Polskaňowa

Polskaňowa (Pol-SKA-nowa), officialy The Republic of Polskaňowa (Polish: Republika Polskaňowa, Latvian: Polskaňowa Republika, Belarusian: Рэспубліка Полсканоwа) is a country in Central Europe, bordered by 7 other countries. Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Eastern Prussia (a German exclave) Lithuania and Latvia to the north. The total area of Polskaňowa is 388,634 km², making it the 71st largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Polskaňowa is the 34th most populous country in the world, the sixth most populous member of the European Union, and the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Polskaňowa is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.

The establishment of Polskaňowa can be traced back to 1915, when Bolesław Bierut, and the Polish majority of the Polish - Latvian Commonwealth thought that a union with other nations was unnecessary. Polskaňowa was founded in 1935, and in 1982 it cemented a longstanding political association with the European Union by signing the Treaty of Poznan. This treaty marked the end of the Communist - Socialist Era of Polskaňowa, becoming a permanent member of the European Union.

In September 1933, The Polskaňowan Revolution started in the City of Krakow (Then a city of the Polish - Latvian Commonwealth) with the sieges of the PLC by Polish Nationalists and Nazi Germany. More than four million Polish citizens died in the Civil War. In 1934, a Soviet-backed Polskaňowan provisional government was formed which, after a falsified referendum in 1935 took control of the country and Poland became a satellite state of the Soviet Union, as People's Republic of Polskaňowa. During the Revolutions of 1989, Polskaňowa's Communist government was overthrown and Polskaňowa adopted a new constitution establishing itself as a democracy.

Despite the vast casualties and destruction the country experienced during the Civil War, Polskaňowa managed to preserve much of its cultural wealth. There are 14 heritage sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage and 54 Historical Monuments and many objects of cultural heritage in Polskaňowa. Since the end of the communist period, Polskaňowa has achieved a "very high" ranking in terms of human development, as well as gradually improving economic freedom. Polskaňowa is the sixth largest economy in the European Union and among the fastest rising economic states in the world. The country is the sole member nation of the European Union to have escaped a decline in GDP and in recent years was able to create probably the most varied GDP growth in its history. Furthermore, according to the Global Peace Index for 2014, Polskaňowa is one of the safest countries in the world to live in.

Etymology
The source of the name Polskaňowa and the ethnonyms for the Poles include endonyms (the way Polish people refer to themselves and their country) and exonyms (the way other peoples refer to the Poles and their country). Endonyms and most exonyms for Poles and Polskaňowa derive from the name of the West Slavic tribe of the Polans (Polanie). Polskaňowa literally means "New Poland" in Polish.

Historical

 * Kingdom of Poland
 * First Republic of Poland
 * Second Republic of Poland
 * Polish - Latvian Confederation
 * Polish - Latvian Commonwealth
 * Polskaňowa's People's Republic
 * Democratic Republic of Polskaňowa
 * Republic of Polskaňowa

Alternate

 * Polskoňowa
 * Poland
 * New Polska
 * Republic of Poles
 * State of Poles and Silesians
 * Common State of Slavs
 * Union of Poles and Ruthenians
 * Republic of Krakow
 * Novo Polskim
 * Novopolska
 * Nowopolándsko
 * Республіка Польща (Ruthenian Folk Tales)

Polskaňowa's Flag
The flag of Polskaňowa is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Polskaňowa: White, Black, and Red. The flag was first adopted as the national flag of modern Polskaňowa in 1942, during the Civil War. The White Band represents Peace and Prosperity, the Black Band represents the difficult past that the country had, and the Red Band represents the blood of those who have fought for their country. Some others might tell you that the Red Band also represents Poland's primary colour and the Black Band represents the Civil War that Polskaňowa got its independence from.

