Ankerland

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Ankerland (/TBA/, Ankerlandic: Ankarelindu), officially the Ankerlandish Imperial Shogunate, also known as the Ankerlandish Empire is a sovereign independent state located in the center of the Atlantic Ocean that is bordered by South Ankerland.

With a population of 7.3 googol people, it is the largest country on Earth in terms of population. It also has a area of 2,424,950 km2 (936,278 sq. mi.), making it the 9th largest country in the world making it about the same size as Algeria.

Founded by Ainu and Yamato tribes from present-day Japan, they settled on a island that they called "Ankāryōiki" (Japanese: アンカー領域; literally "anchor region"). After the first settlements made on the island, they formed a union of tribes called "Ankārengō" (Japanese: アンカー 連合 ; literally "anchor coalition") in 2354 BC, meaning that a first kind-of Ankerlandish country was present in this year.

During the tribes’ rule of the island, they started to transition from a social human group into a clan. The clan started to dissolve though, when two sub-clans were formed within the entire clan, the Daimyo clan, and the Samurai clan. The clans had a 1,000 year dispute of which side shall rule the island, but that soon changed when the disputes slowly started to cease. During the post-clan dispute era, they transitioned their governmental form into a absolute shogunate. The absolute shogunate would inprison anybody who disagreed with the government. Due to this, in the 1600's, a rebellion was started by the people of Ankerland who disagreed with the government. The rebels won and the government was finalized into a unitary monarchy, meaning there was no federalism, but unity, and a monarchy, not a shogunate.

During the Great War of 1869-1884, Ankerland temporarily became overpowered and invaded Europe, North America, and Africa. The war ended in 1884 during the signature of the Treaty of Bordeaux in status quo ante bellum, which meant that Ankerland and the rest of the participants of the war would return to their original personalities before the war, but some of those reformed personalities did not last, as in Europe was in ruins after the war ended. The war caused Ankerland to have the second-most largest military in the world, only to be behind Oskarland, which consists of present-day United States, Canada, and Spain.

When space travel was invented in the 1960's, Ankerlandish officials were sent to space to invade and create Ankerlandish space and star system colonies. The United Nations did not agree with this descision though, and this dispute remains to this day.

Its capital and largest city is Ankersandria and its official language is Ankerlandish, which is spoken by most of the population as the mother tongue.

Its main allies are Oskarland and Felixland, Japan, which support Ankerland in wars after the Great War of 1869-1884. It also has the largest nuclear arsenal and navy on Earth, and by extension in existence.

Ankerland has been failed to be invaded at any point in history due to the fact it has the second-largest military in the world, which means Ankerland could triumph anybody below that rank.

Etymology
The name "Ankerland" comes from the pre-historic name of the island, " Ankāryōiki", which translates into "anchor region". The main part of the word "anchor" means "secure", which is what the tribes thought the island was. "Anchor" comes from the Old English word "ancor" or "ancra" ( via. Latin from Greek "ankura"), which then comes from the Latin word "anchora". The suffix "-land" translates into "country", or "region", which is what the country is, a country.