Ordrey

Ordrey (Ordrish: Ordra), officially styled the Union State of Ordrey (Ordish: Conathú Amthóth Brói Ordrais) is a in Eastern Alutra. It is bordered to the north by Badomyr, to the south by Lathadu, and shares a maritime border with Salia across the Seda Sea. It is bordered to the west by [x] across the Colmare River. The capital is Vernon, while its largest city and center of commercial activity is Noters. [Sentence on territory size and rank on the continent]. It is composed of 19 provinces, each of which have a substantial degree of political, administrative, and economic autonomy, though the nation itself practices a form of decentralized internally, which encourages significant inter-provincial coordination.

While occupied as early as the neolithic era, modern Ordrish populations are descendants of the Continental Sedes, which migrated to the region in the 6th Century BCE, following the decline of the Old Gundahar Culture and the northwards retreat of the Old Elyrians. This collection of tribes would gradually join into the Sedic Confederation c. 244 BCE during its earliest phases of expansion. After the disintegration of the Sedic Confederation in 85 CE, the areas of modern-day Ordrey and Lathadu, as well as portions of southern [ANDEMYR] came under control of Ordrish-speaking Sedes. As the tribes coalesced into more centralized feudal polities in the middle ages, a semi-unified Duchy was established, though it would be subsumed into the Kingdom of Salia through the Concordat of Noters in 1043, which formally established Ayekism as the Ordrish religion, and uniting the crowns, with Ordrey given a degree of autonomy. After a brief campaign of resistance to integration by Canachite hard-liners, many Ordrish nobles and clergy fled south to Lathadu, where they maintained their customs until [year of Lathadun conquest]. Despite Canachism’s forbiddance in much of Ordrey, it remained practiced in secret and in remote areas throughout the remainder of the Salian occupation.

After [Salian Absolutist]’s revocation of the Concordat of Noters in [year] in response to the Pretender’s Revolt, Salia attempted to consolidate further control in Ordrey, and to enforce Ayekist orthodoxy following a resurgence of Sanachism on the continent. The Ordrish Wars of Religion that followed would ravage the country and destabilize the nascent Salian Empire. While it resulted in a Salish victory, the times which followed were marked by considerable social unrest, as well as a greater interest in Ordrish culture and history, in a time known as the Century of Enmity. Salia’s empire on mainland Alutra would come to an end in 1757 in the War of the Ordrish Succession, in which Damos a’Garmaros, a pretender with substantial backing from other major powers on the continent successfully restored an independent Ordrish nation.

Ordrey became the first nation to, with the first mass production textile mill sparking the in 1798. It came to establish its own brief colonial empire to advance its commercial aims and prestige over the course of the 19th Century, and would establish itself as one of the key diplomatic players in the Eastern Hemisphere. The kingdom would be dismantled and replaced with a republic following a referendum in 1901. It would again be reformed into a second republic in the wake of continual struggles with the pre-republic aristocracy which culminated in a constitutional crisis in 1929. The second republic too would implode following a prolonged recession and ineffective governance, being overthrown by a Velorenka-backed one-party state. The Ordrish Workers’ Party relinquished its monopoly in government in 2000, though it remains the predominant political force in the nation and enjoys continued support in the nation’s.

The Union State of Ordrey is a member of the [Sedic International Org], [Alutran Political and Economic Orgs], and the [League of Nations]. While one of the few in the world, it is a primary exporter of coal, steel, fish, and textiles, and has begun to exhibit a strong information technology sector. It is primarily an industrial economy, though it is slowly becoming reliant on services. Ordrey is considered a, and has a very high ; however, its GDP is the lowest in East Alutra, and it faces the beginnings of a possible demographic crisis as their population has experienced the first period of net decline in its history over the past decade according to the 2019 Census.

Etymology
[Picture of karst topography] Ordrey takes its name from the Proto-Ordrish word “eorþreced” (literally: earth-house, cave), in reference to the topography that defines much of the nation, as well as its multitude of mines. [Sentence on earliest known usage of the name].

As denoted by the modern constitution, the official name for Ordrey is Conathú Amthóth Brói Ordrais.

Geography

 * Main article: Geography of Ordrey

Ordrey occupies a portion of Eastern Alutra, and is bordered by [country count] countries - [ANDEMYR], Lathadu, [count] on the continent, as well as a maritime border with Salia. Its land borders occupy a total length of [LENGTH], as well as a total coastline length of [COASTLINE]. Its total land area is [AREA], placing it at [SIZE RANK], [BETWEEN COUNTRIES].

Its landscape is generally divided into five geographic zones, defined by and. It includes the Lanare, the Carrlands, the Penguinnes, the Glens of the Colmare River valley, and the Lenach. The Lanare defines most of the country’s landmass, sloping up from the coast of the Seda Sea to the foothills of the Pomaros. These hills separate the region longitudinally from the drier Glen country to the west, and further to the Comare River. The Blaire River defines much of the border with [ANDEMYR]. The section of the Pomaros north of it owned by Ordrey comprises the Lenach, while the southern bank of the Blaire makes up the Carrlands.