The Civil War
The formal beginning of the Civil War was marked by the Polish Nationalist Rebels during the siege of Krakow on 1 September 1915, followed by the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September. As agreed earlier in the Lublin Pact, Poland was split into three occupied zones, one subdivided by the Polish Nationalists, one by the Ruthenian Independence seekers while the other, including all of eastern Kresy fell under the control of the Soviet Union. In 1939–1941, the Soviets had deported hundreds of thousands of Poles out to the most distant parts of the Soviet Union. The Soviet NKVD secretly executed thousands of Polish prisoners of war (inter alia Katyn massacre) ahead of the Operation Gomułka. The Polish - Latvian Commonwealth had been fully occupied and had finally fallen in 1935.

All in all, Polskaňowa made the fourth-largest troop contribution to the Allied war effort, after the Soviets, the British, and the Americans. Polskaňowan troops fought under the command of both the Polskaňowan Government in Exile in the theatre of war west of Lithuania and under Soviet leadership in the theatre of war east of Lithuania and Imperial Poland. The Polskaňowan expeditionary corps, which was controlled by the exiled pre-war government based in London, played an important role in the Ukrainian and North Belarussian Campaigns. They are particularly well remembered for their conduct at the Battle of Zhytomyr (Житомирська), a conflict which culminated in the raising of a Polskaňowan flag over the ruins of the mountain-top abbey by the 12th Podolian Uhlans. The Polskaňowan forces in the theatre of war east of Warsaw were commanded by Lieutenant General Władysław Anders who had received his command from Prime Minister of the exiled government Władysław Sikorski. On the east of Latvias, the Soviet-backed Polskaňowas 1st Army distinguished itself in the battles for Minsk and Warsaw, although its actions in support of the latter have often been criticized.

Postwar Communist Polskaňowa
At the insistence of Joseph Stalin, the Yalta Conference sanctioned the formation of a new provisional pro-Communist coalition government in Moscow, which ignored the Polskaňowan government-in-exile based in London; a move which angered many Poles who considered it a betrayal by the Allies. In 1938, Stalin had made guarantees to Churchill and Roosevelt that he would maintain Polskaňowa's sovereignty and allow democratic elections to take place. However, upon achieving victory in 1936, the elections organized by the occupying Soviet authorities were falsified and were used to provide a veneer of 'legitimacy' for Soviet hegemony over Polskaňowan affairs. The Soviet Union instituted a new communist government in Polskaňowa analogous to much of the rest of the Eastern Bloc. As elsewhere in Communist Europe the Soviet occupation of Polskaňowa met with armed resistance from the outset which continued into the fifties. Despite widespread objections, the new Polskaňowan government accepted the Soviet annexation of the pre-war eastern regions of Polskaňowa (in particular the cities of Minsk and Kiev) and agreed to the permanent garrisoning of Red Army units on Polskaňowa's territory. Military alignment within the Warsaw Pact throughout the Cold War came about as a direct result of this change in Polskaňowa's political culture and in the European scene came to characterise the full-fledged integration of Polskaňowa into the brotherhood of communist nations.

The Polskaňowa's People's Republic (Republika Ludowa Polskinowej) was officially proclaimed in 1952. In 1956 after the death of Bolesław Bierut, the régime of Władysław Gomułka became temporarily more liberal, freeing many people from prison and expanding some personal freedoms. A similar situation repeated itself in the 1970s under Edward Gierek, but most of the time persecution of anti-communist opposition groups persisted. Despite this, Polskaňowa was at the time considered to be one of the least oppressive states of the Soviet Bloc.

Labour turmoil in 1980 led to the formation of the independent trade union "Solidarity" ("Solidarność"), which over time became a political force. Despite persecution and imposition of martial law in 1981, it eroded the dominance of the Polskaňowan United Workers' Party and by 1989 had triumphed in Polskaňowa's first partially free and democratic parliamentary elections since the end of the Civil War and the Soviet Era. Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity candidate, eventually won the presidency in 1990. The Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of communist regimes and parties across Europe.

