Dantomkia

Dantomkia (/dantɔːmkiːə/), officially the Federal Republic of Dantomkia, is a sovereign independent state in Northwestern Europe only bordered by the United Kingdom.

With a population of 10,350,000 people, it is the 88th largest country in the world in terms of population, between Czechia and  Portugal. They are also 40th in the world by population density, between Belgium and the  Phillippines with a density of 361.5/km2 (936.4/sq mi). It is about the size of Albania with an area of 28,627 km2(11,053 sq mi), making  Dantomkia the  142nd largest country by land area, but just before the  Solomon Islands.

Its capital is Birmingham and its official languages are English. The port of Grimsby is the main shipping port for the nation.

Dantomkia is in several alliances, including NATO, CNF,  GONK and the Seven Stars Council.

Etymology
The name Dantomkia comes from the robots named Dantomkia, produced in the early 2000s.

Staring in the late 1990s, the British government with its autonomous republics began hiring engineers in groups to construct robots, which would be later deployed into military training. A Midlandian group, codenamed DTK, successfully engineered Dantomkia robots and later lightweight variants into the British Army. Despite the civil unrest at the time, this feat was celebrated across Midlandia as a sign of technological progression which also became the basis of the nation's motto.

Roman Occupation
After Emperor Claudius invaded the British isles in AD 43, the Celtic tribes in the region were subjugated. The Romans then built various towns across the region, including Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum, the fourth largest city in Roman Britian) and Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum). Connecting these were a series of new roads, including the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and Watling Street, the latter of which is still in use today as the A5. In AD 61, the Iceni rebellion led by Queen Boudicca was finally crushed by Roman general Paulinus at the Battle of Watling Street, which, according to most historians, took place in modern day Warwickshire. This effectively ended all resistance to the Roman Empire in what is now Dantomkia until the Romans left the province of Britannia in AD 410. This period of Roman rule was a time of stability and prosperity, as the new trade routes with Europe allowed for greater amounts of exports.

Anglo-Saxon Period
In the wake of the breakdown of Roman rule in Britain from the middle of the fourth century, present day England was progressively settled by Germanic groups. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, these included Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. In Dantomkia, they formed what would become known as the Kingdom of Mercia, with a capital in the Derbyshire town of Tamworth. This was, for a period of about 200 years from AD 626 to AD 825 (a period known as The Mercian Supremacy), the most powerful kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England. King Offa of Mercia (reigned 757–796) was probably the most successful ruler of Mercia, being responsible for the creation of Offa's Dyke (a massive earthwork barrier to help defend against the Welsh). By the ninth century AD however, Mercia was slowly losing it's influence to the rising power in the south - Wessex - a process that came to an end at the decisive Battle of Ellendun, where Mercia effectively lost all power to Wessex.

The legend of Prince Wistan
On the 1st June AD 849, Prince Wistan, heir to the throne of Mercia was murdered by his cousin Brifardus at the royal palace of Glen (now Great Glen in Leicestershire) because of a dispute over succession. He was canonized as a saint by the Pope, as Wistan's body was supposedly discovered under a shaft of light from heaven, and also due to the "miracle" of human hair appearing to grow out of the ground every year on the 1st June where he reportedly fell - a sight that was later confirmed by 13th century priests. Four churches in modern day Dantomkia are dedicated to him, one where he was killed (Wistow, Leicestershire), one where he was buried (Repton, Derbyshire) and two where his body was allegedly rested on the way to Repton (Wigston Magna, Leicestershire and Bretby, Derbyshire) During medieval times, a cult arose around the legend, a practice only outlawed in the Reformation.

Viking Invasion
In 852 Burgred came to the throne, and with Ethelwulf of Wessex subjugated North Wales. In 868 Danish invaders occupied Nottingham. The Danes drove Burgred from his kingdom in 874 and Ceolwulf II took his place. In 877 the Danes seized the eastern part of Mercia, which became part of the Danelaw. Ceolwulf, the last king of Mercia, left with the western half, reigned until 879. From about 883 until his death in 911 Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, ruled Mercia under the overlordship of Wessex. All coins struck in Mercia after the disappearance of Ceolwulf in c. 879 were in the name of the West Saxon king. Æthelred had married Æthelflæd ( c. 870 – 12 June 918), daughter of Alfred the Great of Wessex ( r . 871–899), and she assumed power when her husband became ill at some time in the last ten years of his life.

