Jakeland Factbook

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The Holy Empire of Jakeland is a huge, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, cynical population are ruled with an iron fist by the imperial government, which ensures that no-one outside the imperial house too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, followed by Door-to-door Insurance Sales and Arms Manufacturing. 10% of the population are hard drugs users. And the favourite music genre is Grunge.

Jakeland successfully hosted the LNNS Olympics, and the government seizes all major gold finds. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jakeland's national animal is the Golden Eagle, and its currency is the Freast (₣).

Name of the Holy Empire of Jakeland in all it's official languages:
- Jakian - Al-Imparia Al-Qadusha shal Ard Yaakov
- Latin - IMPERIVM SANCTVM JAQUELAND
- Hebrew - הקדושה של ג'ייקלנד, Ha'Imperiya Ha'Kedosha shel Jeyiklend
- Arabic - الإمبراطورية المقدسة جايقلاند, Al-Imbaraturiyyah Al-Muqadassah Jaiqland
- Greek - Ιερά Αυτοκρατορία της Ξαικλανδ, Iera Autokratoria tis Xaikland
- Russian - Святая империя Джеикландии, Svyataya imperiya Dzheiklandii

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National Information
Name: Jakeland (http://nswiki.net/index.php?title=Jakeland)
Native name: Ard Yaakov
Official name: Holy Empire of Jakeland
Official languages: Jakian, English, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Russian
National language: Jakian (http://nswiki.net/index.php?title=Jakian_language)
National/Official religion: Abrahamism (http://nswiki.net/index.php?title=Abrahamism)
Capital: Jerusalem
Demonym: Jakian, Jakelander, Jake, Abrahamist
Currency: Freast (₣)
National Animal: Golden Eagle
Internet TLD: .je
Calling code: +1414

Etymology
The Holy Empire of Jakeland is named after the Jakians. The Jakians are an ethnic group, that originated from the Middle East, and is believed to be descendant to the Jews, that were exiled by the Babylonians from Judea. This is manifested, mainly, in the Jakian history, that the leader of he tribe of Menashe, Ishel Ben Yanai, to be the formator of the Jakian society, under the name of "יעקביים" (Ya'akoviim, "Jacobites"), probably because of his descendance from Menashe, grandson of Jacob (a.k.a. Israel). This connections also comes to mind through the Jakian language, which resambles both Arabic and Hebrew, in the pronouciation and words. The word "Jakian", in the Jakian language, is Yaakovi, "Jacobite".

History
Intro
The Holy Empire of Jakeland, commonly known as Jakeland, is an absolute, theocratic, monarchy, controling large territories from Europe, Asia and Africa. It was established in 1649, after a revolution against the Rosewood Republic, that supressed the Jakians and many times exiled and ethnically cleansed them.

The official state religion of the Holy Empire, is Abrahamism, which is a religion that combines the faiths of the three major abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Jakeland contains over 50 countries under it's rule, and most of them get the recognition of a minority language, and a recognized minority. While that, Jakelans is divided into 22 provinces (Jakian provinces).

Early History
The Jakians lives, for hundreds of years, under the Rosewood Republic oppression. They were slaughtered, prosecuted, exiled and ethnically cleansed. The Jakians (in their own language the "Yaakovim"), did not gave up faith, and continued practicing their religion, which is Abrahamism (their religion from 625 AD). The Jakians lived under the Republic for approximately 1800 years (from about 200 BC), and before that, they were an ethno-religious community in the outlines of the Seleucid Empire. In the beginning, their main religion was Judaism (probably were affected by the Jewish immigrants from Judea), but after the rise of Christianity, they were of the firsts to adopt the idea that Jesus was a messanger of God, just like Isaiah, Joshua and Moses. And, in 625 AD, Islam reached them also, and they incorporated the religion into their own faith.

Rise of Nationalism
Circa 1500 AD, the Jakian people started to unite, and develope a pan-Jakian movement and society. Under the Rosewood Republic, they were a minority, dominated ruthlessly by the Rosetians, and through some regimes, were declared by the republic as "Un-Pure", which means they are worse then the Rosetians. Threw the years, Jakian leaders embraced their Jakian identity and called to be proud of it. Many revolutionaries tried to rewrite the treatment of the republic towards the Jakians, but all of them failed. From then, in the Rosewood Republic, a "Jakian" was a curse word, meaning to state that the person is stupid.

Revolution
On April 29, 1645, the Jakian leader, said to be descendant from Ishel ben Yanai, Jacob the Enlightened, called for a revolution, for the establishment of a "Jakian, National, Abrahamic, Holy Empire!". And on that day, millions of Jakians ran out the streets, with swords, guns and what not, and rebeled against the offensive regime. After the Jakians took over the capital city of Tekrathia, and conquered it, they captivated all of the Rosetians. Because the nation, had somesort of wierd un-known technology, there were only men in that nation. But somehow, there were new men appearing. So, as a vendetta for the 9 millions Jakians killed through out the years, all the Rosetians were exiled. When the Rosetians went into exile (1,000,000~ in total), they were killed on the road by the Persians, who had GREAT hatered towards eachother.

