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Etats-Confédérés d'Europe is a nation of the NS region of Europe.
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{{Infobox_Nation |
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flag=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/vandergraaf/ECEflag.gif |
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region=[[Europe]] |
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motto=Tiefer, tiefer, irgendwo in der Tiefe, gibt es ein Licht |
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map=No Map Available Yet |
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language=[[French]] |
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capital=[[Marseille]] |
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population=Unestimated |
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currency=Eurand |
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leader=Dr. Humbert Humbert
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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.
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'''Etats-Confédérés d'Europe''' or '''ECE''' is a state of [[Wikipedia:Europe|Europe]] that has the peculiarity to be made of several islands or coast zones around the region. All these areas once decided to gather as a confederacy that would be able to take care of foreign policies while all their citizens will be able to live a life full of sex and love.
  
The nation is played by almost the only french active player of the Region.
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ECE is well-known for being the nation of free sexuality. The government supports [[sexual freedom]] as a concept which became the pillard of the society.
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The Etats-Confédérés d'Europe is a member of the [[Interlaken Treaty Organization|ITO]] alliance, well-known for being a left-wing 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==
 
==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
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Name : République des Etats-Confédérés d'Europe
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Official language : French <br>
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Capitol city : Marseille<br>
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Name of the inhabitants : confederals (in english), confédérés (in french). <br>
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Official shortcut of the name : ECE <br>
  
Official languages : in order of importance French, Afrikaans Dutch, German, English, Norwegian Bokmael.  
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ECE is a parliamental republic, a confederation, a democracy, and applies roman law system.<br>
Capitol city : Aachen / Aix la Chapelle (former city of the state of Rheinland, now an independent district)
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Name of the inhabitants : confederals (in english), confédérés (in french).
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Official shortcut of the name : ECE
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ECE is a parliamental republic, a confederation, a democracy, and applies roman law system.
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The national anthem is [[Brian Song]] and the national currency is the Eurand.<br>
  
 
==OOC informations==
 
==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.
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ECE is played by the almost only french player of the Europe Region, at least the only really active, a 23-years old newswriter nicknamed [[User:LesterBurnham|Lester Burnham]]. 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.
 
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.
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ECE player denies value to datas related to NationStates : NS is funny and is a first step that leads to our boards, but its datas are absurd. There's no need to argue that you have good NS stats with him. And there's no need to use any kind of calculator. Furthermore, ECE player considers useless to estimate the population of states or cities, because everyone will claim absurd numbers.
  
 
==Political life==
 
==Political life==
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===Constitution===
 
===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.  
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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, 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.
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The presidential residence is known as [[Palais Longchamp]]. 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.  
 
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.  
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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.  
 
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.  
 
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.  
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Higher Chamber : Senate. 1 senator up to 3 is elected every 6 years at major vote in the state he cames from. There are 60 senators by member state, so there are 420 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.  
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High Confederal Chamber : componed with 21 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===
 
===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
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European Social-Democratic Party (ESDP): left-winged moderated party, einsures its importance over a well-integrated culture through all the member states of ECE<br>
Republican & Democratic Union : right-winged party gathering two former parties, which leads to weakens the importance of the RDU
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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.
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Republican & Democratic Union : right-winged party gathering two former parties, which leads to weakens the importance of the RDU<br>
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.
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European Communist Party (ECP) : self-explained...
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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European Communist Party (ECP) : self-explained...<br>
  
 
===Actual powers in place===
 
===Actual powers in place===
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====Executive power : President and Chancellor====
 
====Executive power : President and Chancellor====
  
President of the Confederacy : Dr Humbert Humbert
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chancellor of the Confederated-States : Mr Jean Rochefort
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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.
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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.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs : Mrs Kate Bush
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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.
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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.
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Born in the small community of the english-speaking Svalbardian, she has been a long-term leader of the ESDP in this state.
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====Legislative power : Confederal Parliament====
 
====Legislative power : Confederal Parliament====
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Chamber of Tribuns :
 
Chamber of Tribuns :
  
ESDP : 304 seats
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ESDP : 304 seats<br>
RDU : 122 seats  
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RDU : 122 seats <br>
ECP (communist) : 51 seats  
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ECP (communist) : 51 seats <br>
SLA (left-wing) : 18 seats   
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SLA (left-wing) : 18 seats  <br>
FENP (extreme-right) : 5 seats   
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FENP (extreme-right) : 5 seats  <br>
  
 
Senate :
 
Senate :
  
