Veskaland
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Region | Reformed Oceania |
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Capital | Titan |
Official Language(s) | Rihannsu |
Leader | Seska Armarosa |
Population | 3.8 billion |
Currency | Veskan Credit |
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Contents
- 1 Geography
- 1.1 Location
- 1.2 Primary Landmass Area
- 1.3 Primary Landmass Area – comparative
- 1.4 Spatial Territory holdings
- 1.5 Coastline
- 1.6 Maritime Claims
- 1.7 Climate
- 1.8 Terrain
- 1.9 Elevation extremes
- 1.10 Natural resources
- 1.11 Land use
- 1.12 Irrigated land
- 1.13 Natural hazards
- 1.14 Environmental - current issues
- 1.15 Environment - International agreements
- 2 People
- 2.1 Population
- 2.2 Age structure
- 2.3 Population growth rate
- 2.4 Birth rate
- 2.5 Death rate
- 2.6 Net migration rate
- 2.7 Sex ratio
- 2.8 Infant mortality rate
- 2.9 Life expectancy at birth
- 2.10 Total Fertility Rate
- 2.11 HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
- 2.12 HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
- 2.13 HIV/AIDS - death
- 2.14 Nationality
- 2.15 Ethnic Groups
- 2.16 Religions
- 2.17 Languages
- 2.18 Literacy
- 3 Government Structure and Politics
- 3.1 Country Name
- 3.2 Government Type
- 3.3 Constitution
- 3.4 Legal system
- 3.5 Suffrage
- 3.6 Executive branch
- 3.7 Legislative branch
- 3.8 Judicial branch
- 3.9 Leaders
- 3.10 International organization participation
- 3.11 Economy
- 3.12 Economy - overview
- 3.13 GDP
- 3.14 GDP - real growth rate
- 3.15 GDP per capita
- 3.16 GDP - composition by sector
- 3.17 Population below poverty line
- 3.18 Unemployment rate
- 3.19 Household income or consumption by % share
- 3.20 Inflation rate
- 3.21 Labour force
- 3.22 Budget
- 3.23 Agriculture - products
- 3.24 Industrial production growth rate
- 3.25 Electricity - production
- 3.26 Electricity - consumption
- 3.27 Electricity - exports
- 3.28 Electricity - imports
- 3.29 Oil - production
- 3.30 Oil - consumption
- 3.31 Oil - exports
- 3.32 Oil - imports
- 3.33 Oil - proven reserves
- 3.34 Natural gas - monthly production
- 3.35 Natural gas - yearly consumption
- 3.36 Natural gas - exports
- 3.37 Natural gas - imports
- 3.38 Natural gas - proven reserves
- 4 Exports
- 5 Imports
- 6 Debt
- 7 Communications
- 8 Transportation
- 9 Military
- 9.1 Military branches
- 9.2 Military manpower - military age and obligation
- 9.3 Military manpower - availability
- 9.4 Military manpower - fit for military service
- 9.5 Military manpower - reaching military age annually
- 9.6 Military expenditures - dollar figures
- 9.7 Military expenditures - percent of GDP
- 10 Transnational Issues
Geography
Location
Planet Titan, Sector 66, Spatial Grid 165, Wrendas Galaxy
Primary Landmass Area
total: 252,628,360 sq km land: 249,238,460 sq km water: 3,389,900 sq km
Primary Landmass Area – comparative
Approximately 20 times larger than America.
Spatial Territory holdings
21 Sectors separated into 2,100 spatial grid squares (100 squares per sector). Each square is 1,000 light years in width and 1,000,000 square light years. Thus making each sector 10,000 light years in width and 100,000,000 square light years in size. Totalling all the Rian spatial territories as 2,100,000,000 square light years.
Coastline
19,000,000 kms
Maritime Claims
Territorial sea: 2,000,000 nm Contiguous zone: 30,000,000 Continental shelf: not assessed.
Climate
Unlike most places on Earth, Titan has three seasons, each season lasts for thirteen months. (one Titanian Year: 39 months) Tuaq: The cold dry season. Temperatures reach only as high as 15 degrees Celsius, but can reach as low as -30 degrees. Urhik: The cool wet season. Temperatures reach a maximum of 25 degrees, and a minimum of about 5 degrees. Rain prevails and storms are a common sight. Mhia: The hot dry season. Temperatures reach into the high 30’s away from the equator, but up to 50 at the equator.
Terrain
Mainly plains surrounded by tall snow-capped mountains. Many lakes, rivers and seas.
Elevation extremes
Lowest point: Paetha Hiudh (Veskan: Depressed Area) 20,000 feet below sea level. Highest point: Mt. Verelan (Mount Graceful) 24 kms above sea level.
Natural resources
Iron, Tin, gold, silver, platinum, oil, gas, uranium, rubber and others yet to be tapped.
Land use
arable land: 7.89% permanent crops: 3.66% other: 88.45%
Irrigated land
5,080,000
Natural hazards
Acid rain caused by nuclear fall out from “The Experiment”. Mt Verelan is a volcano. Earthquakes, freak floods and bushfires.
Environmental - current issues
Acid Rain and nuclear fall out.
Environment - International agreements
None.
People
Population
3,774,000,000
Age structure
0-14 years: 39% 15-64 years: 47% 65 years and over: 13% Billions of years old: >1% (i.e. One person: Seska Armarosa.)
