User:The Levantx
The Republic of The Levantx
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| Motto: Unity & Democracy | ||||||
| Anthem: Edelweiss | ||||||
| Capital and | Sawra | |||||
| Official languages | Arabic, Dutch, French, English | |||||
| Demonym | Levantian | |||||
| Government | Unitary Republic | |||||
| - | President | Samuél AkA | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Sara Noor | ||||
| Establishment | ||||||
| - | Democratic Republio of Sawra | 1929 | ||||
| - | Republic of The Levantx | 1995 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | estimate | 45,037,492 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | estimate | |||||
| - | Total | 1,795,945,408,234.34 | ||||
| - | Per capita | 32,927.73 | ||||
| HDI (2014) | 0.850 very high · 16°(Ixnay) |
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| Currency | Font (F) |
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| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| Internet TLD | .ltx | |||||
The Levantx, officially the Unitary Republic of The Levantx, is a nation in the north west of the Ixnay Proper. Levantx shares borders with Palmeria, Urcean Dormanshire and Pauldustllah.
After years of political and religious instability, a civil war had broken out between the Palmerian and Sawrian people, lasted 2 years, the Republic of Palmeria was reorganized in 1929 and established the Federal Republic of Palmeria in the West, and in the East a new nation emerged as the Democratic Republic of Sawra. This Revolution state (Sawra) has been reorganized in 1995 as the Republic of The Levantx.
Geography and Climate
Levantx is located in the north east of the Ixnay Proper and shares borders with Palmeria, Urcean Dormanshire and Pauldustllah. The Levantx has a coastline and border on the Odoneru (Uijukin) sea. The Sahara Desert is situated in the South-East of the country. The climate is mainly mediterranean. 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. The Northern Islands controlled by the Pauldustllah Empire are seen by the Levantian people as occupied territory. The Republic has no other overseas territories. Although the Republic sees the Northern Islands as occupied, relations with Pauldustllah are friedly.
Politics
Levantx is a Unitary Republic. The head of state is the President toghter with the Prime Minister who are elected by universal suffrage, they both rule for a period of 4 years. The National Parliamant or Assembly consists of national elected parliamentaries, who execute there office for 4 years. Elections of the President, Prime-Minster and the Legislative chamber are held on the same day.
Government
The current executive government elected in 2012, is leaded by Samuél Aka and Sara Noor as Prime Minster from the Islamic Democratic Party - and the Prime Minster from the Social Democrats. Being a left-winged oriented administration the focus is set on welfare and education. One of the other main issues to adress is the foreign politics, and especially the Ixnay Union.
Foreign Policy and Relations
Levantx holds good relations with Absurrania, Pauldustllah, and Dorhaven, but has forced a very special relation with The Federal Republic of nation/Palmeria with wich it has fusioned its economy, started with tthe PALSAW-Agreements, and later on evolved in to the Ixnay Union.
Ixnay Union
The IU has its own, the flag consist 12 white stars, stands for perfection and peace on a blue background that stand for harmony and diversity. The Union's anthem "We Write the Story" present the symbolic ideal of the unity of the member states.
The IU traces its origins from the PALSAW union, after signing the PalSaw-Trade-Agreements, formed by the Inner two countries, The Federal Republic of Palmeria and The Democratic Republic of Sawra (Levantx).
The IU has developed a single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states. Within the Font Area, passport controls have been abolished. IU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development.
The monetary union was established at the same time, and came into full force after the election of the Assembly. It is composed of all member states that use the font (F) as their legal tender. Through the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the IU has developed a role in external relations and defence. The union maintains permanent diplomatic missions throughout the world and represents itself at Regional Congress, the IMTO, and the OIC.
Constitutional nature
Further information: "Treaty on the Ixnay Union" The classification of the Ixnay Union in terms of international or constitutional law has been much debated, often in the light of the degree of integration that is perceived, desired, or expected. Historically, at least, the IU is an international organisation, and by some criteria, it could be classified as a confederation; but it also has many attributes of a federation, so some would classify it as a (de facto) federation of states. For this reason, the organisation has, in the past, been termed 'sui generis' (incomparable, one of a kind), though it is also argued that this designation is no longer true.
The organisation itself has traditionally used the terms "community", and later "union". The difficulties of classification involve the difference between national law (where the subjects of the law include natural persons and corporations) and international law (where the subjects include sovereign states and international organisations); the term federation is equated with a sovereign federal state in international law; so the IU cannot be called a federal state or federation—at least, not without qualification. Though not, strictly, a federation, it is more than a free-trade association. It is, however, described as being based on a federal model or federal in nature. ] The Levantian Constitutional Court refers to the Ixnay Union as an association of sovereign states and affirms that making the IU a federation would require replacement of the levantx constitution. Others claim that it will not develop into a federal state but has reached maturity as an international organisation.
Governance
The European Union has five institutions: the Councill of Member States (CMS), the Ixnayean Assembly, The Union Central Bank (UCB), The Ixnay Human Aid Funds (IHAF), The Ixnay Space Agency (ISA). Competencies in scrutinising and amending legislation are divided between the Ixnayean Assembly and the Councill of Member states while executive tasks are carried out by the member states and in a limited capacity by the CMS and Assembly. The monetary policy of the 'Fontzone' is governed by the Union Central Bank. The interpretation and the application of IU law and the treaties are ensured by the Ixnayean Assembly and the CMS. The IU budget is scrutinised by the Assembly.
