Greetings to all Christians, virtuous pagans and virtuous skeptics! The Holy Republic Of Prazinia respects the right of belief of non-Christians and will not persecute people based on their beliefs as long as they respect our high standards of morality based on the principles of honesty, respect, kindness, asceticism and fairness. However we shall not tolerate sodomites, devil-worshipers, scientologist conmen, murderers, conspirators, dictatorship aspirants using the name of God in vain attempt to overthrow the legitimate Democratic government with the aid of demons, thieves, robbers and all other dregs of mankind. All those shall fall to the purge of Inquisitor Order's fire squads and lethal injections! If we withdraw our struggle in the name of hypocritical "human rights" advocates, Satan power in Earth shall strengthen and the fascist World Government of the Antichrist New World Order shall come with the endorsement of the United Nations, of the corrupted Catholic Church and of all the secret satanic societies behind them among other facade organizations and millions of innocent human beings shall be tortured, murdered and countless souls shall suffer in almost eternity by the rotting iron fist of the Antichrist. We shall Unite the World through the true, uncorrupted word of a compassionate God before they unite the world though Evil and corruption!
Prazinia lies in the Pacific West, a nation composed by many islands and by the former northern Australia, previously under total chaos or under the oppressive fist of possessed-by-demons warlords. It has a high population density and the sheer majority of its people is obviously of Christians which follow a peculiar set of beliefs which shall be explained later. Its government is a democracy which is partly representative and partly direct, where while the executive power has a president as a representative overseen by its people, and the Courts are of elected judges, its Legislative power is directly ruled by the people which vote on proposals and laws. Prazinia also has a powerful planned economy, where the government has control over most of its wealth, which is used to fund mainly religious, military, police and educational projects.
Geography
National Map:
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Weather and Vegetation
Prazinia weather has constant rainfall and warm temperatures, like most tropical nations, and a forests still remain preserved by environmental laws despite some environmental damage.
Economy
Prazinia uses mostly a planned economic model, where such economy is controlled by a democratically elected government rather than by a totalitarian state, and where the funds distribution is completely transparent and accessible for its politically active population to check for irregularities. The priorities include a large religious fund which part of reverts to religiously-focused social programs, mostly on healthcare provided by religious orders, while the other part is used to fund the more devout sections of the military and police forces which are part of the Inquisition. Secondly comes the direct funds to the police forces, one of the best in their regions, third to its quite well-funded military and fourth to the ever important education and scientific research, as long as such research doesn't involve "playing God", which basically means any research on human cloning or genetic engineering. The fifth priority are several nationalized industries which are in the "Commerce" fund. The sixth priority is public transport and finally some "scraps" of dozens of billions are given to non-religious social welfare programs to appease some minorities.
A small private sector still exists though, dominated by mom-and-pop stores and other small business, and specially strong in the risky but profitable activity of mining uranium beyond the south borders in lawless regions of further to the South, which is commonly sought off by the military.
Their activities generate a GDP of $6,580,403,463,130.44 per year, while their GDP per capita is of $17,833.07, and their currency is the paper-money known as Kalar, divided into centigrad nickel coins of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 centigrads, which mean K$ 0.50, in the case of 50 centigrads, for example.
Agriculture is bustling thanks to new soil enrichment technologies to the point of threatening the remaining jungles, while cattle is non-existent due to the embrace of vegetarianism. Soy and rice are particularly common. Fishing also is common, specially of the imported and exotic flying fishes farmed for consumption, which replaced the bread as religious symbol as the Prazinians associated them with the miracle of "walking on water" and are favorite Christmas and Easter meals as well.
Mining, besides that of Uranium, include both land-based and deep-sea mining of titanium, coal, nickel, copper, iron, tin, silver and gold, while niobium and oil are very valuable resources that are imported from nearby nations.
History
Thomas Muntzer, considered by many the founder of the Holy Republic[/center]
The Kingdom of God(1524-1564)
Motto: Omnia sunt communia
In the year 1524, Thomas Muntzer, a visionary aware of the true meaning of Christianity, has challenged the corrupt Catholic Church and the slavery of feudalism by calling forth the peasants to fight for their freedom and for a society based on faith and equality, in a global and internationalist kingdom of God with no barriers between men because of culture or nations. The Peasants' Revolution thus begun, and also benefiting on the discontent of the knights, now facing the obsolescence of their class, a successful campaign of recruitment has drawn five hundred thousand to the ranks of Muntzer's dream, shared by other leaders of the rebellion. Convincing many great knights and strategists of his cause, a successful campaign was waged against a much greater threat in a war which has continued for long forty years, putting the very foundation of the medieval order into risk as a communist theocracy was established, being among the first modern States of its time. Soon countless feudal lords and the Catholic Church itself converged their forces to protect their status quo against the growing revolution, as Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Eastern Europe began to fell to radicalism as the so called Kingdom of Heaven achieved enough proportions to threaten the entire Europe. Blood and brutality has happened, with atrocities committed by both sides. However, despite the tactical brilliance of "heretic" knights, and of the massed support gathered, as nearly the entire western Europe joined its forces to crush the rebellion, the momentum of fifty years of strategic victories to establish the Kingdom of Heaven has ended.
