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The Empire of Graham and Palmer is a country on the northernmost tip of the Antartic Penninsula.

Factbook

• Native name: El Imperio de Graham y de Palmer
• Common name: Graham and Palmer
• National flag: [1]
• Capital: Ciudad en El Hielo
• Natioal motto: Resistencia De Throught Que Conquistamos
  (Spanish: Through Endurance We Conquer)
• Official language: Spanish
• Government type: Corporate Bordello
• Leader titles: Chansellor
• Leader names: John Rodridguez
• Largest city: Ciudad en El Hielo
• Population estimate: ~141 million
• GDP per capita: 20,955.13 USD
• Currency: bloque de heilo
• Independence declared: From Chile April 20, 1953
  • Recognized: July 15, 1960

History

A result of Chile's wish of an Antartic colony, which started in 1953 as the Dominion of Graham and Palmer. In 1990 when Chilean dictator Pinochet was overthown, he then fled to the Antartic dominion and then started a coup d'état, and afterwards became Emporer of Antartica. He proceeded to put several of his closest allies and some family members as monarchs leading smaller monarchies united under him. The smaller monarchies are as follows:

• • The Pricipality of Ciudad en El Hielo
  • The Empire of Graham
  • The Kingdom of Palmer

There are also other non-monarchy local governments in the empire.

• • The Commonwealth of King Geoge Island
  • The Southern Terrritories
  • Peter I Island Military Base

In 2005, a CIA led coup overthrew the monarchs, however per later referendum, their titles were returned.

Origin of Name

The Empire of Graham and Palmer gets its name from its two largest local governments, the Empire of Graham and the Kingdom of Palmer.

Motto

Resistencia De Throught Que Conquistamos. The family motto of failure of an Antartic explorer Ernest Shackleton : "fortitudine vincimus", "through endurance we conquer", then translated into the language of the empire, Spanish.

Major Cities

Biscoe City, Port of Agassiz

Demographies

Almost all Chilean settlers, a small amount of scientists from Argentina, the US, and Great Britain are near their respective countries year round labs and well as other groups.

Natural Resources

Polor fish, glacial ice, uranium.

Exports

A large industry has recently grown in Graham and Palmer in renewable energy. In late summer 2005, it was found that Antartic ice reflects sunlight 500 times as powerful as a conventional mirror, and thus, Graham and Palmer saw a huge boom and now has many thousands of square miles filled with solor generators.

Military

Imperial Ground Forces

• 100,000 regulars
• 50,000 reserves
• 200 "Emperor Walker" AT-AT/02s
• 300 "Raptor Walker" AT-ST's
• 500 Grievance Mk-7 G/MBT's
• 100 Juggernaughts

Orbital Seas Fleet

• 8 Columbia Class Battlestars*
• 4 Torrential Class LCR's**
• 2 Recusant class Light Destroyers**

• • *Order confirmed, not yet recieved.
  • **Order yet to be confirmed.

Imperial Atmospheric Corps

• • Note: The IAC was an extension of the Imperial armed forces per the Militarization Act, however, due to small purchases being made in the fleet and the army not as often as intially scheduled, no craft have been added to Graham and Palmer's ranks as of yet.

National Animal

Penguin