Nation/Freeja

The Matriarchal Republic of Freeja Matriarcal Respubliko de Freeja
Motto: "The land of freedom"
Anthem: "The land of freedom"
Region		Dreamia
Capital and largest city		Grand Community of Freeja
Official languages		English
Recognised national languages		Esperanto
Demonym		Freejan
Government		Matriarchal Republic
-	Matriarch	Mama Treena
Legislature		Legislative Summit
History
-	Founding	1600
Area
-	Total	5,200,000 km2 2,008,000 sq mi
-	Water (%)	~3.1%
Population
-	2015 estimate	2,038,000,000
-	Density	391.9/km2 1,015/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2015 estimate
-	Total	I$840 trillion
-	Per capita	I$58,001.61
GDP (nominal)		2016 estimate
-	Total	I$491 trillion
-	Per capita	I$33,919.07
HDI (2016)		0.85 very high
Currency		Wä (ɯ)
Time zone		UTC
Date format		dd mm yyyy
Drives on the		left
Calling code		+420

The Community of Freeja commonly called Freeja, is a matriarchy-based community in Pluviostan. It is bordered on the north by The United States of Parlmone , on the south and the east by the sea and on the west by a free lands. Freeja covers 1.370.152 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 314 million of citizens. The standard way to refer to a citizen of Freeja is as a "Freejan". Freeja comprises 11 subdivisions and 1 territory.

History

A few decades ago a group of disparate like-minded people drawn together by common urge to escape homeland oppressions to found new spiritual paradise-on-Earth. They landed at Pluviosan and founded a matriarchal community leaded by Mama Freeja, the elder woman. After death of Mama Freeja, people named the villages, and all the unexplored lands around "The Free Land of Freeja". Since then the community is lead by Mama Treena (elected directly by Mama Freeja before to die) who created the community flag with the Mama Freeja's green-yellow-red coloured dress. Some time later, Mama Treena decided to claim the occupied pieces of free land in Pluviostan and design the borders. From this time The Free Land of Freeja become a definied nation. Because of the overpopulation of the villages (become then the current "Granda Vilago de Freeja"), Mama Treena founded several new villages around the country and changed the flag of the nation placing a tree on it as symbol of community unity.

Geography

Freeja is located in Pluviostan and is bordered on the north by The United States of Parlmone , on the south and the east by Pluviostan Sea and on the west by a free lands. Freeja covers 1.370.152 square kilometers and it is geographically divided in 11 subdivisions (non-administrative) and 1 extended uninhabited territory. Freeja is a mainly mountainous land, with a lot of uplands; the highest mountain is Mount Arorya with its 6000 metres and is located in the mountain chain of the north-east. Also lakes are commonly-held: the biggest is Lake Enyo which is flowed through by River Enyo, the most important country river. Freeja has also a tiny rocky desert located at south-west, the Adeha Desert.

Climate

The climate type is temperate subtropical with hot summers and mild winters near the sea and the low elevations, and with warm summers and cool winters in the high elevations. The average temperature is around 22.0 °C (71.6 °F), the lowest peak recorded is -3 °C (27 °F) while the highest is 48 °C (118 °F). The average annual precipitation not exceed 900 millimetres (35 in) during all winter (with snow at higher elevations), autumn and spring seasons, without any significant precipitation during the summer.

Environment

The native vegetation of Freeja lands is adapted to survive long, hot summer droughts and prolonged wet periods in winter. Vegetation types include: evergreen trees, deciduous trees, fruit trees, shrubs, sub-shrubs, grasses and herbs. Much native vegetation in valleys areas have been cleared for agriculture while in hillside and mountainous areas, away from urban sprawl, ecosystems and habitats of native vegetation are more sustained. There is also a lot of variety in the fauna of the country. The national animal is the Freebird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Demographics

Population

The compassionate, democratic, devout population have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often. Freeja has an estimated population of 314 million of inhabitants which is in continue developing. The standard way to refer to a citizen of Freeja is as a "Freejan". Most of population is concentrated in the villages conglomerate, called "Grandaj Vilagoj" (Grand Villages), with 1.000.000 citizens or more, remainder of population live in the rural areas villages (between 1.000 and 1.000.000 citizens) and small villages (less than 1.000 citizens). There is also some groups of nomadic anti-urban people who live in primitive camps. The country's population is highly diverse, containing more different ethnic groups, among these are included Bigtopians and Maxtopians, and hosting a population of refugees and asylum seekers from the whole world.

Language

The official language adopted by Freeja is Esperanto (the most widely spoken constructed language in the world), in order to prevent misunderstanding between different language-speaking people. Anyway much people in the country also speaks a lot of other languages, such as English, that is speaked by the majority of population and has been declared national unofficial language of Freeja.

Religion

The Freejanism is the spiritualist religion of Freeja which is derived from the teachings of Mama Freeja. The core values are: inner peace, tolerance, and love for nature. Very important is the dialogue with the own inner self, during which people can chew a leaf of marijuana to achieve a deep state of meditation. There are no cult place for the religion and anyway whichever religion is highly tolerated.

