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| language=English, Heckish | | language=English, Heckish | ||
Revision as of 16:36, 16 January 2007
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| The Official Flag of Hecktoria | |
| Motto: "The best way to predict the future is to create it." | |
| National Anthem: "We Shall Save Ourselves" | |
| Region | Wysteria |
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| Capital | [[One Capital per Region Vandenburg, Housin, Richards, Lewis, Talitha]] |
| Largest city | Vandenburg |
| Official Language(s) | English, Heckish |
| Government | Liberal Paradise |
| - Ambassador to the United Nations | Thurough Penkins |
| - Governor of the Commonwealth | Bill Martella |
| - Speaker of the Senate/Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth | Michelle Giroux |
| - Speaker of the House | Mike Crawford Jr |
| - Attorney-General of the Commonwealth | B.J. Cummings |
| Population | 42 million |
| Currency | Tallent |
| Timezone | GMT-4 |
| - Summer (DST) | GMT-4 |
| NS Sunset XML | |
The People's Republic of Hecktoria is a nation located in the Southern hemisphere of Wysteria. Broken into five regions, each one has a capital city. The capitals are VandenburgHousin, Richards, Lewis, Talitha and the largest city is Vandenburg. The People's Republic of Hecktoria is a tiny, socially progressive nation, notable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5 million enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Social Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 37%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales industries.
Crime is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Hecktoria's national animal is the Hecktal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the tallent.
It is a liberal democracy with a generally free market economic policy. Its currency is the Tallent.
Contents
Constitution
The People's Republic of Hecktoria is governed by its Constitution which guarantees the protection of life, liberty, and property. It went into effect upon The People's Republic of Hecktoria's admittance to Wysteria.
The Consitution establishes four independent branches of government in pursuit of this goal: legislative, executive, judiciary, and monetary.
Legislative
The legislative branch is composed of a bicameral legislature made up of a House and Senate. The House is composed of 99 Represenatives who are elected from single-member districts and serve two-year terms. Each district has roughly the same number of people. At the beginning of each session the House elects a Speaker who is third in line to become Governor.
The Senate is composed of 24 members who are elected to six-year terms and divided into three staggered classes. Each region elects 3 Senators. The Senate also elects a Speaker who also serves as Lt. Governor and is second in line to become Governor. In the event of a tie, the Speaker casts the tie-breaking vote. This allows for the rare occasion of the Speaker voting twice on a bill.
The Congress also has the power to over ride the Governor's veto with a 2/3 vote in the House and 50%+1 (13 votes) in the Senate.
Executive
Executive power is vested in a Governor, with an Attorney-General acting as the chief law enforcement and anti-corruption officer. The Governor serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces as well as head of the national government. The Governor is popularly elected nationwide to a four-year term for a maximum 2 terms. Similarly, the Attorney-General is popularly elected nationwide to a two-year term for a maximum of 5 terms. The Attorney-General is also fourth in line to become Governor after the Speakers of the Senate and House, respectively.
The Governor appoints four Cabinet level positions established by the Constitution. These include the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and Energy and the appointments are subject to confirmation by the entire Congress. There are also lesser Cabinet positions such as Education, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, etc. that the Governor appoints and are not subject to confirmation. The Governor is also responsible for appointing Supreme Court Justices who are subject to confirmation by the Senate.
Judicial
The judicial branch is composed of a Supreme Court made up of nine Justices. The Court elects the Chief Justice from amongst its members every session. Justices are appointed to lifetime tenures by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The Chief Justice is also fifth in line to become Governor.
Monetary
The monetary branch is composed of the Central Bank led by a President. The bank is charged with protecting the integrity of the currency, the Tallent, and monitoring monetary policy, much like the Federal Reserve of the United States. The President is appointed to a six-year term by the Secretary of the Treasury and is subject to approval by the Governor and confirmation by the Senate.
Ambassador
Fed Res Plague
The Fed Res Plague was a major plague that devastated the Fed Res and Brentwood regions shortly after the Cartesian-Praetoria Common War. Caused by poor sanitary conditions onset by an inept and corrupt local government and a national government distracted by war, 75% of the cities' population died within months. In the face of fear and major government failure, many longtime residents of Brentwood and New Hamilton left the region for the Cumberland. West Fed and other boomtowns along the rail could no longer sustain themselves and residents began emigrating West.
The plague raged for a little over a year, when, with help from the Cumberland and Southern areas, a cure was discovered in a plant from the Canton region. Commonly known now as Cantonbus, it succeded in completely irradicate the disease. The same year also brought to power a more progressive minded government. Led by Governor Winfield Young of South Nashville Station and Ambassador Cameron Dunn of Brentwood they made restoring the Brentwood region and saving Fed Res their top priority.
The economic impact of the plague was devastating. A little more than 50% of the Brentwood region population had died or emigrated. Economic activity and exports dropped 50% in the Brentwood region and 90% in Fed Res itself, nearly bankrupting the regional economy. Historians speculate that if the Brentwood Regional railroad had not been completed at this time, commerce in the area would have been unable to be sustained and completely collapsed. However, Brentwood would rise again, and in no time the Brentwood region was the fastest growing and strongest part of the South Nashville economy.
The new government took a more proactive and compassionate stance in rebuilding the areas devastated by the plague, Fed Res in particular. Within a decade The Young-Dunn era also ushered in a new era of regional cooperation and a new sense of national identity and pride.
United Nations
Major Cities
Nashville
Nashville bears a striking resemblance to its namesake.
Fed Res
Known to most as the birthplace of the plague, Fed Res is the home city of the Young Region. First established by settlers from Brentwood around the same time as Ft. Hamilton. Like Ft. Hamilton, Fed Res was to play a first line of defense role for Brentwood. However, unlike Ft. Hamilton, it early on took advantage of the rich agriculture and shipping opportunities. It's rocky shores made for poor fishing, but allowed the city to focus export of argiculture and ship building, which became the foundation of its economy.
Even to this day, Fed Res has still not fully recovered from the impacts of the plague, though the new high-speed highway linking it directly to Brentwood has begun to bring renewed development pushing it once again over the 10 million mark.
South Nashville Station
For much of it's history South Nashville Station was a town defined and anchored by the flagship university of the nation, the University of South Nashville. Founded by settlers from Nashville led by William Xavier, they followed the Cumberland River to its terminus establishing the city where the "river meet the 'cean," in the area now known as the Southern Lowlands at the spot where the Cumberland meets the Gulf of Shaharazia. It has been compared to other river delta cities such as New Orleans.
Canton/Canton Lake
Canton Lake, referred to by most as simply Canton, is a small town located between Nashville and South Nashville Station. Canton technically refers to the entire Canton Region encompassing the lake, river, mountains, and forest. Canton Lake is both the official name of the city and the lake itself.
