Neonia

Neon District (Japanese: ネオン地区; Hepburn 'Neon chiku'; Chinese: 霓虹燈區; Pronounced 'Níhóngdēng qū'; Spanish: Distrito de Neón; Korean: 네온 지구; Pronounced 'Ne-on Jigu'), also 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 TBA, aswell as 1 automonous prefecture, Nuosu. The official languages are English and Japanese are both the official languages and are spoken by almost all of the population, with Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Malay and Tamil being regional languages.

Neon District is a unitary semi-presidential republic divided into 4 prefectures and 1 automonous prefecture, with atleast 1 city with over 500,000k+ people in them. 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 Automonous State of Fujishiri in the Sentanese Empire) 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.

Although, it was not until the late 1930's and early 1940's when what was now the Republic of Fujishiri was number one in the production of the element worldwide, the name "Neon District" was used for the name of the country due to a dramatic increase in profits for Neon District due to the industry of the country.

Indigenous
The indigenous name, Kajanxeca is a combination of the words "Kajanxegaztl" (the indigneous people) and "-gazl/gaztl" (the prefix for "Land" in Kayantec indigenous language).

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 Kajantejtlan (now Shiguto City) was built on an island around 300 AD. It became one of the most powerful and influental kingdoms, lasting until 1861 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 Kajantecs 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 Tikomori formed the State of Fujishiri, originally called the Fujishirian Sentanese Republic. On October 17th, 1931, after a month of conflict, Kazuo Tikomori signed an agreement with the Emperor Asuka of Sentan to form the presidential state that what is now Neon District.

Imperial Neonian State #1 (1950 - 1969)
The Imperial Neonian State, also the Imperial Republic of Neonia or the Neonian Empire 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 Unitary parliamentary absolute 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 democratic authoritarian one-party state under a military dictatorship 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 Neonian State #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 Reza Zahavi 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 Mukhamet Timugent Khankhgajan (Japanese name in traditional format: 氏族賞賛, Hepburn; Shizoku Shōsan) 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, as a quote from him saying "Why would you force people into believing lies about other countries?". 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. He officially resigned on Janurary 1st, 1990, and dissolved the country into a democracy.

Modern day Neon District (1990 - present)
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 September 2020, former president Kumamoto Tsunesaburo lead a coup d'état and transitioned the country into a Unitary dominant-party presidential republic after overthrowing the current 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 resigned as president and transitioned the country back into a semi-presidential republic, but stayed as president.

Geography
The geography of Neon District is varied, with it having mostly arid land in the south. In the center of the country, the climate is like the north Atlantic USA. 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.

In the north of the country are dry-winter high elevation plateaus and plains, mostly comprised of Chinese-made farms that were created during the urban expansion of the 20th century.

In the Nuosu Automonous Prefecture, the geography is similar to that of Northern Yunnan and Southern Sichuan in China; mountainous, fertile terrain, although there can be flat parts too.

The eastern and western parts are similar to the Southern Balkans, such as places like Montenegro and Macedonia, with mediterranean and subtropical-like climate and mountainous terrain with Matorral-like vegetation. Snow is still frequent in the winter, too.

The southern part is similar that to of the climate of the Pantanal, but colder. Snow is less frequent but still occurs, and summers are overly hot. Some savanna-like geography can even occur in small parts, and hot semi-arid and even hot desert geography can occur in tiny amounts.

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), 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 extremely common around the country, especially in September when great floods and thousands of centimeters of rain lash the country, although the people are mainly used to these. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Neon District was 49°C (120.2°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.

Economy
The economy of Neon District is the third largest in the El Kadsreian Islands. 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 has four prefectures, Shiguto, Amery, Cochuga and TBA. Neon District also has one automonous prefecture, Nuosu, aswell as having two federal city, New Tokyo and New Singapore.

Culture
Main article: Culture in Neon District

Education
Neon District'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 between August 15th - September 1st depending on the school, and classes are held from Monday to Friday, depending on the school. The school year consists of four terms, which are separated by short holidays in spring and winter, and a twelve-week-long summer break that begins on May 15th.

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, Mexican, Chilean, Indian and Moroccan features.

Parliamentary elections are held every two years with presidential 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.

Kumamoto Tsunesaburo reigns as the Prime Minister of Neon District and the former president from 2020 - 2022 with Ashmed Toshmet as the vice prime minister since 2022.

The Parliament of Neon District was established in Janurary of 1990 to replace the auth-center/auth-right unitary one-party republic under a military junta government that was used originally from 1983 - 1990.

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

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 and NRTN 3 aswell as TSU TV, TPX 1, TPX 2 and MBC. The radio networks in Neon District are NRTN-owned Radio 11 (General), Radio 12 (Entertainment), Radio 13 (News), Radio 14 (Culture), Radio 15 (Education), Metropolian Radio, Radiophex, TSU FM and Maus Radio Network.

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, Phexonia Productions 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.

Population
The population in the country is around 19,781,234 (2020 estimate).

Languages
The most common languages that are spoken in Neon District are English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Spanish and Portuguese are also majority languages, aswell as Malay and Tamil. A variety of Central, South and East Asian languages aswell as some Middle Eastern languages are spoken in Neon District, too.

People/Trends

 * Neon District's currency is dollars, but soon may change its name to "E-Cash".
 * Neon District's current population is about 19.7 million people.
 * The life expectancy in Neon District is 71.3 for men and 81.9 for women.
 * Neon District has five official languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Portuguese.
 * Neon District has many regional 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 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.

Industry
Neon District'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'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.