Vandaysia

The Republic of Vandaysia (🔊 listen), or just Vandaysia (in indonesian "Republik Vandaysia" and in dutch "Republiek Vandeisië") is an independent sovreign state located in Oceania. With 69,065,943 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 New South Wales). It also is one of the largest nations in its area.

Its capital city is Sangkhat (former Darwin) and its official languages are English, Indonesian and Dutch which is most of the population's second language, many other less used languages exist in the country, especially in Papua.

Vandaysia shares land borders with Indonesia, New South Wales, Dutch Australia (WE), Dutch New Guinea and German New Guinea.

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

Ethymology
Vandaysia comes from the word "Vanda" which comes from the word "Banda", which is the main sea of the country.

Other used names

 * Vandesia
 * Bandaysia
 * Eastern Indonesia
 * Australasia

Real Languages

 * Italian: Vandesia
 * Greek: Βανδαισία
 * French: Vandésie
 * Esperanto: Vandajzio/Vandaizujo
 * Spanish: Vandisia
 * Finnish: Vandesia
 * Russian: Вандайзия
 * Catalan: Vandàisia
 * Turkish: Vandezya
 * Polish: Wandazja
 * Romanian: Vandaisia
 * Slovene: Vandazija

ON Languages

 * Adriatic: Vaandasîa
 * Atlasian: Vanaesia
 * Esceosian: Vandézia
 * Adianterrassian: Vajndasie
 * Karanese: WIP
 * New Russian: Мфт Вфцутг
 * Inkamian: Vandasiá
 * Pyrenacian: Vandési

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 was ruled by the Netherlands from the 17th century until World War II. The country was then called the Dutch East Indies (which later got divided into Indonesia to the west and Vandaysia to the east).

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 cede most of Sulawesi, Bali and parts of Borneo and Tenggara to Indonesia, and also cutting all relations with the Dutch.

A few years later, islamist group take over big parts of Indonesia, and even if Vandaysian people now hate 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.

An incredible development
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, and with many treaties and a short war, Vandaysia also manages to annex parts of Northern Australia, Darwin is declared the capital city of the country and it's renamed Sangkhat, 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.

WIP

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:
 * CONFlag.png Commonwealth of Official Nations
 * DutchCommonwealthFlag.png The Kingdom of Netherlands (commonwealth)

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

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.