The Khanate of Kuitentsyol - Worldbuilding Thread
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Kuitentsyol, officially the Democratic Khanate of Kuitentsyol (Khiiva: хүйтэн цөлийн ардчилсан ханлиг, Khiiten Tsyöiin Ardkilzan Khaaneg; Qallisuut: Demokaatiskiik Khaalatimik Niyerirohuitoq) is a country located on west-central Auroria, bordering Scalvia to it's south, Hexastalia to it's north-east, and Eiyyglia to it's north. It is currently under a constitutional monarchy, with Khan Gorojaat Bilgüün as the current head of state and the Khanyikh Khutogbai acting as the unicameral parliament. Kuitentsyol's geography is dominated by steppes, with taiga forests and mountains dominating it's extreme north and south, and the total land area of the country is 687,244 square kilometres (265,346 sq mi), with a population of 117 million people. The nation has two capitals: Constitutionally, the capital is in the city of Nilamaat, and the official Royal Residence of the Khan is located there, making it the executive capital. However, the Khutogbai is located in the city of Zhunbäzar, which makes it the legislative capital. Therefore, most people internationally consider Kuitentsyol to have two capitals.
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Khanyikh Khutogbai
| New Social Democracy Shine Sotsial Ardchilal, Nutaaq Inuusilirinirmut Niruarunnarniq | 152 Seats - Ruling Majority Coalition Senior Partner NSD-UFL-SPK Khutogbai Leader: High-Min-Gov. Keersan Aallad |
| Democratic People's Party Ardchilsan Ardynnam, Niruaqtausimajut Rantuituk Katujjiqatigiingit | 102 Seats - The Official Opposition Khutogbai Leader: Min-Khu. Aaltan Khuunlei |
| Liberal Democratic Party Libyeral Ardchilsannam, Lipuru Timuakratikkut | 74 Seats - In Toleration Khutogbai Leader: Min-Khu. Otgontsetseg Enkhjargal |
| Union of Farmer-Laborers Tariachin-Khödölmörchdiin Evlel, Katujjiqatigiit Piruqsiijinut-Iqqanaijaqtinut | 71 Seats - Ruling Majority Coalition Junior Partner NSD-UFL-SPK Khutogbai Leader: Min-Khu. Matenseg Bulbayar |
| Socialist Party of Kuitentsyol Sotsialistnam Khiitenal, Susialis Patikkut Khaalatimik | 64 Seats - Ruling Majority Coalition Junior Partner NSD-UFL-SPK Khutogbai Leader: Min-Khu. Ivik Kristiansen |
| Kuis for Freedom Erkh-Chölöönii Tölöö Khii, Khaa Isumaqsurunnarnirmut | 29 Seats - The Official Opposition Khutogbai Leader: Min-Khu. Mönkh-Erdene Bilegsaikhan |
| Erkkya-Mirchander Union Erkkya-Mirchander Kholboo, Erkkya-Mirchander Katujjiqatigiingujut | 5 Seats - In Toleration Khutogbai Leaders: Min-Khu. Nazhyev Mirkochevsky and Min-Khu. Matthew Shafford |
| Independents Biye Daagchid, Immikkuuqtut | 3 Seats - Non-partisan Min-Khu. Ozegs Ilgauskas, Hermann Riefeld, and Czaba Juchasz |
Note: The DPP was formerly the Conservatives, NSD was formerly the National Progressives, SPK was formerly the United Left, and KfF was formerly the United Rights Union.
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Chewing Wheat in Kuitentsyol
'The first, and only, thing that Kuitentsyol will ever win at is chewing the same grain of wheat for the longest possible time.' - Martin Augustin, 2010
Kuitentsyol is a nation with a lot of wheat and not a lot of people. When measured by million metric tonnes, Kuitentsyol grows almost eighty million tonnes of wheat per year with only twenty-one million people - that is about four metric tonnes of wheat per person, which is probably a lot of wheat. It could very well be considered the breadbasket of Auroria, or at least a contender to it.
However, this extremely plentiful production of wheat combined with Kuitentsyoli isolationism dominating it's entire history up to the 2010s just leads to a lot of wasted wheat, and with enough wheat for every person in Kuitentsyol to *probably* eat 5 bowls of rice per day, people had to come up with new solutions to the wheat problem.
The first instances of wheat chewing track all the way back to even before the Zhanbaz Khanate's formation in 128, during the prehistoric era. Even in those days, farmers had far too many wheat and far too little people to sell them too, so it became their snack, or their food, or the thing they chew everyday because they have nothing else to chew on. Point is, chewing wheat is effectively in the DNA of a average Kui.
The most greedy of wheat chewers can chew almost fifty grains per day, which leads them towards the path of a very strong jawline, but average Kuitentsyoli only chew about ten grains per day, just enough to get a jaw workout in. The good thing about chewing wheat is that you can chew it anywhere, and you'll often find people chewing wheat outside, in the office, inside public transportation, while swimming, basically anywhere, even while flying a fighter jet. Basically, you can chew wheat literally anywhere and it won't stick to surfaces unlike a certain other chewy thing...
