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Etats-Confédérés d'Europe is a nation of the NS region of Europe.

There, the nation is a member of the ITO alliance, well-known for being a left-winged parliamental democracy with a strong navy and skilled intelligence services.

The nation is played by almost the only french active player of the Region.

General Informations about the Nation

Name : République des Etats-Confédérés d'Europe, Republiek van de Konfederaten-Staaten van Europa, Europas Bundesstatensrepublik, Republic of the Confederated-States of Europe, de Europeiske forbundsstatene

Official languages : in order of importance French, Afrikaans Dutch, German, English, Norwegian Bokmael. Capitol city : Aachen / Aix la Chapelle (former city of the state of Rheinland, now an independent district) Name of the inhabitants : confederals (in english), confédérés (in french). Official shortcut of the name : ECE

ECE is a parliamental republic, a confederation, a democracy, and applies roman law system.

OOC informations

ECE is played by the almost only french player of the Europe Region, at least the only really active, a 23-years old newswriter supporting European construction. In OOC conversations with the other Europe players he acts as a sensible & educated pervert fond of schoolgirls, meantime with his fellow pervert : the player behind Twente.

ECE has been created as an NS nation in january 2003, but has not been played anymore since the beginning of 2004 and has eventually vanished. The NS nation doesn't exist anymore but the Europe nation has never been suppressed, even if sometimes the player asks for interruption in RP activity.

The nation has been created as an ideal European federated state according to political opinions of the player. As it was impossible to claim that it was made with the real states of IRL Europe, the five states now composing ECE are important places in the player's life. Eventually, the french culture in ECE grown more important, as a reaction to the fierce nationalism of other players in the Region.

Political life

Constitution

President of the Confederation : President is elected every 6 years by "any person that has been elected by direct vote" (it includes : confederal parliament members, states' parliament members, mayors, burgenmeisters, etc.). The president is a symbol of the confederation, he is the head of state, he has the right to dissolve the lower chamber of the Parliament, he choses the chancellor amongst the majority of the Parliament, he commands the army, he can rise himself as a stathouder (temporary dictator) if a major crisis happens. He is also the head of state of Transvaal. He his replaced, in case of vacancy and until new elections, by the president of the High Confederal Chamber. The presidential residence is known as Aachen's Mansion. Sometimes medias refers to this place when they want to speak about the president himself.

Chancellor of the Confederated-States : Head of the government, he choses his ministers. He leads the politic of the country and owns most of the executive power. He is chosen by the president amongs the majority present in the Parliament.

Parliament of the Confederated States : owns the legislative power. Can overthrow the government if votes a censure, and if the president do not dissolve the lower chamber. Lower chamber : Chamber of Tribuns. Elected every 5 years at proportionnal rate in the whole Confederated-States. They represents the whole people of the confederation. There are 500 tribuns. Higher Chamber : Senate. 1 senator up to 3 is elected every 6 years at major vote in the state he cames from. There are 60senators by member state, so there are 300 senators.

High Confederal Chamber : componed with 15 censors (3 by member-state). A censor remains censor until the member-state that has nominated him wishes to change him. Each censor represents his state of origin. He is the official representent of his member state in the Confederation. The three censors of a state are nominated, one by the head of state, one by the legislative power, one by the head of government. The High Confederal Chamber always speaks at unanimity and never at majority. The censors elects a president with only administrative powers. The president of the HCC replaces the president in case of vacancy.

Political Parties

European Social-Democratic Party (ESDP): left-winged moderated party, einsures its importance over a well-integrated culture through all the member states of ECE Republican & Democratic Union : right-winged party gathering two former parties, which leads to weakens the importance of the RDU Socialist Left-Winged Alternative(SLA) : federation of local left-winged parties (the SLA is not represented in local elections but only at confederal level) that denies value to the ESDP but have only local success. Federation of European Nationalist Parties (FENP) : right and far-right movement gathering all the nationalists parties of the member states with the final purpose of dissolving the confederacy - weakened by disagreement between its right and far-right elements. European Communist Party (ECP) : self-explained...

Actual powers in place

Executive power : President and Chancellor

President of the Confederacy : Dr Humbert Humbert This educated scholar with litterature capacities & a writer background has put his past in shade. Born in Provence with both vexinean and rheinish origins, it seems that he had such an ordinary childhood that no archives of any kind could mention about him. Graduated in litterature, able to speak between 12 and 18 languages (the exact number is unknown - as many other things about him), he began a diplomatic career, thought his lack of motivation provided him only with cultural charges all around Europe. However, it was the way he made an international network of friends & relatives, and it is said that this discreet character has worked for the MDK (ECE's secret services). Eventually appointed ECE Ambassador in Erlangen-Ansbach, he worked there in silence, always vanishing behind the official statesmen such as former president Vandergraaf or minister Kate Bush. However, he has, here and everywhere else, a strong network of friends. Surprizingly, this unknown character was appointed candidate to presidential elections for European Social-Democratic Party following the withdrawal of Mr Vandergraaf at the term of his charge. Dr Humbert agreed without hesitations anyway, and was elected with quite a large score. Since this day he acts as an iron hand in a velvet glove, still silent but more present than scheduled. This single 46 years-old man is said to have sexual deviances but this has never been proved. He shares his life with latin-american painter Itsuko Egorovna, and none of them have children.

