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Democratic Republic of Gandoor
ガンドア民主共和国 (Japanese) Демократическая Республика Гандур (Russian)
Flag of Gandoor
Motto: 'Liberty, Democracy, Socialism'
World Assembly statusMember
CapitalGandoor City
Largest cityOsaka
Official languagesEnglish, Japanese, Russian
Ethnic groups 31.6% Japanese, 27.5% English, 19.8% Russian, 10.8% Korean, 8.1% Mixed, 0.8% Native Gandoorese, 1.4% Other
DemonymGandoorese
GovernmentUnitary parliamentary republic
Park Sang-Hee
• Head of the Forum
François Denver
LegislatureForum
Establishment
• First European settlements
1550
• Gandoor Grand Council
5 June 1587
15 March 1603
• Gandoor Revolution
28 July 1900
• Democratic republic
12 October 1904
Area
• 
8,313,213 km2 (3,209,749 sq mi)
• Water (%)
2.8
Population
• 2029 estimate
245,842,760 (5th)
• 2025 census
241,397,161 (5th)
• Density
29.6/km2 (76.7/sq mi) (150)
GDP (PPP)2028 estimate
• Total
$10.78 trillion (4th)
• Per capita
$44,063 (55th)
GDP (nominal)2028 estimate
• Total
$10.48 trillion (3rd)
• Per capita
$42,837 (34th)
HDI (2027)Increase 0.967
very high
CurrencyGdyn (GDY)
Time zoneUTC+12/+11/+10 (GET/GCT/GWT)
Date formatdd/mm/yyyy, yyyy/mm/dd
Driving sideright
Calling code834
Internet TLD.gd

Gandoor (Japanese: ガンドア Gandoa, Russian: Гандур Gandur), officially the Democratic Republic of Gandoor (Japanese: ガンドア民主共和国 Gandoa-minshukyōwakoku, Russian: Демократическая Республика Гандур Demokraticheskaya Respublika Gandur), is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic located in the Pacific Ocean. The country shares no borders with any nation, although it is neighboured by Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to the southwest and by the Philippines to the west. Gandoor has a total area of 8,313,213 square kilometres, making it the fifth largest nation in the world, and has an estimated population of 245,892,760, as of 1 January 2029. Gandoor is comprised of eight yons and one capital district.

Despite its status as one of the most developed nations in the world, as well as its economic strength, Gandoor generally plays a minor role in global affairs, primarily due to its long-standing neutrality in most global affairs. Despite this, however, Gandoor maintains strong relations with countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

Etymology

The native peoples who lived near where the first settlers arrived referred to the area they lived in as 'gon dur', which literally translates to 'this land'. This term was taken by the settlers to be the actual name for the area and was recorded in English as 'Gondur'. Over time, the spelling would evolve from 'Gondur' to its modern day spelling of 'Gandoor', which was first recorded in 1643.

The proper term for a citizen of Gandoor is Gandoorese.

History

Early History

Gandoor was first settled by humans at least 40,000 years ago, with the remains of the Dynchi Man dating back to this time period. The earliest written document discovered in Gandoor is the Stonybrook Inscription, discovered near the mouth of the Stonybrook River in 1976. The Stonybrook Inscription is an inscription on a copper plate written in an as-yet undeciphered writing system or language that has been dated to 980 AD, a year which is now considered the start of Gandoorese civilization. Other documents with the same writing system have been discovered, with the most recent dating to the 12th century.

For the first several centuries of Gandoorese civilization, the indigenous peoples lived in small tribes, usually consisting of nothing more than various scattered settlements, only unified by their cultures. However, starting in the mid-14th century, several of these indigenous peoples began to establish themselves as concrete polities and began to expand the territories under their control. These polities were the Jaknak Confederacy, the Tetsu Peoples, the Penki Tribes, the Zor Tribes, and the Ganba Peoples. By the year 1374, the Jaknak controlled part of northwest Gandoor, the Tetsu part of southwest, the Penki central, the Zor also southwest (sharing a border with the Tetsu Peoples), and the Ganba controlled part of the island of Descar.

Over the next couple of centuries, the territories of these indigenous nations would variously grow and shrink and, by the start of the 16th century, the Jaknak Confederacy had been reduced to a small sliver of northwest Gandoor, the Tetsu Peoples controlled around thirty percent of Gandoor, the Zor Tribes were reduced to just the southern island of Kilan, and the Ganba controlled the island of Descar and a portion of southeastern Gandoor. According to their own history, the Tetsu Peoples had conquered the Penki Tribes by the mid-15th century, with the Penki becoming absorbed into the Tetsu. Based on historical evidence and records, most historians date the final conquering of the Penki by the Tetsu to no later than 1563.

