Corenean Democracy Index (Thread Closed)

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:43 am

As collected by the snooping eyes of the Corenean Intelligence Bureau World Factbook, nations will answer a set of questions and the CIBWF will judge the nation based on their democracy index (less biased)

Code: Select all: [b]Full nation Name:[/b] [b]Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? [/b] [b]What type of political parties are allowed? [/b] [b]Who can vote? The party or the people? [/b] [b]Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? [/b] [b]How often do people excercise free speech? [/b] [b]Does government collect data on the people?[/b] [b]Do people have the right to bear arms?[/b] [b]Can people practice any religious faith? [/b]

Full Democracy (10-15 points)
Flawed Democracy (7-9 points)
Hybrid Regime (5-6 points)
Authoritarian Regime (0-4 points)

Full nation Name: Federal States of Corenea
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, every 4 years there are the Presidential and the Congressional
What type of political parties are allowed? All political parties are allowed
Who can vote? The party or the people? The people
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes
How often do people excercise free speech? Alot
Does government collect data on the people? Only on suspected terrorists
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes

Update: changed a code from candidate to the people

by **El Cuscatlan** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:47 am

Full nation Name: The South American Federation
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Elections are rare.
What type of political parties are allowed? None. Martinezist ideal of zero party state.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? When it comes to national referendums everybody
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? No.
How often do people excercise free speech? Often.
Does government collect data on the people? no
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes
Can people practice any religious faith? yes

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:49 am

El Cuscatlan wrote:Full nation Name: The South American Federation
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Elections are rare.
What type of political parties are allowed? None. Martinezist ideal of zero party state.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? When it comes to national referendums everybody
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? No.
How often do people excercise free speech? Often.
Does government collect data on the people? no
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes
Can people practice any religious faith? yes

10 points, you've reached full democracy, not bad

UPDATE: After some changes, you are now declared as Flawed Democracy

by **El Cuscatlan** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:52 am

I have reached full democracy even if my leader openly denounces western type of democracy. Thank you!

by **K oyena** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:53 am

Full nation Name: K'oyenese Republic
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes. Every four years.
What type of political parties are allowed? All parties are allowed.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Everyone age 15 or older can vote. The voters select the candidate.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? No.
How often do people excercise free speech? Often.
Does government collect data on the people? Collects data on suspects.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes.

by **Nueo Soled** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:08 am

Full nation Name: The Christian Socialist Empire of Nueo Soled
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, every 4 years
What type of political parties are allowed? All parties are allowed, we even have a large fascist party
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Everyone over 18 can vote
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes
How often do people excercise free speech? Very often
Does government collect data on the people? No
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes
Can people practice any religious faith? Of course!

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:11 am

K'oyenese Republic: 13 points, full democracy

The Christian Socialist Empire of Nueo Soled: 15 points, full democracy

by **Sungai Pusat** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:16 am

Full nation Name:The Anarchist Planet of Sungai Pusat (There is a government that rules outside this 'entity'. All questions will be related to that government only)
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes: Once every five years
What type of political parties are allowed? All kinds, even the most extremist ones
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? The people, to a degree: The highest political position is voted in, as is the entire parliament.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes.
How often do people excercise free speech? Very often, both in this country and in the TAP
Does government collect data on the people? No.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes.

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:20 am

Sungai Pusat wrote:Full nation Name:The Anarchist Planet of Sungai Pusat (There is a government that rules outside this 'entity'. All questions will be related to that government only)
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes: Once every five years
What type of political parties are allowed? All kinds, even the most extremist ones
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? The people, to a degree: The highest political position is voted in, as is the entire parliament.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes.
How often do people excercise free speech? Very often, both in this country and in the TAP
Does government collect data on the people? No.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes.

16 points, full democracy

by **Sungai Pusat** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:23 am

Corenea wrote:
Sungai Pusat wrote:Full nation Name:The Anarchist Planet of Sungai Pusat (There is a government that rules outside this 'entity'. All questions will be related to that government only)
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes: Once every five years
What type of political parties are allowed? All kinds, even the most extremist ones
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? The people, to a degree: The highest political position is voted in, as is the entire parliament.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes.
How often do people excercise free speech? Very often, both in this country and in the TAP
Does government collect data on the people? No.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes.

