Post by tommune on Mar 10, 2006 23:44:23 GMT -5
THE COLONY OF TOMMUNE
Short name: Tommune or C. O. Tommune
Local name: Hippie Colony
Founder and first Pres: Harold Schilling
Official language:English, French
Other language: Russian, Native
Capital: Tommunepolis![]()
:Tommunepolis
Other Cities (Most populous to least populous) Port du Norde, South Bend Rum, City, and New Lourdes
:South Bend and the St. Joseph Bridge
Currency: Schilling
National animal: Forest Dove
National drink: Rum
National food: Banana
Motto: "Where have all the flowers gone?"
National Anthem: "Where have all the flowers gone?"
Government:
PRESIDENTIAL/EXUCUTIVE: This branch is ruled by, of course, the president and vice-president. Both the president and vice-pres. has an "Advisory Board" consisting of 3 to 50 advisors. They serve in as many 5-year terms as the people wish. The president both lives and works in the Grand Presidential Palace in Tommunepolis, which in reality is a quite small building.
GUILD/LEGISLATIVE: The leaders of this branch are the 13 members of the House of Guild Representatives in Tommunepolis. Each are representatives of the 13 Grand Guilds of Tommune: Navy Guild, Air Force Guild, Army Guild, Diplomatic Guild, Economical Guild, Transportational Guild, Religious Guild, Environmental Guild, Foreinge Trade Guild, Athletic Guild, Health Guild, Educational Guild, and the Cultural Guild. Anyone CITIZEN (no matter where they were born) can join a guild as long as the Guild Representative (Who must be elected by both the guild AND the citizens) approves OR 30% of the Guild approves. Most Guilds have about 1,000 to 5,000 members. Most of them have experience in the Guild's field (Ex: Economical -Farmer; Naval Guild- Navy veteran). Guild reps serve for as many 3-year terms as they are granted.
JUDICIAL: This branch also has a guild system, although there is only ONE guild (Law Guild) and it has NINE Guild reps (elected by the people) who make up the Tommunist Supreme Court. They meet in the Supreme Courthouse in Tommunepolis and are led by the Grand Judge (elected by the people AND the guild) Judges in the Supreme Court serve for life or until the retire.
LAW AND DECISION MAKING: All laws and decisions must be approved by the pres. Some must be approved by the vice. pres and some must be approved by certain Guild Reps (EX: invading a country- Naval, Army and Air Force Guild reps). Some must be approved by all Guild Reps. Some even must be approved in monthly elections by the citizens. All LAWS must be approved by the Supreme Court (Most by all members of the Court, a few by just the Grand Judge).
POLITICAL PARTIES: Tommunist Liberals (main party), French Liberals (second biggest party), Tommunist Conservatives, French Conservatives
STATES: Tommune is divided into 2 states: North Tommune and South Tommune. Both states do have an elected governor, who, for as many 4 year terms as the people grant, makes decisions for his state that the federal government does not make. However, the states do not elect seperate representatives to the federal government.
FLAG: The flag symbolizes the two states in Tommune, the diagonal line symbolizes the diagonal border in between them.
Society
Ethnicities: %47 Hippie, %30 French, %13 Russian/gypsie, %9 Black, %1 Native
Religions: Roman Catholocism, Mormon, Judaism, Native Tribal
TV Stations: TTV (Tommunist Television)
Economy: Relativly bad compared to other countries. It relies mainly on its woodchips exports industry, secondly on its banana exports industry,
and thirdly on its sugar and rum industry. 
Geography and Climate
Highest point: Napolia Peak in the Chilly Highlands-14,630 feet
Lowest point: Rum Valley- 3 feet below Sea Level
Avg. summer tempurature: 86 degrees
Avg. winter tempurature: 35 degrees
Climate- wet, humid, hot in summer, chilly in winter/Much like Northern California (Hippies included!
