Banatia

Banatia, officially the Republic of Banatia (commonly referred as 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 2,401,600 million inhabitants. Its capital and the 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%). Although Banatia does not have an official language, German and English are generally used as the lingua franca for its people.

=History=

The People's Republic of the Banat was created after the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947, in a compromise by the USSR to create a multi-cultural country for those ethnicities within Soviet-occupied Europe that did not have their own nation-state (which was especially the case of Banat Swabians, Jewish and Rusyns). In 1948, the Soviet Union began developing its political system, and the state began to completely function with its own administration and constitution in 1949. However, it would remain a Soviet Satellite (with Soviet troops staying in its territory) throughout the Cold War Era. The Banat government, along with the Soviets, would work to forge a Banatian identity among its people.

During 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 practically no people lacked any basic necessities.