Love and esterel
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| Flag of Love and esterel | |
| Motto: "Love, Freedom, Knowledge & Fun" | |
| Region | Parallel pacific |
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| Capital | Vagator |
| Official Language(s) | In alphabetical order: Bengali, English, Italian, Korean |
| Leader | on the international stage: Pazu-Lenny Nero: (Minister of Foreign-Affairs) |
| Population | +100 million |
| Currency | The Fun |
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The Most Serene Republic of Love and esterel is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, its population enjoy a sensible mix of personal, political and economic freedoms
Contents
Geography
The Most Serene Republic of Love and esterel is a big archipelago composed of 127 astonishing, improbable and beautiful Islands situated in the ”Parallel Pacific” region. The variety of these Islands in size, geography, environment, flora and fauna is huge.
Only 23 Islands are inhabited so far. The Island of Vagator is the Capital and the Island of Esterel is the larger, the more populated and the economic powerhouse. 12 Islands are National Parks in their totality.
The ”Parallel Pacific” is a large ocean, the origine of its name is not well known, but come from the people who discovered it, maybe it seems to them resembling to the “Pacific Ocean”.
Early-History
The Most Serene Republic of Love and esterel is a new nation which emerged from nothing.
Some people from all over the world, followed by many settled in the uninhabited archipelago who was then called “The Esterel Islands”, as the first settlement was situated in one which looks like to the region of “Esterel” in our literature. This archipelago was not claimed as sovereign territory by any nation.
The Foundation of the Republic
The population was growing, with births and new immigrants, but these territories had yet no legal status. Then, a group of influent people, in the island of Vagator, led by Winston Chillchur and Vigdís Tirfinnbogadót read a manifesto on a local TV channel to declare the creation of a new Republic called “Esterel & Vagator” and to announce the organisation of a Constituent Assembly election, the next month.
The Constituent Assembly wrote a Constitution, called “The O’Norcon Constitution”, by reference to its main writer. It was establishing a Most Serene Republic with sovereignty over the 127 islands of the archipelago and was organizing 2 referendums, the first to approve it or not, the second to choose a new name to the republic, as the name “Esterel & Vagator” was highly controversial, they were 3 others islands populated at that time and more to come.
One month later, the constitution passed by referendum with 83.6% of yes, and the name “Love and esterel” proposed by Vigdís Tirfinnbogadót was chosen with 62.4%. Then, the Constituent Assembly called for presidential and congress election and applied to join the UN. The next day, “Love and esterel” was admitted as a sovereign Nation to the UN.
The winning “ticket” of the presidential election was composed unsurprisingly by the 2 co-founders of the republic: Winston Chillchur as president and Vigdís Tirfinnbogadót as vice president.
UN involvement
- The Sex Education Act UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #118 (Author)
This resolution was written with the help of many nation in the UN forum
- The “Adoption and IVF Rights“ [proposition, Quorum reached, in queue]
This proposition was written with the help of many nation in the UN forum, espessially the Nation of Forgottenlands
- The “Bonobos Protection Extinction Act” [proposition deleted]
The Most Serene Republic of Love and esterel asked the UN administration to delete this proposal, when several Nations, made the good remark, that it was not possible for every nation to pass a resolution about his own National Animal
Few days after, The Hibernian Kingdom of Venerable libertarians proposed with success the UNCoESB to protect endangered species
- The Most Serene Republic of Love and esterel made a TG campaign against the Repeal "Protection of Dolphins Act", with the aim it will not achieve quorum.
The campaign was a full failure, as the quorum was reached easily, but the repeal failed at the entire UN vote
“Love day” & others holidays
Main characters
Government
Winston Chillchur: President and co-Founder of the Republic.
He Graduated from the best Business school in his former Nation. Jovial and bon vivant, always efficient he was a marketer born.
He likes to shake hands and always find the appropriate words to say to people, either funny, compassionate or motivating.
Vigdís Tirfinnbogadót: Vice-President and co-founder of the Republic.
She refused to run for the presidency even if she was favourite in polls, she accepted at the last moment to be on the “Ticket” when Sandra O’Norcon, in a rare public apparition, asked her to jump.
She has always been a strong advocate of Human Rights and secured abortion right in the constitution. She was at the origin of the “Education & IVF Rights” UN proposition. The editorialist of www.vagatorpost.lae remarked she was sometimes pushing towards the promotion of family, but always in an quite subliminal way. She had a PhD in philosophy.
Georges Shallmar: Minister of Economy.
