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Economy

Seculartopia has a mixed system, allowing for free enterprise with some government-owned buisnesses and national regulation, mainly for environmental purposes and to prevent exploitation in the private sector.

Government Priority: Education
GDP (Official): $12,333 billion
GDP Per Capita (Official): $6,501
Income Tax Rate: 100%
Government Income (% of GDP): 100%
Private Consumption: $12,333 billion
Government Budget: $12,715 billion
Administration (8%): $987 billion
Welfare (12%): $1,480 billion
Healthcare (17%): $2,097 billion
Education (22%): $2,713 billion
Religion and Spirituality (0%): $0 billion
Defence (0%): $0 billion
Law and Order (0%): $0 billion
Commerce (3%): $370 billion
Public Transport (5%): $617 billion
Environment (16%): $1,973 billion
Social Equality (18%): $2,220 billion
Government Waste (3%): $381 billion
Exchange Rate: 1 sagan unit = $0.65

Regulations
Seculartopian Carbon and Nitrogen Act
Taxes and Limits Coal and Nitrogen output.
Seculartopian Fossil Fuel Act
Limits Fossil Fuel Production in Seculartopia to Natural Gas
Coal Prohibition Act
Eliminates the production of,selling of,import or export of Coal within Seculartopia
Oil Limitation Act
Limits Oil Imports
Green Investment Tax Credit
Gives tax credits to buisnusses that renew their proptery to make it more efficent and reknewing to the environment
Seculartopian Green Initiative
Provides funds for green projects
Seculartopian Private Schooling Act
Limits Private Schooling to hold certain secular,tolerant standards
Secualrtopian Equal Opportunities Act
Mandates that all peoples have equal opportunities and initiatives to be hired.
Seculartopian General Land Development Act
Limits what areas can be developed and to what extent.

Geography

Elevation Extremes
Lowest Point: 0 m (sea level at the coast)
Highest Point: 277 m (Mt Sagan)

Terrain
Seculartopia's terrain consists mostly of flat,arctic tundra, except the hilly taiga east of Sagan, and the sprawling boreal forests around Asimov.

Relative Location
Seculartopia is 345 degrees north of Grittonia, at 970 km north.
Seculartopia is 360 Degrees North of Maraque, at 5,252.66 km north.
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Land Use
Natural Reserve- 40%
Urban- 55%
Agriculture/Rural- 5%

Main Environmental Hazards
Blizzards (nationwide)
Ice Stroms (nationwide)

Natural Resources
-Natural Gas
-Timber
-Hydropower
-Lead

Government

Dictator-President
-Is the Head of State/Government.
-Can start legislation
-Chooses a nominee from each Party to an open Position as a Director ever term, based on party membership of populace the new Cabinet Member is chosen.
-Serves as Cabinet-Populace Liaison
-Makes Treaties with the help of his Director of Foreign Affairs
-Elected by Populace every 5 years.

The Cabinet
-Votes on legislation,passes with majority
-Declares War
-Made up of the Directors.

Secretary-General of Seculartopia
-Keeps Cabinet in Line with Parliamentary Procedures. (He haz teh gavel! )
-Speaker of the cabinet.
-Determines validity of a petition to remove the entire cabinet is valid or should proceed to General Vote.
-Votes in Cabinet in case of tie.
-Appointed by Vote of Cabinet when approved by the D-P.

Director of Internal Affairs
-Is the second-in-command should the D-P be alive yet unable to resume duties as D-P. (If DP is dead, a new election occurs.)
-Approves votes of cabinet for Secretary-General.
-Helps establish the budget in the Internal Affairs Directory Conference.

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Criminal Trials of the D-P
-The Populace or Cabinet brings the petition to vote
-Trials proceed in the Cabinet
-Convicted or Acquittion is decided based on proceedings of trial.

