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- Deseret is a wizarding territory in wizarding America. Little is currently known of it. The territory is covered in the textbook Wizards and Warlocks in the Ancient World under the unit "Wizards in the New World," along with Alta California, New Amsterdam, and Arcadia.
- The Deseret alphabet (Deseret: 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻 or 𐐔𐐯𐑆𐐲𐑉𐐯𐐻) is a sound-based alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Young also prescribed the learning of Deseret to the school system, stating "It will be the means of introducing uniformity in our orthography, and the years that are now required to learn to read and spell can be devoted to other studies".
- Deseret was the Mormon name for an independent nation which the followers of that religion claimed for themselves within the borders of the United States. Its borders were roughly equal to those of the state of Utah, which at one time had a Mormon majority. It never achieved recognition from any established nation.
- The word Deseret comes from the Book of Mormon, where it is mentioned in Ether 2:3: And they did also carry with them Deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee. Early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who emigrated to what would later become Utah adopted the distinctive name as a way to focus on the communal and beneficial traits common to colonies of bees--industry, thrift, and cooperation. The first name proposed by Mormon leaders for what would later become Utah was the State of Deseret, and the name was used in a wide variety of economic and social ventures. In 1852, for instance, Brigham Young announced the development of the Deseret Alphabet, and the Deseret News was the first newspaper published by the Saints in Salt Lake City. Other examples include
- Featuring a constitutional theodemocratic government, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints exerts and wields tremendous power in the Deseret, with its organization and leadership incorporated into the framework of the Deseretian government. It is the only theocratic government in the Americas. The model of government is directly inspired from the system church leader Brigham Young attempted to implement during the 1850s. When the Deseret was a territory of Sierra, it unilaterally seceded during the Sierran Civil War. Following the war, the Deseret was granted substantial autonomy although its government was officially secular and lacked the religious elements the modern government has today. The modern government and status of the Deseret as a constituent country of the Kingdom
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