ESDP : 189  
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ESDP : 189 <br>
LRE : 81  
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LRE : 81 <br>
SLA : 22  
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SLA : 22 <br>
ECP : 4  
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ECP : 4 <br>
FENP : 3  
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FENP : 3<br>
  
==Member States of ECE==  
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==The seven member states of ECE==  
  
(Presented from the most peopled to the less peopled)
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===[[If Castle Island]]===  
 
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===Provence===  
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===[[Transvaal]]===
Status : presidential republic
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President : Mr Romain Rameau
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Capital : Marseille (biggest port & biggest city of Confederal Europe)
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Language : French
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===Transvaal===
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===[[Natalia Island]]===  
Status : parliamental republic
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President : Mr Peter Vandergraaf (since Transvaal has become member of the ECE, it has renounced to have a president of its own and gives this symbolic and formal role to the head of state of the ECE)
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Prime Minister : Mrs Katie Lockwood
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Capital : Pretoria
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Languages : Afrikaans Dutch (70%), English (30 %)
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===Vexin===  
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===[[Bourbon]]===  
Status : parliamental republic
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President : Mr Pierre-Henri Prélot
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Premier Ministre : Mr Jean-Pierre Chagnollaud
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Capital : Cergy-Pontoise
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Language : French
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===Rheinland===  
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===[[KekeLandia]]===  
Status : Parliamental republic
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Ministerpräsident : Mr Irmin Schmidt
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Kanzler : Mr Michael Karoli
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Capital : Heidelberg
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Language : German
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===Svalbard===  
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===[[Guyane Confédérale]]===
  
Status : parliamental republic
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===[[Halberdier]]===
Logsogummadr (head of government) : Mrs Vigtis Tryggvestaeckelinsen
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Capital : Longyearbyen
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Language : Norwegian bokmael (75 %), English (25%)
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===Oversea Territories===  
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Status : territories outside of the continental territory of ECE. Auto-governed by a local council and divided in cities with mayors and municipal councils.
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If Castle Island
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Capital : Castelville
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Language : French
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Situation : island southwest of Europe
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Halberdier
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Capital : Halberdier
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Language : French, English
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Situation : on Queens Island
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Bourbon
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Capital : Bourbon
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Language : French
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Situation : on Aykafionisy island
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==Miliary Datas==
 
==Miliary Datas==
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===Personnalities at the head of the Confederal army===
 
===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.
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General Miss [[Claire Sandeau]] - She is chief of ECE Interarmy HQ since its creation. Well known for being cruel and sexually disturbed, no one ever managed anyway to hurt her widely recognized excellence as an army commander. She is narcoleptic.
Well known for being cruel and sexually disturbed, no one ever managed anyway to hurt her widely recognized excellence as an army commander.
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===Navy===
 
===Navy===
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Total :  
 
Total :  
Heavy Carriers : 5  
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Heavy Carriers : 5 <br>
Light Carriers : 3  
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Light Carriers : 3 <br>
Advanced armoured heavy ship : 1  
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Advanced armoured heavy ship : 1 <br>
Armoured heavy ship : 6  
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Armoured heavy ship : 6 <br>
Cruisers : 40  
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Cruisers : 40 <br>
Counter-torpedoes : 37  
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Counter-torpedoes : 37 <br>
Anti-air ships : 41  
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Anti-air ships : 41 <br>
Anti-submarine-helicopter carriers : 4  
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Anti-submarine-helicopter carriers : 4 <br>
Corvettes : 81  
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Corvettes : 81 <br>
Special-skilled vessels :24  
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Special-skilled vessels :24 <br>
Attack submarines : 38  
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Attack submarines : 38 <br>
Pocket submarines : 7  
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Pocket submarines : 7 <br>
Furtive & nuclear launcher submarines : 2
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Furtive & nuclear launcher submarines : 2<br>
  
 
====Furtive & Nuclear launcher submarines : ECE's nuclear task force====
 
====Furtive & Nuclear launcher submarines : ECE's nuclear task force====
  
ECE has inherited from the member state Transvaal an obsolete and almost dangerous nuclear arsenal made with 9 ogives and 2 nuclear launcher submarines.
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ECE has inherited from the member state [[Transvaal]] an obsolete and almost dangerous nuclear arsenal made with 9 ogives and 2 nuclear launcher submarines.
  
There are no facilities able to build further ogives, although Transvaal is still full of Uranium. The repairing facilities of the submarines could be used to build other subs.
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There are no facilities able to build further ogives, although [[Transvaal]] is still full of Uranium. The repairing facilities of the submarines could be used to build other subs.
  
