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The Isle of Avalon.
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Overview and Facts
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Population: | ≈ 1,389,000 (2015) |
Demonym: | Avalonian |
Government: | Monarchy |
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Currency: | drake (₫) |
Languages: | English Welsh Avalonic |
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The Isle of Avalon (Welsh: Ynys Afallon, Avalonic: Awesöme Eyeland), also known as the Kingdom of Avalon, is a Monarchy in The North Pacific. The capital and seat of government is Logres, being also the most populated city.
Avalon has a free-market economy with relatively low corporate taxes compared to other NS countries, while maintaining a well founded welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens. Recently, it was ranked in the 1% most developed country in the world by the World Assembly's Human Development Index and stays amongst the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita. The country is also highly ranked for press, economic and political freedom. Avalon used to be a member of the Regional Assembly (RA) of The North Pacific and pursues a policy of neutrality through non-alignment and is consequently not a member of any military, raiding or defending organization.
Etymology
Geoffrey of Monmouth called it in Latin Insula Avallonis in the Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain"), and was also, more oftenly, refered in Latin as Insula Avalonia. For instance, the leaden cross in King Arthur's tomb which reads:
In the later Vita Merlini he called it Insula Pomorum the "isle of apples". The name is generally considered to be of Welsh origin (though an Old Cornish or Old Breton origin is also possible), derived from Old Welsh abal, "apple", or aball, "apple tree" (in later Middle Welsh spelled aval, avall; now Modern Welsh afal, afall). In Breton, apple is spelled "aval"/ "avaloù" in plural. It is also possible that the tradition of an "apple" island among the British was influenced by Irish legends concerning the otherworld island home of Manannán mac Lir and Lugh, Emain Ablach.
History
The existence of Avalon itself has been questioned through time and many true and false stories have been written; most of them made up by lame fantasy writers who just wanted to avoid the whole world creation phase. Nowadays, no one has the time nor patience Tolkien had anymore and I won't even talk about the half arsed anime "homages" either.
The true history of the misty isle of Avalon is that of a lonely island in the middle of nowhere, that was firstly inhabited by druids and settled by celt tribes circa 50 AD. as their refuge from Roman invasions. Those inhabitants established a kingdom that lasted until the early 6th century. They spent their days jumping and singing while naked and were also good blacksmiths. But they thought they could use swords to fish so the lakes and rivers ended up filled with lots of swords, the Lady of the Lake was annoyed and told them to go f themselves.
But the life of former Avalonians was not only fun, doing stuff while naked and throwing magical swords in lakes. The last years of their ruling were shrouded in decay, as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes inflicted several defeats on Avalonian Army, until the last of their chiefs swore allegiance to King Arthur of Britain who was in turn called Lord of Avalon. He moved here, drank lots of cider and invented apple pie. Then died.
Avalon shone under Merlin's magic and Arthur's power, but rapidly became an orphaned land again after their demise. Our old gods departed and the whole land of Avalon sank like Atlantis. The rest of the world forgot about us until fantasy novels became a profitable business.
The days of Lennart
No one but Lennart expected Avalon to emerge again and take its place in the world map. Well maybe a couple of other people did, so I wish the best of lucks to you guys who tried to refound this and failed, but still tried to log in after I took control over it. It was fun.... Update: Bloody 'ell!, not so fun anymore :( stop it, guys
Anyway, the thing is Lennart claimed his right to rule over the re-discovered isle, and the only other inhabitant left alive was the Lady of the Lake (She lived in the bottom of a lake, no wonder why she survived the sinking). The Lady gave Excalibur to him: no stone, no anvil; Lennart took the sword out of a butter block which had been kept in the freezer for weeks. She instantly recognised the hero who was destined to make her a sammich.
The rest of the population came in dinghies and they keep coming as of today, like 5-8 million people every day, or so it seems by watching the NS population growth rate. But now seriously, Avalon is a small country with around 1,389,000 people living there, ignore the billions you see on our main page, that's actually our e-penis, and not even very useful at that, since I've got much older nations.
Governance
Lennart established the Kingdom of Avalon and named his friends knights. He took back the round table and called himself primus inter pares, which sounds a lot more honourable than it really is. In fact Lennart does as he pleases and his knights look aside, drink cider and sing while naked. So everyone's happy, the Moon beneath the castle walls, as the nightingale sings... And Magic rules again :)
An individual, citizen of Avalon can only be knighted by the King himself, and is both a privilege and a huge responsibility. Ten of them (Called Lords and Ladies of the Round Table, or Lords or Ladies of the Realm) along with the King himself, make up the Round table, the main legislative body of the Realm, representing the interests of each of the current ten fiefdoms in which the Isle and its dominions are divided. The Court Druidess, head of Druidism in Avalon, is also a regular part of the Table and is known informally as "the twelfth Lady". None of those titles and honours are inherited, and any change depends only on the King's discretion.
Ministries don't exist in the strict term, nor there is a clear separation between Religion and State or Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers. Only the Head of State, his Knights or his Lords can administer justice and only the King can order military actions and administer military justice.
Territorial Administration
Avalon is divided in ten fiefdoms, a Capital District and a Temple, symbolic fief for the Druids in Logres. Together they make up the twelve seats of power, and the twelve swords on the Round Table. While the Capital District is under the King's direct administration, the fiefdoms are under the control of the Lords of the Realm. Each fiefdom has some sort of local assembly but it's up to their Lord to concede to their demands. The Round Table can overturn a Lords decision though, and good will and responsible governance is expected. Or somebody's head could appear on a stake.
The official administrative divisions or fiefdoms, their Court Seats (in brackets), population figures (as in real figures, not the billions you'll see on Avalon's main page, that's crazy ffs!) and their current Lords and Ladies are as follows:
### 1- Capital District/Temple (Logres/Tintagel). Administered by King Lennart/ Druidess Morgan.
Population: ≈240,000
### 2- Upperdale (Upton). Administered by Lord Gawain.
Population: ≈95,000 (around ≈30,000 of them in Upton)
### 3- Lowerdale (Lowfield). Administered by Lord Lancelot.
Population: ≈190,000 (around ≈85,000 of them in Lowfield)
### 4- Ehlnar (Ehln). Administered by Lord Galahad.
Population: ≈180,000 (around ≈70,000 of them in Ehln)
### 5- Raybrandt (Brandton). Administered by Lord Percival.
Population: ≈120,000 (around ≈67,000 of them in Brandton)
### 6- Valestein (Valesly). Administered by Lord Tristan.
Population: 190,000 (around 110,000 of them in Valesly)
### 7- Dragonland (Draig). Administered by Lord Bedivere.
Population: ≈50,000 (around ≈23,000 of them in Draig)
### 8- Lyonesse (Egwyth). Administered by Lady Eïthne.
Population: ≈180,000 (around ≈90,000 of them in Egwyth)
### 9- Westernesse (Moreleon). Administered by Lord Morien.
Population: ≈35,000 (around ≈17,000 of them in Moreleon)
### 10- Reynesse (Adennwyth). Administered by Lord Caradoc.
Population: ≈97,000 (around ≈42,000 of them in Adennwyth)
### 11- Shalott (Shalott Castle, Islely). Administered by Lady Lynne.
Population: ≈12,000 (around ≈7,000 of them in Islely)
Total population ≈1,389,000
See Also:
Citizenship Regulations in Avalon
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