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The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria and the Vermillion Plantations (also commonly known as the Just Monocracy of the Consigahrian Commonwealth, by its simple name Consigahria, and colloquially as the Aria) is a world benchmark for its internment camps turned monk-filled monasteries, pristine black-sand beaches, and expansive range of environments, as well as its citizens' overt sexuality, civil versatility, and lush native cuisine. Ruled by Prime Minister C. Keenen Timothy Hobbes Davis XI with an even hand, the Jewish nation has been ruled by the Davis Royal Family since its federation.

A gargantuan democratic constitutional and parliamentary autocracy, Consigahria is renowned in its region for its compulsory youth fighting academies, compulsory five-year military service, national health service, and its national police agency, Consigahria is Spiritus' most populous nation, second biggest trade leader behind Pixelpark, and largest contributor to the gross regional domestic product. Consigahria is most notable for its ubiquitous missile silos which easily blend in to the cities which surround them, and for its its laws allowing public nudity but not public indecency.

Consigahria is a strikingly beautiful nation of clear skies and pristine beaches which gives one an overwhelming sense of healthiness due to the fairly heavy governmental contributions to the Environment. While Consigahria has not neglected its Defence budget completely, the army is frequently spotted picking up trash along the highways as school children are shuttled around in re-purposed personnel carriers. The Art of the Trade is a revered tome in Consigahria, where anyone and everyone from the government to the man on the street has something to buy, sell or trade in this nation dedicated to Commerce. Planes, Trains and Automobiles dominate Consigahria's well-funded Public Transportation system touted by many as some of the most reliable around.

Its crowded, primarily isolationist population of 20,442,961,350 (twenty-billion four-hundred-forty-two-million nine-hundred-sixty-one-thousand three-hundred and fifty) people are fiercely patriotic and enjoy some social equality; they have some civil rights, but not too many, and enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like (to a point). The blunt, compassionate, hard-working people are ruled by a sleek, efficient government which has taken steps to eradicate its corporate thumbnail, while companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes. While living a healthy lifestyle is somewhat of a priority in Consigahria, it is not the only game in this nation where HealthCare receives only cursory funding.

The pool at the base the Dixie Building in Dixie, Vermillion City, Capital Terr.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vermillion. Consigahria's national animal is the raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Judaism, and its currency is the ruice. Martial law is currently in effect in this nation.

With 2.961459915930502% of the entire regional population within its borders, Consigahria is the most populous nation in Spiritus, and ranks among the top 2% of nations in the world for largest populations. The nation ranks top 0.4% of the world and region for economies, making Consigahria the 660th in the world, 1st in the region for economic output, and 2nd for world trade. Consigahria ranks among the top 2% in the region for influential, top 3% for intelligence, top 3% for average income of the rich, top 8% for economic freedom and wealth gaps, top 12% for nudity, and top 13% for eco-friendliness. Consigahria is the 63rd runner up for longest time spent in the region.

Recent News

Following a series of earthquakes, three tsunamis, and a large-scale oil spill along the southeastern coastline in May, 2136, almost all of Consigahria's water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices, and eminent domain has been abolished. It is illegal for police officers to carry out impromptu searches due to strict privacy laws, tourists are forbidden to enter Native Consigahrian lands, and belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace'. Punitive tariffs have been implemented to protect local industry, as the number of students attending university has reached a record high. The newly introduced Consigahria Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually, while those near the tracks complain about the noise. The government is rumored to hire body doubles whose full-time jobs are to cry at public events; Denali eagles with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped; surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods; and several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation following the decriminalization of animal experimentation.

Public nudity is sometimes compulsory when the climate shifts in order to allow it; circumcision is frowned upon and outlawed; nontraditional matryoshka dolls are frowned upon; artists are the pillars of society; oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds; raven hunting as a sport has been outlawed; and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. All-natural foods are a major fad; and all beauty contests have been banned. Reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors; the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses; voting has become a way of life; Vermillion City is a police state during international war; and new parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists; recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable; and college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, while candy-slinging children as young as 8 years old can be found smoking tobacco and cannabis cigarettes in public in the ghettos of large cities.

Since martial law went into effect in March, 2136, due to recent legislation in Consigahria, there have been over 48,000 military-related deaths, over R$17 million in property damage, and more than 7,000 arrests. As per regional law, CS and riot police patrol all major streets by foot and all minor streets by helicopter; the number of thefts, murders, and arrests for public indecency have skyrocketed; and due to cemetery overpopulation, cremation for the recently deceased has become legally compulsory.

Crime is almost totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare; however, since the 2135 wars, the government seems to be ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Vermillion City for fear of causing a fuss. The government has instituted 'traveler reservations' across the country; Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused; and the government has restricted access to large areas of the nation, mostly forest. New safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Consigahria to be bombproof; the government is spending billions of taxpayer ruices to support "struggling" industries; the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses; and while the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, automobile manufacturing and other industries have seized the fleeting opportunity to take the national spotlight.

Geography

Consigahria's tallest peaks, in Denali National Park located in the center of the mainland, and its surrounding forest and meadows which stretch across five of eight territories.

Consigahria is placed on the northwestern coast of Spiritus' largest island (Consigahria considers this island Spiritus' mainland), facing the Vermillion Sea and more westwardly the North Pacific Ocean. To its eastern border is the Federation of Wuufu. Across the ten-mile-wide Voya Straight to the south is the Dictatorship of Skanes.

Consigahria is divided into nine provinces called territories which the government delineates by mostly straight borders. They are named as follows from east to west, from north to south: Buyou Island Territory; Haruji Island Territory; Vermillion Territory; Capitol Territory; Soho Territory; Pincock Territory; Koyoumaru Territory; Voya Territory; and Brasili Territory.

It's satellite colonies exempt, Consigahria's mainland is about 6,200 miles from east coast to west, and about 3,500 miles from north to south, comprising 76% of its entire landmass. The easternmost point on Buyou Island, Buyou Island Territory, is temperate forest, and Providence and Kaede Islands in the same territory are renowned paradises. Further west lies the basic outline of the mainland, which, save for its connection to Wuufu and the northern peninsula of Koyoumaru Terr., is crowded beach; and as you travel further inland into Vermillion Territory, the landscape becomes sandier and sandier and the population sparser and sparser, but as it becomes less and less humid, the sand dissipates into rural hills and valleys of temperate chaparral and colder-atmospheric swamps and forests. Even further inland is the chilly Central Consigahrian Mountain Range, a large part of Denali National Park. Devoid of permanent human residence, Denali National Park is comprised of flowery meadows, forests, and snowy hills and glaciated mountains, as well as small, sparse villages. Further east in and past Soho Territory are snow-capped peaks and hilly, mountainous landscapes, valleys, and plains which contain more concentrated populations. The tallest mountain is 30,560-foot-fall Mt. Perseverence in south central Pincock Territory's expanse of its Denali National Forest, a dormant stratovolcano which hasn't erupted since 1634.

The skyline of Coaxie, Dixie, and Phados, boroughs of Vermillion City, Capital Terr., Consigahria. Foreground, center: the Coaxie Building. Background, left: the Dixie Building. Background, right, from left to right: the Cogswell Building, the Reese Building, the Staves Building; the Cratsk Building (white tapering top).

Vermillion (east) and Haruji Island (west) Territories are separated by the Seppuku River, which spans for only five or so miles (eleven at its highest on record), met at either end with the North Pacific Ocean. Vermillion (west) and Soho Territories (east) are separated by a 130-meter riverbed that is the Penchariot River, which spans 120 miles short of the entire height of the nation, met at the southern border with the North Pacific Ocean. Domestically, the word "river" is removed from these rivers' titles, because they are so notorious for rising during flood seasons in excess of forty meters, physically dividing the nation. The Seppuku has faded entirely several times in the nation's history, documented in ancient Consigahrian folklore, but this occurs sporadically and only during dry seasons, so it's awkwardly common for a citizen who doesn't live in proximity to it to live his entire life without ever seeing it as it flows.

The southernmost peninsula of Vermillion Terr. is Capitol Territory, which is entirely comprised of Vermillion City's numerous and diverse suburbs.

Tropical forest with beautiful beaches, the Brasilistani Islands, an archipelago mostly devoid of human life, is 120 km south-southeast of the mainland.

Koto, Pincock Territory

In order from largest to smallest, major public areas are Tanahog (Vermillion Terr.), Koto (Pincock Terr.), Vermillion City (Capitol Terr.), Enryuu (Voya Terr.), Dockmackie (Pincock Terr.), and Konomahamaru (Koyoumaru Terr.). Consigahria's smallest populated area is Parich Island (pop. 1 person) off the east coast of Voya Territory.

Buyou Island Territory comprises Buyou Island, the Providence Islands (North and South Providence Islands), and Kaede Island.

Vermillion, Soho, Pincock, Koyoumaru, and Voya Territories comprise the mainland; and Buyou and Haruji Island Territories comprise the Ryu'ujou Islands.

Voya and Koyoumaru Territories compete for largest territorial landmass, but Koyoumaru trumps its younger sister territory by 1,200 square miles.

Consigahria has 42 populated islands near its mainland. Following its 2136 acquisition of the island nation Brasilistan, the nation added to its total 1,241 islands, most of them uninhabited by humans. Consigahria as a whole has 1,283 islands.

Consigahria's mainland as a whole is 2,875,000 square miles in area. Including its islands, The nation's total area is 8,806,709 square miles.

Economy

The frighteningly efficient powerhouse Consigahrian economy, worth over an unmatched 3,006 trillion ruices a year, is driven mostly by government activity. The extremely specialized industrial sector is mostly comprised of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Manufacturing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. In January, 2137, the Consigahrian economy generated 78.07% of the entire gross regional domestic product, ranking among the top 0.5% of the world for economies and top 3% of the world for economic output.

In early 2135, documented average income was 68,084 ruices, and fairly distributed, with the richest family earning 2.7 times as much as the poorest. In early 2136, documented average income was 61,759 ruices, and fairly distributed, with the richest family earning 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Since, the government has sought out economic reform; their current system, of having everyone's wages be equal or almost equal, was killing the country.

Originally a very scarce commodity, golden coins were minted and became the common form of trade in ancient history. Today, golden coins are used as change, and bills have replaced larger coins which are now outdated: pennies (one ruice pieces), nickels (five ruice pieces), quarters (25 ruice pieces), halves (singular: half; 50 ruice pieces), runpence (obsoleted; 75 ruice pieces), and hundreds (obsoleted; singular: a hundred piece; 100 ruices). Since the early 2100s, 500-ruice bills, 1,000-ruice bills, and 5,000-ruice bills are also in circulation, but are comparatively few in number.

The ruice has risen greatly in value since its creation, Consigahria becoming a regional and global trade superpower. In February, 2137, the gross domestic product was R$1.76 quadrillion; as of March, 2137, the gross domestic product is R$1.85 quadrillion, a 5.11364% increase from the previous month, a 128.362% increase from the previous year.

As of March, 2137, documented average income is 147,062 ruices, and widely distributed, with the richest families earning 25 times as much as the poorest.

Taxation

Taxation differs in Consigahria than in most other democracies. Citizens pay property tax, income tax, and sales tax per paycheck. From 2120 throughout most of 2136, the wealthy paid more tax than the middle and lower classes. As of December 12th, 2136, all working class citizens pay the same flat tax rate.

Income tax is legally defined as a percentage of the amount of money earned by each employee which is kept in a bank paid to the federal government, or in other words the amount of money that employers are required to take from their employees' paychecks and pay to the federal government for public spending before paying each employee. Legally speaking, money is only regarded as spendable in this context only if stored within a wallet (or similar), safe (or similar), or a bank; and money which is stored lawfully within a private safe registered with the federal government cannot be taxed. It is unlawful to evade taxation; if you work, you must pay income tax. All working citizens are required to report their earnings to the government yearly; and fraud is easily detectable and punished severely. However, money that is stored unlawfully, such as money hidden in a mattress (embezzlement), or within an unregistered safe (concealment), can be taxed if not revoked altogether. In an operation called cleaning money, the federal government dumps all unlawfully stored money back into the nation's highly efficient black market. Property tax works the same way.

As of March, 2137, the average income tax rate is 21.7%.

Trade

Foreign trade

As of March, 2137, Consigahria imported NS$108 trillion worth of product and exported NS$110.682 quadrillion, generating a trade surplus of NS$2.197 trillion (R$4.3 trillion). Consigahria exports firearms, bullets, firearm accessories, petroleum and petroleum products, film and film products and accessories, diamonds, various fruits and vegetables, gold- and diamond-encrusted furniture, wind turbines and accessories, horse carriages, bicycles, scooters, and more.

For those in the know, there is a highly efficient (and technically illegal) black market which the government chooses to ignore, mostly because it contributes to the GDP. About 2-63% of the black market contributes to the nation's export ratings annually.

Before its natural disasters in 2136, Consigahria was among the lead traders in the region; but after, it began to have a growing trade deficit. As of October, 2136, it had a trade deficit of NS$1.6 trillion per day. As a result, printing of paper money and creation of coins in Consigahrian currency was suspended.

No more than two months later, the nation recovered and began to export more and more. As of December, 2136, the nation carries a trade surplus of NS$9.28 trillion (R$4.87 trillion), a rise of over 1,491% from the previous year.

As of March 10th, 2137, Consigahria was succeeded as regional trade leader by Pixelpark.

Domestic trade

Slave trade

In February, 2137, slave trade was legalized with provisions. At first, there was mass confusion in most of the nation. Anybody who is a certified citizen of Consigahria is ineligible to be a slave, and anybody who is of a noble family is also ineligible. It is specifically illegal to take or purchase a slave without that person's intent, whether it happens within Consigahria's borders or not, consequently ending in that slave's work for a citizen of Consigahria.

In late February, 2137, 58-year-old Hadassah Macy and his sons Braidy (age 17) and Justice (age 18) successfully incapacitated and detained 38-year-old Alim Kamal Abdulrashid and his 16-year-old daughter Ruba (Ruba Khadija Abdulrashid), placing them in the bay of a horse carriage trailer, hitched on the rear of a pick-up truck. Abdulrashid's 36-year-old wife Sahar (Sahar Ruya Abdulrashid) died trying to save them. After their abduction, Abdulrashid and daughter were taken to upscale Kent, Vermillion City, a mountainous high-class residential area.

