Monavian Factbook Repository [CLOSED]

by **The State of Monavia** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:34 pm

REPOSITORY OF OLD MONAVIAN FACTBOOKS

PURPOSE

This thread serves as a place for storing obsolete factbooks published from 2007 through 2014. Readers who wish to make comments about the contents of this thread are asked to send them to me by telegram.

CONTENTS

✠ 2007 Factbook✠ 2008 Factbook✠ 2009 Factbook✠ 2010 Factbook

✠ 2011 Factbook✠ 2012 Factbook✠ 2013 Factbook✠ 2014 Factbook

DISCLAIMER AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION

These factbooks are largely my original work, with the occasional exception of text attributed to third-party sources. Nothing contained in this thread may be plagiarized or used to misrepresent me as the author thereof, nor shall it be revised or altered except as permitted by site policies governing the posting and editing of user-created content. No outside party may use the content of this thread in any way which violates site and board rules, administrator and moderator policies, or applicable national and international copyright laws.

All of the photographs I have posted in this thread are the property of third parties which are not affiliated with me, this message board, or its host site, except where otherwise indicated. All third-party images may be subject to disappearance as a result of deletion, transference to other Web addresses, or any other sort of alteration performed by their owners in the course of exercising their proprietary rights.

The credit for the creation of the original Great Seal of the Monavian Empire, the original flags of the nation's political parties, and all arms and emblems is due to Imagery Nation. The original national flag (no longer displayed) was created by Jeuna in 2007. The topographical maps were created by Alfegos. The regional maps of Nova are largely the work of Etoile Arcture, Czardas, and Googlewoop. All other custom images are my personal work unless I have stated otherwise.

by **The State of Monavia** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:54 pm

Author's Note

This post represents my first attempt at writing a factbook back in November of 2007. The resulting document later became the 2008 factbook, so no original 2007 factbook exists anymore.

INTRODUCTION

FACTBOOK APPEARS IN NEXT POST

The Monavian Empire releases a factbook for people and governments alike in other countries to use for the expansion of their knowledge. This factbook is a reference guide for other players to use when requiring information about the Monavian Empire.

ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS:

Demographic statistics are fixed to work in a realistic fashion. Every year, I update the statistics to match the real growth and shrinkage patterns indicated in the factbook. I calculate the new population by taking the existing population, and then multiplying by the percentage rate of growth, then add or subtract it from the original number to find the new numbers.

RELIGION:

The Monavian Empire has a climate of religious freedom, with few exceptions. It is obvious that there are many different faiths represented in the factbook. There are 25 named religions here.

LANGUAGE:

Number of Fluent Speakers:

Of note to many readers, the numbers exceed the population total. This is because the number of fluent speakers of one language may also speak others, and are therefore counted more than once.

Main Language Spoken:

These numbers represent the number of speakers per language that use it as their main tongue.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:

The Monavian Empire was originally made up of the remnants of another empire, the main language of which was Latin. The Latin-speaking peoples later formed the new empire, which became Monavia, and later absorbed many immigrants into its population. This accounts for the variety of languages spoken. Immigrants have been coming to Monavia since its beginning.

During the Middle Ages, English-speaking people flooded the Empire and began to be assimilated into its collective population. In the process, many citizens adopted English in order to communicate effectively with the new immigrants. The immigrants in turn learned Latin. The Latin-speaking people began to decline in number, and soon the proportion of English speakers to Latin speakers was reversed, with English becoming the new dominant language. Since then, both have been made official languages of the Empire.

ABOUT GEOGRAPHY:

While geography is mainly arbitrary, as most players are given the liberty of setting up and creating their own geography, mine is made in the same way. Statistics are based on territorial gains and losses made during the course of Monavian history.

ABOUT GOVERNMENT:

CONSTITUTION:

The Monavian Constitution can be accessed by the link provided under the "Constitution" section.

The Constitution provides a basic understanding and explanation of how the Federal Government works and operates, it duties and powers, and its functions. It also gives a list of amendments.

The positions that are held in the government are provided for in the Constitution.

ABOUT THE MONAVIAN ECONOMY:

ABOUT THE MONAVIAN MILITARY:

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

ABOUT MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION:

Self explanatory, these are things that are unable to be grouped into any other category.

by **The State of Monavia** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:04 pm

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/1/149955/Flag%20of%20Monavia2.png

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2008 EDITION

INDEX:

Demographics
Geography
Government
Economy
Military
International Relations
Miscellaneous

Demographics:

Population: 448,924,379
Population growth rate: 1.44%
Population density per square kilometer: 42.358 people (average)
Life expectancy: 83 years, 307 days (average)
Men: 82 years, 344 days
Women: 85 years, 178 days
HDI: 0.932
Literacy rate: 98.83%
Immigration rate: 0.97%
Median age: 51 years, 43 days

Religion (number of adherents):

Orthodox Christianity: 243,697,890
Roman Catholicism: 91,584,310
Sunni Islam: 23,009,410
Anglicanism: 19,538,240
Baptist: 15,290,850
Buddhism: 12,745,900
Lutheranism: 9,745,330
Methodist: 7,280,430
Shiite Islam: 6,067,960
Pentecostalism: 4,144,920
Judaism: 3,697,430
Adventists: 2,641,360
Hinduism: 1,931,920
Taoism: 1,558,960
Sikhism: 1,230,450
Atheist: 1,064,890
Deism: 891,530
Baha’i Faith: 793,410
Mormonism: 574,320
Jainism: 344,280
Other/irreligious: 268,240
Shinto: 124,230
Rastafarian: 102,760
Scientology: 91,260
Zoroastrianism: 74,120

Language (number of fluent speakers):

English: 431,278,900
Latin: 78,973,100
Russian: 21,484,200
German: 11,198,200
Serbo-Croatian: 6,894,500
Spanish: 3,164,100
French: 2,199,200
Chinese: 831,500
Japanese: 184,200
Greek: 97,700
Other: 61,900

Main language spoken:

English: 371,866,980
Latin: 51,784,500
Russian: 11,914,310
German: 7,644,200
Serbo-Croatian: 3,294,340
Spanish: 1,064,740
French: 548,940
Chinese: 98,270
Japanese: 31,840
Greek: 18,690
Other: 7,590

Official languages: English and Latin

Geography:

Total land area: 10,598,241 square kilometers
Total water area: 668,121 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,266,362 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles

Government:

Flag (Full Size): http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/...%20Monavia.png

Government type: Constitutional monarchy, with republican elements
Formal name: The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire
Date of founding: June 14, A.D.718
Capital: Chalcedon
Motto: Monavia is the New World Order
Latin motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo
Suffrage: universal for all citizens above 21 years of age

Constitution:

The Monavian Constitution was created in 1732. It has eight original articles that form the basis of its laws and established the current system of government in the country.

Link to Constitution: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=570185

Government Officials:

King: His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX
Queen: Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI
Chancellor: His Excellency Richard Hanover II
Prime Minister: The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt
Minister of State: The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon
Minister of the Interior: The Right Honorable Alfred Whipple
Minister of Education: The Right Honorable Francis Mason
Minister of Agriculture: The Right Honorable George Dixon
Minister of Defense: The Right Honorable Carl Blake
Minister of Labor: The Right Honorable Mary Ashford
Minister of Commerce: The Right Honorable Susan Wright
Minister of the Treasury: The Right Honorable Catherine Whitman
Minister of Transportation: The Right Honorable Stephen Harrison
Minister of Energy: The Right Honorable Henry Douglass
Minister of Foreign Affairs: The Right Honorable Frank Carter
Minister of National Security: The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore
Minister of Health: The Right Honorable Nancy Wood
Minister of Justice: The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth
Speaker of the Representative Assembly: The Honorable Elena Crocker
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: His Supreme Honor William Franklin
Treasurer of the Empire: Her Honor Agatha Stockton
Royal Spiritual Advisor: Bishop Adam Roland

Head of state: King and Queen

Head of government: King and Queen

Notable Personages:

Important Individuals:

Commander of the S:t Therese Colonial Expedition: Admiral Samuel Hampton
Monavian Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman: The Right Honorable Bruce Bates
International Liaison to the Minister of the Treasury: Lord Basil Cyrus DeLeon

Ambassadors:

Ambassador to the Free Republic of Lamoni: Eleanor Shanks
Ambassador to the Principality of Northern Rangeria: Charles Longstreet
Ambassador to the National Congregation of New True Cross: Robert Moore
Ambassador to the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire: Ronald Greenburg
Ambassador to the Empire of Neo-Ixania: Herbert Sullivan
Ambassador to the Principality of Kurona: Catherine Bates
Ambassador to the Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi: Aaron Kraft
Ambassador to United Socialist States of New Brittonia: George Gresham

Economy:

Economic model: Regulated capitalism, with some public institutions owned by the government.
Currency: Monavian Thaler
Exchange rate: one Monavian Thaler = $1.41 USD
Unemployment rate: 2.36%
Population unemployed: 10,594,615
Per capita income (thalers): $36,168.00 (average)
Per capita income (dollars): $50,996.88
GDP: $16,236,696,939,672.72 (thalers)
GDP: $22,893,742,684,937.52 (dollars)
Inflation rate: 0.98%
Population below poverty line: 7.98%

Electrical Power Generation/Consumption:

Nuclear: 41%
Hydroelectric: 35%
Wind: 14%
Natural Gas: 6%
Oil: 4%
Solar: 2%

Exports:

Major:

Wheat
Corn
Beef
Petroleum
Steel
Iron Ore
Uranium
Precious metals (gold, platinum, palladium, etc.)
Chemical products
Surgical equipment
Medicines
Diamonds
Forest products

Minor:

Chemicals
Petrochemicals
Industrial machinery
Farm machinery
Firearms

Imports:

Major:

Osmiridium
Pharmaceuticals
Tropical fruits
Electronics

Minor:

Copper ore
Tropical lumber
Munitions
Phosphates

Taxes:

Income tax rate: 25%
Sales tax rate: 2.5%
Property tax rate: 2.5%
Tariff rate: 2.5%

Government Spending (in Monavian Thalers):

Percent of Government Budget from Income Tax: 65%
Percent from Tariffs: 10%
Percent from Sales Tax: 15%
Percent from Property Tax: 4%
Percent from other taxes: 1%
Other Income: 5%

Government Budget: $6,494,678,775,869.09 (40% of GDP)

Administration (2%): $129,893,575,517.38
Welfare (8.5%): $552,047,695,948.87
Healthcare (15.5%): $1,006,675,210,259.71
Education (7%): $454,627,514,310.84
Commerce (6%): $389,680,726,552.15
Defense (10%): $649,467,877,586.91
Environment (4%): $259,787,151,034.76
Energy (3%): $194,840,363,276.07
Transportation (3%): $194,840,363,276.07
Law and order (3.5%): $227,313,757,155.42
Social Security (18.5%): $1,201,515,573,535.78
Agriculture (1.5%): $97,420,181,638.04
Foreign Affairs (2%): $129,893,575,517.38
Science and Technology (8%): $519,574,302,069.53
Government Pensions (4.5%): $292,260,544,014.11
Surplus money (3%): $194,840,363,276.07

Money available for space exploration: $259,787,151,034.77

Military:

Minimum military age: 20 years
Percentage of total population in the Monavian military:
Available manpower: 7,520,000
Manpower fit for service: 318,543,100 citizens

Spending:

Percent of government budget spent on military: 10%
Military expenditures: $649,467,877,586.91
Expenditures in USD: $915,749,707,397.54
Amount spent per individual service member: $86,365.41
Amount spent in USD: $121,775.23

Breakdown of Service Branches:

Monavian Imperial Army: 900,000
Monavian Imperial Navy: 900,000
Monavian Imperial Air Forces: 900,000
Monavian Marine Corps: 750,000
Monavian Royal Coast Guard: 10,000
Monavian Imperial Army Reserve: 800,000
Monavian Imperial Navy Reserve: 800,000
Monavian Imperial Air Forces Reserve: 800,000
Monavian Marine Corps Reserve: 550,000
Monavian Royal Coast Guard Reserve: 5,000
Imperial National Guard: 1,100,000
Royal Guard: 5,000

Total regular service members: 3,465,000
Total reserve members: 4,055,000

Total: 7,520,000

Naval Asset List: http://z15.invisionfree.invalid.com/The_Deli...p?showtopic=14

Organization:

Platoon: 20
Company: 100
Battalion: 500
Regiment: 2,500
Brigade: 5,000
Division: 25,000
Corps: 100,000

International Relations:

Diplomacy:

Nations with diplomatic contact:
The Principality of Kurona
The Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Silver Dominion of Kirav
The Empire of Neo-Ixania
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The Principality of Damirez
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
The Holy Empire of Zaheran
Alfegos
The People's Republic of Mokastana
Starblaydia
Skyland Mt.
Zongguo

Nations with diplomatic alliances:
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
The Holy Empire of Zaheran

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

Embassy Thread: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=549950

Delian League Forum: http://z15.invisionfree.invalid.com/The_Deli...ex.php?act=idx

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts:
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Holy Empire of Zaheran

Nations with no trade:
The Principality of Kurona
The Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Silver Dominion of Kirav
The Empire of Neo-Ixania
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The Principality of Damirez
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai

Nations embargoed:

Military Relations:

Allied nations:
The Holy Empire of Zaheran

Neutral nations:

Hostile nations:

Ambassadors:

Ambassador to the Free Republic of Lamoni: Eleanor Shanks
Ambassador to the Principality of Northern Rangeria: Charles Longstreet
Ambassador to the National Congregation of New True Cross: Robert Moore
Ambassador to the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire: Ronald Greenburg
Ambassador to the Empire of Neo-Ixania: Herbert Sullivan
Ambassador to the Principality of Kurona: Catherine Bates
Ambassador to the Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi: Aaron Kraft
Ambassador to United Socialist States of New Brittonia: George Gresham

Immigration, Travel, and Customs Restrictions:

VIOLET

Travelers are permitted entry into the Monavian Empire and departure from the same with relatively few restrictions. Travelers need only a valid passport or visa and a secondary form of identification. A passport or visa is valid if it contains a clear photograph of the individual possessing the document and an official seal by the issuing authority.

BLUE

The above restrictions, in addition to the following: the individual will be subject to X-ray search of their baggage and their person.

GREEN

The above restrictions in addition to the following: if any suspicious activity or objects are discovered within the baggage or person of the individual, they may be briefly questioned about their business in the country.

YELLOW

Individuals will have to satisfy the above requirements, and shall not be permitted to stay in Monavian territory for more than 30 days without a signed letter of permission from their embassy. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning.

ORANGE

Individuals in this category are subject to the above and are not permitted in Monavian teritory for more than ten days. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning. They may also be restricted to their embassy.

RED

Individuals in this category are not permitted on Monavian soil. Should such an individual be discovered, they will be detained immediately for questioning and if necessary, sent back to their home country. Individuals in this category are usually considered persona non grata and subject to deportation.

Miscellaneous:

National animal: golden eagle
National flower: iris
National flag design adopted: 1764

[End of fact book]

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:43 pm

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2009 EDITION

INDEX:

Demographics
Geography
Government
Economy
Military
International Relations
Miscellaneous

Demographics:

General demographic statistics:

Population: 455,388,890
Population growth rate: 1.44%
Population density per square kilometer: 42.968 (average)
Life expectancy: 83 years, 307 days (average)
Men: 82 years, 344 days
Women: 85 years, 178 days
HDI: 0.932
Literacy rate: 98.83%
Immigration rate: 0.97%
Median age: 41 years, 43 days

Religion (number of adherents):

Orthodox Christianity: 247,207,140
Roman Catholicism: 92,903,124
Anglicanism: 23,740,746
Sunni Islam: 19,819,591
Baptist: 15,511,038
Buddhism: 12,929,441
Lutheranism: 9,885,663
Methodist: 7,385,268
Shiite Islam: 6,155,339
Pentecostalism: 4,204,607
Judaism: 3,750,673
Adventists: 2,679,396
Hinduism: 1,959,740
Taoism: 1,581,409
Sikhism: 1,248,168
Atheist: 1,080,224
Deism: 904,368
Baha’i Faith: 804,835
Mormonism: 582,590
Jainism: 349,238
Other/irreligious: 167,553
Shinto: 126,019
Unaffiliated Christian: 104,240
Scientology: 92,574
Rastafarianism: 79,411
Society of Friends (Quakers): 75,187
Mennonite/Amish faith: 43,251
Zoroastrianism: 18,047

Languages:

Main language spoken:

English: 324,117,960
Latin: 69,341,545
Russian: 34,576,835
German: 15,451,342
Serbo-Croatian: 6,232,425
Spanish: 2,183,457
French: 1,484,190
Chinese: 563,242
Japanese: 329,477
Greek: 301,923
Other: 107,227

Official languages: English, Latin, and Russian

Geography:

General information:

Region: Nova
Current map of Nova: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6424/realnova.png
Historical map of Nova: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6424/realnova.png
Colony of S:t Therese: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa139/trert/Theresianmap3.jpg
Location of S:t Therese relative to Zaheran: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa139/trert/ZaSea.jpg
Total land area: 10,598,241 square kilometers
Total water area: 668,121 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,266,362 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone: 100 nautical miles

Government:

General information:

Flag (Full Size): http://novastates.co.cc/wiki/index.php/Image:Flag_of_Monavia.png

The Great Seal of the Monavian Empire (Full Size):

Government type: Constitutional monarchy, with republican elements
Name (Long form): The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire
Name (Short form): The Monavian Empire; Monavia
Date of founding: June 14, A.D.718
Capital: Chalcedon
Motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo
English translation: Monavia is the New World Order
Suffrage: universal for all citizens above 21 years of age; requires registration

Constitution:

The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by sixteen amendments since then. Together, they are the highest laws of the Monavian Empire.

Link to Constitution (Jolt): http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=570185
Link to Constitution (NS): viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10298

Government Officials:

King (by partial style): His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX, by the grace of God, King of Monavia, Defender of the Holy Faith, etc.
Queen (by partial style): Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI, by the grace of God, Queen of Monavia, Defender of the Holy Faith, etc.
Chancellor (by full style): His Excellency Richard Hanover II, Chancellor of Monavia and President of the Senate
Speaker of the Representative Assembly: The Honorable Elena Crocker
Prime Minister (by full style): The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt, Prime Minister of the Royal Cabinet
Minister of State: The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon
Minister of the Interior: The Right Honorable Alfred Whipple
Minister of Education: The Right Honorable Francis Mason
Minister of Agriculture: The Right Honorable George Dixon
Minister of Defense: The Right Honorable Carl Blake
Minister of Labor: The Right Honorable Mary Ashford
Minister of Commerce: The Right Honorable Susan Wright
Minister of the Treasury: The Right Honorable Catherine Whitman
Minister of Transportation: The Right Honorable Stephan Harrison
Minister of Energy: The Right Honorable Henry Douglass
Minister of Foreign Affairs: The Right Honorable Frank Carter
Minister of National Security: The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore
Minister of Health: The Right Honorable Nancy Wood
Minister of Justice: The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: His Supreme Honor William Franklin
Treasurer of the Empire: Her Honor Agatha Stockton
Royal Spiritual Advisor: Bishop Adam Roland
General Director of the Monavian National Intelligence Administration: James Cheney

Head of state/government: King and Queen

Monarchy:

List of Monarchs:

List of Monavian Kings:

The House of Claudius (718—944)

718—739 Claudius I
739—757 Claudius II
757—791 Constantine I
791—822 Basil I
822—838 Basil II
838—863 Basil III
863—885 Constantine II
885—901 Justin I
901—929 Justin II
929—944 Tiberius I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stephan (947—1190)

947—981 Stephan I
981—997 Stephan II
997—1016 Charles I
1016—1040 Alexander I
1040—1077 Alexander II
1077—1098 Stephan III
1098—1123 Charles II
1123—1156 Stephan IV
1156—1190 Alexander III

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stephan (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Ivan I
1223—1241 Peter I
1241—1260 Ivan II
1260—1284 Ivan III
1284—1302 Alexander IV
1302—1337 Charles III
1337—1354 Constantine III
1354—1368 Constantine IV
1368—1391 Nicholas I
1391—1429 Ivan IV
1429—1458 Stephan V
1458—1461 Nicholas II
1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper
1469—1491 Nicholas II (restored)
1491—1513 Peter II

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Constantine (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Constantine V
1547—1567 Harold I
1567—1598 Constantine VI
1598—1615 Peter III
1615—1635 Peter IV
1635—1651 Harold II
1651—1679 Harold III
1679—1694 Charles IV
1694—1717 Charles V
1717—1745 Constantine VII
1745—1772 Peter IV
1772—1799 Ivan V
1799—1813 Nicholas III
1813—1834 Alexander V
1834—1853 Stephan VI
1853—1871 Stephan VII
1871—1889 Peter V
1889—1901 Nicholas IV
1901—1919 Charles VI
1919—1946 Charles VII
1946—1981 Charles VIII
1981—Present Charles IX

List of Monavian Queens:
*UNDER CONSTRUCTION*

Parliament:

Senate: 126 seats

Royalist Party: 40 seats
National Republican Party: 37 seats
People's Liberal Democratic Party: 23 seats
Independent Citizen's Party: 17 seats
Capitalist Party: 6 seats
Socialist Union Party: 3 seats

Representative Assembly:

*UNDER CONSTRUCTION*

Notable Personages:

Commander of the S:t Therese Colonial Expedition: Admiral Samuel Hampton
Monavian Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman: The Honorable Bruce Bates
International Liaison to the Minister of the Treasury: Lord Basil Cyrus DeLeon
Official Royal Secretary: Richard Jackson

Economy:

General economic statistics:

Economic model: Regulated capitalism, with some public institutions owned by the government.
Currency: Monavian Thaler (₮)
Exchange rate: 1 Monavian Thaler = 1.40 USD ($)
Unemployment rate: 2.36%
Per capita income (Thalers): ₮35,911.49
Per capita income (dollars): $50,276.09
GDP (in Monavian Thalers): ₮16,353,693,569,346.10
GDP (in universal standard dollars): $22,895,170,997,084.54
Population unemployed: 10,747,178
Inflation rate: 0.98%
Population below poverty line: 7.98%

Electrical Power Generation/Consumption:

Nuclear: 41%
Hydroelectric: 35%
Wind: 14%
Natural Gas: 6%
Oil: 4%
Solar: 2%

Exports:

Major:

Wheat
Corn
Beef
Petroleum
Steel
Iron Ore
Uranium
Precious metals (gold, platinum, palladium, etc.)
Chemical products
Surgical equipment
Medicines
Diamonds
Forest products

Minor:

Chemicals
Petrochemicals
Industrial machinery
Farm machinery
Firearms

Imports:

Major:

Osmiridium
Pharmaceuticals
Tropical fruits
Electronics

Minor:

Copper ore
Tropical lumber
Munitions
Phosphates

Taxation and revenue:

Taxes:

Income tax rate: 25%
Sales tax rate: 2.5%
Property tax rate: 2.5%
Tariff rate: 2.5%

Government Income:

This is a list of sources of government revenue.

Percent of Government Budget from Income Tax: 65%
Percent from Tariffs: 10%
Percent from Sales Tax: 15%
Percent from Property Tax: 4%
Percent from other taxes: 1%
Other Income: 5%

Government Budget: ₮6,541,477,427,738.44 (40% of GDP)

Administration (2%): ₮130,829,548,554.77
Agriculture (1.5%): ₮98,122,161,416.08
Commerce (6%): ₮392,488,645,664.31
Defense (10%): ₮654,147,742,773.84
Education (7%): ₮457,903,419,941.69
Energy (3%): ₮196,244,322,832.15
Environment (4%): ₮261,659,097,109.54
Foreign Affairs (2%): ₮130,829,548,554.77
Government Pensions (4.5%): ₮294,366,484,248.23
Healthcare (15.5%): ₮1,013,929,001,299.46
Law and order (3.5%): ₮228,951,709,970.85
Science and Technology (8%): ₮523,318,194,219.08
Social Security (18.5%): ₮1,210,173,324,131.61
Transportation (3%): ₮196,244,322,832.15
Welfare (8.5%): ₮556,025,581,357.77
Surplus money (3%): ₮196,244,322,832.15

Money available for space exploration: ₮261,659,097,109.54

Military:

*UNDER CONSTRUCTION*

Numbers are tentative and subject to update.

Minimum military age: 20 years
Percentage of total population in the Monavian military: 1.7214%
Manpower fit for service: 318,543,100 citizens

Spending:

Percent of government budget spent on military: 10%
Military expenditures: ₮654,147,742,773.84
Expenditures in USD: $915,806,839,883.38
Amount spent per individual service member: ₮83,445.51
Amount spent in USD: $116,823.72

Breakdown of Service Branches:

Monavian Imperial Army: 1,175,232
Monavian Imperial Navy: 650,000
Monavian Imperial Air Forces: 500,000
Monavian Marine Corps: 881,424
Monavian Coast Guard: 7,500
Monavian National Guard: 1,175,232
Royal Guard: 24,484
Monavian Imperial Army Reserve: 1,175,232
Monavian Imperial Navy Reserve: 900,000
Monavian Imperial Air Forces Reserve: 750,000
Monavian Marine Corps Reserve: 587,616
Monavian Coast Guard Reserve: 12,500

Total active members in service: 4,413,872
Total reserve members in service: 3,425,348

Total members in service: 7,839,220

Naval Asset List: *UNDER CONSTRUCTION*

Organization:

Squad: 10
Platoon: 44*
Company: 224*
Battalion**
Regiment**
Brigade**
Division**
Corps**
Field Army**

*Includes command units
**Numbers undetermined

Defensive Conditions and Deployment Levels:

DEFCON 8: Peacetime; minimum mobilization; no tensions among nations
DEFCON 7: Peacetime; slightly increased mobilization; possible tensions developing
DEFCON 6: Peacetime; elevated mobilization; confirmed tensions
DEFCON 5: Peacetime; high mobilization; risk of war from hostile threats; hostile tensions
DEFCON 4: Wartime; full mobilization; conventional weapons authorized
DEFCON 3: Wartime; certain special weapons authorized
DEFCON 2: Major war; possible invasion of Monavian soil; some NBC weapons authorized
DEFCON 1: Major war with possibility of NBC ecxhange; invasion of Monavian soil; all NBC weapons authorized
DEFCON 0: Open nuclear exchange; occupation of Monavian soil by hostile forces

International Relations:

Embassy Thread (New forum): viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10102
Delian League Forum (current): http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Delian_League/index/
Nova Regional Forum: http://z11.invisionfree.invalid.com/Free_World_Alliance
Fegosian Union Forum: http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Fegosian_Union/index/

Major Treaties:

ALL ENTRIES BELOW ARE LINKS TO THE TREATIES

Monavia-Lamoni Friendship Treaty
LEX SALISBRUGIS REGNUM XXVII
Charter of the Delian League
Charter of the Fegosian Union
The Treaty of Chalcedon
Charter of the Bacterial Oil Cartel (NOT YET RATIFIED)

Diplomacy:

Nations with diplomatic contact:

*Denotes Fegosian Union members
**Denotes Delian League members

The Enlightened Royalist Empire of Neo-Ixania*
The Holy Empire of Zaheran*
The People's Nation of Alfegos*
The People's Republic of Mokastana*
The Greater Economic Union of New Manth**
The Confederate Republic of Kirav
The Free Republic of Lamoni**
The Principality of Damirez**
The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
The Republic of Ruccola
The Principality of Kurona
The Communist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
The United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
The Protectorate of Starblaydia
Skyland Mt
The Celestial Empire of Zongguo
The Republic of Novus Prosperitas
The Republic of Zinaire
The Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
The Allied States of New Kereptica
The United Kingdom of Telvira
The Republic of Madrid Espana (OOC CONTACT ONLY)
The Armed Republic of Nachmere

Nations with diplomatic alliances:

The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
Fegosian Union and Delian League member states
The Free Republic of Lamoni

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy
The Kingdom of Blainesville
The Federation of Brewdomia

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts or agreements:

The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Holy Empire of Zaheran
Delian League and Fegosian Union

Nations with no trade agreements:

The Principality of Kurona
The Communist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
The United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
The Protectorate of Starblaydia
The Republic of Novus Prosperitas
The Republic of Zinaire
The Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
The Allied States of New Kereptica
The United Kingdom of Telvira
The Republic of Madrid Espana (OOC CONTACT ONLY)
The Armed Republic of Nachmere
The Republic of Ruccola

Nations embargoed:

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy
The Federation of Brewdonia
The Kingdom of Blainesville

Military Relations:

Allied nations:

The Holy Empire of Zaheran
All Delian League states
All Fegosian Union states

Neutral nations:

Hostile nations:

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy
The Federation of Brewdonia
The Kingdom of Blainesville

Ambassadors:

Ambassador to the Free Republic of Lamoni: Eleanor Shanks
Ambassador to the Principality of Northern Rangeria: Charles Longstreet
Ambassador to the National Congregation of New True Cross: Robert Moore
Ambassador to the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire: Ronald Greenburg
Ambassador to the Enlightened Royalist Empire of Neo-Ixania: Herbert Sullivan
Ambassador to the Principality of Kurona: Catherine Bates
Ambassador to the Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi: Aaron Kraft
Ambassador to United Socialist States of New Brittonia: George Gresham
Ambassador to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: Dmitry Ivanov
Ambassador to the People's Republic of Mokastana: Laura C. Cook

Immigration, Travel, and Customs Restrictions:

Violet: Travelers are permitted entry into the Monavian Empire and departure from the same with relatively few restrictions. Travelers need only a valid passport or visa and a secondary form of identification. A passport or visa is valid if it contains a clear photograph of the individual possessing the document and an official seal by the issuing authority.

Blue: The above restrictions, in addition to the following: the individual will be subject to X-ray search of their baggage and their person.

Green: The above restrictions in addition to the following: if any suspicious activity or objects are discovered within the baggage or person of the individual, they may be briefly questioned about their business in the country.

Yellow: Individuals will have to satisfy the above requirements, and shall not be permitted to stay in Monavian territory for more than 30 days without a signed letter of permission from their embassy. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning.

Orange: Individuals in this category are subject to the above and are not permitted in Monavian territory for more than ten days. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning. They may also be restricted to their embassy.

Red: Individuals in this category are not permitted on Monavian soil. Should such an individual be discovered, they will be detained immediately for questioning and if necessary, sent back to their home country. Individuals in this category are usually considered persona non grata and may be subject to deportation.

Miscellaneous:

National animal: golden eagle
National flower: iris
National flag design adopted: 1764

Classified information:

INFORMATION IN THIS FACTBOOK IS SUBJECT TO REVISION

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by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:44 pm

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2010 EDITION

INDEX:

Overview
Demographics
Geography
Government
Economy
Military
International Relations
Miscellaneous

Overview:

Name (conventional long form): The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire
Name (short forms): The Monavian Empire; Empire of Monavia
Date of founding: June 14, A.D.718
Motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo (Monavia is the New World Order)
National animal: golden eagle

http://marciabonta.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/golden-eagle-portrait.jpg

National flower: iris

http://www.ancientrootsresearch.com/Hap-I/Chivalry-iris.jpg

National flag design adopted: 1764

Demographics:

General demographic statistics:

Population: 461,946,490
Population growth rate: 1.46%
Population density per square kilometer: 39.961 (average)

Life expectancy: 83 years, 307 days (average)
Men: 82 years, 344 days
Women: 85 years, 178 days

HDI: 0.983
Literacy rate: 98.83%
Enrollment ratio: 0.97

Median age: 41 years, 43 days
Immigration rate: 0.68%

Religion (number of adherents):

Orthodox Christianity: 250,766,922
Roman Catholicism: 94,240,928
Anglicanism: 24,082,612
Sunni Islam: 20,104,993
Baptist: 15,511,038
Buddhism: 13,115,624
Lutheranism: 10,028,016
Methodist: 7,491,615
Shiite Islam: 6,243,975
Pentecostalism: 4,265,153
Judaism: 3,804,682
Adventists: 2,717,979
Hinduism: 1,987,960
Taoism: 1,604,181
Sikhism: 1,266,141
Atheist: 1,095,779
Deism: 917,390
Baha’i Faith: 816,424
Mormonism: 640,979
Jainism: 354,267
Other/irreligious: 251,705
Unaffiliated Christian: 177,385
Shinto: 127,833
Church of Scientology: 93,907
Rastafarianism: 80,554
Society of Friends (Quakers): 76,269
Mennonite/Amish faith: 53,873
Zoroastrianism: 28,306

Languages:

Main language spoken:

English: 328,785,258
Latin: 70,340,063
Russian: 35,474,741
German: 15,673,841
Serbo-Croatian: 6,622,171
Spanish: 2,214,898
French: 1,505,562
Chinese: 571,352
Japanese: 334,221
Greek: 306,270
Other: 118,113

Official languages: English, Latin, and Russian

Geography:

General information:

Region: Nova
Current map of Nova:
Historical maps of Nova: 2009 map 2008 map; 2007 map
National map: http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn279/Tomahawk911/CompleteMapVersion12.jpg
Colony of S:t Therese: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa139/trert/Theresianmap3.jpg
Location of S:t Therese relative to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa139/trert/ZaSea.jpg
Total land area: 10,889,011 square kilometers
Total water area: 670,871 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,559,882 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone: 100 nautical miles

The Pirin Mountains, north of Baraolt

The Savan Forest, south of Chalcedon
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Molin Forest in late summer

The Cindrel Mountains as viewed from the north
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The Lim River near its source
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The Tatra Mountains
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The Dysna River as it winds between the Apuseni Mountains and the Pirin Mountains

Lake Dusia
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Lake Brozno

Major Cities:

Adamov, Agrinio, Aldan, Ardino, Arsk, Avrig, Azov, Bakar, Balchik, Baraolt, Belovo, Berane, Brezno, Brovary, Budislav, Chalcedon (capital), Chirpan, Chitila, Christopol, Corinth, Cricova, Derventa, Detva, Dorog, Dulovo, Elista, Gabrovo, Galanta, Giurgiu, Ignalina, Irpin, Kaltan, Kamnik, Karditsa, Kargat, Kashin, Kikinda, Kladno, Kovin, Kubrat, Labin, Labinsk, Lapovo, Larissa, Leova, Levski, Liberec, Loznica, Maribor, Martin, Mioveni, Mostar, Motru, Negotin, Nikolsk, Nikopol, Nova Gorica, Novi Pazar, Novigrad, Novo Mesto, Novosil, Odessa, Opava, Ostrov, Palanga, Pestovo, Petrich, Petrila, Podgorica, Razgrad, Resnik, Siracusa, Slobozia, Snina, Sombor, Sopron, Soroca, Taraclia, Theodosia, Tiraspol, Trieste, Troyan, Utena, Visoko, and Zenica.

Government:

General information:

Flag (medium version):

http://s1135.photobucket.com/albums/m631/Monavia/FullSizeVersion.png

The Great Seal of the Monavian Empire (Full Size):

Government type: Constitutional monarchy, with republican elements
Current government founded: 1732
Capital: Chalcedon
Suffrage: universal for all citizens above twenty-one years of age; requires registration; can be suspended

Officials of the National Government:

King (by abbreviated style): His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX, by the Grace of God, King of Monavia, Defender of the Most Holy Faith, etc.
Queen (by abbreviated style): Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI, by the Grace of God, Queen of Monavia, Defender of the Most Holy Faith, etc.
Crown Princess (by abbreviated style): Her Imperial and Royal Highness, Catherine IV, by the Grace of God, Heir Apparent, Princess of Monavia, etc.
Chancellor (by full style): His Excellency Richard Hanover II, Chancellor of Monavia and President of the Senate
Speaker of the Representative Assembly: Her Excellency Elena Crocker
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: His Supreme Honor William Franklin
Prime Minister (by full style): The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt, Prime Minister of the Royal Cabinet
Minister of State: The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon
Minister of the Interior: The Right Honorable Alfred Whipple
Minister of Education: The Right Honorable Francis Mason
Minister of Agriculture: The Right Honorable George Brenner
Minister of Defense: The Right Honorable Carl Blake
Minister of Labor: The Right Honorable Mary Ashford
Minister of Commerce: The Right Honorable Susan Wright
Minister of the Treasury: The Right Honorable Catherine Whitman
Minister of Transportation: The Right Honorable Stephan Harrison
Minister of Energy: The Right Honorable Henry Douglass
Minister of Foreign Affairs: The Right Honorable Frank Carter
Minister of National Security: The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore
Minister of Health: The Right Honorable Nancy Wood
Minister of Justice: The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth
Treasurer of the Empire: Her Ladyship Agatha Stockton
Royal Spiritual Advisor: His Grace, Bishop Adam Roland
General Director of the Monavian National Intelligence Administration: James Cheney
Senior Internal Security Director: Leon Chekov

Head of state/government: King and Queen

Notable Personages:

Admiral Samuel Hampton, Commander of the S:t Therese Colonial Expeditionary Fleet
The Honorable Bruce Bates, Monavian Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
International Liaison to the Minister of the Treasury: Lord Basil Cyrus DeLeon
Official Royal Secretary: Richard Jackson

Constitution:

The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by sixteen amendments since then. Together, they are the highest laws of the Monavian Empire.

