Doge Land

Doge Land was a nation founded on September 30th, 573 and it collapsed on October 30th, 2125. At the time of its collapse, its population was 3.5 billion. It collapsed after a violent incident with potatoes, the nation's staple food, which caused the nation's economy to collapse, and with it, the government. It was succeeded by Weccandia.

= History =

Early History
Not much is known about Doge Land before the Doge Landian Revolution. The native people in Doge Land had settled a large area which included most of Doge Land at its peak. When the Inquisitors, a civilization from farther north, came to Doge Land, they captured the area and oppressed the native people. The people of Doge Land did not appreciate the Inquisitors coming and taking their land, and in extreme cases, taking their people. The Inquisitors were known in ancient texts as traitors, liars, and evil people in general. In the western side of Doge Land where most of the smaller tribes were, the Inquisitors were known to enslave entire tribes and slowly kill people off in tribes that did not submit immediately.

The eastern Doge Landians, which were closer to uniting than ever until the Inquisitors came, sympathized with the western Doge Landians and formed a base of operations where they would try to kick the Inquisitors out of Doge Land and save the people of western Doge Land. They formed a republic named the Doge Landian Republic and were going to try to push the Inquisitors out of eastern Doge Land and then truly found their state, and then they planned to take western Doge Land.

The Doge Landians formed a small army that, despite its size, was good at guerrilla warfare and navigating the many lush forests of Doge Land, which the Inquisitors were not. The Doge Landian force marched to the first Inquisitor base they were targeting and the Doge Landian Revolution began. It was 17 years long and was a long chase between the Doge Landians and the Inquisitors. Eventually, the Inquisitors were forced out of Doge Land and the new Doge Land Republic was truly formed on September 30th, 573.

After the revolution, tribes across the Inquisitor's territories rose up and the Inquisitors capitulated 100 years after the end of the Doge Landian Revolution in 673.

The Silent Era
Following the Doge Landian Revolution, the Doge Landian Republic was in rough shape. It had a extremely unstable economy and a extremely small military after the long and hard revolution. It could have been attacked again at any time by another nation or even just a tribe, and could collapse at any moment giving a large feeling of paranoia and uncertainty both to the populace and the government themselves. This was the start of the Silent Era, the most unstable era in Doge Land's history.

During the Doge Landian Revolution, much of Doge Land was burned by the Inquisitors and some fires were still ongoing. This required much attention as these fires could grow out of control and decimate Doge Land with its many forests. The people and the government also had no money, so they were unable to purchase anything or really do anything in general to help the people.

The majority of the Silent Era- about 750 years- was spent changing systems of government. After the revolution, the Doge Landian Republic mainly had a manorial/feudal system, but by the end of the Silent Era, these were completely abolished and replaced with a democracy. The Silent Era ended in 1323.

Economic Boom
About 100 years after the Silent Era, in 1423, the government was desperately looking for ways to make money. One day, a group of people from the government sent to look for potential ways to make money through mining, came across a mine with huge iron veins. This prompted the government to create a mining company and create several mines around the area where the large veins were found. The new company, Doge Land Iron, started looking for more veins of iron and shortly discovered that a large amount of the country were sitting on huge iron deposits. This immediately prompted trade discussions with other nations which didn't have very much iron and needed some, and made the Doge Landian government lots of money.

This government money eventually funneled into the Doge Landian people's pockets through jobs and welfare. Many people were able to get lifted out of poverty and the large cities of Bepono and Doge Land City were suddenly booming.

Northern Expansion
In 2095, Doge Land was able to expand farther northeast by claiming the Northern Territories. The Northern Territories were largely made up of desert and most of it wasn't very favorable for habitation in the days of the Inquisitors, so the old native Doge Landians did not settle there. Now with modern technology, however, Doge Landians were able to settle in the desert of the Northern Territories and many small towns popped up in the desert. The most notable was Fort Border, which wasn't exactly in the desert but was very close to it. It was surrounded by walls and was on the border with the Rumanian States, which made it a prime target for refugees and a main reason why it was surrounded by walls in the first place. There was much Doge Landian military activity taking place in and around Fort Border to make sure no refugees got in and to be first to get into Rumania if there was a war between Doge Land and Rumania.

Collapse and Aftermath
In 2123, a great civil war had broken out in Doge Land which was both a civil war between the growing traditionalist Simple Group and the Democratic Republic, as well as a war between the human majority and the non-human minority. During the war, the weak Pat Front and Sickle Party had collapsed, and in its space a puppet state controlled by the Werewolf Islands had taken its place. The Simple Group had quickly taken the state before anyone from the Werewolf Islands could arrive.

Eventually, it was just the Democratic Republic and the Simple Group left in Doge Land, and the Democratic Republic pushed the Simple Group into the very back of the Northern Territories where they could not resupply. The Simple Group surrendered on May 5th, 2124.

After the war, Doge Land was extremely unstable and many households had a divide between them, with those primarily from the East supporting a traditionalist or non-human majority state, and those from the West supporting a human-majority democratic state. A plan from the remaining leaders of the Simple Group was to force potato farmers in the East to only ship potatoes rigged with bombs to the West. They were forced to comply, however, this horribly backfired on the Simple Group, as the farmers accidentally shipped the potato bombs to places in the East as well.

When the leaders of the Simple Group pressed the detonator to set off the potato bombs, they blew up the entire country instead of just the Democratic West. When they walked out of their secret bunker near Shobeisnice, they found a devastated and collapsing country. The next day, October 30th, 2125, Doge Land was declared dissolved by the remainder of the government. Over the next few years, Doge Landians would gradually spread out throughout the world, and eventually a new nation named Weccandia took its place.