16 points, full democracy

OOC: I believe there's a typo in the OP, since the category for full democracy indicates that the maximum score is 15.

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:24 am

Sungai Pusat wrote:
Corenea wrote:16 points, full democracy

OOC: I believe there's a typo in the OP, since the category for full democracy indicates that the maximum score is 15.

Good eye

by **Freemopia** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:44 am

Full nation Name: Freemopia
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, yearly. Freemopia is a 75%+ of all inhabitant rule direct democracy. People vote for/elect proposals/ideas, not people/politicians.
Everyone in Freemopia can submit a proposal under 100 characters long to add or remove any law, tax, or government spending. Yearly the list of proposals and list of laws is sent to all inhabitants to vote to pass proposals and vote to remove laws. Nothing is passed without 75%+ of the entire nation's approval.
Each inhabitant is also offered equal daily air time on government TV and radio channels.
What type of political parties are allowed? All
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? All inhabitants of Freemopia
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes
How often do people excercise free speech? Every mili-second. Freedom of speech
Does government collect data on the people? only if there is a 50%+ chance the person committed a crime and then only to collect what is relevant to the criminal investigation, some info may be collected on criminals only if relevant to their criminal case, and some info may be collected on prisoners such as searching them for weapons. Freemopia’s Laws: http://www.nationstates.net/nation=free ... /id=170897
Do people have the right to bear arms?Yes
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes

by **Breheim** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:53 am

Full nation Name: Republic of Breheim
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? We have a total of four parliaments, along with a directly elected Head of State & Government. While on parliament is appointed by various public organizations, unions and corporations, the other three are elected democratically. The National Assembly is elected every four years through proportional representation, the People's Assembly is elected through FPTP every three years (and MPs are recallable) and the Storfylke Assembly is elected every other year through PR in every storfylke (with each Storfylke having the same number of MPs regardless of population). The Premier is elected every four years, with an unlimited number of terms.
What type of political parties are allowed? All kinds. The five largest parties currently are: The Socialist Worker's Party (Democratic Socialism, Big Tent), Electoral Alliance of Democratic Liberalism (Social-Liberalism, Big Tent), Alliance of Radical Socialists and Farmers (Communism, Big-Tent), Patriots of Breheim (Nationalism) and the Skrog Party (Presidentialism, Populism, Liberalism).
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? The People's Assembly can be contested by independents and the vote is for the candidate. The National Assembly and Storfylke Assembly are elected through party lists, while the Interest Assembly is appointed by public institutions. All citizens who become 18 or older have suffrage for any election.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? No.
How often do people excercise free speech? Fairly often, but the major media are either state-run, owned by major political parties or owned by the current Premier (Even Skrog) privately.
Does government collect data on the people? Yes, the People's Security Bureau runs a large surveillance programme on the population at large, and individuals of interest (suspected criminals and terrorists) in particular.
Do people have the right to bear arms? No, but gun ownership is quite common, but restricted to hunters, members of the People's Security Burea and the Armed Forces as well as sports shooters and inhabitants of areas with a significant polar bear or cossack population.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes.

by **Britanno** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:10 am

Full nation Name: The Commonwealth of Britanno
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, once every five years elections for seats in Parliament and the Presidential election take place.
What type of political parties are allowed? Any type.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? The people vote for Parliament and the President.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes
How often do people excercise free speech? Often
Does government collect data on the people? Yes
Do people have the right to bear arms? No
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes

