three days are cloudy.

Demographics


People have lived in Deacarsia for nearly two thousand years. Early historical records relate the settlement of the area by Irish explorers in the late-second century, followed by frequent Viking raids during the ninth century.

As of 2019, Deacarsia has an estimated population of over three million people. As a result of highly restrictive immigration laws, net migration to the kingdom since 2000 was zero, and less than five percent of the population is foreign-born. The population is almost entirely Gaelic in origin, and it is closely related to the population of Ireland.

By far, the largest religious group in Deacarsia is Christianity. The largest and sole legal denomination is the Church of Deacarsia, representing over ninety-nine percent of the population. While it has been illegal for Jews and Muslims to reside in the kingdom since the Edict of Expulsion in 1289, occasionally permits are given to individuals to visit Deacarsia, and in 2010 there were four nonpracticing Jews living in Donphitt, a decrease from seven in 2000. In a 2013 survey conducted on behalf of the Deacarsic Times, 91% of respondents said they attended Mass at least once per week.

While nearly half of the population are considered L1 speakers of the Deacarsic language, less than one-fifth are regular daily users, and the most commonly spoken language is English. Despite this, all education is offered in both languages, and all students are also required to study Latin, which remains the primary language of statutes.

Government


Deacarsia is considered a semi-constitutional monarchy. The Crinalvar is the bicameral legislature of Deacarsia, but the monarchy maintains significant power, including the power to the issue laws by public decree. Within the Crinalvar, by far the Colamra is the more powerful chamber, which consists of the nobility and the twenty-six bishops of the Church of Deacarsia, while the popularly-elected Datai is much less important.

The monarchy of Deacarsia is a hereditary position, and succession is governed by agnatic primogeniture and restricted to members of the Church of Deacarsia. The high-king is a very powerful position, being only restricted by existing laws and by the ability of the Crinalvar to withhold funding. The constitution of Deacarsia is uncodified, but consists of the various traditions and statutes passed throughout the history of the kingdom.

The government of Deacarsia is highly devolved, with localities being granted high levels of autonomy. The kingdom is divided into twenty-six counties, which are grouped into five provinces. Each province is governed by a lesser king, in four of which is a separate hereditary position, and in one of which, the province of Seánachta, is held either by the high-king or the heir apparent.

Military


The Deacarsic Royal Defense Forces (Deacarsic: Óglí inna Descertach), also known as His Majesty’s Armed Forces, operates on land, in the air, and at sea, serving as the primary armed forces of Deacarsia. Under the kingdom’s militia system, regular soldiers constitute a small part of the military, and the rest are conscripts or volunteers aged 18 to 54. As a result of the current policy of armed neutrality, the Deacarsic Royal Defense Forces do not take part in conflicts in other countries, and do not participate in international peacekeeping missions.

The regulations of the Deacarsic militia system stipulate that the soldiers keep their own personal equipment, including all personally assigned weapons and ammunition, at home, or in an armory.

Economy


The economy of Deacarsia is an industrialized economy, governed by the economic philosophy of national syndicalism and import substitution industrialization. Its currency, called the Deacarsic pound, legally is defined in terms of silver weight. As a result, it widely is regarded as a hard currency. The explicit charging of interest on loans is prohibited, and alternative modes of banking and finance have been developed. There is no officially recognized central banking system, but banks are prohibited from lending demand deposits and instead only lend from time deposits, a system known as full-reserve banking.

Deacarsia is highly reliant on its manufacturing sector and heavy industry, the growth of which is maintained through protectionist and autarkic trade policies encouraging domestic ownership and production. Deacarsia has consistently run trade surpluses since the late-nineteenth century, and it is one of the largest creditor nations in the world. The largest industry in Deacarsia is steel production, followed by coal mining, glassworks, oil production, fracking, and automobile manufacturing. International trade is not a significant portion of the Deacarsic economy, making up less than ten percent of gross domestic product, with exports consisting largely of steel and manufactured goods and imports consisting of luxury items.

The economy is largely driven by the private sector with very little government ownership of even traditionally state-run activities, such as roads. The gross domestic product per capita of Deacarsia in 2020 was estimated $239,603 (2011 Int’l$, PPP), and total real economic growth was estimated at 6.8%, though Deacarsia famously does not compile economic statistics beyond the manufacturing sector. Deacarsia is considered to have a high-income economy.

The unemployment rate in 2020 was estimated at 1.7%, and the labor force participation rate was estimated at 58.7%. Most women do not have jobs outside the home, and most jobs instead are held by men. While child labor remains legal, it is seldom used outside of family-owned businesses.

Despite the notable absence of social welfare programs, Deacarsia is believed to have a relatively low poverty rate, and income inequality is not ranked as a major issue, with income growth being relatively even across-the-board. Homelessness is also rare, and housing is regarded as extremely inexpensive compared to other countries.

Economists are puzzled by the combination of robust economic and real wage growth in Deacarsia with the secular deflation of the price level, as measured in the prices of consumer goods, and the stock market, which has remained relatively stagnant since the 1960s. Some heterodox economists credit the traditional sound money policy pursued by the Deacarsic government, while others credit its robust manufacturing sector, which has avoided the de-instrustrialization experienced by other First World countries.

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