Macy's family lived on a 3,200-acre property in a three-story seven-bedroom house. His wife Sarah remained unemployed all throughout their 32-year marriage, because Hadassah's entrepreneurship made enough money to afford the bills and much more. However, Braidy and Justice, subjected to homeschooling instead of mainstream public schooling for all of their lives, were going to college in Vermillion City soon, and in order to secure it, Hadassah had paid upwards of R$550,000 for each son's education in just a few months, half of his yearly salary. If his 17-year-old daughter is accepted into the same college, he will inevitably write another check for R$277,000; and less than a decade later, if his 15-year-old daughter Aureliana goes to the same college, he will write another exorbitantly-priced check; and the same in the case of his 12-year-old daughter Sylvianne. He will have paid in total an estimated R$1,385,100 for all the education of all of his children, a million-dollar expense on top of his normal living expenses. To supplement, he has two choices: hire slave labor to replace his family's cook and maintenance crews, or blindly begin black market trading.

From February to late March, 2137, Abdulrashid and daughter experienced inexplicable tortures, including sodomy, forced marriage, rape and insemination, and the castration of Abdulrashid himself. On March 20, 2137, to the horror of impregnated daughter Ruba, Alim Kamal Abdulrashid was shot and killed by Justice Macy for the attempted murder of Hadassah Macy. The police were called to the scene, and Ruba Abdulrashid was set free and taken to Vermillion Metropolitan Interregional Hospital, fortified after the previous natural incidents and terrorist attacks.

Justice Macy was tried for the murder of Abdulrashid, but was acquitted on the grounds that he was defending his father's life, who was badly beaten but lived to tell the violent tale. However, the Macy family was tried for illegal procurement of slaves, illegal facilitation of slave labor, and the murder of Sahar Ruya Abdulrashid, and were found guilty of all charges. Despite his argument that the decriminalization of slave ownership meant that his forcible taking of a slave was a legal act, for the capital felony of murder of an illegally procured slave, Justice Macy was sentenced to death by lethal injection. A Vermillion City Supreme Court reinforced the Prime Minister's previous ruling, that "it is specifically illegal to take or purchase a slave without that person's intent, whether it happens within Consigahria's borders or not, consequently ending in that slave's work for a citizen of Consigahria" (P.M. Davis-Hobbes XI, 12 March 2137). For the felony of illegal procurement of slaves and illegal facilitation of slave labor, Hadassah & Sarah Macy were each sentenced to 45 years of federal imprisonment with no chance for parole. For accessory to capital felony, Braidy Macy was sentenced to lifetime federal imprisonment with possibility for parole after 25 years. Ruba, Aureliana, and Sylvianne were ordered into the custody of the state.

Goods and resources

Under construction.

Wages

As of March, 2137, Consigahria's poorest citizens earn an average CNR$24,514 (NSD$48,751) per year. Consigahia's richest citizens, and Prime Minister, earn an average R$559,345 (NS$1,112,370) per year. The income tax rate is a flat 15.0%, and citizens have a biyearly tax return of R$9,000-$50,000 (NS$45,000-95,000), which affords the nation some income equality while ensuring nobody is too rich and nobody of working class is too poor. However, the government is looking at stamping this out in lieu of maximizing its wealth gaps and political power.

Our poorest workers earn R$24,514 (NS$48,751) per year, at least R$8.5 (NS$16.9) per hour; and our richest workers earn R$559,345 per year, at least R$84 (NS$194.2) per hour, 22.8 times more than the poorest. De jure minimum wage in Consigahria is R$8.5 (NS$16.9) per hour.

History

Prehistory (1780 - 1888)

For a complete list of Prime Ministers in Consigahria's history see List of Prime Ministers of Consigahria.

Confederation

On November 6th, 1780, the Vermillion Plantations (the Consigahrian mainland), including most of Wuufu, a vast, world-renowned area notorious for its increasingly fertile lands and sturdy ecosystems, was seized by multiple groups including the once-powerful but now extinct Queendom of Geneva and the Francod Republic! Warfare between the nations burnt down multiple forests and killed more than 20% of the animals and plant life, including the now-extinct Cherfauna rhododendron. War between seven countries total, each of them currently extinct themselves, destroyed one mountain and activated another. Two years passed before the warfare ceased and the wildfires were finally under control. One June 20th, 1782, the Vermillion Treaty was signed and ratified, and the Holy Dictatorship of Consigahria and the Vermillon Plantations was formed in the West Pacific.

Federation of a dictatorship

The Davis Royal Family has been in power since the nation's federation, starting it off as a dictatorship. 37-year-old Dictator for Life Cornelius Davis I had a child in celebration of the nation's federation, founded a gold mine, instituted a currency called the golden coin, and ruled for 16 years before being assassinated by his bodyguards in January of 1808. After the bodyguards were killed for treason, shortly after his 17th birthday, the Dictator for Life's son Cornelius Davis II proclaimed himself in the death and absence of his father the First President of the official Monocratic Democracy.

A growing democracy (1888-2135)

In his 86th year of life, year 1888, Davis II made a public announcement that it was he who had ordered his father's bodyguards to assassinate him, then committed a planned suicide in his home that night alongside his personal doctor, friends and family. Davis II had two sons, one of whom died in early infancy and one of whom grew, and one daughter who also grew. Cornelius Keenen Samuel (Davis IV), the 33-year-old youngest, would assume the throne on March 28th, 1888, after Davis II's death by natural causes, simply because Amelia declined. Davis II's other son, Vincent Cornelius Davis III, died at two months of age from a severe, unexplained chronic fever; and his daughter, Amelia, would grow and marry to die at age 49 from a rather severe case of untreated schizophrenic depression and suicide. In a nationwide address following Davis II's death, it was revealed that the President knew he would probably be forgiven, but would like to stress that he took a life, and no matter what the consequence he must give his own in order to be right with the Lord. His son was crowned the following day.

In life, Davis IV married four times, and with all four marriages had four sons who were legitimately his (Davis V and three others not named after him, Trevor Jonathan Cornelius, Caleb Raymond, and Veryl Howard Cornelius), but their birthdates are debated among historians. His other three wives had prior children. Davis IV ruled benevolently for 91 years until his own death by old age at 124 years. He passed away on December 25th, 1979, giving the throne to his eldest son of Royal blood, Keenen Cornelius Key Davis V. 40-year-old Davis V assumed the throne on Christmas Day of 1979, and would rule for exactly 20 years before his symbolic resignation to his own son. 21-year-old C. Keenen Timothy Davis VI assumed the throne on Christmas Day of 1999 from his 60-year-old father and would "usher in the new millennium, a new age". Davis VI would rule for 3 years, marry to Bailey Hobbes, then rule for another decade.

Davis VI and his wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Keenen Timothy Davis IX, in his ninth year of rule, and then three years later a set of twins, healthy baby boys, Howard Joel Hobbes Davis whom he decided would be the unique one in the family and Keenen Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X.

Feudal Era (2007-present)

West Consigahria and the Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War (2007 - 2011)

Following the regional move to 10000 Islands, the western territories of Buyou and Haruji seceded on October 21st, 2007, becoming the United Dictatorship Republic of West Consigahria. They retained their status of independence for over a year. On December 12th, 2008, a massive civil war broke out between Consigahria and the Queendom of Gerenstra. Gerenstra tried to establish embargoes on Consigahrian export ships, and Consigahria warned them to stand down. "For our Majesty," claimed the seamen, "we will never stand down." West Consigahrian (The United Dictatorship Republic of West Consigahria) navy, without Consigahria's leader asking them to, blew the Gerenstran ships up, sparking the civil war. The leader of Consigahria was furious and "looked like he wanted to slap the Prime Minister of West Consigahria in the face," said a paparazzi member to the succeeding meeting. Apologetically, on December 27th, 2008, Retrove proclaimed that West Consigahria would rejoin its homeland to fight the war together. Consigahria officially reannexed West Consigahria exactly a week later.

On January 1st, 2009, West Consigahria poised an ultimatum to Consigahria--they would remain rejoined under one condition, that they retain their independence as their own nation. Consigahria agreed, as long as West Consigahria applied for and was admitted to the World Assembly, serving as a representative for both countries.

In early November, 2010, a major terrorist group from the North Pacific attacked thousands upon thousands of major businesses in Vermillion. Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VI dispatched troops to the foreign country whose name was withheld from the media (Gerenstra) the terrorist agency was from. Consigahria was now officially in war. Citizens were baffled and furious at the sudden spike in taxes and the complete abolition of welfare and a few other public benefits instated previously by the government.

On May 27th, 2011, the Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War ended with Consigahria as a collective temporarily united as the victors. Gerenstra had been overtaken as Consigahrian soil. Shortly after, on June 3rd, 2011, West Consigahria seceded for a final time in fraternity with its homeland, retaining its independence.

On November 4th, 2012, the nation came to a standstill to allow incense and lanterns to be filled as is the tradition when something of this nature happens; at 5:36 AM, just at sunrise, the ever benevolent Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VI was declared dead by natural means. Having died prematurely at age 34 due to an aggressive cancer, he had lived a good life filled with responsibility, love for his family and friends, and an undying affinity for his country. He was buried in Majestic Manor Cemetery, where only Prime Ministers and family members of Prime Ministers may be buried after death. Halted in mourning, the nation continued to function with Davis' only legitimate son, Prime Minister Keenen Timothy Cornelius Davis VII, age 16, in power.

He had two identical boys by his third wife. Davis VII would be the youngest ruler to ever assume the throne.

In 2012, when Davis IX was just 10, his father was diagnosed with cancer and had to resign his position to his younger brother, Davis IX's uncle, Keenen Timothy Davis VII, who ruled ruthlessly for a short time and was assassinated by a bitter citizen.

Population Day

"December 03, 2012 - We Finally Hit 11 Billion! Flags, banners and posters line the nation as the record population continues to climb at 11.003 billion on the morning of December 3rd, 2012!" Population Day has been proclaimed as an annual holiday occurring five days before Hanukkah, on which day all citizens are exempt from taxation for 24 hours. The country has officially recovered from the Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War, and the previously abolished public benefits like welfare had been reinstated; but clothes had been outlawed except in cases of extreme cold (zero degrees celcius).

Following the 2013 passage of a well-supported bill that contained half a dozen riders, corruption watchdog groups lobbied the government to take action against the use of unrelated addenda in lawmaking. Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VII was quick to express his contempt at a fellow who suggested assigning legislature to the private sector, earning a few chuckles from his staff.

Davis VII banned automobiles which ran on gasoline on April 25, 2013.

On April 29, 2013, Population Day was officially assigned its name.

Widow of Emir for Life Jailed

On May 5, 2013, Madame Euphegenia Retrove, widow of recently-deceased West Consigahrian Emir for Life Daily Retrove II, pulled an unloaded gun on Prime Minister C. Davis VII. She spent a few nights in Schott River Correctional Institution. Three days later, a newspaper published the following in an article: "Madame Euphegenia Retrove, wife of recently-deceased West Consigahrian Emir for Life, was jailed March 5th, 2013, for pulling an unloaded firearm on Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VII during an private meeting with criminally lethal intent. The video was posted online just a few days ago on the fifth, but it was taken down last night. The video amassed over six billion views. Although the firearm wasn't loaded, Retrove was charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon." After a month of waiting in a cold jail cell in Schott River Correctional Institution in Vermillion City, she appeared before a judge, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to life in prison without chance for parole. Before she returned to her cell, she commented that she "gave her freedom for her husband's life and has (sic) no regrets." The Prime Minister was present during the trial and considered pardoning her of all crimes since the gun wasn't loaded and therefore wasn't a genuine threat. His advisors advised against it, so she was not pardoned. Shortly before she boarded the bus that would take her to the prison, she slipped out f her handcuffs and became very aggressive, rendering unconscious both of the police officers who were escorting her, one of which was Vermillion City Police Department Chief Benjamin Yevtushenko, and then fled. Half an hour later, she was apprehended by the Operatives' Division by psychic force and jailed promptly. There have been no further issues from the Retrove family, recently discovered to have a dark affiliation with the nation's most powerful international drug syndicate.

On July 17, 2013, while in an advisors' meeting, 33-year-old Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VII was shot in the head as his assailants, 29 of them, all armed with AK-47s, stormed the room, shoving the audience back. All 13 men died. Assailants David Rach, Henry Thibodeaux, and 27 others were arrested, charged with treason and murder in the third degree. Rach and Thibodeaux were sentenced to death, the main perpetrators of the crime, and the others were sentenced to a public beating and life in prison. They spent ten nights in Schott River Correctional Institution (Illicargo, Vermillion City, Capital Terr.), before being shipped to Gallagher Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary (Slaghelm Forest, Pincock Territory). They would both serve life sentences.

On August 7th, 2013, after Davis VII's Vice Prime Minister Ailord West's temporary rule, Consigahria was "back and beating, better than ever", according to Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VIII (the eighth), Esq., the deceased Prime Minister's younger brother, crowned that afternoon. The young 20-year-old, a very handsome prince by the girls of the city, sat in his office, well prepared by his father to take the position. He cut taxes by three percent as the government continued its hibernation to mourn over Davis VII, may he rest in peace.

On January 30th, 2014, six months after his taking the throne, Davis VIII was ousted and jailed for 10 years plus 10 years probation for conspiracy against the Consigahrian nation and treason! His offense? Trying to cover up the rape-murder of 20-year-old college student Vanessa Patraski.

Patraski attended Northwell Bailey University's Bertolli campus in nothern Soho territory. She was an English and Computer Technology major. Her rapist-murderer, name concealed for his protection, was jailed for life in Kho River Correctional Penitentiary in Kho River, Soho Terr., pending trial. His pending time is estimated to be 10-12 years, all of which will be hard jail time.

Davis VIII, jailed, had a brief sexual episode with Patraski in 2013. He attempted to cover the murder up because Patraski and he had "unfinished business, and if the public had found out, he would have lost all of his credibility [due to a] misunderstanding." Davis was replaced by his younger 17-year-old brother, Prime Minister C. Keenen Davis IX. As the ninth and youngest ruler in the 200-year dynasty, he promised to bring more sensible equality to the nation.

On March 11th, 2014, after eight months of psychic interrogation, assassin David Rach was found guilty of criminal misconduct. It was found that Rach had changed his name in February 2013 from Ryan Petruzzi, and had planned to change it back once the assassination and getaway were complete. It was also found that Henry Thibodeaux, his accomplice, was extremely violent in preadolescence, but not in pubescence or early adulthood. Rach was found to have manipulated a psychic thought-manipulator into manipulating Thibodeaux to kill again. Thibodeaux was found guilty for seventeen more murders, most of them gruesome, and Rach was found guilty for the same number of manslaughters; both men were accused of the crime. The psychic was smart enough to erase his image from both men's memories, and has not been identified nor caught. Thibodeaux was found to have belonged to a powerful international drug syndicate in Vermillion City and had belonged to it for three years before his incarceration, the same that the Retrove family, responsible for an attempted assassination of a Prime Minister in early May 2013. For security purposes, the name of the gang has been withheld. Rach was found not to have belonged to the same gang, but was found to have had experience as a lawyer under the name Ryan Petruzzi, which he stole from his long-deceased many-greats-grandfather. His real name was revealed as Vincent Ocello Brice, but because his name was legally changed, Rach is forced to retain his name to death. Meanwhile, in response to an increasing number of people without adequate health care in Consigahria, neighboring nation the Sultanate of The Kanekaeri Islands, today a conquered nation, publicly sought permission to establish free health clinics within the country. Immediately following, three beings suddenly burst into the Prime Minister's office this evening, screaming their heads off, interrupting him as he was signing the final piece of legislature that would completely re-annex West Consigahria. Reportedly, Prime Minister Davis IX had to silence their argument. Minutes later, they were kicked out, feeling very happy that the nation would from then on have free national healthcare for every citizen.