C.S Andries-Pretorius is the biggest of the two subs. She has been revised with SoG technology in early 2003. C.S. Paul-Kruger has been improved by ECE technologies and both weapons are fully able to work.
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C.S [[Andries-Pretorius]] is the biggest of the two subs. She has been revised with SoG technology in early 2003. C.S. [[Paul-Kruger]] has been improved by ECE technologies and both weapons are fully able to work.
  
 
ECE uses sometimes the furtive capacities of these two weapons to threatens unfriendly nations who will never know wether their cities are in range of the Andries-Pretorius or not.
 
ECE uses sometimes the furtive capacities of these two weapons to threatens unfriendly nations who will never know wether their cities are in range of the Andries-Pretorius or not.
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===Intelligence Services, especially the [[MDK]]===
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ECE considers intelligence as something very important and has created a large & powerful system of Intelligence Services in which the main agency, the [[MDK]], plays the most important role.
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====Intelligence services in ECE====
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[[Mekanik Destrüktiw Kommandoh]] - [[MDK]] : the famous intelligence agency is controlled by the following structure<br>
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Praetorii : An army corpse under parliamental control & presidential commandment which also includes security services & other. <br>
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Direction Générale de la Documentation - DGD : civilian intelligence structure controlled by the ministry of Internal Affairs under the same parliamental control than Praetorii, and taking mainly care about domestic intelligence.
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====[[MDK]]====
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The MDK (Mekhanik Destrüktiw Kommandoh) is the biggest intelligence service of ECE and a very powerful organization in Europe.
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MDK has its base in Kobaïa, a secret place situated somewhere in Transvaal state. Their leader is the obscure & mysterious Christian Vander.
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MDK agents are NEVER alone but ALWAYS three persons together. Never one more, never one less. The three MDK agents operates together, one being covered by the two others. Basically, the "acting" agent of the trio is the one who is in relation with the officer. The others are under its dependence. If a member of the trio is captured or KIA, the two others will welcome a new agent and act again as a trio.
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MDK agents speaks a strange language called "kobaïan", in order not to be understood by other people in action.
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The most important success of the MDK happenned when Europe was divided in a [[Cold War]] between democratic alliance [[European Defence Federation|EDF]] and communist alliance [[ComIntern]] : the MDK was able to introduce spies in the ComIntern (a fake-nation called "USS Amerindians") and had access to all the private debates of the CI in their private forum, and acted as influence agents sometimes. The spies were eventually captured after a betrayal from "friendly" intelligence services of the neutral alliance [[United Alliance of Peace|UAP]].
  
 
==Culture==
 
==Culture==
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===Most important Universities===
 
===Most important Universities===
  
Bertolt-Brecht Universität – Heidelberg
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Nadine-Gordimer Universiteit – Bloemfontein <br>
Nadine-Gordimer Universiteit – Bloemfontein  
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Université Marcel-Pagnol – Marseille <br>
Université Marcel-Pagnol – Aix en Provence & Marseille  
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Université Montesquieu – Cergy-Pontoise
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===Religions===
 
===Religions===
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Being completely atheist, the confederal government considers religion as a cultural matter.
 
Being completely atheist, the confederal government considers religion as a cultural matter.
  
Atheists - 70%  
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Atheists - 70% <br>
Brianists - 28 %  
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Brianists - 28 % <br>
Christians - 1 % (Catholics in Vexin & Provence, Lutherians in Svalbard & Rheinland, Calvinists in Transvaal)  
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Christians - 1 % (Catholics in Vexin & Provence, Lutherians in Svalbard & Rheinland, Calvinists in Transvaal) <br>
Muslims & Jews - 1 % (muslims in urban zones of Provence, Vexin & Rheinland, jews in Provence & Rheinland)  
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Muslims & Jews - 1 % (muslims in urban zones of Provence, Vexin & Rheinland, jews in Provence & Rheinland) <br>
  
====Brianism====
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====[[Brianism]]====
  
 
Followers of Brian of Nazareth, the brianists are a local religion of ECE created in 2003 and which eventually gathered almost every former christian of the Confederacy.
 