After Æthelred's death in 911 Æthelflæd ruled as "Lady of the Mercians", but Alfred's successor as King of the Anglo-Saxons, Edward the Elder ( r . 899–924), took control of London and Oxford, which Alfred had placed under Æthelred's control. Æthelflæd and her brother continued Alfred's policy of building fortified burhs, and in 917–918 they succeeded in conquering the southern Danelaw in East Anglia and Danish Mercia.

In 2015, two individuals found a large hoard near Leominster consisting primarily of Saxon jewellery and silver ingots but also coins; the latter date to around 879 CE. According to a news report, "experts believe it [the hoard] was buried by a Viking during a series of raids known to have taken place in the area at that time", while Wessex was ruled by Alfred the Great and Mercia by Ceolwulf II. Two imperial coins recovered from the treasure hunters depict the two kings, "indicating an alliance between the two kingdoms—at least, for a time—that was previously unknown to historians", according to the report.

In the early 11th century, like the rest of Anglo-Saxon England, Mercia was completely conquered by the Vikings, led by King Canute and his sons. The last mention of Mercia in the historical record dates to just after the restoration of the Saxons in AD 1049.

Post-Norman Occupation
In 1066 Duke William of Normandy invaded Saxon England and defeated King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings. For the Midlands, the Norman invaders weren't as harsh to the region as they were further north, allowing towns like Lincoln and Leicester to flourish under Norman rule. Events of note in the Midlands in the early to mid mediaeval period include the death of King John in Newark Castle in 1216 (supposedly after losing the crown jewels in the Wash - an inlet of the North Sea in the south east of what is now Dantomkia), and the death of Simon De Montfort, Earl of Leicester and leader of a rebel faction of barons against King Henry III, at the Battle of Evesham in 1265. Legend also states the activity of a mysterious outlaw called Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire during this period, supposedly waging a war of pestilence against the local sheriff/baron based in Nottingham.

Late Mediaeval Period
Later in the Mediaeval Period, with the former march region in the West now made redundant by the conquest of Wales by King Edward I, the Midlands began to properly thrive again as a region as it was secure from all sides from potential foreign invaders. However, by the mid-15th Century, the region was once again threatened by war - this time from the opposing factions of the Wars of the Roses. Given that several strategic fortifications existed in the region (mainly the castles at Ludlow, Kenilworth, Warwick and Ashby), and the fact that the region basically formed the heart of the whole country, it was fought over many times, with several battles fought in the region over the thirty year period from 1455-1485, including Ludford Bridge and Blore Heath in 1459, the minor skirmish at Losecoat Field in 1470 and the titanic battle that would decide the war at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire in 1485, where the last Plantagenet monarch of England, Richard III, became the last English king to die on the battlefield after a gallant cavalry charge planed to kill the usurper Henry Tudor in one fell swoop - a brash choice forced upon him because several of his nobles refused to engage the enemy - failed.

More recently, Dantomkian scientists and paleontologists at the University of Leicester discovered the remains of Richard III under a car park in the centre of Leicester in 2012 (the site of a former Franciscan monastery demolished in the Reformation), allowing the legend of the good King Richard to come to life again. Following scientific investigation, the monarch finally received a full state reinternment in Leicester Cathedral in 2015, with all the pomp and grandeur his original funeral lacked,

Two years after Bosworth, in 1487, a pro-Yorkist rebellion rose up from Ireland, although this was defeated at the battle of Stoke Field in Nottinghamshire. Despite being usually considered as a footnote to the Wars of the Roses, this battle was almost certainly bigger than at Bosworth (due to the fact that half the troops deployed at Bosworth were never engaged in actual fighting) and the total casualties were definitely higher, with nearly all the leading Yorkists killed in the fighting. This crushing victory for the new Tudor King Henry VII marked a true end to the Wars of the Roses, and paved the way for another 150 years of peace in England.

