Kingdom of Sierra

Kingdom of Sierra 9 other official names Reino de Sierra (ES) ; Royaume du Sierra (FR) ; Kaharian ng Sierra (TN) ; 黄金王國 (ZH) ; Vương Quốc Dãy Núi (VN) ; 시에라왕국(KR); シエラ王国 (JA) ; Königreich Sierra (DE); Aupuni Mōʻī o Kʻīera (HAW) ;
	Flag Coat of arms
	Motto: Libertas sine sacrificio (Latin); Liberty without sacrifice
	Anthem: For the Love of Our Union; Royal anthem: God, Country, and Crown;
	Map of the Kingdom of Sierra, with its subdivisions and colored by country
Capital; and largest city	Porciúncula
Official languages	English, Spanish, French; Tondolese, Mandarin, Vietnamese; Korean, Japanese, German,; Hawaiian
Recognised regional languages	Arabic, Armenian,; Gilbertese, Navajo,; Pascuan, Samoan
Ethnic groups (2010)	46% White; 27% Asian; 5% Black; 1% Native Sierran; 1% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; 20% Mixed or other
Demonym(s)	Sierran
Constituent countries; (Non-sovereign parts)	Bajaría; Deseret; Hawaii; Sierra;
Government	Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Queen	Elizabeth II (I)
• Prime Minister	Cedric Harrison (DR)
Legislature	Parliament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	House of Commons
Independence from Mexico
• Declared	June 14, 1846
• Recognized	February 2, 1848
• Constitution	November 27, 1858
• Charter	June 23, 1950
Area
• Total	1,473,799 km2 (569,037 sq mi)
• Water (%)	8.99
Population
• 2014 estimate	83,482,779
• 2010 census	78,237,101
• Density	53.08/km2 (137.5/sq mi) (124th)
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$5.153 trillion (6th)
• Per capita	$61,725 (9th)
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Total	$6.789 trillion (4th)
• Per capita	$81,322 (2nd)
Gini (2014)	0.491; low
HDI (2017)	0.926; very high · 5th
Currency	Sierran dollar ($) (KSD)
Time zone	UTC−10 to −5, +12 to +14 (HAST, PST, MT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−10 to +15 (MST)
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+1
ISO 3166 code	KS
Internet TLD	.ks
	Website; www.sierra.gc.ks

This article is about the sovereign state. For the constituent country with the same name, see Sierra.

The Kingdom of Sierra ( [[:Media:Kingdom of Sierra.ogg|Listen]] (help·info): /kɪŋdəm əv sɪˈɛərə/) (Spanish: Reino de Sierra, French: Royaume du Sierra, Tondolese: Kaharian ng Sierra, Chinese: 黄金王國, Vietnamese: Vương Quốc Dãy Núi, Korean: 시에라왕국, Japanese: シエラ王国, German: Königreich Sierra, and Hawaiian: Aupuni Mōʻī o Kʻīera) is a sovereign state in the Conference of American States and constitutional monarchy with territory in the western region of North America, the Pacific, and the Yucatán. It shares borders with Astoria and Superior to the north; Brazoria to the east; Mexico to the south; and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

The Kingdom is composed of four parts: the Bajaría, Deseret, Hawaii, and Sierra, all of which are constituent countries which share the same unified government and monarchy as co-equal members. Most of the Kingdom's affairs however, occur within the country of Sierra, which comprises nearly three-fourths of the Kingdom's population and over one-third of the total area. Due to this, Bajaría, the Deseret, and Hawaii are heavily dependent on Sierra on matters and policy on foreign affairs and defense. Nonetheless, these three countries enjoy substantial autonomy with their own devolved legislatures, while Sierra has none. The Kingdom historically existed as Sierra alone, whereas the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría were administered as territories of Sierra, with Sierra as the successor state to the California Republic through the Constitution of 1850. The Kingdom in its current form was established by the Charter for the Kingdom of Sierra in 1950 when the Parliament of Sierra gave the Deseret and Hawaii a great extent of autonomy as countries while simultaneously reducing Sierra to equal status. The former territories of El Norte became confederated as Bajaría and became the fourth constituent country in 2021.

