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Revision as of 08:01, 21 March 2005
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| Flag of Ayrwll | |
| Motto: For peace and Balance | |
| 5 provinces - map available soon | |
| Region | California |
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| Capital | Araniil |
| Official Language(s) | Tharell (official), English (required secondary), Ral (archaic), Quenya and Sindarin (among Elven population), Slithzerikai |
| Leader | President Arancaytar Ilyaran |
| Population | 1.139 billion (Dec 2004) |
| Currency | Aeruillin Silver Crowns (1ASC = $0,9939 |
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Contents
Overview
The Neutral Republic of Aeruillin is a rather new nation, around 150 years old, with a population of barely reaching 900 Million. Having progressed from Aristocracy, over a long period of Imperial Monarchy, finally to democracy only a few decades ago, the young republic's ruling body now is a senate - or the "High Council of Aeruillin" as it calls itself. All the nation's people, from the age of 16 upwards, are eligible to vote, including immigrants who have resided there for a period of 4 years.
The nation is renowned for its strong anti-business politics in favor of the environment, which leads it to being one of the most beautiful places in the region. Its huge forests are inhabited by the national animal, the silver-tipped Unicorn (genus Unicornus Argenteus), and though it possesses no seacost border (and therefore no seaport cities), its mountain ranges - especially the Cloudyhead mountains, with the highest mountain of the region - attract tourists from everywhere. Those tourists, anyway, that are prepared to go through the arduously bureaucratic process of being allowed to enter the natural reserves at all, which are protected by a stunningly extensive set of environment laws.
The nation has made it its goal to promote peace and balance as far as it can; for this reason the Neutral Republic of Aeruillin has joined the Atlantis Pact.
Current Events
As one of the largest ten nations in California and one of its thirteen UN members, Aeruillin is currently aiming to involve itself more in the regional politics. With its just over 1 billion inhabitants, it stands on the brink of entering the world stage.
Current internal issues revolve mainly around the government's increasing secularization, which is seen with distaste by some of the more devout groups, but generally held acceptable as the constitution declares a freedom of religion and a clear separation of church and state throughout Aeruillin. What these changes mean in practice is that the donation and tithing incomes of churches are now taxed like that of a charity - funds that are used for charital purposes are untaxed.
The country is also attempting to lighten some of the more stricter regulations to revive a struggling economy, which has mainly been cut down in favor of the environment. As a result, unemployment levels have already decreased from 25% to 9.77% within less than two years, and the exchange rate has skyrocketed from .3304$ to .9817$ for one Aeruillin Silver Crown.
World Factbook Entry for : Aeruillin
- Location
- California, South-southeast (east of Designated Drinkers).
- Conventional Long Form
- The Neutral Republic of Aeruillin
- Conventional Short Form: Aeruillin
- Local Long Form
- Aeruîllinân Belande Vâlaraya
- Local Short Form : Aeruîllin
- Time Zone
- ACT, DET
- East and Center : Aeruillin Central Time (ACT) : CMT + 5
- West : Drinker East Time (DET) : CMT + 4
Geography
- Area
- total: 8,654,256 sq km
- water: 3,673 sq km
- land: 8,650,583 sq km
- Land Use
- Arable Land: 8.30%
- Permanent Crops: 2.44%
- Land Boundaries
- Coastline: 1,344 km (does not include indentations or islands)
- Maritime Claims
- Territorial Sea: 10 NM
- Exclusive Fishing Zone: 80 NM
Climate
Aeruillin's southern coast lies a few miles north of the Northern Tropic Circle (the Tropic of Cancer on Earth). Aeruillin does not experience tropical seasons, but is close to it in the South. However, since the rainclouds are trapped in the lower-lying area of the primal forest in the Southeast, the actual coast of Aeruillin experiences only 24 centimeters of precipitation annually. The northern part of Aeruillin, especially beyond the natural separator of the Telladar, has a moderate climate that gets quite cold in Winter (between 3°C and 8°C).
