West Scandia
01-01-2008, 18:33
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Capital: Reykjavík
Population: 335,237
Official Languages: Icelandic, Faeroese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Greenlandic, Shetlandic, Scots
Political System: Confederal Parliamentary Republic
Prime Minister: Magnús Karlsson
Legislative Body: Althing- Parliamentary body with seats alotted to each Republic.
Ethnic Groups:
Scandinavian
-Icelanders 88%
-Faroese 13%
-Shetlanders 6%
-Orcadians 6%
-White Greenlanders 0.0015%
-Jan Mayen Norwegians- Negligible
Trace Minorities:
Inuit Greenlanders
Scottish-Irish(Pictish)
Canadians
NOTE: Around 80% of all West Scandians are of a Scandinavian Y chromosome, and a Scottish-Irish X chromosome, indicating that the islands' inhabitants prior to Norse colonisation were of the same celtic origins that remain in the Pictish Isles.
Capital: Reykjavík
Population: 335,237
Official Languages: Icelandic, Faeroese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Greenlandic, Shetlandic, Scots
Political System: Confederal Parliamentary Republic
Prime Minister: Magnús Karlsson
Legislative Body: Althing- Parliamentary body with seats alotted to each Republic.
Ethnic Groups:
Scandinavian
-Icelanders 88%
-Faroese 13%
-Shetlanders 6%
-Orcadians 6%
-White Greenlanders 0.0015%
-Jan Mayen Norwegians- Negligible
Trace Minorities:
Inuit Greenlanders
Scottish-Irish(Pictish)
Canadians
NOTE: Around 80% of all West Scandians are of a Scandinavian Y chromosome, and a Scottish-Irish X chromosome, indicating that the islands' inhabitants prior to Norse colonisation were of the same celtic origins that remain in the Pictish Isles.