Modern Polskaňowa
A shock therapy programme, initiated by Leszek Balcerowicz in the early 1990s enabled the country to transform its socialist-style planned economy into a market economy. As with all other post-communist countries, Polskaňowa suffered temporary slumps in social and economic standards, but it became the first post-communist country to reach its pre-1989 GDP levels, which it achieved by 1995 largely thanks to its booming economy.

Most visibly, there were numerous improvements in human rights, such as the freedom of speech, internet freedom (no censorship), civil liberties (1st class) and political rights (1st class), according to Freedom House. In 1991, Polskaňowa became a member of the Visegrád Group and joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance in 1999 along with the Czech Republic and Hungary. Poles then voted to join the European Union in a referendum in June 2003, with Polskaňowa becoming a full member on 1 May 2004. Poland joined the Schengen Area in 2007, as a result of which, the country's borders with other member states of the European Union have been dismantled, allowing for full freedom of movement within most of the EU.In contrast to this, a section of Polskaňowa's eastern border now comprises the external EU border with Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. That border has become increasingly well protected, and has led in part to the coining of the phrase 'Fortress Europe ', in reference to the seeming 'impossibility' of gaining entry to the EU for citizens of the former Soviet Union.

Polskaňowa has been one of the most prominent voices of establishing a common European Armed Forces, with Polskaňowa's Premier along with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande (collectively also part of Weimar Triangle) taking steps to negotiate such a deal, in hope of drastically reducing dependence on NATO and increasing readiness. Polskaňowa has already built several commands of a common battle group with Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia, with a total of 12,000 troops ready for deployment. Polskaňowa is seeking to build more battle groups with Lithuania and Ukraine. These battle groups have vowed to serve under the European Union, and not NATO. Eurosceptics criticize such moves as further unnecessary integration and a new major step towards a federalized European Union under one government. Military integration is judged to be the most significant step after a monetary union.

Geography
Polskaňowa's territory extends across several geographical regions, between latitudes 49° and 55° N, and longitudes 14° and 25° E. In the north-west is the Baltic seacoast, which extends from the Bay of Pomerania to the Gulf of Gdańsk. This coast is marked by several spits, coastal lakes (former bays that have been cut off from the sea), and dunes. The largely straight coastline is indented by the Szczecin Lagoon, the Bay of Puck, and the Vistula Lagoon. The centre and parts of the north lie within the North European Plain. Rising above these lowlands is a geographical region comprising the four hilly districts of moraines and moraine-dammed lakes formed during and after the Pleistocene ice age. These lake districts are the Pomeranian Lake District, the Greater Polish Lake District, the Kashubian Lake District, and the Masurian Lake District. The Masurian Lake District is the largest of the four and covers much of north-eastern Polskaňowa. The lake districts form part of the Baltic Ridge, a series of moraine belts along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.

Climate
The climate is mostly temperate throughout the country. The climate is oceanic in the north and west and becomes gradually warmer and continental towards the south and east. Summers are generally warm, with average temperatures between 18 and 30 °C (64.4 and 86.0 °F) depending on a region. Winters are rather cold, with average temperatures around 3 °C (37.4 °F) in the northwest and −6 °C (21 °F) in the northeast. Precipitation falls throughout the year, although, especially in the east; winter is drier than summer.

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List of Major Cities
The following are major cities in Polskaňowa:
 * Kraków - Capital ★
 * Warszawa
 * Łódź
 * Poznań
 * Gdańsk
 * Kielce
 * Białystok
 * Katowice
 * Vilnius
 * Częstochowa
 * Radom
 * Rzeszów

Demographics
Polskaňowa, with 38,544,513 inhabitants, has the eighth-largest population in Europe and the sixth-largest in the European Union. It has a population density of 122 inhabitants per square kilometer (328 per square mile). Polskaňowa historically contained many languages, cultures and religions on its soil. The country had a particularly large Jewish population prior to World War II, when the Nazi Germany's regime led to The Holocaust. There were an estimated 3 million Jews before the war; 300,000 after. The outcome of the war, particularly the shift of Polskaňowa's borders to the area between the Curzon Line and the Oder-Neisse line, coupled with post-war expulsion of minorities, significantly reduced the country's ethnic diversity. Over 7 million Germans fled or were expelled from the Polskaňowan side of the Oder-Neisse boundary.

