Korado



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Well known for being the most BASED nation on Tavadia. Korado champion of the world. REAL!

The Democratic Nation of Korado, more commonly referred to as simply Korado, is a tropical, democratic nation ((no shit)), which is located on the southernmost peninsula on Sierris, and consists of 9 districts. The nation borders [the South Sierran Union|South Sierran Union], Czislaja, Neborya, Teutonland, and New Arische. Korado has a terribly fluctuating population, which has never actually risen above 15 million, and currently sits at a little less than 10 million people. This makes it the least populous nation on Tavadia. The southern coastal region of Korado is by far the most populated area in the nation. At least 50% of the nation's population is in Liasina, Kiamos, Marandure, and Lorianccino. The capital city of Korado is Aizea, which is located on the west coast of the district of Liasina. Korado owns two colonies; the Chillias, which are mostly uninhabited polar islands south of Volka, and the Kanoian Isles, with a population of around 14,000, way off to the east of Korado.

Korado is well known for the laid-back and cheerful attitudes of its citizens. It's also one of the only nations on Tavadia where drugs are legal, which is cause for lots of the world's drug rings to settle in Korado. The nation is ransacked with change and disaster, almost yearly, but it's citizens have either grown resilient or quit caring. Fruit, explosives (namely napalm), and alcohol (namely pineapple liquor) are well-spread and very popular in Korado. It's a nation of party people, but because of the widespread hedonistic attitudes, progress in the nation is usually pretty slow, meaning it is technologically behind most of the other Tavadian nations, and also a second-world, if not third-world, nation. But who gives a fuck about that when you've got a rave to go to in an hour?

Historical... Crises

 * Korado began in tribal form. For thousands of years, people living on the Southern Sierrian peninsula existed in relative peace in sisterly tribes. They traded fruit and other goods, and wars were uncommon. In 1756, the tribes united under a government. And things have been going downhill ever since.


 * In 1851, Koradian engineers and scientists experimented with a new form of transport; strapping a steam engine to a horse to make it go faster. Needless to say, things went god-awful. In fact, Korado is the only nation to-date with a horse-caused avalanche in its history books. The avalanche wiped out a whole village in Norán, save for two survivors who escaped. Korado has also catapulted a horse at least once, and shot a horse into space later on.


 * Back in 1858, when Dialeria was still a district of Korado, in swooped a disease outbreak which caused panic. Alcohol production increased as a result of increased demand, as death tolls started to rise. over 70,000 people fled from Dialeria before the disease could get to them. Within 2-3 years, the disease was completely eradicated.


 * In response to a massive meteor strike in Czetetje in 1863, dubbed the Arkanskagrad Impact, Korado sent over assloads of aid, right before they fell into a famine that lasted a year or two and invented Just Add Water recipes. The district of Kiamos was quickly struck via tsunami, affecting 12,000, about 25% of which were dead. The famine ended... but then was quickly replaced with another famine. Several hundred thousand Koradians were lost to emigration (mostly to Czetetje and Myranea). Industry tanked, unemployment and black market rates skyrocketed, and 1/3 of the population was gone; either dead, or living somewhere else. Santiago de Santis, arguably Korado's most popular Figurehead ever, stepped down with the belief that he wasn't helping his nation enough, and was replaced by his brother, Lamberto de Santis. Santiago, however, remained well known and beloved. In 1867, the famine finally ended.


 * Korado has been in a perpetual population crisis, but at least once, it was a population crisis in the sense that the population was growing very fast. In 1874, the Figurehead of Korado was a man named Benedito Sousa. Almost right off the bat, Sousa increased Korado's painfully low military numbers and put a two child law into place, seeing as the population was growing at a rate that was almost too much to handle. He was not a man who took things lightly, and as such, angry people took to the streets in rebellion, and started underground efforts to keep more children under their care. The majority of the groups were found out, however, and Sousa angrily addressed the nation and uttered what must be his most famous quote; threatening that he would "chop the maximum amount of children you can legally have in half like a fresh tomato" if people didn't start complying with his policies. Of course, this only angered the people more, which in turn angered Sousa more. He stuck to his word and decreased the amount of children you can legally have to one child per couple, and instated cards that mothers had to carry around with them, displaying how many children they had, with severe consequences for lying or refusing to comply with law enforcement. And in a very questionable move, the government shipped over 600,000 babies to Allia and the now extinct nation of Krania. The people attempted to overthrow Sousa, to no avail. In a surprise turn of events, Sousa tried to reason with the people, and changed the course of Korado's history forever, with one speech. He explained to the people that if there were too many mouths to feed that everyone would run out of resources and slowly starve or succumb to disease in a slow, painful death. The people not only agree with his reasoning, but many become opposed to having children as a whole, and the population crisis ended abruptly, and so ended what is now dubbed The Crisis of 1874. Sousi ideals on population are still in wide Koradian circulation today.


