Shushtrepistaz

Shushtrepistaz i/ʃʌʃtrɛpɨstɔːz/ (Shudonese: シュウ英国で Shuukon) is an island nation in East Asia Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to south of Japan, east of Okatabawashi, and China. The word in Shudonese stands for Life.

Shushtrepistaz is a nation of 982 islands, the largest being Shudon, Kyuiko, and Iurka. It is the 10th largest nation in the world and the largest nation in the Alliance of Independent Nations boasting over one hundred thirty five million people, while its largest city, Das'gotn is the 6th largest city in the world.

The nation originally was a unification of 16 empires, of the island of Shudon, but even before its feudal era the nation had documents dating back to the 1st Century AD, and human remains as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The Nation has been categorized by its Cold War split which had caused over 16 different wars in a 20 year period

A major economic power, Shushtrepistaz has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and fourth largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the world's fourth-largest exporter and fifth-largest importer. Shushtrepistaz has the third least homicide rate (including attempted homicide) in the world. Shushtrepistaz has the third longest life expectancy, and second lowest infant mortality rate.

Etymology
The English word for Shushtrepistaz is an Endonym. The Shudonese names for Shushtrepistaz is Shuukon (シュウ英国で), the names are written using kanji 日本. The Shudonese name Shuukon is used for Domestic Identifications, including postage and local sporting events. Shuukon means life in Shudonese, as where the original inhabitants had believed life had began at the range of mountains that held the island and had ended in the East most island of Kuidion (Meaning Death). of The second name of Shuukon, Shushtrepistaz was the misinterpretation of the name of the island near Shudon (Shyushprekitaz), where the Dutch first arrived.

Early Years
A Paleolithic culture around 30,000 BC constitutes the first known habitation of Shushtrepistaz. This was followed from around 15,000 BC by a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture, who include ancestors of both the contemporary Kuiko people and Isulo people, characterized by pit dwelling and rudimentary agriculture. Decorated clay vessels from this period are some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world. Around 250 BC, the Yayoi people began to enter the Shushtrepistaz islands, intermingling with the Isulo. The Yayoi period, starting around 500 BC, saw the introduction of practices like wet-rice farming, a new style of pottery, and metallurgy, introduced from China and Korea.

Early Empires
The Shushtrepistaz first appear in written history in the Chinese Book of Han. Buddhism was first introduced to Shushtrepistaz from the Japanese, but the subsequent development of Shudonese Buddhism was primarily influenced by China. Buddhism was promoted by the ruling class and gained widespread acceptance beginning in the Yuibor period (592–710). The Yuibor period had started the seeds for the first Empire, know as the Yuibor empire or the Early Shudonese Empire, the empire that lasted almost 200 years had four rulers, the land consisted of most of the areas around the Keriko river and parts of Raisu tochi, the empire was ruled by the Chyne's and began the Chyne Dynasty. The empire had remained quiet for many of its first years until 620 where Japanese travelers had migrated from Japan to the Central Keriko region, where they intermingled with the indigenous population creating the Jashudo people, now just referred as Shudonese, these people were treated as lower class because they were mixed, and made many of the Jashudo people mad. This racial tension had started a rebellion in 702 where the Jashudo, now outnumbering the pure Shudonese had overthrown the government, and had began a new Dynasty, the Jashudo dynasty. The Jashudo Dynasty did not last long as neighboring kingdoms had started to refuse to trade with them, causing a weakening in their infrastructure and body, as neither crops nor wood was traded. In 708, the Jashudo king, known as Jyuko had given up on trying to beg for food and began to sell land for food and infrastructure. The land once part of the Yuibor Empire started to split up under smaller kingdoms. The kingdom had soon ended up loosing all their land and all their resources, while the once forgotten Isulo people, under a little known emperor known as Jukso Yajiori had began to unite all of the kingdoms together to form the Shudonese Empire. In the last year of the Yoibur empire, the government had began to buy back its land, but it never went successfully as the empire was losing land as much as it was getting land, and they had began to give up, and let all of their land to fade away.



The First Reign
The Shudon period (710–784) of the 8th century marked the emergence of a strong Shuukon state, the Shudonese Empire, centered on an imperial government that was ruled by an emperor of the Isulo people who until 700 AD had been disappeared for years and has been replaced by the less dominant Kuiko People and Jashudo people who had been the ruling people until now. The government was based on a loose system of feudal regions that will be lead by the Emperor. In the 720's Jukso Yajiori had released his writings telling that the feudal system will be replaced by a strong unified empire, leading to a great ten years of prosperity. This all changed when During the 740's the Empire had been struck with a famine, known as the 100 days famine, which killed off many people. The emperor at the time Jukso Yajiori had to create a process to regain his people. He started a law known as Funioshu which was the process of forced, or chosen reproduction and marriage at the age of 14, this not only increased the Empire's population back to normal, but had created a precedent for his sons to keep the law. Funioshu generated a large population growth, due to its statements of at least 3 children per 2 parents, this period will also be known as the growth revolution of Shushtrepistaz, where birth was endorsed by the government, and later a mandatory switch of wife after one cannot produce anymore kin. The law also had been changed by Hiyori Yajiori so that there must be two boys for every girl born from a woman, and if not, the woman would be replaced with another. This growth revolution had ended during the middle of Hiyori Yajiori rule where he had began to notice many "ugly" or untouchable children, which now is know caused by inbreeding. These untouchables had began to form a class of their own creating the first 3 part class system in Shushtrepistaz, where a growing mass of untouchables, now which included migrants, poor, and criminals had dominated cities. The emperor at the time, decided to move these untouchables outside main cities, and to create slums, these slums rapidly grew as the untouchable population had now skyrocketed to 50% of the population. While the middle class, mainly farmers, artisans, and workers had been growing making them 48% of the population leaving a minor 2% for the upper class.

