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The Most Holy and Grand Empire of Christian Democrats (founded July 29, 2009) is a federal parliamentary theodemocracy located in the region of Catholic. Catholicism is the official state religion, and Link

Christian democracy is the state ideology. The head of state is the pope, and the capital city is Rome.

Christian Democrats is a former member of the World Assembly (WA). It resigned its membership in August 2022 after Catholic's regional government voted to dissociate with the WA. Its WA delegation has authored the following resolutions:

General Assembly Resolution 160 (Forced Marriages Ban Act) passed with 79 percent support on August 16, 2011. This resolution prohibits forced marriage in all member states and prevents member states from recognizing forced marriages performed in foreign countries.
General Assembly Resolution 175 (Organ and Blood Donations Act) passed with 68 percent support on December 23, 2011. This resolution had legalized organ, tissue, and blood donations in all member states. It also had required that certain basic precautions be taken to ensure patient health and safety. There were two attempts by The dourian embassy to repeal this resolution; both of them failed. On September 4, 2012, Mousebumples authored General Assembly Resolution 215, which repealed the Organ and Blood Donations Act. This is the first resolution in General Assembly history for which there were three repeal votes.
Security Council Resolution 82 (Repeal "Liberate Catholic") passed with 80 percent support on March 13, 2012. On February 25, 2012, a coalition of military forces invaded Catholic. The Security Council liberated the region with Resolution 80 on March 3. The occupation of Catholic ended shortly thereafter, and this repeal was authored with Devoted Decons (the regional delegate at that time) so that Catholic could be refounded. The refounding of Catholic ensures the region's future security.
General Assembly Resolution 200 (Foreign Marriage Recognition) passed with 54 percent support on June 5, 2012. This resolution requires that member states give full legal recognition to foreign marriages, provided that such marriages would be recognized under domestic law.
General Assembly Resolution 213 (Privacy Protection Act) passed with 70 percent support on August 25, 2012. This resolution provides basic protection of the right to privacy with regard to lawful actions, places, and matters. The resolution prevents violations of people's right to privacy by the government. It does not affect private actors.
General Assembly Resolution 231 (Marital Rape Justice Act) passed with 81 percent support on December 25, 2012. This resolution had clarified that no member state could consider consent to marriage to be consent to sexual activity; and it had ensured that all survivors of rape, regardless of marital status, would have equal access to justice. It was repealed on February 2, 2013, by General Assembly Resolution 238 (Ossitania) for its wording. The opposition asserted that the Marital Rape Justice Act was flawed because it "merely throws up legal barriers to marital rape without asserting a right to be free from it." (At the time, a right against rape was already guaranteed by Section 3(c) of Resolution 16, the Sexual Privacy Act.)
General Assembly Resolution 249 (Stopping Suicide Seeds) passed with 70 percent support on May 16, 2013. This resolution imposed stringent regulations on genetic use restriction technology (GURT) -- a genetic modification technique that puts the environment at risk and that threatens the ability of small farmers and subsistence farmers to support themselves and their families. This resolution helped prevent multinational corporations from exploiting the rural poor and farmers in developing countries. It was unjustly repealed on false pretenses on April 21, 2016, after the moderators refused to enforce the General Assembly's rule against dishonest repeals. The moderators' bad decision was one of the events that precipitated the creation of an independent Secretariat, composed of experts on the General Assembly.
General Assembly Resolution 253 (Repeal "Freedom in Medical Research") passed with 76 percent support on June 28, 2013. This repeal focused on two major flaws in the original resolution: (1) it granted complete legal immunity to physicians providing controversial treatments, thus preventing patients from exercising their right to sue and the government from enforcing regulations for the public good; and (2) it imposed unreasonable labeling regulations requiring that all ingredients and potential side effects of drugs be listed on the bottle itself instead of in a separate pamphlet.
General Assembly Resolution 285 (Assisted Suicide Act) passed with 70 percent support on February 25, 2014. This resolution protected the authority of member states, within their respective jurisdictions, to determine the legality of assisted suicide and euthanasia. In early 2022, the General Assembly repealed the Assisted Suicide Act and replaced it with legislation that requires member-state health systems to "provide fully subsidised assisted suicide services."
General Assembly Resolution 310 (Disabled Voters Act) passed with 81 percent support on January 23, 2015. This resolution requires member states to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled individuals, so they are able to exercise equal voting rights with other citizens. This is the first Christian Democratic resolution to receive more than 10,000 affirmative votes.
General Assembly Resolution 373 (Repeal "Convention on Execution") passed with 54 percent support on May 28, 2016, with the votes of the original resolution's authors. The Convention on Execution was flawed because it gave member states the "right" to execute people for any crimes whatsoever, including petty offenses. On June 5, 2016, Schuttegod (Omigodtheykilledkenny) achieved passage of a resolution to replace the Convention on Execution. According to General Assembly Resolution 375 (Crime and Punishment) (now repealed), member states could not impose "disproportionate" criminal penalties, and the death penalty was reserved "for the gravest and most serious of offenses."
General Assembly Resolution 468 (Prohibit Private Prisons) passed with 57 percent support on July 21, 2019. This resolution would have required member states to discontinue their use of private prisons -- prisons wholly or primarily controlled by private industry -- by July 21, 2021. By reducing the profit motive for imprisonment, this resolution would have helped combat the problems of mass incarceration and disproportionate punishment. It was repealed by General Assembly Resolution 470 (Marxist germany) on September 27, 2019.

