Banatia

Banatia, officially the The Banat Republic is a landlocked country in eastern Central Europe. It borders Hungary to the northwest, Romania to the east, and Yugoslavia to the south and west. Spanning an area of 27,254km2, Banat is one of the smallest countries in Europe. Banat is geographically located in the Pannonian Basin, bordered by the Danube to the south, the Tisza to the west, the Mureș to the north and the Southern Carpathians to the east.

The population of the Banat Republic is of 2,401,600 million inhabitants. Its capital and most populated city is Temesvar, with a population of 407,000. Other large cities of Banat include Becskerek and Pansova. Banat is a multicultural country, with the main groups being: Germans (42.9%), Hungarians (21.4%), Rusyns (16.4%), Serbo-Croatians (10.7%), Jewish (5.7%) and Romanians (2.9%).

=History=

The People's Republic of the Banat was created after the Paris Peace Treaties, in a compromise made by the USSR to create a multi-cultural country for those ethnicities within Soviet-occupied Europe that did not use to have their own nation-state (which was especially the case of Banat Germans, Jewish, Rusyns and Swabians). In 1948, the Soviet Union began transferring administrative responsibility to its communist leaders. However, it would remain a Soviet Satellite (with Soviet troops staying in its territory) throughout the Cold War Era.

During the socialist rule, Banatia would become one of the fastest-growing economies due to rapid industrialization and the constant immigration of ethnic minorities from the Eastern Bloc. Its citizens lived in a comfortable economic situation, as little to no people lacked basic necessities.