State of Bastião
| State of Bastião Estado do Bastião (Viratian) Staat Bastion (Low Vestan) Tetama Rucantã (Goitacá) |
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| Overview | |
| Capital (and largest city) | Leanira |
| Government type | Federative unit |
| Governor (head of state) | Isabel Freyre |
| Vice-Governor (head of government) | Carlos Milton Souza |
| Legislature | Assembleia Legislativa do Bastião / Nhemongaba Rucantã / Wetgevende Vergadering van Bastion (unicameral) |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 2,935,544 |
| Demonym(s) | Bastianense(s) |
| Language(s) | Viratian (official), Goitacá (official), Ancorian Low Vestan (official) |
| Religions | • Reformed Soterianity (plurality) • Canonical Soterianity (plurality) ↳ Archdiocese of Leanira • Pietist Soterianity (minority) ↳ Benenuntial Pietist • Folk Soterianity (minority) ↳ Charismatic Soterianity • Caldeckist Spiritism (minority) • Zano-Diasporic Syncretism (minority) ↳ Embanda • Nondenominational Soterianity (minority) ↳ Jehanninism • Goitacá pantheon (minority) • Phanuelism (minority) • Irreligious (minority) • other minority religions, spiritualities and new age religions |
| Ethnicity (based on national classifications) | • White Ancorian: 44.30% • Pardo: 29.50% • Zano-Ancorian: 14.10% • Indigenous Ancorian: 6.50% • Asterian: 5.60% |
Bastião (Goitacá: Rucantã; Low Vestan: Bastion) is a state in northeastern Ancoria. The smallest terrestrial state in the Federation, it is bordered to the west by Tecarema, to the north by Igapira, and to the south by Olímpia. Its capital and most populous city is Leanira, through which the AN-111 highway runs.
Despite its small geographic size, it is host to significant exploitation of shellfish, sugarcane, oil and natural gas. Fort van Zyl, located in Leanira, was constructed by the Flacklanders during their colonial period in the Ancorian northeast, and serves as a major tourist destination today alongside its scenic beaches. The Flacklander colonial legacy is still apparent in Bastião, with the majority of its populace speaking Low Vestan as a first language. Many of the historical districts are reflective traditional Low Vestan architecture, as well as later impositions dating to the Imperial period.
Historically, Bastião was colonized by the Flacklanders in the early 6th century S.C., its name tied to Fort van Zyl. It served as both a strategic port for the Flacklanders, as well as a key sugarcane plantation region in the slave trade. Despite Viratia's conquest of the Flacklander colonies the late 7th century, the independence of the Ancorian Empire in 708 S.C. would delay any serious attempts to impose the Viratian language until the early republican period.