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I'm thinking of completely redesigning my nation.

Roelandia wrote:

Well if you want to do that I guess now is the time since the region seems to be more or less "paused" for the moment anyway. What do you have in mind if I may ask?

I'm thinking of a corrupt, somewhat authoritarian democracy that just elected a leftist, anti-corruption candidate to the presidency. I'll probably keep a lot of things from this version of Cavendia, but a lot of it will also be different.

Roelandia wrote:

So, basically the reverse of what the USA is now? (I kid, I kid...)

Haha, in a way, yeah.

Come to think of it, there are some strange things about my country. Roelandia is a Federal semi-presidential constitutional republic. There is only one example of that in the real world and that is the Russian federation. Furthermore, my country is a unicameral (...monocameral...) federation. There is only one example of that in the world as well and that is...well, ...Venezuela... AND to top it off. My federation has an extra federal level. The first federal level (regional level) is subdivided into its own federal level, the so called "city-states" (local level). Here too there is only one example that comes somewhat close to that arrangement in the real world and that is Bosnia-Herzegovina... I know, none of these are stellar examples of good governance...

Although, the actual governmental structures and their functioning are mainly inspired by Belgium, Germany and France (mostly in that order).

Additionally, Roelandia is also characterized by so called "layer cake" federalism (as opposed to "marble cake" federalism).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_federalism

Petrokovia wrote:

A lot of the issues those nations face, govermentarily, aren't due to the thing they share in common with your nation, though.

For instance, Russia's government issues don't stem from it being a semi-presidential federal republic. To the contrary, Russia wouldn't be able to exist in its current form, with its current borders, unless it used such a system (arguably, a monarchy could still rule over such a large and diverse area, but in a modern setting, I sincerely doubt it could do so and be sustainable). On paper, Russia's system is actually pretty damn good, most of the issues stem from holdovers and internal grudges from the Soviet era, as well as Putin's megalomania and cult of personality; Putin has very popular support within the rest of the government, to the point that he rarely ever sees any opposition to his actions. And due to this popularity, when he does face serious opposition, most officials are willing to look the other way if he "deals" with it.

For as much as I dislike how much Congress and POTUS seem to become deadlocked, it does help keep things at bay. (y'know, except for when Congress gets bought out and bribed).

Yes, I know that. Russia's constitution was partially inspired by that of the French fifth republic (The current French regime, in force since 1958) so that's why it bears so many resemblences to France (except for the fact that Russia is a federal syustem and France is unitary). With one important difference however: The Russian president can dismiss the prime minister, France's can't. Only the National assembly can do that. These are chategorized by the two subtypes of semi-presidential regimes, Premier-presidential (France) and President-parliamentary (Russia).

Roelandia is off course the former subtype (Premier-Presidential)

Happy birthday to Roelandia! :D

happy birthday dude!

If you've ever wondered what Roelandia's official chancellor's car looks like, here it is: https://i.imgur.com/gqGWWSu.png (I know the flags look horrible. My photoshop refuses to download its update properly so as long as that is out of action I'll have to content with this kind of poor editing quality saddly...)

The emblem on the side is the Chancellor's emblem. The bird is a phoenix which is also featured on the federal government's coat of arms (the phoenix was chosen as the nation's symbol as a kind of "resurrection out of the ashes" methaphor after the civil war of the 1930's), the shield is symbolic for the role of protector the chancellor has (both in the sense of protecting the unity of the nation domestically and its integrity in terms of international relations). The 25 stars around the shield and phoenix are symbolic of the 25 governments of Roelandia (1 national, 3 regional, 20 local and 1 capital district).

Ah! much better!

https://i.imgur.com/clW6iNE.png

And here is one with the Chancellor's standard on one side and the Roelandian flag on the other:

https://i.imgur.com/hcY338N.png

Well, the democrats won the house of representatives.

Armenda wrote:

I have a question - are we having any WW canon?

I believe we talked about this earlier.
What we have established so far is that Roelandia recently had a civil war at around the ww2 mark (1939) and has a government in Its homeland (which at that point is a government of national union comprised of classical liberals, "Christian" (humanist actually) democrats and moderate leftists (social democratic and market socialists) and a government in the colonies comprised of far-right and nationalist elements. They have an uneasy truce that eventually breaks down and ushers in the colonial reconquista. This conflict can exist on its own but can also be integrated into a larger whole. For Instance, I know Petrokovia had an event similar to the great patriotic war that takes place at roughly the same time. GraeBia is (can't find the German SZ letter on my phone...) the lore puppet he uses for this. This nation could have been a Roelandian nationalist ally which prompted an alliance between the Roelandian mainland and Peteokovia. That's all we have so far I think.

Roelandia wrote:

I believe we talked about this earlier.
What we have established so far is that Roelandia recently had a civil war at around the ww2 mark (1939) and has a government in Its homeland (which at that point is a government of national union comprised of classical liberals, "Christian" (humanist actually) democrats and moderate leftists (social democratic and market socialists) and a government in the colonies comprised of far-right and nationalist elements. They have an uneasy truce that eventually breaks down and ushers in the colonial reconquista. This conflict can exist on its own but can also be integrated into a larger whole. For Instance, I know Petrokovia had an event similar to the great patriotic war that takes place at roughly the same time. GraeBia is (can't find the German SZ letter on my phone...) the lore puppet he uses for this. This nation could have been a Roelandian nationalist ally which prompted an alliance between the Roelandian mainland and Peteokovia. That's all we have so far I think.

Yeah, I think an alliance between Graeßia and the Roelandian Nationalists, and an alliance between Roelandia Proper and the DSRP would be nice.