by **Savedland** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:27 am

Full nation Name: United Federated Districts of Savedland.
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Every Four Years.
What type of political parties are allowed? Any party that respects the laws of the current constitution and whose ideologies do not come at the cost of the well being of anyone.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? The party elects a leader who will in turn become the candidate for Presidency. Then, the people of savedland vote for the party (and so, the leader) they preffer.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? . Technically, yes. But any 'taking out' must be supported by a full argumentative speech and will be, in turn, discussed by the entirety of the parliament. In other words, they can object to something but cannot veto.
How often do people excercise free speech? Free speech is pretty much taken for granted.
Does government collect data on the people? Nothing that is related to private life. Our constitution clearly defines privacy boundaries. It should be stated though that each of our 5.032 citizens have a file in our datapbanks that only contains public information. Name, occupation, District of residence, financial data (to avoid tax evasion of any sorts) and health issues if there are any ( to administrate maximum healthcare). The process is completely transparent though. The initiative begun with the consent of the public.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes but the paperwork to do so is so extensive and complex that most people simply don't bother.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes. Freely. As long as any faith's practices do not involve harming other people in any way or have them engage in any kind of acts against their will.

by **Republic of South Carolina** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:33 am

Full nation Name:
The Commonwealth of the Republic of South Carolina

Does your nation have elections and how regular is it?
Yes.

National:

Presidential:
Every five years

Grand Assembly Elections:
National Senate: Every four years
House of Representatives: Every six years

State:

Gubernatorial:
Four to seven years dependent on the State

State Assembly:
Four to seven years dependent on the State

Territories:
Administered by the Defense Force and National Government

What type of political parties are allowed?
Every Party.

Who can vote? The party or the candidate?
All State and National Citizens. Territorial inhabitants hold a Residency and only have voting rights up to the County Level and cannot vote in National Elections.

Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster?
Yes.

How often do people exercise free speech?
Citizens can as often as they wish.
Territorial residents are not Citizens and thus do not have any right to Freedoms of Speech provided by the Constitution.

Does the Government collect data on the people?
Citizens are left alone unless there is undeniable evidence of risking National Security. Warrants to begin operations on a Citizen(s) can still be denied by the Courts for any reason believed to not be Constitutional.

Any Territories with a risk/having a history of committing rebellions or acts of terrorism are monitored.

Do people have the right to bear arms?
State and National Citizens can own what they whatever they like. The only restrictions are on destructive devices of 125mm caliber or greater. The restricted destructive devices can be obtained with a RSC£20($12) application fee and have to be registered. RDD's are the only such firearm or devices that are kept on a permanent National Registry.

Territorial residents must obtain permission and registers all firearms with local Law Enforcement and the Defense Force Territorial Administration. Residents must pay a RSC£7,800(NS$4,450) registration fee/year. As well, as a pay a RSC£3,800($1,950) fee per firearm/year. All handguns and semi-automatic firearms are restricted to a 10 round magazine capacity.

Can people practice any religious faith?
Yes.

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:49 am

Freemopia: 14 points, full democracy
Brenheim: 11 points, full democracy
Britanno: 12 points, full democracy
Savedland: 11 points, full democracy
South Carolina: 14.5, full democracy

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:50 am

Made some change, full democracies are nation with at least 11 points

by **Peoples Republic of Cesarland** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:55 am

Full nation Name: People's Republic of Cesarland
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, only when the leader dies
What type of political parties are allowed? Only one, Nationalist Party
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Only regular civilians
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? No
How often do people excercise free speech? A lot but there are restrictions
Does government collect data on the people? Yes
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes, manual action short arms.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:56 am

Peoples Republic of Cesarland wrote:Full nation Name: People's Republic of Cesarland
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, only when the leader dies
What type of political parties are allowed? Only one, Nationalist Party
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Only regular civilians
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? No
How often do people excercise free speech? A lot but there are restrictions
Does government collect data on the people? Yes
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes, manual action short arms.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes

5 points, Hybrid Regime

by **The Saint James Islands** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:43 pm