Link to Constitution (Jolt): http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=570185
Link to Constitution (NS): viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10298

Monarchy:

The imperial monarchy serves as the executive organ of the Monavian government. Its power includes the execution of laws, approving or vetoing the same, representing the country to outside powers, appointing officials, and issuing administrative orders. The broad powers retained by the monarchy have remained almost unchanged over the last 300 years, thus only Parliament and the judiciary are the only other organs of government with the ability to check its power.

List of Monarchs:

List of Monavian Kings:

The House of Claudianus-Julianus (718—944)

718—739 Claudius I
739—757 Claudius II
757—791 Constantine I
791—822 Basil I
822—838 Basil II
838—863 Basil III
863—885 Constantine II
885—901 Justin I
901—929 Justin II
929—944 Tiberius I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (947—1190)

947—981 Stefan I
981—997 Stefan II
997—1016 Charles I
1016—1040 Alexander I
1040—1077 Alexander II
1077—1098 Stefan III
1098—1123 Charles II
1123—1156 Stefan IV
1156—1190 Alexander III

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Ivan I
1223—1241 Peter I
1241—1260 Ivan II
1260—1284 Ivan III
1284—1302 Alexander IV
1302—1337 Charles III
1337—1354 Constantine III
1354—1368 Constantine IV
1368—1391 Nicholas I
1391—1429 Ivan IV
1429—1458 Stefan V
1458—1461 Nicholas II

1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper

1469—1491 Nicholas II (restored)
1491—1513 Peter II

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Petrović (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Constantine V
1547—1567 Harold I
1567—1598 Constantine VI
1598—1615 Peter III
1615—1635 Peter IV
1635—1651 Harold II
1651—1679 Harold III
1679—1694 Charles IV
1694—1717 Charles V
1717—1745 Constantine VII
1745—1772 Peter IV
1772—1799 Ivan V
1799—1813 Nicholas III
1813—1834 Alexander V
1834—1853 Stefan VI
1853—1871 Stefan VII
1871—1889 Peter V
1889—1901 Nicholas IV
1901—1919 Charles VI
1919—1946 Charles VII
1946—1981 Charles VIII
1981—Present Charles IX

List of Monavian Queens:

The House of Claudianus-Julianus (718—944)

718—739 Juliana I
739—757 Helena I
757—791 Sophia I
791—822 Eudocia I
822—838 Helena II
838—863 Eudocia II
863—885 Sophia II
885—901 Irene I
901—929 Juliana II
929—944 Verina I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (947—1190)

947—981Maria I
981—997 Xenia I
997—1016 Verina II
1016—1040 Sophia III
1040—1077 Irene II
1077—1098 Xenia II
1098—1123 Maria II
1123—1156 Anna I
1156—1190 Slavna I

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Anna II
1223—1241 Slavna II
1241—1260 Sophia IV
1260—1284 Maria III
1284—1302 Alexandra I
1302—1337 Helena I
1337—1354 Xenia III
1354—1368 Theodosia I
1368—1391 Alexandra II
1391—1429 Irene III
1429—1458 Slavna III
1458—1461 Helena II

1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper

1469—1491 Anastasia I
1491—1513 Elizabeth I

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Petrović (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Helena III
1547—1567 Elizabeth II
1567—1598 Catherine I
1598—1615 Alexandra III
1615—1635 Catherine II
1635—1651 Anna III
1651—1679 Elizabeth III
1679—1694 Alexandra IV
1694—1717 Sophia V
1717—1745 Sophia VI
1745—1772 Elizabeth IV
1772—1799 Catherine III
1799—1813 Margaret I
1813—1834 Helena IV
1834—1853 Elizabeth V
1853—1871 Catherine IV
1871—1889 Theodosia II
1889—1901 Xenia IV
1901—1919 Anna III
1919—1946 Irene IV
1946—1981 Margaret II
1981—Present Elizabeth VI

The Chancellorship:

The Chancellor of the Monavian Empire is elected by direct popular vote every five years. As the ranking representative of popular interests and public welfare, the Chancellor fulfills the duties of an intermediary between the Monavian people ad the monarchy.

In addition to the aforementioned duties, the Chancellor also performs the legislative funcations of presiding over the Senate, directing its sessions, and casting all tie-reaking votes.

Parliament:

The legislative organ of the Monavian government is its Parliament, a bicameral body with complete legislative authority. It may pass laws, although they are subject to final approval or rejection by the monarchy, which serves a powerfully defined executive role. Royal appointments, however, are subject to the approval or rejection as chosen by the upper house, called the Senate, and most royal decrees need some form of consent from Parliament to carry the full force of law.

The Senate:

The Senate is the upper house of Parliament, containing two delegate seats for each of the sixty-three provinces of the Empire. It currently has 126 members, serving terms of six years.

President of the Senate: His Excellency Richard Hanover II

Royalist Party: 40 seats
National Republican Party: 37 seats
People's Liberal Democratic Party: 23 seats
Independent Citizen's Party: 17 seats
Capitalist Party: 6 seats
Socialist Union Party: 3 seats

Representative Assembly:

The Representative Assembly is the lower house of Parliament, possessing a number of delegate seats that is apportioned according to the individual population of each province. Each of the 1,155 members serves a term of two years.

Current Speaker: the Honorable Elena Crocker

Royalist Party: 379 seats
National Republican Party: 386 seats
People's Liberal Democratic Party: 239 seats
Independent Citizen's Party: 89 seats
Capitalist Party: 40 seats
Socialist Union Party: 22 seats

The Federal Judiciary:

The Supreme Court:

The highest court in the Monavian Empire is the Supreme Court. This tribunal has the final authority on all matters pertaining to the interpretation of laws, and may, at any time, call the legitimacy or constitutionality of any law into question. The court’s rulings are final, unless it reverses its decision at a later time. Should the court find any decision of either Parliament or the monarchy to be unconstitutional, it has the authority to declare the actions in question illegal.

The Nine High Courts of Appeals:

The sixty-three provinces of the Monavian Empire are grouped into nine districts, each containing seven provinces. Each district contains a High Court of Appeals, which handles decisions appealed from the Lower Courts of Appeals.

Lower Courts of Appeals:

Under each of the Nine High Courts of Appeals is seven Lower Courts of Appeals. Each Lower Court has jurisdiction over one province, and handles decisions appealed from Federal Precinct Courts.

Federal Precinct Courts:

Each province of the Monavian Empire is divided into a series of precincts, typically consisting of several counties. Each precinct contains one of these courts, which has original jurisdiction over the majority of federal cases.

Ministries and Independent Agencies:

Ministry of State:

The Minister of State controls all aspects of relations between the provinces and the federal government. In addition, the Minister of State awards all lands and titles on behalf of the monarchy and Parliament. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon.

Ministry of the Treasury:

Tasked with overseeing the national treasury, carrying out government audits of gold reserves and depositories, serving as the financial advisor to Parliament and the monarchy, and collecting revenue, the Minister of the Treasury wields considerable power over government finance. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Catherine Whitman.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

The Minister of Foreign Affairs handles all diplomatic correspondence between governments, schedules summits on behalf of the Monarchy, and attends diplomatic meetings and negotiations. The Minister will generally be present to sign treaties that have been ratified by the Senate. In addition to the previously mentioned duties, the Minister will also nominate people to serve as ambassadors and consuls, subject to selection or rejection by the monarchy, and confirmation by the Senate. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Frank Carter.

Ministry of Defense:

Duties entrusted to the Minister of Defense include procurement of funding, equipment, and weaponry, civilian regulation of the armed forces, reporting developments to Parliament, advising the monarchy on matters of military strategy, and serving as an intermediary between the monarchy and the High Command. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Carl Blake.

Ministry of Justice:

Federal investigations of crimes prosecution of criminals captured by the MNIA, Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie, Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation (FBCR), and Secret Police and pursuits of criminals wanted by the Fegosian Union Police Force fall under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Justice. Furthermore, the Ministry carries out investigations of other government organs and conducts official inquiries. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth.

Ministry of Commerce:

This ministry is charged with implementing and enforcing commerce laws, appoints tariff collectors, and administers the Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation. In addition, the Ministry conducts economic studies and advises the monarchy on matters of economic policy. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Susan Wright.

Ministry of Energy:

This ministry administers all government electricity reserves, enforces laws regarding power generation, advises the monarchy on matters of energy policy, conducts searches for natural resources which may be used to generate electricity, and conducts research and studies on improving energy technology and security. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Henry Douglass.

Ministry of Health:

Matters of public health and sanitation are handled by this ministry. It also enforces all federal health codes and carries out disease research, stockpiling of medicines and vaccines, distribution of supplies and equipment in relief efforts following wars and disasters, and engineers cures for diseases used as biological weapons. It also serves as the main regulatory body for hospitals and clinics in the Capital District. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Nancy Wood.

Ministry of the Interior:

This ministry manages all federal land and conducts surveys of international and provincial boundaries. It also enforces laws against poaching, environmental protections, and oversees production of raw materials by a handful of businesses owned by the government. The administration of wildlife refuges and federally-owned parks is carried out by the Ministry.
The current Minister is the Right Honorable Alfred Whipple.

Ministry of National Security:

National security matters are handled by this ministry, including operation of the Terrorism Alert System and the collection of intelligence. The MNIA (Monavian National Intelligence Administration) answers to the Minister of National Security. In addition, the ministry directs border security measures, carries out border inspections with the assistance of local police and the armed forces, and monitors security of ports. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Andrew Livermore.

Ministry of Transportation:

This ministry operates the federal postal service, administers federal highway and rail networks, and ensures that domestic travel runs smoothly. In addition, it advises the monarchy and Parliament on matters of transportation infrastructure policy and safety standards. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Stephan Harrison.

Ministry of Agriculture:

This ministry provides the monarchy and Parliament with advice on setting food and drug safety standards, tariffs on food imports, and standards for pesticide and herbicide use. The current Minister is the Right Honorable George Brenner.

Ministry of Education:

The Ministry of Education is tasked with raising revenue (through requests from Parliament and the Treasury) for the construction and operation of schools in the Capital district and setting all educational standards for students residing therein. The ministry also conducts studies on institutions throughout the country and publishes articles and reports for the benefit of the Empire’s citizens. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Francis Mason.

Ministry of Labor:

This ministry is tasked with determining the wages and benefits of government employees, as well as advising the monarchy and Parliament on matters of labor safety, ethics, and other related policy. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Mary Ashford.

Monavian National Intelligence Administration:

The MNIA serves as the federal intelligence agency of the Monavian Empire. The current General Director is James Cheney.

Seal:

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Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie:

Serving as a federal police agency, the RBG investigates all federal crimes falling under its jurisdiction. Its agents are responsible for apprehending criminals who have fled across provincial boundaries or across the borders.

Secret Police:

Of all of the federal law enforcement agencies, the Secret Police is the smallest by far. Officers are recruited to do a variety of tasks, mostly under-the-table investigations that cannot be conducted in the open. Its clandestine operations include regulation and policing of various organs of the Ministry of Justice (the Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation, gendarmerie, etc.); apprehension of criminals wanted by the Fegosian Union Police Force; elimination of rogue ex-military or ex-MNIA personnel; collaboration with the MNIA in eliminating enemy spies; and protection of state secrets.

Other Federal Offices:

Treasurer of the Monavian Empire:

The Treasurer of the Monavian Empire is an advisor to the Minister of the Treasury, holding the status of second-in-command. Among the duties of the office, there are those of overseeing large-scale monetary transactions and the national gold depositories. The current Treasurer is Her Ladyship Agatha Stockton.

Office of the Royal Spiritual Advisor:

In order to provide the monarchy with proper counsel on matters of ethics and faith, the Office of the Royal Spiritual Advisor serves the indispensible function of ensuring the moral authority and integrity of their offices. The current Royal Spiritual Advisor is His Grace, Bishop Adam Roland.

Office of the Royal Secretary:

The Royal Secretary is the chief clerical officer of the monarchy, charged with administering management of correspondence, appointing couriers and clerical staff, countersigning documents, and serving various functions at diplomatic conferences. The current Royal Secretary is Richard Jackson.

Political Parties:

Royalist Party:

This traditionalist party is supportive of the monarchy and the interests of the crown and what remains of the nobility. It is composed of social and fiscal conservatives, most of whom favor a strict interpretation of the Constitution, support maintaining most of the rights and liberties therein, and oppose granting additional ones. Royalists are generally capitalistic and believe that the government has little business regulating the economy beyond the need to ensure compliance with the laws, prevent exploitation, fraud, and abuses, keep domestic industries competitive, ensure fair working hours, and otherwise promote a degree of economic stability, although they do favor trade protections in some cases. In addition, most Royalists are nationalist and support the maintaining of formidable armed forces, and usually will support any war where Monavian interests are at stake. They support monarchism, moralistic capitalism, the nobility, the degree of popular voice in government as it stands, an open role for religion within the state, and relatively free trade, while they oppose communism in any form, socialism, totalitarianism, anarchism, fascism, Nazism, and intervention in foreign affairs which do not present any benefit or danger to Monavian and allied interests. Most Royalists are Orthodox Christians, conservative evangelicals, conservative Jews, Mormons, and Roman Catholics.

Party flag:

National Republican Party:

Those who count themselves among the ranks of the National Republican Party are best characterized as republican parliamentarians who prefer a stronger chancellorship and Parliament and a more limited monarchy. National Republicans support a relatively strict fiscal discipline, yet they are more tolerant of federal spending than the Royalists. In addition they are supportive of a moderately strict constitutional interpretation, and favor maintaining federal power. National Republicans favor a capitalist system with less regulation than what the Royalists propose and view most “moral” regulations of the capitalist system as products of socialism. They favor government subsidies to certain industries to ensure competitiveness but do not oppose outsourcing of employment. National Republicans support military spending and are divided into traditional conservatives who oppose meddling in international affairs and neoconservatives which would rather promote the Monavian way abroad and strike down foreign examples of tyranny, by force if necessary. They support republicanism, popular government in certain instances, protectionist trade, and a somewhat less active role for religion within the state than their Royalist counterparts while opposing socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism, or any other form of planned economics, totalitarianism, anarchism, and most leftist doctrines. Most National Republicans are moderate and right-leaning evangelicals, centrist Roman Catholics, Deists, moderate Jews, Mormons, and Anglicans.

Party flag:

Peoples Liberal Democratic Party:

This party is composed of those who describe themselves as leftists, especially societal liberals. As a progressive party, they view the crown and nobility as an antiquated relic of the past and seek to diminish its power, while advocating democratic reforms, an elected head of state, and a broader interpretation of the Constitution. Many members are in favor of a more socialist system than the regulated capitalist one in place, as well as increased welfare programs. They favor judicature based upon precedent over formal law in more cases than their rightist counterparts in the Royalist and National Republican Parties. Their economic positions favor a system dominated by progressive taxes, freedom to outsource employment, make global investments, increase welfare programs, and provide the national government with a broader role in controlling internal economic markets and happenings. Increases in market regulation are also a commonly promoted feature of PLDP platforms. Members of this party are usually more tolerant of higher taxes and are fiscally loose on matters of government spending. Most members also support increased social freedoms, preferring that the government regulate markets and not morality. The party’s membership is divided on the issues of economics, as some prefer market socialism or strictly regulated capitalism, while others prefer pure socialism and collectivism, and foreign affairs, as some follow a pacifist ideology and others support collectivist or other planned economic policies, and foreign affairs, as some follow a pacifist ideology while others favor the armed intervention in foreign conflicts by using the Monavian military to destroy tyranny, slavery, black markets, or prejudice wherever they exist. As a party, they support the creation of a Monavian democracy, socialism of one form or another and social liberalism. They oppose rightist doctrines, fiscal restraint, religious influence on government policy, fascism, totalitarianism, monarchism, Nazism, and some forms of anarchism. Their principle constituents are left-leaning and centrist Christians of varying denominations, liberal Muslims, atheists, agnostics, and the irreligious.

Party flag:

Capitalist Party:

Members of the Capitalist Party are inclined toward economic matters more than social ones. They believe that the preservation of the capitalist system is essential to ensuring the prosperity of the Monavian people and oppose most regulations of the market that have no practical or economic benefit to businesses and their employees. Most support foreign investment, free trade, outsourcing, low taxes, and government subsidies to increase domestic competitiveness. They are mostly neutral on the issue of the monarchy. Capitalists generally oppose any foreign entanglements that are “bad for business” while favoring economic alliances, wars that result in economic gain for the Monavian Empire, and tariff reduction agreements. Most are fiscally conservative, however, some view government spending positively where there is money to be made. Capitalists are divided on social issues between supporting regulation of morality and the role of religion in society and the state. The more religious will support social conservatism, while the more libertarian wing supports social and economic liberalism, preferring that regulation of private matters and business conduct did not exist. Most Capitalists support corporatism or unregulated capitalist systems, any political institution that holds or improves the status quo, and the current government system, while opposing communism, socialism, collectivism, totalitarianism, anarchism, and various forms of fascism and Nazism, depending upon how favorably the regime in question looks upon business interests.

Party flag:

Independent Citizens Party:

The Independent Citizens Party can best be described as a coalition of citizens who consider themselves political moderates. Fiscal, foreign policy, economic, and social matters are the principle basis for internal divisions within the party and distinctions between groups of members. The status of the monarchy and judiciary are mostly neutral subjects, having little bearing on their positions. The majority of the Independents favor some degree of fiscal restraint, however, this degree is usually minor and there are others who prefer that the government spends it way out of problems. Most prefer lower taxes, although they do not appear to disapprove of current taxation rates. Most are moralistic capitalists, although some are market socialists. As a party, they support cautious actions in foreign affairs, trusting few of their neighbors, yet well aware of the benefits provided by forming new diplomatic ties. They favor no particular form of government, but oppose anarchy, dictatorship, and any autocratic or overly authoritarian system. They are generally capitalist or moderately socialist. It is speculated that the Independent Citizens Party could split among lines of social policy, as some are more or less traditionalist religious capitalists and others are moderately progressive, socially liberal market socialists.

Party flag:

Socialist Union Party:

By far the most influential and respected socialist party in the Monavian Empire, the Socialist Union Party supports radical constitutional changes, the nationalization of most industries, and a progressive agenda. The party’s membership is divided between democratic socialists, who prefer that reforms be accomplished through democratic means, and autocratic socialists, who prefer that an oligarchy or dictatorship bring about the desired changes. Fiscal policies are not measured in terms of strictness or looseness, but rather in terms of how effectively they can allocate resources. The party is also divided on whether to bring about changes in Monavia alone, or attempt to export its ideas elsewhere and bring about changes in other countries, effectively creating a nationalist versus internationalist division. Among their progressive policies are desires for welfare expansion, nationalization of most businesses, especially industries and agriculture, government control of all education, and an increase in social freedoms to maintain morale in an environment where the incentive to produce is less pronounced. They favor providing any social freedom that does not interfere with the ability to produce or create economic growth. Most view foreign entanglements as detrimental to their ability to carry out internal developments because resources are committed to causes abroad. Socialists support any number of Marxist economic systems, expansion of control by the national government over internal matters, and bureaucratic approaches toward private matters in certain spheres. They oppose capitalism of any kind, religious conservatism, the monarchy and nobility, business interests, anarchism, classical liberalism, fascism, Nazism, and corporatism.

Party flag:

Economy:

General economic statistics:

Economic model: Regulated capitalism, with some public institutions owned by the government.
Currency: Monavian Thaler (₮)

Exchange rate: 1 Monavian Thaler = 1.38628 USD ($)
Exchange rate formula: Final Rate = Initial Rate • (1 − Inflation Rate)
Inflation rate: 0.98%

Per capita income (Thalers): ₮36,263.42
Per capita income (universal standard dollars): $50,271.25
GDP (in Monavian Thalers): ₮16,751,759, 845,395.80
GDP (in universal standard dollars): $23,222,629,276,656.21
Unemployment rate: 2.113%
Population unemployed: 9,760,929
Population below poverty line: 7.371%

Electrical Power Generation/Consumption:

Nuclear: 41%
Hydroelectric: 35%
Wind: 14%
Natural Gas: 6%
Oil: 4%
Solar: 2%

Exports:

Major:

Wheat, corn, beef, petroleum, steel, iron ore, uranium, palladium, silver, chemicals, surgical equipment, medicines, diamonds, temperate lumber, paper products.

Minor:

Petrochemicals, industrial machinery, farm machinery, firearms, ammunition.

Imports:

Major:

Osmiridium, pharmaceuticals, tropical fruits, tropical lumber.

Minor:

Phosphates, refined gasoline, gold metal, tungsten.

Taxation and revenue:

Taxes:

Income tax rate (include all personal income, gifts, money that is inherited, etc.): 25%
Corporate income tax rate: 12.5%
Federal value added sales tax rate: 2.0%
Fuel tax rate: ₮0.50 per gallon
Tariff rate: 2.5%

Government Income:

This is a list of sources of government revenue.

Percent of Government Budget from Income Tax: 45%
Percent from Corporate Income Tax: 20%
Percent from Tariffs: 10%
Percent from Federal Value Added Sales Tax: 10%
Percent from other taxes: 7%
Percent from fuel tax: 4%
Percent from sin taxes: 3%

Government Budget: ₮6,700,703,938,158.32 (40% of GDP)

Administration (2.0%): ₮134,014,078,763.17
Agriculture (1.5%): ₮100,510,559,072.37
Commerce (6.0%): ₮402,042,236,289.50
Defense (12.0%): ₮804,084,472,579.00
Education (7.0%): ₮469,049,275,671.08
Energy (3.0%): ₮201,021,118,144.75
Environment (4.0%): ₮268,028,157,526.33
Foreign Affairs (3.0%): ₮201,021,118,144.75
Government Pensions (4.5%): ₮301,531,377,217.12
Healthcare (14.0%): ₮938,098,551,342.16
Law and order (3.5%): ₮234,524,637,835.54
Science and Technology (8.0%): ₮536,056,315,052.67
Social Security (18.5%): ₮1,239,630,228,559.29
Transportation (3.0%): ₮201,021,118,144.75
Welfare (8.0%): ₮536,056,315,052.67
Surplus money (2.0%): ₮134,014,078,733.17

Money available for space exploration: ₮42,884,505,204.21

Military:

Numbers are tentative and subject to update.

Minimum military age: 20 years
Percentage of total population in the Monavian military: 1.6537%
Manpower fit for service: 318,543,100 citizens

Spending:

Percent of government budget spent on defense: 12.0%
Military expenditures: ₮804,084,472,579.00
Expenditures in USD: $1,114,686,222,646.82
Amount spent per individual service member: ₮105,257.40
Amount spent in USD: $145,916.24

Breakdown of Service Branches:

Monavian Imperial Army:
Active: 1,175,232
Reserve: 1,175,232

Monavian Imperial Navy:
Active: 650,000
Reserve: 800,000

Monavian Imperial Air Forces:
Active: 500,000
Reserve: 650,000

Imperial Marine Corps:
Active: 881,424
Reserve: 587,616

Monavian Coast Guard:
Active: 7,500
Reserve: 12,500

Monavian Federal Militia: 1,175,232 (included in reserves)

Royal Guard: 24,484

Total active members in service: 3,238,640
Total reserve members in service: 4,400,580

Total members in service: 7,639,220

Organization:

Squad: 10
Platoon: 44*
Company: 224*
Battalion**
Regiment**
Brigade**
Division**
Corps**
Field Army**

*Includes command units
**Numbers undetermined

Defensive Conditions and Deployment Levels:

DEFCON 8: Peacetime; minimum mobilization; no tensions among neighbors
DEFCON 7: Peacetime; slightly increased mobilization; possible tensions developing
DEFCON 6: Peacetime; elevated mobilization; tensions between Monavia and other countries
DEFCON 5: Peacetime; high mobilization; risk of war, open threats of hostility
DEFCON 4: Wartime; full mobilization; conventional weapons in use
DEFCON 3: Wartime; complete mobilization of conventional weapons and partial mobilization of the CRBNE arsenal
DEFCON 2: Major war; possible invasion of Monavian soil; CRBNE weapons completely mobilized
DEFCON 1: Major war with possibility of CRBNE weapon exchange; invasion of Monavian soil
DEFCON 0: Open CRBNE weapon exchange; occupation of Monavian soil by hostile forces

Terrorism Alert System:

Blue: Negligible risk of terrorist attack
Aquamarine: Slight risk of terrorist attack
Green: Low risk of terrorist attack
Yellow: Moderate risk of terrorist attack
Goldenrod: Elevated risk of terrorist attack
Orange: High risk of terrorist attack
Red: Severe risk of terrorist attack
Burgundy: Critical risk of terrorist attack

International Relations:

Embassy Thread (New forum): viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10102
Delian League Forum (current): http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Delian_League/index/
Nova Regional Forum: http://z11.invisionfree.invalid.com/Free_World_Alliance
Fegosian Union Forum: http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Fegosian_Union/index/

Major Treaties:

ALL ENTRIES BELOW ARE LINKS TO THE TREATIES

Monavia-Lamoni Friendship Treaty
LEX SALISBRUGIS REGNUM XXVII
Charter of the Delian League
Charter of the Fegosian Union
The Treaty of Chalcedon
Charter of the Bacterial Oil Cartel (NOT YET RATIFIED)
The Zevkhay Amendment

Diplomacy:

Nations with neutral diplomatic status:

The National Monarchist Empire of Neo-Ixania
The Holy Empire of Zaheran
The People's Nation of Alfegos
The People's Republic of Mokastana
The Greater Economic Union of New Manth
The Yuletide Realm of Kirav
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
The Empire of Mephras
The Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
The Principality of Damirez
The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
The Republic of Ruccola
The Principality of Kurona
The Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka
The Communist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
The United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
The Protectorate of Starblaydia
Skyland Mt (defunct)
The Celestial Empire of Zongguo
The Republic of Novus Prosperitas (defunct)
The Republic of Zinaire
The Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
The Allied States of New Kereptica
The United Kingdom of Telvira
The Republic of Madrid Espana (OOC CONTACT ONLY)
The Armed Republic of Nachmere
The United States of Pennsylvania
The Republic of Mourro

Nations with diplomatic alliances:

The Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
The Yuletide Realm of Kirav

Delian League:

The Principality of Damirez (founder)
The United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag*
The Empire of Mephras
The Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
The Greater Economic Union of New Manth
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka

*Fegosian Union member

Fegosian Union:

The Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder)
The Peoples Republic of Mokastana
The Holy Empire of Zaheran
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy
The Kingdom of Blainesville
The Glorious Republic of Beiraq

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts or agreements:

Under Delian League Charter or related agreements:

The Principality of Damirez (founder)
The United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag*
The Empire of Mephras
The Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
The Greater Economic Union of New Manth
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka

Under Fegosian Union Charter or similar agreements:

The Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder)
The Peoples Republic of Mokastana
The Holy Empire of Zaheran
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag

Nations with no trade agreements:

The Principality of Kurona
The Communist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
The United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
The Protectorate of Starblaydia
The Republic of Novus Prosperitas
The Republic of Zinaire
The Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
The Allied States of New Kereptica
The United Kingdom of Telvira
The Republic of Madrid Espana (OOC CONTACT ONLY)
The Armed Republic of Nachmere
The Republic of Ruccola
The United States of Pennsylvania
The Republic of Mourro
The Empire of Ralkovia

Nations embargoed:

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy
The Federation of Brewdonia
The Kingdom of Blainesville
The Glorious Republic of Beiraq

Military Relations:

Allied nations:

Nova Coalition

The Principality of Damirez
The United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
The Empire of Mephras
The Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
The Greater Economic Union of New Manth
The Free Republic of Lamoni
The Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka
The Peoples Nation of Alfegos
The Peoples Republic of Mokastana
The Holy Empire of Zaheran
The Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
The Protectorate of Lyras
The Yuletide Realm of Kirav
The Federal Republic of Leistung
The Armed Republic of Salzland
The Imperial Federated States of Romandeos

Neutral nations:

The Principality of Kurona
The Communist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
The Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
The Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
The Theocracy of Caronis
The Principality of Northern Rangeria
The National Congregation of New True Cross
The United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
The Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
The United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
The Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
The Protectorate of Starblaydia
The Republic of Novus Prosperitas
The Republic of Zinaire
The Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
The Allied States of New Kereptica
The United Kingdom of Telvira
The Republic of Madrid Espana (OOC CONTACT ONLY)
The Armed Republic of Nachmere
The Republic of Ruccola
The United States of Pennsylvania
The Republic of Mourro
The Federation of Brewdonia (armistice)
The Empire of Ralkovia

Hostile nations:

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy
The Kingdom of Blainesville
The Glorious Republic of Beiraq

Ambassadors:

Ambassador to the Free Republic of Lamoni: Eleanor Shanks
Ambassador to the Principality of Northern Rangeria: Charles Longstreet
Ambassador to the National Congregation of New True Cross: Robert Moore
Ambassador to the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire: Ronald Greenburg
Ambassador to the Enlightened Royalist Empire of Neo-Ixania: Herbert Sullivan
Ambassador to the Principality of Kurona: Catherine Bates
Ambassador to the Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi: Aaron Kraft
Ambassador to United Socialist States of New Brittonia: George Gresham
Ambassador to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: Dmitry Ivanov
Ambassador to the People's Republic of Mokastana: Laura C. Cook
Ambassador to the Peoples Nation of Alfegos: Dr. Sarah Carver

Immigration, Travel, and Customs Restrictions:

Violet: Travelers are permitted entry into the Monavian Empire and departure from the same with relatively few restrictions. Travelers need only a valid passport or visa and a secondary form of identification. A passport or visa is valid if it contains a clear photograph of the individual possessing the document and an official seal by the issuing authority.

Blue: The above restrictions, in addition to the following: the individual will be subject to X-ray search of their baggage and their person.

Green: In addition to the above restriction, individuals which are found possessing suspicious, but otherwise legal articles on their person or in their luggage bay be subject to a brief questioning by security officers.

Yellow: Individuals will have to satisfy the above requirements, and shall not be permitted to stay in Monavian territory for more than thirty days without a signed letter of permission from their embassy. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning.

Orange: Individuals in this category are subject to the above and are not permitted in Monavian territory for more than ten days. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning. They may also be restricted to their embassy.

Red: Individuals in this category are not permitted on Monavian soil. Should such an individual be discovered, they will be detained immediately for questioning and if necessary, sent back to their home country. Individuals in this category are usually considered persona non grata and may be subject to deportation.

Miscellaneous:

Classified information:

Information contained within this section is considered secret in character (SIC) in the capacity that news of these laws and changes to them are not broadcast worldwide to avoid international disputes. Within Monavia, they are on the books and publicly cited in court decisions and are well known among the Empire's own citizens.

The following are expressly prohibited by the laws of the Monavian Empire, and individuals connected to the following activities may be subject to prosecution.

Nazism (considered excessively radical and dangerous to political stability, in addition to promoting genocidal policies and anti-Semitism)
Militant Communism (considered excessively radical and dangerous to political stability, promotes and advocates revolution and sedition, runs contrary to the legal right of citizens to hold private property)
Devil worship (worshipping evil itself runs contrary to the fundamental principles of morality and common sense)
Neo-paganism (advocates many practices that are currently illegal)
Abortion (considered contrary to the natural principle that a species needs to have offspring in order to propagate and continue existing, in addition to various ethical prohibitions against it)
Public displays of homosexuality (considered profane and immoral by the public, also considered disgusting by a majority of the population)

Restricted parties named hereafter are subject to certain restrictions of their constitutional liberties in emergency circumstances, and may be subject to certain peacetime restrictions at government discretion.

Members of communist parties
Members of fascist parties
Members of cults
Suspected practitioners of organized crime

INFORMATION IN THIS FACTBOOK IS SUBJECT TO REVISION AT THE POSTER’S DISCRETION

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:55 pm

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2011 EDITION

INDEX:

Overview
Demographics
Geography
Government
Economy
Military
International Relations
Miscellaneous

Overview:

Name (conventional long form): The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire
Name (short forms): The Monavian Empire; Empire of Monavia; Monavia
Date of founding: June 14, AD 718
Motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo (Monavia is the New World Order)
National animal: golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

http://marciabonta.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/golden-eagle-portrait.jpg

National flower: iris (genus Iris)

http://www.ancientrootsresearch.com/Hap-I/Chivalry-iris.jpg

National flag design adopted: 1764

Demographics:

General demographic statistics:

Population: 468,588,356
Population growth rate: 1.4378%
Fertility rate: 2.8436 per woman (2.09 considered neutral level)
Birth rate per 1,000 people: 19.294
Mortality rate per 1,000 people: 5.600
Natural rate of population increase: 13.694 per 1,000 people (1.3694%)
Immigration (2010): 366,300 (estimated)
Immigration rate: 0.07929%
Emigration (2010): 50,300 (estimated)
Emigration rate: 0.01089%
Net migration: 316,000 (estimated)
Net migration rate: 0.0684%

Population density per square kilometer: 43.0331 (land area only)

Life expectancy: 83 years, 307 days (average)
Men: 82 years, 344 days
Women: 85 years, 178 days
Median age: 40 years, 107 days

HDI: 0.983
Literacy rate: 98.83%
Enrollment ratio: 0.97

Religion (number of adherents):

Orthodox Christianity: 254,372,448
Roman Catholicism (both rites): 95,995,923
Anglicanism: 25,028,871
Sunni Islam: 20,394,062
Baptist: 17,734,055
Lutheranism: 12,972,198
Methodism: 7,599,329
Buddhism: 7,304,200
Shiite Islam: 6,433,750
Pentecostalism: 4,826,479
Judaism: 3,859,385
Adventism: 2,757,058
Hinduism: 2,016,542
Taoism: 1,627,245
Atheism: 1,111,534
Deism: 930,580
Sikhism: 884,345
Bahá’í Faith: 688,162
Mormonism: 680,194
Other/irreligious: 485,324
Unaffiliated Christian: 279,935
Jainism: 169,360
Shinto: 99,670
Church of Scientology: 95,257
Rastafarianism: 81,710
Society of Friends (Quakers): 77,365
Mennonite/Amish faith: 54,647
Zoroastrianism: 28,712

Total: 468,588,340
Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.

Languages:

Main language spoken:

English: 228,858,449
Latin: 76,810,735
Russian: 52,133,823
Greek: 23,057,601
Romanian: 20,359,502
Serbian: 18,631,539
Slovak: 15,262,347
Arabic: 10,888,938
German: 6,765,734
French: 4,809,502
Farsi (Persian): 4,088,596
Hindi: 3,232,100
Chinese: 1,447,393
Hebrew: 385,939
Japanese: 89,703
Fegosian: 72,799
Other: 40,855
Spanish: 38,263
Hungarian: 29,867

Total: 468,588,328
Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.