Dislike of D-P or Director
-Populace brings petition based on the dislike of said person
-IF D-P: Cabinet votes on validity
-General Populace Vote on new D-P
-IF Cabinet Member or Multiple Cabinet Members, vote is held in Cabinet excluding involved parties.Decision is held
-General Vote of Populace on new Director(s)
-IF Entire Cabinet is petitioned for removal,The Dictator-President evaluates the evidence and determines its validity with the agreement of the Secretary-General of Seculartopia.
-General Populace Votes.

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Secular Party
DOMINANT PARTY IN CABINET BY GENERAL ELECTION
6/11 of Director Positions

Socialist Party
3/11

Centre Left Capitalist Party
1/11

Communist Party
0/11

Conservative Party
0/11

Demographics

Everything Called an Ethnicity that is Imaginable.

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What is your position towards Nuclear Energy?

Eeri wrote:What is your position towards Nuclear Energy?

It was popular a decade ago being a very returning source of energy, but has generally died down in popularity and view due to concerns over radioactive waste. Seculartopia and its Government takes on a cautious stance towards Nuclear Energy, seeing it as not as much of a green fuel as commonly stated and advertised, although we aren't staunchly against it.

It has come to the attention of the Encyclopedia Management staff that a spelling error in the title of this important Seculartopian factbook occurred. Due to an unforeseeable series of events completely unrelated to the literacy and spelling skills of our writers, the title was mistakenly misspelled. The correction on the digital copy has been made, and we will provide masking tape and sharpies to correct more paper-based copies.

Most popular tourist destination?

Why does your nation hate freedom?

Maraque wrote:Most popular tourist destination?

Maraque,Swilatia,Fatatatutti and other various Secular-based nations are popular, Maraque being the most popular due to its incredibly similar policy and warmer climate.

Warm isnt something found in Seculartopia.

The Nuclear Fist wrote:Why does your nation hate freedom?

We don't. Care to elaborate?

Seculartopia wrote:Government

Dictator-President

This^

Why does your government hate freedom?

The Nuclear Fist wrote:

Seculartopia wrote:Government

Dictator-President

This^

Why does your government hate freedom?

Ah, the Dictator-President conniption.

One thing you will find about Seculartopians is they enjoy Satire and Parody. Our Founder simply humorously stuck the name saying "More power than a President, Less than a Dictator" jokingly due to the fact that Seculartopia's Secular Directory System is based around the people electing the D-P to best set up the government on their behalf, instead of the other way around with the Legislature.

Which is untrue, since the people actually directly elect the persons in the Cabinet, the D-P selects a candidate from each party (Parties are meaningless and symbolic), and the People vote to approve which one wins.

The people can also out the D-P or a Cabinet Member at any time via petition.

Seculartopia wrote:

The Nuclear Fist wrote:

Seculartopia wrote:Government

Dictator-President

This^

Why does your government hate freedom?

Ah, the Dictator-President conniption.

One thing you will find about Seculartopians is they enjoy Satire and Parody. Our Founder simply humorously stuck the name saying "More power than a President, Less than a Dictator" jokingly due to the fact that Seculartopia's Secular Directory System is based around the people electing the D-P to best set up the government on their behalf, instead of the other way around with the Legislature.

Which is untrue, since the people actually directly elect the persons in the Cabinet, the D-P selects a candidate from each party (Parties are meaningless and symbolic), and the People vote to approve which one wins.

The people can also out the D-P or a Cabinet Member at any time via petition.

So tyranny by majority then?

The Nuclear Fist wrote:

Seculartopia wrote:

The Nuclear Fist wrote:

Seculartopia wrote:Government

Dictator-President

This^

Why does your government hate freedom?

Ah, the Dictator-President conniption.

One thing you will find about Seculartopians is they enjoy Satire and Parody. Our Founder simply humorously stuck the name saying "More power than a President, Less than a Dictator" jokingly due to the fact that Seculartopia's Secular Directory System is based around the people electing the D-P to best set up the government on their behalf, instead of the other way around with the Legislature.

