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Nanako Island, in long form The Democratic Republic of Nanako Island, in French "Îles de Nanako" and in Japanese "Nanako-jima" (魚子島), is a sovereign island nation located East Asia. Geographically located in the Pacific Ocean, the territory the Nanako lies off the eastern coast of the Asian mainland, and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the Japan Sea East and Japan in the southwest. It is commonly nicknamed "Frozen Island" or "Kōtta shima (凍った島)" in Japanese due to the fact that the ice cap almost surrounds the island during winter. It includes the Metropolitan Island (Nanako) along with 23 smaller islands in its vicinity. Plus, Nanako Island possesses 5 oversea territories dispatched in 3 territorial local administrations. Nanako is part of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Nanakian geography is fundamentally made up of islands, sometimes isolated, forming for most of them a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 24 islands. The two largest are Nanako Island and Tortimer Island, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Nanako's land area and often are referred to as metropolitan islands. About 71 percent of Nanako is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use. As a result, the habitable zones, mainly located in coastal areas, have high population densities. It also means that 71% of the territory is natural landscape.
The climate of Nanako is predominantly temperate boreal and sub-arctic. Nanako's geographical features divide it into three principal climatic zones: South, North, and Overseas Territories. The northernmost zone has a cold sub-arctic climate with long, cold, snowy and stormy winters and short ok summers. The average winter temperature in Nanako is -13.1 °C and the average summer temperature is 21 °C. Nanako's unique ecosystems, between mountainous, boreal and marine ecosystems, are preserved by numerous national parks, and by vigorous environmental and land protection legislation. Thus the destruction of spaces and species has been avoided and nature is remarkably preserved, attracting many environmental tourists.
Nanako's population is estimated at around 40 million, with 77% of the population living on Nanako Island. Nanako's society is linguistically, ethnically and culturally diverse, composed of 60% ethnic Japanese, 18% ethnic English and 18% ethnic French, 2% ethnic Russian populations, 1% of foreign workers from all around the globe. Nanako has the second longest overall life expectancy at birth of any country in the world: 83.5 years for persons born in the period 2010–2015. The country is divided into 6 administrative states, subdivided into 21 districts, divided themselves in 131 prefectures; Hayako being the northernmost prefecture and Kikoramoto being the southernmost one.
The capital Waterpoo, located in the state of Poole, is also with 5.1 million inhabitants, the most populated city of the country, followed by Schoubikujiwa (4,602,310) then Maule (1,570,563). More than 86 percent of the population speaks English as their first language. The second most spoken language is Japanese, spoken by 84 percent of the population. French is only spoken in the historic French area of Maule. Most Nanakians are bilingual. The country benefits from a highly skilled workforce and is among the most highly educated countries in the world, with one of the highest percentages of its citizens holding a tertiary education degree.
The Nanakian archipelago is the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate. Nanako was with Japan originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates pulled Japan and Nanako eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago.
Archaeological research indicates that Nanako Island was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Nanako is in Japanese history texts from the 1st century AD. From the 12th century until 1578, Nanako was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Japan Emperor. Nanako was then part of the Japanese Empire. Ashikaga Takauji, Nanakian samurai, established the shogunate in Muromachi, Kyoto after he defeated Emperor Go-Daigo in 1336. This was the start of the Muromachi period (1336–1573) were Nanako with Hokkaido were the main hubs of trade with Korea. The Ashikaga shogunate achieved glory in the age of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the culture based on Zen Buddhism (art of Miyabi) prospered. This evolved to Higashiyama Culture, and prospered until the 16th century.
In 1567, the British explorer Lord R. Poole, discovered the east coast of Sakhalin, then pushed by the continental winds, discovered the west coast of Nanako. In 1578, the island is in British hands and Japanese lords are driven from their land. Nanako is entering an era of openness to Western science and culture. In 1807, a French armada charged with disturbing the British trade invaded the little defended Island. The ideas of the revolution are part of local spirits and many bourgeois learn French. In 1815, the island is returned to the British. Throughout the 19th century, many political refugees from the second French empire immigrated to Nanako. Nanako will remain a British-French enclave in the Far East. Culture and the Western language has shaped the current Nanakian identity.