Official languages: English, Latin, and Russian
Recognized regional languages: Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and German

Geography:

General information:

Region: Nova
Current map of Nova:
Historical maps of Nova: 2009 map; 2008 map; 2007 map
Geographic maps: http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn279/Tomahawk911/CompleteMapVersion12.jpg
Topographic map: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Political map: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Colony of S:t Therese: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa139/trert/Theresianmap3.jpg
Location of S:t Therese relative to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa139/trert/ZaSea.jpg

Total land area: 10,889,011 square kilometers
Total water area: 670,871 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,559,882 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone: 100 nautical miles

The Pirin Mountains, north of Baraolt

The Savan Forest, south of Chalcedon
http://trippersjoint.com/images/2008_09280050.jpg

Molin Forest in late summer

The Cindrel Mountains as viewed from the north
[img]http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/data/504/medium/P6010190_A_feeder_glacier_with_its_mountain_range.jpg[/img

The Lim River near its source
http://www.sportskicentar-novavaros.com/imgs/okruzenje11.jpg

The Tatra Mountains
http://www.ourbc.com/travel_bc/bc_cities/cariboo_chilcotin/photos/tatla_lake/tatla_lake_mountains_01_640.jpg

The Dysna River as it winds between the Apuseni Mountains and the Pirin Mountains

Lake Dusia
http://minnesotalakes.net/LakePages_BWCA/lake_superior6.jpg

Lake Brozno

Major Cities:

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Government:

General information:

Flag (medium version):

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The Great Seal of the Monavian Empire (Full Size):

Government type: Constitutional monarchy, with republican elements
Current government founded: 1732
Capital: Chalcedon
Administrative divisions: Capital District, sixty-three provinces, and one joint colony.
Suffrage: universal for all citizens above twenty years of age (formerly twenty-one until 2011); requires registration; can be suspended

Structure of the national government: Image

Officials of the National Government:

King (by abbreviated style): His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX, by the Grace of God, King of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
Queen (by abbreviated style): Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI, by the Grace of God, Queen of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
Crown Princess (by abbreviated style): Her Imperial and Royal Highness, Catherine IV, by the Grace of God, Heir Apparent, Princess of Monavia, etc.
Chancellor (by full style): His Excellency Richard Hanover II, Chancellor of Monavia and President of the Senate
Speaker of the Representative Assembly: Her Excellency Elena Crocker
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: His Supreme Honor William Franklin
Prime Minister (by full style): The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt, Prime Minister of the Royal Cabinet
Minister of State: The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon
Minister of the Interior: The Right Honorable Milan Alexandrov
Minister of Education: The Right Honorable Francis Mason
Minister of Agriculture: The Right Honorable George Brenner
Minister of Defense: The Right Honorable Carl Blake
Minister of Labor: The Right Honorable Cameron Putlin
Minister of Commerce: The Right Honorable Susan Wright
Minister of the Treasury: The Right Honorable Mark Umble
Minister of Transportation: The Right Honorable Stephan Harrison
Minister of Energy: The Right Honorable Henry Douglass
Minister of Foreign Affairs: The Right Honorable Frank Carter
Minister of National Security: The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore
Minister of Health: The Right Honorable Nancy Wood
Minister of Justice: The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth
Treasurer of the Empire: Her Ladyship Agatha Stockton
Royal Spiritual Advisor: His Grace, Bishop Adam Roland
General Director of the Monavian National Intelligence Administration: James Cheney
Senior Internal Security Director: Leon Chekov

Head of state/government: King and Queen

Notable Personages:

Admiral Samuel Hampton, Commander of the S:t Therese Colonial Expeditionary Fleet
The Honorable Bruce Bates, Monavian Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
International Liaison to the Minister of the Treasury: Lord Basil Cyrus DeLeon
Official Royal Secretary: Richard Jackson

Constitution:

The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by nineteen amendments since then (three were added in 2011). Together, they are the highest laws of the Monavian Empire.

Monarchy:

The imperial monarchy serves as the executive organ of the Monavian government. Its power includes the execution of laws, approving or vetoing the same, representing the country to outside powers, appointing officials, and issuing administrative orders. The broad powers retained by the monarchy have remained almost unchanged over the last 300 years, thus only Parliament and the judiciary are the only other organs of government with the ability to check its power.

The Chancellorship:

The Chancellor of the Monavian Empire is elected by direct popular vote every five years. As the ranking representative of popular interests and public welfare, the Chancellor fulfills the duties of an intermediary between the Monavian people and the monarchy.

In addition to the aforementioned duties, the Chancellor also performs the legislative functions of presiding over the Senate, directing its sessions, and casting all tie-breaking votes.

Parliament:

The legislative organ of the Monavian government is its Parliament, a bicameral body with complete legislative authority. It may pass laws, although they are subject to final approval or rejection by the monarchy, which serves a powerfully defined executive role. Royal appointments, however, are subject to the approval or rejection as chosen by the upper house, called the Senate, and most royal decrees need some form of consent from Parliament to carry the full force of law.

The Senate:

The Senate is the upper house of Parliament, containing two delegate seats for each of the sixty-three provinces of the Empire. It currently has 126 members, serving terms of six years.

President of the Senate: His Excellency Richard Hanover II

Royalist Party: 40 seats
National Republican Party: 37 seats
People's Liberal Democratic Party: 23 seats
Independent Citizen's Party: 17 seats
Capitalist Party: 6 seats
Socialist Union Party: 3 seats

Representative Assembly:

The Representative Assembly is the lower house of Parliament, possessing a number of delegate seats that is apportioned according to the individual population of each province. Each of the 1,155 members serves a term of two years.

Current Speaker: the Honorable Elena Crocker

Royalist Party: 379 seats
National Republican Party: 386 seats
People's Liberal Democratic Party: 239 seats
Independent Citizen's Party: 89 seats
Capitalist Party: 40 seats
Socialist Union Party: 22 seats

The Federal Judiciary:

The Supreme Court:

The highest court in the Monavian Empire is the Supreme Court. This tribunal has the final authority on all matters pertaining to the interpretation of laws, and may, at any time, call the legitimacy or constitutionality of any law into question. The court’s rulings are final, unless it reverses its decision at a later time. Should the court find any decision of either Parliament or the monarchy to be unconstitutional, it has the authority to declare the actions in question illegal.

The Nine High Courts of Appeals:

The sixty-three provinces of the Monavian Empire are grouped into nine districts, each containing seven provinces. Each district contains a High Court of Appeals, which handles decisions appealed from the Lower Courts of Appeals.

Lower Courts of Appeals:

Under each of the Nine High Courts of Appeals is seven Lower Courts of Appeals. Each Lower Court has jurisdiction over one province, and handles decisions appealed from Federal Precinct Courts.

Federal Precinct Courts:

Each province of the Monavian Empire is divided into a series of precincts, typically consisting of several counties. Each precinct contains one of these courts, which has original jurisdiction over the majority of federal cases.

Ministries and Independent Agencies:

Ministry of State:

The Minister of State controls all aspects of relations between the provinces and the federal government. In addition, the Minister of State awards all lands and titles on behalf of the monarchy and Parliament. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon.

Ministry of the Treasury:

Tasked with overseeing the national treasury, carrying out government audits of gold reserves and depositories, serving as the financial advisor to Parliament and the monarchy, and collecting revenue, the Minister of the Treasury wields considerable power over government finance. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Catherine Whitman.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

The Minister of Foreign Affairs handles all diplomatic correspondence between governments, schedules summits on behalf of the Monarchy, and attends diplomatic meetings and negotiations. The Minister will generally be present to sign treaties that have been ratified by the Senate. In addition to the previously mentioned duties, the Minister will also nominate people to serve as ambassadors and consuls, subject to selection or rejection by the monarchy, and confirmation by the Senate. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Frank Carter.

Ministry of Defense:

Duties entrusted to the Minister of Defense include procurement of funding, equipment, and weaponry, civilian regulation of the armed forces, reporting developments to Parliament, advising the monarchy on matters of military strategy, and serving as an intermediary between the monarchy and the High Command. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Carl Blake.

Ministry of Justice:

Federal investigations of crimes prosecution of criminals captured by the MNIA, Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie, Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation (FBCR), and Secret Police and pursuits of criminals wanted by the Fegosian Union Police Force fall under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Justice. Furthermore, the Ministry carries out investigations of other government organs and conducts official inquiries. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth.

Ministry of Commerce:

This ministry is charged with implementing and enforcing commerce laws, appoints tariff collectors, and administers the Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation. In addition, the Ministry conducts economic studies and advises the monarchy on matters of economic policy. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Susan Wright.

Ministry of Energy:

This ministry administers all government electricity reserves, enforces laws regarding power generation, advises the monarchy on matters of energy policy, conducts searches for natural resources which may be used to generate electricity, and conducts research and studies on improving energy technology and security. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Henry Douglass.

Ministry of Health:

Matters of public health and sanitation are handled by this ministry. It also enforces all federal health codes and carries out disease research, stockpiling of medicines and vaccines, distribution of supplies and equipment in relief efforts following wars and disasters, and engineers cures for diseases used as biological weapons. It also serves as the main regulatory body for hospitals and clinics in the Capital District. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Nancy Wood.

Ministry of the Interior:

This ministry manages all federal land and conducts surveys of international and provincial boundaries. It also enforces laws against poaching, environmental protections, and oversees production of raw materials by a handful of businesses owned by the government. The administration of wildlife refuges and federally-owned parks is carried out by the Ministry. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Alfred Whipple.

Ministry of National Security:

National security matters are handled by this ministry, including operation of the Terrorism Alert System and the collection of intelligence. The MNIA (Monavian National Intelligence Administration) answers to the Minister of National Security. In addition, the ministry directs border security measures, carries out border inspections with the assistance of local police and the armed forces, and monitors security of ports. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Andrew Livermore.

Ministry of Transportation:

This ministry operates the federal postal service, administers federal highway and rail networks, and ensures that domestic travel runs smoothly. In addition, it advises the monarchy and Parliament on matters of transportation infrastructure policy and safety standards. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Stephan Harrison.

Ministry of Agriculture:

This ministry provides the monarchy and Parliament with advice on setting food and drug safety standards, tariffs on food imports, and standards for pesticide and herbicide use. The current Minister is the Right Honorable George Brenner.

Ministry of Education:

The Ministry of Education is tasked with raising revenue (through requests from Parliament and the Treasury) for the construction and operation of schools in the Capital district and setting all educational standards for students residing therein. The ministry also conducts studies on institutions throughout the country and publishes articles and reports for the benefit of the Empire’s citizens. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Francis Mason.

Ministry of Labor:

This ministry is tasked with determining the wages and benefits of government employees, as well as advising the monarchy and Parliament on matters of labor safety, ethics, and other related policy. The current Minister is the Right Honorable Mary Ashford.

Monavian National Intelligence Administration:

The MNIA serves as the central government intelligence service of the Monavian Empire. The current General Director is James Cheney.

How the MNIA is organized: See Miscellany post.

Seal:

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Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie:

Serving as a federal police agency, the RBG investigates all federal crimes falling under its jurisdiction. Its agents are responsible for apprehending criminals who have fled across provincial boundaries or across the borders.

Secret Police:

Of all of the federal law enforcement agencies, the Secret Police is the smallest by far. Officers are recruited to do a variety of tasks, mostly under-the-table investigations that cannot be conducted in the open. Its clandestine operations include regulation and policing of various organs of the Ministry of Justice (the Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation, gendarmerie, etc.); apprehension of criminals wanted by the Fegosian Union Police Force; elimination of rogue ex-military or ex-MNIA personnel; collaboration with the MNIA in eliminating enemy spies; and protection of state secrets.

Other Federal Offices:

Treasurer of the Monavian Empire:

The Treasurer of the Monavian Empire is an advisor to the Minister of the Treasury, holding the status of second-in-command. Among the duties of the office, there are those of overseeing large-scale monetary transactions and the national gold depositories. The current Treasurer is Her Ladyship Agatha Stockton.

Office of the Royal Spiritual Advisor:

In order to provide the monarchy with proper counsel on matters of ethics and faith, the Office of the Royal Spiritual Advisor serves the indispensible function of ensuring the moral authority and integrity of their offices. The current Royal Spiritual Advisor is His Grace, Bishop Adam Roland.

Office of the Royal Secretary:

The Royal Secretary is the chief clerical officer of the monarchy, charged with administering management of correspondence, appointing couriers and clerical staff, countersigning documents, and serving various functions at diplomatic conferences. The current Royal Secretary is Richard Jackson.

Political Parties:

Royalist Party:

This traditionalist party is supportive of the monarchy and the interests of the crown and what remains of the nobility. It is composed of social and fiscal conservatives, most of whom favor a strict interpretation of the Constitution, support maintaining most of the rights and liberties therein, and oppose granting additional ones. Royalists are generally capitalistic and believe that the government has little business regulating the economy beyond the need to ensure compliance with the laws, prevent exploitation, fraud, and abuses, keep domestic industries competitive, ensure fair working hours, and otherwise promote a degree of economic stability, although they do favor trade protections in some cases. In addition, most Royalists are nationalist and support the maintaining of formidable armed forces, and usually will support any war where Monavian interests are at stake. They support monarchism, moralistic capitalism, the nobility, the degree of popular voice in government as it stands, an open role for religion within the state, and relatively free trade, while they oppose communism in any form, socialism, totalitarianism, anarchism, fascism, Nazism, and intervention in foreign affairs which do not present any benefit or danger to Monavian and allied interests. Most Royalists are Orthodox Christians, conservative evangelicals, conservative Jews, Mormons, and Roman Catholics.

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National Republican Party:

Those who count themselves among the ranks of the National Republican Party are best characterized as republican parliamentarians who prefer a stronger chancellorship and Parliament and a more limited monarchy. National Republicans support a relatively strict fiscal discipline, yet they are more tolerant of federal spending than the Royalists. In addition they are supportive of a moderately strict constitutional interpretation, and favor maintaining federal power. National Republicans favor a capitalist system with less regulation than what the Royalists propose and view most “moral” regulations of the capitalist system as products of socialism. They favor government subsidies to certain industries to ensure competitiveness but do not oppose outsourcing of employment. National Republicans support military spending and are divided into traditional conservatives who oppose meddling in international affairs and neoconservatives which would rather promote the Monavian way abroad and strike down foreign examples of tyranny, by force if necessary. They support republicanism, popular government in certain instances, protectionist trade, and a somewhat less active role for religion within the state than their Royalist counterparts while opposing socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism, or any other form of planned economics, totalitarianism, anarchism, and most leftist doctrines. Most National Republicans are moderate and right-leaning evangelicals, centrist Roman Catholics, Deists, moderate Jews, Mormons, and Anglicans.

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Peoples Liberal Democratic Party:

This party is composed of those who describe themselves as leftists, especially societal liberals. As a progressive party, they view the crown and nobility as an antiquated relic of the past and seek to diminish its power, while advocating democratic reforms, an elected head of state, and a broader interpretation of the Constitution. Many members are in favor of a more socialist system than the regulated capitalist one in place, as well as increased welfare programs. They favor judicature based upon precedent over formal law in more cases than their rightist counterparts in the Royalist and National Republican Parties. Their economic positions favor a system dominated by progressive taxes, freedom to outsource employment, make global investments, increase welfare programs, and provide the national government with a broader role in controlling internal economic markets and happenings. Increases in market regulation are also a commonly promoted feature of PLDP platforms. Members of this party are usually more tolerant of higher taxes and are fiscally loose on matters of government spending. Most members also support increased social freedoms, preferring that the government regulate markets and not morality. The party’s membership is divided on the issues of economics, as some prefer market socialism or strictly regulated capitalism, while others prefer pure socialism and collectivism, and foreign affairs, as some follow a pacifist ideology and others support collectivist or other planned economic policies, and foreign affairs, as some follow a pacifist ideology while others favor the armed intervention in foreign conflicts by using the Monavian military to destroy tyranny, slavery, black markets, or prejudice wherever they exist. As a party, they support the creation of a Monavian democracy, socialism of one form or another and social liberalism. They oppose rightist doctrines, fiscal restraint, religious influence on government policy, fascism, totalitarianism, monarchism, Nazism, and some forms of anarchism. Their principle constituents are left-leaning and centrist Christians of varying denominations, liberal Muslims, atheists, agnostics, and the irreligious.

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Capitalist Party:

Members of the Capitalist Party are inclined toward economic matters more than social ones. They believe that the preservation of the capitalist system is essential to ensuring the prosperity of the Monavian people and oppose most regulations of the market that have no practical or economic benefit to businesses and their employees. Most support foreign investment, free trade, outsourcing, low taxes, and government subsidies to increase domestic competitiveness. They are mostly neutral on the issue of the monarchy. Capitalists generally oppose any foreign entanglements that are “bad for business” while favoring economic alliances, wars that result in economic gain for the Monavian Empire, and tariff reduction agreements. Most are fiscally conservative, however, some view government spending positively where there is money to be made. Capitalists are divided on social issues between supporting regulation of morality and the role of religion in society and the state. The more religious will support social conservatism, while the more libertarian wing supports social and economic liberalism, preferring that regulation of private matters and business conduct did not exist. Most Capitalists support corporatism or unregulated capitalist systems, any political institution that holds or improves the status quo, and the current government system, while opposing communism, socialism, collectivism, totalitarianism, anarchism, and various forms of fascism and Nazism, depending upon how favorably the regime in question looks upon business interests.

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Independent Citizens Party:

The Independent Citizens Party can best be described as a coalition of citizens who consider themselves political moderates. Fiscal, foreign policy, economic, and social matters are the principle basis for internal divisions within the party and distinctions between groups of members. The status of the monarchy and judiciary are mostly neutral subjects, having little bearing on their positions. The majority of the Independents favor some degree of fiscal restraint, however, this degree is usually minor and there are others who prefer that the government spends it way out of problems. Most prefer lower taxes, although they do not appear to disapprove of current taxation rates. Most are moralistic capitalists, although some are market socialists. As a party, they support cautious actions in foreign affairs, trusting few of their neighbors, yet well aware of the benefits provided by forming new diplomatic ties. They favor no particular form of government, but oppose anarchy, dictatorship, and any autocratic or overly authoritarian system. They are generally capitalist or moderately socialist. It is speculated that the Independent Citizens Party could split among lines of social policy, as some are more or less traditionalist religious capitalists and others are moderately progressive, socially liberal market socialists.

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Socialist Union Party:

By far the most influential and respected socialist party in the Monavian Empire, the Socialist Union Party supports radical constitutional changes, the nationalization of most industries, and a progressive agenda. The party’s membership is divided between democratic socialists, who prefer that reforms be accomplished through democratic means, and autocratic socialists, who prefer that an oligarchy or dictatorship bring about the desired changes. Fiscal policies are not measured in terms of strictness or looseness, but rather in terms of how effectively they can allocate resources. The party is also divided on whether to bring about changes in Monavia alone, or attempt to export its ideas elsewhere and bring about changes in other countries, effectively creating a nationalist versus internationalist division. Among their progressive policies are desires for welfare expansion, nationalization of most businesses, especially industries and agriculture, government control of all education, and an increase in social freedoms to maintain morale in an environment where the incentive to produce is less pronounced. They favor providing any social freedom that does not interfere with the ability to produce or create economic growth. Most view foreign entanglements as detrimental to their ability to carry out internal developments because resources are committed to causes abroad. Socialists support any number of Marxist economic systems, expansion of control by the national government over internal matters, and bureaucratic approaches toward private matters in certain spheres. They oppose capitalism of any kind, religious conservatism, the monarchy and nobility, business interests, anarchism, classical liberalism, fascism, Nazism, and corporatism.

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Economy:

General economic statistics:

Economic model: Regulated capitalism, with some public institutions owned by the government.
Currency: Monavian Thaler (₮)

Exchange rate: 1 Monavian Thaler = 1.372694456 USD ($)
Exchange rate formula: Final Rate = Initial Rate • (1 − Inflation Rate)
Inflation rate: 0.98%

Per capita income (Thalers): ₮37,423.85
Per capita income (universal standard dollars): $51,371.51
GDP (in Monavian Thalers): ₮17,536,380,084,281.12
GDP (in universal standard dollars): $24,072,091,720,001.51
Unemployment rate: To be determined
Population unemployed: To be determined
Population below poverty line: To be determined

Energy:

Electrical power generation:
Nuclear: 41%
Hydroelectric: 35%
Wind: 14%
Natural Gas: 6%
Oil: 4%
Solar: 2%

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Infrastructure:

Transportation:

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Trade:

Major exports: Wheat, corn, beef, petroleum, steel, iron ore, uranium, palladium, silver, chemicals, surgical equipment, medicines, temperate lumber, paper products.

Minor exports: Petrochemicals, industrial machinery, farm machinery, firearms, ammunition, diamonds, granite, marble.

Major imports: Osmiridium, pharmaceuticals, tropical fruits, tropical lumber.

Minor imports: Phosphates, refined gasoline, gold metal, tungsten, titanium, fish.

Balance of trade: To be determined

Taxation and revenue:

Taxes:

Income tax rate (include all personal income, gifts, money that is inherited, etc.): 25%
Corporate income tax rate: 12.5%
Federal value added sales tax rate: 2.0%
Fuel tax rate: ₮0.50 per gallon
Tariff rate: 2.5%

Government Income:

This is a list of sources of government revenue.

Percent of Government Budget from Income Tax: 45%
Percent from Corporate Income Tax: 20%
Percent from Tariffs: 10%
Percent from Federal Value Added Sales Tax: 10%
Percent from other taxes: 7%
Percent from fuel tax: 4%
Percent from sin taxes: 3%

Government budget (25% of GDP, in Monavian thalers): ₮4,384,095,021,070.28
Government budget (25% of GDP, in international dollars): $6,018,022,930,000.38

Administration for the Welfare of Veterans (1.5%): ₮65,761,425,316.05
Delian League Treasury Administration (6.0%): ₮263,045,701,264.22
Executive department (the monarchy) (0.2%): ₮8,768,190,042.14
Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation (0.15%): ₮6,576,142,531.61
Federal court system (0.2%): ₮8,768,190,042.14
Federal Pension Administration (4.5%): ₮197,284,275,948.16
Fegosian Union Treasury (1.85%): ₮81,105,757,889.80
Government Emergency Fund (2.0%): ₮87,681,900,421.41
General government administration expenditures (1.0%): ₮43,840,950,210.70
Ministry of Agriculture (0.7%): ₮30,688,665,147.49
Ministry of Commerce (0.5%): ₮21,920,475,105.35
Ministry of Defense (19.5%): ₮854,898,529,108.70
Ministry of Education (2.5%): ₮109,602,375,526.76
Ministry of Energy (1.5%): ₮65,761,425,316.05
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2.0%): ₮87,681,900,421.41
Ministry of Health (14.5%): ₮635,693,778,055.19
Ministry of the Interior (0.45%): ₮19,728,427,594.82
Ministry of Justice (0.9%): ₮39,456,855,189.63
Ministry of Labor (0.45%): ₮19,728,427,594.82
Ministry of National Security (2.0%): ₮87,681,900,421.41
Ministry of State (0.15%): ₮6,576,142,531.61
Ministry of Transportation (3.0%): ₮131,522,850,632.11
Ministry of the Treasury (0.6%): ₮26,304,570,126.42
Miscellaneous departments and agencies (2.5%): ₮109,602,375,526.76
Monavian Aerospace Exploratory Administration (1.0%): ₮43,840,950,210.70
Monavian National Intelligence Administration (0.5%): ₮21,920,475,105.35
Monavian Science Administration (1.0%): ₮43,840,950,210.70
Parliament (0.2%): ₮8,768,190,042.14
Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie (0.15%): ₮6,576,142,531.61
Social security (15.0%): ₮657,614,253,160.54
Surplus funds (2.0%): ₮87,681,900,421.41
Welfare (9.5%): ₮416,489,027,001.68

Military:

Minimum age of enlistment: 19 years
Percentage of total population in the Monavian military: To be determined
Manpower fit for service (defined as individuals between the ages of seventeen and fifty and in good health): estimated at 159,320,000

Spending:

Military expenditures: ₮854,898,529,108.70 (19.5% of total government budget)
Expenditures in international dollars: $1,173,514,471,350.07
Amount spent per individual service member: ₮ To be determined
Amount spent in international dollars: $ To be determined

Defensive Conditions and Deployment Levels:

DEFCON 8: Peacetime; minimum mobilization; no tensions among neighbors
DEFCON 7: Peacetime; slightly increased mobilization; possible tensions developing
DEFCON 6: Peacetime; elevated mobilization; tensions between Monavia and other countries
DEFCON 5: Peacetime; high mobilization; risk of war, open threats of hostility
DEFCON 4: Wartime; full mobilization; conventional weapons in use
DEFCON 3: Wartime; complete mobilization of conventional weapons and partial mobilization of the CRBNE arsenal
DEFCON 2: Major war; possible invasion of Monavian soil; CRBNE weapons completely mobilized
DEFCON 1: Major war with possibility of CRBNE weapon exchange; invasion of Monavian soil
DEFCON 0: Open CRBNE weapon exchange; occupation of Monavian soil by hostile forces

Terrorism Alert System:

Blue: Negligible risk of terrorist attack
Aquamarine: Slight risk of terrorist attack
Green: Low risk of terrorist attack
Yellow: Moderate risk of terrorist attack
Goldenrod: Elevated risk of terrorist attack
Orange: High risk of terrorist attack
Red: Severe risk of terrorist attack
Burgundy: Critical risk of terrorist attack

International Relations:

Embassy Thread (New forum): viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10102
Delian League Forum (current): http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Delian_League/index/
Nova Regional Forum: http://z11.invisionfree.invalid.com/Free_World_Alliance
Fegosian Union Forum: http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Fegosian_Union/index/

Major alliances:

Bilateral pact with the Free Republic of Lamoni
Bilateral pact with the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct)
Delian League
Fegosian Union

Major Treaties:

This link leads to an index of the treaties.

Political Relations:

Nations with diplomatic alliances:

Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav

Delian League:

Principality of Damirez (founder)
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag*
Empire of Mephras
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
Greater Economic Union of New Manth
Free Republic of Lamoni†
Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania

*Fegosian Union member
†Special bilateral treaty

Fegosian Union:

Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder)
Peoples Republic of Mokastana
Holy Empire of Zaheran
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
Kingdom of Krommindy

Nations with amicable relations:

Republic of Ruccola
Principality of Kurona
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov

Nations with neutral diplomatic status:

Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Skyland Mt (defunct)
Celestial Empire of Zongguo
Republic of Novus Prosperitas (defunct)
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Mourro
San Alto

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts or agreements:

Under Delian League Charter or related agreements:

Principality of Damirez (founder)
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag*
Empire of Mephras
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
Greater Economic Union of New Manth
Free Republic of Lamoni
Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania

Under Fegosian Union Charter or similar agreements:

Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder)
Peoples Republic of Mokastana
Holy Empire of Zaheran
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
Kingdom of Krommindy

Nations with no trade agreements:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Empire of Ralkovia
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto

Nations embargoed:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Military Relations:

Allied nations:

Nova Coalition (unofficially defunct)

Principality of Damirez
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
Empire of Mephras
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog
Greater Economic Union of New Manth
Free Republic of Lamoni
Fortress State of Animarnia
Tribal Dominion of Veteka
Peoples Nation of Alfegos
Peoples Republic of Mokastana
Holy Empire of Zaheran
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag
Protectorate of Lyras
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav
Federal Republic of Leistung
Armed Republic of Salzland
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos

Neutral nations:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Federation of Brewdonia (armistice)
Empire of Ralkovia
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto

Hostile nations:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Ambassadors:

Ambassador to the Free Republic of Lamoni: Eleanor Shanks
Ambassador to the Principality of Northern Rangeria: Charles Longstreet
Ambassador to the National Congregation of New True Cross: Robert Moore
Ambassador to the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire: Ronald Greenburg
Ambassador to the Enlightened Royalist Empire of Neo-Ixania: Herbert Sullivan
Ambassador to the Principality of Kurona: Catherine Bates
Ambassador to the Communist Dominion of Stoklomolvi: Aaron Kraft
Ambassador to United Socialist States of New Brittonia: George Gresham
Ambassador to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: Dmitry Ivanov
Ambassador to the People's Republic of Mokastana: Laura C. Cook
Ambassador to the Peoples Nation of Alfegos: Dr. Sarah Carver

Immigration, Travel, and Customs Restrictions:

Violet status: Travelers are permitted entry into the Monavian Empire and departure from the same with relatively few restrictions. Travelers need only a valid passport or visa and a secondary form of identification to enter or leave Monavian territorial borders. A passport or visa is valid if it contains a clear photograph of the individual possessing the document and an official seal by the issuing authority. A metal detector search is usually conducted at points of entry.

Blue status: In addition to the above restrictions, individuals will be subject to X-ray searchs of their baggage.

Green status: In addition to the above restriction, which are found to arouse any suspicions may be subject to searches of their persons by non-intrusive means. Those found to be possessing suspicious, but otherwise legal articles on their person or in their luggage may be subject to a brief questioning by security officers.

Yellow status: Individuals are subject to the same security requirements as green status individuals and shall not be permitted to stay in Monavian territory for more than thirty days without a signed letter of permission from their embassy. Should they be in violation of the above or any security procedures, they may be detained pending a formal questioning.

Orange status: Individuals in this category are subject to the same security requirements (ingress and egress) as yellow status individuals and are not permitted in Monavian territory for more than ten days. Violators of the above restrictions or any security procedures may be detained pending a formal questioning. They may also be restricted to their embassy.

Red status: Individuals in this category are not permitted on Monavian soil. If caught, violators will be detained immediately for questioning, and if necessary sent back to their home country. Individuals in this category are usually considered personae non grata and may be subject to deportation pending judicial proceedings.

Black status: Black status individuals fall into any of five categories (fugitives entering Monavia to escape justice; prisoners being brought into Monavia; individuals wanted by the FUCC, FUPF, RBG, MNIA, FBCR, or any other domestic law enforcement agency; hostile foreign aliens; and hostile foreign intelligence operatives). These people are subject to immediate arrest and detainment, followed by appropriate legal action, prosecution, judicial proceedings, extradition, imprisonment, or expulsion as dictated by the particulars of each situation involving such individuals.

Miscellaneous:

List of Monarchs:

List of Monavian Kings:

The House of Claudianus-Julianus (718—944)

718—739 Claudius I
739—757 Claudius II
757—791 Constantine I
791—822 Basil I
822—838 Basil II
838—863 Basil III
863—885 Constantine II
885—901 Justin I
901—929 Justin II
929—944 Tiberius I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (947—1190)

947—981 Stefan I
981—997 Stefan II
997—1016 Charles I
1016—1040 Alexander I
1040—1077 Alexander II
1077—1098 Stefan III
1098—1123 Charles II
1123—1156 Stefan IV
1156—1190 Alexander III

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Ivan I
1223—1241 Peter I
1241—1260 Ivan II
1260—1284 Ivan III
1284—1302 Alexander IV
1302—1337 Charles III
1337—1354 Constantine III
1354—1368 Constantine IV
1368—1391 Nicholas I
1391—1429 Ivan IV
1429—1458 Stefan V
1458—1461 Nicholas II

1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper

1469—1491 Nicholas II (restored)
1491—1513 Peter II

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Petrović (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Constantine V
1547—1567 Harold I
1567—1598 Constantine VI
1598—1615 Peter III
1615—1635 Peter IV
1635—1651 Harold II
1651—1679 Harold III
1679—1694 Charles IV
1694—1717 Charles V
1717—1745 Constantine VII
1745—1772 Peter IV
1772—1799 Ivan V
1799—1813 Nicholas III
1813—1834 Alexander V
1834—1853 Stefan VI
1853—1871 Stefan VII
1871—1889 Peter V
1889—1901 Nicholas IV
1901—1919 Charles VI
1919—1946 Charles VII
1946—1981 Charles VIII
1981—Present Charles IX

List of Monavian Queens:

The House of Claudianus-Julianus (718—944)

718—739 Juliana I
739—757 Helena I
757—791 Sophia I
791—822 Eudocia I
822—838 Helena II
838—863 Eudocia II
863—885 Sophia II
885—901 Irene I
901—929 Juliana II
929—944 Verina I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (947—1190)

947—981Maria I
981—997 Xenia I
997—1016 Verina II
1016—1040 Sophia III
1040—1077 Irene II
1077—1098 Xenia II
1098—1123 Maria II
1123—1156 Anna I
1156—1190 Slavna I

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Anna II
1223—1241 Slavna II
1241—1260 Sophia IV
1260—1284 Maria III
1284—1302 Alexandra I
1302—1337 Helena I
1337—1354 Xenia III
1354—1368 Theodosia I
1368—1391 Alexandra II
1391—1429 Irene III
1429—1458 Slavna III
1458—1461 Helena II

1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper

1469—1491 Anastasia I
1491—1513 Elizabeth I

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Petrović (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Helena III
1547—1567 Elizabeth II
1567—1598 Catherine I
1598—1615 Alexandra III
1615—1635 Catherine II
1635—1651 Anna III
1651—1679 Elizabeth III
1679—1694 Alexandra IV
1694—1717 Sophia V
1717—1745 Sophia VI
1745—1772 Elizabeth IV
1772—1799 Catherine III
1799—1813 Margaret I
1813—1834 Helena IV
1834—1853 Elizabeth V
1853—1871 Catherine IV
1871—1889 Theodosia II
1889—1901 Xenia IV
1901—1919 Anna III
1919—1946 Irene IV
1946—1981 Margaret II
1981—Present Elizabeth VI

INFORMATION IN THIS FACTBOOK IS SUBJECT TO REVISION AT THE POSTER’S DISCRETION

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:57 pm

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2012 EDITION

INDEX:

Overview
Demographics
Geography
Government
Economy
Infrastructure
Military
International Relations
Miscellaneous

Overview:

The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire (Latin: Imperialem Foederationem Monavian Imperii, Russian Cyrillic: Императорский Федерации Монавиан Империи, Greek: Αυτοκρατορικό Ομοσπονδία της Μοναβια Αυτοκρατορία, German: Reichsverband des mähnichen Reiches) is a sovereign state located to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn in the northwestern portion of Nova. The Monavian Empire has existed for 1,294 years, attained an approximate territorial area of 10,899,000 square kilometers, possesses some 478,970,000 citizens in its population, and its gross domestic product (GDP) is approximately ₮16,941,000,000,000 (Int$23,254,000,000,000).

Name (conventional long form): The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire
Name (short forms): The Monavian Empire; Empire of Monavia; Monavia
Date of founding: June 14, AD 718
Motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo (Monavia is the New World Order)
National flag design adopted: 1764

Flag (medium version):

http://s1135.photobucket.com/albums/m631/Monavia/FullSizeVersion.png

The Great Seal of the Monavian Empire (Full Size):

National animal: golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

National flower: iris (genus Iris)

http://www.evergreennurseryinc.net/images/plants/iris-hello-darkness.jpg

Demographics:

General demographic statistics:

Population: 478,967,689
Population growth rate: 2.2150%
Fertility rate: 2.7750 per woman (2.09 considered neutral level)
Birth rate per 1,000 people: 20.4963
Mortality (deaths per 1,000 persons per year): 8.1700
Natural rate of population increase: 12.3263 per 1,000 people (1.23263%)
Immigration (2011): 5,113,705
Immigration rate per 1,000 persons: 10.9130 (1.09130%)
Emigration (2011): 510,293
Emigration rate per 1,000 persons: 1.0890 (0.10890%)
Net migration: 4,603,412
Net migration rate per 1,000 persons: 9.8240 (0.98240%)
Population density per square kilometer:

Human Development Index (HDI) score: 0.8910
• Life expectancy: 70.102 years
Men: 68.05 years
Women: 72.05 years
Median age: 39.88 years
• Literacy rate: 98.012%
• School enrollment rate: 98.891%

Religion (number of adherents):

Orthodox Christianity: 260,006,798
Roman Catholicism (both rites): 98,122,233
Anglicanism: 25,583,260
Sunni Islam: 20,845,790
Baptist: 18,126,864
Lutheranism: 13,259,532
Methodism: 7,767,654
Buddhism: 7,465,988
Shi’a Islam: 6,576,258
Pentecostalism: 4,933,386
Judaism: 3,944,870
Adventism: 2,818,127
Hinduism: 2,061,208
Taoism: 1,663,288
Atheism: 1,136,154
Deism: 951,192
Sikhism: 903,993
Bahá’í Faith: 703,405
Mormonism: 695,260
Other/irreligious: 496,704
Unaffiliated Christian: 286,136
Jainism: 173,111
Shinto: 101,878
Church of Scientology: 97,367
Rastafarianism: 83,520
Society of Friends (Quakers): 79,079
Mennonite/Amish faith: 55,857
Zoroastrianism: 29,348

Total: 478,967,572 (Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.)

Languages:

Official languages: English, Latin, and Russian
Recognized regional languages: Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and German

Main language spoken:

English: 233,927,664
Latin: 78,512,093
Russian: 53,288,587
Greek: 23,568,327
Romanian: 20,810,465
Serbian: 19,044,228
Slovak: 15,600,408
Arabic: 11,130,128
German: 6,915,595
French: 4,916,032
Farsi (Persian): 4,588,018
Hindi: 3,303,691
Chinese: 1,479,453
Hebrew: 803,348
Yiddish: 253,689
Japanese: 193,905
Fegosian: 74,411
Other: 41,760
Spanish: 39,111
Hungarian: 30,529

Total: 478,521,441 (Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.)

