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General

Disclaimer

The policies of Kilobugya mostly reflect my own political views, but don't do it on any single aspects. Kilobugya is half-way between the dreamland I would like to be part of, and a realistic nation that could exist in the XXIest century, a couple of decennias after becoming "socialist". On some issues, I don't have a strong opinion, and use the one that feels the more logical according the country structure, which may not be my real opinion.

Please also note that "my opinion" doesn't mean either the UDCP of NationStates, nor my real life political party, the PCF (French Communist Party). I am in no way empowered by any those two parties (be it the fictional one or the real one) to speak in their names.

Anyway, there it is ;)

Summary

Country name: The United Socialist States of Kilobugya

Flag: A yellow columbus (symbol of peace) on a red background (symbol of communism)

National motto: "Happiness is always a new idea", motto coming from the French Revolution of 1793.

National anthem: Still thinking about it... maybe "La Paix sur Terre" from Jean Ferrat ("Peace on Earth"). Or a song from Paris' Commune ? Or just the Internationale ?

Political system: Mostly direct democracy

Economial system: Socialism

Languages: The official language of the country is French. All citizen are bilingual, most of them speaking either English, Spanish or a regional language. Teaching of regional languages as second or third language is highly encouraged.

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Civil Rights:		Economy:		Political Freedoms:
Excellent		Fragile		Superb

The United Socialist States of Kilobugya is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.34 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism, copyright laws have been abolished and the nation is currently revamping its entire education system. Crime is totally unknown. Kilobugya's national animal is the Bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Columbus.

Kilobugya is ranked 1st in the region and 876th in the world for Nicest Citizens.

Political system

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Major parties

Kilobugya's Communist Party: The major ruling party, supported by around 60% of the population, whose policies are mostly the ones of the country itself, even if sometimes even more progressive.

United Conservative Party: After several divisions, the Kilobugyan conservative capitalist forces finally united themselves into the second party of the country, which scores at around 15% on elections.

Kilobugya's Socialist Party: Sometimes allied, sometimes oponent of the Communist Party, the Socilist Party is a small party trying to maintain most the Kilobugya democratic socialist policies, but not all of them. It scores at around 8% on elections.

Kilobugya Liberal Party: The Kilobugya Liberal Party is an ally of the United Conservative Party on all economical issues, but it sides with the progressive forces (mostly the Communist Party and the Greens) on social issues. It scores around 5% on elections.

The Greens: Kilobugya's Green party is small, because the Communist Party itself takes environement protection as one of the most serious issues. It's mostly an ally of the Communist Party, even if closer to the Socialist Party on economical issues. It scores around 5% on elections.

Kilobugya First: A neofascist party, with very few power, whose major demands are on rebuilding the army and police force, and closing borders to immigrants. They also support reducing individual freedoms (no gay marriage, raising the age of consent, ...). It scores around 3% on elections.

Kilobugya's Workers Party: A division of the Communist Party, supporting a reduction of political freedom in order to quicken the move towards an even more socialist country. It scores around 3% on elections.

Actual policies on major issues

Economy

Kilobugya is currently running a dual economy system. All the major industries, vital services, and networks are nationalised. Small-scale services and proximity buisnesses are performed by cooperatives, in which the decisions are taken by the workers. Cooperatives are strongly regulated by both federal and local laws, preventing damage on the environement, or other global side-effects.

While the Kilobugya's Communist Party support the disparition of money on the long term, the Kilobugyan society is not yet ready for that. Kilobugya currency, the Columbus, is printed by the National Bank.

The only bank is Kilobugy'as National Bank, which is runned as all others Kilobugyan public services.

Usury is illegal. All money on bank accounts is used by local or federal soviets to build infrastrcture, invest in research or education. The benefits of those investements are for the whole society.

Free clean and decent housing is granted to every family or citizen asking for it, starting on the age of 16. Citizen are free to spend the money they earn on bigger or more luxurious houses.

Free, sane, healthy but cheap food is available at People's Restaurants. Citizen who wish too are free to make their own food.

Small-scale private property is allowed and protected, as long as it doesn't lead to usury or exploitation of someone else work.

Inheritance is limited in value, such as to allow inheritance of items with sentimental values, but nothing else.

Healthcare

Healthcare is totally free for every human being inside Kilobugya.

Preventive healthcare, early disease detection and health informations are top priorities.

Contraception is freely available, and information about it widely spread.

Free, medically trained, councilers are available for anyone feeling depressed or having personal problems.

Education

Education is completly free, including books and everything needed to study, at all levels.

Education is compulsory from the age of 3 to the age of 18. Kids are welcomed in schools at the age of 2 if parents ask for it.

Starting of the age of 15, the teens can start chosing specialities.

Every citizen of Kilobugya is trained in the following subjects during all their school life: logic; history; philosophy, rhetoric and crtical thinking; basic physics and informatics.

Starting at the age of 11, and up to the age of 14, Kilobugya citizen receive sex education (including contraception, MST, pregnancy, safe sex, abortion) and drug education (including the risks and effects of various drugs).

Every citizen of Kilobugya is given first aid lessons, and basic medical training.

All life education is favoured. On average, adults should spend between 1/4th and 1/6th of their working time in training.

Kilobugya teens are incitated to take part of the public life of their schools. They are allowed to vote for representatives in the school council and on issues concerning their school as soon as they are 10. Those votes are purely consultative, but are used to both train teens and preteens into citizenship and to allow adults or more grown teens to know the opinion of their younger comrades before taking decisions. As the age of 14, teens get a real, binding vote into all issues concerning their schools.