The nature of the Kingdom is unique, in that, although all four are subject to the same Crown, government, and charter as co-equals, the Kingdom itself is an asymmetrically federal state, wherein Sierra holds the most influence and powers by de facto. Lacking its own devolved parliament but holding both the seat of government of the Kingdom in its territory and with the most representation (due to its population size), Sierra is fundamentally integral to Kingdom affairs and policy. Within Sierra, it features its own federal system, with 24 provinces and 8 territories and its own constitution. Its head of government, the Prime Minister, serves as the entire Kingdom's head of government, while the Monarch, serves as the head of state for both entities. In the Deseret, the country is a theodemocratic unitary state that is nonetheless statistically divided into five regions. It has its own legislature, the unicameral Council of Fifty, and is led by the executive Quorum of Twelve. In Hawaii and Bajaría, both feature federal systems similar to Sierra with five regular states and three reservation states in Hawaii, and five states in Bajaría respectively. Hawaii's legislature is the National Hawaiian Congress and the islands' executive is the Premier of Hawaii. Bajaría is governed by its own executive, the First Minister of Bajaría, and its legislature, the Parliament of Bajaría.

History

The Kingdom of Sierra's originally formed through the promulgation of the Constitution of 1858, a legal document that formally ended the California Republic and established the Kingdom. California gained its independence from the Centralist Republic of Mexico in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a treaty that ended the nearly two-year long Mexican-American War. Ten years later, due to political instability and corruption, Californian leaders met together in a convention to form a new constitution that would strengthen the country. Two political camps arose: the Monarchists and the Republicans, the former desiring a monarchy while the latter a continuation of the American-styled republican model used at the time. Eventually, a compromise was struck, with California slated to become a limited monarchy with American federal republican elements infused into the constitution. The convention president, Charles Miller, would be crowned Sierra's first king in 1858, thus forming the Kingdom.

The Kingdom faced early opposition and controversy during its inaugural years, particularly over the disputed legitimacy of the Monarchy. Many Republicans felt that the monarchy was unrepresentative of the people, and saw the brokered Constitution as merely a temporary agreement that would rescinded once the Sierran government abolished the monarchy. However, the royal institution had become firmly rooted into the system by the 1870s and was backed by a powerful coalition of businessmen, industrialists, conservative citizens, and merchants. Following the rise of Democratic-Republican leadership, the monarchy faced the real threat of dissolution, especially under the helm of Prime Minister Ulysses Perry, who strongly advocated for its abolition. Perry was assassinated before his goals were realized, and his death served as a catalyst for the Sierran Civil War, which pitted Monarchists against Republicans over the state of the Kingdom.

The war ended in 1877 with the Republicans defeated, and the monarchy preserved. During the war, the Deseret region, which had attempted to gain statehood into the United States and California, declared its own independence, and fought against the Kingdom. The Deseret remained an unrecognized, self-governing republic until the Deseret War in the 1880s when the Kingdom seized back control. Following the war, the Deseret was first administered as a territory under direct control by Parliament before it was allowed legally sanctioned autonomy through the Organic Act of 1896, although not to the extent it would enjoy in the post-Charter era. Hawaii, which was an independent kingdom at the time, became part of the Sierran sphere of influence as Sierran businessmen and missionaries began to settle in the islands. By 1864, following the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, the islands were forcefully annexed into Sierra and would not receive home rule until the Organic Act of 1896. Bajaría formerly encompassed four territories which were obtained from Mexico by conquest or unequal treaties. The territories were collectively known as El Norte and they were, and continue to be disputed with Mexico. In 2021, Bajaría was created and became the fourth constituent country.