Assertion and Assassination (2012-2127)

Davis VII's 14-year-old nephew, Keenen Drummond Davis X, asserted himself before his other uncles and tried to take the throne shortly after his assassination, but was shut down. For almost four years, Davis VII's Vice Prime Minister Ailord West ruled in his place, but shortly before Davis X's 18th birthday, he asserted himself once again. West was coerced to step down. Although Davis IX initially brought peace to the nation, he was seen as a young pushover, and once the citizens began to push hard, the Prime Minister pushed back even harder with a harsh tax backlash. Throughout his reign from 2012 to 2127, his citizens would attempt to assassinate him five times.

Another assassin, this one female and hired by his wife, attempted his life in November 2127, but failed, prompting the Prime Minister to resign to his 21-year-old younger nephew, a move that probably saved his own life. Davis X assumed the throne in late November 2127 and issued a new law in a public television address to the nation: "...any attempted and failed murder will be treated as treason and not attempted murder, meaning if caught or turned in, any Consigahrian alive who has tried to assassinate a Prime Minister will go to jail and stay there until they die; and any attempted and successful assassination will be treated far worse - the assassin will die that very day."

Keenen Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X ruled for almost nine years with a benevolent yet iron fist, having greatly advanced his security and the security teams of his cabinet and their associates and introducing programs that have made life much easier for his citizens.

On November 22, 2129, 32-year-old Prime Minister C. K. Davis IX died of natural means in his home in Vermillion City, and his younger brother, 22-year-old K. Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X, assumed his position as Prime Minister. As an indirect result, the entire nation was sent into a recession.

In a public statement in early December, 2134, Prime Minister Davis X proclaimed to have found a husband who always remained unidentified, and would become the very first openly gay Prime Minister in the nation's history.

In February, 2135, the government axed the federal mail system, lowering the income tax rate by 57.8% from 80.3%. In March of the same year, the government temporarily repealed its two-week-old ban on hunting ravens under the condition that they would only be hunted with weapons which would cause instantaneous and painless death; and after droves of tanks were seen stalking ravens through the forest near suburban towns, and after a 59% tax hike, the ban was reinstated. Two days later, it dropped back down to its original value.

As of March 10, 2135, airport security was provided by private companies; religious education was a new government priority; and businesses that prove successful were immediately broken up. However, hospitals became a rival amongst the best-funded in the region.

In April, 2135, the government began to direct funding to defense. Currently, most information is highly classified.

In December, 2135, the government declared the recession over. For the first time in months, the GDP increased.

Consigahrian-Brasilistani War

Militarily reticent Consigahria and a nation called Brasilistan were at war in April 2135. Brasilistan had also had war declared on them by several other nations. Several Consigahrian families, among thousands and thousands of other families from around the world who were touring in the nation, were abducted by the corrupt government and forced to work as slaves. On April 1st, 2135, Consigahria attacked the nation; and following their attack, other nations attacked as well. Brasilistan's landscape and population would be forever altered by the hundreds of thousands of mortars dropped onto the island nation. Prime Minister Davis X commented harshly in a public address on April 2nd, 2135, and his fiercely patriotic sixteen billion roared and jeered behind him either in person or watching a television: "Jewish people have already been enslaved once as a whole; and now Brasilistan wants to spit in Jewish faces, and not only ours, but to those of the world? There are Native Consigahrians among these people struggling to live in this foreign shithole known as Brasilistan, and I won't rest until I have remuneration. You other nations wanna come at me because I'm defending them? Our jets are the fastest in Spiritus; our bombs and their detonative blast waves travel extremely far in very short amounts of time; our navy is up to the navel in weaponry; our air force are armed up to the chin; our army are trained, many, and specialized; our anti-aircraft and anti-missile arsenals are computerized, protected, and automatic; and we will eviscerate every single one of you. I made noise: that was the point of the air raid. So now we'll relax on the civilian casualties and assault the arms factories, military airfields, and key bases of the nation." His red-faced threat continued for five minutes.

Prime Minister C. Davis X yelling over the phone

On April 3rd, Brasilistan's industrial base was quickly decimated by the Consigahrian NatArms as they stormed key points by air and water. As of April 4th, elite teams of assassins were sent into Brasilistan on foot to remove the leadership from power. 130 people would be killed, freeing the country from its oppressive leaders and allowing kidnapped citizens to return to their homelands. Consigahria sought total governmental reform and colonization, along with a couple other nations. In part to calm the furor, Consigahria is currently seeking electoral reform in its own jurisdiction.

Having decimated the native Brasilistani army, the western half of the island nation belonged to Consigahria following the war. The land was sold to the nation of Lordaguard for R$2.5 million.

Prime Minister Davis X has been charged in three international courts with genocide, and has been charged with withholding spending information from the public in his own nation. Davis X pleaded guilty on April 6th, but was acquitted of all charges. Shortly after, he increased military spending, fearing more warfare. Mid- and late-April average income tax was 80%.

Acquisition of Brasilistan

On January 30th, 2136, the federal government officially recognized a portion of western Brasilistan as one of its own states. The remaining population of the devastated, mostly uninhabited land have all the rights of Consigahrian citizens and may visit or move to the mainland; and likewise, Consigahrian natives and others who live on the mainland may visit or move to the Brasilistani Islands, which has been officially annexed as Brasilistani Islands Territory. The same invitation has been extended to all Brasilistanis and to all other peoples. Locally, the territory is called Brasili Territory; but abroad, the area is still widely understood as a sovereign terrorist country.

On February 4th, the government completed a national survey and concluded that the government acquired 1,241 islands with 140 million people who have survived the war, along with around 320,300 square miles of land and water.

Much of the territory is without plumbing; their source of water is evaporated, condensed, and purified ocean water, whereas the rest of the nation gets their source of water from mountain glaciers and rivers. The populace utilize outhouses a distance from their domiciles, and the excrement is used agriculturally. 170 years before its annexation, Brasilistan was world-renowned for the size of the potatoes it produced and exported. As of 2105, the nation was officially in a state of drought and severe famine, and their exports shut down entirely, forcing the country to mine "precious minerals" and export that. The nation failed to revitalize until 2132.

In 2135, Consigahria began to step in when its leadership noticed a fraction of their population AWOL, and noticed that other nations around the world reported the same thing. The trade secret was then leaked that Brasilistan's government had literally kidnapped hundreds of thousands of people and forced them to work in mines as slaves. When Consigahria and another world superpower declared war, Brasilistan began to kill the slaves off, and the government was soon destroyed and hundreds of thousands of survivors of war spared.

As elections become more and more popular, a TV celebrity dominates the nation's newest democratic political party as anti-governmental websites begin to spring up following the ban of non-Native-owned casinos and minor gambling. Back-alley bris clinics are popping up all over the nation as a result of the recent criminalization of the practice of circumcision, and some doctors and some parents face felony charges.

A portion of the island nation of Brasilistan was acquired by the nation as of February 1st, 2136. On February 4th, the government assigned the islands it had acquired status as a territory, and assigned it a name: Brasilistani Islands Territory, nicknamed locally Brasili Territory. Its population was found to be 400 million. More studies are currently taking place; but it has been discovered that the Territory's population disagree with the rest of the nation on how the previous warfare should be represented in school textbooks.

Two 8.7-9.6 earthquakes damaged buildings, killed 135 million people, and caused a massive coastal tsunami and a subsequent large-scale oil spill. This contaminated the majority of the nation's municipal drinking water, so a very expensive campaign has been started to import piped water from abroad.

In September, 2136, the prohibition on fracking was abolished. Also, all technology must now be personally blessed by religious officials before they are sold.

The Battle of Brasili Territory

After a month of being buttered up by the government, the populace there has come to terms with their annexation; but a small but heavily-armed nation named Wezeltonia has the islands under siege, claiming sovereignty over the islands and the people, a heavily illegal act, federally and internationally. As citizens of Brasili Territory become accustomed to their newer, and apparently inherently better, Consigahrian lives, a nation invades the islands on February 28th and claim sovereignty for their nation. Consigahrian Prime Minister Davis X phoned the leader of Wezeltonia and requested that his troops and police be removed from the islands at once, as it was Consigahrian soil, only to be cursed out and the call suddenly ended. The following morning, the Prime Minister's family spent upwards of R$150 billion of their own money to finance an impending battle over the islands; they refuse to be stolen from. All of the citizens in the territory at stake and more than half of the mainland's citizens endorse the government as it prepares to declare war.

Two hours from midnight, February 28th, 2136, the Consigahrian government declared war on the small island nation of Wezeltonia. Three Consigahrian soldiers died in battle, and 1,320 Wezeltonian soldiers also lost their lives. Ultimately, Wezeltonia surrendered over the telephone and withdrew its remaining 500 living troops from the Brasilistani Islands. The battle lasted only 14 hours. Consigahria retains possession as ordered troops and their families move to the islands permanently, and given estates and titles.

P.M. Davis X has his cabinet summarily executed

9:09pm, February 29th, 2136. Prime Minister K. Cornelius Davis finds himself presented with an ultimatum: a viral disease of the autoimmune system called VODAIS (viral overactive disorder of the auto-immune system), which causes people to exhibit severe diarrhea among other flu-like symptoms chronically, is being spread throughout his nation. It's happened before, and supplying drugs to the public hasn't been successful previously. His cabinet has given him an ultimatum: because they have no healthcare funding, and because a tax hike to suddenly fund a huge federal medical campaign would cause public anarchy: either funding from the military must be cut to subsidize drugging and possibly curing the infected, some of whom will refuse the medicine and procreate anyway; or segregate all infected for the remainder of their lives, and the males of whom must undergo vasectomies. Davis chose the latter; and for doing so, he was arrested hours later for a hate crime and charged in court formally, behind closed doors.

Prime Minister Cornelius Keenen Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X was accused of mass segregation based on disability. A District Attorney of Capitol Territory presented evidence against him why he should be impeached and imprisoned. "A," he said, name withheld, "Davis has been very kind to us in the past, but that doesn't excuse his crimes past and present. B, the law clearly states all men in the country's borders or surrounding seas up to foreign borders are accountable to the law categorically. C, he previously sent us to war over small things, such as seizing just a few remote islands on the edge of our borders and Wezeltonia, and just a few hundred thousand people enslaved who were probably doomed anyway - well you can't run from God." He continued for 10 minutes, before Davis stopped him. He pleaded guilty, as he's done in court twice now publicly. After a short address by the presiding Supreme Court Justice, name also withheld, Davis could be sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The court decided that, if he were sentenced to prison, he would be ordered to have a child, and 18 years after the child's birthdate, Davis would be imprisoned for his crime against the Consigahrian people. Indeed, to separate the Consigahrian people based on a contagious illness is not in [the judge's] legal opinion "a good reason to legally segregate the people." She was contested by three of the five other judges--the court agreed, whether or not segregation based on contagious fatal illness is constitutional and legal is inconclusive.

1:22pm, March 1st, 2136. After 17 long hours of arguing back and forth, defensive opposition in the Prime Minister's favor agreed made it clear that they unanimously assign blame and subsequent punishment to the members of his cabinet. The members of his cabinet suggested mandatory mass testing by blood, and recommended the passing of laws that required people who were infected by the virus to be isolated from mainstream society in internment camps they nicknamed "temples." The Prime Minister, who merely wanted to do something different than what hadn't worked in the past, merely followed their suggestions. Small- and large-scale riots broke out as a result, civilians versus police task forces, and many of both sides lost their lives in armed combat. Some villages were decimated because they attacked the residential properties of their mayors (legally, federal property) with explosives such as molotov cocktails and pipe bombs, an act of treason and of war. While riotous behavior isn't specifically illegal, those who engaged in such behavior were shot and killed by the Corporal Service for militantly causing more than R$14 trillion in damage to federal property, and for acts of civil war. Civil war is prohibited by regional law.

Later that Wednesday afternoon, the Prime Minister chose to restrict control of this situation to the current people in the meeting, the six Supreme Court Justices (names withheld), the Prime Minister, and his fiancee Uzoma Meital Riese, who joined the meeting shortly after 1:00pm. Having her Doctorate in Criminal Justice, Davis appointed her as the seventh Supreme Court Justice; and subsequently, she sided with the defense, offsetting the scale, and then promptly dismissed the District Attorney.

A unanimous vote between the Justices having been reached, Prime Minister Cornelius Keenen Hobbes Davis X has been deemed innocent of all charges against him; and the following people were deemed guilty of treason and "hence sentenced to summary execution by firing squad":

Minister of Defense Rollo Kader
Minister of Education Sharlene Kobayashi
Minister of Welfare Nosson Benton
Minister of Law and Order Adir Stamatios Kleid
Minister of National Security Willard Xiao Law
Minister of National Healthcare Nkechi Morse
Minister of Public Transportation Yoram Ottokar Acker
Assistant Prime Minister Onyekachukwu Amnon Kurosawa

In addition, it has been deemed illegal at the federal level, an unforgivable offense, to segregate the public based on an illness. At the maximum extent to the law, the ill may be quarantined either within their own room, or a federally-licensed and state-recognized hospital. The Prime Minister's previous rulings are sustained, but slightly amended: A) every individual infected with VODAIS, a sexually-transmittable and congenital disease of the immune system, will be segregated by sex in internment camps as far away from society as possible; B) each internment camp will be cut off from running water so as to protect the mainstream population; C) all civilians, as well as state and federal personnel, must be tested for VODAIS; D) persons who refuse will be jailed immediately and forcibly tested; E) civilians who test negative for VODAIS after a forced evaluation will be released from prison after 30 days, whereas state and federal personnel who test negative after a forced evaluation will be released immediately; F) this event places the entire country under martial law, removing every non-federal jurisdiction and law; G) after the death of every individual with VODAIS, the law will be abolished, implementation of martial law will cease; H) and finally, in the event of future VODAIS outbreak, the same laws will be put into effect.

At 2:00pm, Davis' cabinet was telephoned and informed that they must appear in court as ordered.

