Sandbox:Onaway

Onaway, known officially as the Plurinational Federative Republics of Onaway (PFRO) is a composed of forty-three constituent republics and one federal territory located on the Bansemonian  in Northwestern Vidina. Its population sits at [POPULATION SIZE], making it the most populous in the subcontinent and the [RANK IN VIDINA]. Its capital is Chawegan, while its largest city and primary commercial center is Agogibing. It is a highly diverse nation, but is unique in that it is one of the few which are have a government which is recognized as a direct continuation of a pre-colonial polity. It is culturally defined by its wide array of indigenous populations, including by order of prominence, the Ziibiwingon, Nodawa, [Beothuk], Jinal, [Algonquin], [Iroqoian], [Menominee], and [Aleutian], alongside the Measctha, the mixed-heritage group which evolved from the contact between indigenous peoples and settler populations from the Eastern Hemisphere. Indigenous and Measctha groups comprise around 80% of the overall population, while the remaining population is composed of settler populations, largely those of former Salian and Myrish colonies, as well as groups brought to the region as indentured labor, largely from in Osamia and the Kidal Sea region. Immigration to the country post-independence has seen populations grow increasingly diverse, with the most prominent sources of immigrants being from elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere.

Onaway is bordered to the Southwest by the Huenarno and [TBA SETTLER COUNTRY], and to [IROQUOIS GROUP] across the Bansemonian Mountains. It shares maritime borders with Nanmaunaktuk in the [NORTHWEST PASSAGE] and the Myrish of Helsingfed and Salme in the North Locufaric Ocean. Additionally, it is one of the few nations with a permanent non-research, non-military settled presence in [ARCTIC CONTINENT], largely centered in the city of Oodena Zhaawanong.

While humans have lived in the areas comprising the PFRO since [APPROPRIATE TIME IN ICE AGE], the modern Ordrish nation traces its history to the 13th Century CE, when Ayekist monks from Salia seeking out a location to hide religious artifacts and treasure from !TBD and Myrish raiders were blown off-course, landing near the location of modern-day Dewje'og and encountering the early Ziibiwingon. The resulting cultural and technological exchange dramatically accelerated the rate of development of Ziibiwingon society, especially in the field of metallurgy, while also starting a trend towards greater social complexity which would allow the culture to surpass the declining Gorey Culture and compete with [JINAL POLITY] during its height. The first modern Eastern Hemisphere group to make contact with one of the modern Onawean cultures were the Myrish, who encountered the [Beothuk] in today's Washdenong Republic. The Salian, Ordrish, Eduran, and the Myrish would all establish domains in the region of modern-day Onaway, but by the 17th Century would be consolidated between the domains of the Salians in the south and Myrish in the north. This occurred in the midst of the Ziibiwingon's conflict with the Nodawa, and would create an environment of instability that allowed for greater expansions of Alutran settler colonialism in the core domains of the Ziibiwingon and Nodawa alike. Numerous colonial wars would take place which would affirm the indigenous rule of the inland, but ultimately would see the Salians centralize rule in Onaway following [MAJOR ALUTRAN WAR] in the [YEAR IN THE MID-1700s], sparking the Salio-Onawean War which would last until 1824, when the Treaty of Chawegan formally established the independent Onawean nation under a Ziibiwingon monarch.

Though it faced a period of considerable instability soon after independence, by the mid-1800s it would establish itself as a major regional commercial power, and would be relatively safe from foreign intervention thanks to an alliance with Gladomyr, expanding northward into the arctic and incorporating a number of non-aligned indigenous states into its territory up through the 1860s. The Kingdom would fall in 1876 to the Jinal Empire and engage in a protracted guerrilla war while the country's indigenous nobility and a number of its political elite lived in exile in New Gladomyr on the island of Helsingfed until the First World War. The White Peace ended with Onaway having its 1824 borders restored, though would be followed by the Ogemaw War in 1919 and Bansemonian War in 1927 as Northwest Vidina destabilized further, which resulted in the restored Onawean State incorporating the remainder of the former Salian Bansemonia by the time of the First Grana Accords in 1929. The following period would be one of on-and-off political instability, culminating in the mass chaos of the 1954 Onawean coup d'etat, leading to a protracted civil war ending with a nationalist faction under King Tikhusue seizing control of the nation, beginning three decades of harshly repressive government which nearly started another civil war in 1988 when an anti-monarchist movement successfully was able to build enough popular support to begin major democratizing reforms, and later, a complete reorganization of government in 1991. Recent decades have seen the country continue to grapple with the legacy of the Years of the Vulture, as well as championing efforts of decolonization, mutual developmental aid, and a strengthening of World Forum institutions.

The modern Onawean government is officially classified as a, though it has characteristics of an in the form of the Council of Chiefs. Each Republic has a chief which acts as the chief executive of that Republic who is appointed for life. These Chiefs' main role in national government, however, is to convene upon the time of the death, removal, or abdication of the previous national Chief, known as the Principal Chief of the Onaweans, to elect one among themselves to fill the role, which serves as the nation's, which shares executive functions with the popularly-elected Chancellor and their cabinet, the State Council. A number of governmental institutions are deeply tied to pre-colonial traditions practiced by the Ziibiwingon peoples, as well as those observed within the numerous frontier communities which resisted colonial and imperial occupation throughout the years. In its current form, following the reforms of the Constitutional Restoration and subsequent efforts in democratization, modern Onaway is seen as a and, seeking to balance the desire for economic independence with global prestige and interconnection with the global economy, ranking highly among nations in terms of freedom from corruption.