Neonia

Neon District (Japanese: ネオン地区; Hepburn Neon chiku; Chinese: 霓虹燈區; Pinyin Níhóngdēng qū; Spanish: Distrito de Neón; Korean: 네온 지구; RR Ne-on Jigu); Nuosu: ꁨꇉꃅꄷ Bbop lo mu ddix), also more commonly known as Neonia, officialy the Republic of Neon District, is a country located in Central Aritonesia. The country is comprised of 4 prefectures; Shiguto, Amery, Cochuga and Hangugosi, aswell as 1 automonous prefecture, Nuosu. The official languages are Japanese and English are both the official languages and are spoken by almost all of the population, with Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean also being spoken.

The capital city of Neon District is New Tokyo, and the largest city is is Shiguto City, which was formerly the capital from 1931 - 2020, with over 8.2 million residents, comprising over 42% of the population, while the country itself has around 19.7 million residents.

Neon District is a unitary semi-presidential republic divided into 4 prefectures and 1 automonous prefecture. Neon District is a developed country and ranks twentieth on the UN Human Development list.

Modern
Neon District's name comes from the element that was discovered there by two British scientists in 1898, Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers, who were in Neon District (at the time the Akaritochi Province in New Japan) at the time. Neon was discovered when Ramsay chilled a sample of air until it became a liquid, then warmed the liquid and captured the gases as they boiled off. This gas, identified in June, was named "neon", the Greek analogue of the Latin novum ('new') suggested by Ramsay's son.

The nickname "Neon District" was coined for the country, at the time the State of Fujishiri, after some people started to nickname the country that due to the mass expansion of neon lights in most of the cities, especially Shiguto City.

The semi-official name of the country is "Neonia" and is seen on some maps. Aswell as coming from the element, it comes from the fact that the country had many new opportunities in it, so it was nicknamed "Neonia" also from the Greek analog of the Latin novum ('new'), which eventually became the name of the country. Combined with Neon District this eventually became one of the official names of the country after a vote to change the country's name during near the end of the Nikagetsu War, which was a two-month long war (that didn't take place in any inhabiated areas) in which imperialists/monarchists fought with the republicanist government, eventually forming the First Imperial Kingdom of Neonia. Many people dislike the name "Neon District" and a 12-year process of phasing out the "Neon District" name is currently ongoing, and is estimated to finish in mid or late 2023.

The formal and rarely-used name of the country is "Akaritochi (Japanese: 灯土地; Hepburn: Akaritochi), which literally means "land of the light" in Japanese.

Indigenous
The indigenous name, Kháltăjazecâgâztıl is a combination of the words "Kháltăjazecâ" (the indigneous people) and "-gâzl/gâztıl" (the prefix for "Land" in Khaltajazeca).

Prehistory (1500 BC - 1914 AD)
During the late Paleogene period, The Arito continent broke up from the North American continent. The continent was later discovered by humans in around 6,000 BC where they colonized the entire mainland. They reached where Neon District is in around 1500 BC and was only comprised of small tribal confederations before they formed an absolute monarchy around the area of the former lake that the city of Hâkântıtłân (now Shiguto City) was built on an island around 300 AD. It became one of the most powerful and influental kingdoms, lasting until 1831 due to the Conquest of Aritonesia, and it became a now expanded divided state controlled by European and Asian powers, with indigenous peoples (such as the Khaltajazecs and Vicnorans) were expelled, put into slavery or killed due to them being native peoples. In 1850, colonial rule came to an end when the area of what is now Neon District/Neonia was invaded by New Japan, and now native peoples had rights again but were now a tiny minority, representing only 5% of the population of at the time 2 million.

Sentanese occupation (1914 - 1931)
New Japan eventually became the Sentanese Empire in 1914, and it was under the control of the constitutional monarchy. Aswell as many foregin ethnic groups immigrating, the Great Neonian Melting Pot was advertised, but it failed due to the country almost splitting due to republican and imperialist conflicts, but the imperialists won.

State of Fujishiri (1931 - 1950)
On September 21st, 1931, Kazuko Takamori formed the State of Fujishiri, originally called the Fujishirian Sentanese Republic. On October 17th, 1931, after a month of conflict, Kazuko signed an agreement with the Emperor Asuka of Sentan to form the presidential state that what is now Neon District.