Early Settlements and the Gandoor Grand Council

In 1550, the first settlers from Europe arrived in Gandoor, although they weren't settlers of their own choice. As punishment for their radical political beliefs, members of an English organization called 'The Friends of All' were forever banished from England and forced to settle on Gandoor (which at the time was simply called The Great Island in English) without any assistance or aid.

In 1587, after thirty-seven years of both forced resettlements of members of The Friends of All and migration from England, the first unified government for Gandoor was established, the Gandoor Grand Council. The Gandoor Grand Council was a form of government in which a council of 100 people ruled the nation equally. The members of the Council were elected by anyone who could be elected to the Council, which was all land-owning males over the age of 30. There were no limits to how long the Grand Council had to exist until a new election nor were there any limits to how many years one could sit on the Council. Official historical records count there as being four Grand Councils total; the first one lasting from 1587 - 1590, the second from 1590 - 1596, the third from 1596 - 1599, and the fourth from 1599 - 1603.

One of the Gandoor Grand Council's final acts before it dissolved was passing an act to establish a monarchy after its dissolution and on 15 March 1603, two weeks after the dissolution of the Gandoor Grand Council, Alexander Jacobson was crowned as Nzard Alexander I, becoming the first monarch of the Nzardom of Gandoor.

The Nzardom of Gandoor

During the period of the Nzardom of Gandoor (the word 'nzard' was a native word meaning 'absolute ruler' and, despite appearing as such, has no etymological relation to 'czar', 'kaiser' or any other word for a monarch derived from Caesar), Gandoor acted much more expansionist and aggressive towards the native peoples, as opposed to the peaceful coexistence policies of the Gandoor Grand Council. During the period of the Gandoor Grand Council, the nation's territory only expanded where there were no indigenous nations and only consisted of northwest and western Gandoor. In 1607, the Nzardom of Gandoor declared war on the Tetsu Peoples, sparking the Gandoor-Native Wars and by 1635, Gandoorese territory had expanded to almost twenty-five percent of the total landmass and the Nzardom had conquered half of the land that had been controlled by the Tetsu Peoples.

The Palace of the Nzards, now the Museum of the Nzardom of Gandoor, housed the Royal Family of Gandoor from 1841 until 1902.

In 1830, voting was reestablished in Gandoor for the first time since the dissolution of the Gandoor Grand Council and all male citizens born in Gandoor aged 30 or older who owned property were granted the right to vote and run for office in local elections.

During this same decade, in 1835, the Nzardom of Gandoor succeeded in forcing the Ganba people, who were the only remaining indigenous group that had not been conquered by Gandoor, off of the Gandoorese mainland, forcing them to retreat to the island of Descar, where they established the Kingdom of Ganbano and, in contrast to Gandoor's relations with other indigenous nations, the Nzardom of Gandoor and the Kingdom of Ganbano maintained moderately friendly relations, with the Nzardom recognizing the independence of Ganbano on 16 June 1835 with the signing of the Treaty of Rulookia.

The Royal Parliament, the first Gandoorese legislature, was established in 1837 by Nzard William I. The Royal Parliament existed entirely at the whim of the monarch, who determined the number of seats in both houses, appointed seats in the Chamber of Loyals, and could determine when elections took place, and could dissolve the Royal Parliament at-will. The Royal Parliament would ultimately only last twelve years, being permanently disestablished by William I in 1849.

During the 1860s, the first Japanese and Russian immigrants to Gandoor arrived, two ethnic groups that would rapidly grow in Gandoor to the extent that the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor in 1904 would establish Japanese and Russian as official languages of the nation alongside English.

While the Nzardom of Gandoor had existed for almost 300 years as an absolute monarchy, rising unrest during the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the Revolts of 1884, nationwide protests predominantly centred around marches on both Great Palace City and the City of Government demanding the return of democracy on a national level.

In response to the Revolts of 1884, Nzard Alexander III established the Gandoorese Parliament in 1885. Shortly after Parliament was established, it codified and passed the Constitution of the Nzardom of Gandoor, establishing rights of citizens of the Nzardom and the first explicit checks and limitations on the monarch's power.

