Qatilluu

Queendom of Qatilluu Qatilluu
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Capital		Qaelarne
Largest		Qaelarne
Official languages		Qatill, Usuvan
Recognised national languages		Qatill, Usuvan
Demonym		Qatill
Government		Elective monarchy
-	Queen	Aattahii II.
-	Chancellor	Ulaqiima ta Kahaapae
Legislature		National Assembly
Independent
-	Independence from the Osveraali Empire in 1877
Population
-	2017 census	9,700,000
Currency		Tiihaqa (THQ)
Drives on the		right

Qatilluu (Qatill: Qatilluu [qɑtɪˈlːuː]), officially the Queendom of Qatilluu, is a country located in Southwest Atsiq. Formerly a part of the Osveraali Empire, it is the second-largest country on the continent of Atsiq and a major regional power.

Demographics

Ethnic groups

Like most countries on Atsiq, most of the Qatill population are dalar, who mostly settle the fertile coastal lands in the south and northwest. Humans traditionally inhabited the mountainou central regions, but human migration to the cities has been going on for almost a century and their percentage of the total population has been steadily rising. Racial tensions on the scale of Dachashk or Cinriz are unheard of in Qatilluu, although everyday discrimintion of humans is an established fact of life and largely ignored by the dalar majority. The humans have their own political party and are represented in Parliament.

Language

Qatilla is an Osveraali language from the Southern branch, making it related to Lyladnese and Shyorian and more distantly to all other languages of Atsiq with the exception of Cinriz, Amakane and Jáhkarrá. It underwent a series of rapid and comprehensive sound shifts in the 17th and 18th century, leading to a loss of the voicing distinction common to Atsiq languages and, more importantly, the loss of all fricative phonemes. Qatilla is thus almost completely mutually unintelligible with other Osveraali languages. Like all languages of Atsiq, Qatilluu has many loans from Imperial Osveraali, and centuries of close ties with Jilu Lyladna also account for a significant number of borrowings from Lyladnese.

Culture

Like the culturally closely related Lyladnese, the Qatill are a matriarchal society. The dominant position of the women has its roots in the fact that they are the ones who give birth to children and ensure the continuation of the tribe, which has always been linked to the veneration of fertility common to many cultures. In the modern state of Qatilluu, men are prohibited by law to ascend to many higher political positions. The overwhelming majority of rulers in Qatill history and all monarchs since the independence from the Osveraali Empire have been women.