Empire
The Empire was established on October 23, 1649, about 4 years after the revolution, in the crowning of the first emperor - Jacob I, a.k.a. Jacob the Enlightened. In his first act, he conquered Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kuwait, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. His second act was, to give the Kurds total autonomacy in Kurdistan. His third act was to establish a currency and a stable economy, because now, his state, was officialy crown an "EMPIRE". The currency was called (and still is) a "Freast", and it is there since January 8, 1692.

Current time
The Empire has it's greatest borders, based in Iberia, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Russia, Eurasia, Persia and middle Africa. The current head of the Empire is the Emperor Jacob IX (Jacob the 9th), son of Emperor Jehusaphath III and Empress Jasmin IV. The Empire has great relations with the United States, aswell as great relations with all the American (the continent) countries. The Empire also has great relations with the rest of the western world, and with People's Republic of China, India and the Republic of Greenland.

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Geography
Provinces
The Holy Empire of Jakeland has 22 provinces:

1. Provinkiat Iberia al-Qadolah - Great Iberia Province
2. Provinkiat Britannia - Britain Province
3. Provinkiat Holland - Holand Province
4. Provinkiat Skandinavia- Scandinavia Province
5. Provinkiat Gerlmania - Germany Province
6. Provinkiat Chekhia - Czechia Province
7. Provinkiat Prussia - Prussia Province
8. Provinkiat Marav Russia - West Russia Province
9. Provinkiat al-Romanim - The Romanians Province
10. Provinkiat Italia - Italy Province
11. Provinkiat Derom Slavia - South Slavia Province
12. Provinkiat Yuvan - Greece Province
13. Provinkiat Turkia - Turkey Province
14. Provinkiat al-Turkim - The Turks Province
15. Provinkiat Paras - Persia Province
16. Al-Provinkia al-Otonomit shal Kurdistan - Autonomist Province of Kurdistan
17. Provinkiat Yurshalaym - Jerusalem Province
18. Provinkiat Mazrakh Arav - East Arabia Province
19. Provinkiat Marav Arav - West Arabia Province
20. Provinkiat al-Islam- The Islam Province
21. Provinkiat Africa al-Atlantit - The Atlantic Africa Province
22. Provinkiat Africa al-Hodit - The Indian Africa Province

Each one of those provinces has it's own flag, designed especialy to capture the idea of the province, together with the pan-Jakian ideology.

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Politics
Emperor
The Emperor of the Holy Empire is the Emeperor Jacob IX. FYI. (http://nswiki.net/index.php?title=Jacob_IX)

Independence and Autonomist Movements
Throughout the empire, there are autonomist, and independence movements, trying to destroy the empire. Those movements are mainly:

* German Resistance Movement - Deutsch Widerstandsbewegung - DWS
* Arab Liberation Movement - حركة تحرير العربية - Harakat Tahrir al-Arabiyyah - Hatah
* Albania and Kosovo Front - Shqipëria dhe Kosova para - SKP
* Turkish Freedom Force - Türk Özgürlüğü Kuvvetleri - TÖK
* One Persia Movement - يک ايراني جنبش - Yaki Irani Janbash - Yaij
* New Spain Council - Nueva España Consejo - NEC

The Movements can be broke down into 2 categories: Religious and non-Religious. The religious ones, that consume their ideology with religion, are the Hatah, SKP, Yaij and TÖK. They are motivated by radical Islam. The two others, DWS and NEC, are motivated by the right of self-determination alone.

The Hatah, Yaij, DWS and TÖK, are internationally designated terrorist organizations.

Military
The Jakian Armed Forces (JAF), is the internationally identified as the strongest military force on earth. It is known to be ruthless with it's enemies, and yet, obaying international laws. Although Jakeland conquered MANY countries, it has never, even once, ethnically cleansed (except the Rosetians), and never committed genocide on another nation, although the claims that it did.

The Jakian Armed Forces consists of 7 branches:

* Jakian Ground Troops (JGT) - Ground force, trained to attack targets on ground.
* Jakian Air Service (JAS) - Air force, trained to attack targets in the air or from the air.
* Jakian Naval Force (JNF) - Naval force, trained to attack and bomb targets from the sea, and under it.
* Jakian Marine Corps (JMC) - Marine Corps, trained for special and black operations in hostile or foreign countries.
* Jakian Province Defence and Control (JPDC) - Control force, trained to keep uprising and rebellions under an iron fist, and stop objection to the Empire.
* Jakian Military Police (JMP) - Police force, trained to detain and arrest soldiers and those who start acts of war from within the empire.
* Jerusalem Defence Force (JDF) - Defence force, a force dedicated to defend the holy city of Abrahamism

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