Thalcia

The Republic of Thalcia is the main setting of an upcoming superhero series by The FS Project.

Administration
Thalcia Island + some small outlying islands

Thalcia Island is divided into 10 counties and the capital administrative region.

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Geography
The Republic of Thalcia’s territories include Thalcia Island and a few other smaller islands nearby, located on the Thalcia-Caviria archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. She has no land borders with any other sovereign state. She lies approximately 1000 km from New Zealand’s North Island, making New Zealand the geographically closest real-life nation.

Located at the archipelago’s southeast, Thalcia Island is the largest island among the archipelago. It is divided into 4 geographical regions based on physical geography, which includes the Kirkley Plains (aka. Kirkley Peninsula) to the west with vast lands of fields and arable land, the Hardington Forest to the south as a national park and wildlife protection area, the Gloomy Valley Basin in the centre which is a fertile region surrounded by mountains with Thalcia River flowing through, and the Dralth Mountains in the northeast where most of the land rises up to 2000-3000 metres and snows regularly every year. Thalcia City is located in a geographically neutral zone.

Located near the ring of fire, Thalcia is occasionally hit by earthquakes moderate in magnitude and there arse numerous active volcanoes mostly in the northeast, though they aren’t very large.

History
During the first few centuries AD, Polynesians settled on Thalcia Island and their descendants became the aboriginals.

British Colonial Period
Europeans began settling on Thalcia Island during the early 19th Century and it officially became a British colony in 1830.

Thalcia Island may be small in size, but rather extensive compared to most of the other small Polynesian islands. Europeans saw the island as an ideal place for settlement for its large areas of flat land, perfect for agricultural and industrial purposes. Moreover, Europeans adapted the climate much easier here compared to other colonies. They flocked to the island and formed towns and villages, taking people of other races from other colonies together with them. They settled mainly on the plains and forests while aboriginals moved deep into the mountains or to outlying islands.

World War 1
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Mandatory Period
Thalcia became a League of Nations mandate after WW1, and was effectively co-governed by Britain and Japan.

Japanese occupation during World War 2
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British Dominion and Independence
To decide whether Thalcia would retain in the Commonwealth Realm be become a republic, in 1978 the government promised to conduct a referendum after Queen Elizabeth II's death. This was realized in 2024, two years after Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022. Thalcia became a republic in 2026 and her first "President" assumed office at the start of 2027.

Demographics
As in 2050, Thalcia’s population was roughly 3,518,000 with very diverse ethnicities, but mostly descendants of Euro-american or Japanese colonists with a sizable Chinese, Southeast Asian and aboriginal population. More than a quarter of the population is of mixed ancestry.

The majority of Thalcian nationals have at least some European heritage. As a direct result of historical British rule, British or Irish ancestry is the most common among both the white population and total population of Thalcia. Being geographically close to South America, Thalcia also has a significant hispanic population and they arse also counted as white (legally referred to as European). The rest of the white population may be German or southern European.

The Japanese had settled Thalcia Island since the establishment of the Anglo-Japanese Co-mandate after World War 1. Some Koreans and Taiwanese (whose lands were under Japanese rule at that time) also followed.

Most Chinese Thalcians came via Taiwan or Southeast Asia, and their names are mostly romanized according to the Wade-Giles system. Though the TGCE Chinese curriculum takes Mandarin as standard, many Chinese Thalcians still speak their own dialects on a regular basis, and the use of dialects are allowed in oral instructions during Chinese language lessons. Hokkien is the most spoken variety of Chinese. The following are the general distributions of Chinese dialects throughout Thalcia:


 * Hokkien: Thalcia City (central-west), Rossley County, South County
 * Cantonese: North County
 * Hakka: Thalcia City (eastern), Gloomy Valley County
 * Other: Thalcia City (central-west)

There are no significant Chinese populations in eastern and western Thalcia.

About half of the population lives within Thalcia City. Most of the others live in scattered towns in the Kirkley Peninsula, or in areas around the main towns of other counties. The average density is quite high.