Rather than facing imminent defeat, with their lack of success in the western front, under the leadership of the Eternal League of God, they have pushed the rebellion through the east, as they lost many territories against the horde led by the Catholic Church, with all that could retreating to continue their ideal, where standards of living although very far from perfect, were much better than those of most medieval Europe. Establishing a foothold from the north of what today is Poland to the south of Ukraine during 20 years of total war, the Kingdom of Heaven now faced a greater challenge than ever, as the Grand Duchy of Moscow declared war against them.
Seeing the strategic value of the Urals, it was decided to abandon the western front with only deathtraps and march against Moscow in a very risky attempt to convert its peasants of joining the rebellion, in the hopes of reestablishing their civilization in Russia. For five years, bloody battles between the Holy Army and the forces of the Duchy of Moscow, which have finally ended with the victory of the Holy Army, and the successful convertion of many of the Russian peasantry to anabaptism. Using a scorched earth strategy, they salted the fields and burned all that was left behind to delay the wave of the corrupt Clergy and Nobles against the revolution, and have established a new, ever-expanding State in Russia: the Holy Empire of Prazinia
The Holy Empire(1564-1917)
Work in progress
The reestablishment of Prazinia(2012-present)
In the second decade of 21st century, chaos struck the world as many economies almost collapsed due to the raise of oil prices. In Europe, the Iberian peninsula was ravaged by infamous food riots answered by more and more authoritarian government measures, much of Latin America was on the brink of Civil War due to economic collapse associated with the opposition of the contrastingly secular "New Left" against the also secular "Washington Consensus", in Russia the corpse of fascism turned at its grave and to worse things rumors of a Third World War were spreading like wild fire.
By 2012, fearing the upcoming religious persecutions due to the growth in popularity of fascist ideologies, knowing about the chaos that perpetrated through the southwest Pacific and believing that such were the signs of the upcoming Apocalypse and of the coming of the Antichrist, 3 millions of anabaptists from the Urals region, under the leadership of the Anglo-Russian Reverend Boris O'Brien, embarked into several ships and headed to the Pacific. After a 6 months trip, 5 of their ships landed in the New Guinea island, founding the city of Destiny's Hold on New Guinea's north coast. Soon other cities were founded in the surrounding lands, including the northern portion of Australia, all which had to fight against marauders and rogues which inhabited those lands. It was thus reestablished the Holy Republic, this time as a democratic government containing elements of both direct and representative democracy where a new president would be elected every 2 years to represent the people in the Executive power unless the majority agreed into keeping the current one or into booting out the current present before the end of his mandate and where the Legislative power is under direct control of the people, while judges are chosen through direct elections. It's nothing of notice that while political freedoms always were above the average of many republics, civil rights were always restrained by the moralistic majority, which also, taking the footsteps of the centuries old Peasants' War and of the former Prazinia, embraced a communist and equalitarian society.
In 2032, as was approved a more loose stance on moral standards, a drastic increase in the previously almost non-existence criminality happened, and as a answer to problematic problems of urban violence, the majority approved the creation of the Prazinia Inquisitor Order, a special division between military and police forces, to eliminate the "dregs of mankind", which are the sodomites(people who constantly engage into orgies with several others, regardless of being hetero or homosexual), aspirant to dictators, thieves, murderers among all other types of morally degraded people in their views, though not targeting people based on beliefs and never resorting to torture.
Since then, no matter how questionable their methods are, Prazinia is a place where its people can sleep with the doors of their homes open without worries and have certainty that they will never starve or become homeless. And no matter their aggressive policies, their people are much more compassionate than many socially liberal nations.
(OOC Notice: Due to a heavy historical divergence, Prazinia's "Earth" differ much from ours in what we assume by "Left-wing" and "Right-wing". For example, due to the fact its most powerful and long-lasted supporter in history has been a theocratic empire, Communism is a deeply religious ideology.)