The Second Reign
As the son of the first Emperor died, his son Jenoko Yajiori had tried to reverse what his father and grand-father had done. The first thing on his agenda was to slow down the population laws as they were creating a huge untouchable population, where he had restricted marriages and birth until the age of 17, and started to educated untouchables so they could become middle class. This new age was known as the Ukat Suycio or First Science, was the growth of intelligence where the middle class now had become the higher classes and the lower class and untouchables became the new middle class. Everything under Jenoko Yajiori reign was excellent, as now the empire had doubled in size and trade with Japan and acceptance of Jashudos came into light. This era had also been known for its art and the merge of Japanese and Shudonese was in progress, as the language once written in Yijigo had been replaced by kanji and common words like food, had been changed into the Japanese or the Shudonese version. As Jenoko Yajiori had began to grow old his son, Yubiru had died, making Jenoko's brother's son the next emperor.

Division and Colonization
The year of 900 AD had been shaped by blood shed, set off a split of Shuukon that has resulted in 16 different empires controlling all of Shushtrepistaz. The most major Empire, the Kujion Empire had been characterized by the emergence and dominance of a ruling class of warriors, the suykiou. In 1185, following the defeat of the Olui clan, sung in the epic Tale of Juikono, suykiou Minamoto no Yoritomo was appointed shogun and established a base of power in Kikoa. After his death, the Hōjō clan came to power as regents for the shoguns. The Zen school of Buddhism was introduced from China in the Kikoa period (1185–1333) and became popular among the suykiou class. The Kikoa shogunate repelled Mongol invasions in 1304, but was eventually overthrown by Emperor sodon.

The rest of the many empires had remained peaceful as a age of thought and science arose in the period of Secu Suycio (Second Science) where great Philosophers like Chuan Chen, and Jui Kyuo had wandered lands teaching the people of a new religion Shuko Buddhism, in which mind soul and body were inter collected into one, where the land once known as Death became another meaning of life, where death no long meant sorrow but a new resurrection. New inventions had sparked at the end of the 1300's where Shudonese learned new ways of rice cropping, called Kyuigion, where rice is grown at a slower rate but brings more crops at harvest time. Other inventions included a heat operated rice steamer, that cooked rice to perfection faster.

The Ekuirio Empire, also known as the opposite of the Kujion due to its peacful enterprising area. The kingdom grew to become the largest and had become the mixture of culture, its capital in Kobe to it farthest point in Kreich had created it a very good trade center, the government had instituted a policy of low taxes and good support of its people. It did not fall due to its large amount of gold and money collected from its huge trade.

The Empire age lasted hundred of years, but a new threat of foreigner invasion had arrived. During the 16th century, traders and Jesuit missionaries from Portugal reached Shushtrepistaz for the first time, initiating direct commercial and cultural exchange between Shushtrepistaz and the West. European technology and firearms had now spread into the culture creating a weapon importation industry that lasted ages. This weapon importation into the Kuinio Empire had caused worry from bordering empires that had also begun importing weapons also, causing one of the first Cold Wars in the world. The Cold War ended abruptly as islands of Kyuiko and Shyushprekitaz had been colonized by the Dutch (1604), creating a reason for these empires to Unite as one, but due to corruption by bribes given to emperors by Dutch Merchants to keep these lands. This process of corruption had lead for over 70 years until the British had started to take over Dutch Territory in Kyuiko and created small town colonies on the main island of Shudon, this had caused anger in the empire of Rykido which had owned this land, and had eventually lead into the only battle every fought between British and Shudonese, the Fuiryo War, also known as the foreigner war, where soldiers equipped with 40 year old weapons had tried to fight the strongest navy of the time. The battle was easily won by the british, and had created a strong hold on the North Western Part of Shushtrepistaz for the British. The British stranglehold did not last long as when the new century turned out the British seeking a more profitable venture started to expand inwards into the rice fields of Shushtrepistaz, where they had been constantly attacked by villagers who launched a Gorilla warfare, where over 200 soldiers had lost their lives, creating a hole for the British, which they could not stand upon. In 1720 The British wounded by this experience left Shushtrepistaz, but not all was the British's fault, but the many Empires who had been weak and corrupted, it was time to unify and all through the land all the kingdoms big and small became one, one nation named Shukkon.

Modern Shushtrepistaz
Up until the 1840's Shushtrepistaz has been a buffer to Japan's Isolation, Japan and Shushtrepistaz for those 200 years had been converging, but never let European influences spread through knowing that it will lead to ill will between the two nations. The nation of Okatabawashi had been Shushtrepistaz's only ally with similar military capacity for the time and Okatabawashi had helped secretly take out British invasions in Shushtrepistaz for the end of the British Occupation in 1645, the nations until 1853, when the British, who had already been taken out of Asia before had started to invade Okatabawashi, in March 31, 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry and the "Black Ships" of the United States Navy forced the opening of Japan to the outside world with the Convention of Kanagawa. Commodore Matthew Perry had also visited the separate state of East Shushtrepistaz after the convention. The Boshin War and the establishment of a centralized state nominally unified under the Emperor (the Meiji Restoration), had lead Shushtrepistaz and Japan's relationship to falter, while creating a huge growth for Okatabawashi and Shushtrepistaz's relationship where trade had become an even larger market between these two nations. The new century had created new difficulty for Shushtrepistaz to reach the world stage, as Shushtrepistaz had not modernized its economic system and relied on agriculture for most of its exports. The creation of large cities where the kingdoms capitals were created hubs for trade and a new prosperous service industry that created a new age of Shushtrepistaz a consumer age. Manufacturing began as more services were required, causing moreover a population revolution where population jumped from 42 million to 62 million in 10 years, due to the advancements of medicine. The Shushtrepistaz economy was prosperous but a war with Japan, that could end its economic growth was brewing, 1911 the Iijus islands, owned by Shushtrepistaz was used by Japanese sailors as a port, creating a competition between the much less powerful Shushtrepistaz Fishers who lived on the land, the Japanese sailors eventually kicked them out, causing an backlash in the two governments relations, but no war happened, Japan under stress from the public gave away the Iijus islands, and forbid Japanese Fishers from using it or the area around it.

