Part of the country series of articles.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: RECONSIDER ALL BUT ESSENTIAL TRAVELPARSTATE advises that Burmaland has no formal consular relationship with the Commonwealth. Burmaland is an apartheid state with multiple violent insurgencies and a high risk of terrorism. If you are in Burmaland, you should leave immediately if it is safe to do so.
| Republic of Burmaland | |
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| Settler Republic | |
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| Capital | Rangoon |
| Languages | English, Burmese, Karen, Shan, and many other indigenous languages |
| Population | 28,400,000 |
The Republic of Burmaland is an apartheid state in Southeast Asia, governed by a white minority concentrated in Rangoon and the highland tea estates. It is a direct descendent of the British Burma colony and its failed decolonisation, which allowed a bloc of mostly white settlers to secure minority rule that remains to this day. As such, English is spoken in the cities where almost all the wealth is found, and the indigenous languages of Burma – Burmese, Karen, Shan and dozens of others – are spoken mostly in the hinterland. The strong ethnic character of Burmese villages has fragmented opposition throughout the previous century to the advantage of the ruling elite.
The white minority, clustered in Rangoon and the coastal cities, retains strong and romantic attachments to the British Crown despite having no formal relationship with Britain. This clique regards itself as the legitimate heir to the British imperial system, and distinguishes itself from the white settlers of southern Africa by their aristocratic metropolitan, rather than frontier, founding mythology.
Minority rule has seen continuous insurgencies since the 20th Century, which has occasionally flared into civil war (most recently in the 2010s). The poor security situation has also reached the capital, which has been subject to car bombings and random acts of terror in recent years. These attacks and broader insurgencies have provoked harsh reprisals from the government, which uses its fleet of South African fighter-bombers as a method of collective punishment.
As a global pariah, Burmaland trades almost entirely with the apartheid states of sub-Saharan Africa (Rhodesia, South Africa and Portugal-Mozambique) in a circular and intensely sanctioned system known as the Johannesburg Pact. It has no significant diplomatic relationships with the international community, no relationship with India and no consular relationship with the Commonwealth. Its porous borders and active insurgency have made it an attractive target for affiliates of the Social Working Group seeking to undermine minority rule.