Your nation's full name:The Spiritual Republic of Caryton
Your nation's full population: 81,052,314
Your nation's founding date (if you have one): October 5, 2018
Your nation's type of government: Ecclesiastical Meritocracy: Church and State in Caryton are not even slightly separated. The unique restorationist denomination of the Gospel Church of Caryton directly oversees all aspects of life from legislature to judiciary to military affairs. However, to combat corruption, a meritocratic system has been installed in which only the most benevolent, well-versed, doctrinally correct, respectable, and tolerable people are given any sort of power. In fact, to be the leading Reverend of Caryton, a stringent merit exam is a requirement.
How frequent does your government fight amongst each other? Do these internal conflicts regularly cause your government to fail in making important decisions? No. Due to being technically a theocratic meritocracy, corruption runs low and political matters are often decided by the church and fall into a variety of (mostly conservative but otherwise balanced) beliefs, both appeasing both sides of the spectrum and preventing political identity and party systems. Apart from the occasional protest from those liberal or against the church's ideas or contrarily extremist fundamentalists making a ruckus-- the government's systems hardly ever go interrupted, except on the Sabbath day.
How economically-independent is your nation? While Caryton is a major trader, it has the potential to be somewhat autarkic due to the emphasis on home production, competitive markets, and the lucky streak of being resource rich. Home competition in stocks and investments means that most entrepreneurs and investors aren't dependent on foreign politics or economies.
How many personnel are in your military? About 2 million combined active duty, reserves, and official paramilitaries/home defense groups. (Unofficial militias or citizens utilizing gun freedoms are not counted).
How many nations is your nation allied with? Caryton is a typically docile and peaceful nation with a steady, predictable flow of government thanks to the church-run system. However, many nations may see this form of government as outdated, or many may be hostile to some key aspects of church teachings, for instance the claims that a non-sentient dog is a religious prophet and given a figurehead leadership position. It can be thus declared that Caryton has a decent and moderate collection of alliances, but also its fair share of bitter rivals.
Just how big or small is your nation? This is not OOC'ly determined because this nation is an RMB roleplay nation and I typically take whatever map spots I can get. However, for easiness' sake, I will say that Caryton's approximate size is relatively equal to the size of a slightly large but geographically proportional and "normal" nation, like the size of about Mongolia.
On a scale of 1-10, how prepared is your nation against natural disasters? 8, due to mandatory church tithing (4-15% depending on person) on top of heavy taxes and a moderately successful economy, as well as an emphasis on service jobs/civil engineering/missionary work grown from a desire to follow Jesus Christ and help others. Relief efforts aside, the relatively centralized government has created thousands of jobs by building preventative infrastructure.
What is the tech level of your nation? About 2003 - 2007, due to a nostalgic populace, restrictive church government, and priority of tradition over the rapidly changing modernity that the surrounding world is embedded in. A simpler life is appreciated here.
Does your nation have weapons of mass destruction? If so, how many weapons, and what are they? Caryton possesses nuclear weapons, from simple atom and hydrogen bombs to ICBM's. Caryton is rumored to have about 300 intermediate+ ranged ballistic missiles ready for miniaturized warheads, on top of a hefty stockpile of more archaic SRBM's and bombs. However, due to Caryton's docile policy, their ownership and right to use nuclear weapons is rarely criticized due to it not being a volatile rogue state.
Has your nation colonized other planets or objects in space? No, but the moons of Caryton's respective universe have primitive outposts and space technology currently has the potential for manned missions to moons only, but has succeeded in automated landings on nearby planets. Due to the space race never really dying for Caryton and an innate desire to know God more by exploring the cosmos, Caryton's lunar bases continue to be admired and CASA still receives admirable funding.
Just how sanitary is your nation? One of the cleanest, approximately equal to any given Scandinavian nation. Public works are well-funded and a law abiding nature of citizens heavily reduces any contaminants to a near non-existent level. Caryton is in fact carbon negative and rarely faces environmental retaliation.