"Under martial law," the Prime Minister declared, "from this day forward, if the cause of the implementation of martial law results in segregation of the people, ...the cause will be monitored 24/7 by the Operatives' Division. In this case, since the cause was a VODAIS outbreak because some infected idiot didn't cover up before his flu-like symptoms started, he created a family over generations. This cannot be allowed; therefore, the infected public must be monitored so that the chance of escape from these facilities is impossible, like a prison. However, these are internment camps, not prisons; it must not appear to the public eye that these people are being forcibly restrained, because that's simply not the case. The aim of armed supervision is to keep them contained within these facilities, yes, but you won't find armed guards in tactical assault gear patrolling the interiors. Just around the perimeters. Within the interiors, every other floor will be a security level, in which the Operatives' Division will supervise the floor below them. Stairs accessible by card or key only will provide easy access if and when preventative or deadly force becomes necessary. The infected have already had their weapons confiscated, cleaned thoroughly, and resold in the mainstream population; and their homes are currently being decontaminated at the government's expense, hence the recent small rise in income and sale taxes of less than 1%. Unfortunately, all other options are either unconstitutional, or involve either a humongous tax hike ergo anarchy, and/or civil war which regional law prohibits." His declaration continued. Prime Minister Cornelius Davis X said will have to appoint a new assistant as well as seven qualified Ministers at some point in the future. If he failed to do so in a timely manner, whether every infected individual is deceased or not, martial law could not come to end safely.

At 2:30pm, an operation was silently staged to gather the Prime Minister's cabinet (the condemned) and their families. Around 5:30pm, as ordered by the Prime Minister, the condemned would be summarily executed for their crimes against the Commonwealth of Consigahria.

At 2:50pm, Minister of Law and Order Adir Stamatios Kleid was reportedly in a plane heading from Vermillion City Regional Airport in Taxahamie, Capitol Territory, in flight. The Prime Minister called him from his personal cellphone and urged him to command the plane to land immediately so he can be arrested. Kleid screamed he knew he'd lost his job, but he refused to lose his life, and then ended the call; so the Prime Minister ordered the plane to be shot down. The Consigahrian Royal Air Force dispatched four fighter jets in pursuit of the airliner with orders to shoot it down and eliminate any survivors.

At 3:20pm, Minister of Defense Rollo Kader and 50 armed staff members committed murder of five Operatives' Division agents and two Corporal Service agents. At 3:23pm, the Prime Minister ordered the property to be carpet bombed. At 3:25pm, Dixie Police Department evacuated a one-mile perimeter around the property; and at 3:54pm, the property suffered extensive damages including collapsed buildings and fire damage due to five bombs dropped in specific places. At 4:00pm, the property was surrounded by 200 men total, who, after much gunfire, brought Kader and his staff to their knees. Kader and all 50 armed men and women, as well as 73 federal agents and 17 police officers, lost their lives. There were 12 civilian casualties that took place during the incident, 10 of whom died of fatal wounds later at Vermillion Metropolitan Interregional Hospital.

At 3:30pm, Minister of Public Transportation Yoram Ottokar Acker was sighted by a security camera as he was attempting to leave Capitol Territory by car. He was stopped at the border by the Corporal Service and Montague Police Department, but the car drove through the toll barrier and quickly sped away. Police and Corporal Service gave chase, and after 20 miles of firing at a bulletproof car, Acker and his driver lost their lives in a fatal vehicular collision.

At approximately 4:27pm, the private jet containing Minister of Law and Order Adir Stamatios Kleid was shot down over rural Pincock Territory after nearly two hours of hot pursuit, slamming into Denali National Forest at speeds exceeding 400mph. No civilians were injured or killed in the incident; however, Kleid and wife, alongside six children and a staff of 14 of 50, lost their lives in the incident. 36 employees, who were fired when they refused to flee with them, were spared.

At 4:30pm, escorted by the Corporal Service, the remaining four Ministers arrived in handcuffs with their families and staffs, most of whom were in tears throughout the event. At this time, the Prime Minister's cellphone rang, he answered, and then proclaimed that Kleid and Acker were dead. The Prime Minister's assistant, Onyekachukwu Amnon Kurosawa, was the last to arrive at 4:41pm, and did not bring family with her.

At 5:00pm, a Corporal Service assault team of three marched into the room in a triangle formation, holding tactical AK-47s at their chests. Corporal Service Director Saburo Rosenberger; Corporal Service Deputy Director Martin Salucci; and Operatives' Division Director Jamaal Goddard. Prime Minister Davis X ordered the presiding Supreme Court Justices to follow the orders of the Head Justice, which would either be the Prime Minister himself or his spouse (if qualified). He also decreed that all legal executions would take place according to protocol, no matter where it takes place. They confirmed, writing it to law, introducing to the nation's legal system a Head Supreme Court Justice.

Supreme Court Head Justice Uzoma Meital Riese was sworn into office at 5:10pm. Subsequently, the Prime Minister allowed 20 minutes for the families present to say their final goodbyes.

At 5:30pm, the Prime Minister ordered the Head Justice to carry out the execution. She ordered all five people to stand in line alphabetically against a pure white wall opposite of the Justice's desks, and said an earnest prayer to God to forgive the offenders, and forgive "us who put them to death before You" (sic), before she ordered three bullets per executioner to each offender. (Normally, the maximum number of bullets allowed to legally kill somebody is one, or two if they survive the first.) Goddard affirmed and stepped up first, cocking his weapon, before the Prime Minister announced: "For the crime of treason, I hereby dishonor and disavow you all. You are relieved of duty, title, nobility, and estate. Execute them."

The three executioners set their weapons to fire three-shot bursts, and alternated between kills as each cadaver was placed on a stretcher, covered with a white linen, and carried away to waiting ambulances outside the building. Division Director Goddard shot and killed Benton; CS Director Rosenberger shot and killed Xiao Law; CS Deputy Director Salucci shot and killed Morse; Goddard shot and killed Kobayashi; and Rosenberger shot and killed Kurosawa.

Rollo Kader was 38 years old. Sharlene Kobayashi was 42 years old. Nosson Benton was 38 years old. Adir Stamatios Kleid was 42 years old. Willard Xiao Law was 35 years old. Nkechi Morse was 52 years old. Yoram Ottokar Acker was 49 years old. Onyekachukwu Amnon Kurosawa was 27 years old.

As of March 1st, 12:01am, the nation is under martial law.

On March 11th, 2136, Prime Minister Davis X proclaimed that he'd successfully hired a new assistant. Democracy rules: the Prime Minister has been urged by both his assistant and his fiancee to allow the people to elect his cabinet. For generations, the Prime Minister has always selected his own cabinet; so the sentiment was somewhat unwelcome, but nevertheless considered. Meanwhile, over the past eleven days, due to recent legislation in Consigahria, there have been over 18,000 military-related deaths, over R$4 million in property damage, and more than 5,000 arrests. As per regional law, CS and riot police patrol all major streets by foot and all minor streets by helicopter; the number of thefts, murders, and arrests for public indecency have skyrocketed; and due to cemetery overpopulation, cremation for the recently deceased has become legally compulsory.

Lilliputian Freedom Fighters 2136 Attack

A multinational terrorist organization called the Lilliputian Freedom Fighters, originating from Lilliputia, set off 60 suicide bombers in an apparent terrorist attack in Vermillion City on March 28th, 2136, killing 380 people and injuring hundreds more. Instead of declaring war, Prime Minister Davis X sought out a peaceful meeting with the leaders of the organization. On the 30th, they met within the Prime Minister's private office, a meeting guarded heavily, and Consigahria would learn their alleged offenses against the Lilliputian Republic. The Prime Minister dismissed the group after more bloodshed was threatened, and the men were arrested. A firefight ensued for about five minutes, resulting in the death of three Lilliputian Freedom Fighters generals and the injury of 35 Corporal Service agents and of the Prime Minister himself. The Prime Minister suffered two shots to the shoulder and one near the liver, and is expected to survive. Seven remaining generals of the terrorist organization, found to be official Consigahrian citizens, were sentenced to death by firing squad for treason, destruction of government property, unlawfully handling firearms, 35 counts of attempted murder, and attempted murder of a government official. After the execution, the Prime Minister commented that they were "extremely skilled gunmen and assassins." Lilliputia's reaction is hence unknown.

2136 Earthquake and Tsunami

On June 22nd, 2136, 125 miles south-southeast off the coast of Vermillion City's southernmost boroughs, two powerful megathrust earthquakes jolted Capitol Territory and the entire western coast of the nation. The first earthquake was measured at 8.7 on the Richter scale, and the second at 9.6. The first earthquake struck at 8:37 am and lasted for 12 minutes, killing over 14 million people, injuring 120 million others, and causing an estimated R$250 trillion in damages. The second earthquake struck shortly afterwards, at 9:26 am, and lasted for 21 minutes, injuring another 300 million, killing another 20 million, and causing another estimated R$380 trillion in damages. More than 60% of buildings in Vermillion City, and more than 80% in Tanahog, were damaged or destroyed in the earthquakes, causing fires and mass flash flooding in low-lying areas. Total damages exceeded R$630 trillion; total number of civilian deaths, either from complications of injuries or as a direct consequence, exceeded 46 million people.

After the first earthquake, those near the coasts who survived were urged to escape to higher grounds, but most found the effort futile.

At 9:32 am, a 12-meter tsunami inundated the western coastline, causing another R$120 billion in damages, as well as injuring and killing another 3 billion people. The tsunami didn't recede until late that night, and the waters which carried debris, houses, cars, and materials from countless buildings took its stolen lives and treasures, including three massive oil refineries, out to deep sea.

1.9 billion people are currently unaccounted for, either having been buried under buildings, drowned, otherwise killed, or carried out to sea. 3.34 billion people lost their lives in the incident and their bodies recovered, and over 420 million people were injured. The public sector suffered a financial loss of more than R$750 billion, less than half of estimated damages to the entire nation.

Even three days after the indicent, many hospitals along the western coast are damaged beyond the capacity to treat their patients, and the emergency services of most cities are still struggling to restore order as entire hospitals take to the skies in helicopters. The Operatives' Division, CIA, FIB, COWTA, and National Police Agency have dispatched helicopters to rescue stranded people from rooftops and to deliver food and water. According to reports, extractions could finish in about three weeks.

The federal government convened on June 23rd, and the Prime Minister ordered all buildings in the nation to be upgraded in order to withstand 9.0 earthquakes. He also wrote a check of R$800 billion to the Federal Bank of Consigahria to help pay for reparations, a move that would ultimately put him R$300 billion in debt. Other federal governments sent financial aid.

As of June 25th, families light incense and candles in mourning, as construction crews work tirelessly in the background, to commemorate their fallen loved ones.

Prime Minister Davis X gives the throne to his younger brother

On the date of November 30th, 2136, Prime Minister Cornelius Davis X resigned from office due to illness, giving his control of the nation to his 21-year-old younger brother. Exactly what sickness has befallen him has thus far remained a family secret.

As of December 1st, C. Keenen Timothy G. H. Davis XI has ascended to the throne.

Demographics

The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria
The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria
	Motto: "Os Iusti Meditabitur Sapientiam" (Latin); "The Mouth of Justice Meditates Wisdom"
	Anthem: Lilium (Latin); "Lilium"
Region	Spiritus
Capital	Vermillion, Capital Terr.
Largest city	Tanahog, Vermillion Terr.
Official languages	English, Hebrew
Recognised national languages	English, Hebrew, Japanese, Consigahrian Sign Language
Ethnic groups	57.8% Native Consigahrian; 2.2% 10000 Islander, 1.04% Brasilistani; 38.96% Other
Demonym	Consigahrian
Government	democratic constitutional and parliamentary autocracy
Legislature	The First Legislature of Consigahria
Founded The Vermillion Treaty
Population
GDP (PPP)	2137 estimate
Gini (2137)	40.2; medium
HDI (2137)	0.9834623545596568; very high · 14
Currency	Ruice (CNR)
Time zone	West Consigahrian Time Zone (WCTZ) (-1), Central Consigahrian Time Zone (CCTZ) (0), Eastern Consigahrian Time Zone (ECTZ) (+1) (UTC-1 to +1)
Drives on the	right
Calling code	+1 51
Internet TLD	.co.con.spr
1.	This information is subject to change.
2.	The current year in Consigahria is 2137.
3.	This article contains borrowed images of cityscapes, non-sexual frontal nudity, and religious symbols. Viewer discretion is advised.
4.	Average income tax rate: 21.7% (▲); Property tax rate: 1.0% (▼); Sales tax rate: 0.25% (─); Unemployment rate: 2.61% (▲); Exchange rate: CNR$1 = NS$1.9887 (▲)

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Culture

Consigahrian people, also known as Native Consigahrians, are a very musical, loving, friendly, open, charitable, accepting Jewish people whose generations have resided in Consigahria since before its federation. The majority of Consigahrians are tan- or dark-skinned, while less than half are of Caucasian ancestry. Racism exists between the non-mixed Caucausian and Black communities, and less between the Black and Latino communities. People who are frugal are seen as corrupt and are generally put down in the media, although these are the country's most renowned civilians and business owners.

Most Native Consigahrians have a milk- or dark-chocolate color to their complexions; are Jewish by conversion, are Jewish by marriage of a parent to a Jew, or are Jewish at birth; and are generally shorter than six feet. The darker the complexion, generally, the wider the hips and kinkier the hair. Most are "skinny", fit, or muscular. They have three types of hair, and because of its thickness it tends to be kinky: black and straight, black and curly, or blonde and curly. Most Native Consigahrians are proud (and sometimes arrogant) people because of their belief to have royal bloodlines from ancient Egypt. Native Consigahrians as a race are attributed to modern nudism, and are generally seen by the rest of the world as egotistical, snide, bossy, manipulative, blunt, and overtly sexual. Of course, this is part of the nation's charm.

Classism (defined as prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class) exists between the lower and upper classes, and between the uppermost classes (nobility or noble families) and the other classes categorically. It stems, mostly, from the nation's slave trade.

Although public nudity is legally allowed, sexuality exhibited in public is generally frowned upon in Consigahria, both by the government and the citizens. Alongside detailed anatomy lessons from a very young age, children are also taught that the most sexual touching a man is allowed in public by his spouse is a passionate kiss, but not a series of passionate kisses or anything more arousing than that. This is primarily because public nudity restricts the ability to hide sexual arousal. In public, men with short foreskins and men without may or may not wear a kynodesme, a device used to restrict the foreskin, or residual foreskin in the case the individual was circumcised, which keeps the foreskin tied as a cover for the glans penis and aiding in both comfort while running or exercising, and restoring functionality to the entire organ. Medical circumcisions, legally defined as circumcisions which occur solely when medically necessary, do occur, but when they occur, surgeons try to cut the foreskin very loosely, so that wearing a kynodesme and restoring the foreskin naturally remains possible. Alongside anatomy and physiology, children are also taught and practiced in some form of hand-to-hand combat. Those who engage in black market activity are found by their teachers to be more violent than average, especially those gifted with a psychic ability; and while discriminatory at best, the government recognizes an intrinsic credibility in it, and creates suitable laws.