The following year, the Kingdom of Ganbano was dissolved and became the Descar Territory a partially-self governing territory of Gandoor, ending years of negotiations between the two nations over the future of Ganbano.

The Gandoor Revolution and Interim Government

Chiba Masato, leader of the Gandoor Revolution.

On 28 July 1900, in response to several decades of the monarchy not caring for the common citizenry, the Gandoor Revolution, a non-violent revolution spearheaded by the Gandoor Communist Party began. The Communist Party, led by Chiba Masato, advocated for non-violence and peaceful resistance against the current government as Masato, himself an ardent pacifist, felt that violence would lead nowhere good.

On 23 November 1901, it was announced that Nzard William II had begun negotiations with Masato and on 5 July 1902; after many months of negotiations, along with surveys indicating that most people in Gandoor supported the revolution, William II announced that he would abdicate and officially dissolve the Nzardom of Gandoor.

On 9 September 1902, William II signed documents officially ending the 299 year old monarchy and transferred control of all government institutions to an interim government led by Masato. Gandoorese popular culture depicts Masato as referring to William II as 'your majesty' before the signing of the documents and as 'Sergeant William Walsh II' after, as he had achieved the ranking of sergeant during his mandatory five years of military service, although there is no evidence this is actually true.

During the next two years, the interim government (referred to in historical records as the Gandoorese Interim Revolutionary Government) focused on the development and establishment of the new Gandoorese government. It was decided by them to move the capital of Gandoor from Great Palace City, the location of the Palace of the Nzards, to the City of Government, the location of most government offices during the era of the Nzard.

The interim government eventually decided upon what would become the new government system of Gandoor, a unitary parliamentary democratic republic led by a Prime Minister who would be elected on the first Saturday in July every six years and would be appointed to their position on the second Friday in October following the election. They additionally were responsible for the near final draft of what would become the Gandoorese Constitution, officially publishing it in October 1903.

The Democratic Republic of Gandoor

Despite this, modern day Gandoor wouldn't officially be established until 12 October 1904, when the Constitution of Gandoor was officially ratified by the Forum of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor and was signed by Chiba Masato, who became Gandoor's first elected leader since the late 16th century when the final Gandoor Grand Council was elected.

Despite remaining neutral at the start, Gandoor entered World War I in 1915 on the side of the Allies. Gandoor's participation in WWI would prove highly unpopular and a constitutional amendment declaring neutrality in all future foreign wars would pass in 1925.

The Great Depression had a minor effect on the Gandoorese economy, with unemployment reaching a high of 13% in 1932. However, due to Prime Minister Robert S. Stevenson's economic policies, the economy swiftly recovered and Gandoor, along with Sweden, is considered one of the first countries to recover from the Depression.

In early 1940, Stevenson, who had been Prime Minister since 1910 and was 72 years old at the time, announced that he would not be running for reelection in the upcoming National Election.

The Lost Era

On 6 July 1940, Gandoor's third Prime Minister was elected, Alexei Petrikov, who was the first Prime Minister from the New Democratic Party. Shortly after his official appointment to the office, Petrikov requested that the Forum pass a resolution activating and enforcing the State of Emergency Act, an act intended for usage in grave national dangers which enabled the Prime Minister to effectively rule the nation without the legislature. The official reasoning for the state of emergency was the ongoing wars in Europe and Asia.

The Forum would comply with this request and passed the resolution by a vote of 632 in favour and 368 against on 5 November 1940. All 504 members of the New Democratic Party (Petrikov's party at the time) and 128 members of the Gandoor Communist Party voted in favour of the resolution, with the remaining 368 Communist Party members voting against.

Petrikov's era as Prime Minister, known by Gandoorese historians as 'The Lost Era', were characterized by the severe curtailing of civil and political freedoms for all and Gandoor, during the time, was sometimes referred to as an authoritarian state. His goal, as stated in a private 1942 speech, was the transformation of Gandoor into an atheistic socialist single-party state led by his Revolutionary Socialist Party, which he formed that same year as a vanguard party for the revolution.

An official government policy of promoting atheism was established and all religious buildings in Gandoor were officially shut down and all religious leaders were forced by the Organization for the Safety and Security of Gandoor (OSSG), a secret police established by Petrikov, to either recant their beliefs or otherwise face execution or a minimum five year sentence in a labour camp. The OSSG was also responsible for the arrest and executions of any opponents to Petrikov's regime, including his predecessor as Prime Minister, Robert S. Stevenson, who was executed in June 1942.

