सत्यमेव जयते ("Truth stands invincible") | |||||||
| Anthem | "God Save the Queen" | ||||||
| Capital | Delhi | ||||||
| Largest city | Bombay | ||||||
| Other cities | many others | ||||||
| Language official |
English (at federal level) | ||||||
| others | Hindustani, Bengali, Tamil, thousands of others | ||||||
| Religion main |
Hinduism | ||||||
| others | Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, many others | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
Indian | ||||||
| others | East Asian, Middle Eastern | ||||||
| Demonym | Indic | ||||||
| Government | Confederal parliamentary monarchy | ||||||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||||||
| Empress | Victoria II | ||||||
| Prime Minister | Abdullah bin Khalifah | ||||||
| Population | 1,170,250,000 | ||||||
| Established | January 1, 1950 | ||||||
| Independence | from British Empire | ||||||
| declared | January 1, 1950 | ||||||
| recognized | January 1, 1950 | ||||||
| Currency | Indic Pound | ||||||
| Time Zone | UTC +5 to +7 | ||||||
| summer | not observed | ||||||
| Internet TLD | .id | ||||||
The Indic Federation, often referred to as India, is a confederal state located in South Asia, occupying the entirety of the Indian subcontinent. Bordering Aryanam and Afghanistan to the west, Kashmir and Tibet to the north, Yunnan and Thailand to the east and the Indian Ocean to the south, India is one of the largest countries in the world. In regards to population, India is the largest country on Earth, at over 1.17 billion people, far outranking the second largest country, the United States of China.
The Indian subcontinent has a long and remarkable history. The region is home to one of the first developed civilisations in the form of the Indus Valley civilisation, which came to a collapse after invasion by Aryan peoples, which established the current Indic demographic majority. After this invasion, India was divided into many different kingdoms for much of its history until control by different foreign powers: first the Muslim Mughal Empire, and then after that the European British Empire, which conquered the entirety of India throughout the XIX century, either outright annexing Indian territory or turning local leaders into puppets in the form of princely states. India remained submissive under British rule until the Great War, where hundreds of thousands of Indians lost their wars, and by 1920, the League for Indian Independence was born. Of course, it wasn't until the Spencer and Macmillan premierships in the United Kingdom that India gained independence as part of the Commonwealth Realms, a more autonomous version of the Imperial Federation (which also includes the two African superpowers, the South African Union and the East African Federation). Since then, independent India, managed in a way not unlike that of the Holy Roman Empire of European history, has managed to achieve large amounts of stability despite competition and tension between its Muslim and Hindu communities.
Today, India is the largest country by population, and the fifth largest economy in the world (after the Eurasian Union, the United States, China and Germany). While not nearly as developed as other countries, it does retain a large level of growth and some development, remarkably having pulled nearly 900 million people out of absolute poverty since independence. India is a great power in geopolitics, often renowed as an useful mediator between European countries and developing countries (especially its anti-European neighbors China and, to a far lesser degree, Aryanam).
Government and Politics[]
Administrative Divisions[]
The system of administrative divisions within India is something internationally regarded as unique, due to its original status as a compromise between varying different interests. The system is widely renowed for having acknowledged the difference of ethnic and religious organisation in different parts of India, the different positions of princely states and territory that was directly administered by India, as well as a system that both creates deep federalisation but constant cooperation between all parts of the country.
India is divided into six "leagues" which compose the basic organisationary blocs of government, with the country often acting in the broad strokes of these leagues instead of the subdivision states that compose them. When the federal government addresses its subdivisions, it almost always does it through the leagues, instead of through individual states, which need to address their issues at the league level. The leagues also delegate a set number of representatives for the upper house of the Indian parliament, the Regional Council, which is in charge of several devolved affairs as well as foreign affairs and political appointments (much like the American senate). The six Leagues are as follows:
- The Muslim League, composed of Muslim Indians in the northwest,
- The League of Hind, composed of Hindu states in the north (as well as the province of Ceylon),
- The Khalistani League, dedicated to majority-Sikh provinces and Princely States,
- The League of the Mountains, composed mostly of Buddhist and Christian states in the north and northeast,
- The Gangetic League, composed of the regions in Bihar and Bengal,
- Dravida Nadu, composed of the linguistically Dravidian states in the South.
There is further two general areas that act as leagues: the Realm of the King, which, although with devolved organisation, is directly under the mandate of the Federal Government, and the Non-affiliated Princely States, which act as independent emissaries to government (and are, with the exception of Hyderabad, federations of princely states themselves).
In regards to the federal provinces, those are organised as republics under a system similar to that of the Fifteen Provinces in China, or the 49 states in the USA, with their own Constitutions and extensive devolved powers, albeit they lack the specialties of a separate army and representation in the Council of Princes (India's advisory "third house of Congress") which are reserved to the Princely States (along with the now-abolished allowance for separate penal codes, taken down after the Singh vs. Bikaner landmark case of the Indic Supreme Court, upheld by the Khan v. Hussain case of the Kalat Supreme Court and approval by the Constitutional Council).