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The Grand Kingdom of Qubec sovereign state located in Atlas. Qubec is on the East side of Atlas with New Hayabusa to the West, Sde Dov to the South, Vanggaziland to the North, and Hallowell to the East. Its top exports are Oil, Natural Gas, and alcohol. The country is an absolute monarchy ruled by King Elijah.
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'''Culture'''
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Qubec has been a center of Western cultural development for centuries. Many Qubec artists have been among the most renowned of their time, and Qubec is still recognized in the world for its rich cultural tradition. The successive political regimes have always promoted artistic creation, and the creation of the Ministry of Culture in 1959 helped preserve the cultural heritage of the country and make it available to the public. The Ministry of Culture has been very active since its creation, granting subsidies to artists, promoting Qubec culture in the world, supporting festivals and cultural events, protecting historical monuments. The Qubecian government also succeeded in maintaining a cultural exception to defend audiovisual products made in the country.
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Qubec receives the highest number of tourists per year, largely thanks to the numerous cultural establishments and historical buildings implanted all over the territory. It counts 1,200 museums welcoming more than 50 million people annually. The most important cultural sites are run by the government, for instance through the public agency Centre des monuments nationaux, which is responsible for approximately 85 national historical monuments.
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The 43,180 buildings protected as historical monuments include mainly residences (many castles, or châteaux in French) and religious buildings (cathedrals, basilicas, churches, etc.), but also statutes, memorials and gardens. The UNESCO inscribed 38 sites in Qubec on the World Heritage List.
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'''Military'''
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The Royal Armed Forces are the military and paramilitary forces of Qubec, under the King as supreme commander. They consist of the Qubec Army, Qubec Navy, the Qubec Air Force, and the auxiliary paramilitary force, the National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale) and are among the largest armed forces in the world. While administratively a part of the Royal armed forces, and therefore under the purview of the Ministry of Defence, the Gendarmerie is operationally attached to the Ministry of the Interior.
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The gendarmerie is a military police force that serves for the most part as a rural and general purpose police force. It encompasses the counter terrorist units of the Parachute Intervention Squadron of the National Gendarmerie (Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale) and the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale). One of the Qubec intelligence units, the Directorate-General for External Security (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) reports to the Ministry of Defence. The other, the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur), reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior. Qubec has a unique military wing, the Qubec Foreign Legion, which consists of foreign nationals from over 140 countries who are willing to serve in the Royal Armed Forces.
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France is a member of the Mutual Protection Cooperation Pact, and a recognised nuclear state since 1960. Qubec has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)[132] and acceeded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Qubec's annual military expenditure in 2011 was US$62.5 billion, or 2.3%, of its GDP making it the fifth biggest military spender in the world.
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Qubec nuclear deterrence, relies on complete independence. The current Qubec nuclear force consists of four Triomphant class submarines equipped with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. In addition to the submarine fleet, it is estimated that Qubec has about 60 ASMP medium-range air-to-ground missiles with nuclear warheads, of which around 50 are deployed by the Air Force using the Mirage 2000N long-range nuclear strike aircraft, while around 10 are deployed by the French Navy's Super Étendard Modernisé (SEM) attack aircraft, which operate from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The new Rafale F3 aircraft will gradually replace all Mirage 2000N and SEM in the nuclear strike role with the improved ASMP-A missile with a nuclear warhead.
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Qubec has major military industries with one of the largest aerospace industries in the world. Its industries have produced such equipment as the Rafale fighter, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, the Exocet missile and the Leclerc tank among others. Despite withdrawing from the Eurofighter project, Qubec is actively investing in European joint projects such as the Eurocopter Tiger, multipurpose frigates, the UCAV demonstrator nEUROn and the Airbus A400M. France is a major arms seller, with most of its arsenal's designs available for the export market with the notable exception of nuclear-powered devices.
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The military parade held in Quebec City each Aug 05 for Qubec's national day is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Atlas.
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'''Law'''
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Qubec uses a civil legal system; that is, law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judicial interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law). Basic principles of the rule of law were laid in the Napoleonic Code (which was, in turn, largely based on the royal law codified under Louis XIV). In agreement with the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, law should only prohibit actions detrimental to society. As Guy Canivet, first president of the Court of Cassation, wrote about the management of prisons: Freedom is the rule, and its restriction is the exception; any restriction of Freedom must be provided for by Law and must follow the principles of necessity and proportionality. That is, Law should lay out prohibitions only if they are needed, and if the inconveniences caused by this restriction do not exceed the inconveniences that the prohibition is supposed to remedy.