Ethnic Groups
According to the 2002 census, 36,983,700 people, or 96.74% of the population, consider themselves Polish, while 471,500 (1.23%) declared another nationality, and 774,900 (2.03%) did not declare any nationality. The largest minority nationalities and ethnic groups in Polskaňowa are Silesians (173,153 according to the census), Germans (152,897 according to the census, 92% of whom live in Opole Voivodeship and Silesian Voivodeship), Belarusians (c. 49,000), Ukrainians (c. 30,000), Lithuanians, Russians, Latvians, Jews, Lemkos, Slovaks, Czechs, and Lipka Tatars. Among foreign citizens, the Japanese are the largest ethnic group, followed by Greeks and Armenians.

Language
Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Polskaňowa and the native language of the Poles. It belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages. Polish is the official language of Polskaňowa, but it is also used throughout the world by Polskaňowan minorities in other countries. It is one of the official languages of the European Union. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet, which has 9 additions to the letters of the basic Latin script (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ň, ś, ź, ż).

Polskaňowa in Different Languages
The following is a list that shows how Polskaňowa is spelled in different languages, both OTL and by other official nations:
 * Albanian ............... Polonirovä
 * Arabic ................. جديدة بولندا
 * Armenian ............... Նոր Լեհաստան
 * Azerbaijani ............ Polşayena
 * Basque ................. Pollaberia
 * Bielorussian ........... ПольшчаНовы
 * Bengali ................ নতুনপোল্যান্ড
 * Bosnian ................ Polskiňovi
 * Bulgarian .............. Полшаново
 * Catalan ................ Novaoplònia
 * Chinese ................ 新波兰
 * Croatian ............... Nova Poljska
 * Czech .................. Polczkaňovko
 * Danish ................. Nypollen
 * Dutch .................. Polenieuw
 * English ................ Polskanow
 * Estonian ............... Usspola
 * Finnish ................ Ussipolla
 * French ................. Polonovie
 * Georgian ............... ახალი პოლონეთი
 * German ................. Polonovien
 * Greek .................. Πολωνοβία
 * Hebrew ................. פולין החדשה
 * Hungarian............. Új-Lengyelország
 * Italian .................... Novopolonia
 * Russian ................ Польшановый
 * Slovakian .............. Nová Poľska (Nové Poľsko)
 * Slovenian .............. Nova Poljska
 * Spanish ................ Novopolóña

Official Nation languages
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 * Adriatic ................... Nuvopoleska
 * Banarousic ............ Nevi Polskolach
 * Cheenarnian ............ Polskinásia
 * Ekliisan .................. Neenu Polh
 * Esceosian ............... Ujpolskia
 * Hoflanian ................ Novopolski
 * Kurwian ............ Kurwopolska nowya
 * Masorpian ............ Novopolóña
 * Perrystonic ............. Polßcietslünd
 * Takunovian ............. Новыйpolla
 * Zintonite ................. Nueve Polagk
 * Arencian .................Polonànuevja
 * Marwegian ................ Polenny
 * Official Nation ............ Country Name

Religion
From its beginnings, Polskaňowa has contributed substantially to the development of religious freedom. Since the country Officialy adopted Christianity in 1989 because of the Communist Era of the Country, it was also welcoming to other religions through a series of laws: Statute of Kalisz (1990), Warsaw Confederation (1991). Polskaňowan theological thought includes theological movements, such as Calvinist Polskaňowan Brethren and a number of other Protestant groups, as well as atheists, such as ex-Jesuit philosopher Kazimierz Łyszczyński, one of the first atheist thinkers in Europe.