Very influential, hard worker, self-made man, he stoped shool at 16 to create a company, the first in a long serie. He amassed a huge fortune from his business empire. His stakes in many compagnies have been a major problem when the senate had to vote for the appointment of the Government. To stop all his detractors, he sold all his stakes in corporations and gave half of his fortune to humanitarian associations.
The Nation owes him his economic success. He is the more admired person in Love and esterel and his popularity is maybe only toped by Vigdís Tirfinnbogadót. In the very rare hours he his is not at work, he likes to study psychology and seems to be excellent at manipulating people without them noticing
Georges Pollack: Minister of New Technologies
Engineer, he is a kind of nerd, passionated with high tech. He is at the origin the COL Transportation System, the FTTH and the 4G Networks. He also launched the astonishing ER Project.
He met Georges Shallmar at a Transhumanist conference, they became friends, then Georges Shallmar recommended him to Winston Chillchur. His propositions are very often excessive, and Georges Shallmar should, many often, spend lot of times to explain to his friend why his projects are not reasonable or even pure utopia.
Pazu-Lenny Nero: Minister of Foreign-Affairs and (de facto) UN Ambassador
Journalist. He is the strong artisan of the involvement of love and esterel in the UN affairs.
A colourful personage, he never wore tie nor costume but always coloured clothes. He always tries his best not to become a member of the establishment and prefer to frequent the beach lounge bars of Little Vagator or Anjuna instead of the chic, class and trendy restaurants of the capital.
His nomination was highly controversial, because of his dressing style, his lack of mastery in the 4 national languages, and his impatience. He sometimes made big languages errors in its TV interview, which always set off giggles. But to the general and his surprise he passed the senate vote. Even if there was not the single evidence, he knows that behind this was the invisible but powerful hand of Georges Shallmar.
Nicolas Lothu: Minister of environment
Scientist, he first comes to study to Bonobos population of Love and esterel and never leave back. He created the Love and esterel numberous National Parks. He is, many times, too much pushy on environmental issues, but popular. He worked with Pazu-Lenny Nero on the short lived “Bonobo protection extinction Act” proposition and on the foolish anti proposal campaign against the “Repeal of Dolphin Act”.
When there is an important division while in government council reunion, Winston Chillchur in order to relax the mood, is often asking him the position of Bonobos about this issue.
Others figures:
Sandra O’Norcon: President of the Supreme Court.
Lawyer, she began her career in corporate Finance but then shifted to become judge. Always discreet, She had appear in public very few times, but when she was speaking, everybody was listening.
She was the Main author of the constitution. Then, to Winston Chillchur, she was the logical choice for the position of President of the Supreme Court.
The Congress vote to endorses her, even if a supermajority was needed, was a formality. Only two minority groups voted against her, the opponents of abortion and those who disagreed with the dual function of Minister of Foreign-Affairs and UN Ambassador.
Philosophies & Religions
The O’Norcon Constitution
Executive Branch
The Government is composed by The President, the Vice-President and Ministers.
The “Ticket” (President and Vice-President) is elected directly for 5 years in 2 rounds, renewable only once.
The Minister of Foreign-Affairs is also de facto the UN Ambassador.
Governors, in each Island, elected directly for 5 years in 2 rounds
Legislative Branch: Congress, Divided in 2 Houses:
Senate:
elected for 6 years. Each Island have between 0 and 12 seats, proportionally to their population, Islands with less than 20 000 inhabitants have no seat. Islands are free to choose the way senators are elected, as it’s democratic.
The repartition of the senate seats had become taboo in most friends and family meal and reunion, in order to avoid, hot-blooded debate and disputes. This repartition had already changed twice, but it’s an infinite, passionated and problematic debate in Love and esterel
National Assembly:
elected for 5 years in 2 rounds.
Each party presents a ranked list of Candidates. The winning list obtains 50%+1 seats.
The others parties divide the remaining seats proportionally to their scores in 1st round, with the 2nd party securing at least 25% of the seats.
The Congress: as the whole vote the appointments of:
- the Supreme Court Members (majority needed, and supermajority needed for the President of the Supreme Court)
- the Minister of Foreign-Affairs (majority needed)
- all the others Ministers as a whole (or any Minister replacement) (majority needed)
Judicial Branch: The supreme Court composed by 9 members
Languages: there are 4 “national languages”, the 4 most spoken languages at the time the constitution was written
In practice English is the current language in administrations and corporations and tend to gain importance in school, in most Islands.
Capital: Vagator. It was stated by an amendment to the Constitution, as a thanking for Vagator's role in the creation of the Republic.
