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Niorland, officially the Directorial Republic of Niorland, is a sovereign country located mostly on Western Europe occupying the Nera Peninsula, sharing the northern part of Iberian Peninsula. However, its territory also includes the island of Socotra in Africa, the Arabian exclave of Musandam and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean in Asia. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe, being bordered to the west and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean, north by the Celtic Sea, west by the Gulf of Biscay and southeast by Spain.

Niorland is a sovereign state and a federal semi-direct parliamentary directorial republic.

With an area of 708,450 km2, Niorland is the largest country in Western Europe and the second-largest country by area on the European continent. With a population of 137.35 million inhabitants, Niorland is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia. The national capital and most populated city is Berblecow. Niorland is a great power and it has the third-largest economy worldwide and the first largest economy in the European continent both nominally and by purchasing power.

Niorland is one of the most culturally advanced countries on earth ranking at the highest positions of HDI, life expectancy, quality of life, healthcare, and education. With the third-largest economy, Niorland is considered to be both a regional and a Great Power, being a member of the United Nations Security Council, the G7, the G20, the Arab League, OSCE, OECD, DAC, WTO, Interpol, the Non-Aligned Movement, CANZUK and the council of Europe, among many other. In addition, it also has the world’s second-largest national wealth and the largest central bank gold reserve.

Niorland was first inhabited by modern humans 35000 years ago, these humans developed during the Bronze Age into multiple groups such as the Yibutians a collection of multiple tribes who lived in the Southwestern region of nowadays Niorland and the Nearians Celts who organized themselves in multiple city-states along the coast of the Biscay Gulf. In the late antiquity, Romans were able to conquer the region known currently as Criltania, while the Nearians formed an alliance known as the Neora League in order to avoid a roman conquest over their territories.

Anglo-Saxons from mainland Europe invaded the Peninsula and with a relative success, settling in the northeastern region, spreading their language and mixing with Nearian Celts and Yibutians, reducing the Celtic area only to the Iminster peninsula. The Anglo-Saxons settlements, the Kingdom of Neora and the Yibutian Confederation united in 978, thus forming the first Niorlish state.