The English Civil War
The 150 years of peace and prosperity between 1490 and 1640 were rudely interrupted by the start of the English Civil War in 1642, with Charles I raising his standard (and thereby opening hostilities against Parliamentarian forces) in Nottingham in August of that year. The Midlands were again heavily embroiled in the fighting, with notable battles at Edgehill in 1642, Winceby in 1643, the turning point of the war at Naseby in 1645, and the final main battle of the war at Worcester in 1651, along with multiple sieges of the strategic town of Newark in Nottinghamshire.

Scientific Heritage
Isaac Newton, born in Grantham in 1642, is perhaps the most prolific scientist. His accomplishments include calculus, Newton's laws of motion, and Newton's law of universal gravitation, among many others. There is a shopping centre named in his honour in Grantham. Thomas Simpson from Leicestershire is known for Simpson's rule. Roger Cotes invented the concept of the radian in 1714, but the term was not so-named until 1873.

Henry Cavendish, loosely connected with Derbyshire, discovered hydrogen in 1766 (although the element's name came from Antoine Lavoisier), and Cavendish was the first to estimate an accurate mass of the Earth in 1798 in his Cavendish experiment. The Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge is named after a relative. Herbert Spencer coined the term "survival of the fittest" in 1864, which was once strongly linked with social Darwinism. Sir John Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in 1675. Robert Bakewell, of Dishley in Leicestershire and known for his English Leicester sheep, arrived at selective breeding; his English Longhorn were the first ever cattle bred for beef.

George Boole, pioneer of Boolean logic (upon which all digital electronics and computers depend), was born in Lincoln in 1815. The application of Boole's theory to digital circuit design would come in 1937 by Claude Shannon. Boole's grandson, the physicist G. I. Taylor, made significant experimental contributions to quantum mechanics. The first practical demonstration of radar was near Daventry in 1935. Robert Robinson, of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, invented the circular symbol in 1925 for the pi bonds of the benzene ring, as found on all structural diagrams of aromatic compounds. Nicola Pellow, a maths undergraduate at Leicester Polytechnic, whilst at CERN in November 1990, wrote the world's second web browser.

Silicone was discovered in 1899 by Prof Frederic Kipping at University College, Nottingham. Michael Creeth of Northampton discovered the hydrogen-bonding mechanism between DNA bases, allowing the structure of DNA to be discovered. Nottinghamshire's Ken Richardson was in charge of the team at Pfizer in Sandwich, Kent that in 1981 discovered Fluconazole (Diflucan), the world's leading antifungal medication, especially useful for those with weakened immune systems. It has few side effects. Richardson is now one of the few Britons in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Don Grierson at the University of Nottingham was the first to produce a Genetically modified tomato, which became the first GM food on sale in the UK and in the United States.

Louis Essen, a Nottingham physicist, made advances in the quartz clock in the 1930s at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, to produce the quartz ring clock in 1938, and the caesium clock, known as the atomic clock, in 1955. During the war he invented the cavity resonance wavemeter to find the first accurate value of the speed of light. The atomic clock works on differences in magnetic spin. Before Essen's invention, the second was defined in terms of the orbit of the Earth round the Sun; he changed it in 1967 to be based on the hyperfine structure of the caesium-133 atom. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), in Paris, takes the average of 300 atomic clocks around the world.

Thomas Wedgwood, son of Josiah Wedgwood, discovered the first photo-sensitive (light-sensitive) chemicals – silver nitrate and silver chloride in the 1790s.

Sir Norman Lockyer of Kenilworth discovered helium in 1868, for which he used electromagnetic spectroscopy.

Edward Weston of Oswestry, who emigrated to the US, built the first accurate voltmeter in the late 1880s, and the Weston cell in 1893.

Francis W. Aston of Harborne, educated at the University of Birmingham, developed mass spectrometry in 1919, which helped him to identify the first isotopes, receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922.

Dennis Gabor invented holography at British Thomson-Houston in Rugby in 1947, receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971.

