Savamese Serania

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Savamese Serania, also showing Victoria and the territories in the Princess Margaret Islands.

Savamese Serania is the collective name for the territories of the Savamese Empire in the Seranias. In the stricter sense, it refers to the land controlled in Felicia and in the Grand-Sud regions of Serania Major, but an extended definition includes all Savamese territories in the New World, adding the island of Victoria and the Isles in the Prothenian Ocean.

Counting only the continental holdings, Savamese Serania has an area of 11,921,258 million km², 17 times that of the metropole, and a population of approximately 37 million who hold Savamese citizenship; the Isles and Victoria add an additional two million km² and nine million people. The Peliciens, a mostly ethnically Rasheem group that descends from Outer Joriscian settlers conquered during the Felician Wars in the 19th and 20th centuries, add another XX million in Felicia; Peliciens do not hold standard Savamese citizenship, instead having a special colonial citizenship; they require visas to travel to other Savamese colonies or to the metropole.

The first settlement on Serania proper was that of Sainte-Julienne-du-Bel-Havre on Bon-Matin Island, off the eastern Felician coast, founded in 1706. Earlier settlements had been established on the islands of the Prothenian: Bonne-Mère was founded on Grande Terre in 1683 and Port Flavien on Miracle Island in 1687.