Chancellor of the Confederated-States : Mr Jean Rochefort This vexinean diplomat is also part of the Vandergraaf network and was appointed chancellor after the legislative elections of 2002, when the newborn state decided to change his objectives as a mature nation. Promoter of the seafaring policy, he is extremely popular for being humoristic and highly educated in culture. His excellent french & english speaking made him popular even in ECE states that doesn't speak these languages. In the meantime, he is not well-known abroad. The "most loved ECE politician" is to remain a long time in charge. Gathering the confidence of both his party and several opposition parties, he his the symbol of a stable union between states. His domestic politic, which is the main part of his charge, is always turned towards the whole ECE and never only one of the five member states : transportation network, consumer rights, education, etc.

Minister of Foreign Affairs : Mrs Kate Bush Thought this charge doesn't make her more important than any other ECE minister, Mrs Kate Bush has become so famous all around Europe that her interventions are always seen as golden words. She used to be the first Chancellor of ECE, until the changes of direction taken by former Pdt Vandergraaf lead her take only in charge the ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since this day she has been the symbol of ECE all around the world, and highly popular even in ECE's unfriendly nations. Her campaigns, such as the great reconcilation with CI nations after the spying affair, made her a highly-skilled negociator and peace einforcer. Born in the small community of the english-speaking Svalbardian, she has been a long-term leader of the ESDP in this state.

Legislative power : Confederal Parliament

Chamber of Tribuns :

ESDP : 304 seats RDU : 122 seats ECP (communist) : 51 seats SLA (left-wing) : 18 seats FENP (extreme-right) : 5 seats

Senate :

ESDP : 189 LRE : 81 SLA : 22 ECP : 4 FENP : 3

Miliary Datas

ECE has never claimed to be a very powerful nation on both ground and air, but claims to own one of the strongest (if not THE strongest) navy of the Region.

Personnalities at the head of the Confederal army

General Miss Claire Sandeau - The former head of provençal army is chief of ECE Interarmy HQ since its creation. Appointed supreme commander of the allied armies in the invasion of Transvaal in 1995, she then gained a high international prestige, as an Armoured Division commander with extremely smart reactions, and as an Intelligence Service manager with high skills. Well known for being cruel and sexually disturbed, no one ever managed anyway to hurt her widely recognized excellence as an army commander.

Navy

The Confederal navy is divided in 11 fleet :

Float I (medium attack float) - Carrier C.S. Charlemagne with 5 cruisers, 5 counter-torpedoes, 6 anti-air ships, 10 corvettes, 5 special-skilled ships (medical, tools, radar), 3 attack submarines

Float II (heavy attack float) - Carrier C.S. Jacques-Delors with 7 cruisers, 1 armoured heavy ship (C.S. Robert-Schumann), 6 counter-torpedoes, 7 anti-air ships, 12 corvettes, 5 special-skilled, 5 attack submarines

Float III (naval defense float) - Armoured heavy ship C.S. Jean-Monnet with 4 cruisers, 2 counter-torpedoes, 5 anti-air, 5 corvettes, 2 special-skilled

Float IV (additionnal defense float) - 12 corvettes, 10 anti-air, 8 counter-torpedoes, 6 cruisers

Float V "Furtive & nuclear dissuassive task force" - C.S. Andries-Pretorius and C.S. Paul-Kruger furtive & nuclear launchers submarines (two furtive weapons, efficient by themselves even with conventionnal missiles, and not escorted because their escorts will not be as furtive as them - these two submarines are impossible to detect if they are not surfaced or taking communications).

Float VI (submarine float) - 15 attack submarines, 7 pocket submarines, 4 anti-submarine-helicopter carriers.

Float VII (light attack float) - Carrier C.S. Konrad-Adenauer, with 4 cruisers, 4 counter-torpedoes, 3 anti-air ships, 7 corvettes, 3 special-skilled ships, 3 attack submarines.

Float VIII (blitz attack float) - Carrier C.S. Alcide-de-Gasperi, with 4 cruisers, 4 counter-torpedoes, 3 anti-air ships, 7 corvettes, 3 special-skilled ships, 3 attack submarines.

Float IX(main attack float) - Carrier C.S. Europa, with carriers C.S. Agenoris and C.S. Telephassa, with advanced armoured-heavy ship C.S. Leclerc-de-Hauteclocque, with 4 armoured heavy-ships, 10 cruisers, 8 counter-torpedoes, 7 anti-air ships, 28 corvettes, 6 special-skilled ships, 9 attack submarines.

Float X : (main attack float) - Carrier C.S. Ilios, with carriers C.S. Hector and C.S. Andromaquie, with advanced armoured heavy-ship C.S. Bayard, with 4 armoured heavy-ships, 10 cruisers, 8 counter-torpedoes, 7 anti-air shops, 28 corvettes, 6 special-skilled ships, 9 attack submarines.

Float XI :(main attack float) - Carrier C.S. Chronos, with carriers C.S. Uranos and C.S. Gaea, with advanced armoured heavy-ship C.S. Foch, with 4 armoured heavy-ships, 10 cruisers, 8 counter-torpedoes, 7 anti-air shops, 28 corvettes, 6 special-skilled ships, 9 attack submarines.

Total : Heavy Carriers : 5 Light Carriers : 3 Advanced armoured heavy ship : 1 Armoured heavy ship : 6 Cruisers : 40 Counter-torpedoes : 37 Anti-air ships : 41 Anti-submarine-helicopter carriers : 4 Corvettes : 81 Special-skilled vessels :24 Attack submarines : 38 Pocket submarines : 7 Furtive & nuclear launcher submarines : 2