It is for the sole reason of too much wheat that has the tobacco or smoking or chewing gum industry struggling to stay alive amidst the dominance of wheat. All these, famously-known in other nations to relieve stress or give energy or being just enjoyable to chew on, will never sell in Kuitentsyol, because wheat chewing is a tradition so ingrained in the nation that people can do it subconsciously, unconsciously, they can even chew wheat without wheat in their mouth. Wheat is the Kui's tobacco, with none of the negative side effects.
Some travellers to Kuitentsyol (if there even are any, smh) may wonder how wheat tastes like. It tastes like wheat, which is tasteless pretty much. You can get the same taste from eating a bowl of rice or unseasoned oatmeal. The taste difference in different species of wheat is very slight, almost unnoticable, but the variant of wheat can be determined if you chew wheat enough over a few years. The location of where it is grown, the environment that it was grown in, it can all be identified easily to the experienced wheat chewer. In fact, one of the most popular shows on weekly Kuitentsyol TV is the 'Competition', or in it's full name, the 'Wheat-Chewing Competition', where they test on two things: Wheat Identification and Wheat-Chewing Duration. Various Kuis have made fortunes off that show alone, and it's generally considered primetime programming.
In a supermarket, you can find various brands of wheat, and there is really not the slightest consensus on which wheat tastes the best as they all taste the same to the average non-Kuitentsyoli. However, for those who are Kuitentsyoli, each person has different preferences - some like the salty taste, some like the snowy taste, some like the desert taste, everyone has different tastes in wheat. It's quite a contentious issue on exactly which taste is the best, and it's been debated everywhere from the Khutogbai to the street.
The wheat business has the potential to be a very profitable one, if you mass produce enough wheat, but some people prefer forgoing the 50-cent price for a ten pack of wheat grains at the supermarket and prefer to grow their own, for the simple reason of saving money. Therefore, urban farming, roof farming, vertical farming, any sort of farming that can fit in urban areas have become quite popular in Kuitentsyol, and this indirectly helps with climate change although unintentionally. After all, chewable wheat comes above the planet for Kuis.
Many find wheat a sort of stress reliever. It always there to support you, it never betrays you, it lets you think and chew on something endlessly whether you're going through the toughest time of your life or your mind is completely blank and you're chewing for the fun of it. It's really very fun once your jaw stops hurting from chewing wheat, you start having random competitions on the street, you start having random competitions in your office, you start having random competitions in the Khutogbai. Wait, did you say the Khutogbai?
Generally, the Khanyikh Khutogbai is quite serious in it's rules and regulations, mostly banning things that would dirty the Parliament for unknown reasons. And yet, wheat has evaded all the rules and regulations due to the sheer love of the game. Kuis cannot survive without wheat; it shows in the Khutogbai and you often see more than half of the MKs chewing wheat at any one time, and if you don't chew wheat, you're relegated to the backbench. That is a joke, of course... or is it?
Wheat chewing is a very unifying topic, everyone chews wheat, I don't think anyone in Kuitentsyol *doesn't* chew wheat. You can see radicals of the opposite political spectrum chew wheat with one another, you can chew wheat with your direct enemy, political leaders can chew wheat with an opposition who just chewed them out earlier, chewing wheat is the ultimate form of unity.
The wheat craze in Kuitentsyol will never stop, and it will also never make up for the staggering surplus in wheat that Kuitentsyol generates every year, so some particularly creative Kuitentsyol entrepreneurs had the good idea to try and expand wheat chewing overseas. Did it succeed? Probably not, everyone's hooked on the other wheat instead.
Regardless, wheat is still exported overseas for more reasons than food. Chewing wheat can usually be found in the dry food section of the supermarket, or the rice/grain section, or the bakery, or the candy aisle, or basically anywhere, it's far too versatile to be placed in any one section. Very unfortunately, wheat chewing has only really been popular in Kuitentsyol, so it's quite unlikely that the surplus wheat will go away any time soon.
So, now, what do we do with all the wheat? I've tried everything to get rid of the amount of wheat we have, everyone in Kuitentsyol chews wheat and that's not enough? What can I even do with the wheat anymore?
I have absolutely no clue. But sit back and chew.
'The first, and only, thing that Kuitentsyol will ever win at is chewing the same grain of wheat for the longest possible time.' - Martin Augustin, 2010
Kuitentsyol is a nation with a lot of wheat and not a lot of people. When measured by million metric tonnes, Kuitentsyol grows almost eighty million tonnes of wheat per year with only twenty-one million people - that is about four metric tonnes of wheat per person, which is probably a lot of wheat. It could very well be considered the breadbasket of Auroria, or at least a contender to it.
However, this extremely plentiful production of wheat combined with Kuitentsyoli isolationism dominating it's entire history up to the 2010s just leads to a lot of wasted wheat, and with enough wheat for every person in Kuitentsyol to *probably* eat 5 bowls of rice per day, people had to come up with new solutions to the wheat problem.