)
Environment:
TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS: Many temperate rainforests span North AND South Tommune
SWAMP: The Foggy Bog, a large swamp in southern Tommune, spans for hundreds of miles. It is home to many unique types of wildlife such as the mud catfish, apple snail, freshwater alligator, and Swamp Stork. It was formed when runoff water from the St. Joseph Bay oozed through the land, forming many short, muddy rivers) It is also the ground for South Bend, a medium sized city where spaceships are launched.
MOUNTAINS: The Chilly Highlands, in Mid Tomune, are few but very tall peaks, atleast for a pennisulla. They were formed when a small chunk of land (now North Tommune) collided with a pennisulla (South Tommune) to make one really BIG pennisulla (Tommune). It's highest point is Napolia Peak, located in North Tommune.
Political Leaders
President- Will Robinson since 1995
Vice. Pres- Spence Preeger since 1995
Grand Judge- George Scotchdale since 1986
History:
After the French Revolution and the chaos that followed, France decided to make a new colony for more money, but they couldn't buy it from other Western powers. In 1801, a French explorer named Jean Lesouix landed at the tip of what is now the Napolia Peninsula. After explorere the warm, lush land, he claimed it for France and named it after the man who sent him, Napoleon. It was known as the colony of napolia. This worked out nicely for the french. They had plenty of natives to enslave, and the peacful native Dregmantor tribe only caused a wee bit of conflict. However, they soon all died because of small-pox and other European diseases. So in 1928, France allowed ANYONE to become a citizen of Napolia no matter what. These people were mostly minorities who were treated badly, such as gypsies and blacks from South Africa. during the sixties, about 3,000 American hippies went to a French colony and set up their own colonies. In fear that Napolia might revolt like all other French colonies, the French leaders threatened to kill everyone who did not have French at least 3 generations on their family tree. In fear, the hippies, gypsies and blacks all flocked to the ruins of Rum Valley (read Rum Valley NWR thread). There they developed a simple, liberal society called Tommune. In 1967, they all put their money together and bought the land from France before military action took place. The Tommunist flag (which before looked more like Bosnia's flag) was raised in 1969. However, much of the country is still influenced by French culture, including the French parties and nation's love of accordians. They soon established their own liberal government and millions of hippies, a long with Blacks and gypsies, who were not well accepted at the time, from all across the world came to Tommune where they would be respected and listened to. Although it is still very liberal, the government is starting to forget it's hippie ways and is slowly strengthening it's military.
Who knows what is in store for Tommune.
EXTRA INFO:
SPACE: The Tommunist Space Travel Administration (TSTA) launched it'slast permenent space station, the Tommune Space Lab, in 2002. Sadly, it started to orbit around the moon instead of earth and its radio contact with the Tommune Space Travel Center in South Bend broke. Since then, the orginization's main gole has been to rescue the astronauts. Some beleive they crashed onto the moon, so moon-landers are being tested and produced as you read and a fleet of space-shuttles is currently circling the Moon, searching diligantly for the lost astronauts. They know the astronauts are alive because they are still receiving heart beat confirmations form the astronaut's space suits (like in the movie Apollo 13).
NATIVE TOMMUNISTS: The Dregmantor Tribe was the great tribe which made many Ancient Ruins...However, they were mainly wiped out by the French, but a few decendents remain.
TOMMUNIST MAGIC: Many people in Tommune have discovered they have magical powers. Maybe they were just on drugs. Not Robert Dovesman. Robert Dovesman is probably Tommune's best magician. He got started when Harold Schilling, the first president, took pity on him as a begger and gave him gigs. He does many acts with Tommune's national animal, the forest dove, at parties and balls. However, Robert tends to have a strange sense of humor and pulls pranks on everyone he sees. For this reason, he has a tendancy to be tackled by Royal Guards. He has become a symbol of Tommunist spirit and laxness.
WHAT IS TOMMUNISM?
Tommunism is a belief founded in Tommune that war is bad in most instances and Business and State are seperate...They are not anti-business, it's just that they watch big monopolies to see to it that they do not try to run the country...Leave that up to the government...In some ways, they are less liberal than many hippies (the death penely was reintroduced when the people elected a Conservative to be the army guild's rep. (which also deals with police issues) But in other ways, they are MORE liberal than most hippies.