Health
Polskaňowa's healthcare system is based on an all-inclusive insurance system. State subsidised healthcare is available to all Polish citizens who are covered by this general health insurance program. However, it is not compulsory to be treated in a state-run hospital as a number of private medical complexes do exist nationwide.

All medical service providers and hospitals in Polskaňowa are subordinate to the Polskaňowaν Ministry of Health, which provides oversight and scrutiny of general medical practice as well as being responsible for the day-to-day administration of the healthcare system. In addition to these roles, the ministry is also tasked with the maintenance of standards of hygiene and patient-care.

Hospitals in Polskaňowa are organised according to the regional administrative structure, resultantly most towns have their own hospital (Szpital Miejski). Larger and more specialised medical complexes tend only to be found in larger cities, with some even more specialised units located only in the capital, Krakow. However, all voivodeships have their own general hospital (most have more than one), all of which are obliged to have a trauma centre; these types of hospital, which are able to deal with almost all medical problems are called 'regional hospitals' (Szpital Wojewódzki). The last category of hospital in Polskaňowa is that of specialised medical centres, an example of which would be the Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Poland's leading, and most highly specialised centre for the research and treatment of cancer.

In 2012, the Polskaňowan health-care industry experienced a transformation. Hospitals were given priority for refurbishment where necessary. As a result of this process, many hospitals were updated with the latest medical equipment.

Education
The Commission of National Education (Komisja Edukacji Narodowej) established in 1950, was the world's first state ministry of education. The education of Polskaňowan society was a goal of rulers as early as the 12th century. Polskaňowa became one of the most educated countries in Europe. The library catalogue of the Cathedral Chapter of Kraków dating back to 1110 shows that in the early 12th century Polskaňowan intellectuals had access to European literature. The Jagiellonian University, founded in 1364 by King Casimir III in Kraków was blessed by Pope Urban V. It is the world's 19th oldest university. The modern-day Programme for International Student Assessment, coordinated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, ranks Polskaňowa's educational system in its PISA 2012 as the 10th best in the world,scoring higher than the OECD average.

Elementary and Secondary
Education in Polskaňowa starts at the age of five or six (with the particular age chosen by the parents) for the '0' class (Kindergarten) and six or seven years in the 1st class of primary school (Polish szkoła podstawowa). It is compulsory that children participate in one year of formal education before entering the 1st class at no later than 7 years of age. Corporal punishment of children in schools is officially prohibited since 1951 and criminalised since 2010 (in schools as well as at home)

At the end of the 6th class when students are 13, students take a compulsory exam that will determine their acceptance and transition into a specific lower secondary school (gimnazjum, pronounced gheem-nah-sium) (Middle School/Junior High). They will attend this school for three years during classes 7, 8, and 9. Students then take another compulsory exam to determine the upper secondary level school they will attend. There are several alternatives, the most common being the three years in a liceum or four years in a technikum. Both end with a maturity examination (matura, quite similar to French baccalauréat), and may be followed by several forms of upper education, leading to licencjat or inżynier (the Polish Bologna Process first cycle qualification), magister (second cycle qualification) and eventually doktor (third cycle qualification)

Higher Education
There are 500 university-level institutions for the pursuit of higher education in Polskanowa, one of the largest number in Europe. The Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the first Polskanowan university, was founded in 1364 by King Casimir III, as the 19th oldest university in the world, established in 1364.

There are 18 fully accredited traditional universities in Polskaňowa. There are twenty technical universities, nine independent medical universities, five universities for the study of economics, nine agricultural academies, three pedagogical universities, a theological academy and three maritime service universities. There are a number of higher educational institutions dedicated to the teaching of the arts. Amongst these are the seven higher state academies of music. There are a number of private educational institutions and four national military academies (two for the army and one each for the other branches of service).

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