A series of twenty-two labour camps were constructed across Gandoor, where citizens who committed crimes against his regime that were not punishable by execution would be forced to work for ten hours a day, with beatings, torture, and even executions by camp guards being common. Prisoners aged eight and older were also required to attend five hour reeducation classes daily, which were intended to teach the prisoners about the errors of their ways and make them appreciate the future of the nation.

Petrikov died in 1951 and was responsible for the deaths of around 800 thousand Gandoorese with an additional 350 thousand either sentenced to a labour camp or exiled.

In modern Gandoor, Petrikov's reign is widely recognized as having been a de facto dictatorship and that Gandoor was not a democratic country between 1940 and 1951.

The Cold War and Gandoor Civil War

Despite Gandoor's general stance of neutrality, Gandoor was aligned with the Soviet Union from 1947 until 1953, when Prime Minister Junichiro Suzuki declared that Gandoor would be neutral in the Cold War between the West and the East. In practice, however, Gandoor was unofficially aligned with Western powers, despite the goal of Gandoor's government to eventually replace its capitalist economic system with a market-based socialist one. In addition, there were minor movements amongst Russo-Gandoorese to encourage Gandoor to re-ally themselves with the USSR. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, these movements were revealed to have been encouraged and promoted by the USSR and Soviet agents operating in Gandoor, one of the few direct effects of the Cold War in Gandoor.

The division of Gandoor at the start of the Gandoor Civil War.

In 1953, Southside, Hegmon, and Freena Yon and parts of Yanot and Yontan Yon unilaterally declared their independence from Gandoor, declaring that the reign of Petrikov proved that Gandoor's constitution was too weak to prevent a dictator from coming to power and declared the establishment of the Gandoorese People's Republic.

While Gandoor's constitution does permit yons to secede, the areas involved in the GPR did not follow constitutional procedure and were ordered to put down their arms and surrender to Gandoorese authorities, which erupted into a full-scale war between the two Gandoors.

Territory controlled by the Democratic Republic of Gandoor (orange) and the Gandoorese People's Republic (purple) at the time of the ceasefire on 2 June 1956.

Despite the National Army of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor quickly gaining an advantage over the secessionist People's Army of Gandoor, the Gandoorese People's Republic refused to surrender and a ceasefire for all troops wouldn't be declared until the DRG's victory in the Battle of Peninsular on 2 June 1956, at which point the territory controlled by the GPR amounted to no more than 22% of what it had been in 1953. By the time of the ceasefire, there were approximately 35,000 casualties for both sides combined (approximately 11,000 dead and 24,000 wounded).

On 1 July 1957, after more than a year of negotiations, the Gandoor Civil War officially came to an end and the government of the Gandoorese People's Republic (officially referred to in the treaty as 'the governing structure of the yons and other territories in rebellion') was dissolved and all territory of the Gandoorese People's Republic was restored as part of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor.

Post-War Economic Crisis

As a result of both the Gandoor Civil War and the 1940 - 1951 reign of Prime Minister Alexei Petrikov, Gandoor officially entered a period of economic crisis in November 1957, with the crashing of several markets in Gandoor.

Unlike the Great Depression, which had a minor effect on the Gandoorese economy, the post-war economic crisis had a major impact on the economy of Gandoor. Unemployment rose to a peak of 19.6% in 1961 and inflation increased at a rapid pace during the early years of the crisis, although it did not reach levels of hyperinflation.

in October 1957, one gdyn was worth 1.42 USD but by October 1959, 1 gdyn was worth 0.36 USD.

During the economic crisis, the movement to restore the Gandoorese monarchy, which normally is a small fringe movement, gained some traction both due to the crisis and government corruption in the early to mid-1960s, which resulted in the the Royal Monarchy Party of Gandoor gaining seats in the Forum, the only party dedicated to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Gandoor to do so.

Due to the crisis, it was thought by many in the government that Gandoor would need to significantly alter its economic system, with some suggestion officially giving up on the goal of transitioning to market socialism. New economic policies and regulations would eventually be passed by the Forum, which brought an official end to the crisis in 1972, although Gandoor wouldn't reach pre-civil war economic levels until 1985.