 * Shortly after the assassination of Czetetje's Pomenaze, in 1922, beloved Former Figurehead Santiago de Santis passed away. Nobody would ever again live up to his glory.


 * In 1929, meteor showers rampaged the globe, and Korado came out relatively unscathed, with less than 200 deaths.


 * Koradian fascination with explosives might have started in 1930, when the worldwide Firework Craze was happening. Korado launched hella fireworks. For several years, Korado had more fireworks than any other nation in Tavadia.


 * Korado began to manufacture napalm in 1950.


 * In 1981, strange, transparent blob creatures started appearing in Norán. They were found to be able to consume any biological matter in their wake, and the blobs ranged in size from as small as a fist, to the size of a compact car. Scientists concluded that the blobs acted out of hunger, or maybe even boredom. Only fire could work against them (Source?), and by 1984, The Blob Problem of 1981 was no more.


 * 1986 swung around, and so did The Plague! Tavadia lacked a Plague Vaccine at the time. Needless to say, that did no good for Korado's populace. Starting in the south, it quickly spread up north, and even into neighboring countries before they could get the borders closed. As a result of 6 in 10 mainland Koradians and 1 in 4 Kanoian Koradians dying to the plague, the economy dipped majorly. Election times rolled around at the worst time it possibly could have, and most of the government had died to the disease, save for two officials; Essua Gloria, who proclaimed himself king of Korado, and Hernando Dorantes, who wanted to maintain Korado's democracy. After Dorantes tried to negotiate with Gloria, Gloria stated that he won't step down from power, but he would be willing to only control part of the nation. Gloria wanted to rule over both Liasina and Dialeria, offering Dorantes ∆6,000,000 in addition. Seemingly happy for any power he could get, Gloria accepted Dorantes' offer to let Gloria rule over his home district of Dialeria. Thus, in 1987, after the nation's recovery from The Plague, it splits into two; The Democratic Nation of Korado, and The Royal State of Dialeria.


 * Both Korado and Dialeria were minor participants in WWII, and the end of Pax Unitea in 1988.


 * Right after WWII, the Koradian Peninsula (and other Sierrian locations) were stricken via cold wave! Temperatures dropped to 0°F (possibly lower), causing the normally tropical location some death! Approximately 10,000 Koradians are injured or killed by both the cold wave and the 177 foot tall tsunami that struck the east coast of Korado. Most likely related to the aforementioned events, Hernando Dorantes was found dead, and the Royal Family of Dialeria went missing. The Glorias were found soon after, shaken up but pretty much unharmed. With Figurehead Dorantes dead, though, Korado collapsed, for the first time. The government soon reforms though, with some help, and the land warms up to normal levels gradually.


 * 1994, right after the containment of The Happy Disease, saw rise of The Virgin Virus. No deaths were reported since the situation was dealt with very quickly, but the disease was reported to have the ability to kill. The Virgin Virus is the reason why Korado has more strippers now than almost any other nation on Tavadia.


 * Korado manufactures its first nuke in 1996. Also one of the Figureheads dies. Not sure who.


 * Ah, Y2k. A massively celebratory year for Korado. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be for long. Korado was ruled over for several months by an unfairly elected tyrant, Marcos Floro, with military on his mind. He disrupted the balance of Korado by running things with an iron fist. After much rioting, assassination attempts, and unrest, Liasina was stormed by The UoR, Pasawiens Sátlajt, and Neborya at the same time, with help from Dialeria. The tyrant vanished, 1/3 of the population was found to be dead, and Korado fell into a depression, where even more people died. The economy crashed, and most people were left under the poverty line. Once the economy recovered, though, so did the remaining 7 million people. And so, The Peril of Y2K ended, in 2001.