Other islands in the Pacific were acquired during the late 19th century under an imperialist-driven Sierra including the Rapa Nui, the Samoan Islands, Bénieîle, and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Like Hawaii, these islands would not receive home rule until the Organic Act of 1896, but to this day, remain unincorporated territories of Sierra, rather than constituent countries of the Kingdom or independent states.

Countries

Overview

Name	Population (2020)		Area		Pop. density (per sq mi; 2020)	Gross value added (2020)
Name	Numbers	%	sq mi	%	Pop. density (per sq mi; 2020)	$	%	$ per capita
Bajaría	12,080,340	14%	130,466	23%	92.59	755 billion	11%	62,492
Deseret	2,763,885	3%	84,899	15%	32.55	215 billion	4%	77,983
Hawaii	1,360,301	2%	10,931	2%	124.44	92 billion	2%	68,004
Sierra	59,603,611	71%	473,207	83%	125.96	5,085 billion	71%	85,320
Rest of the Kingdom^[a]	7,674,642	9%	2,423^[b]	–^[c]	3,167.41	1,082 billion	15%	87,825
Kingdom of Sierra	83,482,779	100%	569,037	100%	146.70	7,127 billion	100%	85,370

Sierra

Map of the Sierran mainland with its provinces.

Sierra is a representative semi-presidential democracy organized as a federal state with 24 semi-republican provinces. In addition to its own national constitution, all of the provinces have their own constitutions, governments, legislatures, and elected officials. Each province is further divided into counties or county-equivalents, which in turn, are divided into municipalities or townships. Legislation concerning federal government in Sierra is determined by the Kingdom's Parliament of Sierra and the Government of Sierra as Sierra has no devolved legislature. Sierra's head of state, is the Monarch, whose primary residence lies in Porciúncula. The head of government of Sierra is the Prime Minister, who is also the head of government of the Kingdom.

Like parliamentary nations, the Prime Minister is both a member of the executive and legislative branch. However, unlike true parliamentary prime ministers, the Sierran prime minister is elected directly by the people to assume the office of the Prime Minister (similar to a presidential republic) and a seat in Parliament simultaneously. Since the Prime Minister is directly elected by the general public, the Prime Minister serves on a fixed term of four years (which can be renewed indefinitely by winning more elections), as opposed to commanding the confidence of the Parliament. Without a fusion of government, and instead, a near-complete separation of power, the Parliament is a co-equal institution with the executive government and the Supreme Court, and does not possess parliamentary sovereignty seen in other parliamentary systems. However, Sierra is not a full presidential system either, with the Prime Minister as the head of government while the Monarch as the head of state, making it a semi-presidential system.

The "federal government" expressed by the Constitution of Sierra is homonymous with the government at the Kingdom-level as prior to the 1950 Charter, the Sierran Constitution and its government was the highest-tier of government in all of the Kingdom. As a result, while Sierra's government is practically the Kingdom's, Sierra's constitution and federal system is confined to its own territory, and does not extend or apply to the Deseret and Hawaii which maintain their own governments and laws. Nonetheless, the Charter reaffirms the status of the Constitution as the source and regulator of the Kingdom's various institutions including the Parliament and the Supreme Court. Due to this, Sierra is the only one of the three countries that operates its affairs domestically and internationally as the Kingdom of Sierra.

Bénieîle

Flag of Bénieîle, City of Port-Vila

Bénieîle is an unincorporated, organized territory of Sierra consisting of 83 islands (65 of which are inhabited) which are administratively divided into five parishes: Espiritu Santo, Pénot, Pentecôte, Vate, Torrès, and Yasur. Located in the South Pacific Ocean, Bénieîle was originally known as Vanuatu and was colonized by Sierra in 1861 alongside the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Bénieîle was administered as a part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands until 1901 when the French-majority inhabitants and indigenous natives sought their own autonomous government.