Choirboys singing about the joys of devout, abstinent heterosexuality on city trams and subways are a common sight in Vermillion City, and their perfect harmony is usually followed by applause and praise from their audiences. Similarly, other mixed groups, such as those of mixed sexualities and religions, are known to rehearse and perform in public, sometimes for tips or donations. Their age group is, roughly, 14 to 18 years of age.

For all the race's virtues, Consigahrian citizens are notoriously territorial, and while the nation has a very bright, laidback, and optimistic outlook and a foreign policy to match, it has been known for reacting in extreme military violence when threatened. Its citizens are taught similarly. Territoriality, even among the people, is incredibly common in rural settings, although selfish frugality is generally frowned upon; and while still prominent in large cities such as Dockmackie and metropolitan conglomerates such as Vermillion, territoriality is not so common due to the higher population density.

Criminals (87% of arrested in 2134), and less frequently homeless people (9%) and wayward youth (4%), are regularly arrested for public intoxication charges such as DUIA (driving under the influence of alcohol), DUII (driving under the influence of an intoxicant), criminal possession of narcotics, criminal possession of stolen vehicles, and criminal possession of controlled substances such as meth, crack, and speed. Those found with melee weapons are disarmed; and those with firearms generally give up their weapons at the beginning of police investigations, or find themselves Tasered and disarmed, or if they're combatant shot and killed.

The longest police investigation to date began with a policeman's routine traffic stop inspired by a white sedan's expired license plate tags. The confrontation ended in the policeman's death, and the suspect escaped and remained at large for 10 years. After a decade and some months of merciless murder of countless policemen and countless hostage situations, the suspect was shot and killed by a psychic sniper, an astronomically uncommon and perfect shot, as he was escaping. The shot was ordered not to have been fired, but the sniper fired anyway because he believed he had a perfect shot. The bullet penetrated the suspect's left eye and removed much of his skull, severely injuring the hostage he was trying to escape with. The hostage died weeks later from complications as a result of severe burns and a laceration; because of the lack of healthcare funding in that era, the wounds became severely infected.

Today, healthcare is paid for by the taxpayers, instated and maintained by the Federal Healthcare Tax (5.2% of workers' paychecks), and several decades-old charities established throughout the region, which ensures free healthcare and dentistry for all, while not taking away from doctors' paychecks. Individuals with doctorates pay 2.54% instead of 5.2%. Healthcare in the nation is, by world standards, considered excellent.

It is mandatory for all youth to attend school from age five to age 18. In 2135, there were 4.748 million students and youth in Consigahria. About 1.99 million students (42%) were enrolled in public school, about 1.756 million students (37%) were enrolled in a secular private school, about 52,000 students (11%) were enrolled in a religious private school, and about 42,700 students (9%) were home-schooled. About 9,500 youth (2%) were pardoned from mandatory education due to military, prison, or severe illness or disability. In the survey conducted, 300 youth were inexplicably unaccounted for.

Throughout Consigahria, the age of consent seems to fluctuate according to a city's population density. Being that the age of consent is, at the federal level, 12 years of age, the fastest growing demographic of porn viewership is 12 to 17 years of age. However, at the state level, the age of consent is 17, or in some places 18 years of age. Viewing pornography mostly occurs in metropolitan areas, with the viewers using the Internet to do so, and the federal government prohibits police and intelligence agencies from hacking into anybody's computer in any form if without a search warrant. Legally and officially, it's a federal offense to view or create pornographic material, with the worse sentencing topping at 80 years of imprisonment and a R$500,000 fine. However, morally, a child viewing pornographic material isn't considered as bad as meddling in affairs related to said child's sexuality. Therefore, children and teenagers don't generally wind up with legal repercussions for it; and even though it's an official federal offense, it carries the same punition as jaywalking. In rural areas (and some ghettos of large cities), children as young as 8 years old can be seen in casinos and bars, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. It's a federal offense to purchase any intoxicant, including pills, patches, tobacco products, other drugs, drug paraphernalia, or alcoholic products, with the intent to distribute to a minor. The only exception to the law is, parents are legally allowed to give written or verbal consent to allow their minor children to enter and gamble in casinos, to enter bars and purchase and consume alcoholic products, and purchasing tobacco and alcohol from retail and convenience stores.

Even though children are essentially legally allowed to purchase and consume alcohol and drugs at the state level, if the child loses the note that gave him legal permission and his parents are nowhere in sight, the child is arrested for trespassing, which is distinguishable from criminal trespassing. Trespassing is a state-level offense punishable with 24 hours of imprisonment in juvenile detention; but criminal trespassing is a federal offense punishable with up to five years in juvenile detention without parole. (Detained children who pass the federal age of consent are transferred to federal prison.) If the child is intoxicated to any visible or olfactory degree, the child's parent(s) or legal guardian(s) must be contacted for evidence that the child is there without permission. If the child is indeed there without permission, the child is arrested for criminal trespassing. Public intoxication isn't specifically illegal; however, public inebriation is defined as visible or olfactory drunkenness or influence of illicit drugs, such as cocaine, but not cannabis. It's a federal offense to sell alcohol or other intoxicants to a person fitting that description, especially if to a legal minor.

In Tanahog, Vermillion Territory, and Vermillion City, Capitol Territory, the age of consent is 18 years of age. Minors found in possession or under influence of intoxicants on public property (with the exception of cannabis in any capacity, and prescribed pills as long as the label is intact) may be jailed for up to two weeks. Minors found in possession or under influence of Schedule B Drugs are jailed for up to five years in federal juvenile detention. Sale of Schedule B Drugs is federally prohibited, especially to or from a minor, a federal offense punishable for up to 10 years. This law is upheld up to ten miles from the cities' official borders. Areas that employ this law scheme are classed as blue areas by the federal government's intelligence agencies. Like areas include the entirety of Soho Territory; Dockmackie, Pincock Terr.; Konomahamaru, Koyoumaru Terr.; and many major cities in Voya Territory, including Enryuu and its suburbs up to 150 miles from the city center. Enryuu, Voya Terr., is the only city known to have such strict laws in this aspect.

In smaller cities, such as Kaito, Koyoumaru Terr., the age of consent is 16; and while the same federal laws are upheld, they're enforced in a gentler degree, mostly because of the sparseness of people and lack of necessity.

For gender roles etc., see the section on gender, family and social roles.

People in large cities like Tanahog and Vermillion are perceived as "pushier" than people in rural towns such as Kaito. The lower class tends to live either in apartments or single-story houses in very rural towns, or are clumped together in community buildings and skyscrapers in large cities' ghettos. The middle class, or working class, tends to live in skyscrapers such as these, and those in this class who are more charitable generally are happier because they have more privileges, such as excess electricity or water to waste. The high class (the self-proclaimed "top 2%" of society) live in large cities and are responsible for the normal high 65-80% average income tax rate, as they consume much of the country's goods for their own profit. The federal government is currently looking at stamping this out. According to various economists, the projected average income tax rate would gravitate around 30-42% if the wealthy would give more, and in the long term, everybody would benefit.

Outside the mountain ranges, Consigahrian life is based around water systems, primarily the ocean. Roughly 36-48% of the entire population lives within 100 miles of the coastlines.

The people are fiercely patriotic, but don't seem to favor the government when it militarizes.

A monetary culture

As of late 2135, the 4.09% unemployment rate translates to over 807 million people either living in single-bedroom apartments within slums of Vermillion City and Tanahog, the nation's largest cities, paying mere ruices a day in rent if they are able, or staying with friends and families, in one place for no more than six months or in some cases six days. Those who cannot live within makeshift shacks. The residents are responsible for maintenance of lawns, litter, and pet control. Within these slums, nudity is rife because the poorest families only have a few outfits they'd prefer to keep in good condition since they can't just buy more. Over 90% of the clothes worn in these communities are donated. Its streets and alleys incredibly overpopulated, its people inadequately employed if employed at all, and its workforce overtaxed, families within these slums struggle to survive in everyday life. Before martial law was enacted in March, 2136, crime was rife. Today, people usually stay in their homes packed like sardines, because to be outside is to risk being shot by police due to the sheer density and rife poverty of the homeless population. The absolute poorest, most destitute families usually have only one child if any and make less than 9,000 ruices a year.

However, the lower class's poorest families make just under R$32,000 per year, which affords them food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, and luxuries such as radio, television, DVD/BluRay, and wireless Internet. Middle-class families make just under R$100,000 a year. And finally, upper-class families make just under R$220,000 a year.

As a result of an inflated education budget, less than 1% of all children are precluded from the public education system. At school, normally, everyone dresses more or less the same, acts similarly, though uniquely per child, and eat the same amount and quality of food. However, homeless and lower-class children seem to be the victims of bullying and assault. As per a federal law, all public schools have zero tolerance policies for bullying, so it seems to happen only when adults aren't present. The homeless are considered a disease by most irreligious students whose parents don't corporeally punish them. Students with this opinion are normally removed from the classroom, either temporarily or permanently. Violent students are dealt with. Historically violent students are expelled.

Expulsion from school can eventually lead to prison sentences for both the student and his parent(s)/guardian(s) through truancy and other crimes, such as theft, assault, harassment, even arson.

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Religion

The de facto national religion of Consigahria is Karaite Judaism; and the de jure national religion is all denominations of Judaism.

Most of Consigahria's populace is Jewish, as is much of its governmental staff; and as a consequence, the religion largely affects the native custom. Judaism (יַהֲדוּת, Yahadut) is a monotheistic religion, with the Torah (תורה, torah, laws) as its foundational text (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh (תנ"ך, bible) or Hebrew Bible), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Mishneh Torah (משנה תורה, changed laws) and the Talmud (תלמוד). Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God established with the Children of Israel. Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. Within Judaism there are a variety of movements, most of which emerged from Rabbinic Judaism, which holds that God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. Judaism claims a historical continuity spanning more than 3,000 years. Judaism has its roots as a structured religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age.

According to traditional Jewish Law, a Jew is anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism in accordance with Jewish Law. American Reform Judaism and British Liberal Judaism accept the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as Jewish if the parents raise the child with a Jewish identity. All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged since the time of the Talmud. The conversion process is evaluated by an authority, and the convert is examined on his or her sincerity and knowledge. Traditional Judaism maintains that a Jew, whether by birth or conversion, is a Jew forever.

Jewish observances

Most Consigahrian people are Jewish. Males born before 2110 are generally circumcised, and males born after that date aren't, as circumcision was outlawed in that year except in medical necessity. More than 60% of families attend a religious ceremony or gathering once a week. Males have their heads covered in public, either by a hat, beanie, or yarmulke; and those who do not are considered either rebellious or vagrant, usually one or the other. Teachings of chesed, charity, and self-betterment are passed down through the generations. Jewish holidays such as Hanukkah are celebrated as national holidays.

Religious texts

The Jews use the Pirchei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) and the Mishneh Torah for moral guidance, the Haggadah for ceremonial guidance, the Talmud for reference to civil and ceremonial law, and the Tanakh for authoritative scripture.

The Pirchei Avot (פרקי אבות, Chapters of the Fathers) is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims of the Rabbis of the Mishnaic period, which Jews use as a template for their own behavior; and the Mishneh Torah (מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה‎, Repetition of the Torah), subtitled Sefer Yad Hahazaka (ספר יד החזקה, Book of the Strong Hand), is a code of Jewish religious law which the Pirchei Avot is based on.

Haggadah is the text recited at the Seder (feast) on the first two nights of the Jewish Passover, including a narrative of the Exodus.

The Talmud is the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah, the book's substance text, and the Gemara, commentary on the substance.

Tanakh, a list of books considered to be authoritative scripture of the original Hebrew Bible, is an acronym of the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: Torah ("Teaching"), also known as the Five Books of Moses, Nevi'im ("Prophets") and Ketuvim ("Writings") — hence TaNaKh.

Modern versions of the Tanakh are the three subdivisions in one book, instead of three separate books considered the Tanakh as a collective, and so the term Tanakh is a singular noun in lexicon.

Jewish ethics

Jewish ethical practice is typically understood to be marked by values such as justice, truth, peace, loving-kindness, compassion, humility, and self-respect. Specific Jewish ethical practices include practices of charity (צדקה, tzedakah) and refraining from negative speech. Proper ethical practices regarding sexuality and many other issues are subjects of dispute among Jews. Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel taught: "The world rests on three things: justice, truth, and peace" (Avot 1:18). Justice (משפט, mishpat), being God's must be vindicated, whether the object be of great or small value (Sanhedrin 8a). "Let justice pierce the mountain" is the characteristic maxim attributed to Moses (Sanhedrin 6b). Stealing and oppression, even if only in holding back overnight the hired man's earnings, are forbidden. Falsehood, flattery, perjury and false swearing are also forbidden. The reputation of a fellow man is sacred (Exodus 21:1). Tale-bearing and unkind insinuations are proscribed, as is hatred of one's brother in one's heart (Leviticus 19:17). A revengeful, relentless disposition is unethical; reverence for old age is inculcated; justice shall be done; right weight and just measure are demanded; poverty and riches shall not be regarded by the judge (Leviticus 19:15, 18, 32, 36; Exodus 23:3). Transversely, peace (שַׁלוָה, shalom) is one of the underlying principles of the Torah, as "her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are shalom" (Proverbs 3:17). The Talmud explains "the entire Torah is for the sake of the ways of shalom".

Simon the Just taught: "The world rests upon three things: Torah, service to God, and showing chesed" (Avot 1:2). Loving-kindness (חֶסֶד, chesed) is the core ethical virtue, closely linked with compassion in the tradition. Lack of compassion marks a people as cruel (אַכְזָר, achzar). The repeated injunctions of the Law and the Prophets that the widow, the orphan and the stranger should be protected show how deeply, it is argued, the feeling of compassion was rooted in the hearts of the righteous in ancient Israel.

Friendship (חֲבֵרוּת, chaverut) is also highly prized in the Talmud; the very word for "associate" is "friend" (כחבר, chaver). "Get thyself a companion" (Avot i. 6). "Companionship or death" (Ta'anit 23a).

Respect for one's fellow creatures is of such importance that Biblical prohibitions may be transgressed on its account (Ber. 19b). Especially do unclaimed dead require respectful burial.

In addition to teaching caring for others, Jewish sources tend to teach that man is duty bound to preserve his life (Berachot 32b) and his health. Foods dangerous to health are more to be guarded against than those ritually forbidden. Jewish ethics denies self-abasement. "He who subjects himself to needless self-castigations and fasting, or even denies himself the enjoyment of wine, is a sinner" (Taanit 11a, 22b). A person has to give account for every lawful enjoyment he refuses (Talmud Yerushalyim Ḳiddesh iv, 66d). A person should show self-respect in regard to both his body, "honoring it as the image of God" (Hillel: Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34), and his garments (Talmud Shabbat 113b; Nedarim 81a). According to Judaism, real life goes beyond the concept of breathing and having blood flow through our veins, it means existing with a purpose and connecting to God and others.