Full nation Name: The Commonwealth of the Saint James Islands
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes. Elections to the National Assembly and Senate must take place every three years, though snap elections for the National Assembly are permitted.
What type of political parties are allowed? All types are permitted.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Everyone over the age of 18 can register to vote. Voting in National Assembly elections is for individual candidates (partisan affiliations are displayed on the ballot), while voting in the Senate is for party lists (voters may give a preference vote to and individual candidate on their chosen party list).
Are opposition parties allowed to filibuster? Yes, though strict rules are imposed upon its use. Breaching those rules will result in an order to desist from the presiding officer. As such, filibusters are only attempted for major issues.
How often do people exercise free speech? As often as they wish. Per the constitution, the freedom of speech is legally protected and police must therefore have a valid reason to disperse any protests. Merely "the government doesn't agree" doesn't count.
Does government collect data on the people? Only the minimum public data (such as name, date of birth, sex, address) necessary to carry out its functions. A right to privacy is guaranteed by the constitution. Strict limits are placed on data collection and any extraneous data collection is expressly forbidden.
Do people have the right to bear arms? There is no "right" to bear arms, though it is permitted. The process of legally acquiring a firearm is rather long, but not terribly difficult for anyone with any actual common sense.
Can people practice any religious faith? Of course, though individual religious practices may be forbidden. Freedom of religion and separation of church and state are guaranteed in the Saint Jamesian constitution.

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:06 pm

The Saint James Islands wrote:Full nation Name: The Commonwealth of the Saint James Islands
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes. Elections to the National Assembly and Senate must take place every three years, though snap elections for the National Assembly are permitted.
What type of political parties are allowed? All types are permitted.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Everyone over the age of 18 can register to vote. Voting in National Assembly elections is for individual candidates (partisan affiliations are displayed on the ballot), while voting in the Senate is for party lists (voters may give a preference vote to and individual candidate on their chosen party list).
Are opposition parties allowed to filibuster? Yes, though strict rules are imposed upon its use. Breaching those rules will result in an order to desist from the presiding officer. As such, filibusters are only attempted for major issues.
How often do people exercise free speech? As often as they wish. Per the constitution, the freedom of speech is legally protected and police must therefore have a valid reason to disperse any protests. Merely "the government doesn't agree" doesn't count.
Does government collect data on the people? Only the minimum public data (such as name, date of birth, sex, address) necessary to carry out its functions. A right to privacy is guaranteed by the constitution. Strict limits are placed on data collection and any extraneous data collection is expressly forbidden.
Do people have the right to bear arms? There is no "right" to bear arms, though it is permitted. The process of legally acquiring a firearm is rather long, but not terribly difficult for anyone with any actual common sense.
Can people practice any religious faith? Of course, though individual religious practices may be forbidden. Freedom of religion and separation of church and state are guaranteed in the Saint Jamesian constitution.

11 points, full demoracy

by **Merconitonitopia** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:10 pm

Full nation Name: The Puppet Master's Playhouse of Merconitonitopia
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, but very rarely - most of the decisions are made by the current Supreme Leader.
What type of political parties are allowed? Any.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? When we do have elections, anyone over 18 can vote.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes.
How often do people excercise free speech? A lot, although we're starting to introduce laws against it.
Does government collect data on the people? Yes.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes.
Can people practice any religious faith? No - religion is outlawed.

by **Corenea** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:14 pm

Merconitonitopia wrote:Full nation Name: The Puppet Master's Playhouse of Merconitonitopia
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, but very rarely - most of the decisions are made by the current Supreme Leader.
What type of political parties are allowed? Any.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? When we do have elections, anyone over 18 can vote.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes.
How often do people excercise free speech? A lot, although we're starting to introduce laws against it.
Does government collect data on the people? Yes.
Do people have the right to bear arms? Yes.
Can people practice any religious faith? No - religion is outlawed.

8 points, flawed democeracy

by **Anollasia** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:18 pm

Full nation Name: The Peaceful of Anollasia
Does your nation have elections and how regular is it? Yes, every 2 years or whenever the Prime Minister resigns.
What type of political parties are allowed? Any except for Fascist/Nazi parties.
Who can vote? The party or the candidate? Anyone over 18 who is a citizen or long time immigrant.
Are opposition parties allowed to fillibuster? Yes, but it doesn't happen a lot.
How often do people excercise free speech? Often, as long as it doesn't discriminate.
Does government collect data on the people? Yes.
Do people have the right to bear arms? No.
Can people practice any religious faith? Yes.

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