Its executive head is the Territorial Governor, overseen by the Kingdom's representative, the Lord Proprietor of Bénieîle, and its legislature is the bicameral Bénieîle Legislative Assembly. Heavily reliant on tourism and shipping, Bénieîle has been described as the "Kingdom's Tropical Jewel". Since the 2000s, political groups in Bénieîle have pushed to change the status of the islands, leaning towards either constituent country-status, or provincehood. In 2003, 52% of Bénieîle's citizens voted to maintain the status quo of the territory's political status. However, voter turnout was lower than expected, and pressure advocacy groups called for another vote. Another referendum regarding the future of Bénieîle's status is scheduled to take place in October 2016.

Crown Pacific Islands

The Crown Pacific Islands consists of small, uninhabited islands in the Pacific including Clipperton Island.

The Crown Pacific Islands are a collection of numerous small islands and islets distributed throughout the Pacific Ocean. The territory encompasses any islands Sierra controls that do not fall in the jurisdiction of any other territory. None of the islands are inhabited, although on some of the larger islands, non-permanent residents reside seasonally to conduct scientific research or military operations. Directly administered by the Parliament, the Crown Pacific Islands are unorganized, unincorporated territory. The islands included in the Crown Pacific Islands are as follows:

Although in the past, there have been attempts to implant a sustainable, permanent population in some of the islands (such as the Revillagigedo Islands), there have been no current plans by the government to lease its lands to the public. Over 80% of the islands are directly owned by the Sierran federal government, with the remaining 20% privately owned by nature conservancy or scientific research organizations. Access to nearly all the islands are restricted to the public.

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Flag of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands (also known as Kiribati locally) are unincorporated, organized territory comprised of 34 atolls and reef islands across the equatorial line in the central Pacific Ocean. Its administration consists of the Territorial Governor and the Lord Proprietor, the latter who represents the Monarch, and the Executive Council. The people are represented in the unicameral House of Assembly. Administratively, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands are divided into six districts. Unlike the other territories of Sierra, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands uses the Australian dollar, as opposed to the Sierran dollar. The Australian currency has been in use since 2007 after it discontinued the circulation of the Gilbertese dollar, the territory's official currency.

Sierran Samoa

The Sierran Samoa is unincorporated, organized territory comprised of the five easternmost islands and two coral atolls of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Over 90% of Sierran Samoan citizens are ethnic Samoan, with Samoan and English the territory's official languages. Its seat of government is the capital, Fagatogo, where the Territorial Governor and Lord Proprietor resides, and where the Samoan bicameral legislature, the Fono, convenes. Its political status is similar to that of the Los Pacíficos where the Sierran Constitution only applies partially. In Parliament, the Sierran Samoa is represented by a non-voting Resident Commissioner in the House of Commons.

Deseret

The Salt Lake Temple, the largest of Mormon temples in the world, in Salt Lake City.

A map of the Deseret, highlighted in relation to the Kingdom

The Deseret is a unitary constitutional sacerdotal-theodemocratic state. Its administration (based in Salt Lake City) consists of the President who heads the Executive Quorum of Twelve, a body that is simultaneously a component in the leadership of the separate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Deseret's official state church. Its own devolved legislature, the unicameral Council of Fifty, represents the people across the Deseret's fifty stakes. The political framework is defined within the Constitution of the Deseret, although the Mormon "standard works" including the Bible and the Book of Mormon are also considered part of the Deseretan legal system to some extent.

Originally a territory of Sierra, the Deseret has been a Mormon stronghold with a Canaanite minority since the early 19th century. The Deseret originally sought statehood within the United States or Sierra's predecessor, the California Republic. After its statehood campaign failed and California reorganized as the Kingdom, the Deseret declared its own republic, which remained unrecognized but de facto independent until the Deseret War. After the war, Parliament passed the Organic Act of 1896 which allowed the Deseret to preserve its leadership with delineated autonomy. However, the Act mandated that the territorial government remain secular under the Constitution's separation of church and state principle. The Deseret received further autonomy when Parliament conferred additional rights to the Deseret and other territories through the Organic Act of 1896, allowing the Deseret to create its own constitution and deviate from the political model established in the 1878 Organic Act.

