Sarawak (fictional)

Sarawak, officially the Kingdom of Sarawak and Brunei, is a sovereign country in Southeast Asia, bordered only by Indonesia to the north, and located west of the Philippines. It occupies an area of 130,215 km² and is divided into 14 provinces. Its capital and largest city is located in Bandar Kuching.

It was a former colony of the Dutch Empire until 1879 when it was taken by the British Empire where it remained a colony until 1968.

Ethnic groups
The Malays and indigenous Borneoans are the dominant ethnic groups in Sarawak, both of which form 40% of the population together. However, the official five national sub-majorities or the Suku Majoriti include:
 * Sarawakian Chinese (Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Mandarin, Hakka and Fuzhou)
 * Sarawak Indians (Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Punjabi)
 * Sarawakian Arabs of Nejdi, Hejazi, Qatari and Houthi descent.
 * Pulaunese, consisting of Javanese, Ambonese and Bugis.
 * Sarawak Eurasians which can further be divided into:
 * Britons from Wales, the former Rheged region and Northern Ireland.
 * Dutch (Gronings, Utrijters, Frisians, Limburgers and Noord-Hollanders)

Language
Its official language is Malay, with English as the lingua franca and Arabic as a liturgical language, but Dutch, Tamil (as well as Hindi, Malayalam and Punjabi), Cantonese (as well as Teochew, Mandarin and Fuzhounese), Kadazan-Dusun and Iban are counted as majorities. Sarawak Malay dialect is used as the rural vernacular. The country also has Javanese, Frisian, Ambonese, Murut, Tutong, Persian and Indonesian minorities.

Official state documents are written in Malay, in both Rumi and Jawi script. A local English creole, called Sarlish, borrows multiple loanwords and mannerisms from Malay, Dutch, Cantonese, and Iban.

Politics
The country is ruled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, who is commonly referred to as the King of Sarawak. The Sarawakian Prime Minister is Abdul Taib Mahmud, who was sworn into office on February 1, 2015. Currently, the Parliament has 234 seats, 143 of which are owned by the Liberal Islamic Party.

Here are the Political Parties in Sarawak:
 * Liberal Islamic Party (left-wing Islamic socialist democracy)
 * Islamic National Party (right-wing conservative)
 * Merdeka Party (centre-left liberal secularist)
 * Chinese Sarawak Party (Tridemist)

Trivia

 * The IOC code is SWK and the CCTLD is .sw.
 * The country's national anthem has different lyrics for all of its languages, including minorities such as Iban.
 * Sarawak has no copyright laws, like Armenia.