The People's Republic of Saragrossa

[Saragrossa]

Introduction; Saragrossa

President: Tom Ford
Chairman of the People's Republican Council: Hugo Sanchez
Population: 512 million (circa 2010 cenus)
Motto: " For Death & Glory "

Saragrossa, is a relatively young nation whoses history spans only four centuries. After gaining independance from the Empire of Valencia from 1609 A.D. It has been one of the miracle stories in its region. Despite being isolated and surounded by hostile and brutal nation, its hard working and compassionate citizens have risen to all challenges and managed to ward off every inclusion into its dominion. Saragrossa hasn't lost a single yard of land nor has it lost a war yet. Its people despite being harassed by other nations have an exceptional open society, open and tolerate to all nations and peoples.

By 1800's, its people had reached over 100 Million and it began a modernization program to become more democratic installing a presidental system as well as having a people's excuetive branch which rivaled the president to ensure the people's rule is fair.
By the 1900's, it had reached over 350 million, and Saragrossa has managed to keep the country very enviornmentally clean and proporus.

Present day Saragrossa, with over 500 million, the nation is relative safe, industrial and hard working. Its nuclear power program is the envy of the world as it capacity to power the entire country and other nations as well.

[Saragrossa]

Geography
Total:167.23 million sq. mi (163.90 million sq. km)
Land:147.85 million sq. mi (149.97 million sq. km)
Water:19.38 million sq. mi (13.93 millions sq. km)

Comparative Area:
About 15 times the size of the United States, or about the size of every country on earth.

Land Boundaries:
Total:
Border Countries: Valencian Empire, Of the Knights Gallant, League of Evil


Maritime Claims:
Territorial Sea: 12 nm
Contiguous Zone: 24 nm
Exclusive Economic Zone: 200 nm

Climate:
Primarily temperate, but contains a northern sub-arctic region that is over 23 million square miles.

Terrain:
forthcoming

Elevation Extremes:
Lowest Point: Lake Vahar, -324' MSL
Highest Point: Mount Liu 31,700' MSL

Natural Resources:
Uranium,radium, coal, copper, lead, thorium, plutonium, tritum, molybdenum, phosphates,gold, jade, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber, titanium, cobalt, construction materials (sand, stones and clays),aeschynite,apatite, basnastite, britholite,brockite,cerite,floucerite,flurite,gadolinte,monazite,allanite, zircon,zirconolite,xenotime,titanite, synchiste,stillwellite, parisite,

Land Use:
Arable: 42.23%
Permanent Crops: 1.75%

Irrigated Land:
5.45 million sq. mi

Total Renewable Water Resources:
131,230 sq. km

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
5,487 sq. km/yr (11%/42%/47%)

Natural Hazards:
Tornadoes, monsoons, flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, Tsunamis, Volcanic activity, forest fires, mud and landslides, Heat, Cold

Environmental Issues:
Dessertification in some areas, loss of wildlife habitat with the expansion of suburbs, radioactive waste in isolate areas due to advanced nuclear capabilities


People and Population

Population:
Total: 512 million /circa 2010 cenus
Native Born: 443 million
Foreign Born: 69 million
Total Citizens: 512 million

Age Structure:
0-17 years: 24.2%
18-64 years: 67.3%
65+ years: 8.5%

Median Age:
Total: 34.4 years
Male: 32.1 years
Female: 36.9 years

Population Growth Rate:
3.2% per annum

Birth Rate
19.5 births/1,000/year

Death Rate:
4.6 deaths/1,000/year

Net Migration Rate:
4.1 migrants/1,000/year

Urbanization
Urban Population: 78%
Rate of Urbanization: 1.5% annual rate of change

Sex Ratio:
At birth: 1.07 males/female
Under 15: 1.05 males/female
15-64: 1.01 males/female
Over 65: 0.67 males/female
Total Population: 0.99 males/female

Infant Mortality Rate:
4.71 deaths/1,000 live births

Life Expectancy at Birth:
Total:82.6 years
Male: 80.4 years
Female: 84.2 years

Total Fertility Rate:
2.21 Children/woman

HIV/AIDS Prevalence:
0.41%

Nationality:
Noun: Saragrossan
Adjective: Saragrossan

Religions:
Roman Catholic: 95.0%
Other Beliefs: 1.5%
Unaffiliated: 3.5%

Languages: (based on fluency)
Saragrossan: 98.27%
English: 80.9%

Literacy:
98.5%

School Life Expectancy:
18..3 years

Education Expenditures:
9.43% of GDP

[Saragrossa]

Economy

Overview:

The economy of Saragrossa is massive and quite unique in the sense. The government has invested heavily into education, social welfare and the armed forces. The private industry industry is internationally known for its information technology, book publishing, gambling and nuclear energy exportation.

With a GDP per capita of 38,712 USD per year, most Saragrossan's enjoy a fairly comfortable life. This is due to the past century of the government investing heavily in social welfare programs, education and also fairly progressive governments investing in infrastructure and people.