===Median age === (Not including Seska) Total: 37.32 Male: 35.09 Female: 39.55
Population growth rate
2.57%
Birth rate
23.77 births/1,000 population
Death rate
15.66 deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate
12 migrants/1,000 population
Sex ratio
At birth: 1 male/female Under 15 years: 1.10 male/female 15-64 years: 1.01 male/female 65 years and over: 0.96 male/female Total population: 1.01 male/female
Infant mortality rate
Total: 4.43 deaths/1,000 live births Male: 4.94 deaths/1,000 live births Female: 3.89 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 89.85 Male: 88.9 Female: 90.8
Total Fertility Rate
12.663 babies/woman
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
0.02%
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
64,760,000
HIV/AIDS - death
758,433
Nationality
Noun: Rian Adjective: Veskan
Ethnic Groups
99.9% Rian, >1% Za’aan
Religions
Holy Church of the Divine Za’aan Lords 98.8%, Pagan 1.2%
Languages
Rihannsu
Literacy
Definition: Age 15 and over that can read and write Total population: 97.60 Male: 99.72 Female: 95.17
Government Structure and Politics
Country Name
Conventional long form: The Rian Republic of Veskaland Conventional short form: The Rian Republic, Veskaland Abbreviation: RRV
Government Type
Benevolent Dictatorship/Monarchy Capital Titania Centre Administrative divisions 69 Provinces; divided into 769 Segments National holiday
Constitution
unwritten, partly statutes, partly common law
Legal system
no judicial review of legislative acts
Suffrage
restricted to Citizens at age 21
Executive branch
emperor, praetor, proconsuls
Legislative branch
unicameral Imperial Senate
Judicial branch
Imperial High Court
Leaders
Chief of State and Head of Government: President Seska Armarosa
Praetor (Deputy head of Government):
International organization participation
None
Economy
Economy - overview
A centrally planned economy geared to support of the military and Law and Order. Efficient replicator-based economy provides almost all goods. Food and medicine are still agriculturally produced.
GDP
$89,420,232,942,482.25
GDP - real growth rate
+0.6%
GDP per capita
$27,615.88
GDP - composition by sector
Agriculture: 15% Industry: 60% Services and misc. sectors: 25%
Population below poverty line
1.83%
Unemployment rate
2.74%
Lowest 10%: 0 Highest 10%: 0
Inflation rate
2%
Labour force
616,137,651
Budget
Expenditures: $88,939,636,097,810.42
Agriculture - products
Wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; forest products; fish
Industrial production growth rate
+3.6%
Electricity - production
70 Trillion kWh
Electricity - consumption
65 Trillion kWh
Electricity - exports
2.2 Trillion kWh
Electricity - imports
None
Oil - production
200.13 million bbl/day
Oil - consumption
50.89 million bbl/day
Oil - exports
100 million bbl/day
Oil - imports
none
Oil - proven reserves
100 trillion bbl
Natural gas - monthly production
100 billion cubic cm
Natural gas - yearly consumption
10 billion cubic cm
Natural gas - exports
None
Natural gas - imports
100 billion cubic cm
Natural gas - proven reserves
100 trillion cubic cms
Exports
$11,380,062,052,736.83
Exports - commodities
Capital goods, automobiles, industrial supplies and raw materials, natural resources, agricultural products
Exports - partners
Imports
$10,899,465,208,065.00
Imports - commodities
Consumer goods, chemicals, textiles, machinery
Imports - partners
Rotovia Ham-o
Debt
Debt - external
None
Economic aid - donor
None
Currency
Veskan Credit
Currency code
ℓ
Exchange rates
1 Veskan Credit = $1.5468
Fiscal year
13 months
Communications
Telephones - main lines in use
5.6 billion
Telephones - mobile cellular
7.8 Billion
Telephone system
General assessment: a large, technologically advanced, multipurpose communications system Domestic: : a large system of fibre-optic cable, and domestic satellites carries every form of telephone traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout the country
Radio broadcast stations
AM 3,942; FM 7,513; Shortwave 29
Television broadcast stations
2,398
Internet country code
.rrv
Internet hosts
115,311,958
Internet users
640,000,000
Transportation
Railways
1,201,160 Standard Gauge: 1,201,160 1.435-m gauge (all electrified.)
Highways
Total: 15,304,440 Paved: 15,302,440 Unpaved: 2,000
Waterways
424,080 km
Pipelines
None
Ports and harbours
Titania City, New Corsica, Arcana.
Merchant Marine
26,560 ships
Airports
308,740
Heliports
18,460
Military
Military branches
Army, Navy, Air force, Marines, Centurions, National Guard, Tal'Shiar (CIA), Efk'Khelh (FBI), Police Force, Coast Guard (opperates from the Navy)
Military manpower - military age and obligation
Can volunteer for service at age 16 and 17 months. Age for conscription is 19 and 10 months.
Military manpower - availability
2,621,862,349
Military manpower - fit for military service
2,621,862,349
Military manpower - reaching military age annually
400,000
Military expenditures - dollar figures
$24,013,701,746,408.82
Military expenditures - percent of GDP
27%
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international None
Illicit drugs
Very large exporter of illicit cocaine.