United Contana

United Contana (Japanese: ユナイテッド・コンタナ; Yunaiteddo kontana / Russian: Соединенные Контана; Soyedinennyye Kontana / German: Vereinigte Contana), officially known as the United Contanan Socialist Republics (Japanese: 連合コンタナン社会主義共和国; Rengō kontanan shakai shugi kyōwakoku / Russian: Объединенные Контананские Социалистические Республики; Ob"yedinennyye Kontananskiye Sotsialisticheskiye Respubliki / German: Vereinigte Contanan Sozialistische Republiken), is a multicultural sovereign country situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Japan on the west. United Contana is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 4,229 islands covering 446,878 square kilometers (176,540 square miles).

Kyowa is the nation's capital, and Queenstown is the nation's largest city. Other major cities include Kamiya City, Asagao, Vasilev, Kalbfleisch, and Bonham. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 186.4 million on narrow coastal plains. United Contana is divided into six main republics and 86 provinces. The Kyowa-Queenstown Metropolitan Area is the thirteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 13 million residents.

According to official records, United Contana has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC). During the colonization of the world, Contana was first colonized by the British Empire in the 18th century. The Japanese arrived in 1896 in the northern part of the country, colonizing it in the process as the Germans followed in 1899 in the southern part. The Russians were the last to arrive in the country, colonizing the eastern part. To avoid any conflict, the British, the Japanese, the Germans, and the Russians agreed not to take over the whole land they shared; the agreement was later broken in 1940 when the Japanese - allied with Nazi Germany - attempted to take over the whole land but the Japanese's progress was hindered by the Allies. After the surrender of Japan in 1945, revolutionary Kiyoshi Kamiya led his Contanan People's Red Liberation Army which ignited the successful 1946 Proletarian Revolution.

Kamiya, a vocal critic of Marxism–Leninism, developed his own ideology better known as Marxism–Kamiyaism or just Kamiyaism. During the earlier years of his 41-year reign, he developed the whole nation under Kamiyaist policies where the core tenets include multiculturalism, decentralisation, socialist democracy, workplace democracy, advocating for workers' councils, rapid industrialisation and collectivization through the execution of a command economy and pursuing socialist reforms. Kamiya became famed for his massive education and science plan that raised United Contana to technological supremacy in his country's respective region.

In 1962, nationalist Wolfgang Schmitt, who was the leader of the exiled Die Mutig Nationalisten (DMN), declared the Kamiya-led communist government the 'illegal government of Contana' and declared war afterwards. Upon the socialist government victory, Contana went through a 'process of reconciliation and reconstruction' throughout the 1970s. A stagnating economy and growing social unrest crippled the country, damaging Kamiya's popularity. In 1985, two years before Kamiya's death, the Communist Party initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform, transforming the country to a market-oriented economy. The reforms were continued by his wife, Tomoko Kamiya, after his death and it facilitated Contanan reintegration into the global economy and politics.

A developed country with a high-income economy, United Contana is regarded as an economic power, with the eleventh-largest economy by nominal GDP and the sixth-largest by purchasing power parity. Unlike its contemporary communist counterparts, United Contana is noted for its low levels of corruption and censorship and a very good human rights record; the country ranks high in international measurements of civil liberties, freedom of the press, freedom of ethnic minorities, life expectancy, quality of life, education, and Human Development Index. Despite all of that, the country still ranks among the lowest when it comes to freedom of religion and democracy. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the United Nations, the APEC, the Non-Aligned Movement, the WTO, the East Asia Summit, the IPEF, and the Paris Club.