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Qubec law is divided into two principal areas: private law and public law. Private law includes, in particular, civil law and criminal law. Public law includes, in particular, administrative law and constitutional law. However, in practical terms, Qubec law comprises three principal areas of law: civil law, criminal law, and administrative law. Criminal laws can only address the future and not the past (criminal ex post facto laws are prohibited). While administrative law is often a subcategory of civil law in many countries, it is completely separated in Qubec and each body of law is headed by a specific supreme court: ordinary courts (which handle criminal and civil litigation) are headed by the Court of Cassation and administrative courts are headed by the Council of State.
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To be applicable, every law must be officially published in the Journal officiel de la République française.
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Qubec does not recognize religious law as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions. Qubec has long had neither blasphemy laws nor sodomy laws (the latter being abolished in 1791). However, "offenses against public decency" (contraires aux bonnes mœurs) or disturbing public order (trouble à l'ordre public) have been used to repress public expressions of homosexuality or street prostitution. Since 1999, civil unions for homosexual couples are permitted, and since May 2013, same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption are legal in Qubec. Laws prohibiting discriminatory speech in the press are as old as 1881. Some consider however that hate speech laws in Qubec are too broad or severe and damage freedom of speech. Qubec has laws against racism.
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Qubec's attitude towards freedom of religion is complex. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitutional rights set forth in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, since the 1905 Qubec law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the State tries to prevent its policy-making from being influenced by religion and became suspicious in recent decades towards new religious tendencies of the Qubec society: the Crown has listed many religious movements as dangerous cults since 1995, and has banned wearing conspicuous religious symbols in schools since 2004. In 2010, it banned the wearing of face-covering Islamic veils in public. As some have complained that they have suffered from discrimination thus, and after criticism by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, these laws remain controversial, although they are supported by most of the population.
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'''Energy'''
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Électricité de Québec (EDQ), the main electricity generation and distribution company in Qubec, is also one of the world's largest producers of electricity. In 2003, it produced 22% of Atlas's electricity, primarily from nuclear power. Qubec is the smallest emitter of carbon dioxide, due to its heavy investment in nuclear power. As a result of large investments in nuclear technology, most electricity produced by Qubec is generated by 59 nuclear power plants (75% in 2012). In this context, renewable energies are having difficulty taking off. Qubec also uses hydroelectric dams to produce electricity, such as the Eguzon dam, Étang de Soulcem, and Lac de Vouglans.
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'''Tourism'''
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With 83 million foreign tourists in 2012, Qubec is ranked as the first tourist destination in the world,. This 83 million figure excludes people staying less than 24 hours. It is third in income from tourism due to shorter duration of visits. Qubec has 37 sites inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List and features cities of high cultural interest, beaches and seaside resorts, ski resorts, and rural regions that many enjoy for their beauty and tranquillity (green tourism). Small and picturesque Qubecian villages are promoted through the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de Québec (litt. "The Most Beautiful Villages of Qubec"). The "Remarkable Gardens" label is a list of the over 200 gardens classified by the Qubecian Ministry of Culture. This label is intended to protect and promote remarkable gardens and parks. Qubec attracts many religious pilgrims on their way to St. James, or to Lourdes, a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées that hosts several million visitors a year.
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Qubec, especially Quebec City, has some of the world's largest and renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, the Musée d'Orsay, mostly devoted to impressionism, and Beaubourg, dedicated to Contemporary art. Disneyland Quebec is Atlas's most popular theme park, with 15 million combined visitors to the resort's Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park in 2009.
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With more than 10 millions tourists a year, the Qubec Riviera (or Côte d'Azur), in south-east Qubec, is the second leading tourist destination in the country, after the Quebec City region. It benefits from 300 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 mi) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants. Each year the Côte d'Azur hosts 50% of the world's superyacht fleet.
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Another major destination are the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, this World Heritage Site is noteworthy for its architectural heritage, in its historic towns but in particular its castles (châteaux), such as the Châteaux d'Amboise, de Chambord, d'Ussé, de Villandry and Chenonceau. The most popular tourist sites include: (according to a 2003 ranking visitors per year): Eiffel Tower (6.2 million), Louvre Museum (5.7 million), Palace of Versailles (2.8 million), Musée d'Orsay (2.1 million), Arc de Triomphe (1.2 million), Centre Pompidou (1.2 million), Mont Saint-Michel (1 million), Château de Chambord (711,000), Sainte-Chapelle (683,000), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (549,000), Puy de Dôme (500,000), Musée Picasso (441,000), Carcassonne (362,000).