Imperial Kingdom of Neonia #1 (1950 - 1969)
The Imperial Kingdom of Neonia, also the Imperial State of Neonia or the Neonian Empire, or more simply and occasionally (for the first time), Neon District or Neonia, was created following the Zahav Imperial Front's victory over the republican forces, and it was backed by the Sentanese State and the Neonian Transition, which made it the imperial state ruled by the Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy ruled by the House of Zahavi, with the economy growing faster and in 1952, television launched with NDRB's television program.

DR of Neon District #1 (1969 - 1975)
In October 13th, 1969, the Amery Socialist Citystate, the Unitary one-party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist seperatist state which covered the prefecture of Amery, was created, at first it was only recognized by socialist and communist countries and after its formation, the Vlokozu Union, which with the PRC eventually forced most countries to recognize it despite it without a seat in the UN, the military was angry at the monarchy for not taking control so it formed a coup and on October 25th, the Unitary authoritarian multi-party parliamentary republic was formed, which was called the Democratic Republic of Neon District. It was the rare authoritarian democracy, and one of the most democratic and liberal ones, despite it being almost far-right. Elections were supposed to happen every 6 years, but in early 1973, Juan Francisco de Kumamoto, an unliked military general, took control of the government instead, almost made it Bolivarianist and even Socialist, and caused mass inflation, which got at the worst in August 17th, when 1 dollar was 18,575,000 Neonian yen, and many companies temporarily got filed for bankrupcy, people lost a lot of money and it was estimated that 25% of the population lost their homes, but Juan was kicked off of presidency after protests and riots in late August and early September, and was returned to the former president.

Imperial Kingdom of Neonia #2 (1975 - 1983)
The former president, Gertjan van Akimori was accused of rigging the 1974 Neonian elections in December, so from Janurary - April 1975, imperialists (which at the height of the protests were around 95% of the population) were protesting about him, so the Zahavi royal family lead a coup d'etat against him, and they came to the thrown on April 7th, 1975, and Renzashita II was coronated on April 18th, 1975. Almost immediately after this, an economic miracle occured, slowly progressing in 1975 and then in March - April 1976, the economy exploded, and became one of the richest countries in Aritonazca. Unfortunately, on April 16th - 18th, 1980, forces from the ASC invaded Shiguto City, and bombed an oil field, so the country was put on martial law until May 1st.

DR of Neon District #2 (1983 - 1990)
The imperial state was overthrown by the Sentanese-Kazakh Shizoku Shōsan (賞賛氏族, Hepburn; Shōsan Shizoku, birth name Mukhamet Timugent Khankhgajan) a military general in the army, who was tired of the monarchy's western ways. He wanted to make the country be more nationalist and care more about itself.

He was a prominent nationalist and believed in both authoritarianism and democracy, and wanted to make his country the best in Aritonazca. He also wanted to revert the country to traditional ways and make people and the country more self-sufficent, aswell as establishing higher relations with Asian countries such as Japan. He found a personality cult of him to be sickening and unlike other dictators, did not like propaganda very much. He was very conserative although only center-right but became more liberal after hearing of the UVS's Farician invasion, and was a fan and personal friend of Hiroshi Kayos's. He also encouraged the army to advance further into the ASC, trying to get it to dissolve. He succeded on November 10th, 1989 and it officially was annexed into Neon District on that day. After that, he introduced many reforms into the country, including economical ones. He officially resigned on December 31st, 1989, and asked his prime minister, Kentarō Altankhuyag, to dissolve the country into a democracy next day on January 1st, 1990.

Contemporary Neon District (1990 - present)
After democraticization, Neon District had another economic miracle that started in February 1991, quadrupling the economy and turning it into a tiger economy. Neon District had the 2nd biggest GDP in the El Kadsreian Archipelago by 1996, the peak of the economic miracle, and in 1996, LGBTQ+ was finally legalized.

A conserative nationalist coalation led the country from 2006 - 2010.

In 2008, Neon District was hit hard by the Great Recession and lost its title as the second largest economy in the El Kadsreian Archipelago to Sentan and Mahri.

