Communities of Balisca

Community
Also known as: Communidad
File:Communities of Balisca map.png 1. Araucaria 2. Bayara 3. Castejón 4. Cerdanya 5. Hesperia 6. Estuaria 7. Pindorama
Category	Confederated state
Location	Baliscan Confederation
Number	7
Populations	Smallest: Pindorama, 4,206,325 Largest: Bayara, 30,574,589
Areas	Smallest: Castejón, 7,950 km2 (3,070 sq mi) Largest: Cerdanya, 1,736,790 km2 (670,580 sq mi)
Government	Communes → Cantons → Regions → Communities → Confederal
Subdivisions	Regions (rexón)

The Baliscan Confederation consists of seven historic cultural linguistic communities (Baliscano: comunidad) within it's borders. They emerged in the midst of the collapse of the Spanish Empire in the 1810s, while the original three communities (Bayara, Hesperia, and Cerdanya) were thalassocratic network of settlements that voluntarily confederated with mutual recognition of the right to self-determination. Powers varied between these communities varied and largely depended on their economic power and geographic location. Through the adoption of confederal compacts by these interdependent communities they adopted common defense and foreign policies, gradually consolidating politically in the early Espanya Boba period. These highly decentralized "states" were linked only through their ethnolinguistic closeness, rather than mutual political allegiance.

As a result of decades of sustained internal migration, immigration from overseas, and the emergence of a Baliscan identity, these nationalist divisions gradually lost importance as society transitioned towards becoming cosmopolitan. The political power of these states were eventually abolished in favor of cantonalism after the Cantonal War.

Until 1883, the loosely coupled confederation did not have a central political organisation. Issues thought to affect the whole Confederation were the subject of periodic meetings in various locations. The Articles of Confederation (1810) provided few details concerning institutions, and this was not discussed until the 1826 Confederal Convention in Alessandria, but was largely ineffective, as all Bayaran regions except Carpinchera boycotted the congress. The Bayaran secession and mobilization against the Congress led to an early termination without an definitive agreement. Around the same time, Castejón was considered to be the frontier of the fledgling confederation, a settlement in the "middle ground" in between cultures, peoples, and beyond state control. It gradually came to be called the "place of no god", as it was suspiciously viewed as an aberration by many both before and after independence due to its flamboyant and cosmopolitan culture. Bayaran armies conducted an ill-fated campaign to capture Alpujarra in 1827, which culminated in the Siege of Castejón and saw the intervention of the Maroon Confederacy on the side of the Confederalists.

After years of debate, shifting demographics, and negotiations and reconciliation between the confederations of Indigenous peoples, Araucaria, and the communities of Balisca, the 1883 Confederal Convention symbolical recognized Castejón as the "cradle of the confederation", establishing the city as the de jure capital. As a prototypical confederal compromise, the Convention agreed to the location of other administrative institutions, such as the Polytechnical School (1854) to a diverse variety of communes across the Confederation, which was later ratified by the cantons.

Statistics

Name	Population (2024)		Area		Pop. density (per km2)	Gross domestic product (PPP) (2024)
	Numbers	%	km2	%		$	%	$ per capita
Araucaria	25,111,337	17.09%	168,372.7	10.18%	128.47	772 billion	12.86%	35,537
Bayara	30,574,589	20.77%	251,772.52	23.53%	42.67	1,159 billion	19.31%	37,798
Castejón	24,479,594	16.63%	7,950	0.74%	2,900	1,394 billion	23.22%	63,467
Cerdanya	29,117,923	19.78%	289,098	15.86%	106.84	986 billion	16.42%	35,145
Estuaria	12,378,467	8.40%	94,558	5.79%	128.37	530 billion	8.83%	43,023
Hesperia	21,328,381	14.48%	487,420	24.90%	52.24	953 billion	15.87%	44,129
Pindorama	4,206,325	2.85%	218,040	20.37%	19.29	not assessed	N/A	not assessed
Balisca	147,196,616	100%	1,526,052	100%	96.45	6,187 billion	100%	43,183