James Glaisher in 1862 took a record balloon flight with Henry Tracey Coxwell for the BAAS near Wolverhampton. They reached 29,000 feet (8,800 m) the composition of the Earth's atmosphere until then was not understood; the altitude records for the UK have not been exceeded since; Project Excelsior in the US in 1960 would later reach 20 miles (110,000 ft).

Philip Lawley of Burton upon Trent was first person to realise that chemical damage to DNA caused cancer (at the Chester Beatty Research Institute in London) in the early 1960s.

Francis Galton (d. 1911) of the Darwin–Wedgwood family's Birmingham branch was an early eugenicist rooted in improving animal breeding stock and examining heredity. He invented terms eugenics and nature versus nurture. His limited calls for human eugenics were widened by the German Society for Racial Hygiene in 1905 founded by Alfred Ploetz, which coupled with the racial superiority fallacies of Aryanism reached its nadir in genocidal anti-semitism. Moral teachings and inherent replusions towards human eugenics were overcome by a minority of those in power espousing racial equality; European media and leaders lamented loss of Empire, advocated ultranationalism and prized military physical advantage; Galton saw human eugenics as part of all means to do better.

Industrial Heritage
Much of the Industrial revolution in the United Kingdom began in Birmingham and the Black Country area of West Midlands. The Industrial Revolution is thought to have begun when Abraham Darby substituted coke in the place of charcoal to smelt iron, at his Old Furnace. The Black Country may be regarded as the world's first industrial landscape, while nearby Ironbridge Gorge claims to be the Birthplace of Industry. The world's first cast iron bridge in 1779 spans the Gorge. The first self-propelled locomotive to run on rails in 1803 at Coalbrookdale, was built by Richard Trevithick. The first iron rails for horse-drawn transport, were made at Coalbrookdale in 1768 by Richard Reynolds at Ketley Ironworks. Iron rails only became widely successful in 1820 when made out of wrought iron at Bedlington Ironworks in north-east England.

The region can also claim the world's first factory, Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill. Additionally, the world's oldest working factory can also be found in the area, producing textiles at Lea Bridge, owned by John Smedley. Both sites are part of the region's only World Heritage Site, the Derwent Valley Mills. An opportunist employee of the Derbyshire textile factories, Samuel Slater of Belper saw his chance and (illegally) eloped in 1789 to Rhode Island in the US after memorising the layout of the textile machinery while working at Jedediah Strutt's Milford Mill. He was warmly welcomed by the inhabitants of the newly formed USA, so much so that he was later named the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution".

Birmingham's industrial development was triggered by discussions at the Lunar Society of Birmingham at Soho House, Boulton's house, and products were carried along the BCN Main Line canal. Soho Manufactory was the first man-made-powered factory in world. Chance Brothers of Smethwick built the glass for The Crystal Palace in 1851. Smethwick Engine, now at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, is the oldest working steam engine, made in 1779, and is the oldest working engine in the world. Smethwick was a main centre for making lighthouse lanterns.

