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The Encyclopædia Predicica (Mercanti for 'Predicean Encyclopaedia') is a general knowledge Mercanti-Language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Predicica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership multiple times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 101 full-time editors and more than 3,610 contributors. The last printed edition was the 2015 version of the 16th edition, which spans 33 volumes and 42,410 pages. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia.

Printed for 245 years, the Predicica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the Mercanti language. It was first published in three volumes between 1768 and 1781 in the Predicean capital of Antofagosta. The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was ten volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th (1875–1889) and 11th editions (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style. Starting with the 11th edition and following its acquisition by the Compagnia Marittima di Auroria (CMA) literary firm, the Predicica shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the broader market.

In 1919, the Predicica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted, with every article updated on a tightly maintained schedule. The Fascist War in the Aurorias caused the publication of the Predicica to suffer significantly as the company's war effort refocused most of its Simanggarian factories to wartime production. The company's subsequent collapse left the continuation of its publication up for debate, and it was not until the revival of a renewed Encyclopædia Predicica, Inc. by George Quarz that the Predicica was revived.

Since its revival, the size of the Predicica has remained steady, with about 39 million words on half a million topics. However, the Predicica has since been assessed by independent literary observers to be politically closer to the BAIK Simanggarian political group, a group sponsored by George Quarz himself. For the most part, George Quarz has left the Predicica free from his influence.
 
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Simanggaris
national capital, Simanggaris


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Simaggaris Skyline view from the man-made lake of The Bay
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Simanggaris, officially the Free City of Simanggaris or the Simanggaris-Capital-Metropolitan Area, is a landlocked city-state in the Cuore Verde region, between Langasuka in the east, Linggaputera and Pontianak in the north and southeast (both part of the Taslimic Federation of Kencanaria), and Terra di Maria and Sungai Luas to the West and South respectively (both part of the United States of Predicia Nuova).

Simanggaris grew from a small collection of rural settlements on the Sungei Simanggaris to become a vital hub in Suvarṇabhūmi. Since the end of the Great Aurorian War (also known as the Aurorian Theatre of the Fascist War), it has been a major centre for international politics in the Aurorias and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats, and civil servants. The Free City of Simanggaris is the de facto administrative centre of the New Union of Aurorian States (NUAS), as it hosts several principal NUAS institutions in its Aurorian Quarter. Because of this, its name is often used metonymically to describe the NUAS and its institutions.

Simanggaris is the most densely populated region in the NUAS and has the Union's highest GDP per capita. It is considered to be a modern multicultural conurbation of the 21st century; the various cities formed around the trading posts in the region developed during the time of the Predicean Compagnia Marittima di Auroria Orienta (CMAO) rule of Suvarṇabhūmi covers 5,648 km^2 (2181 sq mi) are connected by wide streets and dense urban skyscrapers and are home to approximately 15,219,600 people, with a population density of about 2,694.69 per square kilometre which makes it the largest in the NUAS. Financial institutions such as the Bank of the Aurorias, Aurorian Stock Exchange, and corporate headquarters of numerous NUAS companies and multinational corporations are located in the city; Simanggaris has thus been classified as an Alpha global city.
 
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