In 2010, a constitutional crisis occured, when 5th president Kensuke Ishikawa of the Conserative Party started to pass controversial laws and say controversial things. In the end, after protests, he eventually resigned, and was immediately suceeded by president canidate Marquita Park-Lee of the NDP, the first female president of the country.

In September 2020, president Kumamoto Tsunesaburo lead a coup d'état and transitioned the country into a Unitary dominant-party presidential republic after overthrowing the current president and prime minister at the time, and was the president of the 2nd Republic of Neon District up until the riots and unrest of 2022, when he transitioned the country back into a semi-presidential republic following the 2022 referendum, but stayed as president. Kumamoto will not be allowed to run in the 2024 Neonian general elections.

As of the end of 2022, there have been 175,021 cases and 3,496 deaths of COVID-19 in Neon District, mostly in Shiguto City and its metropolian area.

Geography
The geography of Neon District is varied, with it having mostly arid land in the south. The capital, Shiguto City, was originally built on an island in what used to be a lake before it was dammed and dissolved during the early - mid 18th century, with the only remains being a river that runs through the center of the city. North of Shiguto City are extremely tall mountains that run most of the length of Neon District, even reaching as high as 6500m. Pine forests are also located around the mountains.

Climate
The climate of Neon District is very varied. The main population centers revolve around continential climates (Dfa - Dfb, Shiguto City and Dwa - Dwb, Yenjing and Golyeosan), semi-arid and meditarrenian climates (BSk and Csb, Nuevo Santiago), subtropical climates (São José, Cfa) and oceanic climates (Cfb, Lukhur). In short, the whole of the climate of the country can mostly be defined as hot-warm summer subtropical continentinal with alpine influences.

Snow in the winter is extremely frequent accross the country even in the south. The snow usually arrives in light forms in mid November and in extreme amounts usually on December 1st and usually melts in late March, although snow itself can also happen in March. In the mountains, snow melts in mid-late April and sometimes even in May, although the higher mountains and the central volcano of Neon District are permenately snowcapped. Rain is also somewhat common around the country, especially during March - May and September - October when heavy monsoonal rain hit the country, sometimes flooding parts of it, although the people are mainly used to these. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Neon District was 45°C (113°F) in Muitoquente in Cochuga, on June 21st, 1993 at 12:13pm, and the coldest temperature ever recorded in Neon District was -37°C (-34.6°F) on the Hitonako Volcano, on December 21st, 1994 at 04:17am, during the 1994 Neon Districtian blizzards and earthquakes, when the country looked like it was covered in snow.


 * Spring: March 1st - June 1st
 * Summer: June 1st - September 12th
 * Autumn: September 12th - November 20th
 * Winter: November 20th - March 1st

Economy
The economy of Neon District is the ?th largest in Aritonesia. As of 2020, Neon District has a GDP nominal of $5.2 trillion USD and a GDP PPP of $5.5 trillion. The Neonian yen is the currency for the nation. Neon District went under two recessions, the first one in 1973 and the second one in 2008. Neon District was majorily hit by the Great Recession but did not lose any economic title.

Neon District's main exports and sources in income are from electronics, technology, oil and petrolium. The electronics producer Aircom and oil and petrolium company NEORAMCO are based in Neon District.

Neon District formerly was a third-world colony during colonialism, but its economy rose after it became part of New Japan and the Sentanese Empire, although after independence the economy was comparable to the economy of modern day (nominal) Suriname, but after the monarchy was established the economy grew, until the dictatorship where it dropped a little but stayed average before the August 1973 incident, when it became almost third-world, but slowly recovered until April 1975 when the economy started to go up faster, eventually skyrocketing the following year, before slowly dropping from 1983 - 1989, rising slowly in 1990 and skyrocketing again in 1991, dropping in 2008 due to the Great Recession and slowly recovering today.

Territories
Neon District/Neonia has four prefectures, Shiguto, Amery, Cochuga and Hangugosi. Neon District also has one automonous prefecture, Nuosu, aswell as having one federal city, New Tokyo.

