Nation/Palmeria

The Federal Republic of Palmeria Republic Federal da Pêlmria
Motto: in populi manus
Anthem: "Mariolos March"
Capital and		Font
Official languages		Arrezegno
Recognised national languages		Arrezegno,English
Demonym		Palmerian
Government		Federal Republic
-	President	Gus Madinos
-	VicePresiden	Anibal Dulos
Establishment
-	Republic of Palmeria	1852
-	Federal Republic of Palmeria	1929
Population
-	estimate	2,500,000,000(September 2014)
GDP (nominal)		estimate
-	Total	1,295,045,408,234.34
-	Per capita	28,727.77
HDI (2014)		0.850 very high · 16°(Ixnay)
Currency		Font (F)
Date format		dd-mm-yyyy
Drives on the		right
Internet TLD		PL

Palmeria, officially the Federal Republic of Palmeria, is a nation in the north west of the Ixnay Proper. Palmeria shares borders with Kiravian Eorlingas, The Levantx, Urcean Dormanshire, Kazomal, Imperial Lannder, and Lacus Magni.

After years of political instability and a civil war that lasted 4 years, the Kingdom of Palmeria collapsed in 1852 and established the Republic of Palmeria with its capital and largest city of Font.

History

Ancient

c. 6500 B.C.- Native population called the Mercians begin to settle down in the Shires Valley. Whom would later found several early establishments among, them Mercia, Font, Geros and Dormanshire. Mercia, a modest agricultural community conventionally founded in 810 BC, grew over the course of centuries into the stronger city and later kingdom. And began absorgbing surrounding settlements to become an Empire. The Mercian Empire's legacy has deeply influenced palmerian civilization for the following millennia. In a slow decline since the late 2nd century AD, the Empire broke into two parts in 395 AD. The Western Roman Empire, under the pressure of the Sveltzian invasions, eventually dissolved in 480 AD, when the last Mercian Emperor was deposed by the Sveltzian chief Oathes, the empire broke a part into several small kingdoms.

Medieval

After the fall of the Mercian Empire, Palmeria was seized by the Sveltzians, followed in the 6th century by a brief reconquest under Dorman King Lemard. The invasion of another Britanic-Sveltz tribe, the Lorskian, late in the same century, reduced the Dorman presence to a rump realm (the actual Dormanshire) and started the end of political unity of the shire for the next 1,300 years. The Britanic-Sveltz kingdom was subsequently defeated in the Font Rebelion War wich re united the region and into the Arrezegno Kingdom in the late 8th century Until the 13th century, Palmerian politics was dominated by the relations between the Royal Houses of the Arrezegno Kingdom. Later they would clash into periodic wars against the Dormanshire Kingdom. In 1176, the Arrezegno Kingdom, defeated the Britanis-Sveltzian Emperor Frederick Barrnes at the Battle of Marine , thus ensuring effective independence for most of West Palmerian cities. In coastal areas, the maritime cities, the most notable being Font, Marine, Lasos and Amirton, grew to eventually dominate the Uijikin and the Sakhalin and monopolize trade routes to Audonia and Ixnay Proper. Decades of fighting eventually saw Arrezegno and Dormanshire agreed to the Peace of Geros in 1454, which saw relative calm brought to the region for the first time in centuries. This peace would hold for the next forty years.

Modern

Following the Sveltzian rebelion wars (1494 to 1559), ignited by the rising in power of the Kingdom of Pauldustllah, the Eastern coast gradually lost their independence and came under its foreign domination from 1570 to 1613. In addition, as the Pauldustani Empire started to decline in the 17th century, so did its possessions in Marine, Amirton, Sardreshire, Opwitch and that got granted independence and reintegrated to Arrezegno. In particular, Western Palmeria was impoverished and cut off from the mainstream of events in Ixnay Proper.In the 18th century, the two-century long decline was interrupted by the economic and state reforms pursued by the ruling élites. During the 2nd Arrezegno-Dorman War,wich ended on the loss of the Arrezegnian province later dominated by the Eörlingans, Western-central Palmeria seceded and reformed into the new Kingdom of Palmeria while the East half of the region was administered by Joachim Murat, President of the Republic of Bretosveltzia. The nations clashed in 1813 and in 1814 Congress of Mont restored the situation of the late 18th century, but the ideals of the Republican ideas could not be eradicated, and soon re-surfaced during the political upheavals that characterized the first part of the 19th century. In 1851–52, general Joseph Jackson-Garlons led the drive for the Republican Revolution that reached Font, allowing the declaration of the Republic of Palmeria with its first President Adrios Aleros.

Geography and Climate

Palmeria is located in the north east of the Ixnay Proper and shares borders with Sumarma, Olmon,Dormanshire, Ibykia. Palmeria has a coastline and border on the Audonian and Uijukin seas.The Mont Mountain Chain is situated in the centre of the country.The climate is mainly mediterranean but thanks to the great longitudinal extension and the mostly mountainous internal conformation, the climate of Palmeria gets highly diverse. In most of the inland northern and central regions, the climate ranges from dry subtropical to humid continental and oceanic. In particular, the climate of the Opwitch valley geographical region is mostly continental, with harsh winters and hot summers. East Palmeria is the only oversea territory in possesion of the Federal Republic of Palmeria.The territory is divided in 4 districts and allthough not being titled as a porvince it shall elect its representants to the National Congress.

Politics

Palmeria is a Federal Republic.The head of state is the President who is elected by universal suffrage, he rules for a period of 4 years and he elects his cabinet. Each Porvince proclames its Constitution (respecting the National Constitution) and elects its governor and Provincial Congress.Every Congressman executes his office for 4 years.

