{"id":1102,"date":"2015-11-03T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/?post_type=yada_wiki&#038;p=1102"},"modified":"2018-03-10T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T22:04:36","slug":"the-kingdom-of-balkland","status":"publish","type":"yada_wiki","link":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wiki\/the-kingdom-of-balkland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Balkland"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>As you can see, this article has yet to be completed. Check back often to learn more!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction\/Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographic coordinates:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Maritime claims:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural hazards:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>People and Society:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Population:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Stereotypical Balcheri:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Religions:\u00a0<\/strong>B'nach\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Secondary:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Holidays:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Government:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Type:\u00a0<\/strong>Absolute monarchy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legislative?:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Judicial?:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: <\/strong>Bergenhavn<\/li>\n<li><strong>Administrative divisions:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal system, if any:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Citizenship:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>National symbol:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flag:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Economy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overview:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Currency:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Military:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Transnational issues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Treaties:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Disputes:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is known:<\/p>\n<p>Balkland is known to be a fierce, somewhat primitive, and largely misunderstood country in the far north of the continent of Korak.<\/p>\n<p>They maintain a complex seafaring culture and their warships are light and fast. Their wolfpack tactics at sea are feared by most of the nations of Sylantia.<\/p>\n<p>Their society is clan-based (as is much of <a class=\"tiddlyLink tiddlyLinkExisting\" title=\"Menelon - Songstress, 2\/16\/2008, 9:14:00 AM\">Menelon<\/a>) and largely patriarchal.<\/p>\n<p>As a people they worship the God <a class=\"tiddlyLink tiddlyLinkExisting\" title=\"B'nach - Alesia, 5\/21\/2007, 9:49:00 PM\">B'nach<\/a> and for centuries it was the only recognized religion within the country's borders. In 589 <a class=\"tiddlyLink tiddlyLinkExisting\" title=\"Olaf II - Alesia, 1\/25\/2007, 1:23:00 PM\">King Olaf<\/a> allowed the legal worship of <a class=\"tiddlyLink tiddlyLinkExisting\" title=\"Urilia - Alesia, 1\/23\/2007, 11:13:00 AM\">Urilia<\/a>\u00a0(as opposed to the worship of the Sea Goddess) within Balkland's borders.<\/p>\n<p>The years 589 - 593 have seen a vast cultural and societal evolution in Balkland as they've given up their isolationist policies and have become embroiled in international politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"wiki_cats":[163],"wiki_tags":[153,144],"class_list":["post-1102","yada_wiki","type-yada_wiki","status-publish","hentry","wiki_cats-countries-korak","wiki_tags-balkland","wiki_tags-korak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yada_wiki\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yada_wiki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/yada_wiki"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yada_wiki\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yada_wiki\/1102\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wiki_cats","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wiki_cats?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"wiki_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorpublications.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wiki_tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}