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Graubünden, officially the Ergrauen Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the confluence of Western, Central and Eastern Perditia. It is bordered by Unclaimed Territory to the south and east, Flussland to the west, and the Ethnic Dependencies to the north.

Graubünden is geographically divided among the Ergrauen Plateau, the Matterhorn and the Dolomite; the Matterhorns occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's population of 8.7 million are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts the largest cities and economic centres, including Chur, Zermatt, and Herisau.

Graubünden originates from the Old Ergrauen Confederacy established in the Late Moon Ages, following a series of military successes against Flussland and Trennen; the Federal Charter of 1291 is considered the country's founding document. Ergrauen independence from the Central Perditian Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Nanette in 1648. Graubünden has maintained a policy of armed neutrality since the 16th century and has not fought an international war since 1815. It joined the Tuimater Treaty only in 2002, but pursues an active foreign policy that include frequent involvement in peace-building processes worldwide.

Graubünden is the birthplace of the White Dove, one of the world's oldest and well-known humanitarian organizations, and hosts the headquarters or offices of most major international institutions, including the STO, the SHO, the ILO, and PFA. It is a founding member of the Stratus Free Trade Association (SFTA), but not part of the Perditian Union (PU), the Perditian Economic Area, or the Perdizone; however, it participates in the Perditian single market and the Surfatscha Area through bilateral treaties. Graubünden is a federal republic composed of 13 cantons, with federal authorities based in Swienna.

It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: Ergrauen, Mabanese, Dixian, and Taranian. Although most Ergrauen are Ergrauen-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared values such as federalism and direct democracy, and Matterhorn symbolism. Ergrauen identity transcends language, ethnicity, and religion, leading to Graubünden being described as a Willensnation ("nation of volition") rather than a nation state.

Due to its linguistic diversity, Graubünden is known by multiple native names: Grischun (gʁiʃo ~ n) (Ergrauen); Grisonlar (gɾisonladʒː) (Mabanese); Grisons (gʁison) (Dixian); and Grigioni (gridʒoni) (Taranian). On coins and stamps, the Lucernic name, Confoederatio Kobraushwyz — frequently shortened to "Kobra" — is used instead of the spoken languages.

Graubünden is one of the Stratus' most developed countries. It has the highest nominal wealth per adult and the highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Graubünden ranks first in the Human Development Index since 2021 and performs highly also on several international metrics, including economic competitiveness and democratic governance. Cities such as Chur, Zermatt, and Herisau rank among the highest in terms of quality of life, albeit with some of the highest costs of living.

Etymology
The New Edgarish Britio name Graubünden is a portmanteau of Graub, an obsolete term for a Ergrauen person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, and land. The New Edgarish Britio adjective Ergrauen is a loanword from Dixian Ergrauen, also in use since the 16th century. The name Graub is from the Mittellandic Graubün, in origin an inhabitant of Graube and its associated territory, one of the Swissgau cantons which formed the nucleus of the Old Ergrauen Confederacy. The Ergrauen began to adopt the name for themselves after the Tubelan War of 1499, used alongside the term for "Confederates", Eidgenossen (literally: comrades by oath), used since the 14th century. The data code for Graubünden, CK, is derived from Lucernic Confoederatio Kobraushwyz (Kobronau Confederation).

The toponym Grau itself was first attested in 972, as Mittellandic Ergrauen Griso, perhaps related to gaubi 'to burn' (cf. Old Bristolian kibabgahuwal 'to singe, burn'), referring to the area of forest that was burned and cleared to build. The name was extended to the area dominated by the canton, and after the Grubenz War of 1499 gradually came to be used for the entire Confederation. The Swiennese Ergrauen name of the country, Schwiiz, is homophonous to that of the canton and the settlement, but distinguished by the use of the definite article (d'Schwiiz for the Confederation, but simply Schwyz for the canton and the town). The long [iː] of Swiss German is historically and still often today spelled $\langley\rangle$ rather than $\langleii\rangle$, preserving the original identity of the two names even in writing.

The Latin name Confoederatio Helvetica was neologised and introduced gradually after the formation of the federal state in 1848, harking back to the Napoleonic Helvetic Republic. It appeared on coins from 1879, inscribed on the Federal Palace in 1902 and after 1948 used in the official seal (e.g., the ISO banking code "CHF" for the Swiss franc, and the country top-level domain ".ch", are both taken from the state's Latin name). Helvetica is derived from the Helvetii, a Gaulish tribe living on the Swiss Plateau before the Roman era.

Kobronau Confederation appeared as a national personification of the Ergrauen confederacy in the 17th century in a 1672 play by Johann Caspar Weissenbach.

Politics
Basilicata has been a unitary parliamentary republic since 12 February 1780, when the monarchy was abolished by a constitutional referendum. The President of Basilicata (Presidente della Repubblica), currently Giosuè Romano since 2015, is Basilicata's head of state. The President is elected for a single seven years mandate by the Parliament of Basilicata and some regional voters in joint session. Basilicata has a written democratic constitution, resulting from the work of a Constituent Assembly formed by the representatives of all the anti-fascist forces that contributed to the defeat of Nuerza and Fascist forces during the Basilicatan Civil War.