Effiland

Effiland, officially the United Kingdom of Effiland, is a country whose territory is located in TBD. Effiland's capital and biggest city is Sillhammer where 2/5th of the population lives.

The nation debuted in NSC 8 and after a long run of almost 50 editions, withdrawed in NSC 54. After many years of political turbulance, Effiland has returned to participate in the contests and had its debut in WLSC 201. Effiland holds the record for most number of 21th place in NSC with 9 times (2 semifinal and 7 final results). Needs citation.

Etymology
The name Effiland means "Land of the Effi people" in English. The oldest usage of Effiland is recorded on an almost seven hundred years old peace agreement between feudal states, as the Mid-Effinsk word Yfðýrlandt (literally where Yfðý [ye-ph-dh-ueh] people or Yfðýr [ye-ph-dh-uerh] live). Scholars are generally of the same mind that the word Yfðýr directly derives from the Proto-Effinsk word Æħþýr [Ai-ch-th-ue-rr], which is believed to be the name given by the local people to the mythological fairies that ruled the world before humans arrived.

Since the literacy has commonized in the later periods, it is known that the land was called Efdhiland, as in where Efdhi people or Efdhir live. Though the link between the words Yfðýr and Efdhir is missing, it's easy to see the both words are related phonetically. Effiland as a place name is proven to be a direct descendant of Efdhiland, grammatically and phonetically; the transition is well documented in an abundance of writings of rulers and public.

Prehistoric and middle ages
There is little information about Yfðýr, the ancient people of Effiland. Due to harsh nature conditions and several big scale natural disasters, most of the artifact from earlier ages have not survived. A selection of artifiacts can be seen in the country's National Museum (Natjónalmuseum Effiland, Sillhammer) exhibit. These artifacts indicate that Yfðýr generally were hunter-gatherers, mainly lived scarcely throughout the land in the mountainous areas where geographical elements (such as caves, rich forests) allowed them to be protected from wildlife and natural conditions.

As a long period of warmer climate had emerged into the middle ages and food sources had expended, population also grew. Yfðýr left the mountainous areas to live in wide pastures and for the first time in their history, they started living in larger groups and a tribal society formed. More people living in close proximity required a system of laws and protection which resulted in a feudal-like societal structure in order to be protected from other groups or tribes. When the warm period ended, Yfðýr quickly realised that it was not possible to survive without a more structured, centralized system of administration. Feudal middle age society thus had been a short lived period, leaving its place to the newly founded Kingdom of Efdhiland.

Kingdom of Effiland
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Effinsk Republikken
After the revolution of rebuplicans in Kingdom of Effiland, a new state has been founded and the monarchy was abolished. The first act of the new government was withdrawing Effiland from NSC.

For some time the republicans run the country smoothly with overwhelming support from the public, which is nowadays widely consedered as a plot fed by totalitarian government to shut down opposition.

When the news about corrupt politicians who drained country's treasury finally surfaced, people of Effiland has rioted and the government shut down. The shock was immense and for the following years, no government was able to lead to country more than a year. People fed up with politicians and their incompetence. A long dark period has followed the last cabinet; no one was leading the country, anarchy was everywhere. People grouped together and created their own states, most of which weren't able to last long.

A handful of microstates were strong enough to live and lead their people, provide them with their needs and create a new society. But the power hungry tyrant leaders of these states started wars between them in order to have control of the land, which in the end was what took them down.

Again people of Effiland were all alone. Some radical fanatics militarized themselves and started to protect country's border, letting no one in or out. They were thinking that foreign elements were trying to assimilate Effiland. This prevented any help from any other nations to reach to people of Effiland.

Great Distress Period
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United Kingdom of Effiland
During this period of anarchy (often called the Great Distress period) Effiland was a poor land. Famine and disease were killing people day by day. Many casualties caused by natural and human made disasters devastated the country.

And then, some bright minded history nerd from the ancient capital of Effiland had an idea to track down the long gone dynasty members. She was not alone. The idea of reviving monarchy gained some momentum amongst people, who were desperately looking for a leader to end Effiland's misery and bring back the glorious days.

Royal family members have been found and once again, Effiland's ancient capital had a king on the throne!

The new Capital State became the first part of new Effiland where law and order flourished again. With the news spreading that there's a king on the throne, some states organized around this idea and supported Capital State. Anti-monarchists tried to suffocate this wildfire, but people of Effiland wanted one thing and one thing only: to unite again.

After some years that were politically tricky (some states falled down with antimonarchist effort, some states grew stronger and wanted to take the King down once more) Effiland again united under the same flag and became one whole nation: United Kingdom of Effiland.

New constitution had been prepared and the flag has changed. White background of the new flag represents the ever pure land of Effiland​, hence it stayed. Green lines represent the youthful, productive, great people of the country and also stayed. Red lines represents the monarchy, and the royal family's blood and is an additon.

Effilands Television
Effilands Television (EfT), Effiland's Television, is Effiland's national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the national parliament. EfT broadcasts three national TV channels (EfT1, EfT2, and EfT3) and two national radio channels (EfR1 and EfR2) on digital terrestrial television, digital terrestrial radio and subscription television.

Until the republican revolution EfT was one of the biggest broadcasting stations (a total of 14) in the country. During the Effiland Republic, EfT became a propaganda device for the corrupt government and the only broadcasting corporation of the country. During the anarchy period EfT kept on broadcasting as an independent radio station under the name of Effilands Folkradio (EFR) in order to inform people of Effiland. After the reformation of monarchy, EfT continued the free thinking public broadcasting and remains the most popular broadcasting situation.

Though funded by the public (hence the state itself), EfT has a reputation of solely seeking the benefit of the people of Effiland, being a harsh critic of government and even the royal family, which explains the reason why the broadcaster is so popular between the public due to country's painful history caused by corrupt politicians.

Beside its national duties, EfT is responsible for representing Effiland on international affairs such as song contests held throughout the continents.

Nation Song Contest
Effiland participated in NSC through a consecutive 46 editions.

Effifestivalen
Effifestivalen was the national final of Effiland, hosted to decide Effiland's entry for NSC, in which most of the songs were chosen by the public broadcaster and other nations could also participate with a song. After Effiland's withdrawal due to the political disturbance in the country, the format was adopted as a spin off for NSC, where each participant send songs for other participants to vote from.

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