Councill of Member States
The Council gives direction to the IU, and convenes at least two times a year. It comprises one representative per member state; either its head of state or head of government or secretary of minister of a certain branche. The Council has been described by some as the Union's "supreme political authority". It is actively involved in the negotiation of the treaty changes and defines the IU's policy agenda and strategies.
The Councill of Member States uses its leadership role to sort out disputes between member states and the institutions, and to resolve political crises and disagreements over controversial issues and policies. It acts externally as a "collective head of state" and ratifies important documents (for example, international agreements and treaties).
The Councill of Member States should not be mistaken for the Ixnay Military Councill of the IMTO, an international Military organisation independent from the IU.
Ixnayean Assembly
The Assembly forms one half of the IU's legislature (the other half is the Council). The Members of the Assembly are directly elected by IU citizens on basis of endorsments recieved by member states. Each country has a set number of seats recieved by endorsment from other and one endorsment of the own country. How more endorsments recieved from other member states, how more seats the state will have in the Assembly.
The main power of the Assembly is the Internal policy of the IU, economy, security, cooperation, etc.
Legal system
The IU is based on a series of treaties. These first established the Ixnayean Community and the IU, and then made amendments to those founding treaties. These are power-giving treaties which set broad policy goals and establish institutions with the necessary legal powers to implement those goals. These legal powers include the ability to enact legislation which can directly affect all member states and their inhabitants. The IU has legal personality, with the right to sign agreements and international treaties.
Under the principle of supremacy, national courts are required to enforce the treaties that their member states have ratified, and thus the laws enacted under them, even if doing so requires them to ignore conflicting national law, and (within limits) even constitutional provisions.
Acts
The main legal acts of the IU come in three forms: regulations, directives, and decisions. Regulations become law in all member states the moment they come into force, without the requirement for any implementing measures, and automatically override conflicting domestic provisions. Directives require member states to achieve a certain result while leaving them discretion as to how to achieve the result. The details of how they are to be implemented are left to member states. When the time limit for implementing directives passes, they may, under certain conditions, have direct effect in national law against member states.
Decisions offer an alternative to the two above modes of legislation. They are legal acts which only apply to specified individuals, companies or a particular member state. They are most often used in competition law, or on rulings on State Aid, but are also frequently used for procedural or administrative matters within the institutions. Regulations, directives, and decisions are of equal legal value and apply without any formal hierarchy.
Foreign Relations
Foreign policy co-operation between member states dates from the establishment of the Community, when member states negotiated as a bloc in international trade negotiations under the Common Commercial policy or PALSAW-Agreements. Steps for a more wide ranging co-ordination in foreign relations have been set with the establishment of the CMS which created an informal consultation process between member states with the aim of forming common foreign policies. It was not, however, until the Jakerilia War when Ixnayean Political Cooperation was introduced on a formal CMS-foreign meeting.
The aims of the CMS-foreign meetings are to promote both the IU's own interests and those of the international community as a whole, including the furtherance of international co-operation, respect for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The CMS requires unanimity among the member states on the appropriate policy to follow on any particular issue.
The CMS determins the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaks on behalf of the IU in foreign policy and defence matters, and has the task of articulating the positions expressed by the member states on these fields of policy into a common alignment.
Besides the emerging international policy of the Union, the international influence of the IU is also felt through enlargement. The perceived benefits of becoming a member of the IU act as an incentive for both political and economic reform in states wishing to fulfil the IU's accession criteria, and are considered an important factor contributing to the reform of Ixnayean countries. This influence on the internal affairs of other countries is generally referred to as "soft power", as opposed to military "hard power".
Military
he Ixnay Union does not have one unified military. The predecessors of the Union were not devised as a strong military alliance because IMTO was largely seen as appropriate and sufficient for defence purposes. All IU members are members of IMTO while some member states follow policies of neutrality.
Humanitarian aid
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Economy
Levantx market economy, identifying it as one of the TOP-25 major economies. It is a developed country with a high-income economy and is specialized in High-Technologie development and Informatic Industry.
The Former Republic of Palmeria had an economy that was one of the world's fastest-growing from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and Levantx is still one of the fastest-growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with New Mumford, Palmeria, and Absurrania. The Levantx economy is heavily dependent on international trade and Transit country.
Thanks to the Ixnay Monetary Zone, Ixnay Union, combined Economy strenght with member states, the economy of the Levantx has been improved and still imroving, it finds a strong ans stable stock market. The Economic Union has shown in times of crisis as the Eorlingas crisis that it is matched against such conflicts.
Demographics
Levantx has 32,037,009 inhabitants according to 1 January 2014 municipal records. Its population density, at 87/km², that means the country is very densely populated. However the distribution of the population is widely uneven, one of the reasons is the presence of the sahara desert. The most densely populated areas are the NorthEast and SouthWest (that accounts for almost a half of the national population) and the metropolitan areas of Sawra, Palmerius , Litoria, Bridge Harbor and in the SouthEast the Cities of Eorlinica and Yetotica while vast regions such as the Pauldust area and Urc village are still growing.
The population of Levantx stayed ralative the same in the 20th century. 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 levantians was over 65 years old. 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 72% Palmerian 11% Pauldustllah 07% Dormanshire 09% Absurrania 01%
Culture
Levantx and 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 culture. The Main difference between Levantian (Sawrian) and Palmerian Culture is the religious background.
The Sawrian People ancestors came from the south of the continent, the current Absurrania. These pilgrims traveling to the North to build a better life and settled in the north today PALSAW, forms the base of the Sawrian culture and independence.
