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Rttirria is fairly ethnically homogeneous among Southeast Asian nations. Its dominant ethnic group, the Rttirri people, make up 77.4% of the population as of 2015 population estimates, though this percentage is declining. The remaining 22.6% of the population are considered ethnic minorities, and consist of [[w:Burmese people|Burmese]] ethnic groups (7.4%); other Asian peoples from [[w:East Asia|East]], Southeast, [[w:South Asia|South]], and [[w:West Asia|West Asia]] (6.9%); non-Asian (5.6%); and of other native cultures on the Rttirrian peninsula (2.7%). | |||
Asian people who are neither Rttirri, other native Rttirrian, or Burmese are of diverse origins, primarily from [[w:China|China]], [[w:South Korea|South Korea]], [[w:Thailand|Thailand]], [[w:Philippines|the Philippines]], [[w:India|India]], [[w:Pakistan|Pakistan]], [[w:Syria|Syria]], and [[w:Iraq|Iraq]]. Likewise, non-Asians hail from many other countries around the world, principally [[w:United States|the United States]], [[w:United Kingdom|the United Kingdom]], [[w:Nigeria|Nigeria]], [[w:Egypt|Egypt]], [[w:Somalia|Somalia]], and [[w:Serbia|Serbia]] and other former [[w:Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] countries. | |||
Rttirria has seen moderate [[w:urbanization|urbanization]] during its history, albeit not to the extent of many other countries. In much of eastern Rttirria, the populations of large urban centers such as Iharnara, Ttyami, and Umairri have been declining for decades due to high crime, protests and riots, deprived post-industrial economies, and political corruption; their inhabitants have been moving to western and northern Rttirria and into rural areas of the east, such as in northern Yenesni, southern Rtuha, and Miwikipu. | |||
The populations of the ten largest cities of Rttirria are as follows: | |||
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==Culture== | |||
===Snenuppais=== | |||
[[File:Rttirria.png|thumb|right|250px|Rttirria's flag, the ''Ppawipu''. The unusually sparse design, consisting solely of a dark green background intended to resemble forest, adorned by three white squares intended to resemble a ''snenuppai'', has long been interesting to [[w:vexillology|vexillologists]].]] | |||
Rttirri's trademark art form is the ''snenuppai'', which translates literally as "little family" and consists of a three-panel comic, arranged from top to bottom. Snenuppais are used for many serious and comedic purposes in the present day, such as for [[w:political cartoon|political cartoons]] in newspapers, illustrations in children's books, pamphlets at religious ceremonies and in many Rttirri editions of [[w:Hinduism|Hindu]] sacred texts, and instructions on appliances. | |||
The origins of snenuppais are unknown, but short visual stories have been found in etchings in stone, clay, and petrified wood all over western Rttirria, some of them dating back to at least the 8th century CE. These visual stories are of various lengths, but usually between one and five panels long, and usually arranged vertically. They were used for various purposes including recording the histories of families, cities, and kingdoms; keeping track of inventories and debts; predicting the future; and allowing newly married couples to write out their wedding vows. | |||
Perhaps most notably of all, many of these early comics, even those used to tell narratives, used blocks of symbols intended to convey speech and narration. Linguists have analyzed these symbols and found no meaningful correspondence between them and any known stage of the Rttirri language, but because of the non-literal nature of many symbols used (for example, a drawing of a head shaking was sometimes used to signal negation), it is hypothesized that if Rttirria had been isolated from Arab and Indian peoples, these symbols could have eventually evolved into a [[w:logogram|logographic]] writing system like that of [[w:Chinese characters|Chinese]] or [[w:Maya script|the Mayan languages]]. | |||
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