General InformationName of Country: The Allied States of Inutoland
Head of State: The current High Tuyas is Tanese Aroca
Head of Government: The current Wara ("Chancellor") is Umal Apin
Ambassador's Name: Lotac Oatuwan
Ambassador's Family: Ihule Copacunaric (wife), Asanu Copacunaric (16-year-old son), Aheri Oatuwan (15-year-old daughter)
Ambassador Bio: Lotac Oatuwan was in the Inutoland Naval Forces for 8 years before joining the Diplomatic Corps. Serving for most of that time as an intelligence officer to
Rayu (Admiral) Iruwaya of the 3rd Fleet, he attained the rank of
Antupan (Lieutenant). After he was honourably discharged from the INF, he leveraged his intelligence experience into a post in the Inutolander
embassy in Ramsetia, where he served as a junior officer. He has had various experience in several Inutolander embassies, including a posting as Vice-Consul in Imeriata. This is his first posting as a full ambassador, but his diplomatic experience is of a level we usually expect of our full ambassadors.
Nation FactsWA Political Description: Bounces around between Anarchy, Civil Rights Lovefest and New York Times Democracy. Currently seems to be a Civil Rights Lovefest, but I'm trying to raise its economy back to being an Anarchy.
WA Civil Rights Category: Superb
WA Political Freedoms Category: Superb
WA Economic Category: Strong
Alliances and International Organizations: None. Inutoland mostly maintains its traditional posture of armed isolationism.
Current Conflicts: None.
Religion: All religions are tolerated as long as no-one's freedoms are infringed and there is no coercion involved. There is no "official religion", though the dominant religion
Saweya once held that position.
Embassy DetailsEmbassy Staff: 13
Embassy Security (Please limit weapons to small arms, vehicles to urban civilian type, air to one non-military plane or helicopter): 6 personnel.
Embassy Domestic Staff: 8. We prefer to hire locally if that is acceptable.
Embassy Vehicles: 1x hybrid limousine fitted with armoured passenger compartment. 2x 4x4 type vehicles. 1x civilian-model
NTM-11 Naga helicopter.
Please List any Special Concerns or Needs: Our people like to be close to water. Almost any open water will do, even a city fountain. This is a request, not a requirement, but it would gratify our people if you could arrange it.
Q&A on Social and Moral Issues(Please feel free to ask questions so that we can inform you about New Edom's official and general social views on these matters)
Sexual Equality: We practice a high level of gender equality, and enshrine it in our laws.
Racial Equality: We have three separate species of Human living together without more than insults. Racism is bone-deep stupid.
Communism: A nice idea that stinks when applied to real humans.
Capitalism: Better than the alternative, though there must be systems in place to protect the people from the exploitation and predatory behaviour of unregulated business interests.
Fascism: Dumb.
Socialism: Useful when not taken to extremes.
Private Property: Ownership of property is one of the cornerstones of law.
Public Property: It makes sense that things like parks, post offices and government buildings be owned by the state.
Alcohol Consumption: Legal here. May purchase alcohol for personal consumption at age 17, may drink in public from age 14, may buy alcohol for a 14-17-year-old from age 28.
Recreational Drug Consumption: "Soft" (by which we generally mean unrefined) drugs like cannabis, coca leaves and raw opium, are legal to adults over 21 (17 in the case of cannabis), taxed and commercially available.
Cloning: Animal cloning is fine. We're more than a bit hesitant about human cloning. There are far too many unresolved ethical issues.
Obesity: If you can manage to get obese in a climate where 40 Celsius and 100% humidity is normal and A/C is rare, more power to ya.
Corporal Punishment: Beats humiliation used as a punishment. There's a line between corrective discipline and abuse, though.
Public Censorship of Political Views: Immoral.
Public Censorship of Nudity and Sexually Oriented Entertainment: Realistic censorship to protect the innocence of minors.
Public Nudity: We do this. Nudity doesn't always have to be sexual.
Carrying Concealed Weapons: Illegal. If you have (and are proficient in the use of) a weapon, you should do the honourable thing and carry it openly. Concealed carry is underhanded and sneaky.
Hunting: We have no problem with this, provided you aren't hunting endangered species.
Homosexuality: You can if you want to. It used to be against the law until fairly recently, but the prohibition hasn't been enforced in almost 2 generations.
Use of Mines in Warfare: There are legitimate uses and immoral uses. Defensive use of mines to protect vital military installations, for example, is understandable and legitimate. Seeding an enemy's countryside with air-dropped mines as a harrassment measure is almost certainly immoral.
Nuclear Arms: Sadly, it seems we can't come up with anything better than "If you glass our cities, we will glass yours." Honestly. Barbarians have better sense than that. We're not opposed to them, but we think there are very few times when the consequences of not using them outweigh the consequences of using them.
Ecology: Ecology is a legitimate scientific discipline - the study of how creatures and their enviromnent interact.
Laboratory Testing on Animals: Better than testing completely new products on humans straight away. We think there's probably a line between legitimate testing and institutionalised cruelty, but if killing a rabbit can save a human, do it.
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