= Demographics =

Population
Of the 3.5 billion people who were living in Doge Land at its peak, 98% were humans. The other 2% were non-human species which are non-native to Doge Land. The population of Doge Land was increasing fast, and 4 years before its collapse in 2121, the Doge Land Department of Domestic Affairs said that they expected the population of Doge Land to reach 4 billion in just 20 years.

Language
There were two official languages of Doge Land: English and Doge Landian. English was widely used in government business and most households for regular discussion, however, Doge Landian was still used in older households, mainly in Shobeisnice and Shibo Mountains.

Doge Landian was the native tongue of the tribes of Doge Land, and was the only official language of Doge Land until 1423 when the economic boom began. Most of the people the government of Doge Land interacted with spoke English, so a plan to change the main language of Doge Land from Doge Landian to English was put in place and by 1793, most people in Doge Land spoke English and most government texts were translated into English, and Doge Landian began dying out. It was still standard for children to be taught Doge Landian in school, however, and Doge Landian was routinely used in diplomatic meetings to keep things secret from the person they were meeting with.

Nonadian Spanish was also spoken in some parts of the Northern Territories and also scattered throughout small communities in the nation due to a large amount of Nonadian immigrants from Nonadia, and some Doge Landians picked it up as a language.

Religion
Prior to the Doge Landian Revolution, several polytheistic religions existed in Doge Landian tribes. After the revolution and the founding of the Doge Landian Republic, all of these religions combined into one called Doge Landian. Then, a unknown prophet appeared in Doge Land bringing messages that he saw messages from a Shibe god. This was called Shibeism, and after multiple attempts at stopping it from devout Doge Landian prophets, a large following of Shibeism was created and it became the official religion of Doge Land starting in 891.

After the initial economic boom in 1423, a new religion popped up called Platiniumism or shortened to Platism. The religion was said to have originated in Platinium and gradually grew to an international religion. After a large following had generated and many churches for Platism were built throughout Doge Land, it was deemed the official religion of Doge Land in 1430.

= Economy = The economy of Doge Land largely depends on iron mining and gun production. In 1921, there was a scare in the iron mining industry after a entire mine got shut down due to a lot of the miners in it getting lead poisoning. After all of the miners were cleared out, no lead was found in the mine so people began thinking that there was a correlation between iron and lead, and that iron might have had lead in it. After closer inspection, however, it was found that the pickaxes had lead in them which went against the law and the manufacturers of that pickaxe were shut down for a while and after they opened, they found that all of their clients had left and they went out of business.

The Doge Landian Arms Manufacturing Company (DLAM) is the main producer of guns in Doge Land and has been since guns were first introduced to Doge Land. Guns were introduced to Doge Land a few years after the economic boom, and once they were revealed the Doge Landian government was extremely interested in producing them and seeing how they could innovate the field and make more money, so they created DLAM in 1464. DLAM has always been dependent on the iron industry since they made their guns out of materials that derived from iron.

= Culture = Doge Land was very secluded from the outside world for a long time, so it developed its own culture without much outside interference. The national drink of Doge Land was Sprite, or as it was called in western Doge Land, Spront. The national animal of Doge Land was the Shibe (Shiba Inu). The national bird of Doge Land was the Mallard. The currency of Doge Land was the Bepis.

= Infrastructure =

Highways + Roads
Doge Landians drive on the right side of the road, so all street signs are on the right side of the driver. There was no interstate system in Doge Land, so almost all major traffic between large cities in Doge Land were on the highways, where people could build beside and on highways coming out of extremely large cities like Bepono or Doge Land City, there were many accidents and traffic jams. It was basically impossible to expand the roads as well due to the buildings on the side, which made it so the only solution to traffic jams was to build more roads, which Doge Land was unable to do before its collapse.

Energy + Power
Doge Land generated 75% of its power through nuclear. After a measure of the CO2 outputs and the air pollution in Shobeisnice, where most of Doge Land's oil power came from, returned startling numbers, the nation was quick to move to green and renewable energy. The nation stores its excess nuclear waste in a mountain in the Northern Territories, about 100 miles away from the nearest town. 10% of the nations power is generated via wind, 10% is also generated via solar, and the remaining 5% is produced using the last remaining operational coal and oil plants.

= Geography = Doge Land was located in South Voytana.

Doge Land has many forests, and as a result, is very flat. The Shibe state, however, is very mountainous. There are a few waterfalls in Shibe and a steep elevation climb starting from just outside the state for people who would like to enter, either via road or walking. The highest peak in Doge Land is Mount Doge at 18023 feet, and the lowest point in Doge Land is The Trench of Potatoes at -1742 feet. The general average elevation in Doge Land is 199 feet, due to its very coastal nature with lots of risen elevation more inland.

= Miscellaneous = The motto of Doge Land was "Shibes, Potatoes, Bombs". It was separated into two timezones- East Doge Landian Standard Time (EDLST, UTC-4) and West Doge Landian Standard Time (WDLST, UTC-5). They did observe Daylight Savings Time. Doge Land's assigned top level domain for the internet is.

Phone Numbers
Doge Land's calling code was +77. Example Doge Landian phone number: 77-01-102-04-284491. The first 2 digits are the Doge Landian calling code, needed if you are calling from outside Doge Land, the next 2 digits is a state code (this one, 01, is for Bepis state), the next 3 digits are for a county (cannot start with 0- this one, 102, is for Bepono-Shibona County), the next 2 digits are for the city (this one, 04, is for Gooseville), and the last 6 digits are specific to the person.