After a Japanese invasion during the Second World War and a rather violent occupation, the British crown faces a socialist and democratic independentist movement. After some tensions notably in 1947-48, a common agreement of 10 years transition to an independent democracy is signed and ratified. Thus in 1958 is celebrated the creation of the first democratic republic of Nanako, on a parliamentary and socialist constitution. The crisis of 1976, concerning the belonging of the Northern and Amagi Islands to the Soviet Union turns into a political crisis. The 1st republic is dismissed in 1977 to be replaced by the 2nd republic, more liberal, and social democratic. The diplomatic crisis is resolved by a local revolt against the Soviet authorities, followed by a rapid escalation in violence, leading the US to involve the USS Oriskany to put pressure on the Soviet fleet. Since then, Nanako has been developing rapidly on all fronts, and is facing new environmental and geopolitical constraints (North Korea). Nanako joined the Commonwealth of Nations as soon has it achieved total independence, as it was written in the 1948 bill.
The Nanakian Democratic Republic is a federal parliamentary democratic republican monarchy with strong democratic traditions and an egalitarian, moderate political ideology. An emphasis on social justice has been a distinguishing element of Nanako's political culture. Nanako has a parliamentary system within the context of a "republican monarchy". In this system, the monarchy part is completely diplomatic and historic. The regent has absolutely no control over the national institutions. That's why Nanako is referred has a republic. The Nanakian monarchy is a legal institution separate from the monarchy of the United Kingdom, though the two offices are held by the same individual. The present Queen of Nanako is Elizabeth II, who is also monarch of 15 other Commonwealth countries. The Queen's representative, the Governor General of Nanako (at present Winston Yellming), carries out most of the federal royal duties in Nanako, but has no real legislative, executive or judicial power.
Official Photograph of The President
The historical system of the said royal ministers was abandoned in 1958, and now the government is appointed by the first minister (now G. Mc Ron), appointed by the President (now V. Schubidouz), elected by the House of Commons (Lower House of Parliament), representatives elected by universal suffrage every four years, under the President's voluntary and strategic recommendation or following a vote of confidence not favorable to the government in place by the federal deputies. Members of the Senate (Upper House of Parliament), whose seats are granted on a regional basis, are selected by the Prime Minister's Office and sworn for life by the Governor General in Council to serve until the age of 75 years. There are 458 members sitting in the House of Commons, and 105 in the Senate. Nanako's federal structure divides government responsibilities between the federal government and the six states. States legislatures are unicameral and operate in parliamentary fashion similar to the House of Commons. Nanako's two overseas administrative territories also have legislatures, but these have more sovereignty and have more constitutional and political responsibilities than the provinces.
Nanako has diplomatic relations with nearly all independent Earth nations and has been an active member of the UN since December 1956. Nanako is a member of the WA and United Nations Of Earthlings(UNOE), and is a participant in the East Asia Summit. Nanako signed a security pact with Australia and Japan in March 2007 and with India in October 2008. It is the world's fifth largest donor of official development assistance, donating US$9.2 billion in 2014. The country participates in the G8 and G20 summits. Nanako has close ties to the United Kingdom. Since Japan's defeat by the United States in World War II, the two countries have maintained close economic and defense relations. The United Kingdom is a major market for Nanakian exports and the primary source of Nanakian imports, has it gets a privileged position as a member of the Commonwealth of Nations; same with France, and the Nanako Opening to Commercial EU (NOCT-EU). Nanako contests Russia's control of the Southern Kuril Islands (including Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group) which were occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, like Northern Islands and Amagi Islands. Nanako has very great relationship with South Korea and Japan. Most recently, South Korean President Moon Jae-in met with Nanako Prime Minister Georges Mc Ron at the 2017 G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany to discuss the future of their relationship and specifically how to cooperate on finding solutions for North Korean aggression in the region. Today Nanako wants to find new partners and to do so, launches a diplomatic program to allow the construction of new embassies, possibly leading to future exchanges.
The country's military (the Nanako Self-Defense Forces) is restricted by Article 23 of the Nanako Constitution, which renounces Nanako's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. This has changed however since 2006, the Kurokawa act allowing the military to participate in international coalitions against non-recognised terrorist states. Accordingly, Nanako's Self-Defence force is an unusual military that has never fired shots outside Nanako until 2006. Nanako is the second highest-ranked Asian country in the Global Peace Index behind Japan. The military is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Nanako Ground Force (NGSDF), the Nanako National Navy (NNSDN) and the Nanako Air Force (NASDF). The Nanako National Navy is a regular participant in RIMPAC maritime exercises. The forces have been recently used in peacekeeping operations; the deployment of troops to Iraq marked the first overseas use of Nanako's military since the Northern and Amagi Islands Crisis (1977). In June 2019, a peacekeeping operation in Kagun was shaken by pro-Russian rebels, causing 3 deaths in the ranks of the NSDF. A 3-month military operation, coordinated with Allexandretta and Argentinstan overcame rebel forces, this is the latest conflict in which to fully participated Nanako.