Geography:

General information:

Region: Nova
Current map of Nova: http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1385/novanew10.png
Historical maps of Nova: 2009 map; 2008 map; 2007 map
Physical-political map: Image
Topographic map: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Political map: Image
Colony of S:t Therese: Image
Location of S:t Therese relative to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: Image

Total land area: 10,889,011 square kilometers
Total water area: 670,871 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,559,882 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone: 100 nautical miles

The Pirin Mountains, north of Baraolt

The Savan Forest, south of Chalcedon
http://trippersjoint.com/images/2008_09280050.jpg

Molin Forest in late summer

The Cindrel Mountains as viewed from the north

The Lim River near its source
http://www.sportskicentar-novavaros.com/imgs/okruzenje11.jpg

The Tatra Mountains
http://www.ourbc.com/travel_bc/bc_cities/cariboo_chilcotin/photos/tatla_lake/tatla_lake_mountains_01_640.jpg

The Dysna River as it winds between the Apuseni Mountains and the Pirin Mountains

Lake Dusia
http://minnesotalakes.net/LakePages_BWCA/lake_superior6.jpg

Lake Brozno

Climate:

The Monavian Empire is located in a region of the southern hemisphere lying to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Its overall climate is temperate, but due to various geographic factors and uneven heating, the climate does not follow normal patterns. Warm water is puched southward past eastern Monavia and Vendia, causing climates on the eastern coasts of those countries to become unusually balmy. In addition, the presence of the Hellanean and Vendian Seas in between the two countries leads to small temperature ranges in coastal locations.

Major Cities:

Adamov, Agrinio, Aldan, Ardino, Arsk, Avrig, Azov, Bakar, Balchik, Baraolt, Belovo, Berane, Brezno, Brovary, Budislav, Chalcedon (capital), Chirpan, Chitila, Christopol, Corinth, Cricova, Derventa, Detva, Dorog, Dulovo, Elista, Gabrovo, Galanta, Giurgiu, Ignalina, Irpin, Kaltan, Kamnik, Karditsa, Kargat, Kashin, Kikinda, Kladno, Kovin, Kubrat, Labin, Labinsk, Lapovo, Larissa, Leova, Levski, Liberec, Loznica, Maribor, Martin, Mioveni, Mostar, Motru, Negotin, Nikolsk, Nikopol, Nova Gorica, Novi Pazar, Novigrad, Novo Mesto, Novosil, Odessa, Opava, Ostrov, Palanga, Pestovo, Petrich, Petrila, Podgorica, Razgrad, Resnik, Siracusa, Slobozia, Snina, Sombor, Sopron, Soroca, Taraclia, Theodosia, Tiraspol, Trieste, Troyan, Utena, Visoko, and Zenica.

Government:

General information:

Government type: Federal constitutional monarchy with republican elements.
Current government founded: 1732
Capital: Chalcedon
Administrative divisions: Capital District, sixty-three provinces, and one joint colony.
Suffrage: universal for all citizens above twenty years of age (formerly twenty-one until 2011); requires registration; can be suspended or revoked.

Structure of the national government:
Image

National Political Leadership:

The Crown:

His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX, by the Grace of God, King of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI, by the Grace of God, Queen of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.

The Imperial Parliament:

His Excellency Richard Hanover II, Chancellor of the Monavian Empire and President of the Senate
Her Excellency Elena Crocker, Speaker of the Representative Assembly

The Supreme Court:

His Supreme Honor William Franklin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Monavian Empire

Cabinet Officials:

The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt, Prime Minister of the Royal Cabinet
The Right Honorable George Brenner, Minister of Agriculture
The Right Honorable Susan Wright, Minister of Commerce
The Right Honorable Carl Blake, Minister of Defense
The Right Honorable Francis Mason, Minister of Education
The Right Honorable Henry Douglass, Minister of Energy
The Right Honorable Frank Carter, Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Right Honorable Nancy Wood, Minister of Health
The Right Honorable Milan Alexandrov, Minister of the Interior
The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth, Minister of Justice
The Right Honorable Cameron Putlin, Minister of Labor
The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore, Minister of National Security
The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon, Minister of State
The Right Honorable Stephan Harrison, Minister of Transportation
The Right Honorable Mark Umble, Minister of the Treasury

Crown Princess (by abbreviated style): Her Imperial and Royal Highness, Catherine IV, by the Grace of God, Heir Apparent, Princess of Monavia, etc.
Treasurer of the Empire: Her Ladyship Agatha Stockton
Royal Spiritual Advisor: His Grace, Bishop Adam Roland
General Director of the Monavian National Intelligence Administration: James Cheney
Senior Internal Security Director: Leon Chekov

Head of state/government: King and Queen

Notable Personages:

Admiral Samuel Hampton, Commander of the S:t Therese Colonial Expeditionary Fleet
The Honorable Bruce Bates, Monavian Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
International Liaison to the Minister of the Treasury: Lord Basil Cyrus DeLeon
Official Royal Secretary: Richard Jackson

Constitution: The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by nineteen amendments since then (three were added in 2011). The Monavian Constitution serves as the chief governing document of the Monavian Empire and specifies the rules by which the central and provincial governments operate. Treaties and other international agreements have the same legal force as constitutional law.

Economy:

General Economic Overview:

Economic model: Regulated capitalism, with some public institutions owned by the government.
Per capita income (Monavian Thalers adjusted for inflation): ₮35,369.26
Per capita income (international dollars adjusted for inflation): Int$45,551.18
GDP (in Monavian Thalers adjusted for inflation): ₮16,940,732,202,908.20
GDP (in international dollars adjusted for inflation): Int$23,254,449,175,512.70
GDP composition by sector:
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Services
Fiscal year: Calendar year

Currency and Monetary Statistics:

Currency: Monavian Thaler (₮)
Exchange rate (adjusted for inflation): ₮1.00 = Int$1.359372064
• Exchange rate formula: Final Rate = Initial Rate • (1 − Inflation Rate)
Inflation rate: 0.98%
Gross fixed investment:
Stock of domestic credit:
Narrow money (M1) stock:
Broad money (M2) stock:

Labor and Economic Sectors:

Labor force:
Labor force participation rate:
Labor force by occupation:
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Services
Unemployment rate:
Population unemployed:
Population below poverty line:

Commodities:

Natural gas production:
Natural gas consumption:
Natural gas reserves (proven):
Natural gas reserves theoretical):
Oil production:
Oil consumption:
Oil reserves (proven):
Oil reserves (theoretical):
Coal production:
Coal consumption:
Coal reserves (proven):
Coal reserves (theoretical):
Uranium production:
Uranium consumption:
Uranium reserves (proven):
Uranium reserves (theoretical):

Electrical Energy:

Electrical power generation:
Electrical power consumption:
Sources of power generation:
• Nuclear: 41%
• Hydroelectric: 35%
• Wind: 14%
• Natural Gas: 6%
• Oil: 4%
• Solar: 2%

Trade:

Major exports: Wheat, corn, beef, petroleum, steel, iron ore, uranium, palladium, silver, chemicals, surgical equipment, medicines, temperate lumber, paper products.
Minor exports: Petrochemicals, industrial machinery, farm machinery, firearms, ammunition, diamonds, granite, marble.
Major imports: Osmiridium, pharmaceuticals, tropical fruits, tropical lumber.
Minor imports: Phosphates, refined gasoline, gold metal, tungsten, titanium, fish.
Balance of trade: Positive

Taxation and revenue:

Taxes:

National income tax structure: Income taxes are structured according to a bifurcated model. A majority of the population (those making more than ₮25,001, which is about 70.69% of mean per capita income) pays a flat tax. Five other tax brackets with progressive rates exist to accommodate the needs of the lower classes.
• Bracket I (total income is less than ₮5,000): Flat 5.00%
• Bracket II (total income is between ₮5,001 and ₮10,000): Flat 7.50%
• Bracket III (total income is between ₮10,001 and ₮15,000): Flat 10.00%
• Bracket IV (total income is between ₮15,001 and ₮20,000): Flat 12.50%
• Bracket V (total is between ₮20,001 and ₮25,000): Flat 15.00%
• Bracket VI (total exceeds ₮25,001): Flat 25.00%
Corporate income tax rate: Flat 12.50% of gross revenues.
National value added sales tax rate: 2.25%
Fuel tax rate: 4.50%
Tariff rate: 2.50%

Government Income:
• National Personal Income Tax: 45%
• Corporate Income Tax: 22%
• National Value Added Sales Tax: 18%
• Tariffs: 6%
• Fuel Taxes: 4%
• Other Taxes: 3%
• Operating Profits: 1%

Government Budget:

Total budget (25% of GDP, in Monavian thalers): ₮4,235,183,050,727.05
Total budget (25% of GDP, in international dollars): Int$5,757,191,814,100.01

Administration for the Welfare of Veterans (1.5%): ₮63,527,745,760.91
Delian League Treasury Administration (6.0%): ₮254,110,983,043.62
The Crown (monies reserved for the monarchy’s operations) (0.2%): ₮8,470,366,101.45
Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation (0.15%): ₮6,352,774,576.09₮
Federal court system (central government’s judiciary) (0.2%): ₮8,470,366,101.45
Federal Pension Administration (4.5%): ₮190,583,237,282.72
Fegosian Union Treasury (1.85%): ₮78,350,886,438.45
Emergency Fund Administration (2.0%): ₮84,703,661,014.54
Bureau of Administration (1.0%): ₮42,351,830,507.27
Ministry of Agriculture (0.7%): ₮29,646,281,355.09
Ministry of Commerce (0.5%): ₮21,175,915,253.64₮
Ministry of Defense (19.5%): ₮825,860,694,891.78
Ministry of Education (2.5%): ₮105,879,576,268.18
Ministry of Energy (1.5%): ₮63,527,745,760.91
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2.0%): ₮84,703,661,014.54
Ministry of Health (14.5%): ₮614,101,542,355.42
Ministry of the Interior (0.45%): ₮19,058,323,728.27
Ministry of Justice (0.9%): ₮38,116,647,456.54
Ministry of Labor (0.45%): ₮19,058,323,728.27
Ministry of National Security (2.0%): ₮84,703,661,014.54
Ministry of State (0.15%): ₮6,352,774,576.09
Ministry of Transportation (3.0%): ₮127,055,491,521.81
Ministry of the Treasury (0.6%): ₮25,411,098,304.36
Miscellaneous departments and agencies (2.5%): ₮105,879,576,268.18₮
Monavian Aerospace Exploratory Administration (1.0%): ₮42,351,830,507.27
Monavian National Intelligence Administration (0.5%): ₮21,175,915,253.64
Monavian Science Administration (1.0%): ₮42,351,830,507.27
Monies reserved for Parliament’s operations (0.2%): ₮8,470,366,101.45
Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie (0.15%): ₮6,352,774,576.09
Social security (15.0%): ₮719,981,118,623.60
Surplus funds (2.0%): ₮84,703,661,014.54
Welfare (9.5%): ₮402,342,389,819.07

Infrastructure:

Ground Transportation:

Total length of motorways:
Length of motorways per capita:
Total length of other paved roads:
Length of other paved roads per capita:
Total length of unpaved roads:
Length of unpaved roads per capita:
Motor vehicles per 1,000 people: 601
Total length of railroad tracks:
Length of railroad tracks per capita:
Total length of high-speed railroads:
Length of high-speed rail lines per 1,000,000 people:
Subway tracks:

Air Transportation:

Airports (total):
Airports with paved runways:
Airports with unpaved runways:
Total aircraft:
Heliports:

Waterborne Transportation:

Total civilian ports and terminals:
Waterways (total):
• Total length of canals:
• Total length of rivers:
Total merchant marine (tonnage):

Freight:

Oil pipelines:
Electrical lines:

Communications:

Landline telephones in use:
Cellular telephones in use:
Internet country code: .ifme
Internet hosts:
Internet users:
Broadcast media:
Radios in use:

Military:

General Information:

Minimum age of enlistment (peacetime): 19 years
Service obligation: Volunteer enlistment for a four year term (peacetime) or two year term (wartime). Percentage of total population in the Monavian military:
Manpower fit for service (defined as individuals between the ages of seventeen and fifty and in good health): estimated at 159,320,000

Spending:

Military expenditures: ₮825,860,694,891.78
Expenditures in international dollars: Int$1,122,652,403,749.50
Amount spent per individual service member:
Amount spent in international dollars:

Service Branches:

Manpower:

Monavian Imperial Army (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Imperial Navy (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Imperial Air Force (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Royal Marine Corps (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Royal Coast Guard (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Royal Guard (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian National Militia (total):
• Active:
• Reserve:

International Relations:

Embassy Thread (New forum): viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10102
Delian League Forum (current): http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Delian_League/index/
Nova Regional Forum: http://z11.invisionfree.invalid.com/Free_World_Alliance
Fegosian Union Forum: http://s1.zetaboards.com/The_Fegosian_Union/index/

Major alliances:

Bilateral pact with the Free Republic of Lamoni (January 28, 2008)
Bilateral pact with the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct)
Delian League (March 2008)
Fegosian Union (June 2008)

Major Treaties:

This link leads to an index of the treaties.

Political Relations:

Nations with diplomatic alliances:

Key:

*Delian League ally
**Fegosian Union ally
§Special bilateral pact
†Signatory to the Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance
‡Signatory to the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves

Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) §
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav §
Principality of Damirez * (founder) †
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture * †
Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld * †
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** † ‡
Empire of Mephras * †
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * † ‡
Greater Economic Union of New Manth * †
Free Republic of Lamoni * § †
Fortress State of Animarnia *
Tribal Dominion of Veteka *
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
People’s Nation of Alfegos ** (founder) † ‡
Peoples Republic of Mokastana **
Holy Empire of Zaheran **
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag * ** † ‡
Kingdom of Krommindy ** †
Armed Republic of Salzland †
Constitutional State of Goldaron †
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos †
Totalitarian Socialist State of Tigerlan †
United Kingdom of Korrodos †
The Atrean Imperium †
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania (defunct) †
Imperial Freikorps of Greater Tezdrian ‡
Grand Duchy of Radictistan ‡
Military Protectorate of Nalaya ‡
Democratic Commonwealth of Elyomia ‡
Greater Island Kingdom of New Hayesalia ‡

Nations with amicable relations:

Republic of Ruccola
Principality of Kurona
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Republic of Mourro
Kingdom of Bielostrov

Nations with neutral diplomatic status:

Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Skyland Mt (defunct)
Celestial Empire of Zongguo
Republic of Novus Prosperitas (defunct)
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
San Alto (defunct)

Nations with strained diplomatic relations:

Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (as of December 2011)
Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia (as of 2009)

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts or agreements:

Key:

*Under Delian League Charter or related agreements
**Under Fegosian Union Charter or similar agreements
§Under special bilateral agreements
‡Under agreements in accordance with the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves

Under Delian League Charter or related agreements:

Principality of Damirez (founder) *
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture *
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag *
Empire of Mephras *
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * ‡
Greater Economic Union of New Manth *
Free Republic of Lamoni * §
Fortress State of Animarnia *
Tribal Dominion of Veteka *
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder) **
Peoples Republic of Mokastana **
Holy Empire of Zaheran **
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag * ** ‡
Kingdom of Krommindy ** ‡
Imperial Freikorps of Greater Tezdrian ‡
Grand Duchy of Radictistan ‡
Military Protectorate of Nalaya ‡
Democratic Commonwealth of Elyomia ‡
Greater Island Kingdom of New Hayesalia ‡

Nations with diplomatic recognition but no trade agreements:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto (defunct)
Kingdom of Bielostrov

Nations embargoed:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Military Relations:

Nations allied with the Monavian Empire:

Key:

*Delian League ally
**Fegosian Union ally
§Special bilateral pact
†Membership in the unofficially defunct Nova Coalition

Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) §
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav §
Principality of Damirez * (founder) †
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture * †
Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld *
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** †
Empire of Mephras * †
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * †
Greater Economic Union of New Manth * †
Free Republic of Lamoni * § †
Fortress State of Animarnia * †
Tribal Dominion of Veteka * †
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
People’s Nation of Alfegos ** (founder) †
Peoples Republic of Mokastana ** †
Holy Empire of Zaheran ** †
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag * **
Kingdom of Krommindy **
Armed Republic of Salzland (de facto ally under several definitions) †
Protectorate of Lyras †
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav †
Federal Republic of Leistung †
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos †

Nations favored by the Monavian Empire:

Kingdom of Bielostrov (unofficially)

Neutral nations:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Federation of Brewdonia (armistice)
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto (defunct)

Nations unfavorable towards the Monavian Empire but not hostile to it:

Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia (as of 2009)
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (as of December 2011)
Imperial Commonwealth of Alexiandra (as of December 2011)

Hostile nations:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Miscellaneous:

List of Monarchs:

List of Monavian Kings:

The House of Claudianus-Julianus (718—944)

718—739 Claudius I
739—757 Claudius II
757—791 Constantine I
791—822 Basil I
822—838 Basil II
838—863 Basil III
863—885 Constantine II
885—901 Justin I
901—929 Justin II
929—944 Tiberius I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (947—1190)

947—981 Stefan I
981—997 Stefan II
997—1016 Charles I
1016—1040 Alexander I
1040—1077 Alexander II
1077—1098 Stefan III
1098—1123 Charles II
1123—1156 Stefan IV
1156—1190 Alexander III

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Ivan I
1223—1241 Peter I
1241—1260 Ivan II
1260—1284 Ivan III
1284—1302 Alexander IV
1302—1337 Charles III
1337—1354 Constantine III
1354—1368 Constantine IV
1368—1391 Nicholas I
1391—1429 Ivan IV
1429—1458 Stefan V
1458—1461 Nicholas II

1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper

1469—1491 Nicholas II (restored)
1491—1513 Peter II

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Petrović (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Constantine V
1547—1567 Harold I
1567—1598 Constantine VI
1598—1615 Peter III
1615—1635 Peter IV
1635—1651 Harold II
1651—1679 Harold III
1679—1694 Charles IV
1694—1717 Charles V
1717—1745 Constantine VII
1745—1772 Peter IV
1772—1799 Ivan V
1799—1813 Nicholas III
1813—1834 Alexander V
1834—1853 Stefan VI
1853—1871 Stefan VII
1871—1889 Peter V
1889—1901 Nicholas IV
1901—1919 Charles VI
1919—1946 Charles VII
1946—1981 Charles VIII
1981—Present Charles IX

List of Monavian Queens:

The House of Claudianus-Julianus (718—944)

718—739 Juliana I
739—757 Helena I
757—791 Sophia I
791—822 Eudocia I
822—838 Helena II
838—863 Eudocia II
863—885 Sophia II
885—901 Irene I
901—929 Juliana II
929—944 Verina I

944—947 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (947—1190)

947—981Maria I
981—997 Xenia I
997—1016 Verina II
1016—1040 Sophia III
1040—1077 Irene II
1077—1098 Xenia II
1098—1123 Maria II
1123—1156 Anna I
1156—1190 Slavna I

1190—1194 Interregnum

The House of Stefanović (restored; 1194—1513)

1194—1223 Anna II
1223—1241 Slavna II
1241—1260 Sophia IV
1260—1284 Maria III
1284—1302 Alexandra I
1302—1337 Helena I
1337—1354 Xenia III
1354—1368 Theodosia I
1368—1391 Alexandra II
1391—1429 Irene III
1429—1458 Slavna III
1458—1461 Helena II

1461—1469 throne usurped by Celestine the Usurper

1469—1491 Anastasia I
1491—1513 Elizabeth I

1513—1515 Interregnum

The House of Petrović (1515—Present)

1515—1547 Helena III
1547—1567 Elizabeth II
1567—1598 Catherine I
1598—1615 Alexandra III
1615—1635 Catherine II
1635—1651 Anna III
1651—1679 Elizabeth III
1679—1694 Alexandra IV
1694—1717 Sophia V
1717—1745 Sophia VI
1745—1772 Elizabeth IV
1772—1799 Catherine III
1799—1813 Margaret I
1813—1834 Helena IV
1834—1853 Elizabeth V
1853—1871 Catherine IV
1871—1889 Theodosia II
1889—1901 Xenia IV
1901—1919 Anna III
1919—1946 Irene IV
1946—1981 Margaret II
1981—Present Elizabeth VI

INFORMATION IN THIS FACTBOOK IS SUBJECT TO REVISION AT THE POSTER’S DISCRETION

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:40 pm

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2013 EDITION

General Overview

Introduction:

The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire (Latin: Caesarea Foederationis Imperium Monavianorum, Russian Cyrillic: Императорский Федерации Монавиан Империи, Greek: Αυτοκρατορικό Ομοσπονδία της Μοναβιαν Αυτοκρατορία, German: Reichsverband des mähnichen Reiches) is a sovereign state located to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn in the northwestern portion of Nova. The Monavian Empire has existed for 1,296 years, attained an approximate territorial area of 10,899,000 square kilometers, possesses some 486,230,000 citizens in its population, and its gross domestic product (GDP) is approximately ₮17,848,000,000,000 (Int$24,006,000,000,000).

Name (conventional long form): The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire

Name (short forms): The Monavian Empire; Empire of Monavia; Monavia

Date of founding: June 14, AD 718

Motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo (Latin: Monavia is the New World Order)

National flag design adopted: 1764

Flag (medium version):

http://s1135.photobucket.com/albums/m631/Monavia/FullSizeVersion.png

The Great Seal of the Monavian Empire (Full Size):

National animal: golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

National flower: iris (genus Iris)

http://www.evergreennurseryinc.net/images/plants/iris-hello-darkness.jpg

Demographic Summary

General Demographic Statistics:

Population (2013): 486,228,107

Population change factors:

Overall population growth rate: 2.29367%
Natural rate of population increase: 13.4067 per 1,000 people (1.34067%)
• Fertility rate: 2.7358 per woman (2.09 considered neutral level)
• Birth rate per 1,000 people: 21.3467
• Mortality (deaths per 1,000 persons per year): 7.9400
Net migration: 4,529,854
Net migration rate per 1,000 persons: 9.5300 (0.95300%)
• Immigration (2012): 5,100,845
• Immigration rate per 1,000 persons: 10.7313 (1.09130%)
• Emigration (2012): 570,991
• Emigration rate per 1,000 persons: 1.2013 (0.10890%)

Standards of living:

Human Development Index (HDI) score: 0.9086
Life expectancy: 73.374 years
• Men: 70.45 years
• Women: 76.15 years
Literacy rate: 98.017%
School enrollment rate: 98.899%

General miscellaneous statistics:

Population density: 44.653 persons per km²
Median age: 39.34 years
Sex ratio (overall): 0.934 males per 1.000 females

Cultural Demographics:

Religious adherence:

Orthodox Christianity: 263,948,168
Roman Catholicism (both rites): 99,609,640
Anglicanism: 25,971,070
Sunni Islam: 21,161,786
Baptist: 18,401,644
Lutheranism: 13,460,530
Methodism: 7,885,402
Buddhism: 7,579,163
Shi’a Islam: 6,675,945
Pentecostalism: 5,008,169
Judaism: 4,004,670
Adventism: 2,860,846
Hinduism: 2,092,054
Taoism: 1,688,502
Atheism: 1,153,377
Deism: 965,611
Sikhism: 917,636
Bahá’í Faith: 714,068
Mormonism: 705,800
Other/irreligious: 503,594
Unaffiliated Christian: 290,473
Jainism: 175,735
Shinto: 103,422
Church of Scientology: 98,843
Rastafarianism: 84,786
Society of Friends (Quakers): 80,277
Mennonite/Amish faith: 56,704
Zoroastrianism: 29,793

Total: 486,228,106 (Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.)

Languages:

Official languages: English, Latin, and Russian
Recognized regional languages: Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and German

Main language spoken:
English: 237,403,707
Latin: 79,702,235
Russian: 54,096,374
Greek: 23,925,592
Romanian: 21,125,925
Serbian: 19,332,914
Slovak: 15,836,890
Arabic: 11,298,846
German: 7,020,407
French: 4,990,553
Farsi (Persian): 4,657,567
Hindi: 3,353,771
Chinese: 1,501,879
Hebrew: 815,525
Yiddish: 257,535
Japanese: 196,844
Fegosian: 75,539
Spanish: 42,393
Other: 39,703
Hungarian: 30,991

Total: 485,775,213 (Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.)

Geography

General Information:

Region: Nova

Maps:

Regional map: Political Map of Nova (2010)
Historical maps of Nova: 2009 map; 2008 map; 2007 map
Physical-political map: Click for image.
Topographic map: Image (under construction).
Political map: Image
Colony of S:t Therese: Image
Location of S:t Therese relative to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: Image

Statistical summary:

Total land area: 10,889,011 square kilometers
Total water area: 670,871 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,559,882 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone: 100 nautical miles

Climate:

The Monavian Empire is located in a region of the southern hemisphere lying to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Its overall climate is temperate, but due to various geographic factors and uneven heating, the climate does not follow normal patterns. Warm water is puched southward past eastern Monavia and Vendia, causing climates on the eastern coasts of those countries to become unusually balmy. In addition, the presence of the Hellanean and Vendian Seas in between the two countries leads to small temperature ranges in coastal locations.

Major cities:

Adamov, Agrinio, Aldan, Ardino, Arsk, Avrig, Azov, Bakar, Balchik, Baraolt, Belovo, Berane, Brezno, Brovary, Budislav, Chalcedon (capital), Chirpan, Chitila, Christopol, Corinth, Cricova, Derventa, Detva, Dorog, Dulovo, Elista, Gabrovo, Galanta, Giurgiu, Ignalina, Irpin, Kaltan, Kamnik, Karditsa, Kargat, Kashin, Kikinda, Kladno, Kovin, Kubrat, Labin, Labinsk, Lapovo, Larissa, Leova, Levski, Liberec, Loznica, Maribor, Martin, Mioveni, Mostar, Motru, Negotin, Nikolsk, Nikopol, Nova Gorica, Novi Pazar, Novigrad, Novo Mesto, Novosil, Odessa, Opava, Ostrov, Palanga, Pestovo, Petrich, Petrila, Podgorica, Razgrad, Resnik, Siracusa, Slobozia, Snina, Sombor, Sopron, Soroca, Taraclia, Theodosia, Tiraspol, Trieste, Troyan, Utena, Visoko, and Zenica.

Photographic Gallery:

The Pirin Mountains, located to the north of Baraolt.

The Savan Forest, located some 100 kilometers south of Chalcedon.

Molin Forest in late summer.

The Cindrel Mountains as viewed from the north.

The Lim River near its source.

The Tatra Mountains.
http://www.ourbc.com/travel_bc/bc_cities/cariboo_chilcotin/photos/tatla_lake/tatla_lake_mountains_01_640.jpg

The Dysna River as it winds between the Apuseni Mountains and the Pirin Mountains.

Lake Dusia

Lake Brozno

Government

Overview:

Capital: Chalcedon

Administrative divisions: Capital District, sixty-three provinces, and one joint colony.

Constitutional structure: Federation consisting of tripartite central government and sixty-four provincial/colonial governments

Form of central government: Executive constitutional monarchy with republican elements.

Current governing system installed: 1732

Constitution: The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by nineteen amendments since then (three were added in 2011). The Monavian Constitution serves as the chief governing document of the Monavian Empire and specifies the rules by which the central and provincial governments operate. Treaties and other international agreements have the same legal force as constitutional law.

Suffrage: universal for all citizens above twenty years of age (formerly twenty-one until 2011); requires registration; can be suspended or revoked on grounds of felony conviction or mental incompetence.

Structure of the national government: Image

Organs of the Central Government:

Executive organ:

Overview: The Monavian Empire is ruled by an executive monarchy known as the Crown, which in turn relies on a body of ministers and other administrative advisers to execute royal orders and operate the government.
The Crown: consists of a coregency between the following individuals:
• His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX, by the Grace of God, King of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
• Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI, by the Grace of God, Queen of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
The Royal Cabinet: The Crown is advised by a council known as the Royal Cabinet. Its members include:
• The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt, Prime Minister of the Royal Cabinet
• The Right Honorable George Brenner, Minister of Agriculture
• The Right Honorable Susan Wright, Minister of Commerce
• The Right Honorable Carl Blake, Minister of Defense
• The Right Honorable Francis Mason, Minister of Education
• The Right Honorable Henry Douglass, Minister of Energy
• The Right Honorable Frank Carter, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• The Right Honorable Nancy Wood, Minister of Health
• The Right Honorable Milan Alexandrov, Minister of the Interior
• The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth, Minister of Justice
• The Right Honorable Cameron Putlin, Minister of Labor
• The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore, Minister of National Security
• The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon, Minister of State
• The Right Honorable Stephan Harrison, Minister of Transportation
• The Right Honorable Mark Umble, Minister of the Treasury

Legislative organ:

Overview: The Imperial Parliament is a bicameral legislature that serves as the Monavian Empire’s chief legislative organ.
The Imperial Senate:
• Position: Upper house
• Composition: The Senate consists of 126 members (two representing each province) who are elected to serve six-year terms. From 1732 to 2011, all senators were elected by direct popular vote. In 2011, the Monavian Constitution was amended to better represent provincial interests by requiring that one of the senators from each province is elected by its legislature instead of its populace. The rationale underlying this change is derived from the fact that the Representative Assembly already represents popular interests; a senate that does the same would be too redundant.
• President: His Excellency Richard Hanover II, Chancellor of the Monavian Empire and President of the Senate
The Representative Assembly:
• Position: Lower house
• Composition: The Representative Assembly consists of 1,156 members apportioned among the Empire’s provinces according to population. Each representative is responsible for the interests of a district and is directly elected by the inhabitants of his or her district to serve two-year terms.
• President: Her Excellency Elena Crocker, Speaker of the Representative Assembly

Judicial organ:

Overview: The Monavian judiciary consists of a national supreme court and various inferior tribunals chartered by the Imperial Parliament. Its judges are responsible for rendering official interpretations of the law and determining whether or not it has been violated by certain actions.

Structure:
General courts: a set of national tribunals with jurisdiction over matters of both constitutional and statutory law. They are classified into four tiers.
• The Supreme Court is the Monavian Empire’s highest judicial institution. It has the final authority on all matters pertaining to the interpretation of laws, and may, at any time, call the legitimacy or constitutionality of any law into question. The court’s rulings are final unless it reverses its decision at a later time. It consists of a panel of nine justices appointed by the Crown. Its proceedings are presided over by His Supreme Honor William Franklin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Monavian Empire.
• The Nine High Courts of Appeals: The sixty-three provinces of the Monavian Empire are grouped into nine districts, each containing seven provinces. Each district contains a High Court of Appeals, which handles decisions appealed from the Lower Courts of Appeals.
• Lower Courts of Appeals: Under each of the Nine High Courts of Appeals is seven Lower Courts of Appeals. Each Lower Court has jurisdiction over one province, and handles decisions appealed from Federal Precinct Courts.
• Federal Precinct Courts: Each province of the Monavian Empire is divided into a series of precincts, typically consisting of several counties. Each precinct contains one of these courts, which has original jurisdiction over the majority of federal cases.
Special courts: a series of tribunals which serve specific functions.
• Courts of Federal Claims: These judicial bodies are tasked with handling civil trials in the same fashion that the general courts handle criminal trials and tests of constitutionality. They consist of sixty-three provincially-located courts of federal claims and seven appellate courts of federal claims. The two tiers of this system mirror the tiers of general national courts.
• Courts Martial: These tribunals handle all judicial matters relating to the military. They are classed into an entry tier and an appellate tier.
• FBCR Tribunals: The Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation operates a network of courts chartered by the Imperial Parliament to serve as forums for hearing trade and customs disputes. The network includes two levels of courts (entry and appellate). Pursuant to statutory reforms enacted to facilitate the adoption and implementation of the Charter of the Fegosian Union, FBCR court rulings can now be appealed to the Fegosian Union Trade Commission as an alternative to a supreme court appeal.

Economy

General Economic Overview:

National economic model: The Monavian Empire employs a market system (regulated capitalism). The public sector controls select segments of the general economy through government institutions and provides overall regulatory oversight.

Fiscal year: Calendar year

Nominal GDP data:

Total nominal GDP:
₮17,848,005,861,622.10 (Monavian thalers)
Int$24,005,567,883,881.80 (2012 international dollars)
Per capita income:
₮36,707.76 (Monavian thalers)
Int$49,371.00 (2012 international dollars)
Nominal GDP growth rate: 3.23%
GDP composition by sector:
Agriculture: 2.32%
Industry: 27.63%
Services: 70.15%

Currency, credit, and inflation:

Currency: Monavian Thaler (₮)
Exchange rate (2012 average): ₮1.00 = Int$1.345
Inflation rate (2012 average): 1.17%
Gross fixed investment: 21.32% of GDP (est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
₮8,869,145,000,000 (Monavian thalers)
Int$11,929,000,000,000 (2012 international dollars)
Money supply (in 2012 international dollars):
Narrow money (M1) stock: Int$3,985,000,000,000 (est.)
Broad money (M2) stock: Int$14,675,000,000,000 (est.)

Labor force:

Labor force participation rate (2012 average): 68.45%
Total labor force (est.): 332,823,139
Employed: 94.28% (est.)
Unemployed: 5.72% (est.)
Labor force by sector (estimated):
Agriculture: 3.84%
Industry: 28.38%
Services: 67.78%

Infrastructure:

Energy:

Total electricity production (MWh): 3,847,564,988
Nuclear: 41.4%
Natural gas: 22.8%
Hydropower: 13.7%
Oil: 9.9%
Coal: 6.7%
Solar: 4.2%
Wind: 1.1%
Other: 0.2%
Total electricity consumption (MWh): 2,998,667,480

Transportation:

Pipelines
Total length of pipelines (km): 154,287
• Gas (km): 66,409
• Oil (km): 43,337
• Refined products (km): 21,040
Ground transportation systems:
Road infrastructure
• Total length of motorways (km): 2,942,000
• Length of motorways per 1,000 people (km): 6.051
• Total length of expressways (km): 217,400
• Length of expressways per 1,000 people (km): 0.447
• Total length of unpaved roads (km): 1,378,490
• Length of unpaved roads per 1,000 people (km): 2.835
• Motor vehicles per 1,000 people: 601
• Driving side: Right (→)
Rail infrastructure
• Total length of railroad tracks (km): 101,442
• Length of railroad tracks per 1,000 people (km): 0.209
• Total length of high-speed railroads (km): 5,407
• Length of high-speed rail lines per 1,000 people (km): 0.01
• Total subway tracks (km): 604.9
• Total metro stations: 483
• Rail gauges: 1,600 mm (broad), 1,520 mm (standard), 1,435 (narrow)
Air transportation:
Airports (total): 2,937
• Airports with paved runways: 1,104
• Airports with unpaved runways: 1,833
Total aircraft (fixed-wing): 45,000 (est.)
Heliports (dedicated): 306
Civilian helicopters: 1,819
Waterborne transportation:
Total civilian ports and terminals: 223
Total merchant marine vessels: 1,237
Total length of waterways (km): 79,407
• Total length of canals (km): 21,004
• Total length of rivers (km): 58,403
National ship designation prefixes: MMS (Monavian Merchant Ship), MNS (Monavian Naval Ship), RCGS (Royal Coast Guard Ship), RMCS (Royal Marine Corps Ship)

Mass media and communications:

Telephonic systems:
Landline telephones in use: 252,100,000 (est.)
Landline telephones per 1,000 citizens: 518.34
Cellular telephones in use: 298,700,000 (est.)
Cellular telephones per 1,000 citizens: 962.13
Fax machines per 1,000 citizens: 66.47
Internet:
Internet country code: .ifme
Internet hosts: 72,164,800 (est.)
Internet use rate: 77.4%
Internet users: 376,341,000 (est.)
Broadcast media:
Radios in use: 294,000,000 (est.)
Radio stations (national): 191
Radio stations (local): 18,635
Televisions in use: 342,640,000 (est.)
Televisions per 1,000 citizens: 704.69
Television stations: 297
Newspapers:
Daily: 944
Other: 1,208

Commodities:

Commodities trading summary:

Imports:
Principal import commodities: Osmiridium ore, pharmaceuticals, tropical fruits, tropical lumber.
Other import commodities: Phosphates, refined gasoline, refined gold, tungsten, titanium, tropical fish.
Exports:
Principal export commodities: Wheat, corn, beef, petroleum, steel, iron ore, uranium, palladium, silver, chemicals, surgical equipment, medicines, temperate lumber, paper products.
Other export commodities: Petrochemicals, industrial machinery, farm machinery, firearms, ammunition, diamonds, granite, marble.

Commodity reserves and usage:

Energy commodities (all figures are for 2012):
Annual natural gas production (m³): 109,060,000,000
Annual natural gas consumption (m³): 103,405,000,000
Estimated proven natural gas reserves (m³): 26,981,000,000,000
Estimated theoretical natural gas reserves (m³): 41,551,000,000,000 (est.)
Annual crude oil production (bbl/day): 11,200,000
Annual crude oil consumption (bbl/day): 10,987,000
Estimated proven oil reserves (bbl): 59,607,930,000
Estimated theoretical oil reserves (bbl): 107,799,000,000 (est.)
Annual coal production (short tons): 457,769,000
Annual coal consumption (short tons): 501,663,000
Estimated proven coal reserves (short tons): 18,175,000,000
Estimated theoretical coal reserves (short tons): 31,707,000,000 (est.)
Annual uranium production (short tons): 1,901
Annual uranium consumption (short tons): 1,893
Estimated proven uranium reserves (short tons): 89,940
Estimated theoretical uranium reserves (short tons): 181,233 (est.)