The organization, government, and status of the Deseret remained unchanged up until 1950, following the conclusion of Great War I when the call for more autonomy was met with support from within, and in Porciúncula. Through the passage of the Charter for the Kingdom of Sierra, the constituent state of the Deseret was created, allowing it to maintain a high degree of independence and self-government, save for certain issues such as foreign policy and national defense. Under the new Charter, the Deseret reformed its government, approving the modern theodemocratic model on the day of the Charter's promulgation. The Deseret has maintained this model ever since.

Hawaii

Map of the main islands of Hawaii

Hawaii is a representative semi-presidential democracy organized as a federal state with 8 states through its Constitution (which is similar to Sierra's). Each of the states maintain their own governments, legislatures, constitutions, and laws. As a constituent state of the Kingdom, Hawaii's head of state is the Monarch, and the viceregal representative is the Prince, the only subnational monarchy in the Kingdom. The head of government is the Premier, who is elected on a four-year term. Unlike the Prime Minister of Sierra, the Premier has no official role in the legislature, the National Hawaiian Congress, where the executive and legislative branches are completely separate. The Congress, a bicameral legislature with the Senate as the upper house and House of Representatives as the lower house, is responsible for legislation and fiscal appropriation. The Supreme Court of Hawaii is the highest court in the Hawaiian legal system and is composed of one chief justice and six associate justices.

Hawaii has been under the Sierran sphere of control since at least the early 1860s when Sierran businessmen, merchants, and missionaries first began settling and living on the islands alongside the natives, and other foreigners. As Sierran dominance and influence grew, Sierra was poised to have Hawaii become a strategic trading ally in the Pacific. However, the Sierrans who had transplanted in Hawaii and developed the islands' sugar plantation economy, desired to gain political power, who had been denied so by the native Hawaiian monarchy. In order to gain traction, the white Sierrans organized together to apply pressure on the Hawaiian government, to concede privileges and rights onto them. Although the Hawaiian government complied to the Sierrans' demands, these were deemed insufficient and in a rebellion in 1865, forced the Hawaiian monarchy to sign the Bayonet Constitution, a document that stripped the Hawaiian monarchy much of its powers.

When King Kamehameha V attempted to rewrite the constitution, the Sierran elites deemed this a threat and a conspiracy to overthrow the Hawaiian government completely was formed and executed in the 1869 coup d'état. Establishing the Provisional Government of Hawaii, the Sierrans stripped the natives of their rights and created a new legislature composed entirely of landowning white males to vote for annexation into Sierra. The Sierran government, which had supported imperialist projects in the past, faced international scrutiny when it negotiated the annexation with Hawaii. In 1870, despite international concern, Sierra declared its acquisition of Hawaii and created the Territory of Hawaii. The rights of the natives would be restored gradually over the years, and the government of Hawaii was formally organized through the Organic Act of 1880. Hawaii would remain a territory until the 1950 Charter when it and the Deseret were elevated to constituent countries of equal status with Sierra. Having had been the site of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Sierran politicians believed that the Hawaiians deserved their own autonomous nation, believing that the local populace understood the islands' needs more than those in Porciúncula. Through the legacy of Sierran governance, the new Hawaiian government adopted Sierra's federal system and organized itself in 8 individual states.

Bajaría

Government

Charter and constitutions

The Constitution of Sierra, while describes the institutions of the Kingdom, is subordinate to the Charter.

