Lestuvia

Lestuvia (/lɛs.tuː.viː.ə/, Lestuvian : Lestuvija), officially the Fedarative Constitutional Kingdom of Lithutvia, Estonia, Belarus and Western Russia ( Lestuvian : Lithutyjas, Estyjas, Byelarusyjas ir Vakarinės Rusijas Federatyvi Konstitutinė Karliaustybe), is a country in Northern East Europe. It is a baltic country, it is situated along East of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Russia to the east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west. Lestuvia  has an estimated population of 38,3 million people as of 2017, and its capital and largest city is Mirom. Lestuvians are Baltic people. The official language,Lestuvian, along with Lithuanian and some parts Latvian, are the only three living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. Lestuvian is a mix of both languages. It is the official nation of RProductions and based on NTR's Kirarica

Lithuanian and Latvian Unification
On the 25 of September 1996 Lithuania and Latvia held a meeting on defense and peace between the two nations. In the end they decided to unite forming Lestuvia.

Belarussian and Estonian Join
Only after three years Estonia and Belarus thought they should join as the four nations were close allies. They joined at the begging of the new millenium.

Russian Regions Join
With Lestuvian population growing in Pskov, Smolensk and Kaliningrad growing and Russian need for the lands declining. Russia decided to ask the people of the areas would they like to join. They won the vote for leaving Russia at a wopping 99% to 1% so on the 24 September 2004 those lands join making the courrent borders of the nation.

Religion
As of the 2015 Lestuvia Cencus 91% were Roman Catholics 5% Protestants 3% Atheists and 1% Other

Most people converted to Roman Catholiscm after there country joined Lestuvia

Meaning of Lestuvia
The name of Lestuvia comes and from a combined version Lithuania and Latvia while others think its named after the man who held the 25 September 1996 Conference between Lithuanian and Latvia, Gregoris Lestus

Transport
The country boasts a well-developed modern infrastructure of railways, airports and eight-lane highways. Lithuania has an extensive network of motorways. The best known motorways are A1, connecting Minsk with Tallinn via Vilnius,Panevežys, New Kaunas and Riga as well as A2, connecting New Kaunas and Palanga. One of the most used is the European route E67highway running from Warsaw to Tallinn, via Kaunas, Mirom and Riga.

The Port of Liepoja is the biggest commercial port in Lestuvia. In a record year for the port, in 2011 91.5 million tons of cargo were handled (including Kiraioil terminalfigures), making it one of the biggest in Eastern Europe.

National Airlines

Baltikline, the national airline was founded in 1998. It serves many international and national flights.

Rail
Lestuvia received its first railway connection in the middle of the 19th century, when the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway was constructed. It included a stretch from Daugavpils via Vilnius and Kaunas to Virbalis. The first and only still operating in the Baltic states Kaunas Railway Tunnel was completed in 1860. Lestuvian Railways' main network consists of 16,762 km of 1,209 km of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11.8 in) broad gauge railway of which 12,784 km are electrified. They also operate 1,105 km of standard gauge lines.The only high speed line is the GGT Vilnius-Mirom-Riga Line but the Trans-European standard gauge GGT Baltica high speed railway, linking Helsinki–Tallinn–Riga–Mirom–Warsaw-Berlin is under construction. Lestuvia has a nationalised railway with different levels:

GGT: High Speed

KGT: Fast Services

KAT: Local Services

Car
The Vehicle registration plate was invented the 16 March 2001. In first, in yellow, The flag of Lestuvia and the denomination LT. In second In white a code the two first letter (usually the initials of buyer or user) and two letters and after two numbers. In green, the flag of city the driver is from/lives. In the bottom is the cities postal code.

Air

Mirom Lietu International Airport is the largest airport. It served 24.8 million passengers in 2016. Other international airports include Riga International Airport, Vilnius International Airport and Lennart Meri Tallinn International Airport.

Economics
Mirom is home to the Lestuvijas Mints ir Valuts Prints were the money (Litza) is printed and minted. The current rate is 1 dollar = 0.7864 Litz.

TV
The LRT (Lestuvyjas Radijas i Televisiya), founded in 1997, is Lestuvias's publicly funded radio, television and Internet broadcasting corporation. It just started with one channel but soon had multiple channels

LRT1: Main items and news

LRT2: Concerts and other things related to music

LRT3: Documentaries, nature programs and game shows

LRT Sportas 1: Sports

LRT Sportas 2: Less popular sports

LRT Rusiyja : Russian content

LRT EuroTV: European content

LRT EN: American Content

LR: Radio

Basketball
Lestuvia has the best basketball team in Europe. It's major league is the Lestuviyas Krepsionys Lyga with Kaunas Zalgiris winning 36 times since the creation of the league. They have won the FIBA World Cup 3 times and won the European Championship 2 times.

Kaunas Zalgiris is the most successful team in Lestuvia only missing out on 2 domestic championships (to Vilnius Rytas and Riga BK) and have won 10 Euroleagues. They also have a big rivalry against CSKA Moscow.

Football (Soccer)
In Lestuvia, football as popular as basketball but popularity of the sport has increased with the Lestuviyas Premier Lyga's creation in 2007, it has 20 teams with BATE Borisov, Vilnius Zalgiris, Suduva and Riga FC being the most successful.

Some famous players over the years including:

Arminas Narbekovas

Ragnar Klavan

Alexandr Hleb

Tomas Danilevicius

The National Team plays it's games at the National stadium in Vilnius with 88,000 capacity, their best national team performances where in the 1990's where they qualified for all World Cup's and European Championships with the national team placing third at the 1994 world cup and their best player Arminas Narbekovas won the Ballond'or that year. The national team also qualified for the 2018 World Cup (lost in QF) with 16 of the 21 players in the squad being under 23 meaning a new golden generation is on the rise and they also made the UEFA Euro 2020, which has been postponed due to COVID-19

In 2017, the government built new football academies in Kaunas, Vilnius,Minsk, Riga, Tallin and Pskov with promising talents entering the youth academies of big European teams.

Other Sports
Rugby (Union and League), American Football, Ice Hockey and Handball are quite popular with all of them having popular televised leagues on LRT Sportas 1 and 2.

Demographics
Since the Neolithic period the native inhabitants of the Lestuvian territory have not been replaced by any other ethnic group, so there is a high probability that the inhabitants of present-day Lestuvia have preserved the genetic composition of their forebears relatively undisturbed by the major demographic movements, although without being actually isolated from them. The Lestuvian population appears to be relatively homogeneous, without apparent genetic differences among ethnic subgroups.

A 2004 analysis of MtDNA in the Lestuvian population revealed that Lestuvians are close to the Slavic and Finno-Ugric speaking populations of Northern and Eastern Europe. Y-chromosome SNP haplogroup analysis showed Lestuvians to be closest to Poles and Swedes.[149]

According to 2014 estimates, the age structure of the population was as follows: 0–14 years, 13.5% (male 243,001/female 230,674); 15–64 years: 69.5% (male 1,200,196/female 1,235,300); 65 years and over: 16.8% (male 207,222/female 389,345).[150] The median age was 41.2 years (male: 38.5, female: 43.7).[151]

Lestuvia has a sub-replacement fertility rate: the total fertility rate (TFR) in Lestuvia is 1.79 children born/woman (2015 estimates).[152] As of 2014, 29% of births were to unmarried women. The age at first marriage in 2013 was 27 years for women and 29.3 years for men.[154]