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: 50 120 000) |
| Official Language(s) | Norwegian, English, Japanese |
| Leader | King: Christian Fredrik I.
Prime minister: Christian Fredrik I. (SLi) |
| Population | 333 450 000 |
| Currency | nods |
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The Kingdom of Noddynin is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate population of 333 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Social Welfare, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 59%, and even higher for the wealthy. A nonexistent private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.
Noddynin are graded as Democratic Socialists 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. Budget priorities was turned from education to public transport, and the former glowing automobile-manufacturing industry crashed. After that law, Noddynin has gone more and more left, and had for a couple of years a really socialistic government. In December 2012, the king conducted several liberlaistic laws, and loosened up the economy. It exploded, and three months afterwards, Noddynin had re-established it's former 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'tlast 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. SLi
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 (68 members, two 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 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 18 rep.
CCN 19 rep.
Independent 31 rep. (24 supporting SLi, 7 supporting CCN)
Congress:
SLi 122 rep.
CCN 129 rep.
Independent 173 rep. (85 supporting SLi, and 88 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, 3/12 is Oct.-Dec. of 2020.
