Ayrwll
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| 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 (archaic) |
| Leader | President Arancaytar Ilyaran |
| Population | 1107 million (Dec 2004) |
| Currency | Aeruillin Silver Crowns (1ASC = $0,9826 |
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Contents
Current Events
As one of the largest ten nations in California and one of its thirteen UN members, Aeruillin is currently aiming to involve itself more in the regional politics. With its just over 1 billion inhabitants, it stands on the brink of entering the world stage.
Current internal issues revolve mainly around the government's increasing secularization, which is seen with distaste by some of the more devout groups, but generally held acceptable as the constitution declares a freedom of religion and a clear separation of church and state throughout Aeruillin. What these changes mean in practice is that the donation and tithing incomes of churches are now taxed like that of a charity - funds that are used for charital purposes are untaxed.
The country is also attempting to lighten some of the more stricter regulations to revive a struggling economy, which has mainly been cut down in favor of the environment. As a result, unemployment levels have already decreased from 25% to 9.77% within less than two years, and the exchange rate has skyrocketed from .3304$ to .9817$ for one Aeruillin Silver Crown.
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.
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
In spite of the different calendar, Aeruillin employs the Christian reckoning of years, thus it is now writing the year 2004.
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
- 36% white, 15% half-elven, 14% asian, 10% black, 10% hispanic, 9% arabic, 6% other
Stats
- Life Expectancy-87 years
- Tax rate-86%
- Full name- The Neutral Republic of Aeruillin
- Major Industry- Information Technology
- GDP $21,315,996,641,983.67
- Government Type- Democratic Socialists
- Government Concern- Social Welfare, Commerce, Environment, Education.