Modern Gandoor

Contemporary Gandoorese history can be considered to have begun in 1976, with the election of Reginald D. McFatton, Sr. as Prime Minister. McFatton, Sr. was the first Prime Minister since Alexei Petrikov to not be a member of the Gandoor Communist Party and his election ended their twenty-five year stronghold on the position.

Gandoor would become the first nation in the world to recognize same-sex marriages when, in 1988, a court case would reach the High Court, who would rule that since the Gandoorese Constitution defines marriage as 'a consenting union between any two persons' without specifying the sex of those involved, it would be unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Gandoor's economy experienced its largest growth during the period of 1992 to 2000, primarily due to the economic and trade policies of Rebecca Miyamoto, who was Prime Minister from 1982 until 1994 and the end of the Cold War, which enabled Gandoor to trade with former Warsaw Pact countries, whom Gandoor maintained an unofficial (due to the official stance of neutrality) policy of trading with them as little as possible, due to not wanting to be seen as supporting their regimes.

Gandoor's tenth Prime Minister, Akane Sasaki, who was born in Saitama, Japan and is the only Prime Minister of Gandoor to not have been a Gandoorese citizen by birth, was in office during the 2004 - 2006 Gandoor Economic Shock, a minor economic decline in Gandoor. While not to the extent of the post-war economic crisis, the shock still required a few new economic regulations to be passed in order to recover from it.

On 12 October 2018, Nikolai Olanovich Semenov was appointed to the office of Prime Minister by the Forum. Semenov is the twelfth Prime Minister of Gandoor, the first one to be a member of the New Democratic Party since Stephen Livingston (in office from 1994 to 2000), and the fourth overall from the party.

The Term Limit Amendment Proposal, which altered the law for term limits for Members of the Forum, passed a public referendum on 10 August 2024 and became part of the Constitution on 12 August. The amendment, the fifth since the Constitution went into force, was the first since 1991 and the first to pass under the requirements of Amendment IV, which requires that proposed constitutional amendments pass both the Forum and a public referendum with a 70% majority.

On 11 October 2024, Park Sang-Hee was appointed to the office of Prime Minister by the Forum following the victory of the Gandoor Communist Party in the 2024 National and Forum Elections. 40 years of age when appointed to the office, Park is the youngest Prime Minister in Gandoorese history, beating the record established by Robert S. Stevenson, who was 43 years old when appointed in 1910. She is also the first Prime Minister of Korean ancestry.

Demographics

As of 1 January 2028, Gandoor has an estimated population of 245.8 million, an increase of 4.5 million over the 2025 census, which recorded an official population 241.3 million, making it the fifth most populated country in the world. Since 1835, an official census has been taken in Gandoor every ten years, before that, the census was taken every 25 years.

Ethnicity

A chart showing the percentage of ethnic groups within Gandoor.
In correlation with the above chart, the breakdown of the 8.1% of Gandoorese who identified as being of mixed ethnic ancestry on the 2025 census.

Despite its fairly lax immigration policies, over 86% of all people living in Gandoor are of completely or partially Japanese, English, or Russian ancestry.

As of the 2025 census, 31.60% (76,281,503[1] people) are of Japanese ancestry, 27.50% (66,384,219[1] people) are of English ancestry, 19.80% (47,796,638[1] people) are of Russian ancestry, 10.80% (26,070,893[1] people) are of Korean ancestry, 0.80% (1,931,177[1] people) are of Native Gandoorese ancestry, 1.40% (3,379,560[1] people) are of other ethnic ancestry, and 8.10% (19,553,170[1] people) identify as being of mixed ethnic ancestry.

Of the 8.1% that consider themselves to be of mixed ethnic ancestry, 41.98% (8,207,503[1] people) identify as being of Japanese/English ancestry, 3.70% (724,191[1] people) identify as being of Japanese/Russian ancestry, 13.58% (2,655,369[1] people) identify as being of Japanese/Korean ancestry, 2.47% (482,794 people[1]) identify as being of Japanese/Native ancestry, 1.23% (241,397 people[1]) identify as being of Japanese/Other ancestry, 13.58% (2,655,369[1] people) identify as being of English/Russian ancestry, 3.70% (724,191[1] people) identify as being of English/Korean ancestry, 6.17% (1,206,986[1] people) identify as being of English/Native ancestry, 4.94% (965,589[1] people) identify as being of English/Other ancestry, 1.23% (241,397[1] people) identify as being of Russian/Korean ancestry, 2.47% (482,794[1] people) identify as being of Russian/Native ancestry, 1.23% (241,397[1] people) identify as being of Russian/Other ancestry, 1.23% (241,397[1] people) identify as being of Korean/Other ancestry, 1.23% (241,397[1] people) identify as being of Native/Other ancestry, and 1.23% (241,397[1] people) identify as being of other mixed ancestry, which includes those who consider themselves to be mixed between other ethnic groups and those who may consider themselves to be mixed between more than two ethnicities.