Valor Fires in Erdington developed the first radiant gas fire in 1967, a balanced flue fire in 1973, and a natural flame gas fire in 1978. The Erdington site, owned by Iceland's BDR Thermea, closed in May 2012. The company also built gas cookers; since 2011 the company has been part of Glen Dimplex, who have a site at Cooper's Bank, south of Gornalwood. Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, a 1956 statue on Broad Street in Birmingham; the SI unit of power is the watt, most commonly found as the kW, a replacement for the imperial measurement of horsepower Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury was the first iron-framed building in the world in 1797. Thomas Bolton & Sons of Froghall, Staffordshire, made the world's first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1857, having supplied a submarine cable across the English Channel in 1850. GEC Telecommunications was headquartered at the GEC Telephone and Radio Works in Coventry, it has now become the New Century Park, off the A428 north of Stoke Aldermoor in eastern Coventry. On 10 July 1890, a trunk circuit telephone line was opened between London and Birmingham by the National Telephone Company; for the first time this allowed phone calls between the London and the north. The world's first coaxial cable was laid between London and Birmingham in 1936 to give 40 channels for telephone traffic. and brought into use in 1938, later extended to Manchester in 1940. Alexander Parkes invented the first man-made plastic (thermoplastic) in Birmingham in 1856. Arthur Leslie Large of Birmingham is credited with inventing the kettle in 1922. Princess Square, Wolverhampton, was the site of Britain's first traffic lights in 1927. Infra-red cameras were developed at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern (with EMI Electronics) in 1967. The world's first Maglev train operated at Birmingham Airport in 1983. The tallest freestanding structure in the region is the chimney of Ironbridge power station at 673 ft. John Baskerville of Birmingham, a former stone carver, largely invented fonts, or typefaces, for printing. Much of the UK's car industry would be centred in Coventry and Birmingham; most of this has now gone. Midland Motor Cylinder (part of Birmid Industries) of Smethwick was the largest producer of automobile cylinder blocks in Europe. Fort Dunlop was Europe's largest tyre plant. Metro-Cammell in Birmingham made most of the 1970s and 1980s London Underground trains. MG Rover (a company of Rover) closed in 2005 (from 1885), The Ryton plant, which made the Peugeot 206, closed at the end of 2006, with production moving to Trnava in Slovakia, and some to a plant at Kolín in the Czech Republic. Alfred Herbert of Coventry was the largest machine-tool manufacturer in the UK for many decades; it was brought down in the 1970s by advancing technology overseas, and complacent strategic decisions of the management (caught like a rabbit in the headlights), finally closing in 1982; many Midlands manufacturing companies followed similar fates in the 1970s and 1980s. Henry Wiggin & Co of Hereford developed the metal alloys necessary for other Midlands' (and beyond) automotive and aerospace companies – Inconel, Incoloy and Nimonic. It was the lack of vanadium for high-melting point alloys, caused by Royal Navy action, that prevented German Me 262 engines being serviceable; had German World War 2 engineers had a greater supply of vanadium and molybdenum, the engine life (around 12 hours maximum, from entering service in April 1944 to the end of the war) of their jet engine would have increased much more, which would have been significant to the war's outcome. Bristol Siddeley developed the rocket engines for Black Arrow at Ansty; in fact all of R-R's rocket engines were developed and built there at R-R's Industrial and Marine Gas Turbine Division; Britain's smaller rocket engines for missiles were built by Bristol Aerojet in what is now North Somerset. High Duty Alloys at Redditch constructed (forged) the compressor and turbine blades for Whittle's first engines, and many of the early jet engines; it made Concorde's airframe from the Hiduminium R.R.58 aluminium alloy. Maxaret, the world's first ABS braking system, was invented in Coventry by Dunlop in the early 1950s for aircraft; John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish vet who had first produced the first pneumatic tyres in 1889. Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, grandson of Matthew Boulton, and born in the area, invented the aileron, an important flight control surface in 1868, decades before the first actual flight. Triumph Engineering was a famous motorbike firm in Meriden. About a quarter of all British WWI planes were built in Coventry. The Jensen Interceptor FF was the first production four-wheel-drive car in the world, designed by Major Tony Rolt, and built at their factory in West Bromwich.

Cadbury launched Dairy Milk in 1905, Bournville in 1906, Fruit & Nut in 1928, Whole Nut in 1930, Cadbury Roses in 1938, and the Cadbury Creme Egg in 1971. George and Richard Cadbury built their factory in 1879 and Bournville in 1893, named after the Bourn brook. Iceland (supermarket) opened its first store in Oswestry in 1970 – heralding the onset of frozen food in the UK. Alfred Bird invented egg-free custard in 1837 in Birmingham – accidentally given to guests at his home, being created as his wife had an allergy to eggs; he then invented baking powder in 1843 as his wife also had an allergy to yeast.

Britain's hosiery and knitwear industry was largely based in the region, and in the 1980s it had more textile workers than any other British region. The stocking frame was invented 1587 in Calverton, Nottinghamshire by Rev William Lee; these were the first known knitting machines and heralded the industrial revolution by providing the necessary machinery. The world's first (horse-powered) cotton mill was built in central Nottingham in 1768. Marvel's Mill in Northampton was the first cotton mill to be powered by water.