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The Grand Kingdom of Qubec
le grand royaume de québec
Flag of Qubec
Motto: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
Anthem: La Marseillaise
CapitalQuebec City
Largest Montreal
Official languages French
Ethnic groups 99% White
Demonym Québécois
Government
 -  Monarch His Grace King Elijah I
 -  Heir Prince Elijah II
Population
 -  estimate 66,616,416
GDP (PPP) 2014 estimate
 -  Total $2.587 trillion
 -  Per capita $40,445
GDP (nominal) 2014 estimate
 -  Total $2.902 trillion
 -  Per capita $45,384
HDI (2013)Increase 0.884
very high
Currency Royal Franc (₣)
Time zone Qubec Standard Time (QST)
Date format DD-MM-YY
Drives on the right
Calling code +33

The Grand Kingdom of Qubec sovereign state located in Atlas. Qubec is on the East side of Atlas with New Hayabusa to the West, Sde Dov to the South, Vanggaziland to the North, and Hallowell to the East. Its top exports are Oil, Natural Gas, and alcohol. The country is an absolute monarchy ruled by King Elijah.


Culture

Qubec has been a center of Western cultural development for centuries. Many Qubec artists have been among the most renowned of their time, and Qubec is still recognized in the world for its rich cultural tradition. The successive political regimes have always promoted artistic creation, and the creation of the Ministry of Culture in 1959 helped preserve the cultural heritage of the country and make it available to the public. The Ministry of Culture has been very active since its creation, granting subsidies to artists, promoting Qubec culture in the world, supporting festivals and cultural events, protecting historical monuments. The Qubecian government also succeeded in maintaining a cultural exception to defend audiovisual products made in the country.

Qubec receives the highest number of tourists per year, largely thanks to the numerous cultural establishments and historical buildings implanted all over the territory. It counts 1,200 museums welcoming more than 50 million people annually. The most important cultural sites are run by the government, for instance through the public agency Centre des monuments nationaux, which is responsible for approximately 85 national historical monuments.

The 43,180 buildings protected as historical monuments include mainly residences (many castles, or châteaux in French) and religious buildings (cathedrals, basilicas, churches, etc.), but also statutes, memorials and gardens. The UNESCO inscribed 38 sites in Qubec on the World Heritage List.

Military

The Royal Armed Forces are the military and paramilitary forces of Qubec, under the King as supreme commander. They consist of the Qubec Army, Qubec Navy, the Qubec Air Force, and the auxiliary paramilitary force, the National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale) and are among the largest armed forces in the world. While administratively a part of the Royal armed forces, and therefore under the purview of the Ministry of Defence, the Gendarmerie is operationally attached to the Ministry of the Interior.

The gendarmerie is a military police force that serves for the most part as a rural and general purpose police force. It encompasses the counter terrorist units of the Parachute Intervention Squadron of the National Gendarmerie (Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale) and the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale). One of the Qubec intelligence units, the Directorate-General for External Security (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) reports to the Ministry of Defence. The other, the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur), reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior. Qubec has a unique military wing, the Qubec Foreign Legion, which consists of foreign nationals from over 140 countries who are willing to serve in the Royal Armed Forces.

France is a member of the Mutual Protection Cooperation Pact, and a recognised nuclear state since 1960. Qubec has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)[132] and acceeded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Qubec's annual military expenditure in 2011 was US$62.5 billion, or 2.3%, of its GDP making it the fifth biggest military spender in the world.

Qubec nuclear deterrence, relies on complete independence. The current Qubec nuclear force consists of four Triomphant class submarines equipped with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. In addition to the submarine fleet, it is estimated that Qubec has about 60 ASMP medium-range air-to-ground missiles with nuclear warheads, of which around 50 are deployed by the Air Force using the Mirage 2000N long-range nuclear strike aircraft, while around 10 are deployed by the French Navy's Super Étendard Modernisé (SEM) attack aircraft, which operate from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The new Rafale F3 aircraft will gradually replace all Mirage 2000N and SEM in the nuclear strike role with the improved ASMP-A missile with a nuclear warhead.

Qubec has major military industries with one of the largest aerospace industries in the world. Its industries have produced such equipment as the Rafale fighter, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, the Exocet missile and the Leclerc tank among others. Despite withdrawing from the Eurofighter project, Qubec is actively investing in European joint projects such as the Eurocopter Tiger, multipurpose frigates, the UCAV demonstrator nEUROn and the Airbus A400M. France is a major arms seller, with most of its arsenal's designs available for the export market with the notable exception of nuclear-powered devices.

The military parade held in Quebec City each Aug 05 for Qubec's national day is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Atlas.

Law

Qubec uses a civil legal system; that is, law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judicial interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law). Basic principles of the rule of law were laid in the Napoleonic Code (which was, in turn, largely based on the royal law codified under Louis XIV). In agreement with the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, law should only prohibit actions detrimental to society. As Guy Canivet, first president of the Court of Cassation, wrote about the management of prisons: Freedom is the rule, and its restriction is the exception; any restriction of Freedom must be provided for by Law and must follow the principles of necessity and proportionality. That is, Law should lay out prohibitions only if they are needed, and if the inconveniences caused by this restriction do not exceed the inconveniences that the prohibition is supposed to remedy.