The Charter for the Kingdom of Sierra is the supreme legal document governing the Kingdom. The constitutions of Sierra, the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría, govern and regulate the political and legal structures of each respective country, but the Sierran constitution establishes and regulates the institutions of the Kingdom confirmed through the Charter. Additional provisions for clarifications are added onto these constitutional institutions in the Charter and are only applicable when they affect Sierra, the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría. Any affairs that do not affect the Kingdom as a whole but only in Sierra are handled within the Sierran constitution, the most prominent being the Sierran federal system (although Hawaii and Bajaría have similar but separate systems). With regards to its own affairs, Sierra operates in both capacities as an independent state and as the Kingdom of Sierra. The Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría cannot do the same for affairs of the Kingdom that apply solely to themselves and not to federal Sierra either. Modifications to the Charter may be only done through legislation in the Parliament and the approval of the legislatures of the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría.

Monarchy

The Crown is the political entity considered as the legal foundation of the government of the Kingdom, seen as the embodiment and living incorporation of the Sierran nation itself, along with its laws and sovereignty. The monarch, who possesses the Crown, is thus seen as the Kingdom's head of state. In actuality however, the Monarch is greatly limited by the Constitution, with most of the powers and rights granted to the Monarch being invested into the hands of the popularly-elected Prime Minister, who for all intents and purposes, wields the true duty of leading the nation as its head of government.

While the Monarch entrusts most of their responsibilities and duties to the Prime Minister, there are several reserve powers (known as the royal prerogative) which the Monarch retains. However, out of customary convention and political reasons, such use of the reserved powers are almost always conducted through the informed advice of the Prime Minister. The Monarch executing their royal prerogatives independent of prior consultation and advice by the Prime Minister is exceedingly rare and heavily discouraged, especially if used for wholly political purposes. Among these royal prerogatives include the act of assent, the issuance of letters patent and edicts, the issuance of pardons, and the declarations of war and peace with the consent of Parliament. The Constitution declares that all of the Monarch's royal prerogatives may be carried out on their behalf by the Prime Minister. This constitutes the basis of much of the powers the Prime Minister has in addition to their capacity in heading the civilian department of the executive branch.

Parliament

The Parliament is the supreme legislature of the Kingdom, and house members from Sierra, the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría in both the Senate and the House of Commons. The Parliament is also the de facto national legislature of Sierra, which has no intermediary-level devolved legislature as the Deseret and Hawaii do (which has the Council of Fifty and National Hawaiian Congress respectively). The Kingdom Parliament is responsible for legislating the Kingdom's laws and is composed of 341 members (76 in Senate and 265 in House), all of whom are elected directly by the general populace from a single-member district (from a secondary-level political division such as a province or state in the Senate and a population-based constituency in the House). In the Senate, members are elected every 6 years, with terms staggered so that approximately a third of the Senate's seats are open to election every two years. In the House, members are elected every 2 years with all seats open to election at the same time.

Judiciary

The Supreme Court of Sierra is the court of last resort in the Kingdom and is the highest court in the Sierran federal system. The primary function of the Supreme Court is to interpret constitutional law including the Charter, and to review cases whose issues are applicable by such law. As the final arbiter and interpreter, the majority of the cases it reviews are of appellate jurisdiction as opposed to original jurisdiction. As a result, it is the job of the Supreme Court to determine which cases may be reviewed, and if reviewed, determine the constitutionality of issues raised in a case, rather than the actual substantive case and the judgmental outcome of the defendant. Generally, unless the issue itself is a matter concerning the Charter, the Supreme Court defers to the decisions made by the Supreme Courts of the Deseret and Hawaii in their respective jurisdictions.