Spoken Languages

English, Japanese, and Russian are the official languages of Gandoor, as designated in the nation's constitution. English and Japanese are the most widely spoken languages, with 79% of the population reporting fluency in English, 73% reporting fluency in Japanese, and 60% reporting fluency in both. Russian is spoken by 29% of the population and is the predominant language in Freena Yon, which contains almost 60% of all Russian speakers in Gandoor. In addition to the official languages, Korean is widely spoken as well and is understood by 19% of the population.

While none are recognized as official languages, all native indigenous languages are designated as protected languages under Gandoorese law and their continued usage is considered to be an important part of maintaining Native Gandoorese culture and heritage.

Religion

Gandoor is officially a secular state with strict separation of church and state, along with laws guaranteeing the right to practice one's religion, provided it does not interfere with the rights of others. The majority of Gandoor's population is non-religious, with 68.5% stating that they have no religious affiliation. Buddhism is the largest religion in Gandoor, with 11.4% following it; 9.6% follow Shinto, 5.9% follow native Gandoorese religions, and 1.3% adhere to Christianity, predominantly Russian Orthodox or Protestant, and other religions make up 3.5% of the population.

Largest Cities

Largest Cities
Rank City Metro Area Population Yon
1 Osaka 18,942,310 Osaka
2 New Yordin City 9,676,450 Southside
3 Heiwa 8,790,152 Icpo
4 Minakaze 6,179,312 Hegmon
5 Descar City 5,340,833 Hegmon
6 Eaton 5,221,551 Yontan
7 Yordin City 4,983,206 Yanot
8 Southside 4,494,218 Southside
9 Kwestia 4,338,109 Juon
10 Nzardgrad 4,030,682 Freena

Government

The Democratic Republic of Gandoor is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic. The framework of the nation is the 1904 Constitution of Gandoor, which was most recently amended in 2024.

The Prime Minister of Gandoor, unlike most parliamentary republics, holds the position of both head of government and head of state. The current Prime Minister of Gandoor is Park Sang-Hee, who has been in office since 2024. As of 1957, the Prime Minister may not serve more than two terms of six years. There have been thirteen Prime Ministers since the establishment of the current government in 1904.

The Forum of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor

Gandoor's legislature is the Forum of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor. It is a unicameral legislature with 1000 total seats, with each administrative division being assigned 125 seats. Elections for the Forum occur both every four years and every six years. The four year elections, referred to as Forum Elections, are the elections which more directly affect the Members of the Forum, as they, since the adoption of the Fifth Amendment to the Gandoorese Constitution in 2024, may only serve for four consecutive terms of four years at a time, prior the adoption of the Fifth Amendment, Members of the Forum could only serve for a maximum of three terms of four years. The six year National Elections, which decide who becomes the Prime Minister based upon which party has the majority of seats in the Forum following the election, does not count towards their term limit (this does not apply to occasions where both the Forum Election and National Elections occur in the same year, most recently 2024). The Forum operates functionally as a two-party system, with 97% of the seats being split between the Gandoor Communist Party and the New Democratic Party. The remaining seats are divided between the People's Party of Gandoor and the Gandoor Freedom Group.

Gandoor is divided into eight administrative divisions, known as yons, which comes from a native word meaning 'region'. Gandoor's administrative divisions, sorted by population, are as follows:

Yons of Gandoor
English Name Japanese Name Russian Name Population[2]
Osaka オサカ (Osaka) Весни (Vesni) 50,122,040
Freena フリーナー (Furīnā) Фриния (Friniya) 47,116,393
Juon ジュオン (Juon) Юон (Yuon) 40,759,547
Hegmon ヘッジモン (Hejjimon) Хегмон (Khegmon) 27,677,685
Icpo イークポ (Īkupo) Икпо (Ikpo) 26,692,451[3]
Yanot ヤンノット (Yan'notto) Яноски (Yanoski) 25,595,110
Southside 南側 (Minamigawa) Южная Сторона (Yuzhnaya Storona) 15,777,156
Yontan ヨンタン (Yontan) Ентан (Yentan) 12,170,378

In addition to the eight yons, Gandoor's capital, Gandoor City, is located in the Gandoor City Capital District, itself located within Icpo Yon. Despite being functionally identical in all but name to a yon, the Capital District does not have representation in the Forum.