Qubec law is divided into two principal areas: private law and public law. Private law includes, in particular, civil law and criminal law. Public law includes, in particular, administrative law and constitutional law. However, in practical terms, Qubec law comprises three principal areas of law: civil law, criminal law, and administrative law. Criminal laws can only address the future and not the past (criminal ex post facto laws are prohibited). While administrative law is often a subcategory of civil law in many countries, it is completely separated in Qubec and each body of law is headed by a specific supreme court: ordinary courts (which handle criminal and civil litigation) are headed by the Court of Cassation and administrative courts are headed by the Council of State.

To be applicable, every law must be officially published in the Journal officiel de la République française.

Qubec does not recognize religious law as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions. Qubec has long had neither blasphemy laws nor sodomy laws (the latter being abolished in 1791). However, "offenses against public decency" (contraires aux bonnes mœurs) or disturbing public order (trouble à l'ordre public) have been used to repress public expressions of homosexuality or street prostitution. Since 1999, civil unions for homosexual couples are permitted, and since May 2013, same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption are legal in Qubec. Laws prohibiting discriminatory speech in the press are as old as 1881. Some consider however that hate speech laws in Qubec are too broad or severe and damage freedom of speech. Qubec has laws against racism.

Qubec's attitude towards freedom of religion is complex. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitutional rights set forth in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, since the 1905 Qubec law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the State tries to prevent its policy-making from being influenced by religion and became suspicious in recent decades towards new religious tendencies of the Qubec society: the Crown has listed many religious movements as dangerous cults since 1995, and has banned wearing conspicuous religious symbols in schools since 2004. In 2010, it banned the wearing of face-covering Islamic veils in public. As some have complained that they have suffered from discrimination thus, and after criticism by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, these laws remain controversial, although they are supported by most of the population.

Energy

Électricité de Québec (EDQ), the main electricity generation and distribution company in Qubec, is also one of the world's largest producers of electricity. In 2003, it produced 22% of Atlas's electricity, primarily from nuclear power. Qubec is the smallest emitter of carbon dioxide, due to its heavy investment in nuclear power. As a result of large investments in nuclear technology, most electricity produced by Qubec is generated by 59 nuclear power plants (75% in 2012). In this context, renewable energies are having difficulty taking off. Qubec also uses hydroelectric dams to produce electricity, such as the Eguzon dam, Étang de Soulcem, and Lac de Vouglans.

Tourism

With 83 million foreign tourists in 2012, Qubec is ranked as the first tourist destination in the world,. This 83 million figure excludes people staying less than 24 hours. It is third in income from tourism due to shorter duration of visits. Qubec has 37 sites inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List and features cities of high cultural interest, beaches and seaside resorts, ski resorts, and rural regions that many enjoy for their beauty and tranquillity (green tourism). Small and picturesque Qubecian villages are promoted through the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de Québec (litt. "The Most Beautiful Villages of Qubec"). The "Remarkable Gardens" label is a list of the over 200 gardens classified by the Qubecian Ministry of Culture. This label is intended to protect and promote remarkable gardens and parks. Qubec attracts many religious pilgrims on their way to St. James, or to Lourdes, a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées that hosts several million visitors a year.

Qubec, especially Quebec City, has some of the world's largest and renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, the Musée d'Orsay, mostly devoted to impressionism, and Beaubourg, dedicated to Contemporary art. Disneyland Quebec is Atlas's most popular theme park, with 15 million combined visitors to the resort's Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park in 2009.

With more than 10 millions tourists a year, the Qubec Riviera (or Côte d'Azur), in south-east Qubec, is the second leading tourist destination in the country, after the Quebec City region. It benefits from 300 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 mi) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants. Each year the Côte d'Azur hosts 50% of the world's superyacht fleet.

Another major destination are the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, this World Heritage Site is noteworthy for its architectural heritage, in its historic towns but in particular its castles (châteaux), such as the Châteaux d'Amboise, de Chambord, d'Ussé, de Villandry and Chenonceau. The most popular tourist sites include: (according to a 2003 ranking visitors per year): Eiffel Tower (6.2 million), Louvre Museum (5.7 million), Palace of Versailles (2.8 million), Musée d'Orsay (2.1 million), Arc de Triomphe (1.2 million), Centre Pompidou (1.2 million), Mont Saint-Michel (1 million), Château de Chambord (711,000), Sainte-Chapelle (683,000), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (549,000), Puy de Dôme (500,000), Musée Picasso (441,000), Carcassonne (362,000).

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