Economic Indicators
Rank: 6th
Currency: Nanako Pound (N£); NS$ 1=N£ 1.3
Fiscal Year: Calendar year
GDP (nominal):29.2 Trillion N£
GDP (nominal) per capita:
Labor Force: 27,891,456
Unemployment:3,1%
Nanako's culture is unique in Asia, and in the world. Heritage of many ancestral cultures, it is characterized by its cultural diversity and its borrowing from world cultures, creating something new. It is often compared to the Quebec-Canadian culture, a subtle blend of French and British culture, but on this it is different by its Japanese base. Since the 1990s, the Korean Wave has created a large fanbase in East Asia, but most notably in Nanako. Japanese pop culture is also very present, more than the very recent Korean culture. Most channels are available in two languages, English and British, and French in addition to the French-speaking region of the East. Traditional folklore is totally inspired by Shinto culture, respect for animist minds and all codes of conduct. In the big cities, the most present folklore is rather that which one finds traditionally in Great Britain or in Ireland. The regions further east are inherited from the French language and their traditions, and also from their art of the table. An old saying of the 1830's says, "Find the east on your compass and you will find an inn with what you need to fill your belly". Through this exchange of cultures, Nanako has attractiveness in higher education, which is very wide, affecting all continents, Europe, but also Japan and America, and Oceania.
Nanako has several internationally renowned orchestras, such as the Waterpoo Symphonic Orchestra, the Schubikujiwa Symphonic Orchestra and especially the Maule Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by William Nakawa. Nanako as a legacy of its British culture, has a certain preference for rock, more than for pop that the Japanese or Korean public seems to like. National symbols are largely the result of influences from natural and historical sources, as well as Japanese indigenous peoples. Thus the national symbols are mostly flowers, such as the Polemonium boreale, on the government logo (in a cluster of 3 in the middle), the Potentilla nivea (behind the Polemonium boreale), or the Chrysanthemum, symbol of power, historically linked to the Emperor of Japan, used nowadays on the symbol of the armed forces. The national animal is a species of the Hokkaido bear, locally called "Ussuri" and endemic to Nanako, which nearly disappeared because of the hunt around 1890, but saved thanks to the First World War. The inhabitants saw a symbol of rebuilding, strength, and justice in the re-development of the bear population, and it was in 1918 that it became de facto the national animal.
The national gastronomy focuses particularly on fishery products, such as salmon, tuna and other fish present locally. Very similar to Japanese cuisine, there is a large amount of soups and broths, ramen. Ishikari nabe is the traditional soup of winter, Ruibe (like sashimi) and Ika sōmen are well-known traditional dishes. The basis of the meals is mainly rice, a local species (Nagasawa Amerika - 長 澤米) quite resistant to many climates. The great contribution of European cuisine is the introduction of bread and cheese, based on cereals and milk, very little present in the traditional cuisine. Thus scones and other pastries were imported. The tea was very basic in the culinary tradition. Scots introduced Wiskey, and Russians Vodka, of which there are national variants. As for types of meat, lamb and sheep. The breakfast on Nanako is very diverse depending on the region or the family. Northern families will prefer British breakfast, hot and rich in calories, families of the south Japanese breakfast, and in the east the French breakfast, sweet and full of pastries. The mix of gastronomies introduced into the traditional meals of more cooked fish, served with soups, such as Roast Halibut with porcini mushroom sauce, or breaded cod cheeks. There are some varieties of cheese, icewine and ice cider on Nanako.
Are celebrated by national holidays: New Year's Day (January 1st), Christmas (December 25th), Queen's Day (May 24th), Remembrance Day (November 11th), Labor Day (May 1st) ), Nanako Day (January 27th) and the National Festival of Culture (August 6th). Civic holidays are organized by the various states, among the most recurrent: Winter Festival (2nd Sunday of January), Day of Flowering (19-21 March).
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