St Samuel

Kingdom of St Samuel
National flag	Coat of Arms
Motto	Semper Erit Samuel.
Capital	Saint Maria
Languages   - Official   - Unofficial	English, Italian, Latin
Government   King -   Prime Minister-	Constitutional Monarchy Justantine IV Georgio De Molay
Area	9,984,670 km² 3,854,085 sq mi
Region	Union of Saint Holden
Accession to Union of St Holden	1912
Population  - Total (2007)	1,397,000,000
National animal	Eagle
Currency	Rudolph
International abbreviation	STS
Internet TLD	.sts
Calling Code	+83

The Kingdom of St Samuel, or simply St Samuel, is a country centrally located in the Saint Holden region. It occupies around 50% of the Holdini island and shares it's borders with Mount Francis, Port Derbyshire, Fort Booth, Stamford Green, Fort Glendale and Barrington Hill. St Samuel is bounded by the Holdinian Sea, the Gulf of Dominica and the Gulf of Holdinia.

St Samuel is a massive and economically powerful nation. It is the largest nation and a founder member of the Union of Saint Holden. St Samuel is a constitutional monarchy and is made up of 40 provinces. The current monarch is King Justantine IV.

Its has a hard-nosed population of 1.381 billion, who are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality. It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Social Welfare and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports industries.

St Samuel's national animal is the eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the rudolph. The name Saint Samuel originates from the Italian saint, who was sent by the pope to evangelise the people of the land in the year 22AD.

St Samuel is a United Nations member and a member of the Grand Imperial Alliance.

History

For earlier history seeSaint Holden Ancient History

The Civil War of Greater Holdinia

In 1018 the much loved and popular King Georgi died. Five years prior to his death he adopted a baby boy, whom he named Vincenzo. Vincenzo, was crowned King at the tender age of five and the running of the country was given to the Knight's of the King's Chamber

Lord Niclas Du Pont was made Regent of Southern Holdinia, Lord Marcus Avia-Di-Monde was made Regent of Central Holdinia and Lord Loui Della Miarma was made Regent of Northern Holdinia.

Soon the internal ramblings between Regents led to a break down and by the winter of 1021, Regent Du Pont had stopped talking to Regent Della Miarma and Southern Holdinia was being run as it's own country.

The Knight's Chamber became concearned and called for all parties to explain themselves to the Chamber. But two day's before the meeting an assasination attempt was made on the life of 9 year old King Vincenzo. The attempt on his life was stopped by the Royal Knights of the King, who caught the would be assasin in the King's Chamber room.

Many pointed fingers at Regent Du Pont and a day later this was all but confirmed when Regent Du Pont announced that he no longer pledged his loyalties to a King who was not of royal blood and declared himself Emperor of Southern Holdinia. As his first act as Emperor he declared war on Greater Holdinia in order to remove the pretender King.

The Knight's Chamber were in outrage. Both Regent's Avia-Di-Monde and Della Miarma of Central and Northern Holdinia pledged there loyalties to the young King and vowed to protect King Vincenzo.

What followed was a 34 year long Civil War. The war swayed with both sides gaining the upper hand over the years. At the age of 18, power of Greater Holdinia was finally handed to King Vincenzo, who praised Regent's Avia-Di-Monde and Della Miarma by retaining them as his most trusted aides. Vincenzo himself was soon leading his army into battle and soon had a thirst for war.

But this thirst for war was to be the death of him when Lord Arberini of Barrington betrayed him at the Battle of Drummond Bridge in 1048. Arberini, who was Lord Protector of the Barrington province had followed the King's banner to battle, and during the battle, Arberini, whose forces had held back, turned on the King and his guard. Out of fifty, only two of the Royal Knights of the King survived after fighting valiantly to protect there master, who himself was hacked too death by Arberini's men.

Lord Arberini declared the Barrington province independant from Greater Holdinia and allied itself with Southern Holdinia. With no King on the throne a number of provinces began to sway towards independance. Soon the Glendale and Stamford provinces declared themselves independant. Over the next eight years many provinces of central Holdinia declared themselves independant after being promised support by the Southern Holdinia Empire. The lure of not having to pay taxes to the King proved too much for some provincial governors.

With the country in ruins after losing nearly 50% of it's provinces and no King on the throne, the Knights Chamber called for an end to the Civil War, which had raged on for 34 years. Days later the Knight's Chamber announced that a suitable King had been found and on the 29th of May 1056, Eduardo Issia (Son of King Georgi's second cousin) was crowned King of St Samuel.

It was decided by the Knight's Chamber that the Kingdom should be given a new name to dis-associate from Holdinia and St Samuel was the Knight's choice, named after Saint Samuel, who was sent to the region in 22AD to spread the word of christ.

Geography

Location

Central Saint Holden, island between the Holdonian Sea, Dominica Sea and San Eugenia Sea.

Climate

generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Dominica coast.

Terrain

mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and east; mountainous in the south.

Land use

arable land: 26.41% permanent crops: 9.09% other: 64.5%

Natural Resources

Uranium mining has long been St Samuel's dominant industry. There are a number of highly concentrated deposits of uranium in the provinces of Lillebourg, Harcourt, Richtenburg, De Biville and Bassenhaim. The main use for the uranium in the civilian sector is to fuel commercial nuclear power plants. Uranium is also used widely in the military sector for high-density penetrators, nuclear weapons, armor and fuel for naval ships.

