Digeria

Digeria
Digeria is the country that Diger rules. It is a city state of about 7,000,000 residents surrounded on three sides by Digerland and on the other by the Diger Ocean.

State of Digeria
The name Digeria was first used for the region when the Digerland government created the state of Digeria, located in the country's far west.It was named after a slang term for the tiger pencil case species, "Diger", meaning "dachsund tiger". The capital city of Far West City was renamed Digeria, as well. The state of Digeria began as Digerland's haven for all of its residents who did not identify as a Digerlander. Many of its residents adopted the Digerian ethnicity, and it became the only state in the country where Digerlanders were not the main ethnic group. Digeria became an economic center for the nation and its population exploded, as did the number of people identifying as ethnically Digerian. By 1987, the state of Digeria became the second most populous state, only after the Digerland City Capital state, with 1,992,233,483 residents.

Nation of Digeria
In the will of Orville, Ruler of Digerland, it was written that his son Diger would rule an autonomous city-state centered on the city of Digeria from the day of Orville's death, to Diger's own death. When Orville was killed by his deranged daughter Digerlina, Diger immediately created the nation of Digeria out of the city of Digeria's five core districts: Port District, Capital District, Palace District, Business District, and Downtown District, which were inhabited by 5,000,000 residents. Diger also recieved the northern half of Diger Island, home to an additional 2,000,000.

Demographics
There are a total of 7,000,000 citizens of Digeria. Digeria is a very homogeneous nation, where 99.99% of inhabitants identify as Digerian. An estimated 26,000,000 pencil cases live in the Digerland portion of the Digerian Metropolitan Area. 1,887,565,235 pencil cases within the Digerland state of New Digeria identify as Digerian, out of a total population of over 2 billion. An additional 42,654,888 pencil cases in other Digerland states call themselves Digerian. The Digerian dialect of the Digerlander language is the country's primary language. 99.65% of the population practice the religion of Digerism. The mainland is comprised of one city, Digeria, while Northern Diger Island has two main cities: Port Diger and Northwestern City.