Short name: Tommune or C. O. Tommune
Local name: Hippie Colony
Founder and first Pres: Harold Schilling
Official language:English, French
Other language: Russian, Native
Capital: Tommunepolis
:TommunepolisOther Cities (Most populous to least populous) Port du Norde, South Bend Rum, City, and New Lourdes
:South Bend and the St. Joseph BridgeCurrency: Schilling
National animal: Forest Dove
National drink: Rum
National food: Banana
Motto: "Where have all the flowers gone?"
National Anthem: "Where have all the flowers gone?"
Government:
PRESIDENTIAL/EXUCUTIVE: This branch is ruled by, of course, the president and vice-president. Both the president and vice-pres. has an "Advisory Board" consisting of 3 to 50 advisors. They serve in as many 5-year terms as the people wish. The president both lives and works in the Grand Presidential Palace in Tommunepolis, which in reality is a quite small building.
GUILD/LEGISLATIVE: The leaders of this branch are the 13 members of the House of Guild Representatives in Tommunepolis. Each are representatives of the 13 Grand Guilds of Tommune: Navy Guild, Air Force Guild, Army Guild, Diplomatic Guild, Economical Guild, Transportational Guild, Religious Guild, Environmental Guild, Foreinge Trade Guild, Athletic Guild, Health Guild, Educational Guild, and the Cultural Guild. Anyone CITIZEN (no matter where they were born) can join a guild as long as the Guild Representative (Who must be elected by both the guild AND the citizens) approves OR 30% of the Guild approves. Most Guilds have about 1,000 to 5,000 members. Most of them have experience in the Guild's field (Ex: Economical -Farmer; Naval Guild- Navy veteran). Guild reps serve for as many 3-year terms as they are granted.
JUDICIAL: This branch also has a guild system, although there is only ONE guild (Law Guild) and it has NINE Guild reps (elected by the people) who make up the Tommunist Supreme Court. They meet in the Supreme Courthouse in Tommunepolis and are led by the Grand Judge (elected by the people AND the guild) Judges in the Supreme Court serve for life or until the retire.
LAW AND DECISION MAKING: All laws and decisions must be approved by the pres. Some must be approved by the vice. pres and some must be approved by certain Guild Reps (EX: invading a country- Naval, Army and Air Force Guild reps). Some must be approved by all Guild Reps. Some even must be approved in monthly elections by the citizens. All LAWS must be approved by the Supreme Court (Most by all members of the Court, a few by just the Grand Judge).
POLITICAL PARTIES: Tommunist Liberals (main party), French Liberals (second biggest party), Tommunist Conservatives, French Conservatives
STATES: Tommune is divided into 2 states: North Tommune and South Tommune. Both states do have an elected governor, who, for as many 4 year terms as the people grant, makes decisions for his state that the federal government does not make. However, the states do not elect seperate representatives to the federal government.
FLAG: The flag symbolizes the two states in Tommune, the diagonal line symbolizes the diagonal border in between them.
Society
Ethnicities: %47 Hippie, %30 French, %13 Russian/gypsie, %9 Black, %1 Native
Religions: Roman Catholocism, Mormon, Judaism, Native Tribal
TV Stations: TTV (Tommunist Television)
Economy: Relativly bad compared to other countries. It relies mainly on its woodchips exports industry, secondly on its banana exports industry,
and thirdly on its sugar and rum industry. Geography and Climate
Highest point: Napolia Peak in the Chilly Highlands-14,630 feet
Lowest point: Rum Valley- 3 feet below Sea Level
Avg. summer tempurature: 86 degrees
Avg. winter tempurature: 35 degrees
Climate- wet, humid, hot in summer, chilly in winter/Much like Northern California (Hippies included!
)Environment:
TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS: Many temperate rainforests span North AND South Tommune
SWAMP: The Foggy Bog, a large swamp in southern Tommune, spans for hundreds of miles. It is home to many unique types of wildlife such as the mud catfish, apple snail, freshwater alligator, and Swamp Stork. It was formed when runoff water from the St. Joseph Bay oozed through the land, forming many short, muddy rivers) It is also the ground for South Bend, a medium sized city where spaceships are launched.
