General informationa) Time on Nationstates: None, Active since 4/19/2019
b) Previous regions: None
c) Other nations: None
IC National informationa) Nation's IC name: The Confederate League of Pulau Keramat
b) Nation's IC population: 80.45 Million (2017 Est)
c) Nation's IC GDP per capita: $33,238, Currency is the Rigganit
d) Nation's type of government: Constitutional Confederate Republic
e) Nation's head of state: Dewan Emas,’The Golden Council’: Councilmember Anunak Leekpai, Councilmember Pertiwi Bambang Pangabbean, Councilmember Soleadad Leano Manalo, Councilmember Kiambang Teuku-Dayang, Councilmember Mutenge Kunokoa, Prime Councilmember Maurani Rahmkha
f) Nation's head of gov’t (if applicable): Currently, Councilmember Maurani Rahmkha serves as Prime Councilmember of Dewan Emas
IC National informationa) Brief description of your nation:
On July 17th 1957, the Archipelagic nations of North Autearoa signed the Pulau Keramat Declaration, in hopes of facilitating infrastructural, economic, and political integration with one another, thus establishing an early intergovernmental organization that until 1972, served as a form of unity amongst the wholly sovereign states. In 1972, the Dewan Emas Agreement as facilitated by the nation state of Nakharain was passed, and gave heavy authority and facilitation to the Pulau Keramat Association, thereby unifying the countries of Nahkarain, Birhanu, The Solustheris Islands, Orang Uslia, and Kopiona Poi as sovereign states within the Pulau Keramat Confederacy, with the desires of total economic integration, defensive capacities, and standardized capacities for education, medical aid, welfare, human rights standards and some legal prowess. In 1986, an amendment was added to the Dewan Emas Agreement, which allowed the Autearoan nation of Sinavia to enter the confederacy, albeit there has been dissent within the native population in regards to how much autonomy should be sacrificed in order to join the confederate league. Each of the established nation states still hold internal governance, and hold different identities to governance that takes different standards to taxation, infrastructure, legal standards, and other responsibilities not discussed within the Dewan Emas Agreement, as notified under Subsection 7, Article II. However, the primary power and authority over each of the nations lie by the Dewan Emas, ‘Golden Council’, who serve under elected positions, with each nation electing their own councilmember, and from within the current, a Prime Councilmember is chosen to hold executive decision making capacity, and emergency powers to ensure functionality and stability under times of emergency or to prevent stagnation. Each council member is elected to serve for a variant level of time, with voting options for a term of 2,4, or 6 years to each candidate, and no limit to the extent of terms a councilmember may serve, albeit this may be subject to change under the desires of current Prime Councilmember Maurani Rahmkha. Sinavia was granted the capacity to elect a councilmember to the Dewan Emas in 1990, as the council was concerned that the immediate insertion of new governance and power to the council would have been disruptive.
A prominent, semi-xenophobic attitude has been present in the archipelagic nations since the early 10th century, with the only previous instance of total unification amongst the various nations being taken by the Tahamaja Empire, an empirical thalassocracy who built a nation on the idea that the outside world, being that of northern Ochran primarily as a scapegoat, would destroy the cultures and freedoms of the island populations, and that only by protecting and serving one another would the archipelagic identities be able to preserve themselves. Whilst the Tahamaja Empire fell by the 12th century due to internal desires for autonomy away from the Birhanu-centric empire, these attitudes of protecting and preserving away from the outside world still resonated with much of the population. This was only solidified by the small examples of colonialism that took place by Mutul in its conflicts with Tsurushima over the viceroyalty within the Northern Autearoan islands, and these attitudes have existed since, with only the establishment of Pulau Keramat, and thus a security blanket of potential protection amongst the nations, marking the beginning of greater efforts to begin to reach out and work with other nations.
With a history of thalassocracies and naval conquests taking place within the archipelago itself, Pulau Keramat takes pride in it’s naval capacities and functionality, having shifted to providing primary militaristic prowess and authority to the Angkatan Emas, a subcouncil voted by the Dewan Emas to preside over militaristic operations within the confederacy. Each individual nation is permitted to hold their own militaristic capacities, but are heavily regulated, with most naval forces, coast guard operations, and training taking place under naval bases and camps under the authority of the Angkatan Emas. Pulau Keramat has taken to signing all existing non-proliferation treatise as possible, with little interest in engaging in nuclear politics, and a greater fear of exploitation by existing factions engaging in ethnic conflicts within the confederacy.
In cultural standards, Pulau Keramat has taken to actively promoting and celebrating a sense of diversity and cultural divergence within the nations, with protections and promotions of indigenous languages, art forms, and histories taken to help promote the idea that all groups within the archipelago find protection and empowerment by the Dewan Emas. The official language of the Pulau Keramat is divergent in each nation, with each primary and secondary language of the nations being recognized and used by all documentation within the Pulau Keramat, albeit Za’gree (Indonesian) is used most often, due to the prominence of the Za’gree speaking population in all countries. The nations within are heavily Buddhist, with large animistic and folk religions finding a resurgence due to the subcouncil of Rumah Emas, which presides over cultural integration and social welfare, promoting and protecting the growth of local religions since the 1988 Indigenous Religions Growth Act. As such, Dewan Emas does not actively promote Buddhism, but indigenous faith practices, which traditionally derive from shamanism, animism, and proto-buddhist practices. Unfortunately, some of these indigenous faiths have found conflict with one another, and such it becomes more apparent where certain faith practitioners may find little of their community exists outside of their own nation of origin. As each indigenous culture is promoted to the fullest of its extent, each individual nation holds independent cultural centers from one another, yet ‘Tau Haurimau’ within Birhanu acts as the center for the Rumah Emas, and is a hub for all cultures of the archipelago to be promoted, with government funded musical halls, art exhibitions, and film festivals becoming a regular notion within the city, and a heavy draw of tourism.