Prayer

Traditionally, Jews recite prayers three times daily, Shacharit, Mincha, and Ma'ariv, with a fourth prayer, Mussaf, which is added on Shabbat (Judaism's day of rest and seventh day of the week, typically Sunday) and holidays. Prayers can be done with other people (recommended), or alone; but at the heart of each prayer is the Amidah or Shemoneh Esrei, in which friends and family stand together and pray together. Most of the prayers in a traditional Jewish service can be recited in solitary prayer, although communal prayer is preferred. Communal prayer requires a quorum of ten adult Jews, called a minyan. In nearly all Orthodox and a few Conservative circles, only male Jews are counted toward a minyan; most Conservative Jews and members of other Jewish denominations count female Jews as well.

Another key prayer in many services is the declaration of faith, the Shema Yisrael (or Shema). The Shema is the recitation of a verse from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4): Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad—"Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God! The Lord is One!"

In addition to prayer services, observant traditional Jews recite prayers and benedictions throughout the day when performing various acts. Prayers are recited upon waking up in the morning, before eating or drinking different foods, after eating a meal, and so on.

The approach to prayer varies among the Jewish denominations. Differences can include the texts of prayers, the frequency of prayer, the number of prayers recited at various religious events, the use of musical instruments and choral music, and whether prayers are recited in the traditional liturgical languages or the vernacular. In general, Orthodox and Conservative congregations adhere most closely to tradition, and Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues are more likely to incorporate translations and contemporary writings in their services. Also, in most Conservative synagogues, and all Reform and Reconstructionist congregations, women participate in prayer services on an equal basis with men, including roles traditionally filled only by men, such as reading from the Torah. In addition, many Reform temples use musical accompaniment such as organs and mixed choirs.

Siddurim

A siddur (סדור, order) (plural: סדורים, siddurim) is a prayer book containing an ordered list of daily prayers. Readings from the Torah and the Nevi'im form part of the prayer services. To this framework various Jewish sages added, from time to time, various prayers, and, for festivals especially, numerous hymns.

The earliest existing codification of the prayerbook was drawn up by Rev Amram Gaon of Sura (Babylon) in circa 850 CE. Half a century later, Rav Saadia Gaon (also of Sura) composed a siddur in which the rubric is in Arabic. These were the basis of Simcha ben Samuel's Machzor Vitry (11th century France), which was based on the ideas of his teacher. Another formulation of the prayers was that appended by Maimonides, who wrote the Pirchei Avot, to the laws of prayer in his Mishneh Torah. This forms the basis of the Yemenite liturgy and has had some influence on other rites. From this point forward, all Jewish prayer books had the same basic order and contents, but each would be compulsorily individualized.

Two authoritative versions of the Ashkenazi siddur were those of Shabbetai Sofer in the 16th century and Seligman Baer in the 19th century, neither of which are now considered relevant. Siddurim have also been published reflecting the views of Jacob Emden and the Vilna Gaon, renowned ancient specialists in studies of the Talmud, or shisha siddurim (the "six orders" found in the Mishneh Torah).

Religious clothing

A classical kippah, one variation of many.

A kippah (כִּפָּה, plural כפפת kippot; Yiddish: יאַרמלקע yarmulke) is a slightly rounded brimless skullcap worn by many Jews while praying, eating, reciting blessings, or studying Jewish religious texts, and at all times by some Jewish men. In Orthodox communities, only men wear kippot; in non-Orthodox communities, some women also wear kippot. Kippot range in size from a small round beanie that covers only the back of the head, to a large, snug cap that covers the whole crown.

An example of tzitzit

Tzitzit (Hebrew צִיציִת) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tzitzis) are special knotted "fringes" or "tassels" found on the four corners of the tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tallis), or prayer shawl. The tallit is worn by Jewish men and some Jewish women during the prayer service. Customs vary regarding when a Jew begins wearing a tallit. In the Sephardi community, boys wear a tallit from bar mitzvah age. In some Ashkenazi communities it is customary to wear one only after marriage. A tallit katan (small tallit) is a fringed garment worn under the clothing throughout the day. In some Orthodox circles, the fringes are allowed to hang freely outside the clothing.

Tefillin (תְפִלִּין), known in other languages as phylacteries (etymologically from a Greek word meaning safeguard or amulet), are two square leather boxes containing biblical verses, attached to the forehead and wound around the left arm by leather straps. They are worn during weekday morning prayer by observant Jewish men and some Jewish women.

A kittel (Yiddish קיטל), a white knee-length overgarment, is worn by prayer leaders and some observant traditional Jews on the High Holidays. It is traditional for the head of the household to wear a kittel at the Passover seder in some communities, and some grooms wear one under the wedding canopy. Jewish males are buried in a tallit and sometimes also a kittel, which are part of the tachrichim (burial garments).

Burial (קְבוּרָה, kevurah) is, historically, to be placed in a sepulcher of some kind, usually in the ground or in a "cave of rocks"; but today, cremation is compulsory for all deceased mammals, and usually the remains are scattered into the ocean (in rivieras and other tropical areas) or a river (in hilly and mountainous areas).

Gender, family, and social roles

A family is allowed as many children and as many spouses as the patriarch and/or matriarch deems necessary or prudent. Rules governing how the family interacts with each other is defined by the individual patriarch and/or matriarch. However, to marry more than one person is illegal at the federal level.

In a typical Consigahrian patriarchal household, the patriarch dominates the house, and his wife shares in his wealth and in his authority. The patriarch (father) works daily nine- to twelve-hour shifts, or three daily three-hour shifts in different professions; the matriarch (mother) stays home to tend to the house and children who are aren't yet in school; the children who are in elementary school learn rudimentary mathematical and linguistic skills; the children who are in middle school learn advanced mathematical and linguistic skills; and the children in high school specialize their education how they see fit. In a typical matriarchal household, the same is true, but the father and mother roles are reversed.

At home, no matter what the family's financial standing, the parents generally have a disciplinarian style of teaching. Children who steal learn quickly that thieves may lose fingers. In Consigahria, children who misbehave are spanked, and so children are generally more pleasant and less susceptible to be defeated in a fistfight than children in less-disciplined countries. The parents generally raise their children according to the nationalized religious and largely nudist lifestyle. Poorer families, officially classed "middle class" (32.39%) and "lower class" (39.6%) (72% of the population), are generally conservative, while richer families, officially classed "upper class" (28% of the population), are considered spendthrift. Clothes are employed as either a punishment mechanism or as a means of warmth outside of the home; the most severe punishment legal to use on any person is to confine them in warm clothing within a room at no more than 112 degrees Fahrenheit for no more than two consecutive months, or three days without food and water. However, the insubordinate are normally punished more bearably, for example by means of confinement to one's bedroom, confiscation of toys or other electronic or entertainment devices, and corporeal punishment (spanking on the butt, hands, and/or thighs by hand, belt, or paddle). The utilization of melee weapons in corporeal punishment (defined as the use of anything other than the parents' own hand, belt, or paddle, and in any other location on the minor's body other than the butt, hands, or thighs) is an unlawful felony.

According to a 2126 survey, classed as a "study" by the government, of 10 billion individuals surveyed, gang activity was found prohibited in 63% of Consigahrian households but shockingly remained prevalent as a staggering 45% of minors aged 14-18 and a 36% of adults aged 21-40 had a gang affiliation. Most refused to speak at length about their activity as a gangbanger. 23% of gangs, found to be mostly comprised of lower-class middle school students, engaged in firearm warfare simply over the color of the set's uniform, firing upon fellow sets and burning bridges in their wakes. 70% of self-proclaimed "gangbangers" and 56% of self-proclaimed "gang members" (86% of the surveyed) claimed their gang affiliation was hereditary. The government concluded that all gangs operate under certain belief systems and are willing to defend those beliefs with a gun; that all gangs are subdivided into sets, which have their own unique individual traits; and that many gangs were family-oriented, meaning 81% of Consigahrian families either have or had gang affiliations; however, crimes happen much, much less often than they do in most parts of the world.

At school, teachers are allowed to utilize corporeal punishment, but are not allowed to use their own hands or belts. They absolutely must use a paddle. Normally, teachers don't corporeally punish students because time doesn't allow. In this case, the student is sent to a principal who specializes in assessment of breach of school rules and federal laws and punishment. Some parents who don't want their children spanked by anybody other than themselves enroll their children in private schools. Homeschooling is conceptualized but doesn't ever happen in Consigahria. At school, students are generally happy, acquiescent, yielding, and kind to one another. Eye contact is paramount. Avoidance of eye contact is normally interpreted hostilely, and hostility is met with equivalent (reciprocal) hostility. Public displays of violence are generally frowned upon and discouraged. If students must get violent, they are encouraged to either take their affair away from school grounds, or seek counsel from a trusted staff member or from parents without getting violent.

Because of the paramount gang activity in most low-class schools, uniforms have been enacted, and graffiti lines many hallways, some tagged with gang symbols to claim both the inking and the school. There have been recorded events involving minors, gang activity, and shootouts between neighborhoods; and there have been recorded events involving minors, gang activity, and brandished blunt weaponry within public schools. In 2131, the federal misdemeanor crime of assault became a felony on any public school's property by law, and in 2133, the addenda concerning violence on public school property were repealed.

Family dynamics

Most families are Jewish by blood. 41% of Jewish families are Reform Jewish, 29% are Conservative, 18% are Unorthodox, and 12% are Orthodox. And so, the common family names of ancient times, kinui chibah (כִּנוּי חִיבָּה, pet names) are still used today.

Language used among family and close friends

Jews use colloquial language among family and close friends that would be considered either rude or awkwardly inappropriate among strangers. Below is a list of a few Yiddish phrases.

A bi gezunt (עה בי גזונט) - "As long as you're healthy", or "At least you've got your health". Used to negate something terrible that's happened. For example, your cousin's house burns down. A bi gezunt.
Balabusta (באלאבוּסטא) - a good homemaker; a friendly host.
Barimer (באַרימער) - a braggart; a showoff.
Bissel, or bissela - a little bit.
Boychick - a term of endearment used for young boys.
Broche (ברוכה) - prayer.
Beitzim (בעיטזם) - testicles.
Bubba, or Bubbe (בובבה) - a term of endearment used for grandmothers.
Bubbala, or Bubbele (בובבהלא) - a term of endearment; "darling".
Bupkes (בופקס) - something absurd or worthless.
Tsaya (צאיה) - animal, used to refer to unruly children.
Chazerei (חזרי) - food that is awful.
Chutzpah (חוצפה) - nerve, audacity, gall.
Dreck, or drek (דרעק) - shit; crap; nonsense.
Dreck off a teller, or drek aoyf a teller (דרעק אויף אַ טעלער) - shit on a plate; mean-spirited and completely worthless person.
Er zitst oyf shpilkes (ער זיצט אויף שפּילקעס) - he sits on pins and needles; he's restless.
Er macht a tel fun dem - he ruins it.
Er zol vaksen vi a tsibeleh (ער זאָל וואַקסן ווי אַ ציבעלע) - he should grow like an onion (...with his head in the ground).
Farfalen, or far-fallen (פאַרפאַלען) - (as if doing the same thing day in day out for years, having expected an opportunity for change, and ultimately being disappointed,) hopeless; fallen in; collapsed; lost.
Farmach dos moyl, or Farmakh dos moyl (פאַרמאַכ דאָס מויל) - shut your mouth.
Fercockt (פרקקת) - all fucked up.
Fershlugeneh (פרשלגנה) - beaten up, messed up, no good.
Farshnickert (פאַרשניקקערט), or farshnoshket (פאַרשנאָשקעט) - drunk as a skunk; high as a kite.
Fershtayin (פאַרשטיין), or fershtays (פערשטייַס) - Understand?
Farshtinkener (פאַרשטינקענער) - rotten (as in a person).
Fetzel (פצל) - to flatulate.
Fress (פרס) - eat quickly and noisily.
Foiler (פאָילער) - a lazy person.
Gevalt (גולת) - woe.
Goy (גוי) - gentile (a derogatory term meaning gentile); goyim (גויים) is the plural, and goyisher (גוישר) is the adjective.
Kibitz (קבץ) - unwanted help during a game.
Klutz (קלוץ) - an awkwardly uncoordinated person or animal.
Kosher (כשר) - "comestible" as defined by Jewish dietary law, or "legitimate."
Kvell (קול) - to beam with pride and pleasure.
Kvetch (מקטר) - to complain incessantly.
Luzzum, or luzz 'em (לוזזום) - leave them alone.
Macher (מכר) - sold, or ambitious.
Mazel tov (מזל טוב) - congratulations, good luck.
Magilla (מגלה) - long, revealing, boring, and complicated.
Mishin (מישנ) - nosy.
Mensch (מנשך) - a person of upstanding character.
Messhugeh (מסשוגה) - crazy.
Plotz (פלוץ) - to collapse.
Seikhel (סאיקהל) - good sense; good judgment.
Shlimazel (שלמזל), or shlemiel (שלומיאל) - a person with abhorrently bad luck, a chronic failure, or a born loser.
Shmegege (שמגג) - a petty person; "needle-dick" (an insult).
Schmooze (שמאוז) - to talk in a gossip-like fashion; to barter.
Schnoz (שהנוז) - nose.
Tsucheppennish (צוטכפפנש) - something irritating that attaches itself like an obsession. "She has tsucheppennish..."
Tuches (תוכס) - bum; butt; ass.
Verklempt (בר קלמפת) - choked up.
Zitsin (זיצן) - sit; sit down.
Zhlub, or schlub (זהלוב) - an insensitive, ill-mannered person.

Sexuality

Sexuality plays a very large part of Consigahrian society. From a very young age, children are taught about human anatomy and physiology, and from the middle-school ages, children are taught about sexuality and psychology, as the four subjects correlate respectively. Therefore, adolescents are much likelier to engage in sexual activity when they feel they're ready, and are much less likely to procreate, whether intentionally or accidentally. Psychopathologists, psychologists, and physicians unanimously agree that such behavior is healthy, so long as the parents teach the children that too much sex, no matter how exclusive, may be detrimental to their health.

Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation used to be a very big issue in Consigahria. Being homosexual or transgender wasn't unheard of, but both were severely criticized and frowned upon. The Consigahrian government began to investigate and research sexual orientation, and when it was discovered to be related to genetics in 1987, the research skyrocketed. Several surveys were developed and conducted through 1987-2020, and in each survey, 200,000 random people on the street would be surveyed. In 1989, one in 300 people surveyed admitted to not being completely heterosexual. It was unheard of to crossdress, let alone believe one belonged to the other gender. In 2000, one in fifty people surveyed admitted to not being completely heterosexual, and although crossdressing was still frowned upon, five in fifty admitted to doing it at least once. In 2020, three in every eight people admitted to not being heterosexual; seven of twelve admitted to crossdressing at least once; one of three made it clear they were homosexual; another one of the same three made it clear they were bisexual; and the last one of the same three wasn't sure what term applied to them.

