Graham and Palmer
The Empire of Graham and Palmer is a country on the northernmost tip of the Antartic Penninsula.
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| Motto: Resistencia De Throught Que Conquistamos (Spanish: Through Endurance We Conquer) | |
| Region | SPPf Realms |
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| Capital | Ciudad en El Hielo |
| Official Language(s) | Spanish |
| Leader | John Rodriguez |
| Population | ~199 million |
| Currency | bloque de hielo |
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Contents
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 Emperor of Graham. 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 Graham and Palmer, 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
- 1,000,000 regulars
- 500,000 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 Torrential Class LCR's
- 8 Columbia Class Battlestars
- 20 Salamis-class Destroyers
- 4 Trident-class Cruisers
- 4 Recusant class Light Destroyers
Imperial Atmospheric Corps
- 2,000 Type 712 – TIE Interceptor TIE/INT
NS Stats
- Government Category: Corporate Bordello
- Government Priority: Social welfare
- Economic Rating: Very Strong
- Civil Rights Rating: Excellent
- Political Freedoms: Superb
- NS Description:
- "The Empire of Graham and Palmer is a very large, economically powerful nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 199 million are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.
- It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.
- A survey of the nation’s rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular, and Graham and Palmer's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of educational achievement. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Graham and Palmer's national animal is the pengiun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the bloque de hielo."