Followers of Brian of Nazareth, the brianists are a local religion of ECE created in 2003 and which eventually gathered almost every former christian of the Confederacy.
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==International Airports==  
 
==International Airports==  
  
- Aachen International Airport (central)
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- Marseille Marignane-Airport (state of Provence) <br>
- Marseille Marignane-Airport (state of Provence)  
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- Pretoria DeKlerk-Airport (state of Transvaal) <br>
- Pretoria DeKlerk-Airport (state of Transvaal)  
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- Ny-Alesund Scientific Aerodrome (state of Svalbard)
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- Cergy-Pontoise International Airport (state of Vexin)
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- Heidelberg International Airport (state of Rheinland)
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==The English-Speaking Svalbardians : a minority people in ECE==
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In the XIXth century, people coming from the whole world were looking for a shelter while dictatures and poverty were rising all over the world - inclunding in the nations that now composes Etat-Confédérés d'Europe. Many people entered Svalbard, which was an independent republic by these times. Svalbard government allowed poor people to enter if they were white and christian (the government was very conservative by these times) and if they aggreed to work in the fishing industry or minings. None of these immigrants was speaking the native language of Svalbard (norvegian bokmael), so they all used english as a common language to speak with each other and be understood by the Svalbardians. In the meantime, as their svalbardians chiefs were not really able to understand a good english-speaking, the immigrants spoke english in order not to be understood by them. Together, the poor immigrants, which were most of them not native english-speakers, succeeded in sharing their knowledge of english language and they transmitted this knowledge to their children, so that they also could speak a language that the rich Svalbardians will not be able to understand.
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Today the community of the English-speaking Svalbardian is still represented, and a quarter of them do not speak any other language. They are 25 % population of Svalbard, and as Svalbard is not very large in population, it means that they are a very very few part of all the Confederal citizens.
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Meanwhile, they seems happy of their daily life. They are now equal in rights with any other COnfederal citizen, and always have some of their members in the highest positions of the state - the most representative is the minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs Kate Bush.
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==Seafaring Politic==
 
==Seafaring Politic==
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===Civilian Float===
 
===Civilian Float===
  
-Container transports : 600  
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-Container transports : 600 <br>
-Oil tankers : 850  
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-Oil tankers : 850 <br>
-Fishing ships : 1 540 (1/3 are large high-sea fishers)  
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-Fishing ships : 1 540 (1/3 are large high-sea fishers) <br>
-Other cargos : 480  
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-Other cargos : 480 <br>
  
 
===Sea stations===
 
===Sea stations===
  
-Four gigantic and autonomous sea stations : Proserpina (at N-E of Borisland), Herakles (at south of International Research Islands), Epimethea and Prometheus (in the Sea of Liberation, at north of Anglovictorian Federation). The fishing zones at 2 000 miles around these stations are revendicated by ECE  
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-Four gigantic and autonomous sea stations : Proserpina (at N-E of Borisland), Herakles (at south of International Research Islands), Epimethea and Prometheus (in the Sea of Liberation, at north of Anglovictorian Federation). The fishing zones at 2 000 miles around these stations are revendicated by ECE <br>
 
-2 000 sea platforms for hydrocarbures exploitation all around the europeans seas.
 
-2 000 sea platforms for hydrocarbures exploitation all around the europeans seas.
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==See also==
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*[[Interlaken Treaty Organization|ITO]]<br />
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*[[Humbert Humbert]]<br />
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*[[MDK]]<br />
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*[[Erlangen-Ansbach]]<br />
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*[[User:LesterBurnham]]<br />
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*[[sexual freedom]]
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[[Category:Historic Nations]]
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[[Category:Etats-Confédérés d'Europe| ]]

Latest revision as of 17:28, 1 August 2007

États Confédéres d'Europe
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Motto: Tiefer, tiefer, irgendwo in der Tiefe, gibt es ein Licht
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Region Europe
Capital Marseille
Official Language(s) French
Leader Dr. Humbert Humbert
Population Unestimated
Currency Eurand 
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Etats-Confédérés d'Europe or ECE is a state of Europe that has the peculiarity to be made of several islands or coast zones around the region. All these areas once decided to gather as a confederacy that would be able to take care of foreign policies while all their citizens will be able to live a life full of sex and love.

ECE is well-known for being the nation of free sexuality. The government supports sexual freedom as a concept which became the pillard of the society.

The Etats-Confédérés d'Europe is a member of the ITO alliance, well-known for being a left-wing 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

Official language : French
Capitol city : Marseille
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.

The national anthem is Brian Song and the national currency is the Eurand.

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 nicknamed Lester Burnham. 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.

ECE player denies value to datas related to NationStates : NS is funny and is a first step that leads to our boards, but its datas are absurd. There's no need to argue that you have good NS stats with him. And there's no need to use any kind of calculator. Furthermore, ECE player considers useless to estimate the population of states or cities, because everyone will claim absurd numbers.

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, 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 Palais Longchamp. 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 60 senators by member state, so there are 420 senators.