Trade:

General data:

Net trade balance (current accounts):
+ ₮126,221,560 (Monavian thalers)
+ Int$169,768,000 (2012 international dollars)
Trade volume (2012 international dollars):
Goods: Int$2,919,400,000,000
Services: Int$842,300,000,000

Public Sector:

Taxation and revenue:

National income tax structure: Income taxes are structured according to a bifurcated model. A majority of the population (those making more than ₮25,001, which is about 68.108% of mean per capita income) pays a flat tax. Five other tax brackets with progressive rates exist to accommodate the needs of the lower classes.
Bracket I (total income is less than ₮5,000): Flat 5.00%
Bracket II (total income is between ₮5,001 and ₮10,000): Flat 7.50%
Bracket III (total income is between ₮10,001 and ₮15,000): Flat 10.00%
Bracket IV (total income is between ₮15,001 and ₮20,000): Flat 12.50%
Bracket V (total is between ₮20,001 and ₮25,000): Flat 15.00%
Bracket VI (total exceeds ₮25,001): Flat 25.00%
National taxation rates:
Corporate income tax rate: Flat 12.50% of income after continuing operations
National value added sales tax rate: 2.25% of retail
Fuel tax rate: 4.50%
Tariff rate: 2.50%
Government Income:
National Personal Income Tax: 45%
Corporate Income Tax: 22%
National Value Added Sales Tax: 18%
Tariffs: 6%
Fuel Taxes: 4%
Other Taxes: 3%
Operating Profits: 1%

Expenditures:

Government budget (all figures in Monavian thalers):
Total budget (24.58% of GDP): ₮4,235,183,050,727.05 (Int$5,900,568,585,858.14)
Budgetary structure:
• Administration for the Welfare of Veterans (1.5%): ₮65,805,597,611.80
• Bureau of Administration (1.0%): ₮43,870,398,407.87
• The Crown (monies reserved for the monarchy’s operations) (0.2%): ₮8,774,079,681.57
• Delian League Treasury Administration (6.0%): ₮263,222,390,447.20
• Emergency Fund Administration (2.0%): ₮87,740,796,815.73
• Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation (0.15%): ₮6,580,559,761.18
• Federal court system (central government’s judiciary) (0.2%): ₮8,774,079,681.57
• Federal Pension Administration (4.5%): ₮197,416,792,835.40
• Fegosian Union Treasury (1.85%): ₮81,160,237,054.55
• Ministry of Agriculture (0.7%): ₮30,709,298,885.51
• Ministry of Commerce (0.5%): ₮21,935,199,203.93
• Ministry of Defense (19.5%): ₮855,472,768,953.41
• Ministry of Education (2.5%): ₮109,675,996,019.97
• Ministry of Energy (1.5%): ₮65,805,597,611.80
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2.0%): ₮87,740,796,815.73
• Ministry of Health (14.5%): ₮636,120,776,914.07
• Ministry of the Interior (0.45%): ₮19,741,679,283.54
• Ministry of Justice (0.9%): ₮39,483,358,567.08
• Ministry of Labor (0.45%): ₮19,741,679,283.54
• Ministry of National Security (2.0%): ₮87,740,796,815.73
• Ministry of State (0.15%): ₮6,580,559,761.18
• Ministry of Transportation (3.0%): ₮131,611,195,223.60
• Ministry of the Treasury (0.6%): ₮26,322,239,044.72
• Miscellaneous departments and agencies (2.5%): ₮109,675,996,019.97
• Monavian Aerospace Exploratory Administration (1.0%): ₮43,870,398,407.87
• Monavian National Intelligence Administration (0.5%): ₮21,935,199,203.93
• Monavian Science Administration (1.0%): ₮43,870,398,407.87
• Monies reserved for Parliament’s operations (0.2%): ₮8,774,079,681.57
• Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie (0.15%): ₮6,580,559,761.18
• Social security programs (15.0%): ₮745,796,772,933.74
• Surplus funds (2.0%): ₮87,740,796,815.73
• Welfare programs (9.5%): ₮416,768,784,874.74

Military

General Information:

Personnel and manpower:

Minimum age of enlistment (years): 19 (peacetime); 17 (wartime)
Service obligation: Volunteer enlistment for a four year term (peacetime) or two year term (wartime); conscription is not permitted unless the Empire is facing an existential threat.
Military employment rate: 1.7% (est.)
Manpower fit for service (defined as individuals between the ages of seventeen and fifty and in good health): 159,375,000 (est.)

Expenditures:

Total military expenditures: ₮855,472,768,953.41 (Int$1,150,610,874,242.34 or 4.7931% of nominal GDP)

Expenditures by department:
Monavian Imperial Army (24.97%): ₮213,611,550,407.67
Monavian Imperial Navy (22.43%): ₮191,882,542,076.25
Monavian Imperial Air Force (19.21%) ₮164,336,318,915.95
Monavian Royal Marine Corps (5.77%): ₮49,360,778,768.61
Monavian Royal Guard (4.49%): ₮38,410,727,326.01
Monavian Royal Coast Guard (1.12%): ₮9,581,295,012.28
National Militia (5.51%): ₮47,136,549,569.33
Directorate of Military Intelligence (3.18%): ₮27,204,034,052.72
Ministry of Defense general expenditures (13.32%): ₮113,948,972,824.59

Leadership:

General leadership structure:

Minister of Defense: The Right Honorable Carl Blake
Monavian National Defense Council:
The Right Honorable Alexei A. Solovyov, Deputy Minister of Defense
Hon. Gordan Bogdanov, Marshal of the Imperial Air Force
Hon. Thaddeus Lambert, Marshal of the Imperial Army
Hon. Philip Santoro, Marshal of the Royal Marine Corps
Hon. Lazar Dragović, Marshal of the Royal Guard
Hon. Friedrich Albert Neufeld, Admiral of the Imperial Navy
Hon. Vladimir Simić, Admiral of the Royal Coast Guard
Hon. Elias Mercer, Commandant of the National Militia
Hon. James Cheney, General Director of the Monavian National Intelligence Administration
Director of Military Intelligence: Nathaniel Donaldson

Relations With Foreign States

General Information:

List of foreign embassies: Here.

Recent treaties (ratified after 2006): Lex Salisbrugis Regnum XXVII, Monavia-Lamoni Friendship Treaty, Treaty of Chalcedon, Charter of the Fegosian Union, Charter of the Delian League, Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance, and the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves. Full texts of these documents can be found here.

Major alliances: Bilateral pact with the Free Republic of Lamoni (January 28, 2008), bilateral pact with the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct), Delian League (March 2008), and Fegosian Union (June 2008).

Transnational issues: The Monavian Empire presently has strained relations with Novikov and Ralkovia. The country’s highly-developed financial sector facilitates money laundering and foreign tax evasion.

Political Relations:

Nations with diplomatic alliances:

Key:
*Delian League ally
**Fegosian Union ally
§Special bilateral pact
†Signatory to the Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance
‡Signatory to the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves
List:
Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) §
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav §
Principality of Damirez * (founder, defunct) †
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture * †
Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld * †
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** † ‡
Empire of Mephras (defunct) * †
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * † ‡
Greater Economic Union of New Manth (defunct) * †
Free Republic of Lamoni * § †
Fortress State of Animarnia *
Tribal Dominion of Veteka *
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
People’s Nation of Alfegos ** (founder) † ‡
Peoples Republic of Mokastana **
Holy Empire of Zaheran (defunct)**
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** † ‡
Kingdom of Krommindy ** †
Armed Republic of Salzland †
Constitutional State of Goldaron †
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos †
Totalitarian Socialist State of Tigerlan †
United Kingdom of Korrodos †
The Atrean Imperium †
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania (defunct) †
Imperial Freikorps of Greater Tezdrian ‡
Grand Duchy of Radictistan ‡
Military Protectorate of Nalaya ‡
Democratic Commonwealth of Elyomia ‡
Greater Island Kingdom of New Hayesalia ‡

Nations with amicable relations:

Republic of Ruccola
Principality of Kurona
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes (defunct)
Republic of Mourro
Kingdom of Bielostrov (defunct)

Nations with neutral diplomatic status:

Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Skyland Mt (defunct)
Celestial Empire of Zongguo
Republic of Novus Prosperitas (defunct)
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
San Alto (defunct)

Nations with strained diplomatic relations:

Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (as of December 2011)
Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia (as of 2009)

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts or agreements:

Key:
*Under Delian League Charter or related agreements
**Under Fegosian Union Charter or similar agreements
§Under special bilateral agreements
‡Under agreements in accordance with the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves
Under Delian League Charter or related agreements:
Principality of Damirez (founder, defunct) *
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture *
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) *
Empire of Mephras (defunct) *
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * ‡
Greater Economic Union of New Manth (defunct) *
Free Republic of Lamoni * §
Fortress State of Animarnia *
Tribal Dominion of Veteka *
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder) **
Peoples Republic of Mokastana **
Holy Empire of Zaheran (defunct) **
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** ‡
Kingdom of Krommindy ** ‡
Imperial Freikorps of Greater Tezdrian ‡
Grand Duchy of Radictistan ‡
Military Protectorate of Nalaya ‡
Democratic Commonwealth of Elyomia ‡
Greater Island Kingdom of New Hayesalia ‡

Nations with diplomatic recognition but no trade agreements:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto (defunct)
Kingdom of Bielostrov

Nations embargoed:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Military Relations:

Nations allied with the Monavian Empire:

Key:
*Delian League ally
**Fegosian Union ally
§Special bilateral pact
†Membership in the unofficially defunct Nova Coalition
List:
Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) §
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav §
Principality of Damirez * (founder) †
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture * †
Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld *
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** †
Empire of Mephras * †
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * †
Greater Economic Union of New Manth * †
Free Republic of Lamoni * § †
Fortress State of Animarnia * †
Tribal Dominion of Veteka * †
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
People’s Nation of Alfegos ** (founder) †
Peoples Republic of Mokastana ** †
Holy Empire of Zaheran ** †
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag * **
Kingdom of Krommindy **
Armed Republic of Salzland (de facto ally under several definitions) †
Protectorate of Lyras †
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav †
Federal Republic of Leistung †
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos †

Nations favored by the Monavian Empire:

Kingdom of Bielostrov (unofficially)

Neutral nations:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Federation of Brewdonia (armistice)
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto (defunct)

Nations unfavorable towards the Monavian Empire but not hostile to it:

Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia (as of 2009)
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (as of December 2011)
Imperial Commonwealth of Alexiandra (as of December 2011)

Hostile nations:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

INFORMATION IN THIS FACTBOOK IS SUBJECT TO REVISION AT THE POSTER’S DISCRETION.

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:41 pm

FACTBOOK OF THE MONAVIAN EMPIRE

2014 EDITION

General Overview

Introduction:

The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire (Latin: Caesarea Foederationis Imperium Monavianorum, Russian Cyrillic: Императорский Федерации Монавиан Империи, Greek: Αυτοκρατορικό Ομοσπονδία της Μοναβιαν Αυτοκρατορία, German: Reichsverband des mähnichen Reiches) is a sovereign state located to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn in the northwestern portion of Nova. The Monavian Empire has existed for 1,297 years, attained an approximate territorial area of 10,899,000 square kilometers, possesses some 497,330,000 citizens in its population, and its gross domestic product (GDP) is approximately ₮18,414,000,000,000 (Int$24,767,000,000,000).

Name (conventional long form): The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire

Name (short forms): The Monavian Empire; Empire of Monavia; Monavia

Date of founding: June 14, AD 718

National symbols:

Motto: Monavia est Nova Mundi Ordo (Latin: Monavia is the New World Order)

Animal: golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

Flower: iris (genus Iris)

Demographic Summary

General Demographic Statistics:

Population (2014 est.): 497,327,811

Population change factors:

Overall population growth rate: 2.2945%
Natural rate of population increase per 1,000 people: 13.31 (1.3310%)
• Fertility rate: 2.6633 per woman (2.09 considered neutral level)
• Birth rate per 1,000 people: 21.2300
• Mortality (deaths per 1,000 persons per year): 7.9202
Net migration: 4,684,274
Net migration rate per 1,000 persons: 9.6350 (0.9635%)
• Immigration (2013): 5,100,845
• Immigration rate per 1,000 persons: 10.7313 (1.09130%)
• Emigration (2013): 570,991
• Emigration rate per 1,000 persons: 1.2013 (0.10890%)

Standards of living:

Human Development Index (HDI) score: 0.9099
Life expectancy: 73.521 years
• Men: 70.599 years
• Women: 76.296 years
Literacy rate: 98.019%
School enrollment rate: 98.900%

General miscellaneous statistics:

Population density: 44.6725 persons per km²
Median age: 39.34 years
Sex ratio (overall): 0.9497 males per 1.000 females

Cultural Demographics:

Religious adherence:

Orthodox Christianity: 269,973,624
Roman Catholicism (both rites): 101,883,547
Anglicanism: 26,563,942
Sunni Islam: 21,644,871
Baptist: 18,821,720
Lutheranism: 13,767,809
Methodism: 8,065,411
Buddhism: 7,752,181
Shi’a Islam: 6,828,345
Pentecostalism: 5,122,497
Judaism: 4,096,089
Adventism: 2,926,154
Hinduism: 2,140,221
Taoism: 1,727,047
Atheism: 1,179,707
Deism: 987,654
Sikhism: 938,584
Bahá’í Faith: 730,368
Mormonism: 721,912
Other/irreligious: 515,090
Unaffiliated Christian: 297,104
Jainism: 179,747
Shinto: 105,783
Church of Scientology: 101,099
Rastafarianism: 86,721
Society of Friends (Quakers): 82,110
Mennonite/Amish faith: 57,999
Zoroastrianism: 30,473

Total: 497,327,809 (Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.)

Languages:

Official languages: English, Latin, and Russian
Recognized regional languages: Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and German

Main language spoken:
English: 243,121,253
Latin: 81,597,696
Russian: 55,382,882
Greek: 24,494,586
Romanian: 21,628,337
Serbian: 19,792,685
Slovak: 16,213,520
Arabic: 11,567,553
German: 7,187,385
French: 5,109,237
Farsi (Persian): 4,768,332
Hindi: 3,433,529
Chinese: 1,537,597
Hebrew: 834,920
Yiddish: 263,660
Japanese: 201,526
Fegosian: 77,336
Spanish: 43,401
Other: 40,648
Hungarian: 31,728

Total: 497,327,810 (Numbers may differ slightly from total population numbers due to rounding.)

Geography

General Information:

Region: Nova

Maps:

Physical-political map: Click for image.
Topographic map: Image (under construction).
Political map: Image
Colony of S:t Therese: Image
Location of S:t Therese relative to the Holy Empire of Zaheran: Image

Statistical summary:

Total land area: 10,889,011 square kilometers
Total water area: 670,871 square kilometers
Total territorial claims: 11,559,882 square kilometers
Highest point: Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level)
Lowest point: Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level)
Maritime claims: 20 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone: 100 nautical miles

Climate:

The Monavian Empire is located in a region of the southern hemisphere lying to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Its overall climate is temperate, but due to various geographic factors and uneven heating, the climate does not follow normal patterns. Warm water is puched southward past eastern Monavia and Vendia, causing climates on the eastern coasts of those countries to become unusually balmy. In addition, the presence of the Hellanean and Vendian Seas in between the two countries leads to small temperature ranges in coastal locations.

Major cities:

Adamov, Agrinio, Aldan, Ardino, Arsk, Avrig, Azov, Bakar, Balchik, Baraolt, Belovo, Berane, Brezno, Brovary, Budislav, Chalcedon (capital), Chirpan, Chitila, Christopol, Corinth, Cricova, Derventa, Detva, Dorog, Dulovo, Elista, Gabrovo, Galanta, Giurgiu, Ignalina, Irpin, Kaltan, Kamnik, Karditsa, Kargat, Kashin, Kikinda, Kladno, Kovin, Kubrat, Labin, Labinsk, Lapovo, Larissa, Leova, Levski, Liberec, Loznica, Maribor, Martin, Mioveni, Mostar, Motru, Negotin, Nikolsk, Nikopol, Nova Gorica, Novi Pazar, Novigrad, Novo Mesto, Novosil, Odessa, Opava, Ostrov, Palanga, Pestovo, Petrich, Petrila, Podgorica, Razgrad, Resnik, Siracusa, Slobozia, Snina, Sombor, Sopron, Soroca, Taraclia, Theodosia, Tiraspol, Trieste, Troyan, Utena, Visoko, and Zenica.

Photographic Gallery:

[Removed due to technical issues with image links.]

Government

Overview:

Capital: Chalcedon

Administrative divisions: Capital District, sixty-three provinces, and one joint colony.

Constitutional structure: Federation consisting of tripartite central government and sixty-four provincial/colonial governments

Form of central government: Executive constitutional monarchy with republican elements.

Current governing system installed: 1732

Constitution: The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by nineteen amendments since then (three were added in 2011). The Monavian Constitution serves as the chief governing document of the Monavian Empire and specifies the rules by which the central and provincial governments operate. Treaties and other international agreements have the same legal force as constitutional law.

Suffrage: universal for all citizens above twenty years of age (formerly twenty-one until 2011); requires registration; can be suspended or revoked on grounds of felony conviction or mental incompetence.

Structure of the national government: Image

Organs of the Central Government:

Executive organ:

Overview: The Monavian Empire is ruled by an executive monarchy known as the Crown, which in turn relies on a body of ministers and other administrative advisers to execute royal orders and operate the government.
The Crown: consists of a coregency between the following individuals:
• His Holy Imperial Majesty Charles IX, by the Grace of God, King of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
• Her Holy Imperial Majesty Elizabeth VI, by the Grace of God, Queen of Monavia, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
The Royal Cabinet: The Crown is advised by a council known as the Royal Cabinet. Its members include:
• The Most Honorable Thomas Vanderbilt, Prime Minister of the Royal Cabinet
• The Right Honorable George Brenner, Minister of Agriculture
• The Right Honorable Susan Wright, Minister of Commerce
• The Right Honorable Carl Blake, Minister of Defense
• The Right Honorable Francis Mason, Minister of Education
• The Right Honorable Henry Douglass, Minister of Energy
• The Right Honorable Frank Carter, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• The Right Honorable Nancy Wood, Minister of Health
• The Right Honorable Milan Alexandrov, Minister of the Interior
• The Right Honorable Nicholas Ellsworth, Minister of Justice
• The Right Honorable Cameron Putlin, Minister of Labor
• The Right Honorable Andrew Livermore, Minister of National Security
• The Right Honorable Victoria Witherspoon, Minister of State
• The Right Honorable Stephan Harrison, Minister of Transportation
• The Right Honorable Mark Umble, Minister of the Treasury

Legislative organ:

Overview: The Imperial Parliament is a bicameral legislature that serves as the Monavian Empire’s chief legislative organ.
The Imperial Senate:
• Position: Upper house
• Composition: The Senate consists of 126 members (two representing each province) who are elected to serve six-year terms. From 1732 to 2011, all senators were elected by direct popular vote. In 2011, the Monavian Constitution was amended to better represent provincial interests by requiring that one of the senators from each province is elected by its legislature instead of its populace. The rationale underlying this change is derived from the fact that the Representative Assembly already represents popular interests; a senate that does the same would be too redundant.
• President: His Excellency Richard Hanover II, Chancellor of the Monavian Empire and President of the Senate
The Representative Assembly:
• Position: Lower house
• Composition: The Representative Assembly consists of 1,156 members apportioned among the Empire’s provinces according to population. Each representative is responsible for the interests of a district and is directly elected by the inhabitants of his or her district to serve two-year terms.
• President: Her Excellency Elena Crocker, Speaker of the Representative Assembly

Judicial organ:

Overview: The Monavian judiciary consists of a national supreme court and various inferior tribunals chartered by the Imperial Parliament. Its judges are responsible for rendering official interpretations of the law and determining whether or not it has been violated by certain actions.

Structure:
General courts: a set of national tribunals with jurisdiction over matters of both constitutional and statutory law. They are classified into four tiers.
• The Supreme Court is the Monavian Empire’s highest judicial institution. It has the final authority on all matters pertaining to the interpretation of laws, and may, at any time, call the legitimacy or constitutionality of any law into question. The court’s rulings are final unless it reverses its decision at a later time. It consists of a panel of nine justices appointed by the Crown. Its proceedings are presided over by His Supreme Honor William Franklin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Monavian Empire.
• The Nine High Courts of Appeals: The sixty-three provinces of the Monavian Empire are grouped into nine districts, each containing seven provinces. Each district contains a High Court of Appeals, which handles decisions appealed from the Lower Courts of Appeals.
• Lower Courts of Appeals: Under each of the Nine High Courts of Appeals is seven Lower Courts of Appeals. Each Lower Court has jurisdiction over one province, and handles decisions appealed from Federal Precinct Courts.
• Federal Precinct Courts: Each province of the Monavian Empire is divided into a series of precincts, typically consisting of several counties. Each precinct contains one of these courts, which has original jurisdiction over the majority of federal cases.
Special courts: a series of tribunals which serve specific functions.
• Courts of Federal Claims: These judicial bodies are tasked with handling civil trials in the same fashion that the general courts handle criminal trials and tests of constitutionality. They consist of sixty-three provincially-located courts of federal claims and seven appellate courts of federal claims. The two tiers of this system mirror the tiers of general national courts.
• Courts Martial: These tribunals handle all judicial matters relating to the military. They are classed into an entry tier and an appellate tier.
• FBCR Tribunals: The Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation operates a network of courts chartered by the Imperial Parliament to serve as forums for hearing trade and customs disputes. The network includes two levels of courts (entry and appellate). Pursuant to statutory reforms enacted to facilitate the adoption and implementation of the Charter of the Fegosian Union, FBCR court rulings can now be appealed to the Fegosian Union Trade Commission as an alternative to a supreme court appeal.

Economy

General Economic Overview:

National economic model: The Monavian Empire employs a market system (regulated capitalism). The public sector controls select segments of the general economy through government institutions and provides overall regulatory oversight.

Fiscal year: Calendar year

Nominal GDP data:

Total nominal GDP:
₮18,413,787,647,435.60 (Monavian thalers)
Int$24,766,544,385,800.90 (2013 international dollars)
Per capita income:
₮36,707.76 (Monavian thalers)
Int$49,799.23 (2013 international dollars)
Nominal GDP growth rate: 3.17% (−0.06%)
GDP composition by sector:
Agriculture: 2.29% (−0.03%)
Industry: 27.81% (+0.18%)
Services: 70.82% (+0.67%)
Uncategorized: 0.08% (−0.82%)

Currency, credit, and inflation:

Currency: Monavian Thaler (₮)
Exchange rate (2013 fixed): ₮1.00 = Int$1.345
Inflation rate (2013 average): 1.17%
Gross fixed investment: 21.32% of GDP (est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
₮8,869,145,000,000 (Monavian thalers)
Int$11,929,000,000,000 (2012 international dollars)
Money supply (in 2012 international dollars):
Narrow money (M1) stock: Int$3,985,000,000,000 (est.)
Broad money (M2) stock: Int$14,675,000,000,000 (est.)

Labor force:

Labor force participation rate (2013 average): 68.45%
Total labor force (est.): 332,823,139
Employed: 94.28% (est.)
Unemployed: 5.72% (est.)
Labor force by sector (estimated):
Agriculture: 3.84%
Industry: 28.38%
Services: 67.78%

Infrastructure:

Energy:

Total electricity production (MWh): 3,847,564,988
Nuclear: 41.4%
Natural gas: 22.8%
Hydropower: 13.7%
Oil: 9.9%
Coal: 6.7%
Solar: 4.2%
Wind: 1.1%
Other: 0.2%
Total electricity consumption (MWh): 2,998,667,480

Transportation:

Pipelines
Total length of pipelines (km): 154,287
• Gas (km): 66,409
• Oil (km): 43,337
• Refined products (km): 21,040
Ground transportation systems:
Road infrastructure
• Total length of motorways (km): 2,942,000
• Length of motorways per 1,000 people (km): 6.051
• Total length of expressways (km): 217,400
• Length of expressways per 1,000 people (km): 0.447
• Total length of unpaved roads (km): 1,378,490
• Length of unpaved roads per 1,000 people (km): 2.835
• Motor vehicles per 1,000 people: 601
• Driving side: Right (→)
Rail infrastructure
• Total length of railroad tracks (km): 101,442
• Length of railroad tracks per 1,000 people (km): 0.209
• Total length of high-speed railroads (km): 5,407
• Length of high-speed rail lines per 1,000 people (km): 0.01
• Total subway tracks (km): 604.9
• Total metro stations: 483
• Rail gauges: 1,600 mm (broad), 1,520 mm (standard), 1,435 (narrow)
Air transportation:
Airports (total): 2,937
• Airports with paved runways: 1,104
• Airports with unpaved runways: 1,833
Total aircraft (fixed-wing): 45,000 (est.)
Heliports (dedicated): 306
Civilian helicopters: 1,819
Waterborne transportation:
Total civilian ports and terminals: 223
Total merchant marine vessels: 1,237
Total length of waterways (km): 79,407
• Total length of canals (km): 21,004
• Total length of rivers (km): 58,403
National ship designation prefixes: MMS (Monavian Merchant Ship), MNS (Monavian Naval Ship), RCGS (Royal Coast Guard Ship), RMCS (Royal Marine Corps Ship)

Mass media and communications:

Telephonic systems:
Landline telephones in use: 252,100,000 (est.)
Landline telephones per 1,000 citizens: 518.34
Cellular telephones in use: 298,700,000 (est.)
Cellular telephones per 1,000 citizens: 962.13
Fax machines per 1,000 citizens: 66.47
Internet:
Internet country code: .ifme
Internet hosts: 72,164,800 (est.)
Internet use rate: 77.4%
Internet users: 376,341,000 (est.)
Broadcast media:
Radios in use: 294,000,000 (est.)
Radio stations (national): 191
Radio stations (local): 18,635
Televisions in use: 342,640,000 (est.)
Televisions per 1,000 citizens: 704.69
Television stations: 297
Newspapers:
Daily: 944
Other: 1,208

Commodities:

Commodities trading summary:

Imports:
Principal import commodities: Osmiridium ore, pharmaceuticals, tropical fruits, tropical lumber.
Other import commodities: Phosphates, refined gasoline, refined gold, tungsten, titanium, tropical fish.
Exports:
Principal export commodities: Wheat, corn, beef, petroleum, steel, iron ore, uranium, palladium, silver, chemicals, surgical equipment, medicines, temperate lumber, paper products.
Other export commodities: Petrochemicals, industrial machinery, farm machinery, firearms, ammunition, diamonds, granite, marble.

Commodity reserves and usage:

Energy commodities (all figures are for 2013):
Annual natural gas production (m³): 109,060,000,000
Annual natural gas consumption (m³): 103,405,000,000
Estimated proven natural gas reserves (m³): 26,981,000,000,000
Estimated theoretical natural gas reserves (m³): 41,551,000,000,000 (est.)
Annual crude oil production (bbl/day): 11,200,000
Annual crude oil consumption (bbl/day): 10,987,000
Estimated proven oil reserves (bbl): 59,607,930,000
Estimated theoretical oil reserves (bbl): 107,799,000,000 (est.)
Annual coal production (short tons): 457,769,000
Annual coal consumption (short tons): 501,663,000
Estimated proven coal reserves (short tons): 18,175,000,000
Estimated theoretical coal reserves (short tons): 31,707,000,000 (est.)
Annual uranium production (short tons): 1,901
Annual uranium consumption (short tons): 1,893
Estimated proven uranium reserves (short tons): 89,940
Estimated theoretical uranium reserves (short tons): 181,233 (est.)

Trade:

General data:

Net trade balance (current accounts):
+ ₮126,221,560 (Monavian thalers)
+ Int$169,768,000 (2012 international dollars)
Trade volume (2013 international dollars):
Goods: Int$2,919,400,000,000
Services: Int$842,300,000,000

Public Sector:

Taxation and revenue:

National income tax structure: Income taxes are structured according to a bifurcated model. A majority of the population (those making more than ₮25,001, which is about 68.108% of mean per capita income) pays a flat tax. Five other tax brackets with progressive rates exist to accommodate the needs of the lower classes.
Bracket I (total income is less than ₮5,000): Flat 5.00%
Bracket II (total income is between ₮5,001 and ₮10,000): Flat 7.50%
Bracket III (total income is between ₮10,001 and ₮15,000): Flat 10.00%
Bracket IV (total income is between ₮15,001 and ₮20,000): Flat 12.50%
Bracket V (total is between ₮20,001 and ₮25,000): Flat 15.00%
Bracket VI (total exceeds ₮25,001): Flat 25.00%
National taxation rates:
Corporate income tax rate: Flat 12.50% of income after continuing operations
National value added sales tax rate: 2.25% of retail
Fuel tax rate: 4.50%
Tariff rate: 2.50%
Government Income:
National Personal Income Tax: 45%
Corporate Income Tax: 22%
National Value Added Sales Tax: 18%
Tariffs: 6%
Fuel Taxes: 4%
Other Taxes: 3%
Operating Profits: 1%

Expenditures:

Government budget (all figures in Monavian thalers):
Total budget (22.80% of GDP): ₮4,198,343,583,615.31
Budgetary structure:
• Administration for the Welfare of Veterans (1.55%): ₮65,074,325,546.04
• Bureau of Federal Administration (1.00%): ₮41,983,435,836.115
• The Crown (monies reserved for the monarchy’s operations) (0.20%): ₮8,396,687,167.23
• Delian League Treasury Administration (6.00%): ₮251,900,615,016.92
• Emergency Fund Administration (2.00%): ₮83,966,871,672.31
• Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation (0.15%): ₮6,297,515,375.42
• Federal court system (central government’s judiciary) (0.20%): ₮8,396,687,167.23
• Federal Pension Administration (4.50%): ₮188,925,461,262.69
• Fegosian Union Treasury (1.85%): ₮77,669,356,296.88
• Ministry of Agriculture (0.70%): ₮29,388,405,085.31
• Ministry of Commerce (0.50%): ₮20,991,717,918.08
• Ministry of Defense (19.48%): ₮817,837,330,088.26
• Ministry of Education (2.50%): ₮104,958,589,590.38
• Ministry of Energy (1.50%): ₮62,975,153,754.23
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2.00%): ₮83,966,871,672.31
• Ministry of Health (14.50%): ₮608,759,819,624.22
• Ministry of the Interior (0.45%): ₮18,892,546,126.27
• Ministry of Justice (0.90%): ₮37,785,092,252.54
• Ministry of Labor (0.45%): ₮18,892,546,126.27
• Ministry of National Security (2.15%): ₮90,264,387,047.73
• Ministry of State (0.15%): ₮6,297,515,375.42
• Ministry of Transportation (3.10%): ₮130,148,651,092.08
• Ministry of the Treasury (0.62%): ₮26,029,730,218.41
• Miscellaneous departments and agencies (2.40%): ₮100,760,246,006.77
• Monavian Aerospace Exploratory Administration (1.20%): ₮50,380,123,003.38
• Monavian National Intelligence Administration (0.55%): ₮23,090,889,709.88
• Monavian Science Administration (1.10%): ₮46,181,779,419.77
• Monies reserved for Parliament’s operations (0.20%): ₮8,396,687,167.23
• Royal Bureau of the Gendarmerie (0.15%): ₮6,297,515,375.42
• Social security programs (17.40%): ₮730,511,783,549.06
• Surplus funds (1.05%): ₮44,082,607,627.96
• Welfare programs (9.50%): ₮398,842,640,443.46

Military

General Information:

Personnel and manpower:

Minimum age of enlistment (years): 19 (peacetime); 17 (wartime)
Service obligation: Volunteer enlistment for a four year term (peacetime) or two year term (wartime); conscription is only permitted when the Empire is facing an existential threat and draftee enlistment terms cannot exceed two years.
Military employment rate: 1.7% (est.)
Manpower fit for service (defined as individuals between the ages of seventeen and fifty and in good health): 163,032,000 (2013 est.)

Expenditures:

Total military expenditures: ₮817,837,330,088.26 (4.441% of nominal GDP)

Expenditures by department:
Monavian Imperial Army (24.97%): ₮204,213,981,323.04
Monavian Imperial Navy (22.43%): ₮183,440,913,138.80
Monavian Imperial Air Force (19.41%) ₮158,742,225,770.13
Monavian Royal Marine Corps (5.78%): ₮47,270,997,679.10
Monavian Royal Guard (4.49%): ₮36,720,896,120.96
Monavian Royal Coast Guard (1.11%): ₮9,077,994,363.98
National Militia (5.31%): ₮43,427,162,227.69
Directorate of Military Intelligence (3.18%): ₮26,007,227,096.81
Ministry of Defense general expenditures (13.32%): ₮108,935,932,367.76

Leadership and Manpower:

General leadership structure:

Minister of Defense: The Right Honorable Carl Blake
Monavian National Defense Council:
The Right Honorable Alexei A. Solovyov, Deputy Minister of Defense
Hon. Gordan Bogdanov, Marshal of the Imperial Air Force
Hon. Thaddeus Lambert, Marshal of the Imperial Army
Hon. Philip Santoro, Marshal of the Royal Marine Corps
Hon. Lazar Dragović, Marshal of the Royal Guard
Hon. Friedrich Albert Neufeld, Admiral of the Imperial Navy
Hon. Vladimir Simić, Admiral of the Royal Coast Guard
Hon. Elias Mercer, Commandant of the National Militia
Hon. James Cheney, General Director of the Monavian National Intelligence Administration
Director of Military Intelligence: Nathaniel Donaldson

Manpower summary:

Ministry of Defense employees:
Director of Military Intelligence employees:
Armed forces proper:
Monavian Imperial Army:
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Imperial Navy:
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Imperial Air Force:
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Royal Marine Corps:
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Royal Guard:
• Active:
• Reserve:
Monavian Royal Coast Guard:
• Active:
• Reserve:
National Militia:
• Active:
• Reserve:

Relations With Foreign States

General Information:

List of foreign embassies: Here.

Recent treaties (ratified after 2006): Lex Salisbrugis Regnum XXVII, Monavia-Lamoni Friendship Treaty, Treaty of Chalcedon, Charter of the Fegosian Union, Charter of the Delian League, Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance, and the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves. Full texts of these documents can be found here.

Major alliances: Bilateral pact with the Free Republic of Lamoni (January 28, 2008), bilateral pact with the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct), Delian League (March 2008), and Fegosian Union (June 2008).

Transnational issues: The Monavian Empire presently has strained relations with Novikov and Ralkovia. The country’s highly-developed financial sector facilitates money laundering and foreign tax evasion.