John Barber of Nottinghamshire had invented a simple gas turbine in 1791 (when living in Nuneaton). Lincoln was the site of the first tank (first built on 8 September 1915, Little Willie was the first tank, and is the oldest surviving tank in the world, originally called the No.1 Lincoln Machine), and Grantham the first diesel engine (in 1892). The jet engine was first developed in the region in Lutterworth and Whetstone, with the VTOL engine also (initially) developed in Hucknall. The first jet aircraft flew from RAF Cranwell in May 1941. During the Second World War, Derby was an important strategic location, as it was in Derby that Rolls-Royce developed and manufactured their iconic Merlin aero-engine. During the Second World War, all of R-R's engineering staff had been transferred to Belper. Derby was home to an important railway workshop, initially for the Midland Railway, then the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and finally British Railways. British Rail Research Division in Derby invented the APT (British Rail Class 370) and Maglev. The first ever steel rails were laid in 1857 in Derby railway station for the Midland Railway. At its peak, Corby Steelworks was the largest in Britain. The collapsible baby buggy was invented in 1965 at Barby, Northamptonshire by Owen Maclaren. Ford's £8 million Daventry Parts Distribution Centre (Ford Parts Centre) was fully opened on 6 September 1972 (the first southern section opened in 1968), and was the UK's largest building by floor area for many years at 36.7 acres (149,000 m2), and is situated opposite the Cummins factory.

The largest camera in the world was built in 1957 in Derby for Rolls-Royce, which weighed 27 tonnes and was around 8 feet (2.4 m) high, 8 feet (2.4 m) wide and 35 feet (11 m) long, with a 63-inch (1,600 mm) lens made by Cooke Apochromatic. Cooke Optics and Taylor-Hobson were major supplier of lenses for Hollywood; Star Wars was filmed with their lenses, filmed in England. Horace W. Lee invented the inverted telephoto lens (known as the Angénieux retrofocus) in 1931, lengthening the back focal length of the camera for the 1930s Technicolor Process and for vignetting. Arthur Warmisham of Taylor & Hobson invented the first non-telescopic 35 mm zoom lens, the Cooke Varo 40– 120mm Lens, in a camera manufactured by Bell & Howell of the USA. The popular 35 mm Eyemo film camera came with Cooke lenses. Much of World War II aerial photography, where definition was important, was through Cooke lenses, due to their Apochromatic process. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Cooke Speed Panchro lenses were the most popular choice for cinema films, then from the 1970s their Varotal zoom lens, which would win Gordon Henry Cook the 1988 Gordon E. Sawyer Award at the Oscars. Harold Hopkins (physicist), of Leicester, also did important work on the zoom lens (he largely invented it) and fibre-optics.

J. P. Knight of Nottingham is credited with inventing green and red traffic lights, installed in London on 9 December 1868, but these lasted only three weeks; traffic lights would be introduced only from the 1920s, again in London (from an American-led design scheme). The first modern-day traffic lights were installed in Piccadilly from August 1926. Edgar Purnell Hooley, a Nottinghamshire surveyor, in 1901 was in Denby and found a stretch of road surface that was smooth from an accidental leak of tar over the surface. He patented a process of mixing tar with chipped stones in 1902, forming Tarmac, a name which he patented. Radcliffe Road (A6011) in West Bridgford in 1902 was the first tarmac road (5 miles or 8.0 kilometres long) in the world.

Mettoy was a famous firm in the St James area of Northampton, which from 1933 produced Corgi toys (mostly made in Swansea and designed in Northampton), and in the 1970s it made the space hopper; the company collapsed in 1983, moving to Swansea. In Leicestershire was Palitoy, another world-famous firm in Coalville; General Mills bought it in 1968, but production ceased in 1984 and the site was closed by Hasbro in 1994. Pedigree Dolls & Toys (Sindy) was in Wellingborough, closing in 1982. The first plastic DVD case was made in Corby by Amaray. Britain's first out-of-town shopping centre was opened in November 1964 by GEM at West Bridgford, on a site now owned by ASDA from 1967.

