Noddynin
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| Motto: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." | |
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| Region | 21st Century Communities |
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| Capital | Begby (pop: 40 534 000) |
| Official Language(s) | Norwegian, English, Japanese |
| Leader | King: Christian Fredrik I.
Prime minister: Christian Fredrik I. (SLi) |
| Population | 405 310 000 |
| Currency | nods |
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The Kingdom of Noddynin is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate population of 493 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, the Environment, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 75%, and even higher for the wealthy. An almost nonexistent private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.
Crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, referends are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process, and the nation has an international reputation for compassion. Crime is totally unknown. Noddynin's national animal is the flee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the nods.
Noddynin are graded as Scandinavian Liberal Paradise by the UN.
On the 4th of October 2006 the kingdom was founded by the former king of Lecknes, Christian Fredrik I. The country was established over his beliefs, and his personal likes, like the motto; "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".
History
Before the nation became independent, it had been ruled by over 300 different tribes since 45BC, when the area became colonized by japanese farmers. After years of peace, the country experienced heavily immigration from Norwegian vikings in the 10th century. Those vikings are still the main ethnic group in Noddynin.
At the late summer of 2006 a civil war started, which throwed the country into anarchy for three and a half years, until March 2009, when king Christian Fredrik I. took back power. The war had started after conservative, religious groups in the north region of Glemmen decided to throw the king out of the capital, because of his controversial sexuality. After the civil war, Christian Fredrik I. created a new government under himself, made up by the Socialistic-Liberalistic Party (SLi).
In December 2010, the government decided to ban all cars, and the first economic breakdown of Noddynin was a fact. In December 2012, the king conducted several liberalistic laws, and loosened up the economy. It exploded, and three months afterwards, Noddynin had re-established it's former glorious economy, while it still kept it's social welfare-system. That resulted in the second highest GDP per capita in the region - over 11 000$.
But, the economical golden age didn't last very long. Government funding to environmental politics increased, and the economy crashed - again - and unemployment increased to over 11%. On the 3. of December 2014, the first totally democratical elections were held, and the constitution no longer gave all power to the King. The House was won, in both chambers, by CCN, a Christian-Conservative party. But, only two years later, in a mid-term election, The House were won by SLi, wich ment that the president again could decide by himself. It seemed like the political landscape of Noddynin had calmed down.
But just for the two next years. Because, in the elections in 2020, SLi lost power of the Congress to CCN. The House was still under SLi-controll, but only in the Senate, they had majority.
Shortly afterwards the economy was imploded, making the GDP go under 1000$ per capita, and the unemployment rates go over 14%. The economy of Noddynin is now said to be fragile, open for crashing at any time. This period, Noddynin was characterized as a social democracy. This was again turned around, when in late 2022, Noddynin was re-graded as a Scandinavian Liberal Paradise.
In the presidential and House elections in November 2022, CCN gained a large majority in the Congress, but still, SLi had support of the Senate. The changemaker now, was the Speaker. The Speaker of the House became Ajit Usviklia, the leader of CCN.
Politics
Noddynin has adopted the American checks and balances-system, meaning that on the top, is the prime minister (as president would be in the US), but those who are to approve of one of his law-proposals, is the parliament (called the House), consisting of the Senate (102 members, three from each state.), and the Congress (as House of reps. in US. Consisting of 424 members.). The supreme court checks if the new laws is colliding with the constitution or not.
When it comes to the elections, the winner of the House is the party which have the most supporting representatives (from own party, and independent reps.). The Senate and the Congress votes over this three days after the imposition of the new House, an election, in wich the Senators have four votes each. E.g. if the senate have 3 socialistic members and 4 conservative members, the socialists will get 12 votes, while the conservatives gets 16. Then, if the socialists have 16 members in the Congress, and the conservatives have 11, the winner of the House will be the socialists (28 votes). This does not apply to regular voting on a law proposal, there, the Senators gets three votes, and the Congressmen one.
The Prime Minister is elected every fourth year, and can only hold that position in four terms (16 years.). He is directly elected, and one party may have several PM-candidates. A Senator and a Congressman sits for 6 years at a time, and one third of the Senate and the Congress is elected every second year (just as in the US.). The supreme court judges is appointed by the prime minister.
The supreme court is consisting of 14 judges, plus a leader. The leader is always the King, but he has not more or less power than the other judges. A judge is in the court for his/her life. When a supreme court member dies, the Prime Minister point out a new judge. A new judge cannot be younger than 7/10 of expected life span at the time of the selection.
The Speaker of the House (usually named The SOH) is the overall president of the parliament. The Speaker is from the party controlling the House, and is choosen freely from that partys representatives, both in Senate, and Congress. The Speaker is the one to take over as Prime Minister if the current Prime Minister dies, or gets so sick that he can't do his work.
Every election, there are two parties up for voting: The governing party, and an opposition party choosed by the opposition (opposition leader). A voter can also vote on independent representatives, but such representatives cannot become prime minister.
The opposition leader is chosen a year before the next election.
Senate:
SLi 28 rep.
CCN 30 rep.
Independent 44 rep. (31 supporting SLi, 13 supporting CCN)
Congress:
SLi 118 rep.
CCN 140 rep.
Independent 166 rep. (100 supporting SLi, and 66 supporting CCN.)
Speaker of the House:
Prime Minister:
The Prime Minister of Noddynin is king Christian Fredrik I. (SLi)
Supreme court:
Mainly socialistic-liberalistic.
Opposition leader:
Christian-Conservative party of Noddynin. (CCN)
Notice: All dates here (and in other articles related to this one) is counted after a system where one real-life day is three months, a quarter, or 0,25 years. Which means that today, 17/12 is Apr.-Jun. of 2024.
