Swilatia
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| Motto: Bogactwo, Wolność, i Jedność (Polish) Wealth, Freedom and Unity (English) | |||||
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| Region | Swilantis | ||||
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| Capital | Vilvek | ||||
| Largest city | Vilvek | ||||
| Official Language(s) | Polish and English | ||||
| Government | Semi-Presidential Republic | ||||
| - President | Atali Saranisko | ||||
| - Prime minister | Sławomir Tislanne | ||||
| Population | 1 227 739 643 | ||||
| Currency | Swilla (SWSW)
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| Timezone | UTC +2 to UTC +4 | ||||
| - Summer (DST) | DST not observed | ||||
| Internet TLD | .swi, .sw | ||||
| Calling code | +794
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| ISO Code | SWLA
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This article is in the middle of a overhaul, additional sections will eventually be added.
The Democratic Capitalist Empire of Swilatia is a an economically powerful nation renowned for being very overpopupalted. Its hard-working, intelligent citizens are ruled by massive bureacracies that are really all just puppets of the nation's many massive corporations. Well-off citizens have access to many world-class goods and services, but the poor are usually starving, and being told by the government that it would not be happening if they got themselves a real job.
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Population
Ethnicity
According to the 2005 census, the population was found to be 1 227 739 643 Swilatian citizens, and it is estimates that there are 425 million legal and illegal immigrants in the country, most of which live in one of the country's large cities. While indigenous Swilatians are the largest ethnic group, they still form only 40% of the population, which is composed of people of many different ethncities, mostly due to the great distances to which the former Swilatian Emipre and its sphere of influence extended to, and also due to mass immigration to the country in recent times. The other major ethnic groups are Eastern Europeans (27%), Western Europeans (16%), Khenians (8%). The remaining 9% is composed of many other ethnicities, some of which do not even form as little as 1% of Swilatia's Population.
Life Expectancy
The average life expectancy in Swilatia is very high, and is at as much as 85 for the upper and middle classes, but it is not very high for the lower class, for which the exact average is unknown. This is mostly because while the healthcare system in Swilatia meets very high standards, it is fully privatised, and it is sometimes difficult for the lower class to get access to certain healthcare services, especially with the country's complete lack of social welfare.
Urban-Rural Distribution
Swilatia is one of the world's most urbanised nations, with more than 75% of the population living in an urban area. To break down the urban population, 22% live in a major city, 47% Live in a major city's ring of smaller cities, and 31% live in other urban areas. The reaming population lives mostly in transition areas, with very few people living in rural areas. Most immigrants live in major cities, but the exact city often depends on how much the climate in which the city is in resembles the climate of the nation which the immigrant comes from.
Swilatian cites are usually very disorganised, with the absence of any "blocks" or other standard street patterns. Most of the cities expand in all directions, with many skyscapers in the cities, and smaller cities on all sides, with the only major city that is an exception being Serelian, which cannot expand outwards as it is located on an island. Usually a city's districts are grouped into the city centre, and surrounding "rings", which are numbered and increase as you go further away from the city centre. Generally, the lower the ring, the higher the property costs, but it is uncommon for much of the population to live in the city centre.
Economy
Swilatia is widely thought of as an economic superpower, and has one of the most powerful economies in the NationStates world.
Swilatia is considered to be one of the few capitalizt countries in the world due to the complete absence of government regulations on the market, and the fact that all industries such as transport, telecommunications, energy, and even postal service are fully privatised in Swilatia although such industries are state-owned in most countrie. This has sparked criticisms of the country by people from many other countries, as this means no environmental protection, labour, and product safety laws, and these are considered imprtant things by certain countries. Also, most industries have several corporations in them, and monopolies are almost completely unknown in Swilatia.
Even though there is no social welfare, there is little poverty or unemployment in the country, with unemployment rates being as low as just 3%. However, they are not unkown, and every city has a district, or at least part of a district, which is considered a slum, and usually avoided, and due to the absence of social welfare this is not likely to change.
Transport
Swilatia has a very large, efficient, and highly developed transport system, with vast networks of roads and railways, and an airport in almost every large or medium-sized city, as well as some marine routes in the Swilatian Islands region. Also, the countries transport network, down to every road, rail, and marine route, is fully privatised, and so is every airline and every airport in Swilatia.
Railways
Railways are usually conidered to be the main method of inter-city travel in Swilatia. The system is even more vast then the country's road stystem, and transports copious amounts of passengers every day. The main railway company is Swilatian Rail, although there are many others for both long-distance and short-distance travel. While inter-city links are almost always high-speed (the exception is when the cities are close toghether), but absolutely none of the track in Swilatia has MAGLEV capability.
History
Main Article: History of Swilatia
Originally, the land on which Swilatia exists was a very forbidding place, inhabited by many warring, nomadic tribes. There was total chaos in the region, until under the leadership of Swillius, the Vilveska tribe settled down, and conquered many of the other tribes. United, the tribes created a vast empire, perhaps the largest of the time.
However, this empire did not last very long, and after the death of Swillius, the empire began to shrink, and once again became a chaotic place, as there was no leader. there were many attempts to save the empire, although it mostly did not go well, and it seemed that the empire was doomed, until a monarchy was started to rule over what was left of Swilatia, and managed to save the country, and secure the position, so that there would never again be a time that Swilatia is without a leader. (section to be completed)
