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| The Constitutional Republic of the Union of Christian States The Christian States
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| Motto: One Nation, Under Christ | |||
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| Capital | Beaumont | ||
| Largest city | Houston | ||
| Official languages | none at federal level | ||
| Recognised national languages | English (de facto) | ||
| Demonym | Christian Unionist | ||
| Government | Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic | ||
| - | President | Leonardo Blackstone (R) | |
| - | Vice President | Thomas Allen (R) | |
| - | Speaker of the House | Mitchell Rosenburg (L) | |
| Legislature | Congress | ||
| - | Upper house | Senate | |
| - | Lower house | House of Representatives | |
| Independence | |||
| - | Christian Independence War with the United States | 2012 | |
| - | Constitutional Raticifation | 2012 | |
| - | Recognized by United States | 2013 | |
| Population | |||
| - | 2014 estimate | 125,674,902 | |
| GDP (PPP) | 2014 estimate | ||
| - | Total | C$415.7 billion | |
| - | Per capita | C$104.91 | |
| HDI (2014) | 0.9173 very high |
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| Currency | Christian Dollar ( CD) (C$) |
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| Time zone | UTC-5 to 7 | ||
| Date format | dd ˘ mm ˘ yyyy | ||
| Drives on the | right | ||
| Calling code | +1 | ||
| ISO 3166 code | UCS | ||
| Internet TLD | .cs, .ucs | ||
The Constitutional Republic of Union of Christian States is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Blackstone with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 125 million love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Religion & Spirituality, although Law & Order and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beaumont. The average income tax rate is 23%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Woodchip Exports and Pizza Delivery.
Administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, Union of Christian States's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, and police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Union of Christian States's national animal is the Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Christian Dollar.
Demogaphics
Religion
The U.C.S. Constitution provides for free exercise of religion and forbids Congress from passing laws banning its establishment. Christianity is by far the most common religion practiced in the U.C.S., but other religions are followed, too. In a 2013 survey, 56% of Christian Unionists said that religion played a "very important role in their lives", a far higher figure than that of any other wealthy nation. In a 2012 Gallup poll 42% of Christian Unionists said that they attended church weekly or almost weekly; the figures ranged from a low of 33% in New Mexico to a high of 73% in Mississippi. As with other Western countries, the U.C.S. is becoming less religious. Irreligion is growing slowly among Christian Unionists under 30. Polls show that overall Christian Unionist confidence in organized religion is declining, and that younger Americans in particular are becoming increasingly irreligious.
According to a 2014 survey, 83% of adults identified themselves as Christian, down from 86.4% in 2012. Protestant denominations accounted for 58%, while Roman Catholicism, at 22%, was the largest individual denomination. The total reporting non-Christian religions in 2013 was 6%, up from 4% in 2007. Other religions include Judaism (1.7%), Buddhism (0.7%), Islam (0.6%), Hinduism (0.4%), and Unitarian Universalism (0.3%). The survey also reported that 19.6% of Christian Unionists described themselves as agnostic, atheist or simply having no religion, up from 8.2% in 1990. There are also Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities.
Protestantism is the largest group of religions in the Christian States, with Baptists being the largest Protestant sect, and the Southern Baptist Convention being the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. About 19 percent of Protestants are Evangelical, while 15 percent are mainline and 8 percent belong to a traditionally Black church. Roman Catholicism in the U.C.S. has its origin in the Spanish and French colonization of the Americas, and later grew due to Irish, Italian, Polish, German and Hispanic immigration. There is no state where the majority of the population is Catholic. Lutheranism in the U.C.S. has its origin in immigration from Northern Europe.
The Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the North America containing most of the U.C.S. in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average.
