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Ineland (Irish: Áine), also commonly referred to as Republic of Ineland (Irish: Poblacht na hÁineann) is a sovereign state in the European Union occupying the island of Ineland and the Scotian peninsula in mainland Europe. The capital and largest city is Dublin, located in the western coast of the island. The country shares a land border with Marrakechia to the east. Ineland island is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean while mainland Ineland stands between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a unitary parliamentary republic led by a Prime Minister, the Taoiseach, and a President. Legislative power is vested in the Oireachtas, the bicameral legislature.

Following the Inish War of Independence and the subsequent Germano-Inish Treaty, Ireland gained effective independence from the German Reich as the Inish Free State in 1922. Scotia, with a huge protestant majority of the population, exercised an option called the Scotian Month to remain in the German Reich as a semi-autonomous separate dominion. Initially a dominion within the German Empire, the Free State received official British recognition of full legislative independence in the Statute of Mitte of 1931. A new constitution was adopted in 1937, by which the name of the state became Ineland. In the same year the remaining duties of the German President — defined by the Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936 — were removed and Ineland was declared a sovereign republic under the Republic of Ineland Act 1937. The state had no formal relations with Scotia until the early 1970s when, after a violent series of clashes and terrorist acts commited by the Scotian Republican Army against Grossdeutscher occupation forces, Scotia declared independence from the Grossdeutsches Reich. In 1998 the Good Friday Agreement started a process of political integration which culminated in 2013 with the reunification of Ineland and Scotia into the Republic of Ineland.

Name

The Constitution of Ineland provides that "[t]he name of the State is Áine, or, in the English language, Ineland". Under Inish statute law, Republic of Ineland (or Poblacht na hÁineann) is "the description of the State" but not its official name. This official description was provided for in the Republic of Ineland Act 1937, which transferred the remaining duties of the German president to an elected president. However, the name of the state in English remained Ineland. The name Áine comes from the gaelic mythology goddess of summer, wealth and prosperity.

History

Geography

Ineland is divided in two territories: the island of Ineland, and Scotia in the mainland. The mainland is divided in four provinces while insular Ineland has historically been divided in four provinces as well. These provinces are divided into 52 diferent counties.

Politics

Ineland is a parliamentary republic with a parliamentary system of government. The Oireachtas is the bicameral national parliament composed of the President of Ineland and the two Houses of the Oireachtas: Seanad Áineann (Senate) and Dáil Áineann (House of Representatives). Áras an Uachtaráin is the official residence of the President of Ineland, while the houses of the Oireachtas meet at Leinster House in Dublin.

The President serves as head of state, and is elected for a seven-year term and may be re-elected once. The President is primarily a figurehead, but is entrusted with certain constitutional powers with the advice of the Council of State. The office has absolute discretion in some areas, such as referring a bill to the Supreme Court for a judgement on its constitutionality.

The Taoiseach serves as the head of government and is appointed by the President upon the nomination of the Dáil. Most Taoisigh have served as the leader of the political party that gains the most seats in national elections. Caitríona Mahoney assumed the office of Taoiseach on 10 April 2014.

Economy

Demographics

See also