Vandaysia

The Republic of Vandaysia, or just Vandaysia, (🔊 /vənˈdeɪʒə/ ) in indonesian "Republik Vandaysia" or "Republik Bandaysia" and in dutch "Republiek Vandeisië", is an independent sovreign state located in Oceania. With 72,065,943 estimated inhabitants It is the third largest Austronesian nation by population after Indonesia and the Philippines, and the first fully oceanian nation by population and GDP (nominal), and the second by GDP per capita (after Australia). It also is one of the largest nations in its area.

Its capital city Sangkhat (in dutch "Zangkaat", located in the real city of Darwin, Australia) and its official languages are Dutch and Indonesian which are used by most of the population as the first language or as a lingua franca as many other less used languages exist in the country, such as Makassarese, Tok Pisin, and many many more.

Vandaysia shares land borders with Indonesia, Australia and German New Guinea.

Vandaysia is part of many international and peace keeping organizations, the most important ones being The Dutch Commonwealth and The Commonwealth of Official Nations.

Etymology
Vandaysia comes from the word "Vanda" which comes from Banda Sea.

Other used names

 * Bandaysia
 * Vandesia
 * Banda Sea Republic (rare)

Real Languages

 * Catalan: Vandàisia
 * Esperanto: Vandajzio/Vandaizujo
 * Finnish: Vandesia
 * French: Vandaisie
 * Greek: Βανδησία
 * Italian: Vandesia
 * Japanese: バンデーシア (Bandēshia)
 * Polish: Wandazja
 * Romanian: Vandaisia
 * Russian: Вандайзия
 * Slovene: Vandazija
 * Spanish: Vandisia
 * Turkish: Vandezya

ON Languages and conlangs
''Please follow alphabetical order. Thank you.''
 * Adianterrassian: Vajndasie
 * Adriatic: Vaandasîa
 * Adriani: Vandeziă (Вандeзиja)
 * Anatolian: Banda
 * Atlasian: Vanaesia
 * Balhoragian Irish: An Vándais
 * Esceosian: Vandézia
 * Fedlian: Vandêyak
 * Inkamian: Vandasiá
 * New Russian: Мфт Вфцутг
 * Pyrenacian: Vandési
 * Slaviansk: Вандайзія
 * Vaarlandic: Bandæsije
 * Wurtenian: Wandayskia

Pre World War II
Vandaysia has a written history as far back as the 7th century. Before the colonial Dutch came in the 1596, Vandaysia was made up of many kingdoms in constant warfare. Vandaysia and Indonesia were ruled by the Netherlands from the 17th century until World War II as parts of the Dutch East Indies. On 1606 the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon discovered Australia, Netherlands then decided to expand in its northern coast. As Dutch East Indies territory was getting bigger and bigger and its population was constantly rising, they've decided to split it in two parts: "Dutch East Indies" and "Dutch Banda Sea Territory" which slowly shifted to "Dutch Bandaysia Territory".

The capital city of the latter was created as a small harbour in present-day Sangkhat, and it was called "Zangkaat Zeehaven" (Singcat Seaport), because of the many resources avilaible in the area the city kept growing constantly, even becoming a rival of DEI's capital city, Batavia.

World War II
During World War II, the Japanese drove out the Dutch and took control of The East indies. After Japan surrendered in the war, Vandaysia and Indonesia claimed their independence on the 17th of August 1945. The proclamation was read by Yulia Intan Muljana, a woman, she also was the first president of the Vandaysian State.

The East Indies War
Soon after independence, rivalry broke out between Indonesia and Vandaysia, as the Vandaysian government and its people wanted to keep a friendly relation with the Dutch, while Indonesians really hated them and wanted relations to be completely cut, for this reason and for the many other disagreements between the two countries, war was declared on the 21st of January 1947, at first there was no clear winner, but as Indonesia had way bigger population (even if it was poorer), it ended up winning the war, Vandaysia had to give most of Sulawesi, Bali and parts of Borneo and Tenggara to Indonesia, and it was also forced to cut all relations with the Dutch.

A few years later, islamist group take over big parts of Indonesia, and even if Vandaysian people now hated Indonesia for what they have done, the country comes to help on the indonesians' side, and slowly, with a bloody war, the Islamic extremist forces were defeated, to thank Vandaysia, Indonesia gave them back the city of Makassar, in Sulawesi.

Modern Vandaysia
After the relations with Indonesia are restored, Vandaysia also restores them with the Netherlands, and massive trade with Europe starts, the government also pushes a lot to create a not corrupt country, and at first Vandaysia is a tax heaven, just like Switzerland, this boosts a lot their economy, after Vandaysia became one of the most prosperous countries in Australasia, a lot of immigrants came in from Indonesia and Philippines, this helped the country a lot, making its population rise fast, and its industry to grow wild, as the "tax-heaven like system" wasn't needed anymore, it was removed, and Vandaysia started basing its economy off industry, trade and oil only.

Geography
The country mainly spans between the Malay archipelago (parts of Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, Maluku and Southern New Guinea island) and Northern Australia. Vandaysia is one of the countries in the world with the most islands, having nearly 10,000.

Climate
Vandaysia mostly has a Tropical rainforest climate, in the north of the country and a Tropical monsoon one, in the south; In the most southern parts of the country it's possible to find a hot steppe climate, with very hot summers and nearly no rain and a temperate-subtropical hot summer climate in the southeast.

Administrative divisions
Vandaysia has 8 regions.

Politics
Vandaysia is a republic. (WIP)

Parliament
The Vandaysian National Parliament is the national parliament of the Republic of Vandaysia. It is made of 346 seats.

It is composed of the Supreme National Chamber (upper house) and the Assembly of The Regions (lower house), the first one is made of 300 elected members, the second one is made of 46 members, people in each region of the country choose the members they are going to send every 3 years, while the National Chamber members are elected nationwide every 6 years. The SNC also elects the President of the Republic, which the Assembly has to approve or not.

Foreign relations
The Ministry of Foreign Relations, The Parliament and The President are responsible for Vandaysian foreign relations.

Vandaysia is part of two international organizations: On October 2017 Vandaysia hosted the 3rd CON summit in Sangkhat.
 * CONFlag.png Commonwealth of Official Nations
 * DutchCommonwealthFlag.png The Kingdom of Netherlands (commonwealth)

Armed Forces
Vandaysian Armed Forces are made of Vandaysian Navy, Army and Air Force. According to Military Strength Index based on the Credit Suisse report in September 2015 Vandaysia has the 12th strongest military force in the world, ranking after Pakistan and before Egypt

WIP

Economy
WIP

Transport
Vandaysian biggest airport is Sangkhat-Southport Intl. Airport (DRW) it is Vandair's main hub, Vandair is national vandaysian flag-carrier airline.

Culture
WIP

Cuisine
Vandaysian cuisine is one of the most colorful and diverse cuisines in the world, full of intense flavour. This is because of the hundreds of different people who call Vandaysia their home and also because of foreign influence from Europe and other Australasian countries such as Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia.

The main traditional dishes in Vandaysia are: nasi goreng, gado-gado, sate, soto, spekkoek, tumpeng, batar daan (from Timor)

Australian food is very popular in the country too: almost everyone owns a barbecue and uses it on a regular basis in the dry season!

Media
WIP

Television
Vandaysia has two main public founded broadcasting networks, VPT (Vandeisische Publieke Televisie, in english Vandaysian Public Television) which broadcasts programs mainly in dutch language and VTFEIS (Vandaysian Television For English and Indonesian Speakers), many private broadcasting networks/channel also exist.