Vinland (fictional)

Vinland, officially the Republic of Vinland (Vinlandic: Lýdveldid Vínland) is a sovereign state located in North America, bordered by Canada to the west and Iceland to the east. Its official languages are Vinlandic (a dialect of Icelandic) and Danish, although English is a widely-spoken second language (akin to the Netherlands and Sweden). It is governed by President Mikaela Engell, and has its capital city in Engevik (IRL St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada).

Ethnic groups
The Vinlanders are the dominant ethnic group in Vinland. About 65% of the population of Vinland are ethnic Vinlanders, created from the admixture of Nordic, Gaelic and Native cultures. The maternal gene pool was primarily Gaelic and Native American, while the paternal gene pool was 38% Gaelic and 62% Nordic. The ethnic groups that contributed to the development of the Vinlandic culture were the Norse (primarily from Western Norway), Gaels (from Ireland and peripheral Scotland) and Natives (Ojibwe, Naskapi, Inuit and Mi'kmaq).

In addition to the Vinlanders, however, Vinland has 13 recognized core ethnic minorities, which form 35% of the national population and, as per folklore, amalgamated to form the Vinlandic ethnicity. The ethnic minorities are Jews, Danes, Faroese, Ojibwe, Naskapi, Inuit, Icelanders, Germans, Swedes, Mi'kmaq, Orcadians, Finns and Norwegians.

Trivia

 * Vinland is one of the best countries for LGBTQ+ rights, including Spain, Canada and the Netherlands. Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1983, and since 2000, same-sex marriage has been legal. A law was passed in 2005 illegalizing all anti-LGBT discrimination.
 * The country's primary TV networks are VLR (Vinlands Radio), Stöd 2 and TV3.
 * Vinlanders have nicknames for its army branches, all derived from Norse mythology. The Army are called jötnar, the Navy draugen and the Air Force valkyrjur. A colloquial term for Vinlandic Armed Forces veterans is einherjar.
 * A sizeable minority of Vinlanders still practice Norse paganism. This is the only country where Viking beliefs persist to this day.
 * All cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, up to and including NFTs, is banned in Vinland, due to it being associated with illegal activities and ransomware as well as their environmental consequences.
 * Vinland does not recognize the People's Republic of China as the legitimate government of China, and is the largest country to do so. Vinland's government is, has been and remains critical of authoritarian regimes, and has called out the Chinese Communist Party for "silencing people trying to show rightful resistance" to the regime. Engell at one point even called the CCP "Ingsoc wannabes", referring to the ruling party of Oceania from the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.