Government

The form of government in Freeja is the matriarchy in which the executive, legislative and judicial powers are delegated to the senior woman in the community, which consult all the village chiefs of the major villages (village chiefs presence of minor villages is optional) every time there's need to apply a new law (this reunion is called "Legislative Summit"). The matriarch is called "Mama" and Mama Roova is the current matriarch. Both matriarch and village chiefs are elected directly by their predecessor. Freeja hasn't neither a Constitution nor a written laws. The Mama promulgate every law by voice.

Foreign Relations and Military

Freeja is a pacific neutral nation. The Pacific Forces of Freeja counts 834,290 military and reserves. The government spend 11,660,730,264.67 $ for the defense, only 1% of Linkpublic expenditure. Principally the roles of the military are: environment protection, population defense and humanitarian aid send.

Economy

The sizeable but stagnant Freejan economy, worth 10.9 trillion Wära a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 41,950 Wära, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens. The Wära (symbol ?) is the demurrage-charged currency used in Freeja. One Wära corresponded to five cents of Dollar. Wära banknotes are available in denominations of 1/2, 1, 2, 5 and 10 Wära. Each Wära banknote has a monthly demurrage fee of one percent of its nominal value. This fee can be balanced by the acquisition of demurrage stamps of 1/2, 1, 2, 5 and 10 Wära. On the back of the Wära banknote there are a series of printed fields, where the demurrage stamps can be glued onto. The idea of this measure is to place the currency under compulsory circulation. To avoid losing value, every owner of Wära currency have to spend their currency by its due date. The alternative to the Wära, is the barter, especially among unemployed people.

Culture

The culture of Freeja is an amalgamation of traditions that were developed into new one indipendent tradition.

Holidays

There are a number of public holidays in Freeja. Among these holidays are Mama Freeja Revival Holiday (established to commemorate the death of Mama Freeja) and Rebirth Day. This last holiday is celebrate every last day of year and consist in two parts: it begin at sunset where people remain in silence around a big roaring fire thinking about the wrong things which they done and the right things which they could do and reconcile with someone and with themselves; then after midnight people start to dance and sing and have a fun until the dawn.

Calendar

The Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar is the adopted calendar in Freeja. This calendar maintain synchronization with the solar year by intercalating entire weeks rather than single days. While many calendar reforms aim to make the calendar more accurate, the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar focuses on making the calendar perennial, so that every date falls on the same day of the week, year after year. The familiar drift of weekdays with respect to dates results from the fact that the number of days in a physical year (one full orbit of earth around the sun, approximately 365.24 days) is not a multiple of seven. By reducing common years to 364 days (52 weeks), and adding an extra week every five or six years, The Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar eliminates weekday drift and synchronizes the calendar year with the seasonal change as the Earth circles the Sun. The extra week, or "mini-month", known as "Xtr (or Extra)", occurs every year that either begins or ends in a Thursday on the corresponding Gregorian calendar, and falls between the end of December and the beginning of January. Thus, each year always begins between December 28 and January 3 in the Gregorian calendar.

Time

In Freeja is used the Decimal time that is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This system divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds, as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds. The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base used to divide the time is the same as the one used to represent it, the whole time representation can be handled as a single string. Therefore, it becomes simpler to interpret a timestamp and to perform conversions. For instance, 1:23:00 is 1 decimal hour and 23 decimal minutes, or 1.23 hours, or 123 minutes; 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a timestamp as a fractional day, so that 2015-12-16.534 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 34 decimal minutes after the start of that day, or 0.534 (53.4%) of a day through that day. It also adjusts well to digital time representation using epochs, in that the internal time representation can be used directly both for computation and for user-facing display.

Naming

Freeja have a mononomial naming system. The individual name is composed of the prefix, chosen by parents at the born time of the children, and the suffix, that is inherited from the father, or mother (if a child's paternity was not known, or if the putative father denied paternity).

Cuisine

Frejea cuisine is based on food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products (such as gelatin or animal derived rennet), and semi-vegetarian standard in which fishes, eggs and dairy products such as milk and cheese are permitted instead. Some people also follow vegan and fruitarian standards, which exclude all animal products, including dairy products as well as honey, and even some refined sugars if filtered and whitened with bone char. Most desserts, including pies, cobblers, cakes, brownies, cookies, truffles, Rice Krispie treats (from gelatin-free marshmallows or marshmallow fluff), peanut butter treats, pudding, rice pudding, ice cream, crème brulée, etc., are suitable for semi-vegetarians.

Sports

In Freeja are commonly played extreme sports. Mostly are performed bungee jumping, base jumping, climbing, parachuting, snorkeling, kitesurfing and bmx off-road races. Also triathlon races are often performed with challengers from all the world.

Infrastructure

Freeja suffer of a quality infrastructure lack and in development only recently.

Transports

The most used means of transport in Freeja is the bike for short and medium distances, and the bio-diesel car and bio-diesel coach for long distances. The major villages roads, and the link roads between them, are made of ecologic asphalt (made of recycled material) while most other roads are made of rugged terrain. The railway doesn't exist except the tram which link the airport to the Grand Village of Freeja.

Energy

In Freeja doesn't exist a national energy network distribution, but every village is self-sufficient. Power sources are wind power and hydroelectric power (wind mills and water mills are used to produce power). Rubbish are used to produce bio-gas.

Telecommunications

Mobile phones are common used to communicate, while to access to internet is used the wi-fi. The system used is IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC), a technology where the data is carried over the villages by practiced birds, equiped with a gsm chip and an wi-fi chip.