Any additional notes about your nation:
Your nation's full population: 81,052,314
Your nation's founding date (if you have one): October 5, 2018
Your nation's type of government: Ecclesiastical Meritocracy: Church and State in Caryton are not even slightly separated. The unique restorationist denomination of the Gospel Church of Caryton directly oversees all aspects of life from legislature to judiciary to military affairs. However, to combat corruption, a meritocratic system has been installed in which only the most benevolent, well-versed, doctrinally correct, respectable, and tolerable people are given any sort of power. In fact, to be the leading Reverend of Caryton, a stringent merit exam is a requirement.
How frequent does your government fight amongst each other? Do these internal conflicts regularly cause your government to fail in making important decisions? No. Due to being technically a theocratic meritocracy, corruption runs low and political matters are often decided by the church and fall into a variety of (mostly conservative but otherwise balanced) beliefs, both appeasing both sides of the spectrum and preventing political identity and party systems. Apart from the occasional protest from those liberal or against the church's ideas or contrarily extremist fundamentalists making a ruckus-- the government's systems hardly ever go interrupted, except on the Sabbath day.
How economically-independent is your nation? While Caryton is a major trader, it has the potential to be somewhat autarkic due to the emphasis on home production, competitive markets, and the lucky streak of being resource rich. Home competition in stocks and investments means that most entrepreneurs and investors aren't dependent on foreign politics or economies.
How many personnel are in your military? About 2 million combined active duty, reserves, and official paramilitaries/home defense groups. (Unofficial militias or citizens utilizing gun freedoms are not counted).
How many nations is your nation allied with? Caryton is a typically docile and peaceful nation with a steady, predictable flow of government thanks to the church-run system. However, many nations may see this form of government as outdated, or many may be hostile to some key aspects of church teachings, for instance the claims that a non-sentient dog is a religious prophet and given a figurehead leadership position. It can be thus declared that Caryton has a decent and moderate collection of alliances, but also its fair share of bitter rivals.
Just how big or small is your nation? This is not OOC'ly determined because this nation is an RMB roleplay nation and I typically take whatever map spots I can get. However, for easiness' sake, I will say that Caryton's approximate size is relatively equal to the size of a slightly large but geographically proportional and "normal" nation, like the size of about Mongolia.
On a scale of 1-10, how prepared is your nation against natural disasters? 8, due to mandatory church tithing (4-15% depending on person) on top of heavy taxes and a moderately successful economy, as well as an emphasis on service jobs/civil engineering/missionary work grown from a desire to follow Jesus Christ and help others. Relief efforts aside, the relatively centralized government has created thousands of jobs by building preventative infrastructure.
What is the tech level of your nation? About 2003 - 2007, due to a nostalgic populace, restrictive church government, and priority of tradition over the rapidly changing modernity that the surrounding world is embedded in. A simpler life is appreciated here.
Does your nation have weapons of mass destruction? If so, how many weapons, and what are they? Caryton possesses nuclear weapons, from simple atom and hydrogen bombs to ICBM's. Caryton is rumored to have about 300 intermediate+ ranged ballistic missiles ready for miniaturized warheads, on top of a hefty stockpile of more archaic SRBM's and bombs. However, due to Caryton's docile policy, their ownership and right to use nuclear weapons is rarely criticized due to it not being a volatile rogue state.
Has your nation colonized other planets or objects in space? No, but the moons of Caryton's respective universe have primitive outposts and space technology currently has the potential for manned missions to moons only, but has succeeded in automated landings on nearby planets. Due to the space race never really dying for Caryton and an innate desire to know God more by exploring the cosmos, Caryton's lunar bases continue to be admired and CASA still receives admirable funding.
Just how sanitary is your nation? One of the cleanest, approximately equal to any given Scandinavian nation. Public works are well-funded and a law abiding nature of citizens heavily reduces any contaminants to a near non-existent level. Caryton is in fact carbon negative and rarely faces environmental retaliation.
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