MOUNTAINS: The Chilly Highlands, in Mid Tomune, are few but very tall peaks, atleast for a pennisulla. They were formed when a small chunk of land (now North Tommune) collided with a pennisulla (South Tommune) to make one really BIG pennisulla (Tommune). It's highest point is Napolia Peak, located in North Tommune.
Political Leaders
President- Will Robinson since 1995
Vice. Pres- Spence Preeger since 1995
Grand Judge- George Scotchdale since 1986
History:
After the French Revolution and the chaos that followed, France decided to make a new colony for more money, but they couldn't buy it from other Western powers. In 1801, a French explorer named Jean Lesouix landed at the tip of what is now the Napolia Peninsula. After explorere the warm, lush land, he claimed it for France and named it after the man who sent him, Napoleon. It was known as the colony of napolia. This worked out nicely for the french. They had plenty of natives to enslave, and the peacful native Dregmantor tribe only caused a wee bit of conflict. However, they soon all died because of small-pox and other European diseases. So in 1928, France allowed ANYONE to become a citizen of Napolia no matter what. These people were mostly minorities who were treated badly, such as gypsies and blacks from South Africa. during the sixties, about 3,000 American hippies went to a French colony and set up their own colonies. In fear that Napolia might revolt like all other French colonies, the French leaders threatened to kill everyone who did not have French at least 3 generations on their family tree. In fear, the hippies, gypsies and blacks all flocked to the ruins of Rum Valley (read Rum Valley NWR thread). There they developed a simple, liberal society called Tommune. In 1967, they all put their money together and bought the land from France before military action took place. The Tommunist flag (which before looked more like Bosnia's flag) was raised in 1969. However, much of the country is still influenced by French culture, including the French parties and nation's love of accordians. They soon established their own liberal government and millions of hippies, a long with Blacks and gypsies, who were not well accepted at the time, from all across the world came to Tommune where they would be respected and listened to. Although it is still very liberal, the government is starting to forget it's hippie ways and is slowly strengthening it's military.
Who knows what is in store for Tommune.EXTRA INFO:
SPACE: The Tommunist Space Travel Administration (TSTA) launched it'slast permenent space station, the Tommune Space Lab, in 2002. Sadly, it started to orbit around the moon instead of earth and its radio contact with the Tommune Space Travel Center in South Bend broke. Since then, the orginization's main gole has been to rescue the astronauts. Some beleive they crashed onto the moon, so moon-landers are being tested and produced as you read and a fleet of space-shuttles is currently circling the Moon, searching diligantly for the lost astronauts. They know the astronauts are alive because they are still receiving heart beat confirmations form the astronaut's space suits (like in the movie Apollo 13).
NATIVE TOMMUNISTS: The Dregmantor Tribe was the great tribe which made many Ancient Ruins...However, they were mainly wiped out by the French, but a few decendents remain.
TOMMUNIST MAGIC: Many people in Tommune have discovered they have magical powers. Maybe they were just on drugs. Not Robert Dovesman. Robert Dovesman is probably Tommune's best magician. He got started when Harold Schilling, the first president, took pity on him as a begger and gave him gigs. He does many acts with Tommune's national animal, the forest dove, at parties and balls. However, Robert tends to have a strange sense of humor and pulls pranks on everyone he sees. For this reason, he has a tendancy to be tackled by Royal Guards. He has become a symbol of Tommunist spirit and laxness.
WHAT IS TOMMUNISM?
Tommunism is a belief founded in Tommune that war is bad in most instances and Business and State are seperate...They are not anti-business, it's just that they watch big monopolies to see to it that they do not try to run the country...Leave that up to the government...In some ways, they are less liberal than many hippies (the death penely was reintroduced when the people elected a Conservative to be the army guild's rep. (which also deals with police issues) But in other ways, they are MORE liberal than most hippies.