Legal status

International community

Within the international community, the Kingdom of Sierra is recognized as a sovereign state by all member states of the League of Nations. It has been a member state of the Conference of American States, a supranational union comprising several member states in the Americas since 1965. The Kingdom has a permanent seat in the League of Nations Security Council, and is a member state of various organizations including the Indo-Pacific Treaty Organization, G8, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As stipulated by the Charter, only the Kingdom may operate and conduct foreign affairs on behalf of its constituent states although in practice, it is Sierra which unofficially controls the Kingdom's foreign policy and receives diplomatic representatives and dignitaries in Porciúncula. Generally, when Sierra initiates and concludes negotiations with other nations that applies to the entire Kingdom, it confers with the legislatures of the Deseret and Hawaii prior to ratifying the agreement although the Charter does not explicitly obliges it to. The Charter simply affirms provisions from the Constitution which states that the Parliament must review any treaties negotiated by the Prime Minister prior to taking effect to Sierra (and thus the Kingdom). Out of courtesy and formality however, the Sierran government usually discusses the plan with the governments of the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría, which in turn, generally assent without contest.

The Charter provides for provisions where its constituent states may engage in international organizations or agreements separately and individually, although in all cases, they must be approved by Parliament and be consistent with the Charter and the Kingdom's policies. For instance, if the Deseret wishes to enter into a bilateral agreement with Astoria without the rest of the Kingdom, it may, so long as such an agreement does not violate or contradict an existing agreement or precedent set by the Kingdom. Conversely, the Charter allows constituent states to opt out agreements or organizations that includes the Kingdom although the criteria for such is stricter and more difficult to achieve.

Distinction between Sierra and the Kingdom

Both within and outside the Kingdom of Sierra, the English short-form name "Sierra" is generally understood to mean the constituent part of Sierra (this may include Sierra's territories and crown dependencies). The "Sierran mainland", "federal Sierra", "Sierra proper", or the "mainland" are sometimes used to add clarity when referring to only the continental and contiguous part of Sierra (excluding the Los Pacíficos which are not considered an integral part of Sierra). However, it is much more common for outsiders to use Sierra to refer to the entire Kingdom, often assuming that the Deseret, Hawaii, and Bajaría are merely territorial subunits within Sierra, the country. The designation of the names to their corresponding areas may even be reversed, with those using the terms "Kingdom" or the "Kingdom of Sierra" to refer to the Sierran mainland, excluding the Deseret and Hawaii, and to a lesser extent, Sierra's territories, rather than the Kingdom itself through its capacity made by the Charter. This confusion is similarly carried over to flags, with the flag of the Kingdom sometimes associated and labeled as exclusively with Sierra, neglecting the fact that Sierra itself has its own flag (which is merely a simpler variant of the Kingdom's flag containing no encircled star).

Due to Sierra's organization as a federal government, and the almost nonexistent distinction between Sierra's own government with the Kingdom, the term "federal" is often erroneously used to refer to the government of the Kingdom. When used properly, the term "federal" refers to Sierra's federal system and the governments primarily subject to the Sierran Constitution. "Provincial" is exclusively used to refer to Sierra's federal provinces, and never used to describe the Deseret or Hawaii, as well as their subdivisions (which are stakes and states respectively). The terms "central" or "royal" are seen as the correct adjectives to describe the government of the Kingdom.

The "Kingdom" is the prevailing and officially accepted short-form term within the Kingdom to refer to the entirety of the Kingdom by which the Charter applies. When the name "Sierra" is applied to the Deseret, Hawaii, or Bajaría, it is considered erroneous, or even offensive by residents from these two states, with this mistake almost exclusively used by few in Sierra proper and foreigners.

Timeline of the Kingdom

Time	Countries	Changes
1848–1858	California	Gains independence from Mexico
1858–1950	Sierra	Succeeds the California Republic through the 1858 Constitution
1950–2021	Deseret Hawaii Sierra	Charter for the Kingdom of Sierra signed.
2021–present	Bajaría Deseret Hawaii Sierra	Bajaría is admitted as the fourth country.

Notes

↑ Rest of the Kingdom, including Sierra's territories and crown dependencies
↑ Does not include area for the Sierran Antarctic Territory, West Colorado, and West New Mexico
↑ Officially not counted towards Kingdom's area statistics

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