The World Wars
WWI made it difficult for Shushtrepistaz to grow economically as a nation, and began to split under itself, creating a new nation of East Shushtrepistaz in 1915, the action had gone peacefully, and the two nations cooperated as one. The 1920 have brought a new era of prosperity for the world, bringing a new population growth in Shushtrepistaz, and a new Manufacturing Sector of Ships, and aircraft. Shushtrepistaz had become a new global power, and its population now at 78.4 million had never felt better. That all changed in the 1930's as a global depression along with Shushtrepistaz's amassed debts had lead it to shut down many programs, causing its depression era to last longer then most other nations. Crime was at an all time high, where weapons policies had been easily ignored, and a wealth gap had arose. Japan now having a weak relation with Shushtrepistaz had shown that if they were going to war it will not be good. The Japanese had already taken over Manchuria, and was looking at Shushtrepistaz for its new lands. 1940, a date Shudonese know as the day Japan attacked, Japan launched a full invasion on the city of Das'gotn, not prepared Das'gotn and its suburbs fell, causing a immediate call of troops from all over Shushtrepistaz to defend its homeland, the call was unanswered as more and more of Shushtrepistaz had been taken over by Japan. A sight of hope came from Angel's Bay, a well fortified Naval Base, which had blocked Japanese Assault up until 1941, where the United States of America had entered the war and started sending ships to aid Shushtrepistaz, meanwhile in Dras'kon, the army had been finally assembled, and started to break through Japanese occupation in Kobe and Kreich, while the Czrik Military Guard took out  Ukato forces. In 1942, the US had broken through and had entered Shushtrepistaz, and had started to march through the nation, the Japanese had been pushed back to Lorang where a final attack in January 14, 1943 ended the Japanese Occupation, the US set a temporary Military Base in Angels Bay. The war was coming to a close in Europe, while the battle in Asia was raging on wards for another few months, until the Atom Bomb was dropped on Japan, the war ended on September 2nd 1945, the day was full of celebration, where thousands massed on the streets of the capital. December 10, 1945 was the day Japan payed reparations to Shushtrepistaz, a new land called South Uroboria owned partially by Syldavia. The following days included a new border proposal with the Syldavian controlled North Uroboria. The summit held in Blaketown lasted 4 days resulting in a new border line that would give more land to Shushtrepistaz on the East (Kegi) side, while giving more land to Syldavia on the West.

Cold War
As WWII slowly fades away into the 1950's Shushtrepistaz is overwhelmed by the reconstruction they would have to do, taking out large loans with the United States, and the USSR. This eventually lead to a minor recession at the end of the 50's but was overshadowed by the new fear, communism, a idea that was prevalent in the  Region of Brenzaltan where the USSR had launched large propaganda schemes on the people of Czrik. Shushtrepistaz responded in large censures in that area, creating its own Propaganda, the US had also tried launching its own anti-communism Propaganda on Shushtrepistaz, causing a split in values, and on July 8, 1958, Brenzaltan declared its independence from Shushtrepistaz, the line was divided on the Shuukon mountains, creating the first split in Shushtrepistaz in 400 years, Brenzaltan had officially become part of the Warsaw Pact in 1960, at the same time Shushtrepistaz joined the Western Bloc, allying with the  United States who had helped Shushtrepistaz launch its Spy program, the United States during this time had given Shushtrepistaz weapons and spy equipment to fight this growing evil, known as Brenzaltan. The first breakthrough in the Spying operations was the revealing of the Zytxchol Nuclear operation, while Brenzaltan after this was announced said it was a Nuclear Power Plant, further research and the invasion in the 1980's showed it was a uranium enrichment plant. As political tensions grew in the mid 60's Shushtrepistaz began investing into Technology Companies like Acuri, the nation had achieved another 1920's a age of population expansion, economic development and scientific advancement. Shushtrepistaz's public education had been revamped creating a new way of teaching students, and a split between religion and state. The government had also started to restart many programs like welfare, and government aided healthcare. Capitalism and acute Socialism was spreading through most of Shushtrepistaz, while Brenzaltan, had began more military programs and a opening of economic borders, its cheap labor work lead it to create a huge hub of manufacturing for the Warsaw Pact, but not all was good for Brenzaltan, a revolt in the north had given back land to Shushtrepistaz in 1974, the same land that had been home to some of Brenzalten's lower level nuclear programs.

Thawing War
The end of the 1970's was a shock as the United States, was now actively training the Shushtrepistaz Military, to fight the Soviets, the United States assumption was correct as on the day of May 25, 1984 the Shushtrepistaz-Brenzaltan War had begun, as Brenzaltan had tried to annex Kobe, Shushtrepistaz Military Forces began to enter Kobe to protect it, the battle had prevented Kobe from being taken over, but the war was not over, Brenzaltan had started a active Bombing campaign on Lorang and Kreich, while the Shushtrepistaz Navy, had began to attack harbors along the Brenzaltan Coast. And had its army attack through the mountains, the war had reached a tipping point when Brenzaltan Threatened to fire Nuclear weapons on Dras'kon, they almost did, but with the help of Syldavian Forces had taken over or secretly dismantled many of the armed Nuclear armed weapons. The war ended on June 19, 1984, when Shushtrepistaz Naval forces and Shushtrepistaz Army Forces had taken over Czrik, forcing the Governing body of Brenzaltan to surrender. The war left many scars on Shushtrepistaz, saying that if Shushtrepistaz was not whole it would fall apart. Some calls were to unite all of Shushtrepistaz, while others mainly East Shushtrepistaz wanted to keep their own way of life. The military was greatly reduced so was taxes, and a record, of Population reaching 100 million was reached. Shushtrepistaz had also began its space program at the end of the 80's launching a few orbiters. As the 80's turn into the 90's the power of Communism had fallen, and the USSR had broken up into many nations. Shushtrepistaz at this point wanted to expand markets into Japan but was rejected for the most part. They also tried to gain relations with China, Kamchatka, Syldavia, and Karasem.