High Confederal Chamber : componed with 21 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

Chancellor of the Confederated-States : Mr Jean Rochefort

Minister of Foreign Affairs : Mrs Kate Bush

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

The seven member states of ECE

If Castle Island

Transvaal

Natalia Island

Bourbon

KekeLandia

Guyane Confédérale

Halberdier

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 - She is chief of ECE Interarmy HQ since its creation. Well known for being cruel and sexually disturbed, no one ever managed anyway to hurt her widely recognized excellence as an army commander. She is narcoleptic.

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

Furtive & Nuclear launcher submarines : ECE's nuclear task force

ECE has inherited from the member state Transvaal an obsolete and almost dangerous nuclear arsenal made with 9 ogives and 2 nuclear launcher submarines.

There are no facilities able to build further ogives, although Transvaal is still full of Uranium. The repairing facilities of the submarines could be used to build other subs.

C.S Andries-Pretorius is the biggest of the two subs. She has been revised with SoG technology in early 2003. C.S. Paul-Kruger has been improved by ECE technologies and both weapons are fully able to work.

ECE uses sometimes the furtive capacities of these two weapons to threatens unfriendly nations who will never know wether their cities are in range of the Andries-Pretorius or not.

Intelligence Services, especially the MDK

ECE considers intelligence as something very important and has created a large & powerful system of Intelligence Services in which the main agency, the MDK, plays the most important role.

Intelligence services in ECE

Mekanik Destrüktiw Kommandoh - MDK : the famous intelligence agency is controlled by the following structure

Praetorii : An army corpse under parliamental control & presidential commandment which also includes security services & other.

Direction Générale de la Documentation - DGD : civilian intelligence structure controlled by the ministry of Internal Affairs under the same parliamental control than Praetorii, and taking mainly care about domestic intelligence.

MDK

The MDK (Mekhanik Destrüktiw Kommandoh) is the biggest intelligence service of ECE and a very powerful organization in Europe.

MDK has its base in Kobaïa, a secret place situated somewhere in Transvaal state. Their leader is the obscure & mysterious Christian Vander.

MDK agents are NEVER alone but ALWAYS three persons together. Never one more, never one less. The three MDK agents operates together, one being covered by the two others. Basically, the "acting" agent of the trio is the one who is in relation with the officer. The others are under its dependence. If a member of the trio is captured or KIA, the two others will welcome a new agent and act again as a trio.

MDK agents speaks a strange language called "kobaïan", in order not to be understood by other people in action.

The most important success of the MDK happenned when Europe was divided in a Cold War between democratic alliance EDF and communist alliance ComIntern : the MDK was able to introduce spies in the ComIntern (a fake-nation called "USS Amerindians") and had access to all the private debates of the CI in their private forum, and acted as influence agents sometimes. The spies were eventually captured after a betrayal from "friendly" intelligence services of the neutral alliance UAP.

Culture

Most important Universities

Nadine-Gordimer Universiteit – Bloemfontein
Université Marcel-Pagnol – Marseille


Religions

Being completely atheist, the confederal government considers religion as a cultural matter.

Atheists - 70%
Brianists - 28 %
Christians - 1 % (Catholics in Vexin & Provence, Lutherians in Svalbard & Rheinland, Calvinists in Transvaal)
Muslims & Jews - 1 % (muslims in urban zones of Provence, Vexin & Rheinland, jews in Provence & Rheinland)

Brianism

Followers of Brian of Nazareth, the brianists are a local religion of ECE created in 2003 and which eventually gathered almost every former christian of the Confederacy.

International Airports

- Marseille Marignane-Airport (state of Provence)
- Pretoria DeKlerk-Airport (state of Transvaal)

Seafaring Politic

History

In the beginning of 2004 the government changed and Mr Rochefort was appointed Chancellor. He announced that ECE will now use its seafaring potential. The Chancellor is directly in charge of this politic.

Hydrocarbures

As a seafaring nation with an important maritime traffic, ECE has become one of the most important hydrocarbures producer.

Provençale d'Hydrocarbures : PH is an enormous company of both petroleum and gas, taken from ECE's network of sea platforms and tankers. PH has absorbed all the other ECE companies and now belongs to state.

Civilian Float

-Container transports : 600
-Oil tankers : 850
-Fishing ships : 1 540 (1/3 are large high-sea fishers)
-Other cargos : 480

Sea stations

-Four gigantic and autonomous sea stations : Proserpina (at N-E of Borisland), Herakles (at south of International Research Islands), Epimethea and Prometheus (in the Sea of Liberation, at north of Anglovictorian Federation). The fishing zones at 2 000 miles around these stations are revendicated by ECE
-2 000 sea platforms for hydrocarbures exploitation all around the europeans seas.

See also