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Olmedreca

Flag of Olmedreca
Motto: in vino veritas
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Region	Mediterranica
Capital	Drasgard
Official Language(s)	Estonian, Finnish
Leader	Vesse Põhjakotkas
Population	380+ millions
Currency	kroon
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Empire of Olmedreca is located in Mediterranica. Olmedreca is generally considered to be oligarchy, or “Educated democracy” as government of Olmedreca officially calls it, because votes of people with higher education or military rank have a lot more weight, majority of population does not have any voting rights at all. Olmedreca is considered to be highly militaristic as army has large influence in society.

Government and politics

Posts of Head of State, and Head of Government, are combined together under title “First Citizen”. First Citizen term is defined at 15 years, one person can serve as First Citizen unlimited number of terms. First Citizen effectively holds both executive and legislative powers as he assigns both ministers and members of Parliament(“Riigikogu”), also First Citizen chooses members of Supreme Court. Supreme War Council can vote First Citizen out of office if 5 members of council agree with it.

Votes of citizens with higher education or military rank have a lot more weight in elections of first Citizen. Some examples:

Lieutenant = 1 point, Bachelor's degree = 1 point, Captain = 5 points, Master's degree = 5 points, Major = 50 points, Doctorate = 50 points, Head of Olmedrecan Academy of Sciences = 1000 points, General = 1000 points

Importnant note: university degree points brought in example are only about natural sciences and mathematics, statistics and computer science. Social sciences and humanities have 5 times less voting weight and voting right starts from Master's degree(with 1 point).

Military holds extremely strong influence in Olmedrecan politics. In government there are usually many high officers, also majority of First Citizens have been officers.

Strongest opposition organization is Olmderecan Democratic Union(ODU) which main goal is equal voting rights for all citizens. ODU tries to achieve its goals through peaceful methods and its only opposition organization which has widespread influence.

Communist and anarchist organizations are outlawed as they are considered dangerous to the State of Olmedreca. Nationalsocialist and fascist organizations are not completely outlawed but government and military strongly opress them and their influence is minimal. It is believed that Olmedrecan Military Intelligence is behind assassinations of several high communist and nazi figures.

Demographics

Ethnically three major ethnical groups in Olmedreca are Estonians, Finnish and Hungarians. Hungarians form majority in territories of Plains of Ar, Territories at south of Ar have Estonian majority and territories north of Ar have generally Finnish majority. There are also many smaller Finno-Ugric nations located in Olmedreca like Sami, Ingrians, Livonians, Karelians etc. There is practically no foreign immigration to Olmedreca due extremely strict immigration laws.

Main ethnic groups: Estonians 74%, Finnish 22%, Hungarians 3%, Other 1%

Main religion in Olmedreca is Tharapitaism. Local Shamanistic/Animistic traditions are also very strong, especially at Plains of Ar and areas north of it. Of foreing religions Zoroastrianism, Shintoism and Buddhism have managed to gain some popularity.

Main religious groups: Tharapitaists 44%, Atheists 31%, Shamanists/Animists 19%, Zoroastrianists 2%, Shintoists 2%, Buddhists 1%, Other 1%