Roaring 90's
The 90's was the greatest time period for Shushtrepistaz, everything was good for it in most Shudonese opinions, the population unlike other time of great advancements increased 12 million, the nation was becoming the economic power it was today. Over a million jobs had opened in the years of 1992-1994, the opening of the Russian States had created new economic opportunities, and as Shushtrepistaz was growing, the nations it aligned with grew, the nation of Syldavia expanded its lumber market to Shushtrepistaz, adding millions into both economies. Okatabawashi's manufacturing industry aided by a large need for semi-processed materials to build fully constructed materials. Shushtrepistaz began talks with nations in the Atlantic like Llithustania with its grand refined materials, and with North American nations like Illu'a for coal. Shushtrepistaz became a household name in many Asian nations, products that were made in China, were now created also in Shushtrepistaz, the name Shushy, had also come up as a side affect, where people, mostly westerners had a hard time to pronounce the long name, creating a Exonym. Shushtrepistaz already in its way to lower its army had begun supplying its navy with new ships from companies like Sokoya and had created a new market for Military Aircraft, an industry overshadowed by American and Veratlantean's thriving aircraft industries. Shushtrepistaz also had a health revolution where hospitals aided by Cold War programs had now been advanced beyond most other nations healthcare system. The welfare system started to become underused due to the large amount of people earning more then what is deemed enough to survive. The education of Shushtrepistaz' people grew after introducing new education levels up to 14, making 12 grades mandatory and 2 extra, a service that was heavily used. Collages received federal funding, but were soon let go. The average life expectancy rose from 68 to 74. Shushtrepistaz began its own nuclear energy program, creating one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world. Shushtrepistaz in the mid 90's had also invested into companies like Shushtrepistaz Energy who had built one of the largest wind farms in the world. Shushtrepistaz started to reach out to the Atlantic hosting talks with nations like Ascadylea, the relations between the two nations was ignored for the most part, but the two nations got closer after the only Shudonian Emperor's descendant's daughter had started to court a Ascadylean, princess. The end of the 90's had started a new age for American Relations with Shushtrepistaz, where hundreds of American industries had begun outsourcing into Shushtrepistaz. President Clinton had visited Shushtrepistaz twice to discuss economic and political alliance, and the creation of a United States Naval base in Ibu Island.

The New Millennium
The new century brought the most confusing time for Shushtrepistaz where, in the beginning was a continuation of the 90's where population reached 130 million people, but loans that Shushtrepistaz had taken out years had finally come back to bite them. The United States had asked for their money back, causing a major shake in the Nations budget, where many years a surplus was held, and the debt was unnoticed had made Shushtrepistaz fall into a minor recession during the largest tech booms in the World, but not all was bad as, the Technology sector grew over 20%, bringing one of the only major profits for a sector until 2003, where international corporations like  McDonalds and  Wal-Mart had entered the nation opening and reviving the services market that originally brought the nation its fame. Coca-Cola had soon entered and is a very prevalent company in Shushtrepistaz where 70% of Shudonese prefer Coca-Cola, and the Das'gotn's Skyline is lighted by the giant advertisement of Coca-Cola on the Aurora Complex. Syldavian companies like ATOM and Molotov have broken through creating their own markets, while companies like Asia Flyer and National Pacific have entered the global market. Das'gotn entered the books as the 3rd Largest city in the world in 2005, loosing the record in 2007. After 9/11 Shushtrepistaz had began an overhaul of their airport networks and train networks, including creating funding for a new High Speed Railway going to most of Shushtrepistaz. This not only created a new spark for Construction companies, which had already been creating superstructures in the mid 2000's. The increase of imports from Syldavia including iron, lithium and natural gas, had also created a route for illegal trade of weed from Sakhalin to inner Shushtrepistaz. 2009 was a crises year for Shushtrepistaz as the whole world was feeling a global recession, many citizens feared that Shushtrepistaz would loose its markets, a breakthrough was reached in early 2010 where after talks with Lorenta lead to a discussion of a International Union of nations that had not been majorly affected by the global recession. Shushtrepistaz entered the Alliance of Independent Nations May 16, 2010, where it had experienced one of the worst outbreaks of flu, known as STS-320, which had destroyed its new ally Fornax, and caused a global disease scare. The flu in most of the world was eradicated in June, but a mutated strain had taken out millions in Fornax. The Shushtrepistaz government had now created itself on as a world power, and as the new decade rolled in with a new president, Shushtrepistaz would experience a new change, a world where everyone was connected, a world where secret operations were harder to conceal.

The New Decade
2011 was a year that was infamous in some aspects, as Shushtrepistaz had began a rapid growth in its military size. The nation had experienced 10 years in the 10 months of February to November, it experience a huge Economic expansion with new trade links with Cattala and the Atlantic Federation, but it had also started a trade war with Galbadia for whos aircraft would run supreme. The nation of Lorenta had fell under the radar for a while until it joined AIN, and Shushtrepistaz's largest airline had merged with 2 other major airlines to form SylOkaSh Airways, domestic companies in Shushtrepistaz like Vp0 arises as super companies on the world stage. And a war in Uroboria will change everything. Soldiers opened fire and killed at least 50 people and wounded several others as tens of thousands of people protested in the East Uroboria against corruption. Poor weather, high fuel costs, Flu and rising demand have contributed to rising prices of rice and other staple foods in much of the world. But in Uroboria, prices of some staples have increased more than 50 percent over the past few weeks. The protesters in East Uroboria on Monday included women and children who marched against the refusal of many shopkeepers to accept the country's old 1,000 notes, which are worth 74 U.S. cents. Many of the protesters blamed the shopkeepers' refusal to honor the bills for sharply rising prices. Shortly after the beginning of that demonstration, tens of thousands of people took to the streets, hurling stones that smashed the windshields of several cars and buses. Demonstrators threw rocks at shops and chaos erupted at the city's main market. Hundreds of shops and restaurants in east uroboria closed their doors for fear of looting. Fears of a collapse of a government in East Uroboria and the conflict that has risen in all of Uroboria, have created a problematic situation for states that have interest in Uroboria Island. Many people in Uroboria demanded AIN Nations to enter the region for peace mission. The rebellion originally started for high food prices became a war for freedom from Uroboria, the peace missions had become war missions, as the Hiigarian Military intervened bombing Kegi and most of East Uroboria. The war lasted months with no end in sight, as a new threat of spies had arose as Catalian spies had been spotted in Uroboria and were suspected in being in both Hiigara and Shushtrepistaz, this new threat to national security caused the Shudonese government to end relations with Cattala, even forcefully shutting down companies allied with it, like Shushtrepistaz Energy. In late september Shushtrepistaz, Hiigara and Syldavia formed an alliance known as the Pizen Pact, and later had put Cattala on trial for spy charges, the charges were dropped and no international sanctions had been placed, but Shushtrepistaz and Syldavia had both placed their own sanctions on Cattala and its allies. In the last months Shushtrepistaz's Conservative Party  had tried to restore peace with Cattala.

