Liberal Men and Women
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| National motto: "Ruguo taiqiu huaile na me guanli jiu bu fuze de" | |||||
| Official languages | Eternian, English | ||||
| Leader | President Howard | ||||
| Capital | Eternos | ||||
| Largest city | Grayskull | ||||
| Government | Corporate-Sponsored Republic | ||||
| UN Status | 
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| Population | ~18 million as of 4/12/07 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) - Total - Per capita |
229,996,863,936.00 Credit Chits 12,777.60 Credit Chits | ||||
| GDP (PPP) - Total - Per capita |
$129,350,236,277.61 $7,186.12 | ||||
| Establishment | Unknown | ||||
| Constitution ratified | April 4, 2007 | ||||
| Major Religions | Socialism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Aes Sedai, Money | ||||
| Currency Value |
Credit Chit = $ 0.5624 | ||||
Contents
History
The Confederacy of Liberal Men and Women is the current embodiment of what used to be the only government in Eternia. Even after all of the break away countries formed, The Confederacy is still the largest.
Economy
The Confederacy has the second strongest economy in Eternia. There is no income tax, with the money taken being invested in everything from education to law and order to corporate bailouts. There is a strong corporate presence in the Confederacy, and capitalism is allowed to thrive.
Social Welfare
The social equality budget, 23% or ~6 billion credit chits, is invested not as handouts, but instead into public works programs to help the unemployed. The projects include urban revitalization and road building.
Education
The Confederacy has long been a supporter of public education, wand has always made it the top funding target. It's funding is ~6 billion credit chits. Education is cumpolsory through all of high school, and there is completely free community college for those who desire it; however, it is only free for the first degree.
Law Enforcement
Crime is a serious problem despite the ~3.6 billion chit budget for the para-military police force. This is due primarily to the dual role the organization fills, both that of a police force and that of a defensive military.
The organization is called the Unified Defense Front of the Confederacy of Liberal Men and Women (UDFCLMW). It consists of 500,000 men armed with Doomingsland Defense Industries' DR-87 Advanced Special Applications Carbine. In addition, the UDFCLMW maintains an air force of 2 squadrons of 12 GEM Aerospace FA 15 Cardinals, and 6 squadrons of 3 flight groups of 4 CF-10e fighters each for a total of 72 CF-10e fighters.
The Confederacy has recently requested anyone of knowledge in the fields rocketry or ship building to immigrate to the Confederacy and join the military to help in the development of a navy and space program, and most likely a ballistic missile program as well. In addition, they are asking for the assistance of experienced sailors to man the ships the plan to build due to their fear of the ocean.
Military
There is no recognizable military in the Confederacy. Instead, the role of defense is handled by the police force.
Politics
There are no parties in the Confederacy's political system. Instead those who wish to vote must actually listen to the opinions.
Provinces (as of 4/12/07)
- Keldor: 2 electoral votes
- Cringer: 3 electoral votes
- She-Ra: 2 electoral votes
- Randor: 2 electoral votes
- Grayskull: 4 electoral votes
- Eternos: 5 electoral votes
The Election of 4/8/07
President Marvin Jefferson ran against two other candidates, Senator Williams and the retired police chief Donaldson. The vote break down was as follows(Jefferson/Williams/Donaldson):
- Keldor: 15/79/4; 1 vote to Williamson
- Cringer: 56/21/22; 1 vote to Jefferson
- She-Ra: 1/77/21; 1 vote to Williamson
- Randor: 13/68/17; 1 vote to Williamson
- Grayskull: 43/5/51; 3 votes to Donaldson
- Eternos: 47/23/29; 3 votes to Jefferson
- Totals:
- Jefferson:
- 4 electoral votes
- ~36% of the votes
- ~3,550,000 votes
- Williamson:
- 3 electoral votes
- ~33% of the votes
- ~3,290,000 votes
- Donaldson:
- 3 electoral votes
- ~30% of the votes
- ~3,040,000 votes
- Jefferson:
This is the most hotly contested presidential election in recorded history. Many analysts have concluded that if only Donaldson opponents had run, then there may have been a president-elect Donaldson. The same is not true for Williamson, for it has been concluded that he would not have won Grayskull.
The Election of 4/12/07
President Marvin Jefferson, the incumbent, ran against only one other candidates, former UDFCLMW minister, General Howard. The vote break down was as follows(Jefferson/Howard):
- Keldor: 38/59. 2 electoral votes for Howard.
- Cringer: 51/47. 3 electoral votes for Jefferson.
- She-Ra: 23/76. 2 electoral votes for Howard.
- Randor: 34/63. 2 electoral votes for Howard.
- Grayskull: 31/67. 4 electoral votes for Howard.
- Eternos: 62/35. 5 electoral votes for Jefferson.
- Totals:
- Jefferson:
- 8 electoral votes
- ~43% of the votes
- ~7.74 million votes
- Howard:
- 10 electoral votes
- ~54% of the votes
- ~9.72 million votes
- Jefferson:
This election threw the analysts for a loop. It was expected for Jefferson to win handily; however, the analysts underestimated the effect of the War of Liilte Aggression. It was expected that the president who was capable of signing the treaty to end the war would win, but the border states voted for the military candidate in the hope of the increased defense his policies would provide, and those border states in conjunction witht he military dependant Grayskull sealed Howard the election. Another unexpected occurrence was that Howard announced his intent to appoint Jefferson as his Minister of Education.
Leadership
President: Retired General Howard
Vice-President: Retired Colonel Williamson
Minister of State: Mr. Donaldson
Minister of Welfare: Miss Secord
Minister of Education: Marvin Jefferson
Minister of the UDFCLMW: Air-Force General Marshall
Minister of Commerce: Mr. Thompson
President of the Senate: Senator Johnson
Recent Decisions
The law more often comes down on the side of employers rights rather than employee rights, causing a slightly higher ~14.4% unemployment, yet heavily improving the economy.
Voting is defined as voluntary, under the belief that if that person doesn't want to vote, the president does not want the vote.
Recently, income tax has been abolished.
Lately, The Confederacy has had an epidemic of STDs, causing an increase in funding to combat it.