- Natural Hazards
- Occasional tidal waves in the Southwest coast: Sudden temperature plunges and blizzards immediately north of the Telladar: Flooding in the rain season west of the rain forest.
- Terrain
- plains, hills, primal forests, mountainous, swampland
- Lowest point: Lake Tomor (Tomorêil), -130m
- Highest point: Silvertine (Vendîlathar), 10,304m (highest mountain in California).
- Average height of habitable land : 65m
Natural Resources
- Great supply
- iron ore, timber, copper, gold, silver, silicon, bauxite.
- Medium supply
- titanium, adamantium, mithril, chromium, palladium, salt.
- Small supply
- uranium, fat, zinc, phosphates, lithium.
- Geothermal power left unused for the most part.
- Great tidal power, harnessed efficiently.
- Shellfish, Herring, Salmon and shrimp are fished (Aeruillin has a state monopoly on the fishing industry). Whales are protected. Squid and octupi are culturally deemed inedible.
- Note: formidable obstacles of climate, terrain, and distance hinder exploitation of all natural resources
Population
1,139 Million.
Age Structure among human population.
- 0-16 17.5%
- 17-65 63.7%
- 65-80 20.0%
- 80 and over 8.8%
Among Slithzerikai population.
- 0-12 11.1%
- 13-85 43.7%
- 85-130 31.2%
- 130 and over 14.0%
Among Elven population.
- 0-250 4.5%
- 250-1000 30.5%
- 1000 and over 65%
- Population Growth Rate
- 0.53%
- Birth Rate: 11.99 births/1000 population
- Death Rate: 7.19 deaths/1000 population
- Net Migration Rate: 0.45 migrant(s)/1000 population
Calendar
Aeruillin, originating in a colony, uses the Atharellian Calendar with 6 months each double as long as one month in the common calendar.
Ranavis: January 21 - March 20 Bermelon: March 21 - May 20 Ashavoth: May 21 - July 20 Lauralas: July 21 - September 20 Mossenur: September 21 - November 20 Zilassyl: November 21 - January 20
Aeruillin counts its years after the founding of the Colonial Conglomerate of New Atharellian Nations, when it was first colonized (there are no indigenous people on Aeruillin; all have migrated here at some later point). This reckoning is abbreviated with AC, today taken to mean either Atharellian Colonization or After Colonization.
It is now (at the time of this writing) the first of Bermelon, 967 AC.
Holidays
Zil 42 (Jan 1) : New Year Ran 1 (Jan 21) : Traditional New Year Ran 45 (Mar 6) : Unity Day (Empire Day) Ash 59 (Jul 18) : Birthday of First President Arancaytar Ilyaran Lau 1 (Jul 21) : Democracy Day Lau 7 (Jul 27) : National Elections Lau 17 (Aug 6) : Birthday of First Empress Katya Daranin I. Mos 24 (Oct 13) : National Day of the Dead
List of Provinces
- Central Aeruillin
- Northern Reaches
- Datrien (Southwest)
- Nyrmal (Southeast)
- Siris Isle
Government
Aeruillin is governed by democracy. The government is twofold: The senate, or "High Council of Aeruillin" (which has always 500 members, including the president), and the "Aeruillin State Court", which holds the jurisdictive power. Legislative power is in the hands of the Council, while the Executive is split between the President of Aeruillin (who is also the "First Speaker of the High Council"), and the Council itself.
A president's term lasts four years, but there is no limit to the number of terms a president may be re-elected (though that matter has been frequently raised by the opposition, and it may not be long before a decision concerning this is made by the council). Presidential candidates are appointed first by the parties (for reasons of cutting down on bureaucratic waste, only parties that have at least one representative in the Council may appoint a presidential candidate). After the head of the party has approved a presidential candidate, he or she must also be endorsed by at least 10% in the Council (the Council can only decide whether to endorse or reject a candidacy). This often leads to corruption as parties with a less than 10% minority of Council senators suffer the filibustering of particularly promising candidates. To cut down on this, the Council has passed a law limiting the number of rejected candidates to two; thus, a party that has proposed two rejected candidates can appoint a third, bypassing any vote in the council (which, as might be expected, does not solve the problem, but only increases the level of intrigue and plotting that goes on prior to presidential elections).