Uranium, coal, petroleum, iron ore, lead, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorospar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, arable land

Cities & Territory

• Justantina Island

Government and Politics

St Samuel is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The government, formally nominated by the king, must have the confidence of Knight's Chamber. It is led by te Prime Minister. The King or Queen is the head of state and power is vested in the Prime Minister and other ministers and lords. National elections are held every 5 years. The cabinet, including the Prime Minister, and other senior ministers collectively make up His Majesty's Government. These ministers are drawn from, and are responsible to, the House of Lords. The Prime Minister appoints ministers to government posts, usually from senior members of their own party. Most ministers are members of, and answerable to, the House of Lords. The remaining ministers are usually from the Lower House of Lords.

Country Name

conventional long form: Kingdom of Saint Samuel conventional short form: St Samuel abbreviation: STS

Govermnet Type

constitutional monarchy

Royal Family

The current King of St Samuel is King Justantine IV. His wife is Queen Isabella and he has four children, Prince Tristan, Princess Leonna, Princess Anne-Marie and Princess Coreena.

Prime Minister

The current prime minister of St Samuel is Georgio De Molay of the National Conservative Party.

Capital

Saint Maria

Administrative divisions

St Samuel is divided into 40 provinces. Each province was named after the Knight to whom received the land in 1044 from the King of St Samuel.

The provinces

• Warick Province
• Hamilton Province
• Ravenscourt Province
• Arunsdale Province
• Bedivere Province
• Lyonais Province
• Ector-de-Maris Province
• Blanchefort Province
• St Amand Province
• Montbard Province
• Tromelai Province
• Montague Province
• Ridefort Province
• De Molay Province
• Bassenhaim Province
• Malberg Province
• Brunswick Province
• Richtenburg Province
• Courtenay Province
• Abbincourt Province
• Bellvadere Province
• De Vere Province
• Baignard Province
• Beaumont Province
• De Biville Province
• De Bourneville Province
• Cherborug Province
• Harcourt Province
• Lillebourg Province
• Malleville Province
• Mont-Canisi Province
• Rouqefort Province
• Pierrepont Province
• Rainbeaucourt Province
• Saint-Clair Province
• Breton Province
• Osmond Province
• Frankfort Province
• Lewisburg Province
• Van Hollburg Province

National Holidays

St Samuel's day, 22nd of November - Patron Saint of St Samuel, National holiday

Legal System

The judicial system is based on civil law. The highest court in the land is the Royal Court.

People

Population

At the March 2007 St Samuel Census, the countries population was 1,369,000,000, the largest in the Union of Saint Holden. The current population growth rate is estimated to be 0.43%.

Life Expectancy

Male: 90.7 years Female: 94.2 years

Population Growth Rate

0.42% (2007 est.)

Nationality

noun: Samuel(s) adjective: Samuelonian

Migration and Ethnicity

Located as the central land mass in Saint Holden, the land now constituting St Samuel have historically been subject to many invasions and migrations. Present day Samuels are descended mainly from the varied ethnic stocks that settled there before the eleventh century.

Latin: 74%, Black: 6%, Hispanic: 5%, Mixed: 11%, Asian: 4%

Religion

Officially, St Samuel remains a Christian country. This is reflected throughout Samuel public life – for instance there is an established church in St Samuel. The Head of State is a Christian monarch crowned by an Archbishop in Saint Maria. St Samuel society could be said to belong to the Christian tradition, and the majority of people in St Samuel, 52%, identify themselves as Christian.

Islam is the second most popular religion in St Samuel with an estimated 34% of the population associating themselves with the religion.

Literacy

100%

Languages

The official language of St Samuel is English. However, Latin, Italian and Hungarian are still spoken through out parts of the country, especially in the south-west, where Latin is more prominent than English and the Van Hollburg province's main language is Hungarian.

Culture

St Samuel has been a seminal place for many important artistic and intellectual movements that spread throughout Saint Holden and beyond. Perhaps St Samuel's greatest cultural achievements lie in its long artistic heritage, which is often validated through the names of Comoros, Lewini, Van der Froy, de Massio, Llewelyn, Caprici, de Lowe and Morsini, among many others. Beyond art, St Samuel's contributions to the realms of literature, science, and music cannot be overlooked.

From folk music to classical, music has always played an important role in St Samuel culture. St Samuel provides many of the very foundations of the classical music tradition. Some of St Samuel's most famous composers include Rudolcia, Kampricci, Zangort, Pollis, Humannia, de Ranqoir, Jossillia and de la Penne. The most popular music nowadays is classical/opera Latin/Italian and also Latin rock music is becoming increasingly more popular.

Sport

Samuel's are renowned for their love of sports. Their zeal for sports events is, indeed, no less than legendary; from the gladatorial games, to the Park of King's, where prestigious football clubs compete regularly, the impact that sports has had on St Samuel culture is enduring and undeniable. In the north-east the popularity of winter sports grows. By far the nations number one sport is football, which dominates every single, village town and city. Other popular sports include rugby, cricket, auto racing, baseball, athletics and boxing, among others.

St Samuel Football Association

Union of Saint Holden Cricket Council

St Samuel Cricket Council

St Samuel Armed forces

Royal St Samuel Foreign Legion

Brands and Companies

• Fantastica Beverages (Beverage Company)
• Alpha-Loreno (Automobile company)

Diplomatic Missons