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Madyaraksa
| State of Madyaraksa | ||||
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| Anthem Berjayalah Indokistan and Patrioticheskaya Pesnya | ||||
| Capital city | Slobodan and Labstadt | |||
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| Official language(s) | Indonesian | |||
| Short name | Madyaraksa | |||
| Demonym | Madyaraksan | |||
| Government | Confederal republic | |||
| Legislature | National Forum | |||
| Time zone | (UTC +7) | |||
Madyaraksa was a name for the proposed union between Indokistan and Los Bay Petros to form a single country. The movement was started in August 2014 as a "Madyaraksa Committee" establised by popular initiative receives official status. The effort was promoted by citizens of both countries as the proposal was universally accepted. Despite of popular support, the effort went down after Los Bay Petros sudden inactivity in October 2014.
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Etymology
The name Madyaraksa came from portmanteau of two Sanskrit words, madhya and niraksha, which both means "middle" and "equator" respectively. But on the creation of the new name, it is find out that raksha also bear meaning, "protection". Thus the meaning is "In the middle of equator" or "in the middle of protection".
Decision to adopt Sanskrit-derived names was motivated by Nabil Ihsan and Adriansyah Yassin Sulaeman's school strong tradition and fondness on Sanskrit language, as both of them attended the same school.
Background
- Main article: Indokistan - Los Bay Petros relations
The concept first developed in 2012 after a successful union between Indokistan, Los Bay Petros, and Raflesinesia that was called LIR Union. Raflesinesian unification to Indokistan in February 2013 brought more motivation to the supporters of this concept, as LIR Union was no longer relevant since it only had two members left. Beside that, a dream of an "unified" LIR Union as single political entity may come true.
The concept also supported by fact that Indokistan and Los Bay Petros already in a very close friendship and share many cultural and political similarities. A poll published by Indokistan News Network in 2013 showed that most correspondent asked on countries comparable to Indokistan, answered Los Bay Petros. Supporters of the union claimed that the unified Madyaraksa will pass an easy readjustment in micronational world.
Features
Political structure
Since the very start of the talks, political structure of Madyaraksa was a major issue. It was decided from the first place that the country would be a federation. A later proposal on political structure was to create a collective leadership comprising heads from constituent states, Indokistan and Los Bay Petros.
Administrative divisions
On an arrangement set by the supporters of the concept, if both nations united with the same divisions arrangement, then it needs adjustment. Indokistan can retain its current division because each states originated from different countries that joined Indokistan, resulting in a obvious separation that was no need to be changed. Los Bay Petros, with its 23 states needs readjustment, either by reducing its landclaims on inactive regions or by merging of states.
It was agreed that Madyaraksa will have Indokistani Slobodan and Los Bay Petrosian Labstadt as joint capital, in later time will be united as a single city.
Symbols
Madyaraksan Committee proposed a totally new identity and opposing any symbols combination from two countries merged, since they believed that both nations "started a new page of their live", thus old symbols cannot be used. Before the end of the committee, a flag was already made official.
The flag was a maroon with a yellow strip in the middle part and two stars, symbolising Indokistan and Los Bay Petros, on the lower right part of the flag. The star was located in the lower part of the strip, symbolizing the country's position under the equator. Maroon was agreed as a national color.
Foreign relations
The main foreign policy of Madyaraksa is that the new Madyaraksa will automatically continued relations with foreign nations and organisation only if both Indokistan and Los Bay Petros having relations on said nations or organisation. If relations only executed by one of its members, it needs legislature consent to continue it.
Failure
Madyaraksa committee runs from August 2014 until September on the same year. Despite of initial support, Los Bay Petros suddenly cuts all diplomatic talks on the committee and withdraw all delegates from there. The cessation of the discussion process caused confusion in Indokistan, primarily because it is now no longer clear if Madyaraksa will really be establish or not.
Since end of October 2014, criticisms began to arise, as the supporters began losing heart on the Madyaraksa and even turning against the unification. Oppositions demanded that Indokistani government should withdraw from the entire process of the discussion and cancel all support for the unification idea. In February 2015, as Los Bay Petrosian status of membership inside Association of Indonesian Micronations was revoked, it was clear that the fate of the union proposal was failed.