Political Geography
Shushtrepistaz' has 140 official districts and over 1000 voting regions in Shushtrepistaz, the government uses the governing districts to, determine demographics, to generalize votes, and these regions represent seats in the Congress.



Landscape
Shushtrepistaz has a total of 236 islands extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. The country, including all of the islands it controls, lies between latitudes 24° and 46°N, and longitudes 122° and 146°E. The main islands, are Shudon, Kyuiko, Shyushprekitaz, and Iurka. Together they are often known as the Shushtrepistaz Islands. About 42 percent of Shushtrepistaz is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use. As a result, the habitable zones, mainly located in coastal areas and inland plaines, have extremely high population densities. Shushtrepistaz is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The islands of Shushtrepistaz are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. They are primarily the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. Shushtrepistaz was originally attached to the south eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates pulled Shushtrepistaz north east. Shushtrepistaz has 42 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunami, occur several times each century, including the Das'gotn 1862 Earthquake

Keriko River
The Keriko River is the most important river in Shushtrepistaz, and extends through most of the middle of the nation, the river up until 1940's was split into two where the north being the Upper Keriko and the South being the Lower Keriko had been combined into one river due to a canal project in 1942 where the ancient city of Fyuko was dug through creating a crater like canal, the canal, now seamlessly and unnoticeable from years of reshaping and water erosion has joined the two rivers together had allowed ships from Japan to pass through Shushtrepistaz without going all the way around it, the trade benefits of tolling the canal were never sought as the artificial connection they made was navigable and was wide enough for all ships to pass through. The Keriko river is still divided into areas, but not for the river, but the river basin, where most of the largest cities in Shushtrepistaz Reside, the most populated part the Upper Keriko is home to Das'gotn and Korang, one of the larges economic centers and ports in the world, as well as many manufacturing and hi-tech companies, the Lower Keriko is home to the capital, Dras'kon and home to many military bases including the famous Suicho Naval Base, and the Central Keriko which is home to many midsize cities and one of the largest cities, Lorang, much of the Central Keriko dense, the remaining 15% of open land is home to the Shudonese Elite, including Hiro Yajiroi and Akuri Yamahuto. The river is also home to the largest river connected aquarium, the Kekoshai Aquarium.

Climate
The climate of Shushtrepistaz is predominantly temperate. Shushtrepistaz' geographical features divide it into 5 principal climatic zones: Pacific Ocean, Central Lowlands, Shuukkon, Isulon, and Czrikan. The coldest zone, Shuukkon, has a temperate climate with long, cold winters and cool summers. Precipitation is not heavy, but the islands usually develop deep snowbanks in the winter. In the Czrikan zone on Shushtrepistaz, northwest winter winds bring heavy snowfall. In the summer, the region is cooler than the Pacific area, though it sometimes experiences extremely hot temperatures because of the foehn wind. The Central Lowlands has a typical inland climate, with large temperature differences between summer and winter, and between day and night; precipitation is light. The Pacific coast experiences cold winters with little snowfall and hot, humid summers because of the southeast seasonal wind. The Isulon climate region has a subtropical climate, with warm winters and hot summers. Precipitation is very heavy, especially during the rainy season. Shushtrepistaz experiences a much hotter time then Japan due to its lower area, as most of the south is considered tropical, or subtropical.

Environment
Shushtrepistaz has ten forest ecoregions which reflect the climate and geography of the islands. They range from subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Ijuso and Hokaju, to temperate broadleaf and mixed forests in the mild climate regions of the main islands, to temperate coniferous forests in the cold, winter portions of the northern islands. Shushtrepistaz has over 90,000 species of wildlife, including the brown bear, 2 tiger variations, the White Tiger and Siberian Tiger, which was not native to Shushtrepistaz but was originally from Syldavia has been migrated to Shushtrepistaz from Syldavian research facilities. A large network of national parks has been established to protect important areas of flora and fauna as well as thirty-seven Ramsar wetland sites.

In the period of rapid economic growth in the 1960's, environmental policies were downplayed by the government and industrial corporations; as a result, environmental pollution was widespread. Responding to rising concern about the problem, the government introduced several environmental protection laws in 1970. Current environmental issues include urban air pollution (NOx, suspended particulate matter, and toxics), waste management, water eutrophication, nature conservation, climate change, chemical management and international co-operation for conservation. In the 1990s, Shushtrepistaz' environmental legislation was further tightened. In 1993 the government reorganized the environment law system and legislated the Basic Environment Law (環境基本法) and related laws. The law includes restriction of industrial emissions, restriction of products, restriction of wastes, improvement of energy conservation, promotion of recycling, restriction of land utilization, arrangement of environmental pollution control programs, relief of victims and provision for sanctions. Shushtrepistaz is one of the world's leaders in the development of new environment-friendly technologies, and is ranked 16th best in the world in the 2010 Environmental Performance Index. As a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, Shushtrepistaz is under treaty obligation to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and to take other steps to curb climate change.

Government System
Shushtrepistaz is a federal representative democratic republic where there is a division of powers between the national government, the Regional Government, and the Local Government. While each federal republic manages this division of powers differently, national security and defense, monetary policy, and other issues of a national scope are handled at the"federal level while more local issues such as road and infrastructure maintenance and education policy are handled at the local level. In other words, while the federal government has ultimate sovereignty, there is a limited sovereignty granted to the subdivisions, where the federal government does not have jurisdiction. This is in contrast to a unitary republic whereby the national government has complete sovereignty over all aspects of political life, with purely administrative subdivisions, and a confederation whereby the constituent states retain ultimate sovereignty.