The market is somewhat free, its based on free market prinpicals however government intervention is not uncommon along with protectional practices like tariffs on certain foreign goods and services.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$198,090 billion

GDP (official exchange rate):
$188,691 billion

GDP - real growth rate:
6.8%

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$38,712

GDP - composition by sector:
Agriculture: 5.3%
Industry: 24.7%
Services: 70.0%

Labor force:
386 million

Labor Force by Occupation:
Farming, Forestry, and Fishing: 1.5%
Manufacturing, Extraction, Transportation, and Crafts: 23.1%
Managerial, Professional, and Technical: 36.8%
Sales and Office: 20.3%
Other Services: 18.3%

Unemployment Rate:
3.41%

Worker Enthusiasm:
91%

Consumer Confidence:
88%

Estimated Black Market:
1.4% of GDP

Population Below Poverty Line:
5.2%

Household Income or Consumption by Percentage Share:
Lowest 10%: 1.6%
Highest 10%: 30.4%

Distribution of Family Income - Gini Index:
47

Investment (gross fixed):
18.6% of GDP

Budget:
Revenues: $100,506 billion
Expenditures: $11,173 billion
Administration: $5 billion
Welfare : $15,827 billion
Healthcare: $17,506 billion
Education : $2,506 billion
Religion and Spirituality : $.403 billion
Defence): $15,597 billion
Law and Order: $ .800 billion
Commerce:$ 19,200 billion
Public Transport : $1.800 billion
Environment : $3.200 billion
Social Equality: $2 billion
Government Waste ): $3 billion


Public Debt:
25,000 per capital,
2.1% of GDP

Inflation Rate (consumer prices):
1.9%

Stock of Money:
$21.54 trillion

Stock of Quasi Money:
$151.8 trillion

Market Value of Publicly Traded Shares:
$269.25 trillion

Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, rice, barley, other grains, fruits(apples, oranges, durian, pineapples, kiwis, etc...), vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products, rubber, cassava (tapioca), corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans, coffee, coca, cocoa, marijuana, poppies, beans, poultry, olives, oilseed, tobacco

Industries:
Nuclear program, Arms manufacturing, petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining

Industrial production growth rate:
5.5%

Electricity - production:
61.5 trillion kWh

Electricity - consumption:
45.2 trillion kWh

Electricity Exports:
16.3 trillion kWh

Electricity Imports:
1.9 million kWh

Oil - production:
155.5 million bbl/day

Oil - consumption:
79.5 million bbl/day

Oil - exports:
38.0 million bbl/day

Oil - imports:
25.1 million bbl/day

Oil - proved reserves:
1.7 trillion bbl

Natural gas - production:
8.9 billion cubic meters


Natural gas - consumption:
3,1 billion cubic meters

Natural Gas- Exports
10 billion cubic meters

Natural gas - imports:
3.5 billion cubic meters

Natural gas - proved reserves:
5.5 trillion cubic meters

Current account balance:
-$535 billion

Exports:
12.86 trillion

Exports - commodities:
Nuclear Energy,material - 20%, Capital Goods(transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 17.3%, Industrial Supplies (chemicals) 24.3%, Agricultural Products 18.4%, Consumer Goods(slaves, drugs, automobiles, medicine, armaments) 17.2%, Other (2.8%)

Export- Partners:
Of the Knights Gallant: 28% ,League of Evil: 21%,Empire of Dark Marlekk Bane: 19%, Forever wealth: 10%, Various other nations

Imports:
13.40 trillion

Imports - commodities:
Capital Goods 33.1%, Industrial Supplies 22.3%, Agricultural Products 2.4%, Consumer Goods(slaves, drugs, automobiles, medicine, armaments) 40.6%, Other (1.6%)

Imports - partners:
Of the Knights Gallant: 30%, League of evil: 10%, various other nations

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.95 trillion

Debt - external:
$7.22 trillion

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$22.97 trillion

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$33.62 trillion

Exchange Rates:
1 credit = $1.77 USD

[Saragrossa]

Military

Military Branches:
Armed Forces; The People's Army of Saragrossa
Professional Elite army: Republican Guard
Saragrossan Navy
Saragrossan Air force
Saragrossan Missile Command
People's Space Command, includes orbital weapons, marines, civilian space programs

Military service Age and Obligations:
Compulsary military service starts at 18 for all ages, 17 with parental permission but may be delayed until after post secondary education is recieved

Manpower available for military service:
Male: ~ 210 million
Female: ~212 million

Manpower fit for military service:
Male: 198 million
Female: 201 million

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
Male: 14.64 million
Female: 17.92 million

Military Expenditures:
11.535% of GDP ($17 billion)

Militias and Paramilitary Groups:
Reserves at 8,500,000
Paramilitary forces at 345,000

Standing army;
Total: 1,015,500
Army; 700,000
Republican Guard: 150,000
Special forces: 25,000
Airforce: 8000
Naval forces: 125,000
Missile Command: 5000
Orbital Forces: 2000

Nuclear Arsenal:
Total War Heads: 8000
Total by Output: 1,271,572 MT
Largest War Head: 56 MT
Average War Head: 13 MT
Smallest war head: 1.9 MT

Airforce Equipment:
Satellites: 246
Aircraft: 107
Fighters: 500

Army Equipment:
Tanks: 1500
APCs: 3200
Logistics: 5600
Artillery: 1600

Navy Equipment:
Total Ships: 227
Aircraft: 213
Aircraft Carriers: 5, One super aircraft carrier
Amphibious Assault: 77
Amphibious Transport docks: 33
Dock landing ships: 25
Battleships: 10
Cruisers: 24
Destroyers: 21
Frigates: 26
Submarines: 6