Demographics:
Population
The
Myrorian Census is taken simultaneously in all parts of the country every five years. The
Myrorian Census Bureau is the agency responsible for collecting this data and is among the highest-funded parts of the government. In the 2015 census the population of Myroria was 8,549,341. Between 2005 and 2015 the population of Myroria increased by an annual rate of approximately 0.75 percent. This compares to 0.6 percent between the years of 1995 and 2005 and 0.7 percent between the years of 1985 and 1995.
Myrorian society is linguistically and culturally homogenous, comprised of 95.1% ethnic Myrorians, with small populations of immigrants. McMasterdonians, Plembobrians, and Esplandians comprise most of Myroria's immigrant groups. McMasterdonians are the largest single minority group. Most McMasterdonians live in Myroria's cities, and in a few McMasterdonian-majority towns in County Ivorheart. Among this group are also ethnic Kianese who remained in Myroria after the fall of the Empire.
Some sociologists have characterized Myroria, and especially Myrorian cities, as a "multicultural society", which the Myrorian government vehemently denies. The official position of most Myrorian politicians is that the nation is a land of "one race, one civilization, one language, and one culture.". Discrimination against foreigners is commonplace; one study found that one out of three non-Myrorians were victims of a violent crime perpetrated by a Myrorian.
Myroria's average life expectancy is 75.3 years, but in reality it is much lower for people living in poverty. The median age is 31.8 years. About 78% of Myrorians live in rural areas. In 1980, only one Myrorian city,
Novrith, had a population of over five hundred thousand, though the combined metropolitan area of
Fellowmoor-Pelagis nears Novrith's in size. The cities of Novrith and Pelagis both grew by more than 100,000 people between 2000 and 2015.
City
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Population
[c]Novrith[c]678,400[c]Pelagis[c]334,020[c]Fellowmoor[c]290,100[c]Ivorheart[c]100,370[c]Quarrovth[c]93,100[c]Nelvil's Landing[c]71,000[c]Traval[c]53,099[c]Thanelen[c]45,860[c]Oramyn's Plantation[c]41,670[c]Hemruth[c]39,940
Language
Myrorian is the de facto national language. Although there is no official language at the government level, some laws standardize Myrorian usage. In 2015, roughly 6.8 million people, or 80% of the population, speak Myrorian as their first language and/or at home.
Mercanti, spoken at home by 9% of the population, is the second most common language and the most widely taught second language. Augustine is used widely as a technical language as well, mostly in law and the sciences. Some Myrorians advocate making Myrorian the country's official language.
While neither has an official language, County Traval, County Novrith, and County Omaryseth have laws providing for the use of Myrorian and Mercanti. In addition, County Ivorheart mandates the translation of government documents into the Kianese language. Many jurisdictions with large foreign-born populations mandate translations of government materials such as census forms into the most commonly spoken language there.
Myrorian Sign Language (MSL) is the native language of a number of Deaf and hearing people in Myroria. While few studies have been conducted, by some counts up to 350,000 Myrorians are fluent in MSL. Approximately 239 languages are spoken or signed by the Myrorian population, of which only Myrorian and Kianese are indigenous to the area. Approximately thirty-seven languages once spoken in Myroria are now extinct, mostly mutually intelligible relatives of Myrorian or Kianese.
Religion
Myroria's laws prohibit the establishment of a national religion and guarantee the free exercise of religion by the nation's populace. The Myrorian faith is by far the most common religion practiced in Myroria, but others are followed as well. In a 2012 survey, 45% of Myrorians said religion played a "very important role" in their lives, a far lower percentage than only 20 years earlier in 1992, where 60% of Myrorians said religion was very important to them. A 2014 poll found that an average of 39% of Myrorians attend some religious service weekly; ranging from a low of 20% in County Novrith to a high of 57% in the east of County Ivorheart. As with other developed nations, Myroria is becoming less religious. Irreligion is growing particularly quickly among adults under 30. Polls show that overall Myrorians have less confidence in organized religion than in the past and that younger Myrorians in particular are becoming more irreligious.
According to a 2012 survey, 71.2% of Myrorians said that they actively practiced the Myrorian faith, down from 78% in 2000. The total reporting non-Myrorian religion was 7%, up from 5% in 2000. Other religions include Flemingovianism, Rethenism, and Rakanism. The survey also reported that 19.8% of Myrorians described themselves as irreligious, whether it be atheist, agnostic, or simply having no religion. Religion plays the largest role in daily life in the interior of the nation, mostly in County Ivorheart and northeastern County Traval. By contrast, religion plays the smallest role in the coasts and cities, especially County Novrith and coastal County Traval.
Gallery
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The Pelagis Business District, in inner Pelagis.
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Fellowmoor, across the River Ser from Pelagis, is one of the wealthiest cities in Myroria.
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Townhouses in Novrith, Myroria's largest city.
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This abandoned building in Tirvel's Plantation, a small Myrorian township in the interior of County Traval, is perhaps more typical of the average Myrorian's surroundings.
