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Dayganistan General Overview

The Republic of Dayganistan
جمهوری دهقانستان



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Population: 107,631,260
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Capital (and largest city): Kabul


Official Language: Persian



Demonym: Daygani

Government:
- President: Aryana Zahir


Legislature:
- Loya Jirga


Establishment:
- 1747 (first unified state)
- 1920 (current borders established)
- 1937 (republic established)


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GDP (nominal): 840 billion
GDP (nominal) per capita: 7,804


Human Development Index: 0.799


Currency: Daygani


Drives on the: Right


Internet TLD: .dg

Dayganistan, officially The Republic of Dayganistan, is a republic in south-central Asia. It shares land borders with Pakistan, India, China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. As well, it has a coastline on the Arabian Sea. The people who inhabit the land generally trace their history back to ancient times, with some ethnic groups claiming descent from Alexander the Great's Macedonian army although the truth of such claims is hotly debated. The name of the nation in English is an erroneous transliteration from Persian. Modern transliteration (and a proposed Latin script for the Persian language in Dayganistan) would render the name as Dehqoniston in Latin script, roughly translating to "Land of the Farmers" or "Land of the Settled People" in contrast to their nomadic neighbours in Central Asia

The establishment of a unified state which somewhat resembles modern day Dayganistan was in 1747, when a Tajik emir, Timur Shah Rahman, began to unify various tribes and ethnicities in order to resist encroachment into the region by British and Russian colonial ambitions. As Timur Shah expanded the land sunder his rule, the nation was known variously as the Rahmani Dynasty or the Daygani Empire. The Rahmani Dynasty continued to expand its holdings through the 18th and 19th centuries until ultimately, Russia and Britain became too powerful for the Dayganis to fight. The Daygani government negotiated with the Russians and British to formalize their borders, although the Russian revolution lead to Dayganistan enforcing its border with the Russian Empire with no negotiation. The border with British India was firmly established in 1920, which lead to the establishment of current, unchanged borders.

The Rahmani Dynasty would not last much longer, however. Inspired by the reforms of Mustafa Kemal in Turkey, a political movement formed in Dayganistan for the overthrow of the monarchy and a move to a modern, secularized state. This culminated in the Daygani Revolution of 1937 in which protestors and sympathetic elements of the army stormed the royal palace in Kabul and declared the establishment of a republic. A period of stability and rapid economic growth followed. As the nation was spared the devastation of the Second World War, it became a destination for investment by American and European powers, while the Soviet Union desperately tried to court Dayganistan into its sphere of influence through funding infrastructure projects. This period of prosperity was interrupted by an invasion by the Soviet Union and a subsequent war which lasted from late 1980 to 1983. Much of the nation's industry and major population centers were spared from the fighting, which remained concentrated in the northern part of the country and as a result the nation was able to quickly return to prosperity following victory over the Soviets.

Since the war with the Soviets, Dayganistan has undergone a period of democratic backsliding through a family political dynasty in it's 3rd generation with the sitting president, Aryana Zahir. The sitting president at the time of the war, Rustam Zahir, assumed emergency powers as a result of the war. With the end of the war in 1983, Zahir refused to relinquish his emergency powers, citing a continued threat in the form of the rise of fundamentalist Islamist movements as well as the possibility that the Soviets might come back to try to force communism again, or the possibility that the Chinese may make an attempt to succeed where the Soviets failed. Rustam died in 1998 and his son, Hafez Zahir, stood for election in the 2000 presidential election. Hafez was reelected in 2005 and 2010, his father having abolished presidential term limits. Due to health concerns, Hafez stood down before the 2015 presidential election. For 5 years the presidency was held by someone not of the Zahir family, Hafez's Minister of Defence, Reza Khalilzai. This was merely a brief interlude, however. In this period, Hafez's daughter and only child, Aryana, was finishing a PhD in psychology while simultaneously being prepared to stand for election when her education was complete. Ms. Zahir would ultimately stand for election in 2020 at the age of 29 and has been president of Dayganistan since. She has continued to follow the same nationalist policies of her father and grandfather which focused on defence and economic development, but has combined these policies with improving infrastructure and access to education in impoverished regions of the country.

The Republic of Dayganistan

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