Politically, the Dewan Emas has always leaned on a center-left identity,due to the role of international communications and a willingness to promote a bureaucratic existence beyond one one’s country, so the functionality of the role traditionally sees the elections running in favorship of center-left coalitions, which most moderate center-right entities finding it difficult to get anything done due to years of bureaucratic groundwork within each of the existing sub-councils that contrasts a standard of center-left policy. This led to early establishment of LGBT Rights and Protections, which falls in line with many religious and cultural practices, as well as greater internal immigration standards and policy. However, the variance within each of the existing nations, and their independent governance is between several centre-right and centre-left parties, yet the populistic party in Sinavia, known as ‘Kami Una’ is raising concerns, as the party has built itself on gaining greater autonomy from the Dewan Emas, and is slowly gaining in popularity. Regardless of party, most policy makers agree on two things: in the promotion of international trade, and heavy regulations to any international immigration. The only large ethnic group that is present from outside the indigenous ethnic persons is a moderately large Tsurushiman population, who had been present on Nahkarain before the 1957 Declaration, as well as some Maori population that had been present in Sinavia since the 12th century.
Educationally, the Rumah Emas has established several university campuses across the archipelago, alongside primary school systems that are oriented around providing an education that benefits working under the Dewan Emas as a whole. Each nation state provides its own secondary education systems and pre-schools, with these separations in education level being agreed upon the 1976 Educational Restructuring Act, which tried to balance a level of autonomy for each existing nation, whilst also allowing it’s college populations regular access across the archipelago to experience new cultures. The Naval Academy of Nahkarain has some level of global acclaim for fields of aquatic research, maritime trade, and naval technology, yet has restrictions on the admittance of international students so to help the people of Pulau Keramat first.
The collective economy of the Pulau Keramat confederacy has grown dramatically over the past few decades, as actions to facilitate economic trade and gains in productivity within the nation has allowed for see growth to significant level, boasting harbors for grand maritime operations, and a new field of aquatic research and fishing technologies. Sinavia stands out particularly as being a large source for clean energy, with much of its internal, landlocked terrain being used to host solar and wind farms. The current GDP (PPP) of 2017 stood at $3,057 Billion, and GDP PC at 33,238.
b) What languages are spoken in your nation?: Za’Gree (Indonesian), Rajosi (Thai), Ahlranese (Tagalog), Zahrani (Malay),Tuganani (Hiri Motu), and Tsurushiman (Japanese) are the languages spoken to the largest extent, yet several indigenous languages exist within each nation.
c) What ethnic groups are present in your nation?: 12% Za’Green,10% Tuganani, 12.5% Rajosian, 12.5% Ahlran, 20% Zahrani, 5% Tsurushiman, 5% Maori, 23% various ethnic groups(it is esteemed there are over 55 amongst the archipelagic states, and due to conflicts within )
d) What are the major religions among your population?: Buddhist/Several indigenous religious groups, such as Nnhivara, The Zoa Kip Kong, and Shekenism. Recently, Sadhanan faith has been granted more of a presence amongst the more metropolitan cities within the confederacy, yet there are still restrictions to the presence of it outside of these small urban pockets.
e) What role do you see your nation fulfilling within the region?: Pulau Keramat, with numerous high-traffic harbors and promising opportunities for fair trade agreements, resides between Ochran and the rest of Autearoa, and has worked to facilitate trade to the regions with Oxidentale and Scipia as well. However, this benefit is contrasted to heavy limits on outside immigration into the nation, and the spillover from internal religious conflicts occasionally raises concerns for populations seeking asylum. Economic benefactor to nations interested in free trade, and militaristic power between Autearoa and other regions.
f) Briefly describe your nation’s military (including size, role, branches, etc.): Large Navy, controlled primarily by the Angkatan Emas, with smaller sub-navies under the ownership of each sovereign nation. Coast guard makes approximately 65% of naval operations within Pulau Keramat, and there are little ground based operations of forces, besides the presence of policing forces in each nation, organized and legislated by each individual state.
g) Critically discuss the strengths of your nation (esp. military & economic) and how they may affect existing regional power structures: Heavy cultural, educational(based on Maritime Tech) and economic benefits, and whilst the economic benefits are proliferated tremendously to other countries in hopes of facilitating free trade, limits on tourism and immigration lead to desires for entry into the region, but little capacity for outside nations to do so.
h)If asked to reduce the strength of your nation, how would you do so? Either a raise of ethnic and religious tensions that led to declines in trade and international tourist intrigue, a weakening of militaristic capacities, or the presence of various far-right entities that lead to a decline of political cohesivity.
IC Geographical/resourceGeneral lists, we don't expect you to know all the details before joining and getting a map place.a) What does your nation excel in exporting:Maritime goods and technology, ship parts, raw aquatic resources, and clean energy.
b) What does your nation need to import?:Raw materials like minerals, lumber, and animal produce
c) What is your country self sufficient on?:oil reserves, and labor, as the population prefers not having to immigrate labor within the country.
d) What is your preferred location on the regional map? I’ve structured this nation to work in an archipelagic state, specifically that of Autearoa, but I am completely ready to structure myself to work in another environment, with a preference for highly oceanic areas. This would also incorporate the Northern Peninsula of the -Australia Adjacent Landmass.
Regional historya) Were you recommended to Ajax?:Yes, by Malay.
6: Roleplay history Mostly Dungeons and Dragons with local groups, I've been playing since 2012
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