The Shudonese Government runs on a divisional government consisting of 4 branches, Exuzo, home of the president and departments this executive branch reports to the Okuda. The chief of the executive branch, the President, is appointed elected by the people. He must be a member of either house of the Okuda and a civilian. The Cabinet, which he organizes, must also be civilian. The Constitution states that the majority of the Cabinet must be elected members of either house of the Diet, the precise wording leaving an opportunity to appoint non-elected officials. The Ipiru, the military branch that is handled the Chancellor to the Armed Forces, who is chosen by the President and approved by Okuda. The Okuda consists of a House of Representatives with 560 seats, elected by popular vote every four years or when dissolved, and a House of Senators of 280 seats, whose popularly-elected members serve six-year terms. There is universal suffrage for adults over 20 years of age, with a secret ballot for all elected offices. The President is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State. The Jucydu which was the law bringing branch, in which it works as a High Court of Shushtrepistaz the format is similar to the United States Bill of Rights, and the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review. Japan does not have administrative courts or claims courts, and the jury system has only come into use relatively recently. Because of the judicial system's basis, court decisions are the final judicial authority.

Foreign Affairs
Shushtrepistaz is a temporary member of the Alliance Security Council and has good ties with Hiigara, Syldavia and Okatabawashi and a close partnership with China and South Korea. Its relationship with nations with Japan and Cattala had degraded over time due to the spy conflicts in Cattala, and economic sanctions with Japan. It has the largest amount of sanctions in AIN, having economic sanctions with Galbadia, the Atlantic Federation, and Cattala. It does have partners with many other AIN nations including Lorenta, Llithustania, and many others.

Acquisitions
Shushtrepistaz currently has 910 native islands and 72 semi-governable islands that are large enough to govern themselves or had been acquired for special uses. The most famous acquisition was the 1911 the Iijus islands re-acquisition, where it was owned by Shushtrepistaz, but was used by Japanese sailors as a port, creating a competition between the much less powerful Shushtrepistaz Fishers who lived on the land, the Japanese sailors eventually kicked them out, causing an backlash in the two governments relations, that almost caused a war, but due to public outcry Japan had "given" the islands back to Shushtrepistaz. But in recent years the island had been given back to Japan after a referendum vote. The second most famous acquisition was South Uroboria, which after WWII, Japan had to give it to them as reparations. The island in modern times had created a huge media outlet during the 8 month East Uroborian War, resulting in a new nation of East Uroboria to form. Shushtrepistaz also owns many Atlantic Acquisitions under the Exaletas Pact and the Atlantia-Pacifica Agreement giving it parts of land in these areas and islands in others, including areas in north Antarida. These modern day acquisitions were part of the Sheild Agenda, a government plan to increase national and global defense as Shushtrepistaz enters the world stage. Shushtrepistaz also has many Australiasian acquisitions including the Jukokarta Islands off Indonesia, which now are native islands but used to be semi-governed territories.

Military
With 630 thousand active troops, the Shushtrepistaz Armed Forces is the 6th largest standing military force in the world, commanded by the the Ipiru Branch. The SAF consists of the Shudonese Ground Forces Division (SGFD), the Navy of Shushtrepistaz (NS), the Shudonese Air Forces Division (SAFD), the Shudonese Tactical Forces Division (STFD), and the Strategic Nuclear Division. The official announced budget of the SAF for 2011 was $82 billion. As a recognised nuclear weapons state, Shushtrepistaz is considered both a major regional military power and an emerging military superpower. As of August 2011, Shushtrepistaz announced a growth of their military force, now which is at 320 thousand more then six months ago. The SAF has 2,500 tanks in operation, including the K1A1 and K2 Black Panther, which form the backbone of the Shudonese Ground Forces Division's mechanized armor and infantry forces. A sizable arsenal of many artillery systems, including 1,700 self-propelled K55 and K9 Thunder howitzers, and 680 helicopters and UAVs of numerous types, are assembled to provide additional fire, reconnaissance, and logistics support. Shushtrepistaz's also trying to protect itself by investing into foreign bases in Exaletas, Llithustania, and Lorenta. Shushtrepistaz' being in the Pizen Pact has insured safety for the most part, but the government still insists on its military growth. Skeptics including the Pizen Pact themselves had started to lean away from the nations military conquest. Further reports by the government state that the military expansion will end around the beginning of 2012.

Economy
The economy of Shushtrepistaz is the fourth largest in the world after Japan, the United States and the People's Republic of China, and ahead of Germany at 5th. According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP（PPP）was at $34,244 or the 34th highest in 2010. During 1960's and 70's and 1985 through 2004, Shushtrepistaz experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Shushtrepistaz post-war economic miracle. With average growth rates of 15% in the 1960s, 12% in the 1970s, and 16% in the 1990s, and 5% in the 2000's. Shushtrepistaz was able to establish and maintain itself as the world's third largest economy from 1986 until 2010, when it was supplanted by the Japan. However, in the second half of the 1970s, rising real estate prices and a fear of a war caused the Shushtrepistaz economy to falter in what was later to be known as the Shushtrepistaz year of fear.

Shushtrepistaz' economy runs on a Semi-Circular base, where the government will pay its workers and companies to do jobs in which in turn they pay their workers which will eventually lead to a payment of the government through taxes. This system is commonly used for capitalist nations, that are not fully capitalist. Because of this system the government pays companies for building military devices and other government oriented things, but pays its own workers in the military. This economic system has been the most efficient for Shushtrepistaz and its companies, creating an large growth of profits every year.



Manufacturing
Twenty Percent Shushtrepistaz's economic output relies on its Manufacturing Sector, a very diversified, advanced industry that are highly successful. The country relies on a take in, push out system of manufacturing where the nation, imports most of its materials to manufacture products that will eventually be moved outside of the nation. The country unlike China has a limited space for manufacturing and is mainly sourced in specific cities such as Czrik and Angel's Bay where manufacturing jobs outweigh office jobs. These cities unlike others have a very large lower class that work for low wages in factories. In 2007 the Manufacturing Workers Rights act was passed so that Manufacturing jobs had a 2% wage hike in lower level positions. Shushtrepistaz has a booming technology manufacturing sector where hundreds of products are made very day including Computers,  phones and  camera. This boom in these industries had also attracted foreign outsourcing where 18% of Shushtrepistaz' manufacturing jobs are from outsourced companies. Land has always been an issue with these companies as areas in the manufacturing hubs ran out, other cities, thinking it would lead to a greater poverty level had tried to keep them out, but other cities including Cidro had embraced these companies.

