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| - Caledonia (Scotland) or Pictavia is a province of the Imperium Romanum. Bordering Magna Britannia and Cambria to the South, Caledonia is the second northernmost Roman province in Europe, and the fourth northernmost Roman province in Eurasia. In addition to its mainland, Caledonia consists of over 790 islands, including the Haebrides and the Insulae Septentrionalae. Though it is dotted by many small cities, over half of the province's population is concentrated in the Municipality of Correlia, its capital. This large city of 7,430,000 inhabitants is the fourth most prosperous trading center on the West Coast of Europe, as well as the second most populous city of the Isles. Though Caledonia has vast plains much like Great Britain to the south, the land is mostly unsuitable for agriculture and so the province is not the agricultural powerhouse of its contemporary. One advantage it does have is that off its coast is located the largest oil reserves in all of Western Europe. The province used to consist of Pict lands mostly dominated by the Caledonii tribes, among others. In 201 CE, the Emperor Sulla the Great invaded Pictavia with his battle hardened legions and over the course of a five year guerrilla war, eventually succeeded in conquering the remainder of the Island. Their ownership was only in name, however, until the foundation of Correlia in 223 CE. The settlement grew rapidly, already exceeding existing native settlements in size by 227 CE. Several other settlements have been founded in Caledonia and it currently boasts the third largest population in the Britannic Isles, after Magna Britannia and Cambria. Unlike the two provinces to its south, Caledonia more easily integrated itself with the Roman Empire and a millennium after annexation, no demographic traces of the old culture remained. Though the Pict-like Brythonic language still exists within the population, this is only as it is one of the Britannic provinces and so the language has become a necessary aspect of the bureaucracy. Its influence is much weaker than in Magna Britannia and Cambria, however, and most people who learn it only do so if they have aspirations of a political career. Caledonia is also a vital crossroads for world commerce. The city of Correlia is a doorway to the Atlantic, and therefore the world market, whilst the city of Votadinum leads into the Baltic Sea. The two cities are connected by an underground railroad, built under the old one in 1934. This was only after plans to built a canal between the two cities were finally rejected after several years of dispute. Regardless, the advancement has allowed the province to further prosper in the XXth century, and it remains the fastest growing island economy in the world as the Danes have rebounded into the market following their defeat in the Third World War of the late 80's and early 90's.
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