Once the parties have finally all successfully appointed their candidates, the people of Aeruillin get to vote on the position of president between these candidates. Since the Council is usually dominated by two or three large parties, and only few splinter groups, it is often a close race between only two candidates, with the other candidates being given little or no consideration.
The Council members are appointed in the middle of a presidential term. Senator candidates are appointed by the respective parties and approved by the president. Each party is allowed to choose as many senators as corresponds to their share of the popular vote, thus roughly each .2% corresponds to one senator.
All the nation's people, from the age of 16 upwards, are eligible to vote, including immigrants who have resided there for a period of 4 years.
History
(Dates in RL Time) Jun 1 2004: Federation of Aeruillian Nations forged from small independent duchies. Jun 23 2004: Empire of Aeruillin founded. Empress Katya Daranin I ascends the throne. Jun 26 2004: The Empire of Aeruillin joins the United Nations. Sep 24, 2004: Emperor Arancaytar Ilyaran III ascends the throne and dissolves the Empire. Sep 26, 2004: Most Serene Republic of Aeruillin declared. Arancaytar Ilyaran elected President. Sep 28, 2004: High Council of Aeruillin founded. Name changed to the Neutral Republic of Aeruillin Oct 1, 2004: Constitution of the Neutral Republic of Aeruillin finished and ratified.
General Census
Elven Population:
It should be noted that the half-elves (and elves even more so) are more common in the Southern parts of Aeruillin, and one will search long (and usually in vain) for one of the Undying anywhere North of the Telladar Mountains in Central Aeruillin. This is a legacy of Aeruillin's time as a colony of the Teleri, following which was a rush of immigration even from other remote worlds like Calithon, Ermarian and Atharellia.
The Velpan population from Calithon was eventually merged with their reptile cousins, the Slithzerikai from Ermarian, who retained this name. They have withdrawn for the most part into the extensive caves in the Telladar mountains, where they have founded their own community (Shassat-Uss, which means 'Over the sea' in Neo-Slithzerikai). Shassat-Uss is recognized and endorsed by the Aeruillin government, pays a token tax in return for protction, and has an embassy in Araniil in Central Aeruillin. Since they are not affected by most of the government's decisions, they do not participate in national politics. Still, Slithzerikai stonemasonry and sculptures, as well as Velpan artwork are an important national export, and Shassat-Uss profits from this quite handsomely.
The Elven populations have also withdrawn into numerous isolated, close-knit communities in the heavily forested Southern province of Nyrmal (except for the Drow, who have settled down in the Southern tip of the Telladar and trade with the Slithzerikai). They do not have a separate central government, but 'full-blood' elves are rare in the capital. Still, there is a sizable group of Half-elven council members, and the current foreign minister (Vanessa Siliagh) is a Noldorin Elf - the only pure-elven politician currently in cabinet.
Elven smithery, and especially weaponry produced by the Drow, is another famous export of Aeruillin, and though it is irrelevant to most nations that have outgrown bladed weapons, Drow daggers are part of the standard equipment of intelligence agents in all of California. The ability to produce durable metal alloys has proved useful for the aircraft and the space craft industry, and magic-enhanced Elven fine mechanics and electronics are a boon to the Aeruillin Information Technology industry.
Stats
- Life Expectancy - 87 years
- Tax rate - 100%
- Full name - The Neutral Republic of Aeruillin
- Major Industry - Information Technology
- GDP - $22,088,522,103,952.37
- Government Type - Democratic Socialists
- Government Concern - Social Welfare, Commerce, Environment, Education.
