APPLICATION
Nation Name: New Israel (may change when I figure out the intricacies of Yiddish and Hebrew and Aramaic and stuff)
Capital City: New Jerusalem
Claimed Territory: Dunno yet
Population: Depends on territory; hoping for about the 1 million mark
National Flag: Golden stylised menorah centred on square white background (if the pope violates the rule of tincture, so do we)
Head of State: Governor David Goldie
Head of Government: Chancellor Abe Da Silva
Government Type: Constitutional unicameral parliamentary republic
National Ideologies: Mercantilism, democracy, "Zionism", plutocracy, freedom, unity, centralism, pacifism, pragmatism
History: Basically, back in the day, when we had pogroms and crusades and all that, the Hamburg Jewish Company, a trade organisation dedicated to furthering the profits of its dirty shekel-usurers, noticed that a new world had been discovered and noticed by all the European powers. It, wanting to get into the action, found partners in Frankfurt, Brussels and other cities, and scraped up the capital to send an expedition off to the new world to look at the possibility of getting profit. They found that it was much further away than they thought, though, and much more to be developed than to be traded with, and so, for a time, the urge to go west died down. This began the European Jewry's interest in the Americas though, and it wasn't long before other similar companies were looking into it. Eventually, an expedition was sent off to <x location> where a merchant colony was established, seasonally harvesting cash crops and trading with natives, eventually becoming a permanent settlement that a stroke of diplomatic luck got the Pope to recognise. It grew larger and larger, farms springing up and the Jewish inhabitants of the entire eastern hemisphere eventually getting wind of it. Slowly, immigration increased, and the companies that had invested into it soon found themselves with the settlement as its main enterprise. They mostly merged into the New Jerusalem Corporation at long last, a name that came from a trend going around with the city referred to as "the new Jerusalem" as opposed to its older, more mundane name of "East Sea City". The corporation managed it for a time until it finally had occasion to declare itself a separate entity, first by moving its base of operations to the new city and then seeking recognition from the powers of its sovereignty over the land. Papal gladness to be rid of the non-Christian minorities of Europe sealed it, and from then on, it grew, a proper city-state forming, filled with immigrants from across Europe and its periphery, a centre of banking, culture, New World development and more.
429- do not remove, or else your app won't be accepted
App isn't very good, but once I work out the issues with language/naming and find out where I can locate, it'll be patched up greatly.