Government

The current executive government elected in 2012, is leaded by Gus Madinos from the Palmerian Social-Democratic Party(PSDP).Being a left-winged oriented administration the focus is set on welfare and education. One of the other main issues to adress is the high drug related crimes in slums in the Marine Village Province; a problem confronted by the past administration of Gabril Amos(Palmerian Democratic Party-PDP) and who responded with security and law enforcement in the region with combining forces of the MV Police, Federal Police field personnel, and the Military Guard.Madinos' administratrion is set to combat this problem with work-oriented social policies and social assistance. Ilegal immigration is also an issue.

Foreign Policy and Relations

Palmeria holds good relations with Prizyetsa,Leasath and Pauldustllah and holds an special tendency for diplomacy.

Law Enforcement

Law enforcement in Palmeria is facilitated by police under the control of state, territory and the Federal governments. A number of specialist agencies also administer a wide variety of legislation related to crime. In Palmeria there are two distinct, but similar levels of police force, the various provincial police forces and the Palmerian Federal Police (PFP). The provincial police forces are responsible for enforcing provincial law within their own provinces (including cities within the province) while the PFP are responsible for the investigation of crimes against National law which occurs throughout the nation. The PFP also have responsibility for a community policing role (similar to the provincial police) such as national border patrol, a task carried along with the Federal Military Guard(FMG).The FMG is a paramilitar national security force called upon in case of social emergency when the safety of the community is threatened and provincial and federal police forces are overwhelmed .The boundaries between the two levels of law enforcement are somewhat flexible and both provincial and federal police co-operate on or transfer cases between each other depending on the specific circumstances. The PFP also provide Liaison Officers to various overseas posts to assist in relations with various police forces overseas, as well as providing community policing officers to assist in the development of local law enforcement agencies.

Military

The President of the Republic is the Commander in Chief of the Palmerian Armed Forces (PAF).The three main branches of the Palmerian armed forces are the Federal Republic of Palmeria Army(FROPA), the Federal Republic of Palmeria Navy(FROPN) and the Federal Republic of Palmeria Air Force(FROPAF).Military service is voluntary for men and women bettween 18 and 40 years old.

Economy

The Palmerian economy is an example of a mixed economy, a prosperous capitalist welfare state and social democracy country featuring a combination of free market activity and large state ownership in certain key sectors. Public health care is free (above a certain level), and parents have 45 weeks paid parental leave. The state income derived from natural resources includes a new significant contribution from petroleum production. Palmeria has a very low unemployment rate, currently 2.8%. 69% of the population aged 15–74 are employed. Persons in the labour force are either employed or unemployed. The remaining group of persons is labelled not in the labour force. 9.5% of the population aged 18–66 is receiving disability pension and 30% of the labour force are employed by the government, one of the highest in Greater Ixnay.

The state has large ownership positions in key industrial sectors, such as the strategic petroleum sector (PalmOil), hydroelectric energy production (PalmHydro), wind energy production(StatoVentus), aluminium production, and telecommunication provider (TeleMercury). Through these big companies, the government controls approximately 30% of the stock values at the Font Stock Exchange. When non-listed companies are included, the state has even higher share in ownership (mainly from direct oil license ownership). Palmeria is a major shipping nation and has the region's 13th largest merchant fleet, with 1,412,000 Palmerian-owned merchant vessels.

Demographics

Palmeria has around 3.9 billion inhabitants according to 1 January 2014 municipal records. Its population density, at 97/km², is higher than that of most Western Ixnay Proper countries. However the distribution of the population is widely uneven. The most densely populated areas are the East (that accounts for almost a half of the national population) and the metropolitan areas of Font, Mercia and Marine Village while vast regions such as the Mont Mountain Chain and Opita are very sparsely populated.

The population of Palmeria almost doubled during the 20th century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven because of large-scale internal migration from the rural East to the industrial cities of the West, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Palmerian economic miracle of the 1950–1960s. In addition, after centuries of net emigration, from the 1980s Palmeria has experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history. According to the Palmerian government, there were 5,570,317 foreign residents in Palmeria as of January 2011.

High fertility and birth rates persisted until the 1970s, after which they start to dramatically decline, leading to rapid population aging. At the end of the 2000s (decade), one in five Palmerians was over 65 years old. However, thanks mainly to the massive immigration of the last two decades, in recent years Palmeria experienced a significant growth in birth rates. The total fertility rate has also climbed from an all-time low of 1.18 children per woman in 1995 to 1.41 in 2008. The TFR is expected to reach 1.6 - 1.8 in 2030.

Ethnic Groups

Immigrants by Country (2013)

Sawra 	        1,097,000 
Jalama	        606,369 	
Sumarma 	491,495 	
Malaysii 	277,570 	
Absurrania	223,782

Culture

Palmeria has developed a unique culture, shaped by a multitude of regional customs and local centres of power and patronage and its quite fusioned with the Dormanshire and Sawran culture,specially in the East side.

Cinema

The Palmerian film industry was born between 1903 and 1908 with three companies: the Societâ Cines Pêlmrian, the Ambosos Film and the Pêlm Film. Other companies soon followed in Mont and in Marine Village. In a short time these first companies reached a fair producing quality, and films were soon sold outside Palmeria.The Marine Film Festival is celebrated since 2004 in the city of Marine Village and is one of the most prestigious film festivals in Ixnay.

Sports

The most popular sport in Palmeria is, by far, football.Palmeria has currently applied to be host of the firs Ixnay Football World Cup. Other popular team sports in Palmeria include handball, basketball and rugby.