Much integrated circuit and semiconductor research was carried out at Caswell (Plessey) near Towcester, ahead of much of what was being achieved in America by Jack Kilby; Plessey invented a model of the integrated circuit in 1957. It was later a site for manufacturing monolithic microwave integrated circuits in the 1990s by Marconi Materials Technology. The site was Plessey's main research site during the Second World War and also known as the Allen Clark Research Centre. On 15 December 1966, the first electronic telephone exchange in Europe opened at Ambergate in Derbyshire.

Torksey railway viaduct, built across the Trent in 1849, is considered to be the first box girder bridge, designed by Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet. The tallest freestanding structure in the region is the chimney of West Burton power station (north Nottinghamshire) at 200 m (656 ft). Nottingham Combined Heating and Power Scheme is the largest district heating system in the UK, centred on the Eastcroft incinerator, opened in 1973.

Rise of Dantomkians
During the rule of the Midlandian Federation, Dantomkians in the nation wanted more autonomy from Great Britain. This escalated throughout the 1990's.

Independence Referendum
In 2004, the government agreed to host an independence referendum in the area. The region was majority in favour of independence. Afterwards, they founded the Republic of Dantomkia and named the old president of the Federation, Edward Carter, as the first president.

Rockall War
After the Sealand Crisis, Great Britain offered the island of Rockall (in the north Atlantic) to Dantomkia. Dantomkia refused, so Britain created the Republic of Rockall on the island. The new-born country then declared war on Dantomkia for "sailing too close to our territorial waters". Dantomkia won the war handily, annexing the island into the nation after the Treaty of Birmingham.

New President
After the stabilizing rule of Edward Carter and James Smith from 2004, the Government decided to host an election for the nation's first proper leader. The election was won by Nigel Huddlestone, another Democrat leader.

GONK Summit
On May 17th, 2018, Dantomkia opened the 2nd GONK Summit, which was being held in Birmingham at the time. This not only showed Dantomkia's political prowess in it's own creation, but also marked the first time that a large delegation of diplomats and leaders from a host of other nations, including Dantomkia's close ally, Suomi-Karelia, had arrived in the nation purely for political reasons.

Present Day
Today, the nation is doing well in it’s economy, military, and it’s HDI. Dantomkia also was made in the “Making of Nations” era, which means it gained independence in a good pace so it can be stable enough.

New President
In August 2020, after leading the country through the coronavirus pandemic, Nigel Huddlestone decided to resign as president due to ill health. His successor is Thomas Wilkinson, his previous deputy.

Physical Geography
The longest river entirely in Dantomkia is the Trent/Humber at 185 miles (297 km) long, but the longest river that is partly in  Dantomkia is the Severn, at a total of 220 miles (354km) in length. The highest point of the nation is Black Mountain, in Herefordshire, at  703 meters above sea level.

Subdivisions
Dantomkia is split up into two regions. These are both split into counties (of which there are 12 in total), which make up the basic framework of political structure within the nation. The largest county is Lincolnshire, which hugs the entirety of the coast, and the smallest is  Rutland, a tiny 16 square kilometre county that was originally part of neighbouring  Leicestershire.

Internal Politics
There is an electorial presidency system currently in place. The current president is Thomas Wilkinson. The parliament is made up of 150 members, from several different parties. There is a general election every 4 years, unless circumstances change this. Currently, the parliament stands like this:

Unions
As a country who hated CON,  Dantomkia became one of the three founding members of the  CNF, formerly OMEN, alongside the  Grand Duchy of Guerre and the  Baltic Federation. The alliance's headquarters was actually in Birmingham, Dantomkia's capital city. After the CNF's collapse,  Dantomkia teamed up with the  Baltic Federation (again) to form  GONK, a slightly less anti-CON alliance. Because of this, Dantomkia's foreign policy regarding CON has changed from aggressive against to freindly-ish.