Today, homosexuality is morally and legally acceptable in all forms, including bisexuality, transsexualism, intersexualism (female-to-male transsexualism without surgery on the genitals), and cis-sexuality (legally defined as "99% heterosexuality," or the practice of conditional heterosexuality, where a heterosexual individual would temporarily engage in homosexual activity, as opposed to bisexuality and homosexuality).

The government doesn't dabble with legal matters as it pertains to private sexuality. Pederasty (legally defined as sexual intercourse between an adult male with a minor male), however, is still specifically illegal at the federal level, and holds the same penalty as statutory rape (legally defined as sexual intercourse between an adult male with a minor female). In Capital and Koyoumaru Territories, however, the laws of pederasty and statutory rape are slightly different: it's only illegal if the family of the minor disagrees with the relationship, as minors cannot legally give their own consent. However, it's still very much frowned upon. The sentence for committing statutory rape or pederasty is 20 years in federal prison, and if the minor didn't comply during the offense, without chance for parole.

Circumcision

Circumcision, legally labeled as genital mutilation, was outlawed in 2010, except in the case of medical necessity. However, it is not illegal to be circumcised, nor for an adult to travel to a foreign country where genital mutilation is legally acceptable, have himself circumcised, and return to Consigahria. Some families still perform the ancient bris ceremonies (on the eighth day of life, a human male would be circumcised to "establish a covenant with God," a practice which was abandoned when it was proven that circumcision began only after the Romans began to evangelize and pursue world conquest.

In 2130, a survey was conducted, and 0.16% of males were found to have been circumcised. Most of them either were in the process of restoring their prepuces in some way, and nine in every ten others who were not had already restored theirs. The one person remaining in every ten didn't know doing so was possible. 26% of males who had restored had done so either surgically or by means of stem cell duplication, and 74% had somehow induced cell growth.

In 2135, the federal government reaffirmed its previous ruling that circumcision is immoral and illegal. The practice of circumcision, federally outlawed over a century earlier, is considered a felony.

Protests

In 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2009-10 respectively, there were a series of protests against medical circumcision. In 2001, a well-renowned doctor, one of the nation's wealthiest, was sued for botching the circumcision of a man's son. When he lost the suit and was found guilty, the doctor's name was redacted from public documents, the presiding justice revoked his medical licenses, and he was arrested for unlawful use of a weapon. In 2003, a group of teenagers were arrested for riotous behavior after publicly protesting against circumcision in general, and one of the teenagers' father decided to peacefully continue the protest. In 2004 and 2006, the group repeated the protest, these times supervised by police.

A teenaged girl's father protests against circumcision after his daughter and her friends were arrested for indecent exposure while protesting in his absence.

A mass protest occurred on November 1st, 2009, and 30 innocent protesters, most of them female youth, were maced by police officers and detained. The rest of the group, around 130 people, began to rebel against them. All 130 were arrested; and an a riot broke out. Civilians began to assault police officers, and when the police became outnumbered, CIA and FBI completely closed off roads and sidewalks leading into and out of Coaxie and Dixie, towns in central Vermillion City. Tabloids and newspapers called it a "civil war" because of the violence; in three months, 160 civilians and 12 police officers died, and 8,400 civilians and six police officers were wounded. In February, 2010, a record 8,510 people were arrested.

Since 2010, there have been hundreds of thousands of protests, the majority of them peaceful. Protesting has become a way of life, alongside voting.

Recreational drug use

Schedule A Drugs are not illegal at the federal or territorial level, such as adrenocorticoids, fusion inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, benzodiazepines, lithium, disulfiram, epinephrine, antihistamines, Vitamin B-12, haloperidol, aspirin, capsaicin, adrenocorticoids, topical antifungals, divalproex, risperidone, ticlopidine, acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, osmotic laxative, insulin, miglitol, niacin, orphenadrine, dronabinol, tetrahydrocannabinol, hydroxyzyne, guanadrel, and hydrochlorothiazides. An adult may possess and distribute any of these drugs as he wishes, but he won't likely have a large profit since the national healthcare associations ("NHAs") distribute these drugs without charge. These associations also screen for Schedule B Drugs, and if any are present in an individual's system, the association helps them to quit the drug and assume a safer Schedule A Drug alternative. Most NHAs employ legally binding paperwork which individual adults must fill out and submit, including a contract which prohibits the individual and any member of their immediate family from, for example, going to another NHA or lying to the NHAs, etc.

Schedule B Drugs are illegal at the federal and territorial levels, such as deathly controlled substances like methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy.

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A nudist girl smokes weed from her bong.

Police are instructed not to pay attention to marijuana, unless it's going across an international border. It is not a controlled substance at the federal level; however, in Voya and Koyoumaru Territories, it is classified as a schedule C drug, among other drugs which produce a psychedelic effect but don't harm the body, which in these territories are illegal to be sold by, sold to, handled by, or consumed by minors. It's a federal crime to transport schedule C drugs into and out of these territories without a medical marijuana license, which practically anybody can get for any severe pain or chronic illness at their territory's Medical Marijuana Office.

Sale of marijuana is taxed (in the gray market), and is strictly reserved for those who have the proper certificates. In the prominent black market, however, sale of marijuana without a license is rife, giving rise to extremely potent strains.

Lawful public nudity

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On a beach in Vermillion Terr., Consigahria, a family gathers for a portrait

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A typical Consigahrian New Years celebration

Public nudity is not a crime, and is protected as free speech in Consigahria. It has a tendency to become law that public nudity is compulsory; but due to health concerns (frostbite, exposure, etc.), the law is often repealed as the climate shifts in order not to allow it.

When public nudity is legally compulsory, to wear clothes on public property (government- or state-owned property) is a misdemeanor crime and is punishable by a night's incarceration and a legal fee. People indeed go to jail for a large accumulation of unpaid fines regarding the matter; the limit is R$250,000, and one individual fine can be up to R$100,000. It is not illegal to wear clothes in specific places, such as some clothe parks, most hospitals, private schools which require uniforms (this applies to the students and faculty only), some places of worship, residential places if the owner permits (or if the owners unanimously permit), and jobs in which specific clothing is necessary. It is also not illegal to wear clothes in public on recognized national and unrecognized (but provable) foreign religious holidays. It is illegal to lie to an officer of the law about a national holiday as an excuse to wear clothes on public property, and to lie to a judge or Supreme Court Justice is a federal offense called perjury; a person who breaks this law is charged with two counts of disruption of the peace, and repeat offenders are incarcerated for two months per charge in federal prison, where they are completely barred from clothing of all kinds, and to commit perjury is to face years of federal prison time.

History of legality

In 1913, a federal law was passed which prohibited clothing worn in public, but not clothing accessories, except in cases of extreme cold. Prohibited clothing legally includes all blouses, shirts, pants, undergarments, skirts, "skorts" (skirt-shorts), and all other clothing garments, except all jackets, hoodies, socks, shoes, sandals, hats, caps, skullcaps, beanies, piercings, tattoos classified as "clothing" such as permanent make-up, and diapers if necessary. Clothing which cover two body portions, such as one-piece pajamas and pantyhose, are specifically illegal to wear.

In its 2000 reestablishment, the law defined prohibited clothing as "fiber and textile material worn on the body to hide or obscure its cosmetic appearance, or for the purpose of hiding erogenous zones."

In its 2021 reestablishment, prohibited clothing was redefined into a list of specific clothing, which basically reverted to the above in a bullet list format, and some other clothing items such as diapers were decriminalized. After a few years, several people masqueraded as disabled people who compulsively defecated on themselves and claimed therefore they had to wear diapers, and after prosecution for breaking the compulsory nudity law, they countersued and lost. In the trials that ensued, it was established that diapers may only be worn in public if medically necessary. It was also established that fetishism, including manic fetishism, would not qualify as medical necessity.

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A Consigahrian mother and her child build sandcastles at Koversada Beach, Vermillion City

The law was repealed in 1918, reinstated in 2000, repealed again in 2005, reinstated again in 2021, repealed yet again in 2030, and reinstated permanently in 2031...or so it would appear. In late 2131, the law was repealed again. For each repeal, public schools operated by territories began to enforce uniforms on school grounds, while other schools merely began to allow students and faculty to dress to a modest extent however they pleased.

In 1913, the law was passed in order to "absolve all envy within a single nation and people under God" in an attempt to be regarded as a more holy nation to their deity.

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Off the coast of Voya Territory, a nudist family boats, and their son strikes a pose as Poseidon, king of the sea.

Death and nudity

Most Consigahrians choose to be dressed in tachrichim, a black robe, for their "burial," as that is the religious custom. Some choose to remain unclothed.

The term "burial" has undergone some change since the nation's antiquity. Today, the term is generic and refers to the way the dead prefer their bodies to be treated after death. Some choose cremation; some choose to be buried in their physical body and tachrichim; while others choose simply to be left undisturbed until the detritivores are finished with it. Some prefer to literally be buried six feet under the ground; but most families would have to travel long distances to bury their loved ones, so the nationalized cremation movement is usually how the dead preferred their bodies to be disposed of.

In 2015, the government made cremation of the dead compulsory because cemeteries across the nation were absolutely full. "If the family of the dead can transport the cadaver across an international border without desecrating it, they may dispose of it however they please, in accordance with that nation's laws," an RA justice said.

Just Be Nice, OK?

In 2014, the federal government introduced a "Just Be Nice, OK?" initiative, which stimulated widespread compassion. Today, citizens of Consigahria are taught, or "brainwashed" if one prefers, to love and give unconditionally. Whether it's a teaching, encouragement, or brainwashing, it's yielded a much better economic result, and the country is better off for it.

Population Day

Population Day has been proclaimed as an annual recognized national holiday occurring five days before Hanukkah, on which day all citizens are exempt from taxation for 24 hours. Citizens are exempt on this day from all taxes, including and especially sales, property and income tax.

Government

Consigahria is operated entirely by its government, called the First Legislature of Consigahria, or simply the First Legislature. The First Legislature has the power to create and enforce laws, but does not have the power to reverse a Prime Minister's veto or any past veto. The First Legislature is divided into two groups which serve two different purposes. One half, the Parliament, controls lawmaking processes by determining constitutionality of individual justice's legal decisions. In other words, the entire Parliament can veto one justice's ruling unanimously. The other half, the Representative Assembly (often abbreviated as RA), creates laws as necessary by individual trials, and each ruling is preserved until later challenged and reversed, or until stricken out by a Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister has the power to create, destroy, and enforce laws; create, limit and destroy organizations of all kinds; and to regulate the Parliament and RA. The Parliament, a group of ten hand-chosen individuals elected from the territories, also has the power to create laws; but the Representative Assembly, a group of 150 individuals hand-selected by the Prime Minister and by Prime Ministers past, are responsible for amending laws which require amendment by unanimous vote. The Prime Minister does not have the right to directly influence tax rates or percentages as it pertains to the national monetary systems. The Prime Minister has the right to declare war and civil war, and also has the right to execute anybody in his jurisdiction without trial or reason, though the Parliament decided in 1901 that the Prime Minister must indicate a "proper reason ... before the execution takes place, or he may be impeached and replaced."

The monetary system is highly monitored. There is an undisclosed but specific amount of bills and coins that are supposed to be in circulation around Consigahria and in foreign trade. If at any point there's an inconsistency, it's recorded and tracked by a government agency and resolved legally. The stock market and value of the ruice is monitored daily by the National Financial Association, a corporation directly underneath the nation's Minister of Finance.

Consigahria is currently under martial law.

Spending

Highest Priority: Education

Expenditure Category	Income Tax Percent
Administration	0%
Welfare	6%
Healthcare	6%
Education	45%
Spirituality	0%
Defense	6%
Law and Order	6%
Commerce	14%
Public Transportation	4%
Environment	6%
Social Equality	8%

Public healthcare

There are several interregional hospitals which are the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth largest hospitals in all of Spiritus. The first (in second place) is Vermillion City Metropolitan Interregional Hospital, which has over 150 locations in Capital Territory alone. The second (in fourth place) is Voya Hospital Group (VHG), which has over 120 locations across Voya Territory.

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Public education

Under construction.

Parliament

Consigahria's Parliament has the right to create laws and settle federal-level lawsuits based on their constitutionality. The Parliament created the nation's constitution, the Consigahrian Federal Body, shortly after the ratification of the Vermillion Treaty.

See Federal and territorial laws of Consigahria for a complete list of laws.

Politics

Politics in Consigahria are held on a very tight leash. The Prime Minister is presented with a few daily RA trials on which there are no legislation. The Prime Minister helps to creates laws in this way; he decides what is best, and his decision is referenced in law forevermore, until a successor imposes a contradictory law which negates the previous. As he does this, the Representative Assembly immediately nips unnecessary addenda in the bud.

The decisions are generally made in either a father-knows-best decision-making process or one which benefits everybody in the long term. Prime Ministers Davis 2-9 have worked very hard to make Consigahria the place it is today through its extensive legislation.

Elections

Citizens are granted every ten years with official polls, called ballots, on which they indicate in pen which representatives they want representing their area in the Representative Assembly. The representatives which appear on the ballot are hand-chosen by the Head Minister of Law and Order.

It began months before the nation's federation, when some citizens rebelled violently against the dictatorial government and were executed on the spot for treason. After this act, Dictator for Life Cornelius Davis I was assassinated in his personal chamber by his security guards, who were ordered to commit the act of treason secretly by the Dictator's son. The Dictator's successor promised one day elections would be widespread in the nation.

Today, citizens are allowed to participate in elections, although not too many.

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High police ratios in urban areas

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A Consigahrian citizen, identity masked, holds a sign that reads in red "too many cops - too little justice."

History

In 1906, there was a 12:1 police ratio, and 80% of homes in Vermillion City were burned and their residents shot for an attempted revolution, one that would have murdered seven billion more people, that Division didn't want to happen. With the Prime Minister's permission, these homes and lives were destroyed. The city was rebuilt larger and larger in symbolism of the prosperous relationship between the Consigahrian government and its constituents. In 2131, 17 million homes in Tanahog were ransacked by police in search of a terrorist; 8.2% of its residential district was ravaged, leaving another three percent terrified.

In 2135, a survey showed the police to citizen ratio was 9:2. In January 2137, another survey showed the police to citizen ratio was 4:7.

Capital Punishment

In 2023, the government began to use public beatings as deterrents for breaking the law, and it was very effective. These beatings would be carried out by police and government agents that worked directly with the public. Minors would not be beaten, however, and would instead simply either face their own parents or incarceration. Adults would be regularly beaten near or in the place where their crime occurred. Justices (judges) do not decide whether a person is beaten, but can decide whether a person dies for their crime. Therefore, most theft is usually armed, or explosive, and sporadic.

