Lufasa
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Lufasa (Ohnaucan: Lufóasa [lufɔasa]), officially the Republic of Lufasa, is a landlocked country located in Northern Ystel, neighboring South Jute and Gfiewistan.
Descending from the same refugees as South Jute, this country is still speaking a Jutic language, but due to losing contact to the homeland relatively quickly and the proximity to Gfiewistan and Hatariew in particular, it was ‘Gfiewised’ over the centuries, which has left marks in both its language (in the form of numerous loanwords) and its culture, which is markedly less traditionalist and more open to commerce and technology, not to mention industry, as well as being a unique mixture of Jute’s dominant collectivism and Gfiewish individualism.
Like Gfiewistan, from which it took its current-day political institutions after far-reaching reforms in the 19th century, it is a non-partisan representative democracy with a bicameral legislative; however, its president is limited to representative functions owing to the political heritage of Jute and its strong popular assemblies.
Its main economic sectors are agriculture, which above all produces fruits and vegetables for Gfiewistan that are unable to grow there, and the commerce sector, with the country functioning as an important gateway for trade between the neighbour in the south and East Mermelia in the north as well as north-eastern Ystel in general.