Due to being a unitary state, the powers that the yons hold is limited to what powers the government in Gandoor City has delegated to them. Some examples of things that yons have the authority to do include: collect local property taxes, manage their yon police (despite all police officially being part of the national police force), and set their own educational standards for schools, provided they still meet the minimum national requirements.

Foreign Relations and Military

Due to Gandoor's long-standing stance of neutrality, its participation on a global stage is minimal, although strong ties are maintained with countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Gandoor has been a part of the World Assembly since 1961. An amendment declaring Gandoorese neutrality in all foreign wars while reserving the right to maintain a military force for self-defence purposes has been part of the Constitution since 1925.

Gandoor's military, the National Military of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor, is fairly small and focused almost entirely on self-defence. There are currently about 143,000 in active service, with an additional 329,000 reserves, as of August 2026. The military is divided into three branches, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. Total military spending, as of 2026, is 23.76 billion GDY (US$39.9 billion), 0.41% of the total national budget of 5.67 trillion GDY (US$9.54 trillion).

Economy

Despite the Constitution of Gandoor calling for the establishment of a 'market-based socialist economic system wherein the means of production are controlled by labourers and members of the working class', Gandoor's economy historically has operated under market-based capitalism, albeit with many laws and regulations in place, officially so the government can 'aid in the transitioning from a capitalist economic system to a socialist economic system'. While Alexei Petrikov, Prime Minister from 1940 until 1951, did plan for Gandoor to transition to a centrally-planned economic system modeled after the Soviet Union, such a transition did not occur during his eleven years as Prime Minister, although economic restrictions and regulations were severely tightened in preparation for the transition.

During the Prime Ministerships of Reginald D. McFatton, Sr. of the New Democratic Party and Rebecca Miyamoto of the Gandoor Communist Party from 1976 to 1994, economic liberalization policies would be passed, loosening up many of the restrictions and regulations applied to private corporations, especially foreign ones, and encouraging Gandoorese economic growth, which would reach pre-civil war levels in 1985.

The obverse of the new design for the 5 gdyn banknote, revealed in February 2025, featuring Marie Antoinette.

As of the start of 2028, Gandoor's nominal GDP is US$10.48 trillion and its nominal GDP per capita is $42,837.

Gandoor's currency, the gdyn, is a decimal currency divided into 100 cendyns and was adopted in the late 18th century as a replacement for the non-decimal Gandoorese pound amidst currency reforms in the Nzardom of Gandoor.

On 17 February 2025, the National Bank of Gandoor announced and revealed redesigns for all eight banknotes of the gdyn, these redesigns featured new colours for all banknotes, sans the five gdyn banknote, the first change in colour since individually coloured banknotes were introduced in 1920. The redesigns all entered general circulation by August 2025, with the old designs planned to be gradually withdrawn from circulation, although they will remain legal tender for usage indefinitely.

Transport

There is a total of 1.27 million kilometres of road in Gandoor, with 774,700 km being paved roads.

Gandoor has a railway network of 54,710 kilometres, the majority of which is nationalized and operated by Gandoor Rail. In 2026, there were a total of 1.82 billion passengers who rode on Gandoor Rail, a modal share of 30.4%. The busiest railway station in Gandoor is the Osaka Main Station, which has approximately 340 thousand people passing through the station daily.

In the year from August 2025 until September 2026, Gandoorese airports handled a total of 189.5 million passengers. The three largest airports during that period were Osaka International Airport (58.2 million passengers), Gandoor City International Airport (19.6 million passengers), and New Yordin City International Airport (11.5 million passengers).

The largest and flag carrier airline in Gandoor is AirGandoor, which was established in 1957 from the merger of several preexisting airlines and was under 100% state-ownership until being partially privatized in 1985. Despite its partial privatization, the Government of Gandoor maintains 65% ownership of the company. AirGandoor is responsible for 67% of all passenger air traffic originating from Gandoor, as of 2027.

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  2. Estimated as of 1 January 2029
  3. Includes the population of the Gandoor City Capital District, which is contained within the yon but is not part of it.