Holy Macharia
Dominion of Saint Macharius, the Apostle of God and the Archangel Dominion of Saint Macharius, the Apostle of God and the Archangel | |
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Motto: Glory By Heaven, By Faith Conquer | |
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Anthem: My Country, 'Tis of Thee | |
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| Capital and largest city |
Grand Cathedral |
| Official languages | English |
| Religion | Macharianism |
| Demonym(s) | Macharian |
| Government | Christian dominion theocracy |
| James V St. Macarius | |
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| Legislature | Synod of Sacred Wisdom |
| Area | |
• Total | 10,180 km2 (3,930 sq mi) (Nth) |
• Water (%) | 18 |
| Population | |
• 2021 estimate | 690,632 (Nth) |
• 2020 census | 654,380 |
• Density | 67.8/km2 (175.6/sq mi) (Nth) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $14.396 billion (Nth) |
• Per capita | $20,846 (Nth) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $14.396 billion (Nth) |
• Per capita | $20,846 (Nth) |
| Gini (2020) |
47.1 high |
| HDI (2020) |
0.909 very high |
| Currency | Macharian talent (₮) (MCT) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy AD |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +1 |
| ISO 3166 code | MC |
| Internet TLD | .mc |
The Dominion of Saint Macharius, the Apostle of God and the Archangel (Macharian: Dominion of Saint Macharius, the Apostle of God and the Archangel), commonly known as Holy Macharia (Macharian: Holy Macharia), is an sovereign island nation located in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
Etymology
History
19th century
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Following the assassination of St. Macharius, the Synod would set about trying to undo much of the damage the Ecclesiarch had inflicted upon the nation. Chief among these would be the numerous legislative acts he introduced during his nearly four decades-long reign. However, this would be far more difficult than was originally believed. Opposition to the repeal of the many laws and decrees was stiff, and based on a number of considerations the Synod feared would destroy the nation. The first and most concerning of these was the loss of face repealing the acts would have on the church. Any such decision to revoke the legacy of the nation's namesake and national "saint" would be considered tantamount to blasphemy, as all were pushed through by St. Macharius as having been inspired by God. To turn face and reject such "God-given inspiration" would not only be an admission of guilt for the crimes St. Macharius had committed with the Synod's full blessing, but would shatter the perception of the Ecclesiarch, and by extension the church and its governing Synod, as infallible. Years of carefully cultivated power and influence by the church would be lost in an instant, and all members of the Synod would be justifiably heard to account and punished.
The second concern was that of the preservation of the Synod 's power. The twelve members of the body had stood by for decades as St. Macharius ran the country as his own personal fiefdom, and in exchange for their silence and cooperation, they were all made kinglets in their own right by their lord and master. They had murdered the man in cold-blood both to preserve the sovereignty of the nation, but also to prevent the Ecclesiarch's madness from consuming them all as his mind continued to degrade. Any repeal of the Ecclesiarch's "divinely-inspired" laws would be viewed as an admission of guilt and jealousy from the Synod by the populous which adored the late pontiff. It would be too dangerous for the Synod to scrub the nation clean of St. Macharius's influence without exposing themselves to political rivals and opportunists who suspected them of having a hand in killing their leader, and therefore not worth the risk. The heir to the throne of the Ecclesiarch, James II St. Macharius, was fully aware of the plot against his father, and his silence had been purchused by the Synod by allowing him to rule unopposed and allowing the Synod's members to remain. Sullying the name of James Macharius would only infuriate his son, and killing him would only advertise the Synod's guilt to the world.
The third and final concern was the potential destabilizing influence repealing any of the acts would have on Macharian society. When he established the church and instituted his various edicts, St. Macharius had not merely introduced a handful of simple legal practices and social strictures. Rather, the man had completely altered the way in which Macharian society functioned in comparison to its more traditional neighbors such as Sierra and Astoria. Macharian men had several wives and many more children, mostly daughters, to care for. All land was held by the church in trust, and parceled out to families for utilization on rotating leases. The armaments of the state were held by priests and wielded by women in a mockery of modern military traditions. And the nation was a theocracy led by a self-proclaimed messiah who had invested much of his near-limitless power into the hands of a handful of self-proclaimed cardinals. Life in Macharia had been so radically altered, that to undo any of it would have horrendous consequences that could potentially destroy the nation itself. Overall, there was simply too much to fix and too much at risk if such an action was to be taken.
This was to say nothing of the elephant weighing heavily in the room; that of the potential harm unleashing hundreds or even thousands of young unmarried men into the population with no access to land, wives, or work to preoccupy themselves with would have on the nation. Most egregious of all of St. Macharius's decisions was that to cull much of the male population in the country to re-establish the system of Biblical patriarchs he had supposedly foreseen in his dreams. Capitalizing on the loss of so many men at the Battle of Tlell in 1848, St. Macharius introduced his most destructive action of all—the Family Planning Act of 1849—which prohibited the growth of the male population beyond 15-20% of the national population. Any male children born in the nation not "marked for life" by the church were to be dumped into the ocean, the idea being that St. Macharius would be reenacting the actions of the Biblical Pharaoh when he killed tens of thousands of Hebrew male infants in Egypt. All those left alive would be apart of a newly-minted "Mosaic caste" that would serve as priests and leaders that would guide the nation righteously and in the name of God.
To rebuild the male population of Holy Macharia would be to introduce demographic timebomb the nation simply wasn't prepared to handle. The priesthood would never relinquish its authority over family planning, nor would it allow its ownership of the nation's land and resources to be taken away to support these new male citizens. Family patriarchs would never wish to part with their wealth or daughters that generated it to support newly-expanded generation of young men in the unlikely event the church did rescind its population control policies. Macharian women themselves, already burdened with the labors of toiling for the state, would refuse to allow yet another party to have a say in their lives when they already had to submit themselves to God, their families, and the parish priests. The system that St. Macharius had established, flawed and insane as it was, was working. Destabilizing it to reintegrate into the cultural norms of the western world was a risk none within the Synod would dare to take. The legacy of Ecclesiarch James I St. Macharius would live on damned though it be in the eyes of his successors.
Geography and climate
Geography
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Demographics
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1850 | 297 | — |
| 1860 | 485 | +63.3% |
| 1870 | 777 | +60.2% |
| 1880 | 1,198 | +54.2% |
| 1890 | 1,783 | +48.8% |
| 1900 | 2,694 | +51.1% |
| 1910 | 4,233 | +57.1% |
| 1920 | 6,261 | +47.9% |
| 1930 | 10,265 | +64.0% |
| 1940 | 17,197 | +67.5% |
| 1950 | 27,534 | +60.1% |
| 1960 | 41,888 | +52.1% |
| 1970 | 67,997 | +62.3% |
| 1980 | 111,242 | +63.6% |
| 1990 | 172,447 | +55.0% |
| 2000 | 267,780 | +55.3% |
| 2010 | 418,189 | +56.2% |
| 2020 | 654,380 | +56.5% |
| 2021 | 690,632 | +5.5% |
Urbanization
Template:Largest cities of Holy Macharia
Languages
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Education
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Energy
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Tourism
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