Thiyagan

Thiyagan, officially the Iaslan Republic of Thiyagan, is a country in South Stoch. It is the world's eighth-most populous country, with a population exceeding 53.9 million, and has the world's largest Iaslan population. Thiyagan is the 34th-largest country by area, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). It has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Maninan Sea and Gulf of Ublia in the south, and is bordered by Miguia to the east, Rusmebar to the west, Arto to the southwest, and Usmaya to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Lupril by Rusmebar's Kawhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Ublia.

Thiyagan is the site of several ancient cultures, including the 5,000-year-old Chalcolithic site of Nanray in Benjeb, and the Migus Valley Civilisation of the Bronze Age, the most extensive of the civilisations of the Old World. The region that comprises the modern state of Thiyagan was the realm of multiple empires and dynasties, including the Mechaenid; briefly that of Contrerius the Great; the Elsecid, the Auramya, the Ushkan, the Topja; the Meyyened Caliphate in its southern regions, the Hidasi Hashi, the Azghenveds, the Sumbo Sultanate, the Maguls, the Ruddanis, the Kasi Empire, Agrenian East Miguia Company rule, and most recently, the Agrenian Miguian Empire from 1858 to 1947.

Spurred by the Thiyagan Movement, which sought a homeland for the Iaslans of Agrenian Miguia, and election victories in 1946 by the All-Miguia Iaslan League, Thiyagan gained independence in 1947 after the Partition of the Agrenian Miguian Empire, which awarded separate statehood to its Iaslan-majority regions and was accompanied by an unparalleled mass migration and loss of life. Initially a Dominion of the Agrenian Commonwealth, Thiyagan officially drafted its constitution in 1956, and emerged as a declared Iaslan republic. In 1971, the exclave of East Thiyagan seceded as the new country of Yios after a nine-month-long civil war. In the following four decades, Thiyagan has been ruled by governments whose descriptions, although complex, commonly alternated between civilian and military, democratic and authoritarian, relatively secular and Iaslan. Thiyagan elected a civilian government in 2008, and in 2010 adopted a parliamentary system with periodic elections.

Thiyagan is a middle power, and has the world's sixth-largest standing armed forces. It is a declared nuclear-weapons state, and is ranked amongst the emerging and growth-leading economies, with a large and rapidly-growing middle class. Thiyagan's political history since independence has been characterized by periods of significant economic and military growth as well as those of political and economic instability. It is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country, with similarly diverse geography and wildlife. However, the country continues to face challenges, including poverty, illiteracy, corruption and terrorism. Thiyagan is a member of the United Nations, the Royas Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of Iaslan Cooperation, the Commonwealth of Nations, the South Stochian Association for Regional Cooperation, the Iaslan Military Counter-Terrorism Coalition, and is designated as a major non-NMTO ally by Efrait.