In addition, Christian Democrats is the coauthor of the following:

General Assembly Resolution 233 (Ban Profits on Workers' Deaths), which was proposed by Sionis prioratus, passed with 80 percent support on January 3, 2013. This resolution prohibits employers from taking out life insurance policies on workers without their consent. The resolution is a ban on "dead peasant" policies.

Christian Democrats is the author of several daily issues:

Issue #360 (Electile Dysfunction) deals with electoral reform, giving nations the ability to choose plurality voting, instant-runoff voting, proportional representation, sortition, or plutocracy for their legislatures. Lenyo edited the issue.
Issue #452 (Foetal Furore) addresses conflicts between police and pro-life activists outside abortion clinics. It was inspired by the U.S. Supreme Court case McCullen v. Coakley (2014). Sanctaria was the issue's editor.
Issue #560 (Bicameral Backlash) asks nations to weigh the costs and benefits of unicameralism and bicameralism and to choose to abolish their upper houses, keep their upper houses, or keep their upper houses but with reduced authority. The editor of the issue was Nation of Quebec.
Issue #570 (Clerical Errors) is for nations with official religions, and its writing was motivated by the female ordination controversy in many real-world denominations. The issue gives nations the option of opening the clergy to both sexes, limiting it to a single sex, or staying out of doctrinal disputes entirely. The issue was edited by Nation of Quebec.

Christian Democrats has also held several notable positions in NationStates:

Catholic
-- Guardian, 2017-present
-- WA Delegate, 2011, 2014-2021
-- High Councilor, 2012-2013
Right to Life (RTL) (see Culture of Life)
-- Founder/Governor, 2011-present
The Rejected Realms (TRR) (see James ii)
-- Officer of Internal Affairs, 2011,^(c) 2013-2014^(d)
-- Officer of Culture, 2011^(c)
-- Speaker of the Assembly, 2013
-- Officer of WA Affairs, 2014-2015^(e)(f)
-- Citizenship Councilor, 2015-2017
-- Officer of Media, 2015^(f)
The Founderless Regions Alliance (FRA)
-- TRR Representative, 2013-2016^(a)
-- Deputy Speaker, 2014-2015^(b)
-- Speaker of the Assembly, 2015-2016^(a)
Westphalia (see Catholic prussia)
-- Crown Prince and Regent, 2012-2016^(g)
NationStates
-- Guardian of Issues Spoilers, 2015-2017
-- General Assembly Secretariat, 2016-2019