Gnejs

The Green People's Republic of Gnejs
Coat of Arms	Flag
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Official Languages	English, Swedish, Norwegian
Capital	Gnejs City
Largest City	Port Kejm
Head of State	President Ingra Karlberg
Population	13 million
Establishment
National Animal	Tiger
National Colors	Green and Black
National Flowers	Dandelion
Currency	1 Leaf

The Green People's Republic of Gnejs, or the GPRG for short, is a nation located in the eastern part of the International Democratic Union, in what is also known as the Eastern Keeslands. Gnejs is a parlimentary democracy with the nations parliament, "Stortinget", as its highest legeslative instance, and its leader acts as the head of state. Current head of state is Ingra Karlberg of the Gnejs Green Party, president of the Green People's Republic of Gnejs. The nation is renowned for itns stunning envoirment and rich wild life. Gnejs City is it's capital, although Port Kejm is the nations biggest city. Other cities worth mentioning are Finntorp on Ecpatia in the north and Norrholmia in the south.

History

The Commonwealth of Gnejs, as it originally was called, was founded sometime during the 1800s. A vast number of small rogue states and communities located in, what today is known as, the IDU: its eastern parts came together and signed a treaty called “The Gnejsian Proclamation”.

The document stated the founding of a union between the territories known as the Commonwealth of Gnejs. Over time the union grew stronger and in 1875, another meeting was held where the decision was made to merge all the Commonwealth members to one big nation. A constitution was written and a new flag was designed, but the name stayed the same.

Later that same year the newly formed nation held its first election and the Coalition of Christian Republicans won a majority in the Storting, supported by the fiercely conservative Albion Rule (Albion was a small community in the Commonwealth's southern parts, renowned for its extremely strict laws, largely based upon the Old Testament).

The following years, up till 1905, the alliance between the Coalition and Albion Rule governed the Commonwealth and this period could be categorized as economically successful and the state of the nation overall stable. Although this is true, it is a truth with moderations.

Widespread discontent towards the government was spreading. The reason was the ruling parties' enforcement of Christianity and strict religious laws upon the public and persecution of those who did not bend to the “will of the lord”. The decreasing amount of citizen influence in the political process was also a factor.

In the light of this political climate the so called Agnostic Front was formed. The Agnostic Front was a civil rights movement that opposed the rulers of the Commonwealth and fought them with non-violent methods, such as sit-ins and hunger strikes. The Agnostic Front quickly gained noticeable support with the public, especially in the nation's eastern and northern parts, and in 1935 they led a massive amount of people on a march to reclaim the Storting. They stormed into the assembly hall and disbanded the parliament and demanded fair and democratic elections. The government gave in to the people’s demands and new elections were held, and the newly formed Moderate Party gained the majority, supported by the Centrist Party.

The Coalition of Christian Republicans dissolved into smaller groups, one of which became the Christian Democratic Party and is the only group from the old coalition with political influence in present time. Small fractions of Albion Rule still exist today under the name Sons of Albion. They have no real political influence but sometimes stage manifestations in the southern parts of Gnejs where they supposedly have some sympathizers. Political experts say that they are the most likely organization in Gnejs to take to arms to overthrow the government.

The Moderate Party ruled in various constellations with either the Centrist or the Christian Democratic Party up until the 1970s when the absence of a well functioning welfare system lost them power to the “up and coming” Socialist Party of Gnejs which governed the nation with a supreme majority for three terms.

In the elections after that the newly formed Gnejs Green Party made a stunning election and formed a coalition with the Socialist Party to govern Gnejs. During this period the nation's name was changed from The Commonwealth of Gnejs to The Green People’s Republic. The reason for this was, according to leading officials, to rid the nation of the Commonwealth's shadow. In recent terms the Social Libertarian Alliance has also been a part of the ruling coalition.

In 2006 the nation entered the International Democratic Union. The same year they ran for the position of UN-Delegate for the region, but were beaten by the Constitutional Monarchy of Malabra.

Geography

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The GRPG is made up of four landskap (provinces) which togheter are made up by 25 communes (municipalities). The communes enjoy great freedom to govern themselves, while the lanskap have a pure symbolic function.

The Landskap of Gnejs are:

• Bislet
• Birka
• Ängby
• Vika

The Communes of Gnejs are:

• Ula
• Eriksvik
• Grønland
• Jarl
• Kummel
• Port Kejm
• Skeppsløkka
• Ösby
• Dorotea
• Sørfold
• Rom
• Maas
• Laangviik
• Ramsmora
• Kila
• Horns
• Naessia
• Gnejs City
• Munkholm
• Vikdalen
• Westmooreland
• Ringnes
• Løkeland
• Sofienberg

Culture

Politics

The parties currently holding seats in the Storting are:

• Moderate Party (of Gnejs)
• Centrist Party (of Gnejs)
• Christian Democratic Party (of Gnejs)
• Socialist Party of Gnejs
• Social Libertarian Alliance
• Go Gnejs!
• Gnejs Green Party

Sister Cities

The Armed Republic of Emigrated Gnejsians

Five Fun Facts on Gnejs

Did you know that...

• The name Gnejs is the swedish word for the type of rock called Gneiss in english. The reason for the name comes from the cottage that housed the founding of the nation in the early 1800's. The small house had gneiss as it's building foundation and when voices were raised over what the newly founded nation was to be called, someone suggested Gnejs and that was the only option a majority of the participants could agree on. The signed document came to be called "The Gnejsian Proclamation".

• The name Karlberg is of noble standard. President Ingra Karlbergs grand parents were part of the gnejsian nobility. Titels of nobility was abolished in 1975 on iniative by the Socialist Party of Gnejs.

• There are no fossil fueled cars in Gnejs that is not a part of the public system. The most common way to get around (besides public transport which is mostly powered by electricity) is by bicycle or small electric cars (similar to golf cars)