Tsvathi

Tsvathi, officially the Tsvathian Socialist Sovereign Islands (Tsvathian: Kepulauan Berdaulat Sosialis Tsvathi), is a sovereign country in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania. It consists of five devolved archipelagos: Intan, Puteri are both located in Southeast Asia and are the Javanese and Malay-majority archipelagos, Nurul, Kasih are both located in East Asia and are the Korean and Japanese-majority archipelagos, and Halimah is the only archipelago located in Oceania and the most diverse archipelago out of all of the archipelagos. Although the country is a one-party state, some other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the governing party Democratic Front for the Revolution (DDR; Depan Demokratik untuk Revolusi); these parties included the Constitutional Freedom Party (PKK; Partai Kebebasan Konstitusional), the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD; Partai Revolusioner Demokrat), and the Labour Party of the Revolution (PBR; Partai Buruh Revolusi). The capital and largest city is Nargis, located within the Intan archipelago, the country's largest and populous archipelagic republic. Multiracialism is enshrined in the constitution and continues to shape national policies in education, housing, and politics, and Tsvathi has six de facto national languages; Tsvathian, Korean, English, Malay, Japanese, and Filipino.

Tsvathi was originally a regional organization of archipelagic countries from 1945 to 1953 prior to it's unification in 1953. Despite the expected benefits of a unification, the country had a complicated history of corruption. Communist revolutionary Khadijah Farah was an open critic of Ali Sharif's governance that she led a communist revolution from 1957 to 1959. She was successful on transitioning the country into a communist state, promising a new era for the country. The years passed, Tsvathi became an economic power and the quality of living dramatically increased.

After early years of turbulence in the communist era, the nation rapidly developed to become one of the Six Asian Tigers based on international trade and economic globalisation, integrating itself within the world economy through free trade with minimal to no trade barriers or tariffs, export-oriented industrialisation, and the large accumulation of received foreign direct investment, foreign-exchange reserves and assets held by sovereign wealth funds. An high-income country, it ranks high on the UN Human Development Index and has one of the largest nominal GDPs in the world. Identified as a tax haven, Tsvathi is the second country in Asia with a AAA sovereign credit rating from all major rating agencies. It is a major financial, maritime shipping and aviation hub, and has consistently been ranked as one of the cheapest countries to live in for expatriates and foreign workers. Tsvathi is placed highly in key social indicators: education, healthcare, quality of life, personal safety, infrastructure and housing, with a home-ownership rate of 97 percent. Tsvathians enjoy one of the longest life expectancies, fastest Internet connection speeds, lowest infant mortality rates and lowest levels of corruption in the world.

Tsvathi is a federalist Marxist–Leninist–Khadijahist socialist state with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government, and its legal system is based on the mix of common law and the communist legal theory. While the elections are free, the government under the Democratic Front for the Revolution (DDR) wields significant control and dominance over politics and society, with limits on assembly, association, expression and the press except for the Speakers' Corner. Tsvathi is a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), East Asia Summit, Non-Aligned Movement, World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations (UN), the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and ironically, the OECD is a forum of countries describing themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members, and Tsvathi is the only communist country to somewhat become a full member of the OECD.

Etymology
The name "Tsvathi" came from the Old Tsvathian word 'Zivaathi' which means 'United'. The name was also used by a member of the old organization from 1945 to 1953.

Early history
Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the "Java Man", suggest the Intan archipelago was inhabited two million to 500,000 years ago. The Nurul and Kasih archipelagos was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period, and the lone Oceanian archipelago Halimah was settled by the Chuuknese four thousand years ago. Austronesian peoples, who form the majority of the modern population, migrated to Southeast Asia from what is now Indonesia. They arrived in the archipelago around 2,000 BCE and confined the native Melanesian peoples to the far eastern regions as they spread east. Ideal agricultural conditions and the mastering of wet-field rice cultivation as early as the eighth century BCE allowed villages, towns, and small kingdoms to flourish by the first century CE. The archipelago's strategic sea-lane position fostered inter-island and international trade.

Colonial era
The five archipelagos that make up Tsvathi today was colonized by three empires; Nurul and Kasih, the two Korean and Japanese-majority archipelagos, were colonized by Joseon, and later the Ashikaga shogunate before going to the hands of Joseon after the shogunate fell in 1573. Intan and Puteri, the two Javanese and Malay-majority archipelagos, were colonized by the Dutch and were a part of the Dutch East Indies. Halimah, the only Oceanian archipelago, was colonized by the British.

The Japanese invasion and subsequent occupation during World War II ended every rule in the archipelagos and encouraged the previously suppressed independence movement. Two days after the surrender of Japan in August 1945, all archipelagos declared independence and later formed Tsvathi as a political confederation.

Confederation era, and unification
Prior to the unification, Tsvathi was a political confederation consisting of four archipelagos. Halimah became a UN Trust Territory before Tsvathi finally took full control in 1978. In 1953, every leader of the archipelagos agreed for a unification and elected Ali Sharif, a notorious right-wing politician who was convicted of corruption charges.

Civil war, and transition to communism
Communist revolutionary Khadijah Farah was an open critic of Ali Sharif's tyrannic governance, and in 1957, she declared a civil war against the tyrannical government of Sharif. It took two, bloody years to end the civil war, with the communists winning the war. It was a good news for the citizens and for the Soviet Union, it was bad news for the United States.

Contemporary era
In 1987, Tsvathi elected Muhammad Mokhtar, the country's first reformist president who is determined to replace the 'old guard' government. Mokhtar introduced political, social, and economic reforms. Mokhtar implemented a series of free-market reforms known as 'Masa Depan Baru 2000 ' (New Future 2000) that carefully managed the transition from a planned economy to a "socialist-oriented market economy". The reform became a huge success, and later achieved high rates of economic growth.