Saltstead
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Saltsteadish Commonwealth Såutsteidisħ Hemeinweud | |
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 Coat of arms
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Anthem: Åverstanden ut ruinen | |
 Location of Saltstead in Atlantian Oceania | |
| Capital and largest city | Ashwell |
| Official language | Saltsteadish |
| Demonym(s) | Saltsteadish Saltsteader |
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| William Thomas | |
| Alexander van den Hågen | |
| Legislature | Estates General |
| Chamber of States | |
| Chamber of the People | |
| Currency | Shilling |
| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy |
| Driving side | left |
| Internet TLD | .zs |
Saltstead (/ˈsɒltstɛd, ˈsɔ(ː)lt-/; Saltsteadish: Såutsteid, /ˈsɔːʔsteʔ/), officially known as the Saltsteadish Commonwealth, is a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy located on the north-eastern end of the island of North Cyanea in Atlantian Oceania.
Etymology
The name Saltstead is a calque of the endonym Såutsteid, which itself derives from Old Saxon: såut derives from the Saxon salt and is cognate with the Anglian word “salt”; the element stedė derives from stedi, meaning “city” or “place”. The name references the salt mines that were the source of Saltstead’s historic wealth and fame.
Other Germanic languages use calques such as Dutch Zoutstad and German Salzstadt, while Romance languages tend to use names derived from the Latin Salia, such as Gallic Selie. Greek uses the similarly-derived name Aleia (Άλεια), from whose ancient form Haleia comes Saltstead’s two-letter country code.