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NS Name: Sao Nova Europa
RP Name: Kingdom of Greece (Βασίλειο της Ελλάδας)
Capital: Athens
Territory: Greece, North Macedonia, Northern Epirus, Cyprus, Northern Thrace and Eastern Thrace
Population: 19,101,001
Type of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Government Explaination:
The King (Βασιλιάς) is the head of state. He is supreme commander of the armed forces and responsible for nominating a Prime Minister. He is obliged to sign laws voted by the parliament, but can veto them. His veto can be overturned by a 2/3 parliamentary majority.
The Prime Minister (Πρωθυπουργός) is the head of government. He is nominated by the King and has to gain the confidence of the parliament in order to take the office. The Prime Minister heads the Cabinet of Greece, introduces legislation and is responsible for the implementation of government policy.
The Parliament (Vouli - Βουλή) is made up of 400 MPs (Vouleutes - Βουλευτές). 350 MPs are elected with a proportional voting system while the remaining 50 seats are granted as a bonus for the winning party. Elections take place every 4 years but a government can dissolve parliament before that and hold snap elections.
Leader(s):
King: Pavlos I
Prime Minister: Alexios Stavropoulos
Image(s) of Leader(s):
King Pavlos:
Prime Minister Alexios Stavropoulos:
Party or Coalition in Power: National Hope (Εθνική Ελπίδα - right wing: royalism, national conservatism, economic liberalism, social conservatism, right-wing populism)
Executive Title: Prime Minister
State Ideology:
Greece is dominated by National Hope. A big tent party ranging from the far right to the center left, it mainly advocates for right-wing policies. Royalism and veneration of the crown is the major ideology of the party, which restored the monarchy. On economic issues, it supports a libertarian agenda of broad tax cuts, deregulation and privatizations. On social issues, it is strongly conservative: it wants to limit the right to abortions, opposes same-sex marriage, supports a war on drugs and has legislated laws that grant sweeping powers to the police. On foreign policy, the party was initially supportive of the Megali Idea (Μεγάλη Ιδέα - the doctrine according to which Greece should expand to include all historical Greek territories), but since the mid 2040s it has been supporting a foreign policy of maintaining the territorial status quo while extending its financial and political influence across the Balkans
The other major party is the Democratic Party (Δημοκρατικό Κόμμα). A big tent ranging from the center left to the populist left, it has a social democratic stance on economic issues while on social issues it is split between members advocating moderate conservatism and those supporting social liberalism. Factions within the party seek to restore the republic. Its main goal, though, is to democratize public life as it accuses the government of turning Greece into an one-party state. It is relegated to around 20% of the vote and does not have sizeable impact on Greek politics.
Greece has a dominant party system, with National Hope being in power since 2039. Although elections are held regularly and freedom of press and expression is generally respected, most media conglomerates are owned by friendly to the government oligarchs and have a pro-NH bias, rarely giving time to government critics. As such, Greece has been described as a flawed democracy: while it is not a dictatorship, it is not a healthy, multiparty democracy either.
Ethnicity Breakdown: 97% Greek, 3% others (de jure), 62% ethnic Greeks, 19% ethnic Turks, 11% ethnic Slavs, 5% ethnic Albanians, 3% others (de facto)
Religion Breakdown: 87% Orthodox Christianity, 11% Islam, 2% Other
Flag:
National Anthem: Hymn to Liberty
National Motto: Liberty or Death
Demonym: Greek
Map Color: Light Blue
Public Goals: Economic growth, territorial status quo.
Private Goals: Economic and political hegemony over the Balkans.
Military name: Hellenic Armed Forces
Military branches: Hellenic Army, Hellenic Navy, Hellenic Air Force, Hellenic Marine Corps
Total military size: 200,000 active personnel
Breakdown of ground force(s): 90,000 personnel
Number of Main Battle Tanks: 1,254
Number of Infantry Fighting Vehicles: 2,550
Number of Self-Propelled Guns: 547
Number of Multiple Launch Rocket System: 463 Towed Artillery and 152 Rocket Projectors
Breakdown of naval force(s): 30,000 personnel
116 Warships & other Boats, including:
13 Frigates
11 Submarines
19 Missile Boats
10 Gunboats
9 Tank-landing Ships
6 Patrol Boats
48 Fleet Support & other Auxiliary Ships
27 Aircraft used by Navy
Breakdown of air force(s): 33,000 personnel
154 F-16 Fighting Falcon
42 Mirage 2000
34 F-4 Phantom II (PI-2000)
Breakdown of other branch(es): Hellenic Marine Corps - 5 Battalions
Extra military information: Greece has mandatory military service. Upon graduation from high school, all men and women must serve in the military. Women serve nine months, men serve twelve months.
