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Kahanistan

Flag of Kahanistan
Motto: Lex Asinus Est. (The Law's an Ass.)
Region	Graveyard of Deleted Nations
Capital	Najaster
Official Language(s)	Arabic, English, Hebrew, Latin
Leader	Mohammed bin Yusuf al-Za'if
Population	800,000,000
Currency	Racist Shekel
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History of Kahanistan

Kahanistan (Arabic: كحانستان, Latin: Cohanista), originated in 2037, when murderous Zionist extremists were banished to the desert to further peace in the Middle East. Between 2037 and 2053, more than two million extremists killed each other and were killed in battles with the far better equipped Egyptians. In 2047 it changed its name to the Murderous Zionist Entity of Kahanistan, and has kept that name until very recently, although it has been neither murderous nor Zionist in fact since 2062. It is now called the Democratic Soviet Republic of Kahanistan. Its religious composition as of the 2200 census is 30% Jewish, 20% Christian, 20% Atheist, 10% Muslim, 10% Satanist, and 10% other religions. Because of expansion in the 2030's to 2050's into Arab areas, its ethnic composition is 45% Arab, 45% European (mostly of Jewish descent, though many no longer practice the religion) and 10% other ethnic groups.

In 2071 Kahanistan wrote a new socialist constitution guaranteeing universal human rights. Ostracism from the rest of the world ended within months, and by 2098 Kahanistan was a world power.

Resources

Kahanistan's major natural resources are farmland and petroleum, which its industries convert to plastics. Its energy is supplied by nuclear fusion, the byproducts of which it dumps on the barren Moon, where nothing lives anyway. Kahanistan's scientists have experimented with dumping pigshit on the nuclear dumps, to see what kind of mutations take place in the bacteria, however.

President

President Mohammed bin Yusuf al-Za'if was born in Najaster in 2171. He became president upon the assassination of Moshe K. Abramovitz in 2210. Little is known of his past, but it is believed that he was a military officer and later a senator before being mysteriously appointed vice president in 2207.

Government

Main article: Constitution of Kahanistan

Kahanistan is governed by an elected President in elections every six years, and by three thousand Senators, elected from the hundreds of sub-districts in the major cities and rural areas. Senators serve terms of two years. The Senate (also called Parliament, Congress, the Legislature, and more recently the Supreme Soviet, but "Senate" is the favored term used in most of Kahanistan's English-speaking population) is composed of over fifty committees, including the Defense Committee, which oversees the military, the Civil Service Committee, which oversees government employees, the Finance Committee, which oversees spending on various issues, and many others.

Any senator can introduce a law, but it must first pass the relevant committee (for example, a law to tighten security on aircraft would have to clear the Transportation Committee) and then be delivered to the Senate at large, where it would have to receive 60% of the vote. Then the President would either sign it into law or veto it, in the event of a veto, the President lists his objections and his or her veto requires a 75% majority to override.

The judicial system of Kahanistan is composed of the Supreme Court and several classes of inferior courts, including the Superior Criminal Court, which tries felonies (misdemeanors being tried in city or district courts), the Superior Civil Court (which handles civil disputes in major cases), and the Superior Constitutional Court, which oversees Constitutional issues.

Miscellany

Origin of the name

In the late 20th century, a Zionist extremist group known as Kahanists became visible on the Middle Eastern political scene. After the partition of Israel in 2010 between a Jewish and Arab sector, the Jewish sector was bisected by the Arab sector. The southern half of the Jewish sector was mostly desert. Kahanists were banished there to make peace. Despite being poorly armed, they committed numerous terrorist attacks against both the Jews, whom they saw as betraying the Zionist ideals, and the Arabs, whom they saw as invaders. They suffered far heavier casualties than they inflicted in their attacks. In 2037, they officially stated their existence as a politically separate nation, which they dubbed "Kahanistan." All of the major cities in Kahanistan were built after 2071, during the great modernization drive.

Military of modern Kahanistan

The Kahanistan military consists of the Republic Guards and the Imperial Marines, as well as a small navy. It generally employs about one percent of the total population, and accepts all those between the ages of 12 and 96. While sending twelve-year-olds into battle may seem barbaric, it is important to note that recruits so young spend years in training, and are usually 20 years old before they even complete training. Soldiers who have completed the eight years of training are commissioned as officers, Second Lieutenants in the Imperial Marines or Republic Guards, or Ensigns in the Kahanistan Navy. Recruits 18 or older can choose the officer program or an enlisted program, making them combat ready in four months.

Foreign policy of Kahanistan

Kahanistan is generally friendly to its neighbors, but its interventionist policies with regard to human rights violators have earned it criticism that it is "a 23rd century America" in the eyes of many of its critics. Notorious examples of Kahanistan militarism include the Invasion of Xirnium (now an ally) and the conflict with Jenrak, which led to a brief war with the Ottoman Alliance.

Distances between cities in Kahanistan

The following data is intended to convey the size of Kahanistan.

Najaster - Al-Bahr 126 km

Najaster - At Tahrir 134 km

Najaster - Al-Qamar 137 km

Al-Bahr - At Tahrir 160 km

Al-Bahr - Al Qamar 255 km

At Tahrir - Al-Qamar 272 km