Services
Shushtrepistaz's service sector accounts for about half of its total economic output. Banking, insurance, real estate, retailing, transportation, and telecommunications are all major industries such as Etele, Sylokash Airways, OAHG, TeleShush, Newsfeed, Aritoulo, Everest North, Akodon, Viorta Loresto, and Jenoishi Financial Holdings Group counting as one of the largest companies in the world.

Free Trade Laws
Shushtrepistaz practices a free trade policy with all of Asia, but has a minor tax on exports to non-Asian nation

Crime and law enforcement
Law enforcement in the Shushtrepistaz is primarily the responsibility of local police, with regional police providing broader services. Federal agencies such as the Federal Policing Service (FPS) and the Shudonese Internal Security Office have specialized duties. At the federal level and in almost every city, jurisprudence operates on a common law system. City courts conduct most criminal trials; federal courts handle certain designated crimes as well as certain appeals from the city and regional systems. Federal law prohibits a variety of drugs, although some regions are allowed to pass laws in conflict with federal regulations. The smoking age is generally low levels of gun violence and homicide. Gun ownership rights are the subject of contentious political debate. Shushtrepistaz has also one of the highest documented incarceration ratein the world. At the start of 2008, more than 1 million people were incarcerated. Syldavian males are jailed at about six times the rate of Shudonese males and five times the rate of Okatawabashian males. The country's high rate of incarceration is largely due to heavy drug policies. Though it has been abolished in most AIN nations, capital punishment is sanctioned in the Shushtrepistaz for certain federal and military crimes. There have been more than 200 executions. In 2010, the country had the fourteenth highest number of executions in the world.

Demographics
Shushtrepistaz's population is estimated at around 135.3 million. Shudonese society is linguistically homogeneous but culturally diffrent, composed of 62.5% ethnic Shushtrepistaz, and 27.5% Japanese and Okatabawashian population, the nation stays some what diverse. The nation has small populations of foreign workers including Zainichi Koreans, Zainichi Chinese, Indians, Americans and Syldavians In the last 5 years the population of Syldavian Immigrants had increased from 1% to 5.2%. The most dominant native ethnic group is the Kuiko people; primary minority groups include the indigenous Yayoi people, as well as social minority groups like the Urots. There are persons of mixed ancestry incorporated among the 'ethnic Shudonese' or Kuiko, such as those from other areas where roughly one-fifth of the Shudonese population can have European, American, Japanese, Okatabawashian,Micronesian and/or Polynesian backgrounds, with some families going back up to seven generations.

Shushtrepistaz has one of the longest life expectancy rate in the world. The Shudonese population is rapidly aging as a result of a post–World War II baby boom followed by a slow decrease in birth rates. In 2009, about 15.7 percent of the population was over 65, by 2050 almost 28.3 percent of the population will be aged 65 and over, as projected in December 2009. Even though, this there growing number of younger Shudonese are preferring to marry and have families, but at a later time (by atleast 2 years). Shushtrepistaz's population is expected to grow to 241 million by 2050. Shushtrepistaz accepts a growing flow of 68,000 new Shudonese citizens by naturalization (帰化) per year. Shushtrepistaz unlike its counter part Japan has a low suicide rate, and has a steady population growth.

According to the Shudonese immigration centre, the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased, and the number of foreign residents (excluding illegal immigrants and short-term visitors such as foreign nationals staying less than 90 days in Japan) were more than 8.2 million people in 2014. In 2010, the number of foreigners in Shushtrepistaz was 4,134,151. There was 830,552 Okatabawashian who are mostly of Shudonese descent, 687,156 Chinese and 565,989 Koreans. Koreans, Chinese and Okatabawashi account for about 42.5% of foreign residents in Shushtrepistaz. In 2011s, the Shushtrepistaz and Okatabawshian government had agreed on a project to build a freeway and high-speed railway bridge between these two nations. Which had lead to the largest population growth rates in a Shudonese city (Okano) which had a growth rate of 20% but is probably due to temporary or semi-permanent stays in this border town. The city's population is expected to grow to 1 million in the next 10 years.

The Syldavian population in Shushtrepistaz is the most culturally evident, having about 3.40% of the population and most of them living in either Czrik or Das'gotn they have created their own Syldavian villages, or Little Syldavia. These minor regions of the city have a average of 90% Syldavian descent in the area. Most Syldavians work in Industrial areas, including Outer Czrik or lower wage corporate jobs in the Sussuko district. The Syldavian population in the 1980's were the first people who created the Socialist Party of Shushtrepistaz one of the ten major parties in Shushtrepistaz. Syldavians in the new century had been victims of unemployment, murder, and poor education, causing many of them to return back to Syldavia, but this is still overshadowed by the increase in Syldavian immigration into the nation. Not all is bad for Syldavians, as many second and third generation Syldavian's have a much better life which competes with Shudonese citizens.

Language
The people of Shushtrepistaz, even though had been culturally and linguistically influenced by its two bordering nations, the nation keeps its own language of Shudonese, the language had been created during 200 BC, based off of Altain languages. This version of Shudonese was dropped in the 800's after major influences from Japan and its language had changed Shudonese forever. The language had now been written in Kanji and most of the common words had been changed to Japanese or a mixture of both. This language invasion had not stopped at Japanese, where Chinese language from Okatabawashi and English from Britain had also influenced the language. The British had lead them to make an angelical version of the Shudonese writing. In modern times the language has diverted into Modern Shudonese and Old Shudonese

Religion
Even though Shushtrepistaz' has no official or national religion, a great number of people follow forms Buddhism, which include Shuko Buddhism, and  Zen Buddhism and Shinto religions. Religion is an important part of many Shudonese people, mainly the elderly, who practice it everyday and visit local temples most times. This as they believe brought them more inter-collected with themselves, and more active. Religion has been shown to play a role in many of the Shudonese elders lifespan, due to its teachings of being active at mind and body.