Which is untrue, since the people actually directly elect the persons in the Cabinet, the D-P selects a candidate from each party (Parties are meaningless and symbolic), and the People vote to approve which one wins.

The people can also out the D-P or a Cabinet Member at any time via petition.

So tyranny by majority then?

Which is untrue, since the people actually directly elect the persons in the Cabinet, the D-P selects a candidate from each party (Parties are meaningless and symbolic), and the People vote to approve which one wins.

Nope.

What are the highest and lowest recorded temperatures since recording keeping of such in Seculartopia?

An-Toan Yen has resigned her seat in the Cabinet, having selected Mohammed Al-Zarak to facilitate the remainder of her term.

Maraque wrote:What are the highest and lowest recorded temperatures since recording keeping of such in Seculartopia?

The Lowest Recorded Temperature was -45.5 degrees Celsius, or -50 Degrees Fahrenheit, during the Great Winter of 1845. It was again recorded at the Cape of Frozen Scapes, the northernmost in Seculartopia, during September of 1922.

The Highest Recorded Temperature was actually recorded just a month ago, with temperatures actually reaching 27.2 Degrees Celsius, or 81 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Truthfully, we should install more temperature rating scales at Cape of Frozen Scapes or the very northern tier of Seculartopia where its iced all year round- unconfirmed reports have gone into negative three digits.

Seculartopia wrote:

Maraque wrote:What are the highest and lowest recorded temperatures since recording keeping of such in Seculartopia?

The Lowest Recorded Temperature was -45.5 degrees Celsius, or -50 Degrees Fahrenheit, during the Great Winter of 1845. It was again recorded at the Cape of Frozen Scapes, the northernmost in Seculartopia, during September of 1922.

The Highest Recorded Temperature was actually recorded just a month ago, with temperatures actually reaching 27.2 Degrees Celsius, or 81 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Truthfully, we should install more temperature rating scales at Cape of Frozen Scapes or the very northern tier of Seculartopia where its iced all year round- unconfirmed reports have gone into negative three digits.

Your highest recorded temperature is lower than our lowest average temperature.

Next question:

How many signatures are needed for a petition to remove someone from office?

Maraque wrote:

Seculartopia wrote:

Maraque wrote:What are the highest and lowest recorded temperatures since recording keeping of such in Seculartopia?

The Lowest Recorded Temperature was -45.5 degrees Celsius, or -50 Degrees Fahrenheit, during the Great Winter of 1845. It was again recorded at the Cape of Frozen Scapes, the northernmost in Seculartopia, during September of 1922.

The Highest Recorded Temperature was actually recorded just a month ago, with temperatures actually reaching 27.2 Degrees Celsius, or 81 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Truthfully, we should install more temperature rating scales at Cape of Frozen Scapes or the very northern tier of Seculartopia where its iced all year round- unconfirmed reports have gone into negative three digits.

Your highest recorded temperature is lower than our lowest average temperature.

Next question:

How many signatures are needed for a petition to remove someone from office?

Really? Well, I guess that does come with the territory.

The exact solid policy on this isn't really solid, as it's only happened once with the extremely unpopular Isaac Numertiy.

Accepted is in the range of 18-20+% of the Population, (~ 300/500 Million People). Numertiy received 35% of the Population's signature.

How prevalent are fireplaces in Seculartopian dwellings?

Maraque wrote:How prevalent are fireplaces in Seculartopian dwellings?

Fireplaces themselves are a regular occurrence, or at least some sort of fire-pit within a dwelling.

Seculartopians consider it logical to have a backup in the city in case of an emergency, although they are environmentally conscious enough as well as warm-natured enough to not want to use said fireplaces for heating, concurring towards more controlled means by heating.

In the Tundra especially, its practically the method of heating, that an this ingenious little ancient water heating method that ends up heating water in the insulative walls of the house, and using a knob system to regulate the angle of the sun's reflection.

If the weather is so rough, why do people choose to stay?