 * The town of Sagona held 24,000 people. Everybody in the town disappeared in late 2001. But reports from people who went there in 2002 say that the town is just normal and completely fine. Weird.


 * 2003 saw a lot of drug related deaths for some reason. The population dips below 6 million.


 * In 2005, the popularity of napalm marshmallows went through the ROOF.


 * Korado's economy crashed again in 2006. The black market usage went absolutely berserk, and Figurehead Pio Camaro's body was found out at sea, with all his organs missing.


 * After over a decade of peace and normality, Korado's satellites started to disappear in 2018. It was found to be work of the crumbling Hyper Abyssalist Order. Once the Hyoer Abyssalist Order was dealt with, Korado was given financial compensation and that was that.


 * In 2019, almost a dozen cases of the Gestirnvirus pop up in Korado. And then? Radio silence. All the way until 2047. (Of course, the virus had long since been dealt with. But fuck knows what happened in the 28 year gap.)


 * Almost immediately after Korado was back on the line, mass hysteria broke out. Everyone began to stockpile milk for a reason unknown, soon before religious cults started to spring up around the nation. Just as soon as they started appearing, the people either went back to normal lives or mysteriously vanished. But then, 2049 rolled around. The government was overtaken by a particularly large cult, called The Creed of The Paragon, and Korado was renamed to The Holy Land of The Creed of The Paragon. Society quickly split into three classes; The Paragons, who followed the cult's teachings and rules, The Middle Ground, where most people could fly under the radar without having to follow the cult's beliefs whilst also not breaking their rules, and The Unfit, which consisted of anyone who broke the rules of the cult. The rule lasted less than a year before public backlash grew to an uncontrollable extent, and the cult government was overthrown by the normal government. Around 6000 people were killed for being 'unfit' or 'unholy' during their reign, and anyone who helped conduct the killings was sent to prison. But as toxic as the cult's presence was at the time, the normal government allowed them to continue their practices, so long as they didn't kill. It really says something about the country itself. Whatever that might be is up to the individual.


 * 2050 marks the year that the first Napalm Marshmallow Cafe was opened in the world. You can thank Korado for that.


 * In 2053, whilst trying to ship napalm to the Kanoian Isles, the ship explodes and creates a massive crater in the ocean.


 * Between 2054 and 2055, Korado experienced a number of bizarre happenings. People started disappearing with no explanation, and then Korado was hit with a big hurricane. Next, everyone went blind for 5 seconds, causing over 400 deaths, and finally, Korado entered a drought. Christ


 * Cars have been a large part of Korado's culture since they were introduced to the nation. Well, in 2062, Tavadia ran out of fossil fuels, and Korado had not finished converting its energy to renewable energy yet, so not only did lots of cars become undrivable, but lots of businesses failed, and Korado's economy took a nose dive. They began to rapidly improve within a year, though, and increased the amount of renewable energy they can use from 55% to 71%.


 * Napalm strip clubs were invented in 2068. God, if only they had waited one more year.


