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Revision as of 17:02, 7 November 2007
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| Flag of Aveni | |
| Motto: Motto | |
| Region | Funen |
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| Official Language(s) | Avenai, Dansih, German |
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| Currency | Kroner (kr), 1000 pula |
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The Kingdom of Aveni (Avenai)/Athens (English)/Athen (German and Danish) is a small, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 10 million are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Religion & Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 22%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing.
Voting is voluntary and bicyclists are banned from major roads. Crime is a problem. Aveni's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the kroner.
Aveni uses the experimental numerical Airport Code system, and has the honour of having the international dialing code of number 1.
Religion (Work in progress)
As a communist state, Ms. Smith proclaimed that religion would play absolutely no part in the country. Even since it dropped communism in 1990, the new charter declared that no religion shall threaten the neutrality and free thought of society. It is seen by Athens that religion is one of the causes of modern conflict. Athens is a safe haven for various religions in the world; a very slim majority of Athenians (20%) identify themselves as Hindu, yet a majority of the total population celebrate Diwali, a major Hindu festival. The next most predominant sector is the non-religious, a lasting legacy of communist rule between 1976 and 1990.
The Athenian Government does not keep statistics on religious group and the census do not ask for religious affiliation. Judaism has existed in present-day Athens in excess of 2000 years. Although a few Jews of the former Greek state survived the Holocaust, the government received over 750,000 skilled Jews in a overseas recruitment campaign for the rebuilding of Athens in January 1978. Permanent Muslim Athenians predominate in the Turkish counties, especially in Izmir and Mamaris. The recent sharp rise in the overall Muslim population was a result of the 2004 and 2007 expansions.
Resident members of the Christian faith account for a tiny minority, mainly due to the expulsion of Christians in 1986. 2,000 are of Roman Catholic faith, (including both Byzantine Greek Catholics and Latin Catholics). Old Calendarists account for under 200 followers. The Jehovah's Witnesses report having 30,000 active members, Protestants including Evangelicals at about 400. Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost and other Pentecostals denominations are about 150. Mormons can also be found with just 50 followers, and Scientologists with just nineteen confirmed followers. The long-standing Jewish community numbers approximately 1.5 million followers.
Ancient Greek religion has also reappeared, with approximately 2,500 adherents, comprising a fraction of the general population. Some of these Greek religionists have made claims that they are not reconstructionists but are just people coming out of the closet.
In the Eurostat - Eurobarometer poll of 2005, 32% of Athenian citizens responded that they believe there is a God or multiple Gods, whereas 10% answered that they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force, and 43% that they do not believe there is a God, spirit, nor life force. Athen's percentage of respondents asserting that they believe there is a God was the lowest in the democratic world.
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