Linuxtobia

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Linuxtobia
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Flag of Linuxtobia
Motto: Shell Out
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Region Randomia
Capital Freetown
Official Language(s) (English),Eltobian
Leader Thomas Ellerton
Population 100 million
Currency USD 
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The Free Land of Linuxtobia

About Linuxtobia

Linuxtobia is a very large nation that is famous for it's encouraging attitude towards open source sftware and it's huge IT industry. It has very good civil rights, a good economy and good democratic freedoms. The national animal is the penguin. Linuxtobia is situated in the region of Randomia and has a variety of natural resources including iron ore, gold and natural spring water.


History

Linuxtobia was founded in March 2006 a.d. after a long and bloody online war against the Forces of Globalization, Corruption and Proprietry Sftware. It's first General elections were held on the 15th of March and elected Thomasina Marshall whos Left wing government were in power for six successive terms, Bringing Linuxtobia into it's Golden Age and Moving to the Region of Randomia. They were finally ousted In the last Elections By Thomas Ellerton's "Free Linuxtobia" party in a landside victory after the Left Wing Government Introduced the manifestly unpopular "Compulsory Voting in Elections" Bill. Liuxtobia is now looking to the future with ambitious Space Policies and Social Reforms.


Culture

Linuxtobian's Love a good party and They have lots of them with monthly festivals throughout the country. They have two major national foods which are Grilled Salmon from the clean oceans surrounding the country and Natural spring water from the mountain range that meanders down the right side of the nation. They also enjoy going to the local theatre for a good Flash (tm) animation.


Government

The Government of Linuxtobia is a Democraticically elected multiparty Democracy. Linuxtobia hold General Elections every 5 years for both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senators and MP's have a timelimit of 5 minutes for their speeches to avoid stalemating the debate.

Ministers

PM The Prime minister of Linuxtobia is Thomas Ellerton. He was elected in a landslide victory in the last general elections with his "Free Linuxtobia" party. His vision for Linuxtobias future is for Linuxtobia to become a strong regional power and develope a strong but fair economy, a System of Civil and Political rights second to none and a scientific and military program to rival the best in the world. Of course all this will take time.

Defense Minister of Linuxtobia is General Gordon Reimer. He want's to oversee the re-arment of Linuxtobia, And believes that the way to go is focussing on highly trained small elite taskforces, and air superiority, He however needs more money that is not always forthcoming from the government to do this.

Foreign Minister of Linuxtobia is Mrs Nicola Greenfield who believes in peacefull negotiations and war as a last resort. She want's to build strong diplomatic ties with other nations in Randomia and the world

Treasurer of Linuxtobia is Rosemary Houghton, Mp for Highdale North. She believes in moderate capitalism, moderate income tax, and moderate everything else. She describes herself as: moderate.

Policies

Are Coming soon



Military

The Linuxtobian Military currently consits of around a million people, 600,000 in active service and 400,000 in reserves. Linuxtobia sources most of it's military supplies from New Feluca, and beleives they are a good and reliable supplier.

Air Force: The Linuxtobian air force is small at the moment but has 2 squadrons of F10 Raptor fighters. Each unit consits of 5 flights of ten aircraft. One unit is primarily air to air and intercepter and the other is air to ground targetted strike. It also has 10 C-1 dropmasters to take the army anywhere in the world.

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