Education
Primary schools, secondary schools and universities were introduced in 1780s during the education revolution. Since 1902, compulsory education in Shushtrepistaz comprises elementary and middle school, and high school, that lasts from age 3 to 18. Almost all children continue their education at a two-year upper school, and, according to the DE, as of 2005 about 98.9 percent of upper school graduates attend a university, junior college, trade school, or other higher education institution. The two top-ranking universities in Shushtrepistaz are the University of Das'gotn and The Dras'kon Institute.The Programme for International Student Assessment coordinated by the OECD currently ranks the overall knowledge and skills of Shudonese 15-year-olds as seventh best in the world.

Education prior to elementary school is provided at kindergartens and day-care centers. Public and private day-care centers take children from under age one on up to five years old. The programmes for those children aged 3–5 resemble those at kindergartens. The educational approach at kindergartens varies greatly from unstructured environments that emphasize play to highly structured environments that are focused on having the child pass the entrance exam at a private elementary school.

Health
Shushtrepistaz relies on a structured healthcare system where the public sector has to compete with the private sector hospitals for customers. Healthcare overall is one of the highest in the world, as hospitals must compete. This has also lead to the largest bankruptcies in the nation, as companies like Eastern Healthcare Group had lost all their customers after harsh competition with the Public sector and much smaller and more productive companies had taken over. The government does not provide free healthcare for the most part, but in many cities, usually with a high socialist support has funded city owned hospitals that will provide free healthcare, including Czrik's Yanahami Hospital. Organizations like Shudonese Health Fund do provide free healthcare but rely on government support and donations, but do only accept a minority of citizens, the application process relies on a huge bureaucratic system of checks and balances.



Social Problems
Shushtrepistaz for the last 20 years had a overpopulation problem where most cities, like Czrik have had a heavy density, which eventually lead to a high poverty level, ironically cities like Das'gotn with the largest population has also the richest slums, where the standard of living is 2x higher then any other city in Shushtrepistaz, causing a errors where people who live in slums, because of high housing costs, also own widescreen tv's while in other cities must slum members live in absolute poverty, originally the way of collecting poverty levels was through the population living in slums, now is based on a more accurate level on how much an individual is making. Social Injustice, or what is known as -isms are common in most of Shushtrepistaz, where most men still think of woman as lower, although this sexism is fading as many woman have become popular government leaders. In other cases racism, mainly in cities of Czrik has lead to splits in the city between Syldavians, and Shudonese people.

Culture
Shudonese culture has evolved greatly from its origins. Contemporary culture combines influences from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Traditional Shudonese arts include crafts such as ceramics, textiles, and weapons; performances of bunraku, kabuki, noh, dance, and rakugo; and other practices, the tea ceremony, ikebana, martial arts, calligraphy, origami, onsen, Geisha and games. Shushtrepistaz has a developed system for the protection and promotion of both tangible and intangible Cultural Properties and National Treasures.

Art
Shushtrepistaz for its whole history has been overshadowed by Japanese traditional art, as the Shudonese art has been much more complex and less interesting until the 20th century, mostly showing of architecture and realms not known. Shudonese architecture matches most of the rest of Asia, mostly in Ancient Shushtrepistaz, where architecture from Japan, and Okatabawashi had converged. Yaku, or Shudonese manga drawing had arises in the late 20's after the arrival of American Drawings through trade, most Shudonese artists had tried to show less human and more superficial and beautiful people, while in many other parts of Shushtrepistaz, Haku where manga was drawn to look ugly, most of Haku was political or dark comics, and eventually had fell to a back end art form that has recently returned. Shudonese Yaku had lead to film adaptations called kanima, or anime. Platform games with this Yaku had shown complexity, and had grown popular in the 90's.

Music
Shudonese music had originally had been influenced from Japan as instruments as the koto where used in Shudonese plays. Later on the Shudonese had developed their own versions of music, mostly accompanied with a speaker, usually reciting poems. In the late 20th century Shudonese had created mostly Shudonese variants of American music including Rock and R&B where concerts in the 70's were spread out throughout the nation. J-pop was at a rise in Japan, where it had eventually spread into Shushtrepistaz, as the new century had arrived, many Shudonese had began to mimic American styled, Rap and hip hop styles creating what was called rap gangs, which were heavily spread out in the slums of the cities, this rap, known as Scrap to most Americans had returned to the United States with the famous Shudonese Scrap artist of Jyco Wing, who eventually changed his name to Scrap Yard, this version of rap had much more lively tones and more in tune with Haiku and Seku poetic styles.

Literature
Shudonese literature in its most early days had described history or events, along with the tales of the Shuko Buddhists of adventure were told in the books of the Ratu and the Vijakkoo, poetic styles had also evolved including the literary style of Seku where every line would have to describe or relate to every 3rd line, and so on. These styles along with Haiku had created a fundamental base for years to come. In the recent years most literature is full of exposing and reveling of lost history, or a creative love story. Along with this was the Haku and Yaku styled books with pictures, had allowed a new creative points for writers.



Cuisine
For many Shudonese a large meal in the end and beginning of the day is the most impotent, and many do have small lunches. The primary staple of most meals is Rice, which is one of the only grains that was easily made in Shushtrepistaz. Along with rice included meats and fish. This simpleness in food had progressed for years until colonization in the North East, where British cuisine and tea had brought a larger pallet for Shudonese. In this new modern era, most Shudonese indulge in western cuisine for dinner and lunch, but still have traditional breakfasts with rice cakes and proteins.

Sports
Traditionally, Kaido is considered Shushtrepistaz's national sport. Shudonese martial arts such as Auro, Ikono and Dakur are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. Western sports were introduced in Shushtrepistaz and began to spread through the education system. Shushtrepistaz hosted the Summer Asian Games in Das'gotn in 1984. The Shudonese professional baseball league was established in 1956. Today baseball is the most popular spectator sport in the country. Since the establishment of the Shudonese Professional Football League in 1981, association football has also gained a wide following. Golf is also popular in Shushtrepistaz, as are forms of auto racing like the Kodomo GP and Akoro Super GT.