Culture
Main article: Culture in Neon District

The culture of Neon District/Neonia is extremely varied, being predominately Japanese with minor American and British influences, with the main culture changing depending on which part of the country you are in (e.g. Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Yi, Indigenous, etc.). Mostly, the culture is mixed.

Personal naming
Personal naming in Neon District/Neonia sounds complicated but in reality it is simple.

At birth, parents are required to give their child a Japanese name (if its given name and family name is not Japanese, e.g. a child from a Chinese family) as Japanese is a compulsory and official language to learn. The Japanese name must be similar to their given name and use the Japanese family name that the family have given themselves if their official one is not Japanese already. An example would be a child with the Spanish name "Ricardo Pérez" with his family's Japanese name "Higashiyama (東山)" and his parents gave him his Japanese name "Ryū (龍)", then his name would be in Japanese sentences "Ryū Higashiyama (東山龍)".

People are allowed to have Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Sichuan Yi and indigenous names but they will always have seperate Japanese-language names that would be occasionally used, but not always.

Education
Neon District/Neonia's educational system is divided into four phases, Pre-school, primary school, secondary school and college/university. Primary school begins at the age of 6, and secondary school begins at the age of 14. Both primary and secondary school are divided into twelve grades. The school days are from Monday to Friday. The average primary school day is from 9:00am to 3:15pm, and the average high school day is from 8:45am to 3:30pm.

Pre-school is optional in Neon District, but primary school and secondary school are compulsuary. College and university are both optional, and a person begins either college or university at the age of 18. The average pre-school day is from 9:00am to 12:00pm.

The school year in Neon District/Neonia begins on the last Monday in April, with a 2-month summer holidays break beginning on the first Friday of June, two 2-week long breaks on the last Friday of October and the third Friday in December and a 3-month long break on the last Friday of Janurary, with school resuming after the break. Neon District uses a quatrimetral term system.

In the Neon District School Ciricculum, students are taught how to learn, speak and write in English and Japanese beginning at the age of 6, which is compulsuary in primary schools, although most students would've probably learnt a small amount of either languages by then. Children are also taught how to learn, speak and write in either Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Nuosu, Malay, or Tamil depending on the region or area, which is also compulsuary, aswell.

School levels
The year structure is summarized below:

Politics
Neon District is a unitary semi-presidential republic. Neon District's political system can be consisted to be a combination of elements from United Kingdom and the United States political systems as well as distinctive Japanese, Taiwanese and Tsengian features.

Parliamentary elections are held every two years with presidential/general elections being held every four years beginning in Janurary 1990. Prime ministers can only have up to five terms and presidents can only have three. If a president or prime minister resigns during his or her term, he or she is succeeded by the second most popular vote.

Parliamentary elections are held between Janurary 2nd - 16th, while presidential elections are held between Janurary 16th - 30th. The next elections in Neon District/Neonia will be the 2024 Neonian parliamentary elections and the 2024 Neonian general elections.

Kumamoto Tsunesaburo reigns as the President of Neon District since 2020 with TBA as the prime minister since 2022. The president has more authority than the prime minister, who in which the latter (the PM) reports to the president.

The Parliament of Neon District was established in Janurary of 1990 to replace the military junta government that was used originally from 1983 - 1990.

Neon District has many political parties. They include, but are not limited to the Neonian Democratic Party, the Conserative Party of Neon District, the Liberal Party, the Neon District Green Party, the National Front of Neon District, the Social Democratic Movement and the Neonian Worker's Union. Banned parties include but not limited to the Scarlet Jiefangjun, the Communist Party of Neon District and the Neonian Vlokist Party.

Media
Neon Districtian media mainly uses English and Japanese when it comes to languages, but local networks also use the local languages spoken there (e.g. RTA using Chinese.) Neon District's main commercial television stations are NRTN 1, NRTN 2, NRTN 3 and NRTN 4 aswell as TSU TV, Metronetwork and MTN. The radio networks in Neon District are NRTN-owned NRN C1 (General), NRN C2 (Entertainment), NRN C3 (News), NRN C4 (Culture), NRN C5 (Education), Metropolian Radio, RadioTBA, TSU FM and MRN.