Governance

See the Political System section above for inner working of the governement.

Voting is not compulsory.

Kilobugya citizen are allowed to vote at the age of 16. On issues concerning directly teens or education, the voting age is lowered to 14.

Immigrants are allowed to vote on all local issues after living in Kilobugya for at least 3 years. They are allowed to vote on all national issues after living in Kilobugya for at least 8 years.

Environment

Environement is a major priority of Kilobugya.

All public transports are free.

A vast monorail networks links all major cities together.

A dense subway, train, tramway and bus network expands from major cities to all suburbs and rural areas.

Bicycles are freely available on all stations for the final last miles, if needed.

Energy is produced from clean sources as much as possible, the remaining energy is produced by nuclear power plants.

Cars with internal combustion engines are banned. Electric or hydrogen cars are allowed, but discouraged.

Clean taxis are available for exceptional situations.

Recycling and sustainable production methods are strongly encouraged.

Freedom

All forms of discrimination are strongly opposed, be they based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, handicap, age, religion or any other aspect.

Freedom of speech and religion are upheld. (Note: inciting riots and threats are crimes and not protected under freedom of speech)

Euthanasia is permitted, but tightly controlled to avoid abuses.

Capital punishment and torture are completly illegal.

Rehabilitation is strongly favoured over punishment.

Abortion is allowed within 14 weeks of pregnancy, after an interview with a psychologist explaining to the woman the risks, consequences, and alternative possibilities (like adoption); and 2 weeks delay to allow the person to think clearly about it.

Mariage is allowed starting at the age of 18, between two consenting adults of any sex.

Divorce is allowed, but free councilers are available, and couples are encouraged to try to work out their problems first, especially if they have children.

Same sex couples have exactly the same rights than bisexual couples, including the right to adopt kids.

Except in case of invasion, possession of firearms is not allowed.

Cannabis and other "light drugs" are legalised, with regulation and high safety standards.

The legal age for cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis would be set at 18.

Smoking in closed public area is prohibited, to prevent harming non-smokers.

Science

Scientific progress and education is highly encouraged.

Computer networks and digital media are highly encouraged.

Free Internet access center are available at every post office.

Free Wifi is made available instead cities, as much as possible.

Human cloning is prohibited.

Embryonic stem-cell research is permitted.

Intellectual property laws are abolished. Authors and inventors are granted the right to have their name attached with their work if wanted. Fair rewarding of artists, writers, and scientists is organised collectively.

Non-free software is outlawed. All software as to come with complete source code, to allow a full understanding of their inner workings.

Animal cruelty

Cruelty towards animals is prohibited.

Cosmetic animal testing is abolished.

Hunting for fun is prohibited.

Military

The regular army was disbanded. The Kilobugya protection force is the National Guard.

The National Guard is a small, voluntary, civilian, democratic protection force.

In time of peace, no member of the National Guard can spend more than 1/4th of his yearly working time serving inside the National Guard, in order to have the National Guard always in contact with other workers.

The National Guard is entitled with the protection of Kilobugya's citizen from external threats, natural disasters and artificial disasters.

The National Guard is prohibited to act with weapons outside the borders of Kilobugya. Pacific support of foreign country in case of emergency situation is allowed.

In case of invasion, the People of Kilobugya would be given weapons, and invited to join the National Guard.

Kilobugya is a peaceful nation, and always put all its political weight to prevent or end wars.

Children

Children are considered human beings as soon as they are born. They cannot be sold nor bought.

Both parents are allowed to work half-time, for full pay, during the first two years after the birth of a baby.

The interests of the child are always the important issue in any decision about a child. In any affair involving children, the opinion of the children is taken into account.

Parents have duty towards their children, and children are not considered to be a possession of parents.

Any form of physical violence towards children is prohibited.

Children with health problems are taken care of by the society as a whole. Children hospitals are designed in order to ease the sufferings of the young patient as much as possible, and must include playing areas with toys suitable for various ages and various kind of health problem.

Other issues

The age of consent is set at 15. Before 15, it'll be examined on a case by case basis, the age difference and nature of relationship taken into account.

All genuine asylum seekers and all people with close family living in Kilobugya are welcomed in Kilobugya. Other immigrants are welcomed as much as possible.

Working code

The weekly work hours are set to 32 hours. It can never be put at more than 40 hours on the same week, except on emergency situations.

All citizen are granted 6 weeks of fully paid holidays.

Workers safety is taken very seriously, and everything is done to prevent work accidents.

Dangerous work, such as firefighter, are rewarded with highest salary and/or lower working hours.

History

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 ; Country name : The United Socialist States of Kilobugya
-; Flag: A yellow columbus (symbol of peace) on a red background (symbol of communism)
+; Flag : A yellow columbus (symbol of peace) on a red background (symbol of communism)
-; National motto: "Happiness is always a new idea", motto coming from the French Revolution of 1793.
+; National motto : "Happiness is always a new idea", motto coming from the French Revolution of 1793.
+; National anthem : Still thinking about it... maybe "La Paix sur Terre" from Jean Ferrat ("Peace on Earth"). Or a song from Paris' Commune ? Or just the Internationale ?
 ; Political system : Mostly direct democracy
 ; Economial system : Socialism
+; Languages: The official language of the country is French. All citizen are bilingual, most of them speaking either English, Spanish or a regional language. Teaching of regional languages as second or third language is highly encouraged.
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