 * After a minor squabble several years earlier, without warning, Korado and Dialeria declare war on each other in 2080. With already rapidly declining populations, this concerned their allies, who couldn't really do anything but watch. Before the war, in 2077, Korado had a population of 9,813,000, and Dialeria had a population of 5,687,000. By 2083, with a mix between the aging population and the war, Korado was down to 8,270,000, and Dialeria was down to 4,016,000. To make things even worse (better?), the peninsula entered a bad heatwave, where the heat continued to increase and increase until it became unbearable. In addition, the whole peninsula had a power outage, which made air conditioning, cars, and planes alike unusable (in addition to the fuel crisis, which they were still feeling the effects of). The smart citizens built shanty rafts and made the long float over to Czetetje, for a life free of this bullshit. But many stuck around. The heat got so bad to the point where people started to take all their clothes off in public, and militiamen started abandoning their posts in order to stay alive. And then, all of a sudden, a massive gash opens up in the middle of the peninsula. Structures and people were swallowed by the planet. Satellites fell out of the sky. Temperatures briefly soared to become downright oven-like before they began to recede. But by that point, it was too late. Both the Koradian and Dialerian governments and societies had collapsed. The cumulative population was down to 12,286,000... In the early part of 2083! Sike! The population after the The Great Heat of '83/Catastrophe of '83 was actually 6,262,000 (7,227,000 if you count those still on Koradian/Dialerian lands AND those who emigrated to Czetetje during the bullshittery. The big 6 number also includes the 1,061,000 who emigrated to Pembria because I don't really care to do the math right now). Every semblance of civilization on the peninsula was broken into borderline anarchic fracture states, who had to try and rebuild what they once had. The Koradian land had never seen anything close to the amount of drug trafficking that they saw in the years following '83. By 2093, ten years after the disaster, The Koradian Coalition formed from the tiny fracture states (but not all of them). The Coalition basically put its economy on steroids and pumped it back up to a relatively normal level. in 2102, though, The Koradian Coalition collapses again, but immediately starts rebuilding as Korado once more.


 * Korado manufactured its second nuke in 2107.

Figureheads
A Figurehead is the leader of Korado. The founding members of the country must've figured a term like "president" or "emperor" wasn't fitting. Figureheads are backed up by other government officials who help them make decisions, but Figureheads are the smiling face you see on the news whenever Korado inevitably comes up in another news story.

(Not sure what happened in this 90ish year gap)
 * Mario Giordano: Korado's first Figurehead, in 1851. Helped deal with the Dialerian Outbreak of 1857.
 * Santiago de Santis: Korado's most beloved Figurehead to-date, elected in 1861, and leading through Korado's first two famines. Solidified Koradian relations with Czetetje, but stepped down in 1867 due to his belief that he wasn't helping his nation enough. Was very close with Czetetje's Zaslako. Died in 1922.
 * Lamberto de Santis: Santiago's very unremarkable brother. Started his leadership in 1867, immediately following Santiago's resignation. Stepped down in 1875 for unknown reasons. Was found to have been assassinated by The Order in 1988, also for unknown reasons.
 * Benedito Sousa: Korado's first dictator (kinda?). Most well known for instilling totalitarian child policies for about a month, shipping off over 600,000 children to foreign nations, and instilling an anti-child belief in most of Korado's populace. This happened in 1875, the first year of his ruling. He significantly chilled out afterwards.
 * Estevao Ribiero: Began his leadership in 1882, and was another unremarkable figurehead.
 * Inacio Matos: Began his leadership in 1887. I have literally nothing else to say about him.
 * '''Roberto Sanchez: Started leading in 1974,
 * Hernando Dorantes:
 * Marcos Floro:
 * Pio Camaro:
 * Felipe Perez:

Districts

 * Liasina: Korado's farthest south district (the southernmost district used to be Dialeria, before it broke off) and most populous district, as well as the home of its capital, Aizea. Has the highest quality of living in Korado and the highest diversity.


 * Kiamos: Gets bombarded with lots of tsunamis.


 * Marandure: Genuinely don't know.


 * Lorianccino: Well known for high drug user populations, mostly those who use HGs.


 * Norán: By far Korado's coldest region, due to being almost entirely mountains. The home to lots of weird happenings, including the Blob Problem of 1981, and Korado's only horse-caused avalanche.


 * Duranzo: Some housing crisis thing happened there. Also has lots of fruit exports


 * Alidoba: The most sparsely populated region.


 * Fivea: Who?


 * Flortán: Conquered in 2000 when Figurehead Marcos Floro went on a militaristic rampage and started what was to become a massive Koradian state spanning the continent.

Inventions

 * Steam powered horses (failure)
 * "Fart machine" steam powered go-karts
 * Freestyle music
 * Disco balls
 * Rap music
 * Condoms
 * Home Depot
 * Monster Truck Racing (god motherfucking damn!)
 * Shut The Hell Up And Eat A Cinnamon Roll Day
 * The Tactical Marathon
 * Horseradish Gas
 * Outrun
 * Synthwave
 * Breakbeats
 * Kord-pop
 * Kordbeats
 * Napalm marshmallows
 * Napalm strip clubs