Neon District's film industry (nicknamed 'Neonwood') dates back to the 1910s. Cinemas in the country first opened in the early 1900's, but aired foregin films. The first Neon District-made film premiered in 1913. In the Neon Districtian film market, Neonwood delivered a 35% share of the box office, while its two main rival film industries, Hollywood and Kadsrewood take 40% and 25% shares respectively. The main major film production companies based in Neon District are NRTN Films, TBA and Studio Bredenacht (credit to Astra1982/Alphalight).

The main telecommunications provider in Neon District is NDCom.

Internet launched in Neon District on Janurary 30th, 1990. By 1995, 20% of the population had internet, and by 2000, 57% of the population had it. Nowadays, 98% of the population has internet in Neon District. 49% of internet users in Neon District rely on NDCom for their internet service, and NDCom started their internet services in 1994.

Mobile service is also majorily provided by NDCom. 2G services were rolled out in 1997, and 3G services began in 2002, with 4G services being rolled out between 2009 - 2010. 5G was officially rolled out throughout the country in 2019, and was majorily used by 2020. In 2002, mobile phone usage surpassed landline phone usage.

Pay television providers are NDCom Television, TSUSAT, DirecTV, ElStar and Cignal. Free-to-air providers are Freeview and Freesat.

ITU prefixes assigned are: JC-JY for Shiguto, BD-BH for Amery, XF-XW for Cochuga, HB-HL for Hangugosi and YJ-YS for the Nuosu Autonomous Prefecture. Only a few selected stations can have the "JO" prefix in Shiguto as to not be careful to clash with the ones in Japan.

Population
The population in the country is around 19,781,234 (2020 estimate). The largest city is Shiguto City, which is considered a primate city, with the next biggest city, Sakana-Renaisannce, only having 4 million people.

Languages
The most common languages that are spoken in Neon District are Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean. The most spoken language is Japanese, which is spoken by 19.1 million people in the country, followed by English at 18.9 million. It is compulsory to learn English and Japanese, with Japanese being used in conversations, government messages on television and English being used both mixed in with other languages, as a lingua franca and as a chat language on the internet so people from different language-speaking prefectures can understand each other. A variety of other Asian and European languages are spoken in Neon District, mainly by foreign immigrants. Multiple dialects for Chinese are spoken in the country, such as Standard Neonian Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien.

People/Trends

 * Neon District is more commonly known as "Neonia", being called this on some world maps, and use formally and informally.
 * Neon District's currency is Neonian yen.
 * Neon District's current population is about 19.7 million people.
 * The life expectancy in Neon District is 85.9 for men and 88.9 for women.
 * Neon District has one of the highest average IQs in the world, with an average IQ of 105.
 * Neon District has six official languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean.
 * Neon District has many other minority languages.
 * The drinking age is 18 in Neon District.
 * The marriage age is 18 in Neon District.
 * The average age is 52 in Neon District.
 * When referring to something belonging to Neon District, it is referred to as "Neonian".
 * Same-sex activity was decriminalized in 1996, and gay marriage is currently pending legalization.
 * Draft dodgers, LGBTQ+ persons, and refugees have had the right to seek asylum in Neon District under the Geneva Convention since 1990.

Events
TBA

Landscape
Neon District/Neonia is located in North America; El Kadsre is Neon District's neighbor country. Neon District has one of the tallest mountains and the highest volcanos in the El Kadsreian Archipelago. Neon District is one of the most urbanized nations in Aritonazca - with 85% of the country being so.

Industry
Neon District/Neonia's technology and electronic industry makes up atleast 39.9% of its GDP. The major industries in Neon District are electronics, software, machine tools, chemicals, oil, petrolium and processed foods.

Crime
Neon District/Neonia's crime rate depends on the area, with big cities being the most affected and small villages and small towns being the least effected.

The national emergency number for Neon District is both 911 and 211.

Trivia

 * In Blue91233's canon, Neon District is located in the Nazca Islands.
 * The countries canon is way different to InfiniteEffect's main version of ND, where in DLFW canon it is a size of a small country, rich, democratic and a nice place to live in, rather in ROBLOX it is poor, futuristic/cyberpunk, ruled by corporates, extremely oppresive and genuinley just a bad place to live in.