Balearica Island

Balearica Island is an island nation in the NSC, and debuted in NSC 42.

About Balearica Island
The capital city is San Antonio, which is the second largest city on the island. San Antonio has a big harbour area, which is where most of the Balearica Island business takes place. Niavara is the biggest city, but most of the people from Niavara work in the San Antonio area. The biggest hall is the Sun Lounge, located at the San Antonio Harbour, and can handle up to 17,000 people.

Balearica Island is a republic, with Roger-Pierre Shah as the current president, after he beat his own brother Pedro Del Mar in the elections 3 years ago.

It's a relatively small island, 130,284 people living on 5200 km². English is the official language, due to a high number of foreign immigrants, but a lot of languages are spoken among the people on the island. However, everyone agrees that the true language of Balearica Island is the language of music.

Balearica Island debuted in the 42nd edition of the NSC, and reached their first final in the 43rd edition, after being voted thru as the Rest Jury Qualifier. The 2nd final was reached in the 50th edition, again as the Rest Jury Qualifier, but the island still managed to not only beat the 26th place personal best from NSC 42, but actually reach a top 12 finish, which is so far the best result ever for Balearica Island.

There was some internal controversy regarding the entry in NSC 53, where a different style of electronic music was chosen to represent the island. Balearica Island is a bit like Cyprus, it's divided. The part of Balearica Island that doesn't show up on the postcards is a much darker side, with a very different type of sound. It's called Defqonia, and there had been rumours about Defqonian plans to invade the NSC, but they were never taken seriously. Balearica Island authorities did an investigation, and it turned out that the NSC minister was in fact born in Defqonia, and had been working on the "invation" plans. And despite the chosen song not doing too good in NSC, the relationship between Defqonia and Mellonia-Salinas (the "postcard" side of the island) has improved, and previous conflicts seems to have been buried.

The flag is a modified version of the Magic Island logo. Magic Island is Roger Shah's record label on Armada Music, and also the name of his weekly radio show on DI.fm, where he plays 2 hours of trance and balearic every Friday.

NSC Entries
NSC42: The Blizzard - Kalopsia -15th Semi Final 2, 49 points

NSC43: Ayla - Ayla Part II - 26th Final, 71 points (18th Semi Final 2, 33 points, Rest Jury Qualifier)

NSC44: Puretone - Addicted To Bass - 21st Semi Final 2, 38 points

NSC45: Sylver - Confused (CJ Stone Remix Edit) - 23rd Semi Final 1, 25 points

NSC46: Yahel & Eyal Barkan - Voyage - 18th Semi Final 1, 55 points

NSC47: Armin van Buuren - Blue Fear - 12th Semi Final 1, 67 points

NSC48: Kay D. Smith & Marc Tall - Hoipolloi (Mark Sherry's Trance Energy Remix) - 23rd Semi Final 2, 29 points

NSC50: Winter Kills - Deep Down - 12th Final, 88 points (12th Semi Final 1, 60 points, Rest Jury Qualifier)

NSC51: VNV Nation - Beloved - 16th Semi Final 1, 39 points

NSC52: Energy 52 - Café Del Mar - 14th Semi Final 1, 58 points

NSC53: DJ Activator & Francesco Zeta - Fear And Dark - 17th Semi Final 1, 37 points

Spinoff Entries
AATW Hungary: Mÿon - Albion - 24th, 32 points

Halloween: Rockstar - Du Hast - 9th, 68 points

Congratulations 5: The Blizzard - Kalopsia - 30th, 57 points