Political Relations:

Nations with diplomatic alliances:

Key:
*Delian League ally
**Fegosian Union ally
§Special bilateral pact
†Signatory to the Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance
‡Signatory to the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves
List:
Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) §
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav §
Principality of Damirez * (founder, defunct) †
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture * †
Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld * †
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** † ‡
Empire of Mephras (defunct) * †
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * † ‡
Greater Economic Union of New Manth (defunct) * †
Free Republic of Lamoni * § †
Fortress State of Animarnia *
Tribal Dominion of Veteka *
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
People’s Nation of Alfegos ** (founder) † ‡
Peoples Republic of Mokastana **
Holy Empire of Zaheran (defunct)**
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** † ‡
Kingdom of Krommindy ** †
Armed Republic of Salzland †
Constitutional State of Goldaron †
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos †
Totalitarian Socialist State of Tigerlan †
United Kingdom of Korrodos †
The Atrean Imperium †
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania (defunct) †
Imperial Freikorps of Greater Tezdrian ‡
Grand Duchy of Radictistan ‡
Military Protectorate of Nalaya ‡
Democratic Commonwealth of Elyomia ‡
Greater Island Kingdom of New Hayesalia ‡

Nations with amicable relations:

Republic of Ruccola
Principality of Kurona
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes (defunct)
Republic of Mourro
Kingdom of Bielostrov (defunct)

Nations with neutral diplomatic status:

Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Skyland Mt (defunct)
Celestial Empire of Zongguo
Republic of Novus Prosperitas (defunct)
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
San Alto (defunct)

Nations with strained diplomatic relations:

Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (as of December 2011)
Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia (as of 2009)

Nations with diplomatic relations cut off:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Economic Relations:

Nations with trade pacts or agreements:

Key:
*Under Delian League Charter or related agreements
**Under Fegosian Union Charter or similar agreements
§Under special bilateral agreements
‡Under agreements in accordance with the Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves
Under Delian League Charter or related agreements:
Principality of Damirez (founder, defunct) *
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture *
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) *
Empire of Mephras (defunct) *
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * ‡
Greater Economic Union of New Manth (defunct) *
Free Republic of Lamoni * §
Fortress State of Animarnia *
Tribal Dominion of Veteka *
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
Peoples Nation of Alfegos (founder) **
Peoples Republic of Mokastana **
Holy Empire of Zaheran (defunct) **
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** ‡
Kingdom of Krommindy ** ‡
Imperial Freikorps of Greater Tezdrian ‡
Grand Duchy of Radictistan ‡
Military Protectorate of Nalaya ‡
Democratic Commonwealth of Elyomia ‡
Greater Island Kingdom of New Hayesalia ‡

Nations with diplomatic recognition but no trade agreements:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto (defunct)
Kingdom of Bielostrov

Nations embargoed:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

Military Relations:

Nations allied with the Monavian Empire:

Key:
*Delian League ally
**Fegosian Union ally
§Special bilateral pact
†Membership in the unofficially defunct Nova Coalition
List:
Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) §
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav §
Principality of Damirez * (founder) †
United Technocracy of Etoile Arcture * †
Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld *
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** †
Empire of Mephras * †
Revolutionary Commonwealth of Wagdog * †
Greater Economic Union of New Manth * †
Free Republic of Lamoni * § †
Fortress State of Animarnia * †
Tribal Dominion of Veteka * †
Federal Republic of Pennsylvania *
People’s Nation of Alfegos ** (founder) †
Peoples Republic of Mokastana ** †
Holy Empire of Zaheran ** †
Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag * **
Kingdom of Krommindy **
Armed Republic of Salzland (de facto ally under several definitions) †
Protectorate of Lyras †
Coscivian Federacy of Kirav †
Federal Republic of Leistung †
Imperial Federated States of Romandeos †

Nations favored by the Monavian Empire:

Kingdom of Bielostrov (unofficially)

Neutral nations:

Principality of Kurona
Lioist Federation of Stoklomolvi
United Socialist States of New Brittonia
Free Land of Bhreatain Mhor
Theocracy of Latterday Saints State
Theocracy of Caronis
Principality of Northern Rangeria
National Congregation of New True Cross
United Socialist States of Nosorepazzau
Stratocratic Republic of Magdha
United Worker's Republic of Leocardia
Hispanic Republic of Miami Jai-Alai
Protectorate of Starblaydia
Republic of Novus Prosperitas
Republic of Zinaire
Grand Duchy of Noordeinde
Allied States of New Kereptica
United Kingdom of Telvira
Armed Republic of Nachmere
Republic of Ruccola
Republic of Mourro
Federation of Brewdonia (armistice)
Protectorate of Lyras
Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania
Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania
Grand Theocratic Empire of Holy Marsh
Dual Imperial Monarchy of Anagonia-Yohannes
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov
San Alto (defunct)

Nations unfavorable towards the Monavian Empire but not hostile to it:

Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia (as of 2009)
Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (as of December 2011)
Imperial Commonwealth of Alexiandra (as of December 2011)

Hostile nations:

Fortunately, there are none at this time.

INFORMATION IN THIS FACTBOOK IS SUBJECT TO REVISION AT THE POSTER’S DISCRETION.

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:04 pm

Code: Select all: [font=sitka heading][b]OOC N[size=75]OTES[/size]: This document refers to the MT+ version of Monavia I use for most MT/PMT roleplaying purposes. If you have any questions about how I calculate specific stats, please send me questions via telegram or contact me through Discord Chat (handle "Monavia"). This document is just an overview summary, so please consult the [url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=330032][i]Encyclopedic Compendium of the Monavian Empire[/i][/url] if you want to view more detailed and comprehensive reference information. 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The 1,302-year-old Monavian Empire covers an approximate territorial area of 7,340,000 square kilometers and its population of 554,100,000 produces an estimated annual gross domestic product (GDP) valued at ₮11,737,000,000,000 (Int$21,580,000,000,000). [b]Name (conventional long form):[/b] The Imperial Federation of the Monavian Empire [b]Name (conventional short forms):[/b] Monavia, Monavian Empire [b]Date of founding:[/b] June 14, [size=75]AD[/size] 718 [size=150]National Symbols[/size] [b]Motto:[/b] [i]Monavia est Novus Ordo Mundi[/i] (Latin: Monavia is the New Order of the World) [b]Colors:[/b] White, crimson, and gold [b]Anthem:[/b] “Hail, O Radiant Country” [b]National day:[/b] Foundation Day (June 14) [align=center][b]National flag (adopted 1764)[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/BJp7Fk1.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]National seal[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/24p7HI0.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Lesser coat of arms[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/7m4mM9n.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Medium coat of arms[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/cSUZfX8.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Greater coat of arms[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/giNO08f.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Mascot/allegorical personification[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/BJp7Fk1.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Animal:[/b] golden eagle ([i]Aquila chrysaetos[/i]) [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Golden_eagle.jpg/586px-Golden_eagle.jpg[/img] [b]Flower:[/b] Salt marsh iris ([i]Iris halophila[/i]) [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Iris_halophila_02.JPG/360px-Iris_halophila_02.JPG[/img] [b]Tree:[/b] Silver fir ([i]Abies alba[/i]) [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Abies_alba_Wis%C5%82a_1.jpg/383px-Abies_alba_Wis%C5%82a_1.jpg[/img][/align] [hr] [font=sitka heading][align=center][size=225]D[/size][size=150]EMOGRAPHIC[/size][size=225] S[/size][size=150]UMMARY[/size][/align][/font] [size=150]General Demographic Statistics[/size] [b]Population (2020 est.):[/b] 554,121,180 [b]Human Development Index (HDI) score:[/b] 0.8792 [u]Life expectancy (years):[/u] 80.56 [tab=10][/tab]Men: 78.83 [tab=10][/tab]Women: 82.25 [u]Education Index score:[/u] [tab=10][/tab]Mean years of schooling: 14.575 [tab=10][/tab]Expected years of schooling: 11.700 [b]Net rate of population growth, 2019:[/b] 1.3239% [tab=10][/tab]Natural rate of population increase per 1,000 people, 2019 est.: 5.8622 [tab=20][/tab]• Replacement fertility rate, 2019 est.: 2.081 births per woman [tab=20][/tab]• Birth rate per 1,000 people, 2019 est.: 13.3437 [tab=20][/tab]• Mortality rate per 1,000 persons per year, 2019 est.: 7.4815 [tab=10][/tab]Net migration, 2019: +4,087,880 [tab=10][/tab]Net migration rate per 1,000 persons: 7.3772 [tab=20][/tab]• Immigrants, 2019: 4,696,974 [tab=20][/tab]• Immigration rate per 1,000 persons: 8.4764 [tab=20][/tab]• Emigrants, 2019: 609,094 [tab=20][/tab]• Emigration rate per 1,000 persons: 1.0992 [b]General miscellaneous statistics:[/b] [u]Population density:[/u] 75.54 persons per km[size=85][sup]2[/sup][/size] [u]Median age (years):[/u] 39.925 [u]Sex ratio (overall):[/u] 0.9775 males per 1.000 females [u]Manpower fit for service:[/u] 185,281,614 [size=150]Cultural Demographics[/size] [b]Religious adherence:[/b] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Category[/align][/td][td][align=center]% of Total[/align][/td][td][align=center]Claimed Adherents[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Orthodox Christianity[/td][td]54.282[/td][td][align=right]300,785,968[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Roman Catholicism (both rites)[/td][td]20.485[/td][td][align=right]113,511,612[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Anglicanism[/td][td]5.064[/td][td][align=right]27,863,853[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Sunni Islam[/td][td]4.352[/td][td][align=right]24,115,220[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Baptist[/td][td]3.588[/td][td][align=right]19,742,765[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Lutheranism[/td][td]2.624[/td][td][align=right]14,441,540[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Methodism[/td][td]1.537[/td][td][align=right]8,460,094[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Buddhism[/td][td]1.559[/td][td][align=right]8,636,946[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Shi’a Islam[/td][td]1.373[/td][td][align=right]7,601,671[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Pentecostalism[/td][td]0.955[/td][td][align=right]5,290,109[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Judaism[/td][td]0.824[/td][td][align=right]4,563,579[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Marshism[/td][td]0.777[/td][td][align=right]4,308,171[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Adventism[/td][td]0.588[/td][td][align=right]3,260,119[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Hinduism[/td][td]0.416[/td][td][align=right]2,307,425[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Taoism[/td][td]0.347[/td][td][align=right]1,924,157[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Atheism[/td][td]0.204[/td][td][align=right]1,128,588[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Deism[/td][td]0.199[/td][td][align=right]1,100,376[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Sikhism[/td][td]0.189[/td][td][align=right]1,045,705[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Kogyokist Christianity[/td][td]0.184[/td][td][align=right]1,018,519[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Bahá’í Faith[/td][td]0.147[/td][td][align=right]813,725[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Mormonism[/td][td]0.145[/td][td][align=right]804,304[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Unaffiliated Christian[/td][td]0.046[/td][td][align=right]254,880[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Fegosianism (all sects)[/td][td]0.046[/td][td][align=right]254,261[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Jainism[/td][td]0.036[/td][td][align=right]200,261[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Other/irreligious [/td][td]0.035[/td][td][align=right]191,292[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Shintoism[/td][td]0.021[/td][td][align=right]117,856[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Church of Scientology[/td][td]0.020[/td][td][align=right]122,638[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Rastafarianism[/td][td]0.017[/td][td][align=right]96,619[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Mennonite/Amish faith[/td][td]0.012[/td][td][align=right]64,618[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Society of Friends (Quakers)[/td][td]0.012[/td][td][align=right]64,051[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Zoroastrianism[/td][td]0.006[/td][td][align=right]33,951[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Total[/b][/td][td][b]100.000[/b][/td][td][align=right][b]554,120,870[/b][/align][/td][/tr][/table][/box] [b]Languages:[/b] [b]Official languages (with ISO 639-1 codes):[/b] Common (en), Vendian (la), Russian (ru) [b]Recognized regional languages:[/b] Prevanian (el), Romanian (ro), Serbian (sr), Hugenic (de) [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Main Language Spoken[/align][/td][td][align=center]% of Total[/align][/td][td][align=center]Speakers[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Common (en)[/td][td]48.837[/td][td][align=right]270,616,612[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Vendian (la)[/td][td]16.391[/td][td][align=right]90,825,840[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Russian (ru)[/td][td]11.125[/td][td][align=right]61,646,308[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Prevanian (el)[/td][td]4.920[/td][td][align=right]27,264,756[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Romanian (ro)[/td][td]4.345[/td][td][align=right]24,074,355[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Serbian (sr)[/td][td]3.976[/td][td][align=right]22,031,103[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Slovak (sk)[/td][td]3.257[/td][td][align=right]18,047,158[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Arabic (ar)[/td][td]2.324[/td][td][align=right]12,875,765[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Hugenic (de)[/td][td]1.444[/td][td][align=right]8,000,229[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Yanitarian (fr)[/td][td]1.026[/td][td][align=right]5,687,057[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Parthian (fa)[/td][td]0.958[/td][td][align=right]5,307,598[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Hindi (hi)[/td][td]0.690[/td][td][align=right]3,821,838[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Chinese (zh)[/td][td]0.234[/td][td][align=right]1,296,912[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Ralkovian (he)[/td][td]0.168[/td][td][align=right]929,344[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Zarbian (es)[/td][td]0.142[/td][td][align=right]787,291[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Fegosian (fg)[/td][td]0.056[/td][td][align=right]310,059[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Yiddish (yi)[/td][td]0.053[/td][td][align=right]293,478[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Nifonese (jp)[/td][td]0.040[/td][td][align=right]224,317[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Other[/td][td]0.008[/td][td][align=right]45,245[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Katonazagi (hu)[/td][td]0.006[/td][td][align=right]35,861[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Total[/b][/td][td][b]100.000[/b][/td][td][align=right][b]554,121,180[/b][/align][/td][/tr][/table][/box] [hr] [font=sitka heading][align=center][size=225]G[/size][size=150]EOGRAPHY[/size][/align][/font] [size=150]General Information[/size] [b]Total land area:[/b] 7,335,520 square kilometers [b]Highest point:[/b] Mount Talus (23,539.75 feet above sea level) [b]Lowest point:[/b] Austin Canyon (134.225 feet below sea level) [b]Maritime claims:[/b] 20 nautical miles [b]Exclusive Economic Zone:[/b] 100 nautical miles [b]Climate:[/b] The Monavian Empire is located in a region of the southern hemisphere lying to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Its overall climate is temperate, but due to various geographic factors and uneven heating, the climate does not follow normal patterns. Warm water is pushed southward past eastern Monavia and Vendia, causing climates on the eastern coasts of those countries to become unusually balmy. In addition, the presence of the Hellanean and Vendian Seas in between the two countries leads to small temperature ranges in coastal locations. [b]Major cities:[/b] Adamov, Agrinio, Aldan, Ardino, Arsk, Avrig, Azov, Bakar, Balchik, Baraolt, Belovo, Berane, Brezno, Brovary, Budislav, Chalcedon (capital), Chirpan, Chitila, Christopol, Corinth, Cricova, Derventa, Detva, Dorog, Dulovo, Elista, Gabrovo, Galanta, Giurgiu, Ignalina, Irpin, Kaltan, Kamnik, Karditsa, Kargat, Kashin, Kikinda, Kladno, Kovin, Kubrat, Labin, Labinsk, Lapovo, Larissa, Leova, Levski, Liberec, Loznica, Maribor, Martin, Mioveni, Mostar, Motru, Negotin, Nikolsk, Nikopol, Nova Gorica, Novi Pazar, Novigrad, Novo Mesto, Novosil, Odessa, Opava, Ostrov, Palanga, Pestovo, Petrich, Petrila, Podgorica, Razgrad, Resnik, Siracusa, Slobozia, Snina, Sombor, Sopron, Soroca, Taraclia, Theodosia, Tiraspol, Trieste, Troyan, Utena, Visoko, and Zenica. [size=150]Maps[/size] [align=center][b]Physical Map (mainland)[/b] [url=https://i.imgur.com/104PM17.png](link to full-size version)[/url] [spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/104PM17.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Physical Map (Eastern Therese)[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/CaBhkU8.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Topographic Map[/b] [color=#FF0000]UNDER CONSTRUCTION[/color] [b]Political Map (compact)[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/kyQjZ2y.png[/img][/spoiler] [b]Political Map (extended)[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/ReosFUc.png[/img][/spoiler][/align] [hr] [font=sitka heading][align=center][size=225]G[/size][size=150]OVERNMENT[/size][/align][/font] [size=150]Overview[/size] [b]Capital:[/b] Chalcedon [b]Administrative divisions:[/b] Capital District, sixty-three provinces, and one joint colony. [b]Governance model:[/b] Federal [b]Form of central government:[/b] Constitutional monarchy with elected parliament and independent nonpartisan judiciary [b]Current governing system installed:[/b] 1732 [b]Constitution:[/b] The current constitution was written and ratified in 1732. Consisting of eight articles, it has been supplemented by nineteen amendments since then (three were added in 2011). The Monavian Constitution serves as the chief governing document of the Monavian Empire and specifies the rules by which the central and provincial governments operate. Treaties and other international agreements have the same legal force as constitutional law. [b]Suffrage:[/b] universal for all citizens above twenty years of age (formerly twenty-one until 2011); requires registration; can be suspended or revoked on grounds of felony conviction or mental incompetence. [size=150]Governance Structure and Leadership[/size] [b]Overview:[/b] The Imperial Federation’s governance structure consists of a central government and dozens of provincial governments. The central government is organized into three main organs: an executive organ (the Imperial Crown), a legislative organ (the Imperial Parliament), and a judicial organ (the Imperial Judiciary). For a comprehensive detailed overview of the Imperial Federation’s governance structure, please consult [url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133866]this document[/url]. [b]Executive organ:[/b] The Imperial Crown is organized as a coregency between Their Holy Imperial Majesties Charles IX and Elizabeth VI Petrović. The Crown’s powers include executive discretion to approve or veto laws enacted by the Imperial Parliament, plenary authority over the civil service, armed forces, and diplomatic officers (including the power to appoint and dismiss subordinates at will), the appointment of federal judges, and treaty signing authority. As the federal government’s chief executive officers, the monarchs typically focus on making broad policy determinations and delegate the day-to-day execution of their will to the Royal Cabinet, a body of ministers led by a prime minister who functions as the government’s chief operations officer. Principal cabinet officials include: [tab=20][/tab]• Prime Minister Ivan Goronev (2018–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Agriculture George Brenner (2005–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Commerce Haley Pine (2016–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Culture Svetlana Solonin (2015–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Defense Alexei A. Solovyov (2019–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Education Francis Mason (2004–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Energy George Milanković (2016–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Foreign Affairs Augustus Borozan (2018–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Health Nancy Wood (2007–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of the Interior Milan Alexandrov (2011–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Justice Nicholas Ellsworth (2006–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Labor Cameron Putlin (2011–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of National Security Owen Chambers (2015–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Science Milutin Shastovich (2015–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of State Jacob Dorn (2019–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of Transportation Stephan Harrison (2006–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Minister of the Treasury Paul Graber (2017–present) Other noteworthy executive officials include: [tab=20][/tab]• Her Ladyship Agatha Stockton, Treasurer of the Monavian Empire [tab=20][/tab]• Mr. James Cheney, General Director of the Federal Intelligence Department [tab=20][/tab]• Professor Emeritus Nathan Scribner, Ph.D., Royal Economic Security Adviser [tab=20][/tab]• His Grace Adam Roland, D.D., Bishop of Chalcedon and Royal Spiritual Adviser [tab=20][/tab]• The Honorable Frederick Locke, Representative of the Monavian Royal Court [tab=20][/tab]• Mr. Richard Jackson, Royal Secretary [tab=20][/tab]• Mrs. Nadia Nikolovna Orlov, Social Secretary of the Royal Family [tab=20][/tab]• Mrs. Sarah Ivanovna Saratov, Press Secretary of the Royal Family [tab=20][/tab]• Jennifer Varga, LL.B, Royal Legal Counsel [b]Legislative organ:[/b] The Imperial Parliament organized as a bicameral legislature consisting of an upper house (the Imperial Senate) and a lower house (the Representative Assembly). The Imperial Senate consists of 126 members (two representing each province) who are elected to serve six-year terms. From 1732 to 2011, all senators were elected by direct popular vote. In 2011, the Monavian Constitution was amended to better represent provincial interests by requiring that one of the senators from each province is elected by its legislature instead of its populace. The rationale underlying this change is derived from the fact that the Representative Assembly already represents popular interests; a senate that does the same would be too redundant. The Representative Assembly consists of 1,156 members apportioned among the Empire’s provinces according to population. Each representative is responsible for the interests of a district and is directly elected by the inhabitants of his or her district to serve two-year terms. [u]Principal Senate officials:[/u] [tab=20][/tab]• President: His Excellency Julius N. Stojan, Chancellor of the Monavian Empire and President of the Imperial Senate (2017–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Clerk of the Imperial Senate: Denise K. Yudina (2014–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Senate Parliamentarian: Lauren Morgan (2012–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Longest-serving member: Lord Ivan Chertok, Dean of the Imperial Senate (first elected in 1974) [tab=20][/tab]• Sergeant-at-Arms: Felix Elliot Graham [u]Principal Representative Assembly officials:[/u] [tab=20][/tab]• President: His Excellency Theodore Kohler, Premier of the Representative Assembly (2018–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Clerk of the Representative Assembly: Benjamin Flynn (2015–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Representative Assembly Parliamentarian: Erich von Borden (2010–present) [tab=20][/tab]• Longest-serving member: Maxwell Ellington, Dean of the Representative Assembly (first elected in 1970) [tab=20][/tab]• Sergeant-at-Arms: Nikolas Kramer [b]Judicial organ:[/b] The Imperial Judiciary consists of a national supreme court and various inferior tribunals chartered by the Imperial Parliament. Its judges are responsible for rendering official interpretations of the law and determining whether or not it has been violated by certain actions. The judiciary is organized into four tiers of general courts (national tribunals with jurisdiction over matters of both constitutional and statutory law) and special courts which serve specific functions. [u]General courts:[/u] [tab=20][/tab]• The Supreme Court is the Monavian Empire’s highest judicial institution. It has the final authority on all matters pertaining to the interpretation of laws, and may, at any time, call the legitimacy or constitutionality of any law into question. The court’s rulings are final unless it reverses its decision at a later time. It consists of a panel of nine justices appointed by the Crown. Its proceedings are presided over by His Supreme Honor William Franklin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Monavian Empire (appointed 2002). [tab=20][/tab]• The Nine High Courts of Appeals: The sixty-three provinces of the Monavian Empire are grouped into nine districts, each containing seven provinces. Each district contains a High Court of Appeals, which handles decisions appealed from the Lower Courts of Appeals. [tab=20][/tab]• Lower Courts of Appeals: Under each of the Nine High Courts of Appeals is seven Lower Courts of Appeals. Each Lower Court has jurisdiction over one province, and handles decisions appealed from Federal Precinct Courts. [tab=20][/tab]• Federal Precinct Courts: Each province of the Monavian Empire is divided into a series of precincts, typically consisting of several counties. Each precinct contains one of these courts, which has original jurisdiction over the majority of federal cases. [u]Special courts:[/u] [tab=20][/tab]• Courts of Federal Claims: These judicial bodies are tasked with handling civil trials in the same fashion that the general courts handle criminal trials and tests of constitutionality. They consist of sixty-three provincially-located courts of federal claims and seven appellate courts of federal claims. The two tiers of this system mirror the tiers of general national courts. [tab=20][/tab]• Courts Martial: These tribunals handle all judicial matters relating to the military. They are classed into an entry tier and an appellate tier. [tab=20][/tab]• FBCR Tribunals: The Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation operates a network of courts chartered by the Imperial Parliament to serve as forums for hearing trade and customs disputes. The network includes two levels of courts (entry and appellate). Pursuant to statutory reforms enacted to facilitate the adoption and implementation of the Charter of the Fegosian Union, FBCR court rulings can now be appealed to the Fegosian Union Trade Commission as an alternative to a supreme court appeal. [size=150]Government Expenditures[/size] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Category[/align][/td][td][align=center]% of total[/align][/td][td][align=center]Total Spending in 2019[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]General Administration Functions[/td][td]2.200[/td][td][align=right]₮45,041,344,869.37[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]The Crown[/td][td]0.200[/td][td][align=right]₮4,094,667,715.40[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Imperial Parliament[/td][td]0.240[/td][td][align=right]₮4,913,601,258.48[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Federal Judiciary[/td][td]0.240[/td][td][align=right]₮4,913,601,258.48[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of State[/td][td]0.150[/td][td][align=right]₮3,071,000,786.55[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Central Government Courier Service[/td][td]0.090[/td][td][align=right]₮1,842,600,471.93[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Imperial Federation Postal Service[/td][td]0.280[/td][td][align=right]₮5,732,534,801.56[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Bureau of General Administration[/td][td]1.000[/td][td][align=right]₮20,473,338,576.99[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Economic Policy Functions[/td][td]7.390[/td][td][align=right]₮151,297,972,083.94[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Agriculture[/td][td]0.700[/td][td][align=right]₮14,331,337,003.89[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Commerce[/td][td]0.550[/td][td][align=right]₮11,260,336,217.34[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Energy[/td][td]1.500[/td][td][align=right]₮30,710,007,865.48[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of the Interior[/td][td]0.450[/td][td][align=right]₮9,213,002,359.64[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Labor[/td][td]0.470[/td][td][align=right]₮9,622,469,131.18[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Transportation[/td][td]3.100[/td][td][align=right]₮63,467,349,588.66[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of the Treasury (incl. IBR)[/td][td]0.620[/td][td][align=right]₮12,693,469,917.73[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Foreign Relations Functions[/td][td]9.980[/td][td][align=right]₮204,323,918,998.34[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Fegosian Union Treasury Administration[/td][td]1.850[/td][td][align=right]₮37,875,676,367.43[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Delian League Treasury Administration[/td][td]6.000[/td][td][align=right]₮122,840,031,461.93[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Interpol Commitments[/td][td]0.010[/td][td][align=right]₮204,733,385.77[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Foreign Affairs[/td][td]2.120[/td][td][align=right]₮43,403,477,783.21[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Social Policy Functions[/td][td]51.550[/td][td][align=right]₮1,055,400,603,643.74[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Administration for the Welfare of Veterans[/td][td]1.550[/td][td][align=right]₮31,733,674,794.33[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Emergency Fund Administration[/td][td]2.000[/td][td][align=right]₮40,946,677,153.98[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Federal Pension Administration[/td][td]21.900[/td][td][align=right]₮448,366,114,836.04[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Culture[/td][td]0.500[/td][td][align=right]₮10,236,669,288.49[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Education[/td][td]2.400[/td][td][align=right]₮49,136,012,584.77[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Health (incl. NMSB)[/td][td]23.200[/td][td][align=right]₮474,981,454,986.13[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Security Functions[/td][td]22.230[/td][td][align=right]₮455,122,316,566.45[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Defense[/td][td]19.480[/td][td][align=right]₮398,820,635,479.73[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of National Security[/td][td]2.150[/td][td][align=right]₮44,017,677,940.52[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Federal Intelligence Department[/td][td]0.550[/td][td][align=right]₮11,260,336,217.34[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Bureau of Covert Oversight[/td][td]0.050[/td][td][align=right]₮1,023,666,928.85[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Law Enforcement Functions[/td][td]1.300[/td][td][align=right]₮26,615,340,150.08[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Royal Gendermerie[/td][td]0.150[/td][td][align=right]₮3,071,000,786.55[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Federal Security Agency[/td][td]0.100[/td][td][align=right]₮2,047,333,857.70[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Federal Bureau of Commerce Regulation[/td][td]0.150[/td][td][align=right]₮3,071,000,786.55[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Justice[/td][td]0.900[/td][td][align=right]₮18,426,004,719.29[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Other Functions[/td][td]5.350[/td][td][align=right]₮109,532,361,386.89[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Ministry of Science[/td][td]1.100[/td][td][align=right]₮22,520,672,434.69[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Monavian Space Exploration Agency[/td][td]1.200[/td][td][align=right]₮24,568,006,292.39[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Miscellaneous departments and agencies[/td][td]2.000[/td][td][align=right]₮40,946,677,153.98[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][tab=10][/tab]Surplus funds[/td][td]1.050[/td][td][align=right]₮21,497,005,505.84[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Total[/b][/td][td][b]100.00[/b][/td][td][align=right][b]₮2,047,333,857,698.82[/b][/align][/td][/tr][/table][/box] [hr] [font=sitka heading][align=center][size=225]E[/size][size=150]CONOMY[/size][/align][/font] [size=150]General Economic Overview[/size] [b]Economic system:[/b] Market [b]Fiscal year:[/b] Calendar year [b]Nominal GDP (thalers):[/b] ₮11,632,578,736,925.10 (Int$21,387,659,265,710.50 in 2020 international dollars) [b]Nominal GDP per capita (thalers):[/b] ₮20,992.84 (Int$38,597.44 in 2020 international dollars) [b]Nominal GDP growth rate, 2019:[/b] 3.11% [b]Gross fixed investment as a percentage of GDP (2019 est.):[/b] 20.107% [b]Public sector as a percentage of GDP:[/b] 17.600% [b]GDP Composition by Sector[/b] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Sector[/align][/td][td][align=center]% of GDP[/align][/td][td][align=center]Share of GDP (Thalers)[/align][/td][td][align=center]Share of GDP (Int. Dollars)[/align][/td][td][align=center]% of Labor Force[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Agriculture[/td][td]4.28[/td][td][align=right]₮497,292,741,003.55[/align][/td][td][align=right]$914,322,433,609.12[/align][/td][td][align=right]6.93[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Industry[/td][td]29.93[/td][td][align=right]₮3,481,049,187,024.83[/align][/td][td][align=right]$6,400,257,035,263.86[/align][/td][td][align=right]27.85[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Services[/td][td]65.80[/td][td][align=right]₮7,654,236,808,896.71[/align][/td][td][align=right]$14,073,079,796,837.50[/align][/td][td][align=right]65.23[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Total[/b][/td][td][b]100.00[/b][/td][td][align=right][b]₮11,632,578,736,925.10[/b][/align][/td][td][align=right][b]$21,387,659,265,710.50[/b][/align][/td][td][align=right][b]100.00[/b][/align][/td][/tr][/table][/box] [b]Labor force participation (2019 average):[/b] 68.24% [b]Unemployment rate (2019 average):[/b] 3.26% [size=150]Finances and Trade[/size] [b]Currency:[/b] Monavian Thaler (₮) [b]Exchange rate (2020 est.):[/b] ₮1.0000 = Int$1.8386 [b]Inflation rate (est. 2019 average):[/b] 1.35% [b]Stock of domestic credit (est. 2020 international dollars):[/b] Int$16,955,149,000,000 [b]Narrow money (M1) stock (2019 est.):[/b] Int$5,761,000,000,000 [b]Broad money (M2) stock (2019 est.):[/b] Int$19,245,000,000,000 [b]Leading Imports:[/b] Clothing, pharmaceuticals, tropical fruits, tropical lumber, tropical fish, phosphates, osmiridium ore, refined gold, tungsten ore, titanium ore, lithium ore, cement. [b]Leading Exports:[/b] Wheat, corn, beef, shellfish, petroleum, refined gasoline, petrochemicals, steel, iron ore, uranium products, palladium, silver, chemicals, surgical equipment, medicines, temperate lumber, paper products, industrial machinery, farm machinery, firearms, ammunition, diamonds, granite, marble, salt. [b]Leading Trade Partners:[/b] Vendia, Etoile Arcture, Deamonopolis, Palmyrion, Romandeos, Holy Marsh, The Macabees, Lamoni, Stevid, Wellovia (Mokastana), Korrodos, Animarnia. [b]Current Account Balance (est. 2020 international dollars):[/b] Int$1,427,270,000,000 [b]Current Account Balance as a percentage of GDP:[/b] 6.673% [size=150]Energy[/size] [b]Annual Energy Production and Reserves[/b] [b]Annual electricity production:[/b] 8,516,669,281,673 kWh/year [b]Production-to-consumption ratio:[/b] 1.052 [b]Annual electricity consumption:[/b] 8,093,078,357,774 kWh/year [b]Annual electricity consumption per capita:[/b] 14,605 kWh/year [b]Energy Production[/b] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Source[/align][/td][td][align=center]Production in kWh[/align][/td][td][align=center]% of Total[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Nuclear[/td][td][align=right]3,713,267,806,809[/align][/td][td]43.60[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Natural Gas[/td][td][align=right]2,197,300,674,672[/align][/td][td]25.80[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Hydropower[/td][td][align=right]1,175,300,360,871[/align][/td][td]13.8[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Coal[/td][td][align=right]740,950,227,506[/align][/td][td]8.70[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Oil[/td][td][align=right]298,083,424,859[/align][/td][td]3.5[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Solar[/td][td][align=right]238,466,739,887[/align][/td][td]2.8[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Wind[/td][td][align=right]110,716,700,662[/align][/td][td]1.30[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Geothermal[/td][td][align=right]42,583,346,408[/align][/td][td]0.50[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Total[/b][/td][td][align=right][b]8,516,669,281,673[/b][/align][/td][td][b]100.00[/b][/td][/tr][/table][/box] [b]Energy Commodities[/b] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Commodity[/align][/td][td][align=center]Production[/align][/td][td][align=center]Consumption[/align][/td][td][align=center]Est. Proven Reserves[/align][/td][td][align=center]Est. Theoretical Reserves[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Natural Gas[/td][td]109,060,000,000 m[size=85][sup]3[/sup][/size][/td][td]103,405,000,000 m[size=85][sup]3[/sup][/size][/td][td]26,981,000,000,000 m[size=85][sup]3[/sup][/size][/td][td]45,551,000,000,000 m[size=85][sup]3[/sup][/size][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Crude Oil[/td][td]1,120,000 bbl/day[/td][td]10,987,000 bbl/day[/td][td]6,433,870,000 bbl[/td][td]17,799,000,000 bbl[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Coal[/td][td]457,769,000 short tons[/td][td]501,663,000 short tons[/td][td]18,175,000,000 short tons[/td][td]31,707,000,000 short tons[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Uranium[/td][td]1,807 tonnes[/td][td]1,893 tonnes[/td][td]77,200 tonnes[/td][td]184,000 tonnes[/td][/tr][/table][/box] [b]Mains voltage:[/b] 120 V (residential), 240 V (commercial) [b]Mains frequency:[/b] 50 Hz [size=150]Transportation[/size] [b]Ground Transportation[/b] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Category[/align][/td][td][align=center]Total Quantity[/align][/td][td][align=center]Quantity per 1,000 People[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Motorways (km)[/td][td]12,030,033[/td][td]21.710[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Expressways (km)[/td][td]231,199[/td][td]0.417[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Unpaved Roads (km)[/td][td]6,346,350[/td][td]11.453[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Motor Vehicles[/td][td]263,346,091[/td][td]475[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Conventional Railroad Tracks (km)[/td][td]73,120[/td][td]0.132[/td][/tr] [tr][td]High-Speed Railroad Tracks (km)[/td][td]9,506[/td][td]0.017[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Subway Tracks (km)[/td][td]1,107[/td][td]0.002[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Metro Stations[/td][td]641[/td][td]0.001[/td][/tr][/table][/box] [b]Driving side:[/b] Right (→) [b]Rail gauges:[/b] 1,600 mm (broad), 1,520 mm (standard), 1,435 (narrow) [b]Total length of pipelines (km):[/b] 154,287 (2014 est.) • Gas (km): 66,409 • Oil (km): 43,337 • Refined products (km): 21,040 [b]Air Transportation[/b] Airports (total): 2,944 • Airports with paved runways: 1,108 • Airports with unpaved runways: 1,834 Total aircraft (fixed-wing): 45,000 (est.) Heliports (dedicated): 418 Civilian helicopters: 1,819 [b]Waterborne Transportation[/b] Total civilian ports and terminals: 225 Total merchant marine vessels: 1,251 Total length of waterways (km): 79,484 • Total length of canals (km): 21,081 • Total length of rivers (km): 58,403 National ship designation prefixes: MMS (Monavian Merchant Ship), MNS (Monavian Naval Ship), RCGS (Royal Coast Guard Ship), RMCS (Royal Marine Corps Ship) [size=150]Mass Media and Communications[/size] [box][table][tr][td][align=center]Telephone Systems[/align][/td][td][align=center]Internet[/align][/td][td][align=center]Broadcast Media[/align][/td][td][align=center]Print Media[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]International calling code: +221 Landline telephones in use: 252,100,000 (2014 est.) Landline telephones per 1,000 citizens: 518.34 (2014 est.) Cellular telephones in use: 625,048,691 Cellular telephones per 1,000 citizens: 1,128 Fax machines in use: 36,832,435 Fax machines per 1,000 citizens: 66.47[/td][td]Personal computers: 344,566,402 Personal computers per 1,000 persons: 621.83 Internet TLD: .ifme Internet hosts: 75,900,200 (est.) Internet use rate: 87.68% Internet users: 485,839,597[/td][td]Radios in use: 294,000,000 (2014 est.) Radio stations (AM): 719 Radio stations (FM): 2,106 Televisions in use: 241,181,243 Televisions per 1,000 citizens: 435.25 Television stations: 803[/td][td]Daily newspapers: 899 Daily newspapers per 1,000: 376.30 Daily newspaper circulation: 208,515,800 Other newspapers: 1,052 Books published, 2019: 142,000[/td][/tr][/table][/box] [hr] [font=sitka heading][align=center][size=225]M[/size][size=150]ILITARY[/size][/align][/font] [size=150]General Information[/size] [b]Purpose and Areas of Responsibility:[/b] The chief purpose of the Monavian Armed Forces is to serve as the primary means of defending the security and integrity of the Monavian Empire and its possessions. In addition, it provides its protection to all lands occupied by the Monavian Empire for the duration of such occupations, the repulsion of foreign invasions, the rectification of violations of Monavian territorial integrity and sovereignty, the maintaining of order within the Monavian Empire, the enforcement of the Constitution of the Monavian Empire, and the protection of those interests which are essential to the Monavian Empire’s survival. [b]Service age and obligation:[/b] Volunteers may enlist upon reaching the age of seventeen or enter officer training academies upon reaching the age of eighteen. Conscription is only permitted when the Empire is facing an existential threat and draftee enlistment terms cannot exceed two years. [b]Operational Doctrine:[/b] [u]Power Projection:[/u] The large seas and oceans which separate the Imperial Federation from most neighboring countries have a history of hindering attacks against Monavian soil in past eras, though conversely, they also hindered Monavian offensives against countries elsewhere in the region. Monavian military doctrines have therefore emphasized the development of naval power (and later air power) as preferred means of capitalizing on the natural benefits and advantages of the Imperial Federation’s geographic position, especially in the context of defensive activities. While the long march of technological progress has reduced the logistical difficulty of projecting and sustaining force across great distances, the Imperial Federation has also moved to mitigate this difficulty by establishing an overseas colony and joining two major treaty organizations, the Delian League and Fegosian Union. These measures have enabled the Imperial Federation to deploy assets in multiple theaters at the same time in a way that was not previously feasible. [u]Strategy:[/u] Monavian operational doctrines presently emphasize combined-arms approaches, such as the use of cyber capabilities to preemptively reduce an enemy’s capacity to resist Monavian kinetic measures (e.g. mounting a cyber attack against an enemy satellite network so that it cannot react to a ground-based anti-satellite missile strike). Contemporary operational doctrines also strongly advocate for the integration of sophisticated space and cyber capabilities with all other spheres of warfare, including the kinetic use of orbital assets to support land, sea, and air activities. While the Monavian defense establishment has long pursued, developed, and refined its nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological capabilities, their doctrines presently consider deterrence of external aggression the main justification for developing them. While Monavian doctrines generally advocate a no-first-use policy in most contexts, they permit (though discourage) the limited use of chemical weapons for both offensive and defensive area denial roles and the defensive use of nuclear ordinance against large aircraft formations. [size=150]Organization and Leadership[/size] [b]Overview:[/b] The Imperial Federation’s armed forces consist of eight independent services—the Imperial Army ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133759]factbook[/url]), Imperial Navy ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133760]factbook[/url]), Imperial Air Force ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=202396]factbook[/url]), Royal Marine Corps ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133833]factbook[/url]), Royal Guard ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133836]factbook[/url]), Royal Coast Guard ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133837]factbook[/url]), National Militia ([url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133838]factbook[/url]), and Royal Space Corps. Each service is administered by a department of the Ministry of Defense called a secretariat. The Ministry of Defense also contains a secretariat dedicated to general administrative functions and the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI). While the Crown is the official leader of the armed forces, in practice their day-to-day leadership comes from the Imperial Defense Council (IDC), an eleven-person executive board consisting of the Minister and Deputy Minister of Defense, the Director of the DMI, and the commanding officer of each service branch. [b]Organization Outline:[/b] Office of the Minister of Defense Office of the Deputy Minister of Defense Secretariat of Administration [tab=10][/tab]Department of Military Finances [tab=10][/tab]Department of Legal Affairs [tab=10][/tab]Department of Records [tab=10][/tab]Department of Research Secretariat of the Imperial Army [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Army [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the Imperial Army [tab=20][/tab]• Army units Secretariat of the Imperial Navy [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Imperial Navy [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Admiral of the Imperial Navy [tab=20][/tab]• Navy units Secretariat of the Imperial Air Force [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Imperial Air Force [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the Imperial Air Force [tab=20][/tab]• Air Force units Secretariat of the Royal Marine Corps [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Royal Marine Corps [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the Royal Marine Corps [tab=20][/tab]• Royal Marine Corps units Secretariat of the Royal Guard [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Royal Guard [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the Royal Guard [tab=20][/tab]• Royal Guard units Secretariat of the Royal Coast Guard [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Royal Coast Guard [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the Royal Coast Guard [tab=20][/tab]• Royal Guard units Secretariat of the National Militia [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the National Militia [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the National Militia [tab=20][/tab]• National Militia units Secretariat of the Imperial Space Corps [tab=10][/tab]Office of the Secretary of the Royal Space Corps [tab=20][/tab]• Civilian support staff [tab=10][/tab]Office of the High Marshal of the Royal Space Corps [tab=20][/tab]• Royal Space Corps units Directorate of Military Intelligence [b]Imperial Defense Council:[/b] Chair: Minister of Defense Alexei A. Solovyov (2019–present) Vice Chair: Deputy Minister of Defense Gordan Bogdanov (2017–present) High Marshal of the Imperial Air Force: Peter Lovrensky (2017–present) High Marshal of the Imperial Army: Demetrius Apostolos (2016–present) High Marshal of the Royal Marine Corps: Steven Vanderhoff (2018–present) High Marshal of the Royal Guard: Lazar Dragović (2010–present) High Admiral of the Imperial Navy: Michael Folger (2016–present) High Admiral of the Royal Coast Guard: Vladimir Simić (2009–present) High Marshal of the National Militia: Ryan Norris (2019–present) High Marshal of the Royal Space Corps: David Gehler (2019–present) Director of Military Intelligence: Nathaniel Donaldson (2003–present) [size=150]Defense Spending[/size] [b]Total military expenditures:[/b] ₮398,820,635,479.73 (Int$733,271,620,393.03 in 2020 international dollars) [b]Military expenditures as a percentage of nominal GDP:[/b] 3.428% [box][table][tr][td][align=center][b]Department[/b][/align][/td][td][align=center][b]% of Total[/b][/align][/td][td][align=center][b]Expenditures[/b][/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of Administration[/td][td]15.32[/td][td][align=right]₮61,099,321,355.49[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Imperial Army[/td][td]17.97[/td][td][align=right]₮71,668,068,195.71[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Imperial Navy[/td][td]21.43[/td][td][align=right]₮85,467,262,183.31[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Imperial Air Force[/td][td]16.41[/td][td][align=right]₮65,446,466,282.22[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Royal Marine Corps[/td][td]5.78[/td][td][align=right]₮23,051,832,730.73[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Royal Guard[/td][td]4.49[/td][td][align=right]₮17,907,046,533.04[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Royal Coast Guard[/td][td]1.11[/td][td][align=right]₮4,426,909,053.83[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the National Militia[/td][td]5.31[/td][td][align=right]₮21,177,375,743.97[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Secretariat of the Royal Space Corps[/td][td]9.00[/td][td][align=right]₮35,893,857,193.18[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td]Directorate of Military Intelligence[/td][td]3.18[/td][td][align=right]₮12,682,496,208.26[/align][/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Total[/b][/td][td][b]100.00[/b][/td][td][align=right][b]₮398,820,635,479.73[/b][/align][/td][/tr][/table][/box] [hr] [font=sitka heading][align=center][size=225]R[/size][size=150]ELATIONS[/size][size=225] W[/size][size=150]ITH[/size][size=225] F[/size][size=150]OREIGN[/size][size=225] S[/size][size=150]TATES[/size][/align][/font] [size=150]General Information[/size] [b]Recent treaties (ratified after 2006):[/b] [i]Lex Salisbrugis Regnum XXVII[/i], [i]Monavia-Lamoni Friendship Treaty[/i], [i]Treaty of Chalcedon[/i], [i]Charter of the Fegosian Union[/i], [i]Charter of the Delian League[/i], [i]Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance[/i], and the [i]Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves[/i]. Full texts of these documents can be found [url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_state_of_monavia/detail=factbook/id=133895]here[/url]. [b]Major alliances:[/b] Bilateral pact with the Free Republic of Lamoni (January 28, 2008), bilateral pact with the Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct), Delian League (March 2008), and Fegosian Union (June 2008). [b]Transnational issues:[/b] Strained relations with Novikov, Ralkovia, the Ordenite Reich. The Imperial Federation’s tax haven status and secretive, highly-developed financial sector facilitates foreign money laundering and tax evasion. [size=150]Tabular Summary of Monavian Relationships With Foreign States[/size] [b]Key to Symbols[/b] *Signatory to Delian League Charter (2008) **Signatory to Fegosian Union Charter (2008) §Signatory to a bilateral pact †Signatory to the [i]Protocol on Territorial Integrity and Independent Self-Governance[/i] ‡Signatory to the [i]Kázmér Doctrine on Patriation of Liberated Slaves[/i] &Member of the unofficially defunct Nova Coalition (2009) #Unofficial tensions due to conflicting economic interests ^Unofficial tensions due to conflicting political interests [box][table][tr][td][align=center]S[size=75]TATUS[/size][/align][/td][td][align=center]D[size=75]IPLOMATIC[/size][/align][/td][td][align=center]T[size=75]RADE[/size][/align][/td][td][align=center]M[size=75]ILITARY[/size][/align][/td][/tr][tr][td][b]Allied[/b][/td][td]Salisbrugic Dominion of Cotenshire (defunct) § [nation]Kirav[/nation] § Principality of Damirez * (founder, defunct) † [nation]Etoile Arcture[/nation] * † Woken Heptarchy of Weccanfeld (defunct) * † Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** † ‡ Empire of Mephras (defunct) * † [nation]Wagdog[/nation] * † ‡ Greater Economic Union of New Manth (defunct) * † [nation]Lamoni[/nation] * § † [nation]Animarnia[/nation] * † [nation]Vetaka[/nation] * [nation]Stevid[/nation] * [url=http://www.nationstates.net/nation=united_states_of_pa]Federal Republic of Pennsylvania[/url] * [nation]Alfegos[/nation] ** (founder) † ‡ [nation]Mokastana[/nation] ** Holy Empire of Zaheran (defunct)** Kingdom of Krommindy (defunct) ** † Armed Republic of Salzland (defunct) † [url=http://www.nationstates.net/nation=saintb]Constitutional State of Goldaron[/url] † [nation]Romandeos[/nation] † Totalitarian Socialist State of Tigerlan (defunct) † [nation]Korrodos[/nation] † The Atrean Imperium † [/td][td]Principality of Damirez (founder, defunct) * [nation]Etoile Arcture[/nation] * Empire of Mephras (defunct) * [nation]Wagdog[/nation] * ‡ Greater Economic Union of New Manth (defunct) * [nation]Lamoni[/nation] * § [nation]Animarnia[/nation] * † [nation]Vetaka[/nation] * [url=http://www.nationstates.net/nation=united_states_of_pa]Federal Republic of Pennsylvania[/url] * [nation]Alfegos[/nation] (founder) ** [nation]Mokastana[/nation] ** Holy Empire of Zaheran (defunct) ** Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** ‡ Kingdom of Krommindy (defunct) ** ‡ [/td][td][nation]Cotenshire[/nation] (defunct) § [nation]Kirav[/nation] § [nation]Damirez[/nation] * (founder) & [nation]Etoile Arcture[/nation] * & [nation]Weccanfeld[/nation] * Hunnic Confederate States of Katonazag (defunct) * ** & Empire of Mephras (defunct) * & [nation]Wagdog[/nation] * & Greater Economic Union of New Manth * & [nation]Lamoni[/nation] * § & [nation]Animarnia[/nation] * † & [nation]Vetaka[/nation] * & [url=http://www.nationstates.net/nation=united_states_of_pa]Federal Republic of Pennsylvania[/url] * [nation]Alfegos[/nation] ** (founder) & [nation]Mokastana[/nation] ** & 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[nation]Nalaya[/nation] ‡ [nation]New Hayesalia[/nation] ‡ [nation]Greater Themis[/nation] [nation]Liagolas[/nation] [nation]Monahtan[/nation] Kingdom of Bielostrov (unofficially)[/td][/tr][tr][td][b]Neutral[/b][/td][td][nation]Stoklomolvi[/nation] Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania (defunct) † [nation]Czardas[/nation] [nation]Sulaymaan[/nation] [nation]Imbrinium[/nation] [nation]Leocardia[/nation] [nation]Starblaydia[/nation] [nation]Noordeinde[/nation] [nation]Telvira[/nation] [nation]Nachmere[/nation] San Alto[/td][td][nation]Stoklomolvi[/nation] [nation]Czardas[/nation] [nation]Sulaymaan[/nation] [nation]Imbrinium[/nation] [nation]Leocardia[/nation] [nation]Starblaydia[/nation] [nation]Noordeinde[/nation] [nation]Telvira[/nation] [nation]Nachmere[/nation] Republic of Mourro (defunct) Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania (defunct) Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania (defunct) Oceanian Home Country of Novikov (defunct) San Alto [nation]Castille de Italia[/nation][/td][td][nation]Stoklomolvi[/nation] [nation]Czardas[/nation] [nation]Sulaymaan[/nation] [nation]Leocardia[/nation] [nation]Starblaydia[/nation] [nation]Noordeinde[/nation] [nation]Telvira[/nation] [nation]Nachmere[/nation] [nation]Ruccola[/nation] Republic of Mourro (defunct) Federation of Brewdomia (armistice, defunct) Nationalist Empire of Neo-Ixania (defunct) San Alto[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Strained[/b][/td][td][nation]Blackhelm Confederacy[/nation] ^ Oceanian Home Country of Novikov ^ [nation]Alexiandra[/nation] ^ [nation]United World Order[/nation] ^ [nation]Castille de Italia[/nation] ^ [nation]Bulgar Rouge[/nation] (unofficially) [nation]Sharko Federation[/nation] (unofficially) [/td][td][nation]United World Order[/nation] [nation]Blackhelm Confederacy[/nation] [nation]The Parthians[/nation] # [nation]The Scandinvans[/nation] # [nation]Bulgar Rouge[/nation] (unofficially) [nation]Sharko Federation[/nation] (unofficially) [/td][td][nation]Blackhelm Confederacy[/nation] Oceanian Home Country of Novikov [nation]Alexiandra[/nation] Thalassocratic Republic of Prevania (defunct) [nation]United World Order[/nation] [nation]Castille de Italia[/nation] [nation]Bulgar Rouge[/nation] (unofficially) [nation]Sharko Federation[/nation] (unofficially)[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Hostile[/b][/td][td]Ralkovia (cold war)[/td][td]Ralkovia (cold war)[/td][td]Ralkovia (cold war)[/td][/tr][/table][/box]