List of Unions that Dantomkia is a member of:

 * CNF
 * GONK
 * NATO

Alliances

 * Treaty of Tartu (with Baltic Federation)
 * Treaty of Burgos (with Iberian Kingdom)
 * Treaty of Lincoln (with Zarexium)
 * Treaty of Leicester (with Soriana)
 * Treaty of Pietari (with Karianka)
 * Treaty of Nottingham (with Gralicia)
 * Treaty of Coventry (with Western Republic)
 * Treaty of Derby (with Suomi-Karelia)
 * Treaty of Shrewsbury (with Serelet)
 * Treaty of Lichfield (with Slavonica)
 * Treaty of Hereford (with Scotland-Ireland)
 * Treaty of Cosford (with Stahlstat)
 * Treaty of Bradgate (with Iszria)
 * Treaty of Worcester (with Karvansk)
 * Treaty of Ottawa (with Apollo Union)
 * Treaty of Gdansk (with Neo Prussia)
 * Treaty of Northampton (with Arabian Gulf)
 * Treaty of Newark (with Pannonia)

Transport
This will be explained further in it's own page, when it gets finished.

Tramways
Birmingham is served by the Midland Metro, a tramway system that goes through the heart of Birmingham and all the way out to Wolverhampton in the west. The tramway is getting extended regularly. Also, Nottingham has it's NET (Nottingham Express Transit), which is the largest tramway in the eastern region of the nation.



Railways
Dantomkia uses Great Britain's train network.

Roads
Dantomkia uses Great Britain's road network.

Licence plates
Vehicle registration plates of Dantomkia

Airlines
Dantomkia has two international airports, Birmingham Int. and East Midands Int. Dantomkia's national airline is Dantomkian Airways, which serves both as a regional and international airline. The airline is based at Birmingham International airport, and has several international routes.

Currency
Dantomkia's main currency is the Dantomkian pound (D£). The subunit is the penny. The Dantomkian Pound has been Dantomkia's main currency since the nation began in 2004, before which the Midlandian Confederation used the Pound Sterling.

The Dantomkian Pound is known for having national landmarks on the reverse (the 'heads' side) of the coins.

Military
The military of Dantomkia is large for it's size. This is used to great effect in peacekeeping for GONK, in a wide variety of roles.

Army
The army has around 5,000 members, with some of the best equipment in the world. The Tank Corps is equipped with the Challenger II MBT, complete with Dorchester II upgrade.

Navy
The Navy is made up mainly of destroyers and frigates. Currently the Type 45 destroyer and the Type 23 frigate are in service. Both ships are down for replacement soon, with the Type 48 destroyer currently in development by Dantomkian technicians, and the Type 26 and Type 31 Frigates currently undergoing the design phase in the UK as a joint venture between the UK and  Dantomkia. The fleet flagship is the 20,000 ton Invincible-Class Aircraft carrier DNS Illustrious - due to be replaced in 2020 by the Queen Elizabeth class carrier DNS Valiant.

Fleet Air Arm
The fleet air arm operate from the three Invincible-class Carriers in the fleet: Invincible, Illustrious, and Indefatigable (ex Ark Royal). Their equipment is the British Aerospace Harrier II V/STOL capable strike aircraft and British Aerospace Sea Harrier fighters, alongside several types of helicopter including: Chinook troop transports, Apache gunships, Merlin, Lynx anti-shipping choppers, and Sea King AEW and Air/Sea rescue choppers.

Air Force
The air force operates mainly British Aerospace Harrier II V/STOL strike jets, British Aerospace Sea Harrier fighters, BAC Cyclone strike jets and Avro Canada CF105 Arrow Mach 2 jet fighters alongside several helicopter types, the same as the Fleet Air Arm. The Cyclones and Eagles are due for replacement in 2019 by updated Cyclone IIs, Panavia Tornados and Eurofighter Typhoons respectively.

Culture
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Media
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Mappervision
Dantomkia has entered the Mappervision Song Contest twenty-seven times since it's debut in MSCXXXIV. It has so far won three events in MSCXLVIII, MSCLV and MSCLXIII.

Linguavision
Dantomkia has entered the Linguavision Song Contest twice since it's debut in LSCXXV. It has so far won the contest once, in LSC XXVI.

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National Symbols
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Religion
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Transport
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Football
Dantomkian National Football Team

Handball
Dantomkian National Handball Team