The first instances of wheat chewing track all the way back to even before the Zhanbaz Khanate's formation in 128, during the prehistoric era. Even in those days, farmers had far too many wheat and far too little people to sell them too, so it became their snack, or their food, or the thing they chew everyday because they have nothing else to chew on. Point is, chewing wheat is effectively in the DNA of a average Kui.
The most greedy of wheat chewers can chew almost fifty grains per day, which leads them towards the path of a very strong jawline, but average Kuitentsyoli only chew about ten grains per day, just enough to get a jaw workout in. The good thing about chewing wheat is that you can chew it anywhere, and you'll often find people chewing wheat outside, in the office, inside public transportation, while swimming, basically anywhere, even while flying a fighter jet. Basically, you can chew wheat literally anywhere and it won't stick to surfaces unlike a certain other chewy thing...
It is for the sole reason of too much wheat that has the tobacco or smoking or chewing gum industry struggling to stay alive amidst the dominance of wheat. All these, famously-known in other nations to relieve stress or give energy or being just enjoyable to chew on, will never sell in Kuitentsyol, because wheat chewing is a tradition so ingrained in the nation that people can do it subconsciously, unconsciously, they can even chew wheat without wheat in their mouth. Wheat is the Kui's tobacco, with none of the negative side effects.
Some travellers to Kuitentsyol (if there even are any, smh) may wonder how wheat tastes like. It tastes like wheat, which is tasteless pretty much. You can get the same taste from eating a bowl of rice or unseasoned oatmeal. The taste difference in different species of wheat is very slight, almost unnoticable, but the variant of wheat can be determined if you chew wheat enough over a few years. The location of where it is grown, the environment that it was grown in, it can all be identified easily to the experienced wheat chewer. In fact, one of the most popular shows on weekly Kuitentsyol TV is the 'Competition', or in it's full name, the 'Wheat-Chewing Competition', where they test on two things: Wheat Identification and Wheat-Chewing Duration. Various Kuis have made fortunes off that show alone, and it's generally considered primetime programming.
In a supermarket, you can find various brands of wheat, and there is really not the slightest consensus on which wheat tastes the best as they all taste the same to the average non-Kuitentsyoli. However, for those who are Kuitentsyoli, each person has different preferences - some like the salty taste, some like the snowy taste, some like the desert taste, everyone has different tastes in wheat. It's quite a contentious issue on exactly which taste is the best, and it's been debated everywhere from the Khutogbai to the street.
The wheat business has the potential to be a very profitable one, if you mass produce enough wheat, but some people prefer forgoing the 50-cent price for a ten pack of wheat grains at the supermarket and prefer to grow their own, for the simple reason of saving money. Therefore, urban farming, roof farming, vertical farming, any sort of farming that can fit in urban areas have become quite popular in Kuitentsyol, and this indirectly helps with climate change although unintentionally. After all, chewable wheat comes above the planet for Kuis.
Many find wheat a sort of stress reliever. It always there to support you, it never betrays you, it lets you think and chew on something endlessly whether you're going through the toughest time of your life or your mind is completely blank and you're chewing for the fun of it. It's really very fun once your jaw stops hurting from chewing wheat, you start having random competitions on the street, you start having random competitions in your office, you start having random competitions in the Khutogbai. Wait, did you say the Khutogbai?
Generally, the Khanyikh Khutogbai is quite serious in it's rules and regulations, mostly banning things that would dirty the Parliament for unknown reasons. And yet, wheat has evaded all the rules and regulations due to the sheer love of the game. Kuis cannot survive without wheat; it shows in the Khutogbai and you often see more than half of the MKs chewing wheat at any one time, and if you don't chew wheat, you're relegated to the backbench. That is a joke, of course... or is it?
Wheat chewing is a very unifying topic, everyone chews wheat, I don't think anyone in Kuitentsyol *doesn't* chew wheat. You can see radicals of the opposite political spectrum chew wheat with one another, you can chew wheat with your direct enemy, political leaders can chew wheat with an opposition who just chewed them out earlier, chewing wheat is the ultimate form of unity.
The wheat craze in Kuitentsyol will never stop, and it will also never make up for the staggering surplus in wheat that Kuitentsyol generates every year, so some particularly creative Kuitentsyol entrepreneurs had the good idea to try and expand wheat chewing overseas. Did it succeed? Probably not, everyone's hooked on the other wheat instead.
Regardless, wheat is still exported overseas for more reasons than food. Chewing wheat can usually be found in the dry food section of the supermarket, or the rice/grain section, or the bakery, or the candy aisle, or basically anywhere, it's far too versatile to be placed in any one section. Very unfortunately, wheat chewing has only really been popular in Kuitentsyol, so it's quite unlikely that the surplus wheat will go away any time soon.
So, now, what do we do with all the wheat? I've tried everything to get rid of the amount of wheat we have, everyone in Kuitentsyol chews wheat and that's not enough? What can I even do with the wheat anymore?
I have absolutely no clue. But sit back and chew.