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:08 pm

by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:09 pm

[Original telegram from Lamoni:]

I don't doubt your knowledge of the business cycle, but conditions during this recovery have not been like those of most such recoveries, as you said. While I don't have as much economics knowledge as you or Mac do, there is one thing that i'd ask your opinion on in this matter.

If it were all up to you, what would you do in order to have the economy completely recover?

[Roleplaying discussion redacted.]

ECONOMIC POLICY PROPOSALS

Introduction

Last October you asked me for my recommendations on fixing the U.S. economy and I attempted to write a thorough response. I initially believed that I could produce a series of concise answers that could fit into a single telegram, but that never ended up happening. Your question’s open-ended nature was an engraved invitation to mission creep, and the more time I invested in developing my response, the longer my essay grew. My mind eventually fell victim to writer’s block and my cancer treatment left me unmotivated to continue until late December, at which point I threw myself into a whirlwind of new writing and found myself wrestling with a 7,300-word monstrosity that was too ponderous for me to keep editing. As a result, I gave up on answering your question until it began to gnaw at my mind again earlier this month. I am now pleased to present something that should meet your satisfaction to a degree that does justice to the subject at hand.

I want to preface this disquisition by stating the major assumptions I made in the process of writing my answers. Based on your choice to say that fixing the economy is “all up to me,” I assume that you wanted to imply that I found myself elected president in lieu of Mr. Trump or otherwise wound up vested with his power as of January 20, 2017. In the interests of simplicity, I will assume that I entered office with Mr. Trump’s wide Electoral College margin and the support of Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. To simplify my scenario further, I also assumed that I chose the same cabinet, diplomatic, judicial, and White House staff nominees Trump did without regard to their professional merits or ideological leanings. I do not think that relying on these assumptions will impair or diminish the scholarly rigor with which I am attempting to answer your question, though if you regard any of them as points of concern, I am happy to discuss them as needed.

Step 1: Identifying Economic Problems

I would begin my approach to improving our country’s economic situation by appointing a temporary committee that will be responsible for identifying factors that degrade economic performance and hinder potential growth and improvements. While it is technically possible for me to do this alone, the determination as to whether a given factor is problematic is a matter of opinion and therefore ought to be evaluated from more than one perspective. For the purposes of this essay, I have relied on my current knowledge of economics, business, and the regulatory environment to identify several categories of economic problems that need to be addressed and have limited the scope of my answers to covering these topics.

The factors which hinder economic success can take many forms. Automation and crumbling infrastructure are examples of physical problems. The complexity of the tax code, its plethora of carve-outs and loopholes, and regulatory complexity are legal problems. Regulatory compliance costs, the too-big-to-fail mentality, and bad trade deals are examples of financial and competition-related challenges in the current business environment. Bad schools, financial illiteracy, and damage to the institutions of marriage and the nuclear family all represent societal threats to long-term economic prosperity. In any case, identifying problems is not enough as I will need to shift my focus to tracing the courses of their development back to their original causes before devising measures that will mitigate or eliminate those root causes.

Step 2: Raising the Political Capital I Need to Implement my Policies

Although it is possible for me to use Obama’s “I have a pen and a phone” strategy to cure some of the U.S. economy’s minor ailments, Congress ultimately has the power to legislate the sort of measures that are capable of resolving our most serious problems. The entire process of crafting new policies, convincing legislators to favor them, and implementing them after passage will consume vast quantities of political capital, so I need to have a means of raising new political capital as needed. A president’s most valuable instrument for raising political capital and generating pressure on other organs of government is the bully pulpit, a position that can be used in a variety of ways. Here are some examples.

If I knew that a specific factor was hurting the economy and Congress lacked the political will to make changes to it, my first instinct would be to spend a week voicing my concerns on primetime news programs, preferably hitting a different major network on each weekday. If I chose to do this, I could simply end each of my interviews with a remark to the audience to contact their representatives and senators and demand action. In the course of a single four-year term, the entire House comes up for election twice and two-thirds of the Senate also come up for election, so if they oppose my policies, all I have to tell the American people is “if your representative or senator votes against this policy, you know who to throw out at the next election.” Of course, this only works once I have the public convinced that I have the right ideas.

As effective as radio and television interviews can be, rallies and direct appeals to voters are more personal and persuasive. I am amazed by how rarely presidents stump the country after they take office or campaign for their policies with the same zeal they devote to campaigning for their own elections. Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations speaking tour proved highly successful until his health collapsed and Harry Truman’s famous “whistle stops” won him the election of 1948. Trump’s rallies arguably had the same effect for him, and even after he entered office he has used them well enough to raise his profile. The principal disadvantage of this strategy is the amount of time it consumes, partly owing to travel and partly owing to the logistical complexity of flying a presidential motorcade around the nation.

Public addresses are arguably the highest card in a president’s bully pulpit hand. Inaugural addresses and state of the union speeches are the most prominent examples of this activity, but the former happens once every four years and the latter only happens annually. Oval Office addresses are historically rare so people tend to pay attention to them when they happen. Assuming that I can mimic Donald Trump’s genius for picking out perfect networks and primetime speaking spots, I should have little trouble maximizing viewer attendance, especially if I promote my speeches in advance by making cable and network news appearances beforehand. Each speech would focus on a narrow topic of economic importance to the public (e.g. the need to rebuild infrastructure, automation, etc.) and include an easel loaded with large graphs and charts I can use to illustrate my points. With any luck, these displays will prove marvelously effective at swaying the court of public opinion.

Step 3: Requesting Some Legislation

Having identified my priorities and taken measures to advocate for them, my next step is to press Congress to pass needed legislation. This step will occur concurrently with various executive actions, but I will save that for the next section. I will not go into excruciating detail here, but instead furnish you with a few basic points. My major economic legislative priorities would consist of regulatory reform, tax reform, repatriating overseas wealth, making infrastructure repairs, entitlement reform, nuclear energy reform, insurance reform, tort reform, and eliminating unconstitutional treaties. Here’s a quick overview of them:

I have two major motives for pursuing regulatory reform. The first is my zeal for limited government, which I will attempt to make good on by using the Congressional Review Act to rein in executive overreach by past administrations, much as Trump has done. One of the subjects I studied in my business law courses is the delegation doctrine, a principle of jurisprudence which states that any time Congress passes a law, the executive branch gets to paint in all of the details by creating regulations pursuant to said law. The problem that most conservatives have identified (and reactionaries have pointed to it even more acutely) is that there are few limits on how far bureaucrats can go in doing this job. Consequently, I also want new legislation that clarifies the delegation doctrine and imposes some boundaries on it. In other words, the regulators are unregulated, so it is time to regulate the regulators before they do us all in.

My second motive for pursuing regulatory reform is a desire to unleash additional economic growth by increasing economic freedom, eliminating moral hazard, and increasing competition. Our out-of-control regulatory regime has created barriers to competition that favor monopolists and established players at the expense of product quality and consumer satisfaction. According to a Claremont Review of Books article titled “After the Republic,” “because the ruling class blurs the distinction between public and private business, connection to that class has become the principal way of getting rich in America. Not so long ago, the way to make it here was to start a business that satisfied customers’ needs better than before. Nowadays, more businesses die each year than are started. In this century, all net additions in employment have come from the country’s 1,500 largest corporations. Rent-seeking through influence on regulations is the path to wealth. In the professions, competitive exams were the key to entry and advancement not so long ago. Now, you have to make yourself acceptable to your superiors.”

In other words, a large firm with a thousand employees can always afford to hire an extra lawyer, accountant, or compliance officer whenever Congress passes an addition to the tax code or an executive agency disgorges another ream of new regulations. A small business has no such luxury since the marginal cost of hiring a new employee to fill an overhead role is far higher (in relative terms) for a firm with 100 employees than it is for a firm with 20,000. As such, Wall Street loves regulations that create more demand for lawyers and accountants because the competition cannot afford it (it goes without saying that the American Bar Association and public accounting firms love the additional business the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts have created). Furthermore, suppressing competition leads to mega-mergers in which a single firm grows “too big to fail” and gets bailed out to prevent it from collapsing onto other companies in a domino effect. The bad precedent that bailouts set is called “moral hazard,” and restoring competition should cure that to some degree.

Tax reform is a thornier issue, mainly because it is structured in a way that facilitates and drives class warfare (this is a subject for a future telegram). When it comes to income taxes, my goal will be to merge the 28% and 35% brackets into a single 30% bracket, eliminate the 39.6% bracket entirely, and eliminate the progressive corporate tax system in favor of a flat corporate income tax rate of twenty to twenty-five percent. Progressive taxation is designed to account for the fact that your first dollar has a much higher marginal utility than your last dollar, hence the need for multiple graduated tax rates (Mac can explain this more if you want). Corporations should not need such treatment the way individuals do. Please note that the top corporate income tax bracket charges a rate of thirty-five percent, whereas the OECD average is closer to twenty-five percent. No wonder the U.S. business environment is not competitive vis-à-vis the business environments of many foreign states! I’m not advocating that we become a full-blown tax haven, but bringing our corporate tax rates closer to the OECD average makes sense.

My plans for individual income taxes might initially seem like they amount to little more than tax cuts for the rich—indeed, they cut taxes a lot on some rich people. The dirty secret to this whole setup is that a large number of wealthy Americans pay very little in taxes because they have lobbied legislators to carve out custom loopholes for their industries and businesses, and thus my main goal is to close loopholes. Rather than have a system where half of the rich pay a marginal rate of forty cents on the dollar and the other half pay five or ten (and some even get a refund), I want a system where all of the wealthy pay a marginal rate of twenty-five or thirty cents on the dollar.

Remember, nominal tax rates (the rates specified in each bracket) are purely symbolic for the rich. The richest ten percent of Americans pay fifty percent of the taxes, even though they probably earn less than fifty percent of the income (I will need to double-check this point). Every time the Democrats harp about “millionaire tax hikes” and making the rich “pay a little more” or “pay their fair share,” they’re talking about all of the rich people who are not on their donor rosters and do not already have custom tax breaks set up for them. Whenever liberal scream that we must raise taxes on the wealthy, they always propose jacking up nominal rates that they and their donors are exempt from in the first place, so their debates tend to be nothing more than Kabuki Theater.

American businesses currently have astronomical sums of wealth hidden overseas. According to one CNBC article dated September 20, 2016, “American companies are holding $2.5 trillion abroad, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the past two years.” I propose that Congress pass a special tax law offering to tax all corporate income repatriated between January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019 at a flat rate of fifteen percent. The narrow one-year window will incentivize corporations to bring their money into this country much more quickly than they would otherwise, and the resulting tidal wave of incoming capital would enable these businesses to expand domestically and create more jobs. Democrats will probably object to my plan as a sweetheart deal for the rich, but I have an ace up my sleeve: infrastructure repairs.

My strategy is to marry a huge infrastructure bill to the corporate income repatriation plan and have both pass as a package deal in which all taxes raised on repatriated income get exclusively reserved for financing infrastructure repairs. At a fifteen percent tax rate, CNBC’s estimated cash hoard could yield $375,000,000,000 in infrastructure money, and the after-tax capital inflow will obviously become taxable as regular income once it cycles its way through the domestic economy, thus growing the tax base. This in turn will spur a small jump in economic growth, and both domestic corporate investment and the new jobs created replacing infrastructure will help the economy accelerate further.

Step 4: Requesting More Legislation

Entitlement reform is the trickiest item on this list and will require detailed study to determine what fixes need to be made, if any. I would begin the process of inspecting and auditing the entitlements system by creating a presidential commission vested with full investigatory authority and charge it with issuing a report within twelve months of creation. Among other things, we have draconian medical malpractice laws that make doctors go overboard ordering tests just to be on the safe side and then billing Medicare for them. We also have food stamp fraud in major urban centers and illegal aliens stealing the identities of U.S. citizens in order to file for benefits. (For example, an illegal alien supposedly used my sister’s identity to file for government benefits in 2011.) Once my commission announces its findings, I can deliver another Oval Office address in which I use the commission’s report to argue for any reforms the commissioners propose. While I have few specifics, I believe that Congress should revisit the Gingrich-Clinton welfare reforms of the nineties since they were arguably successful in a number of ways.

Energy reform is another subject that has major economic implications since this nation’s electricity supply will need to be capable of powering new infrastructure and future commercial expansion. My energy reform program will revolve around loosening regulations on nuclear power and automobile emissions standards, though I plan on building a robust environmental protection agenda in other areas such as accelerating chemical weapons disposal and Superfund site cleanup. I also favor imposing new safety requirements on offshore drilling and want to see Congress update the Endangered Species Act, Wish and Wildlife Act, and other legislation to meet twenty-first century challenges. I also think Congress must also enact new laws that prevent the EPA from shooting itself in the foot the way it did letting mine contaminants flow into a river last year.

I strongly favor loosening nuclear power regulations for the simple fact that nuclear power is the only viable avenue we have for reducing dependency on fossil fuels. Hydroelectric power has negative effects of riverine ecosystems and the U.S. has already dammed up most of its best rivers. Geothermal and tidal power generation facilities are only viable in a few select parts of this country. Wind farms that slaughter millions of birds every year and drive property values downward. Most solar panels are now manufactured in Chinese factories that use toxic chemicals and suffer from poor safety and health regulations.

China and India are both aggressively pursuing nuclear power development as an alternative to relying on coal (I suppose someone finally realized that cramming millions of people into cities overhung by thick smog will cost their economy huge sums in medical expenses). Unfortunately, current regulations make nuclear research almost impossible in this country, muss less the construction and operation of nuclear power plants, and selfish legislators are constantly invoking NINBY (not in my backyard) arguments to avoid building waste disposal sites. This entire setup is placing the U.S. at a major technological disadvantage vis-à-vis Asia’s rising economies while driving up the cost of energy within our own economy.

My desire to soften vehicle emissions standards stems from the fact they have increasingly yielded diminishing returns in relation to the costs they impose on automobile manufacturers. In past decades, new emissions standards (and banning lead from gasoline) proved highly effective at achieving their intended purposes, but nowadays these rules force companies to spend billions on engineering, research, development, and testing only to achieve marginal air quality improvements in America’s urban centers. Even worse, the present trend of substituting expensive electric vehicles for affordable internal-combustion vehicles does nothing to alleviate air pollution—it just shifts emissions from tailpipes to the smokestacks of the coal-fired power plants that supply electric vehicle charging stations.

If all expensive emissions rules do are keep bureaucrats employed to enforce them while making factories less profitable, automobiles more expensive, and air pollution play musical chairs among different sources, then it is time to throw out the old playbook and focus on a new strategy. Instead of continuing to raise emissions standards in a country where our air and water are already cleaner than they have been at any time in the last century, Congress should impose minimum efficiency and range standards on electric vehicles. I believe that if automobile manufacturers had to spend as much on reengineering electric car technology as they have on improving the efficiency of internal combustion engines, electric vehicles would become more practical, and if Congress passes nuclear power reform, we will have a greener grid for charging electric cars.

While I am still on this subject, I want to make a few tangential remarks about the Paris Climate Agreement. While the Agreement was written with numerous good intentions, the fact that it was non-binding made it a bit of a joke and many of the goals it encouraged were already part of the U.S. regulatory system. In other words, it was both redundant and useless for the United States to sign onto it in the first place. I further believe that no president should unilaterally implement a treaty that the Senate has not ratified yet since doing so disregards our constitutional separation of powers. More importantly, the real reason many poor countries want the U.S. to sign global environmental treaties is the fact that they require developed countries to give money to global funds for developing countries, as the last two paragraphs of this article attest:

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2017/06 ... arianisms/

My economic policy agenda also includes proposals for insurance and tort reform. The Affordable Care Act backfired in a number of ways following implementation and I can write at length about my own personal insurance situation last year, but for the purposes of this essay I will focus on the employer insurance mandate, which requires all employers with fifty or more full-time employees to supply coverage to their workers. This rule has forced employers to cap their rosters of full-time workers at forty-nine and giving all new job seekers part-time jobs when they need full-time jobs, thus contributing to the “jobless recovery” malaise that has lingered in our economy since 2010. Short of abolishing the ACA entirely and replacing it from scratch, any attempt to repair and reclaim it must eliminate the employer mandate as it places a brake on our economy’s growth and promotes underemployment. I also favor freeing insurers to compete across state lines and a number of other technical reforms I will not cover here.

The individual insurance mandate is also a pain in the rear. Speaking from personal experience, the individual insurance mandate temporarily benefited me since it left me with coverage when I had a tumor removed in June 2016, but then my coverage lapsed at the start of the next academic year (it was a student policy) and my insurer was uninterested in selling me a new one. Soon thereafter, my insurer exited the Arizona market in toto. For every one person (like me) who got saved by the mandate at one point or another, I reckon that multiple people got nothing out of it, especially many of my classmates. As a result, I favor the GOP’s present plans to incentivize personal responsibility in maintaining coverage in lieu of one-size-fits-all mandates, which the rich rarely need anyway.

My administration must also focus on driving health insurance costs down by passing tort and medical malpractice reform. The first step in this process is to impose ceilings on damage awards (e.g. punitive damages cannot exceed five times compensatory damages in cases of willful error) and make it harder to directly sue doctors. The cost of attending medical school needs to be cut as well so that doctors do not graduate with mountains of debt to pay off. One way to do this is to eliminate business regulations that encourage universities to pump up their overhead expenses. For more information on how “administrative bloat” increases the cost of college, read the article titled “Whose Interests Do College Diversity Officers Serve?” in The Atlantic.

I favor shrinking costs to taxpayers by trimming down the federal bureaucracy. Civil servant protection laws make it hard to perform mass layoffs at will (mark my words, Trump will hate this part of governing). Government employees like to keep their jobs as much as anybody else, all the more so because their public-sector salary and benefit packages tend to exceed those of their private-sector counterparts. As a result, civil servants tend to be ideologically inclined towards keeping government big since shrinking government means layoffs, and thus it is little wonder why over ninety percent of voters in the District of Columbia consistently vote for Democratic presidential candidates.

Given that we will have a Republican congress with a strong Tea Party/Freedom Caucus wing, however, it should be easier than usual for me to ask for laws that make it easier to shrink the employee rosters of government departments. Of course, I also know a few dirty tricks, such as getting a new law passed that allows bureaucrats to pocket a percentage of any savings their department achieves by downsizing. I have no doubt that there are more than a few bureaucrats who are opportunistic enough to point out waste and duplicative activities they previously ignored at rival departments if they can get a cut of the loot.

My economic policy proposals include a number of miscellaneous ideas—for instance, as much as I love cutting regulations, the fact remains that there are a number that need to be restored. For example, I strongly favor passing a contemporary version of the Glass-Steagall Act and new anti-monopoly legislation. I will also campaign to be selectively deploy protective tariffs to halt the dumping of cheap Chinese steel and make domestic oil production more competitive, though I plan to stop there to avoid igniting trade wars. In the long run, however, American dependence on the Chinese and the Arabs needs to be permanently ended as soon as possible for strategic security reasons.

Step 5: Initial Executive Actions

In returning to the assumptions I stated in my introduction, I wish to preface my list of proposed solutions by stipulating a few parameters. First, I intend to tailor my solutions to fit within constitutional limitations as much as possible. This means taking great pains to refrain from executive overreach wherever it is not practically necessary or outright illegal. Second, I intend to rely as little as possible on authoritarian leadership techniques to address matters outside my office’s purview (the executive bureaucracy) and its related organs. Third, I intend to demand some substantive constitutional reforms that will impose permanent constraints on the administrative state, which I will address later in this essay. Fourth, I prefer to utilize the powers I can exercise with the most impunity (e.g. the bully pulpit, executive orders, managerial authority to hire and fire subordinates, the ability to appoint presidential commissions and special prosecutors, patronage authority, the ceremonial and symbolic capital inherent dignity of my office, and so forth) over less savory and legally questionable approaches.

In order for me to improve the economy, military, or any other aspect of American civilization, I must first clean house before proceeding further. You cannot suture a wound without disinfecting it first and you cannot remodel a house until you have first removed its contents. In the same manner, my initial objective consists of pruning the current corpus of executive orders of their diseased and deceased members in a timely manner. My rationale for adopting this approach is the fact that all forms of executive overreach, from presidential orders to the Department of Education’s ubiquitous “Dear Colleague” letters, have one common thread: more often than not, they tend to make life more complicated and expensive.

The stark reality I have just outlined means that I would need to rein in past acts of executive overreach. To accomplish this process, I will begin by asking people who are very knowledgeable about what existing orders contain and send me a “short list” of the most pressing items for me to repeal or modify. I can then draft new orders in advance and sign them the day after my inauguration. With this step quickly completed within the first forty-eight hours of my term, I will then include an announcement in my State of the Union address in which I declare the creation of an Executive Order Review Commission. Presidential commissions always sell well with the public; to offer just two examples, the Hoover Commission was a political masterstroke and the Gore Commission was a smashing success.

The Commission’s first task will consist of reviewing all 13,764 executive orders issued before January 20, 2017 and making a list of every provision that exceeds the scope of presidential authority, appears legally dubious, for other reasons, contradicts my platform, creates waste or inefficiency, or otherwise appears to needlessly complicate everyday life. Once the audit is finished, the Commission will compile a roster of its findings and perform triage work by ranking the items on the roster from most urgent to least urgent. In order to ensure that the Commission can perform a task of this scale in less than one year, I will tap Senator R. E. Cruz to chair a hiring committee responsible for finding and cherry-picking 100 of the finest constitutional lawyers they can find to serve as commissioners. If Cruz wants, I will even let him chair the Commission as well.

Once my hiring team has formed the Commission, I will provide the commissioners with office space (my congressman, David Schweikert, has pointed out that the D.C. area is littered with hundreds of vacant, federally-owned office buildings that nobody is renting out) and unfettered access to all research materials they request. After I receive the commission’s initial report, I will put the commissioners to work drafting working text for new executive orders that repeal or amend the provisions they flagged for correction, edit the drafts as they come in, wait for revisions, and sign the finished versions once I am satisfied with the end products. This process, if performed by the best people under favorable conditions, should be completed during my first year in office and yield some results in time for the 2018 State of the Union address.

Once my public-relations activities have succeeded, I can publicly announce my commission’s success, claiming that I have untied bureaucrat’s hands by modernizing antiquated regulations and enabling them to keep with the times. In line with this sort of thinking, I will also implements Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign proposal to comprehensively modernize the federal government’s computers and information systems in order to save hundreds of billions in operating costs every year and follow through with renting out all unused federal buildings to generate new rental revenue. Of course, I will appoint Gingrich to directly manage this particular effort since his knowledge about this specific issue is much more intimately developed than mine.

While the Review Commission is busy doing its work, I will draw up new orders that are designed to restore the nation’s wealth creation capacity. The factors which determine this capacity include the quantity of natural resources present, the quality and capacity of existing infrastructure, taxation policies, regulatory compliance costs, the amount of economic freedom available to domestic and foreign investors, and the amount of competition between firms within the same industry. America’s current economic environment suffers in all of these departments, so my new administration will need to take executive actions that compliment my legislative proposals in order to maximize the economy’s potential for improvement.