GDP: $487.990 billion
GDP per Capita: $31,616
Currency: Drachma
Currency and value of currency compared to USD: 1 Drachma = 11.20 Dollars
Major Domestic Issues: Illegal immigration, deficits, status of democracy and rule of law
Major Foreign Issues: Economic hegemony of Greece in the Balkans, threat from vengeful Turkey
History:
In 2027, economic crisis resurfaced in Greece as a result of the Central European War. This led to the 2033 bankruptcy. Grexit ensued in 2034, with the country leaving the European Union and the Eurozone and adopting the Drachma. The economic crisis led the New Democracy (center-right) and Syriza (left-wing) grand coalition government to undertake unpopular austerity measures, cutting pensions and raising taxes. A right-wing populist force emerged in Greek politics, the National Hope. Advocating a revival of the Megali idea and a restoration of the monarchy, in the 2035 elections it became the major opposition party with 21% of the vote.
The Syriza-led government that emerged after the 2035 elections implement a strict austerity program, stabilizing Greek finances through drastic cuts in public wages and raises in income and land taxation. On law and order, though, regions of Greece began descending into crime and violent revolts. In the 2039 elections the National Hope emerged victorious with 45% of the vote and formed a one-party government. Prime Minister Nikolaos Kondylis increased the number and wages of police officers and launched brutal military-police operations to restore law and order across the country. Passing a controversial law, he allowed public executions of those violently resisting the imposition of public order. Thus Greece managed to avoid falling into anarchy.
On the economic front, he fast-tracked privatizations, cut wages in the public sector, deregulated the market and drastically cut taxation, especially income and corporate taxes. In 2043, National Hope increased its percentage to 56% despite all other opposition parties forming a broad electoral coalition to oppose it. Kondylis pursued an expansionist foreign policy in his second term. While Turkey had been weakened by the Second Gulf War and had plunged into economic chaos and political instability, Greece had been increasing military spending. In 2044, Greece invaded Turkey. The two-months Greco-Turkish War ended with a Greek blitz overtaking Eastern Thrace and Turkish-occupied Cyprus. The peace treaty allowed Greece to deport much of the Turkish population of Constantinople, mirroring the 1922 Greco-Turkish population exchange. A Turkish minority was allowed to remain in the region, both for logistical and economic reasons, but it had to register as Greek in government censuses.
In 2045, Greece and Cyprus unified, forming the Hellenic Confederation. The Hellenic Confederation launched that same year an invasion of Albania and North Macedonia, annexing North Epirus and North Macedonia. It also purchases Northern Thrace from Bulgaria in exchange for economic support. In 2046 a referendum was finally held on the issue of restoring the monarchy. What had once been a fringe position of the far right had become widely popular thanks to the success of the National Hope government. 68% of Greeks voted in favor of the restoration of the monarchy and Pavlos, son of the last King of Greece (Constantine II), returned to the country and was crowned King of Greece.
In the 2047 elections, the National Hope further increased its share to 64%. In his third term, Kondylis passed legislation limiting the number of abortions a woman could have, defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, digitized essential public administration services and gave broader powers to the police to detain suspected criminals. Most TV channels were owned by supporting oligarchs of the party, whom Kondylis rewarded with sweeping tax cuts. A new electoral law meant that the first party would get a bonus of 50 seats in the 400 seats parliament.
In 2051, Kondylis retired and allowed the young and charismatic 35 years old Alexios Stavropoulos to become leader of National Hope. A staunch conservatism with populist undertones, Alexios won the elections with a resounding 69% of the vote. Alexios was elected on promises of further tax cuts and a crackdown on illegal immigration: as Turkey was beset by economic hardship, Turkish immigrants illegally traveled to the country.
Alexios implemented a policy of pushback of migrant boats in the Aegean and began the construction of closed detention centers in uninhabited rocky islets. He also reformed the tax code, simplifying it and lowering the tax rates. While this became popular among the public, it also upended Greece's finances and from 2052 Greece returned to deficits. Despite this, in 2055 National Hope was once again victorious with 72% of the vote. Critics of the government accused it of turning Greece into an one-party dictatorship but Alexios dismissed the charges.
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