Murder in itself has not been legally defined as a crime that deserves the death penalty. If a person murders and in the same moment is murdered themselves, the murderer's death is legally justifiable, and his killer is a hero. However, if the murderer kills, steals a car, and then a random individual blindsides him at 80 miles per hour and kills him that way, unless he willfully killed the murderer specifically for his crimes, his death is not legally justifiable. If the murderer leaves the scene of the crime, he cannot be killed; he must be arrested and tried before a jury, and subsequently sentenced to 25 to 50 years in territorial prison (if the murder he committed was unarmed) or federal prison (if armed).

Theft in itself has also not been legally defined as a crime deserving death. If a person breaks into a house (legally, burglary), whether he has stolen a valuable item (legally, theft) or not, and the patriarch of the house shoots him with a shotgun and wounds or kills him, the wounding or death of the thief is legally justifiable. However, if the thief is shot off of the man's property, his death is not legally justifiable. In the case that a thief actually escapes the man's premises, the man is not allowed to send someone from his house to hunt the thief down (legally, criminal endangerment), but legally may do it himself; moreover, if the thief was armed and had fired a shot before his escape, anybody walking down the street may subdue him for as long as they don't handcuff, kill, mortally wound him, or beat him while he is unable to defend himself. In this case, as in any, the police should be called to the scene of the crime in order to conduct an investigation and place under arrest and/or flog anybody who has broken any laws. Misdemeanors deserved no more than ten flogs, and felonies no more than 100.

In 2136, the laws regarding public floggings came under fire through tens of court cases. Eventually, Prime Minister Davis XI would outlaw it. Before it became a criminal act for the police to beat citizens who broke the law, they were only allowed to use a belt or a flog, both of which were issued by their agency. To use any other object would be a felony punishable by termination of their employment. Today, officers are allowed to engage with combative suspects only if to subdue them, for instance chasing a fleeing suspect on foot and tackling them, causing some bodily damage. However, to attack a compliant suspect usually results in termination of employment and jail time for assault and abuse of legal authority.

Corporeal punishment

Capital punishment is legally synonymous with the death penalty, whereas corporeal punishment is a separate concept which doesn't involve death or killing. In the instances where a perpetrator cannot be legally killed for murder or burglary, it is legal to pursue, apprehend, and beat him (legally, citizen's arrest); but to harm him to the point of unconsciousness is where the line lies. It is a felony to harm him past that point or to harm him to the point of fatal injury; and to kill him there is murder. Police are required to recommend that citizens only pursue and apprehend subjects who commit crimes like burglary, theft, and unarmed murder, and that citizens leave corporeal punishment to the professionals.

Police and corporeal punishment

Police officers are legally allowed to issue public beatings at the time of arrest, but legally speaking, it's only appropriate in situations where, for example, a man assaults a woman, or a high-school-aged teenager commits petty theft. Usually, for larger crimes, like theft in material cost of more than R$1,000 (except in cases of theft of a motor vehicle), the police don't beat perpetrators because, morally speaking, the jail sentence will suffice for punishment.

Up until 2131, the police was notorious for beating their criminals with flogs, belts, sticks, and whips, until the outlawing of corporeal punishment from policemen to civilians during Davis X's reign. However, a year following Davis XI's inauguration, the outlawing was reversed in 2137.

Consigahria National Armada

(This information may be out of date.)

Consigahria National Armada

Military and psychic manpower
Military age	Recruitment: 15-49; reserves: 20-60
Availability	age 15-60: 93%
Fit for military service	age 15–60
Reaching military age annually	1.8 billion
Current size of forces	48,150,000
Military expenditures
Amount	R$132.79 billion
Percent of GDP	1.3%

The Consigahrian National Armada (also known generally as Consigahria National Armada and Consigahria National Guard, and known colloquially as the national armada, the national guard, and the NatArms) is a broad term that generally refers to two entities, either the Consigahrian Royal Army or the Royal Navy; or specifically to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines as a whole, a singular entity.

When referred to as Consigahria National Guard or the national guard, it refers to a small fraction of troops from these groups as separate entities confederated against the public in times of riot. This has happened only once in Consigahrian history, resulting in the impeachment of a Prime Minister, and it has been water under the bridge for decades. The subject is considered taboo to bring up in haute or public company.

Consigahria is a notorious police state during international conflict, during which periods walled cities (Tanahog, Vermillion City, Soho City, Enryuu, Konomahamaru, and Dockmackie) close their municipal borders. City walls are reinforced heavily, are five to eight miles in height, 70 to 100 feet thick, and virtually impenetrable. These cities have missile defense systems which are constantly monitored by government workers. Coupled with walls, these cities are virtually untouchable. In Vermillion City's case, Capital Territory as a whole is prohibited from being exited or entered by any sapient entity, alive or dead.

As a nation, Consigahria is a mainly isolationist state which only militarizes against foreign offense forces. In its entire history, the Consigahrian National Armada has only participated in three wars: the war in which confederated forces who later formed the Consigahrian Dictatorship fought for rights to the Vermillion Plantations, the war in which West Consigahria and mainland Consigahria confederated to fight against Gerenstran military embargo ships, and the war against Brasilistan.

In total, there are 30,000,000 reserve officers in the ranks of the national armada. These reserve officers are highly-trained assassins trained by the Consigahrian government. In event of declaration of war or anticipation of declaration of war, 52% of the total adult population and 20% of the juvenile population of the nation will be recruited and trained to fight and kill in close quarters and at great distances; and to fund this, the country will suffer a 20% tax hike in all areas. In event of riot or civil war within the nation, the nation guard will be dispatched, and those exhibiting riotous behavior will be subdued if possible, or if the person or situation is too dangerous they will be non-fatally incapacitated and jailed. In event of civil war within the region, as Spiritian law prohibits civil war, the entire national armada will be dispatched where necessary.

The national armada is an immense force, considering the national population has exceeded 15 billion, more than 90% of the entire world; and alongside its federal agencies, the country is in total definitely a force to be reckoned with. All four branches of the national armada may have up to 25 million reserve officers each.

Operations are currently largely classified. On April 13th, 2135, the government granted a military subsidy of a quantity it didn't disclose publicly. A 2.5% decrease in governmental influence in the gross domestic product (from 100%) suggested their subsidy was around 106 million ruices, but this was never confirmed. On July 15th, 2135, the government disclosed that its military budget for the year would hover around 10 trillion ruices. As of December, 2135, the government spends only 132 billion ruices for the following year.

Consigahrian Royal Army

Under construction.

Consigahrian Royal Navy

Under construction.

Consigahrian Royal Air Force

Under construction.

Consigahrian Royal Marines

Under construction.

Government agencies

Government agencies employ over seven billion Consigahrian citizens across the nation. Government operatives lead these agencies by employing and directing government agents. Government operatives, unlike agents, are allowed to enter private property by any means necessary, even by utilization of lethal force.

The Corporal Service

The Corporal Service, colloquially known as the CS, is a federal intelligence and protection organization which is responsible for the protection of the Davis Royal Family, their staff, and all their subordinates. The CS is comprised of about 12,670 members who are trained to kill at the double, armed or not. The CS is responsible for less than one percent of deaths every year in Consigahria, and all of these deaths were a direct result of an attack on the Royal Family. CS and its sister agencies NBI and CIA often collaborate and act together. Less often, the NBI and CIA will also work with the nation's Operatives' Division.

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The Operatives' Division (of the Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria)

The Operatives' Division of the Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria, known in Consigahria as simply the Operatives' Division or colloquially as Division, is a branch of the World Operatives' Division, which has many branches in many nations across the world. Put simply, they employ psychic individuals and train them to hunt psychic criminals down where non-psychic intervention is impossible. According to a WOD study, roughly 57% of the entire world is potentially psychic, and 12% of that group are employed with Division.

WOD scientists claim the quantification of a specific percentage of the world which is psychic would probably be illegal in many countries, and morally invasive in others where the law permits; and therefore, WOD has prohibited its branches from investigating it. However, Consigahria and a few other select nations were chosen to make as close an estimate as is legally permitted. In 2135, 43% of Consigahrian citizens were admittedly psychic against a 52% estimated potential.

Consigahria's Division sector employs 12,600 personnel as of 2031; 15,500 personnel as of 2135; and 18,700 as of 2136.

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency of Consigahria, known mostly by its domestic name Central Intelligence Agency and its colloquial acronym CIA, is the nation's primary intelligence agency. Its 270,000-some employees operate from domestic, international, and regional embassies, and from many other locations around the world. The staff of the CIA report to the Director of National Intelligence, who reports directly to the Minister of Defense.

The CIA has four traditional principal activities, which are gathering information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals; analyzing that information, along with intelligence gathered by other Consigahrian intelligence agencies, in order to provide national security intelligence assessment to senior policymakers; carrying out or overseeing covert activities and some tactical operations by its own employees, by members of the NatArms, or by other partners; and prosecution of national and international drug cartels who either don't fulfill or overshoot their quotas.

The CIA, NBI and COWTA tend to work together.

National Bureau of Investigation

The National Bureau of Investigation of Consigahria (National Bureau of Investigation, or NBI), is an intelligence and investigation agency centered in Consigahria responsible for the nation's protection from, to, and monitoring of extraterrestrial activity, and protection of the nation during international struggles by tactical long-range firearm and helicopter-rocket combat, or by hacking computers and networks across the world. The NBI is capable of shutting down the world's strongest supercomputers: it's been done. NBI agents are said to be the "ninjas of the government agencies". The NBI employed 15,240 personnel in 2135, employing a total staff of 31,120.

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Central Operations, Weapons and Technology Agency

The Central Operations, Weapons and Technology Agency of Consigahria, also known by its shorthand name Central Operations and colloquially by its acronym COWTA, is a nationalized intelligence and weapons-monitoring agency specializing in tracking weaponry throughout the country, as well as in and out of the country. COWTA would be held liable for any illegal manufacturing or distribution of weaponry and technology which would be detrimental at a federal level of security. It employs around 650,000 agents who they specially train to fight with firearms and without. The main purpose of the agency to make sure the black market stays within its quota limit as far as importation of guns, ammunition, drugs, and other weaponry and technology are concerned.

COWTA has been involved in two international wars and remains involved in hundreds of domestic disputes per year. Only 12 COWTA agents die in the line of duty per year.

Domestically, COWTA regulates, documents transactions within, and manages the country's white, gray and black markets. Without it, the national, regional, and global black markets would severely decline or even crash.

National Police Agency

The population of Consigahria is almost dominated by a nationalized police agency, conveniently called the National Police Agency, also known officially as NPA (abbreviated) and colloquially as the police, the cops, and similar vaguer terms. Every territory's police officers answer directly to a single Territory Police Commander, or TPC, who in turn answers directly to the Minister of Defense. Every territory has its own TPC. Every territory is subdivided into counties. Every county is operated by one County Sheriff, and many Deputy Sheriffs. Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs have legal influence nationwide; however, there is no demand for them in cities which have their own police departments, which employ their own officers - sergeants, corporals, privates, and officers in training.

Many cities have their own separate branch of the NPA. Examples include Vermillion City Police Department, Dockmackie Police Department, and Koto Police Department, and 72 others. Often but not always, in these urban agglomerations each borough has its own subdivision within the branch. Examples include Rochester Police Department and Dixie Police Department, both of Vermillion City alongside each of their sister subdivisions.

Martial law

Martial law in Consigahria is a period of great conflict within the nation's borders, such as riotous frenzy and civil war. When martial law is in effect, all Territories lose their jurisdictions, or in other words, state law becomes null and void while federal law remains in effect. Some laws, such as police forces and federal agencies require search warrants to enter private property, are temporarily abolished.

When martial law is in effect, the Operatives' Division and Corporal Service patrol city streets by horseback and car, while municipal, state and federal police monitor goings-on by helicopter. Even during martial law, however, for the government to spy on civilians without proper cause is unlawful. During this time, pulling a firearm in public will likely get you shot by patrolmen before the weapon is even ready to fire. Theft, even minor theft, becomes a crime potentially punishable by death.

Citizens are allowed to leave their private property onto government- or state-claimed property to go to the store for necessities, such as means of sustenance and protection; to drive students to school; or to go to a workplace in which that person is employed. All buildings funded by the government, such as factories, most schoolhouses, prisons, and legislative institutions, are being monitored and patrolled by police and Corporal Service by foot and sky, and have orders to make sure all people are abiding by the law for security purposes. The law is said to start at home: the parents make sure their children stay at home unless going to and from school, and while they're at school, the teachers and administrators are responsible for keeping the children where they're supposed to be at all times. Minors (citizens aged under 21 years) are specifically not allowed to roam public property unattended by an adult, nor without the specific purpose of going somewhere. Police and CS are instructed to command halted parties to keep moving, to arrest those who don't obey repeated commands, and to shoot and kill anyone in violent opposition to the law.

To display a firearm in public, except in cases of defense of self, or in the case where a round is fired in close proximity to someone in their protection, is specifically illegal. To display a firearm in any other case is a misdemeanor; and to fire a round in any other case is a felony. The government stated very clearly in their public addresses, that it's perfectly legal to kill a burglar whom escaped the agencies patrolling the streets in defense of your property, your safety, or your family's safety; as well as to kill an armed assassin next door or across the street harming your neighbors, assuming he isn't killed by one of the agencies or the family in question first. Prime Minister Davis X said, "If you believe someone's in danger and you can prevent any further suffering, then do it. If you can't do it in one good shot, do nothing. Do not leave your property. And if the police tell you to go inside, don't be a hero, obey. If something's going on, use common sense: if the police are handling something, and you suddenly burst from your front door holding a shotgun, you're probably going to get shot. ... The bottom line is, it's not likely for a crime to occur within your household coming from the outside, and not arouse suspicion of the patrolmen; but if that does happen, you have every right to defend yourself and your family."

If a federal or state agency comes onto a citizen's property, whether public or private property, it is a highly dangerous and unlawful act for the citizen to come to the door wielding a firearm or knife. It's likewise dangerous and unlawful for a federal or state agency to enter non-federal public property or onto private property without probable cause or a warrant of some kind. Interviews no longer happen within homes because of the risk factor; they happen at the front door. If going inside is necessary, the agency in question facilitates a weapons sweep before investigations begin. It is illegal to deny entry to a state or federal agency who have either a search warrant, an arrest warrant, or probable cause; and if a life is in danger, the crime is potentially punishable by death.

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Population Day

Widow of Emir for Life Jailed

Assertion and Assassination (2012-2127)

Consigahrian-Brasilistani War

Acquisition of Brasilistan

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P.M. Davis X has his cabinet summarily executed

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Prime Minister Davis X gives the throne to his younger brother

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