My attempts at regulatory reform will also address restrictions on different types of business activities and free up access to resources by easing restrictions on the use of public lands and their roads. Urban elites may have viewed the Clean Power Plan and other parts of the “war on coal” as perfectly reasonable, especially in coastal cities like Los Angeles and New York where most power comes from hydroelectric and nuclear sources. The voters in West Virginia and Wyoming, however, decided that the “war on coal” amounted to regulatory terrorism when they voted on November 8, 2016, and I would address their concerns by forming another special commission made up of officials from the Department of Energy, the EPA, and elsewhere to review all existing restrictions on coal mining and draw up recommendations for improvements.

One of my favorite cases of unreasonable restrictions on natural resource harvesting is the EPA’s treatment of gold prospectors (one of my father’s old hobbies and one I participated in as former Cub Scout and Boy Scout). According to the Pick and Shovel Gazette, a newspaper published by the Gold Prospectors’ Association of America, EPA and National Park Service spooks have a habit of barring the public from accessing their own legally registered claims even though federal laws allow the public to access national forests and other public lands for a variety of activities, including certain types of resource exploitation. Under the Mining Law of 1872 (an act of Congress), the prospectors are allowed to dredge in rivers and use public roads, but time and again, federal and state officials in the pockets of wealthy environmentalists have arbitrarily closed roads and cost plaintiffs thousands of dollars in litigation before backing off.

The EPA and company frequently claim that they are restricting mining activities to “protect the environment,” but the truth is that they end up protecting nothing but their support from the green lobby. The miners who get shafted are generally ecologically-conscious people who use sluices, pans, dredges, and other equipment that pull out gold via mechanical processes that do not involve dangerous chemicals; in fact, the dredges and sluices that miners like using also remove huge quantities of lead (e.g. bullets, fishing line weights, batteries, etc.) from rivers and scoop up trash. Miners are like Tea Party marchers—they pick up their own trash, and everybody else’s too. The dredges also carve out new pits for salmon to spawn in, but somehow the Sierra Club and the EPA ignore that too. Needless to say, my executive orders will direct all federal officials to comply with and enforce federal law or resign.

Step 6: Additional Executive Actions

The three major objectives I described in the previous segment (radically pruning the extent of presidential power, a wholesale modernization of federal IT infrastructure, and disinfecting the EPA of hardcore environmentalist ideologues) are just the first three steps in my executive action program. Each of them is highly ambitious, but all fall squarely within the realm of activities that can be accomplished by executive order. In this final segment, I will cover executive actions that require congressional ratification, such as filling the National Labor Relations Board’s two present vacancies. Unfortunately, appointments are probably the easiest items on this list to achieve as others might prove much harder to accomplish unless the GOP as a whole starts to grow some new backbone.

During the first year of my new administration, I intend to form a new presidential auditory commission at every department and independent agency that has an annual budget exceeding $500,000,000. As with the Executive Order Review Commission, each of these units will have full investigative powers to perform both financial and compliance audits and produce reports thereon at periodic intervals. The process of creating several dozen independent auditing commissions to go with the EORC and the IT modernization committee will represent an enormous human resources undertaking, so I intend to use the existing Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to create a permanent hiring committee to staff all of these new posts. Since the OPM represents a narrow sliver of the overall federal budget, it is highly unlikely members of my own party will question my request to beef up its budget, especially if I keep my “auditing addiction” secret.

I will ask all of my commissions to issue quarterly financial audit reports to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the quarterly compliance audit reports to a legal team I will create to work with the OPM. In the event that a commission uncovers wrongdoing that requires the termination of federal employees, I want to empower the OPM to unleash as many pink slips as it needs to eliminate the bureaucracy’s rotten appendages. In the event that wrongdoing appears to be criminal in nature (and especially if it appears to be systemic), I want the Department of Justice to appoint special prosecutors who have the correct legal expertise to properly handle each unique situation. The end result should be a major reduction in legal and regulatory noncompliance by federal employees.

While many of these audits should not be challenging undertakings for the auditors, one of them certainly will: auditing the Pentagon. As a current CPA Exam candidate, few of the things I have read during the 2016 election cycle boiled my blood harder than this Reuters article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-a ... SKCN10U1IG

I do not want to delve into the intricacies of government accounting in this essay, so I will offer two anecdotes to put things into greater perspective. Back in 2013, a USAF officer who visited my business ethics class as a guest speaker informed us that we could cut our national defense budget by a fifth and the Pentagon could still carry out all of its present activities with no decline in performance. About one year later, an accounting classmate who served in the Marines during the first Gulf War told me about her job managing over fifty million dollars of ammunition for three divisions. According to her story, the troops often gathered up all of the unused ammunition at the end of each year and spent a day at the ranges to use it up because the unit would only be allotted enough money in one year to buy the amount of ammunition it used during the previous year. If they did not intentionally waste their unused supply, others would assume they did not need as much ordinance.

While it is possible to tweak some of these restrictions by executive order, many of the regulations that result in the waste I described cannot be altered or eliminated without congressional action. My principal goal in auditing the Pentagon is to gather enough evidence to make a passionate case for reform before the American people in the hope they raise a stink that compels their representatives and senators to pass necessary legislation. My approach of outsourcing my “dirty work” against this sacred cow to the populace at large should insulate my approval ratings from excessive backlash if Congress opposes my policies. If they object, all I have to do is tell their constituents that they know who to throw out at the next election. I can always reward compliance with primary election endorsements and punish opposition by threatening to endorse primary election challengers (and I am willing to meddle in Democratic primaries as much as Republican ones if I must).

Another sacred cow I intend to butcher is the Federal Reserve’s sweeping monetary policy powers. The previous decade’s three quantitative easing “stimulus packages” failed to resuscitate the U.S. economy because they were not attached to the production of new goods or services. Instead, they simply inflated the money supply while the money our economy needed sat locked up overseas. In intend to rein in the Federal Reserve’s power by appointing bankers to the Board of Governors who do not believe in the Keynesian approach of “medicating” recessions by tinkering with the money supply. Before I signal any such intentions (which might spook Congress), I will push Congress to expand my powers over the Department of the Treasury so I can put the brakes on Treasury bond sales to the Fed by executive fiat if necessary.

While I am not a fierce Austrian School partisan, I firmly believe Keynesian economics (like socialism) has been tried enough to disprove the shopworn claim that it has never succeeded because it has never been "done right." In fact, when the Fed pursued a hands-off approach to the 1920–1921 depression, the economy sprung back in less than two years. The empirical evidence from this incident, when compared with the fact that “medicating” recessions by manipulating the money supply does little other than drag them out in exchange for a partial reduction in severity up front. If you do not read any other books this year, please try to find a copy of 1921: the Forgotten Depression to learn more. It was a shocking read for me and the author was deeply insightful to boot.

I focused most of this essay on measures that are intended to cut away red tape that hinders economic efficiency, make the tax code fairer, repatriate overseas wealth, rebuild infrastructure, oust corruption, and cut the cost of government programs so that Congress can eventually balance the federal budget. There is, however, one last major objective that I intend to pursue: amending the U.S. Constitution. Whether the public is willing to admit it or not, many of the problems I have touched on in this essay result from government exploiting loopholes in the Constitution or using creative (and often lexically false) interpretations thereof to justify creating gigantic permanent programs and bureaucracies that take on lives of their own.

As long as politicians can win elections by promising to tax their opponents to fund handouts for their supporters, our republic’s integrity will remain imperiled by the same corruption that brought down the democracies of ancient Greece and fueled the Roman mob. In 1951, Elmer T. Peterson wrote in the Daily Oklahoman that, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.” Peterson’s assessment is eerily prescient given how authoritarian the presidency has become, and if you read as many paleoconservative and neoreactionary blogs as I do, you will encounter ample talk of Trump overhauling the federal government along Caesarist lines.

The public’s addition to the drug of government benefits is now so severe that any politician who tries to rein in the “third rail” of politics will be voted out of office in the New York minute. Since it is impossible to stage an “intervention” without establishing a dictatorship and dissolving the entitlement state by force, the next best option is to stanch the bleeding so that it simply does not get any worse. In other words, we must erect constitutional barriers that make it more difficult to buy votes by promising to create new entitlements. All of the federal government’s largest permanent spending commitments—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and ObamaCare—were enacted by Democrats during periods of one-party rule.

Since a constitutional prohibition against creating new entitlements not provided for in Article I will never pass muster, we must try a much less direct approach. As such, I intend to propose an amendment requiring that all bills for creating new entitlements receive a two-thirds majority in each house of Congress to become law. This will force both parties to come to bipartisan compromises that avoid the win-lose, makers-versus-takers scenarios (and accompanying rhetoric) that has bedeviled our republic since the 1930s. As of early 2017, Republicans fully control twenty-five state governments while Democrats fully control only six. It takes thirty-three states to convene a constitutional amendment convention, so all I must do to make the convention happen is pick off a few states where Republicans have partial control to reach the requisite threshold. My chief vehicle for getting states on board my plan will be the Republican Governors Association.

In order to better understand my motivations in regard to limiting entitlements, I will refer you to the following resources that my congressman has put on his Web site for public consumption:

https://schweikert.house.gov/sites/schw ... tation.pdf
https://schweikert.house.gov/media-cent ... innovation

Well, this is it. I cannot say that my essay is as polished or coherent as I originally envisioned it to be, but I hope it is sufficient to serve as a starting point for answering your original question. Please feel free to combine all five sections into a Word document and ship it off to your friends if you want to solicit any feedback to add to your own.

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by **The State of Monavia** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:11 pm

CHARTER OF THE FEGOSIAN UNION

Chapter I – Concerning the Rights of Members and the Governance of the FU

Article I

Clause 1 A nation of the Fegosian Union is guaranteed full protection in the event of a crisis or attack from any party both internal and external, unless the nation falls into any of the categories detailed in Clause 3. A union member may request the use of the joint military force if is deemed acceptable by the majority of the union.

Clause 2 If a nation of the Fegosian Union invokes Clause 1, it will primarily be responded to by the Rapid Reaction Force unless Clause 3 is invoked. Secondary response by the native armed forces of other Fegosian Union nations, including those of Alfegos, will be coordinated at an immediate meeting between all Union Members called in the closest safe nation to the crisis.

Clause 3 A nation is not able to invoke Clause 1 of the charter if any of the following conditions are met:
– If the nation is invaded due to the committing of atrocities against humanity, including genocide.
– If the nation is invaded as a consequence of attacking a fellow Union Member.

Clause 4 A union member may request for the rejection of an application by another nation to join the union.

Clause 5 A union member may be inactive for up to 90 days before their membership is revoked, unless they give notice beforehand.

Clause 6 A Union member may convene a meeting of the FUSC to discuss the legitimacy and propriety of any changes to this charter, or to voice grievances against any provision which acts contrary to their best interests. Members may propose amendments in accordance with the procedures detailed in Chapter IX.

Article II

Clause 1 A state of open borders will exist between all members of the Union. This is defined as citizens of the Fegosian Union being able to travel amongst Union nations with restrictions only being put in place for security.

Clause 2 Trade will exist between all Union nations with tariffs governed by the Fegosian Union Trading Commission, to encourage trading between Union Members.

Clause 3 All nations within the Union will allow other Fegosian Union citizens to apply for citizenship at a much higher rate than is allowed for other nationals.

Clause 4 All Nations within the Union are entitled to disaster relief, both Economic and Physical, by the Fegosian Union Emergency Fund and the Rapid Reaction force.

Clause 5 All nations within the Union are entitled to policing by the Rapid Reaction Force and the Union Trade Commission, should they so request it.

Clause 6 All nations within the Union are entitled to a Union Representation office within the capital of Alfegos.

Article III

Clause 1 If any member nation becomes involved in a dispute, however petty, with another member nation or nations, it must inform the alliance of the nature of the dispute as soon as is possible.

Clause 2 Any disputant may appeal to the alliance for a council to be formed to aid in the sorting out of the dispute, and allowing for it to reach a conclusion beneficial to all parties.

Clause 3 Such a council will be carried out aboard a vessel in international waters, either a ship or an airship, with military presence being limited to that of the FURRF. The presence of any third-party observers shall be restricted to unarmed diplomatic observers.

Clause 4 In cases in which disputes between member nations result in an increase in the risk of armed conflict, an emergency meeting of the FUSC shall be convened. If the situation continues to escalate or is exacerbated further in any way, thus putting the security of the members in question and the stability of the Union as a whole in jeopardy, the alliance will call a special meeting to discuss sanctions upon the involved nations, and consider the deployment of the FURRF to keep the peace. Such sanctions will take the form of:
– Economic, military, and political isolation
– International condemnation or warnings
– A declaration of disapproval on behalf of the Fegosian Union Supreme Council
– A deployment of a military task force in international waters bordering the sanctioned nation(s)

Clause 5 If a dispute reaches actual armed conflict, the combatants involved will be tried by a council formed by the FUSC, and the aggressors of the conflict will be sanctioned appropriately.

Clause 6 In all cases in which a member state is compromised, all FURRF assets shall be evacuated whenever possible, locked down or concealed to prevent seizure by hostile elements, or safely destroyed to prevent their capture.

Clause 7 Deterrant weapons shall only be used upon aggressors in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI if the aggressor uses comparable weapons upon FURRF forces or the armed forces of member nations.

Article IV

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union will be governed as an entity by the Fegosian Union Supreme Council (FUSC). The authority of this Supreme Council in Union matters will be recognised by all Union members. The FUSC will deal with all matters related to the Union as an entity, and supervise the funding, objectives and deployments of all Fegosian Union entities.

Clause 2 Recognising the demands of national leaders in government, each nation of the FUSC will appoint one supreme representative to represent the nation. National Leaders reserve the right to substitute for their representative, and if they do not exercise this right will be considered as honorary members of the Council.

Clause 3 Each nation will further be represented by four other persons:
– National Representative and Commander to the FURRF
– National Representative to the FUTC
– Two other representatives, of any field, as attachés to the National Representative.

Clause 4 The council will elect one of its members as President, and one as Deputy President. These two figures will act as the official representatives of the Fegosian Union in diplomacy, and will hold the only veto between them. This vote will be held between all council members, and will be made every six months.

Clause 5 In the event of the death or incapacitation of the President of the FUSC, the Deputy President shall serve as Acting President until the nearest time an election for new President and Deputy President can be made.

Clause 6 For any matter to be passed by the FUSC, it must receive a simple majority of all votes cast. All council members have the right to abstain.

Clause 7 If a measure is vetoed, a vote of 80% in favor of said measure is required to pass that motion over the veto.

Clause 8 FUSC members must respond to a summons to Council by the President of the FUSC. If this is not possible, then they must engage in the council meeting remotely by any means reasonably possible.

Clause 9 The Fegosian Union Supreme Council can meet at any secure government meeting hall of the Fegoisan Union, cycling through locations as is convenient to the various members.

Clause 10 All FU member states have an ability to opt out of changes voted upon by the FUSC that affect their nation. This may only be so if the council votes as majority in the favour of the nation to opt out.

Chapter II – Concerning the Fegosian Union Trade Commission (FUTC)

Article I

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union Trade Commission (FUTC) will be set up with the following purposes:
– To advise FU members on trade sanctions and relations with other nations.
– To maximise the benefit of trade between FU nations.
– To observe and monitor potentially hazardous corporations within the Union.
– To work with the FUPF to stop smuggling, and enforce prohibited substance laws in terms of trade.
– To aid Union funding via the issuing of shipping registering rights, docking charges, fishing rights and enforcing trade levys in Fegosian Union joint territories.

Clause 2 A member of the FU will be elected as the head state in charge of appointing leadership to the FUTC. This leader will issue orders for the FUTC, within guidelines given by the FUSC.

Clause 3 All members of the FU will accept the FUSC-ratified proposals of the FUTC.

Clause 4 The FUTC has the power to recommend resolutions of the following nature:
– To multilaterally restrict trade, financial transactions and information to a certain state.
– To multilaterally impose sanctions upon a renegade company.
– To advise the FUPF on the issuing of arrest warrants.
– To change the charges and tariffs in FU joint territories.

Clause 5 All recommendations of the FUTC must be ratified by a vote of the FUSC before they can come into action in a Fegosian Union member state.

Article II

Clause 1 All member states will allow at least one FUTC office to be set up in their nation. They are invited to allow offices to be set up in overseas territories.

Clause 2 The FUTC HQ will reside within the offices of the nation voted as the current FUTC head.

Chapter III – Concerning the Rights of Alfegos

Article I

Clause 1 Alfegos may make extensions to the charter as necessary with the approval of a majority of the FUSC.

Clause 2 Alfegos may not unilaterally employ Union assets without approval by eighty percent of the FUSC.

Clause 3 Alfegos reserves the right to veto a membership request or suspend a member state’s status at any time, provided that a majority of the FUSC has given its prior consent.

Chapter IV – Concerning the Fegosian Union Police Force

Article I

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union Police Force (FUPF) shall be established as the principle investigative and law enforcement organization of the Union. It shall be tasked with the investigation of crimes and the pursuit of suspects within their enquiry. It shall be established with the intent of fulfilling the following objectives:
– To investigate multinational crimes across the Union.
– To investigate serious crimes and terrorism within Union nations.
– To provide security to Fegosian Union civilian installations.
– To work as an auxilliary force alongside police forces of respective nations.
– To act upon arrest warrants issued across the Union, or by the FUCC or FUSC.
– To co-operate with INTERPOL in all matters.

Clause 2 All Fegosian Union members will allow the establishment of a FUPF commissariat in their capital city at a minimum, and will understand the benefits of allowing the FUPF to open further stations at major port cities and areas of widespread crime.

Clause 3 All Fegosian Union members will recognise the jurisdiction the FUPF has in their powers arrest and detainment for questioning, and for searching, if they have the warrant. The FUPF shall have jurisdiction over all international criminals who are citizens or nationals of FU states.

Clause 4 All Fegosian Union members will act upon international criminal and terrorism alerts, and policing standardisation resolutions made by the FUPF, if the resolution has been ratified by the FUSC.

Clause 5 Member nations shall be tasked with composing lists of organizations which they deem to be terrorist entities.

Clause 6 To fulfill the aforementioned functions, the FUPF shall be organized into the following divisions:
– The Liaisons office
– The Investigative Department
– The Policing Department
– Armed/armoured support
– Counter-terrorism department

Article II

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union Police Force Headquarters (FUPFHQ) will be commanded and organised by senior personnel appointed from the nation voted to head the FUPF. FUPFHQ will be located in this nation.

Clause 2 All FUPF bureaus will act under the initiative of their respective bureau heads within their nation, within guidelines and initiatives given by FUPFHQ. FUPFHQ may take command of an FUPF station if it deems necessary.

Clause 3 The FUPF will be allocated a budget set biannually by the FUSC, and is free to decide usage of that money autonomously. However, all finances will be scrutinised by the FUSC to ensure that maximum efficiency and minimum waste is made by the FUPF, and to ensure that there is no irregularity in finance.

Clause 4 If a vote of no confidence in the FUPF leadership is made by the FUSC, the FUSC will take control of the FUPF until a new FUPF leading council is chosen.

Article III

Clause 1 All Union member states will promote membership of the FUPF, and allow officers to join if their contract so permits.

Clause 2 The FUPF will provide standardised training to all its members in their relevant fields, within the nation they work in.

Clause 3 The FUPF will provide all its members with the equipment needed for successful operations, regardless of cost.

Article IV

Clause 1 Officers shall be positioned at major international zones to capture criminals that national police forces would be unable to arrest.

Clause 2 The FUPF shall be vested with the authority to enforce international laws against smuggling, illegal substances, fraud, corporate crimes, and international piracy.

Clause 3 The FUPF shall retain custody of any suspect they arrest within their jurisdiction, provided they possess a warrant for the arrest. In addition, suspects wanted by the FUPF who are arrested by other police forces within FU member states shall be deposited into the custody of the FUPF.

Chapter V – Concerning the Fegosian Union Rapid Reaction Force

Article I

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union Rapid Reaction Force (FURRF) shall be established to protect member nations from internal international unrest and conflict.

Clause 2 The FURRF shall be commanded by a supreme allied commander, who shall be vested with the authority to manage its constituent departments, and control its forces in time of war.

Clause 3 The Commander of the FURRF shall be charged with command over logistical operations and force deployments.

Article II

Clause 1 The FURRF shall be governed by a Supreme Commanding Council, which shall be composed of representative of member nations, who shall in turn elect the Commander. The Commander shall preside over the Council.

Clause 2 The Council shall govern the operations of the force commands.

Clause 3 The force commands shall be:
– The FURRF Army, which shall be composed of ground forces that focus on mobile warfare.
– The FURRF Navy, which shall participate in shore patrols, transport, and fire support.
– The FURRF Air Force, which shall participate in transport, logistical operations, and such services as delivery of munitions and tactical strikes.
– The FURRF Research Department, tasked with weapons research and testing.
– The FURRF Rapid Deployment Fleet, which shall be involved in transport and deployments. It shall also provide logistical support.
– The FURRF Department of Deterrents, which shall control a common stockpile of WMD and satellite assets.
– The FURRF Intelligence Department, which shall provide information to the other departments which affects their operations.

Clause 4 All member nations shall provide funding and equipment to the FURRF.

Article III

Clause 1 The alliance defines a ‘Deterrent Weapon’ as a weapon making use of a biological, lethal chemical, radiological, nuclear or electromagnetic pulse source that may cause mass indiscriminate damage to a nation. A deterrent weapon is also defined as an orbit-earth high-energy kinetic projectile, with a potential yield of above 1kT TNT equivalent.

Clause 2 The alliance deterrent will be composed of weapons sufficient to provide an effective strategic deterrent, yet will not be of such a level as deemed unnecessarily high by the Fegosian Union.

Clause 3 To prevent the total loss of all FURRF-held deterrent weapons in a strike, each member nation will be obliged to host a fair share of the alliance deterrent in whatever form it would find best to accommodate.

Clause 4 No alliance member may use, interfere with or impede any deterrent system in use by the FURRF, unless the use of such a weapon has been made without permission from the FURRF Supreme Council.

Clause 5 The use of a deterrent weapon shall only take place if all nations which can be contacted voice no objections to it.

Chapter VI – Concerning CBRNE weaponry, and Defensive Systems

Article I
Definitions and Restrictions

Clause 1 All member states of the Fegosian Union will agree to maintain, if required, Union facilities relating to Deterrent weapons, defensive systems, and the paraphernalia of facilities required in their upkeep, as part of the FURRFDC (Fegosian Union Rapid Reaction Force Deterrent Control).

Clause 2 The alliance defines a ‘Deterrent Weapon’ as a weapon making use of a biological, lethal chemical, radiological, nuclear or electromagnetic pulse source that may cause mass indiscriminate damage to a nation. A deterrent weapon is also defined as an orbit-earth high-energy kinetic projectile, with a potential yield of above one kiloton of TNT or a comparable equivalent.

Clause 3 The Union Deterrant will be restricted to perform its need as a tactical and strategic weaponry, complying with the following guidelines:
(a) - The stockpile will only utilise lethal biological agents, which can either effectively be vaccinated against or treated with inexpensive drugs.
(b) - Radiological weapons will be limited to a maximum yield of 1 Gray/m² above background radiation levels, with at least 80% of the component isotopes having half lives of under two (2) years.
(c) - All biological or chemical agents acting specifically as carcinogenic or tetragenic agents will not be used in the Deterrent, due their incurability and long-term effects.
(d) - Nuclear weaponry will be limited in the deterrent to a maximum yield of one megaton (1Mt) of TNT equivalent. Devices must have a fuel-energy conversion efficiency of at least 80%, and either be high yield fission or fusion devices. Special consideration by the Deterrant Control must be sought if such devices are to be used in a ground
(e) - Nuclear devices which producing “salting,” defined as the spread of radioactive, poisonous, or otherwise harmful substances over a measurable area, shall not be included in the deterrent stockpile.
(f) - To prevent collateral damage, no EMP or Nuclear device in the stockpile may be converted to be used at either high altitude (>20km) or in space.

Clause 4 Alliance members have and retain the right to maintain and produce prohibited weaponry from the article above, for use in their respective national arsenals; though they shall be obligated to notify the Union of the type and quantity of such devices, and give special consideration before their use, even if the Union approves of launch of CBRNE weaponry.

Clause 5 The alliance deterrent will be composed of weapons sufficient to provide an effective strategic deterrent against foreign aggression, yet will not be of such a level as deemed unnecessarily high by the Fegosian Union Supreme Council, to avoid provocation.

Clause 6 No alliance member may use, interfere with or impede any deterrent system in use by the FURRF, unless the use of such a weapon has been made without permission from the FURRF Supreme Council. Such situations will be brought to the attention of the FUSC for arbitration as soon as it is possible.

Clause 7 All decisions related to the aggressive use of CBRNE systems must obtain unanimous agreement by the FURRF Supreme Council.

Article II
Storage and Possession Obligations

Clause 1 Union members will agree to stock a fair share of CBRNE weapons, in whatever form they may be, relative to the need of their use by the FUSC.

Clause 2 CBRNE weapons in the Union’s possession will be under the permanent control of the FURRF Deterrent Control (FURRFDC).

Clause 3 All CBRNE weapons and facilities constructed for storing, deploying, launching, or producing them must be suitably defended by all means against attack or hijack, and must be kept in a state suitable for use should the need arise. Members are obligated to maintain appropriate security forces to protect said facilities.

Article III
Early Warning and Defence

Clause 1 The Union will form a permanent Early Warning Systems (the UEWS), to provide a Union-wide analysis of threats and detection of CBRNE deployment. The UEWS will also be responsible for co-ordinating Union Member defence strategm against the deployment of CBRNE weapons, and advise member governments accordingly.

Clause 2 The UEWS will be provided with sensory resources sufficient to carry out its purpose, and offices in each Union Member nation from where it can carry out national advisory roles.

Clause 3 Union-wide responses to occurrences highlighted by the UEWS will be co-ordinated by the Union Combined Anti-Ballistic System (UCABS), using FURRF assets and aiding in the control of Union member assets.

Clause 4 The UCABS will be provided with anti-ballistic weaponry systems able to defend Union members sufficiently, yet not to an excess. UCABS will be allowed to use sensory resources of Union members, and of the UEWS.

Article IV
Concerning Union Member’s Usage of CBRNE weaponry, and Maintenance

Clause 1 Union Members must recognise the significance of the manufacture, stockpiling and use of CBRNE weaponry, and as such recognise the impact of the use of such weapon systems. Member governments are obligated to present the FUSC with a written acknowledgement or recognition of said significance.

Clause 2 Union Members must agree to the foundation and upkeep of the Fegosian Union Deterrent Supervisory Office (FUDSO). This office will be tasked with the inspection of FURRF and Union members’ CBRNE weaponry, and of the facilities of UEWS and UCABS, ensuring that Chapter VI, Article II, Clause 3 of the Union Charter is upheld. Inspection of national Deterrents and support systems is voluntary.

Clause 3 All FURRFDC, UCABS and UEWS facilities in Union territories must be maintained by the host nation alongside the relevant agencies, and must have an appropriate level of defence provided alongside the FURRF.

Chapter VII – Concerning the Fegosian Union Criminal Court (FUCC)

Article I

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union Criminal Court will be established with the following purposes:
– To act as an alternative court of law in which Fegosian Union nationals implicated in serious crimes warranting death penalties can be tried at.
– To act as an alternative highest court of appeal to national supreme courts for those appealing against convictions which would result in a sentence of capital punishment.
– To try criminals fairly and multilaterally, if accused of crimes against a government of a Fegosian Union nation, or accused of crimes against humanity, or accused of war crimes.
– To try multi-national corporations with a presence across the Union, and decide a unified verdict and penalty for said corporations that would be implemented in all Fegosian Union nations.
– To try members of the Fegosian Union Rapid Reaction Force implicated in severe crimes or war crimes.

Clause 2 The Fegosian Union will initially provide for two court complexes, in territories that are controlled multilaterally by Fegosian Union members. These will be in Port Therese, St. Therese (Monavia/Zaheran), and in Neo’Ilos/Oraz (Alfegos/Zaheran).

Clause 3 The jurisdiction of the FUCC to issue an arrest warrant against those charged with crimes against humanity or war crimes, within the Fegosian Union, will be recognised by all Fegosian Union member states.

Clause 4 The verdict of a session of the FUCC will be accepted by all Fegosian Union members and the judiciaries thereof.

Article II

Clause 1 The jury of the FUCC will consist of twelve jurors, two called from each Fegosian Union nation, to provide an unbiased verdict.

Clause 2 The judge appointed for the case at the FUCC will be chosen by lot from a list of various FU member state high court judges. The judge must not be of the same nationality as the accused.

Article III

Clause 1 All FU member states will recognise that a convicted criminal sentenced to death may appeal to the FUCC in place of their own highest national supreme court, as within the appeals law of their country. All states will not restrict a criminal from doing this, and will inform the criminal that this is in place of the national supreme court, not as an additional level of appeal superseding their national supreme court.

Clause 2 All FU member states will give a criminal suspected of a crime in an FU state, and originating from a different FU state, the choice to be tried either in the FUCC, or in a court within the country in which the crime was committed.

Clause 3 All FU member states will accept that the FUCC is the best body of law before which those accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity against FU member states or FU interests, and belonging to nations outside of the FU, may be brought.

Chapter VIII – Concerning the Fegosian Union Commission for Humanitarian, Special and International Aid (FUCHSIA)

Article I
Aims and Regulation

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union will recognise that there is a need for Humanitarian aid, both domestically and internationally, for the maintaining of civilisation and security of the Union.

Clause 2 FUCHSIA will be tasked with coordinating humanitarian aid given on a Union basis, to increase the effectiveness of multilateral response to a crisis.

Clause 3 FUCHSIA will be developed to be able to provide its own humanitarian aid on a national scale in up to two nations simultaneously, in both a short-term and mid-term timescale, with a reaction time of twenty four hours at most.

Clause 4 FUCHSIA will be tasked to provide aid by the agreement of the FUSC in non-domestic incidents. In a domestic incident, FUCHSIA aid will be provided automatically, unless the FUSC votes against this decision.

Clause 5 FUCHSIA will be self-regulating, within the provisions of the Charter and decisions passed by the FUSC.

Article II
Operation

Clause 1 FUCHSIA will set up bases of operation within each Union member’s nation, to allow for the most rapid movement of resources to a crisis.

Clause 2 All member states will allocate a proportion of their aid budget deemed acceptable by their native governments towards the stockpiling of resources and personnel.

Clause 3 The FURRF can be used, with the permission of the FUSC, to provide additional personnel for operations. Otherwise, all staff will be dedicated staff and/or volunteers.

Clause 4 During an operation, a FUCHSIA member will be allocated as head of operations. This member will be responsible for the deployment of aid resources, and the progress of an aid mission. If this member is deemed incompetent, the FUSC is able to replace the member with a more suitable candidate.

Article III
Defence

Clause 1 As a humanitarian organisation, all Union members will recognise that FUCHSIA is a non-military, unarmed organisation of the Union.

Clause 2 FUCHSIA will comply with the Geneva conventions in the provision of aid to all civilians, and the injured combatants of both sides without discrimination. FUCHSIA will also comply with the provision of the wearing of the Red cross/Red crescent/Red diamond for medical personnel only.

Clause 3 The Union recognises that an attack on the FUCHSIA is a severe crime, and by a military organisation will be regarded as a war crime.

Clause 4 FURRF personnel working as part of FUCHSIA are non-combatants, and will only be allowed defensive non-lethal arms. Personnel must officially be transferred back to regular FURRF units before engaging in a combat role.

Clause 5 Recognising that organisations will attempt to attack humanitarian workers, the Union may deploy security and/or military personnel to defend areas where FUCHSIA is operating.

Chapter IX – Concerning the Amendment of the Fegosian Union Charter

Article I
Amendment Process

Clause 1 Any member state’s delegation to the FUSC may propose a motion to amend the Union Charter. Said motions shall be given procedural precedence over other motions, except in cases where emergencies arise.

Clause 2 All amendments submitted to the FUSC for discussion shall be subject to standard procedures of discussion, debate, and analysis. Voting on amendments shall follow the standard procedures for all FUSC legislation; however, amendments to this Charter shall require a two-thirds vote for passage. All members may reserve the right to abstain.

Clause 3 An amendment passed by the FUSC may be subject to a veto by the FUSC President and Deputy President, but said veto can be overridden by a four-fifths vote by the FUSC.

Clause 4 Once an amendment is passed by the FUSC, it shall be submitted to the individual governments of member states for ratification.

Chapter X – Ratification

Article I

Clause 1 This revised Charter shall become effective twenty-four hours after the FUSC receives the instruments of ratification from two-thirds of all member states.

Clause 2 Upon becoming effective, this text shall replace the existing Charter that was reconstituted from the original on June 14, 2008 and amended on May 17, 2009.

Chapter XI - Considering the Administration of the Alfegan Overseas Territories

Article 1
Aim of Chapter XI

Clause 1 The Fegosian Union, by consent of the interim government of Alfegos, will be given control of all Alfegan overseas territories for the duration of the current crisis in Alfegos.

Clause 2 The Fegosian Union will take responsibility for the security and welfare of all Alfegan citizens residing in the overseas territories.

Clause 3 To fulfill this purpose, the Fegosian Union will establish the Fegosian Union Alfegan Territories Administration (FUATA), which will function as an interim government for the overseas territories.

Clause 4 Chapter III of the Fegosian Union Charter is hereby suspended for the duration of the current political and administrative crisis in Alfegos. Chapter III shall be reinstated in full effect within thirty days after the termination of said crisis.

Article 2
Organisation of the FUATA

Clause 1 The FUATA will be headed by the Head Commissioner, who will be elected by the Supreme Council.

Clause 2 The Head Commissioner will be assisted in his duties by the Board of Advisors, consisting of an elected representative from each territory, as well as representatives from the FURFF, FUPF and FUTC.

Clause 3 The fulfill its functions, the FUATA will be organised into the following divisions:
- The Territorial Self-Defence Force (TSDF)
- The Judicial Department
- The Internal Security Department
- The Office of Trade and Economic Affairs
- The External Affairs Office

Article 3
The Territorial Self-Defence Force

Clause 1 The purpose of the TSDF is to maintain the territorial integrity of the overseas territories and the security of their residents.

Clause 2 The TSDF will take control of all Alfegan military personnel and installations remaining in the overseas territories.

Clause 3 The TSDF shall coordinate it operations with the FURFF in the exercise of its duties.

Clause 4 The TSDF shall be headed by the Supreme Commander.

Article 4
The Judicial Department

Clause 1 The Judicial Department will be responsible for all matters relating to the judicial system in the overseas territories.

Clause 2 In the exercise of its duties, the Judicial Department should strive to follow established Alfegan judicial traditions and precedents.

Clause 3 The Judicial Department shall coordinate its operations with the FUPF in the exercise of its duties.

Clause 4 The Judicial Department shall be headed by the Secretary of Justice.

Article 5
The Internal Security Department

Clause 1 The Internal Security Department will be responsible for anti-terrorism, counter-espionage and protection against subversive activity.

Clause 2 The Department will be headed by the Secretary of Internal Security.

Article 6
The Office of Trade and Economic Affairs

Clause 1 The Office of Trade and Economic Affairs will supervise and regulate economic and financial activity in the overseas territories.

Clause 2 The Office shall have the authority to negotiate and sign trade treaties on behalf of the overseas territories.

Clause 3 The Office shall further have the authority to impose tariffs and similar measures, except in cases where such measures would violate Chapter I, Article 2, Clause 2 of the Fegosian Union Charter.

Clause 4 The Office shall coordinate its operations with the FUTC in the exercise of its duties.

Clause 5 The Office shall be headed by the Secretary of Trade and Economic Affairs.

Article 7
The External Affairs Office

Clause 1 The External Affairs Office shall represent FUATA internationally.

Clause 2 The Office shall maintain permanent representatives in the capitals of all member nations of the Fegosian Union.

Clause 3 With permission from the FUTC, the Office may sign diplomatic treaties with nations and other international entities outside the FU. Diplomats empowered by the FUSC to act as such shall be accorded full ambassadorial rank (ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary) for the duration of negotiations.

Clause 4 The Office shall coordinate its operations with the FUSC in the exercise of its duties.

Clause 5 The Office shall be headed by the Secretary of External Affairs.

Article 8
Validity of Chapter XI

Clause 1 Chapter XI will remain in effect until it is rescinded by the FUSC.

Clause 2 Upon rescission of Chapter XI, control over the overseas territories will be returned to Alfegan authorities.

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