The Federation of Rhodovia

[Rhodovia]

The Federation of Rhodovia

You may be whatever you resolve to be

Domestic Statistics
Government Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
Government Priority: Defence
Economic Rating: Good
Civil Rights Rating: Good
Political Freedoms: Very Good
Income Tax Rate: 24%
Major Industry: Book Publishing
National Animal: Coyote
National Currency: Droubloon
Total Population: 29,000,000
Government Budget Details
Administration: $9,519,834,860.34 13%
Social Welfare: $8,055,244,881.83 11%
Healthcare: $9,519,834,860.34 13%
Education: $8,055,244,881.83 11%
Religion & Spirituality: $6,590,654,903.31 9%
Defence: $19,771,964,709.94 27%
Law & Order: $11,716,719,828.11 16%
Commerce: $0.00 0%
Public Transport: $0.00 0%
The Environment: $0.00 0%
Social Equality: $0.00 0%
Rhodovia Economic Statistics
Exchange Rate: 2.5958 Droubloons = $1
Gross Domestic Product: $231,838,677,616.44
GDP Per Capita: $7,994.44
Unemployment Rate: 9.46%
Consumption: $161,944,410,000.00
Government Budget: $75,494,328,789.38
Government Expenditures: $73,229,498,925.69
Goverment Waste: $2,264,829,863.68
Exports: $25,770,450,488.48
Imports: $29,105,681,797.73
Trade Deficit: $3,335,231,309.26
The Federation of Rhodovia
"You may be whatever you resolve to be"

The Federation of Rhodovia
Short name: Rhodovia
Local name: Rhodovia

Official language(s): English (mandatory for all students, who are also largely fluent in a second language)
Other language(s): (Spoken mostly in the home) Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Afrikaans, and Vietnamese
Capital: Avalon
Currency: Droubloon
National animal: Coyote
Motto: “You may be whatever you resolve to be”
National Anthem: Imperial March

Government
Head of State: President
Head of Government: President
Government Type: Unicameral Federation

Any power or jurisdiction not specifically granted to the federal government is the power or jurisdiction of the states.

Executive Branch: Office of the President
Enforces Law
Can be elected up to 2 terms of 6 years
Veto power
Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces.
Can introduce legislation into the Senate but may not vote on it.

Cabinet Ministries:
Ministry of State: Manages regional and overseas diplomatic exchanges.
Ministry of Treasury: Controls the mint, and takes care of currency matters.
Ministry of Defense: Oversees military readiness, maintenance of armed forces and maintaining homeland security. Contains: Ministries of the Army, and Air Force (no navy since it’s landlocked)
Ministry of Internal Development: Oversees nationwide internal improvements and all interstate matters.
Ministry of Education: Sets national education standards and establishes charter schools.
Ministry of Environment: Oversees and takes care of national parks, emissions regulation, toxic waste management, and hunting regulation.

Legislative Branch: Federal Senate
Makes Law
Elected every 2 years, 6 term limit
1 senator from each state. 1 vote per senator.
Can override presidential veto with a 2/3 majority vote
Declares war

Judicial Branch: Supreme Court
Interprets Law
7 members
May not make new laws, it is only empowered to interpret and judge based on already existing laws.
Judges have to be reappointed every 3 years by a majority vote in the Senate.

Society
Ethnicities: (Largely mixed now, this lists the predominant ethnicity)
Caucasian (31%) Italian (14%) Hispanic (12%) Asian (17%) African (15%) Hylian (11%)
Religions: Protestant Christian (Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist) (31.3%) Catholic (44.6%) Buddhist (25.1%)
Languages: English, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Afrikaans, Vietnamese
Economy:
Rooted largely in Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery

Rhodovia’s main sources of power are Hydroelectric, Geothermal, and Thorium-based Nuclear.
Its landfills are famously small due to large scale recycling and solar-powered incinerators.

Geography and Climate
Highest point: Mt. Lee (12,364 ft. above sea level)
Lowest point: Bottom of Crystal Lake (237 ft. below sea level)

Avg. summer temperature: 86 deg.
Avg. winter temperature: 35 deg.
Mild most of the year, with heavy blizzards in the northern regions in January and huge rainstorms throughout the country in October-November.

Political Leaders
President: Matthew Rhodes
Minister of State: Tristan Hawkins
Minister of Treasury: Peggy Lang
Minister of Defense: Jack Robertson
Minister of Internal Development: Giovanni Costanza
Minister of Education: Loren Jones
Minister of Environment: Tony Delgado


History

Rhodovia was founded by a group of energetic American adventurers who decided to settle in their largely uninhabited land. When they arrived they discovered several villages of Hylians. The Hylians and the Americans eventually spread out over what is now Rhodovia, with the Hylians largely keeping to the east and the Americans to the North, South, and West. The colonists eventually decided to form an official nation as a consolidation of all their various colonies and opened their offer to the Hylians as well. Everyone accepted and sent delegates to a constitutional convention in a little hamlet called Avalon, which was built specifically for that purpose because it resided on no colony’s land. They deliberated for a week and finally came up with the Articles of Federation and decided to name their country Rhodovia, after their colonial leader, Alexander Rhodes, who was elected the first president of Rhodovia in 1898. Soon after this election, 4 main political parties took shape, the mainly-Hylian Freedom Party, the Progressive Centrist Party which President Rhodes founded, the Social Democratic Party, and the Conservative Party.

Rhodovia prospered under her new government and in the next few decades, experienced 4 waves of migrations starting with disaffected Italians fleeing Mussolini’s Italy in 1942, then came the Latin American immigrants fleeing the early drug wars in the 50’s, followed by the 2 last waves, first the Africans fleeing South Africa during apartheid, followed by South Vietnamese fleeing the Communists.

Rhodovia developed a reputation for taking in refugees on a large scale and encouraged them to stay, which most did. Even though English is required to learn in school, each of these other groups also speaks their own native language at home and in their own neighborhoods. There has been very little ethnic tension since the first colonists were abolitionists back in the U.S. and the Hylians didn’t mind newcomers, and the others were united in their refugee status.

Rhodovia is now a prosperous medium-sized nation with a good economy and a flourishing private sector held in check by the energetic but limited government.

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Now a little info on the Political Parties of Rhodovia

Freedom Party




Founded 1899

Headquarters 922 Jackson Ave, Avalon, Avalon

Political Ideology Neolibertarian
Color Gold


Definition
Neolibertarianism holds that the best form of national government is one that promotes neoconservative ideals, including the use of pre-emptive military engagements. It also holds that nearly all other issues should remain in the jurisdiction of local political entities: state/provincial and municipal governments, communities, and individuals. Neolibertarians are sometimes described as "pro-capitalist conservatives" or "libertarians who support the War on Terror." To describe neolibertarians, Dale Franks says this: [3]
When given a set of policy choices,
• The choice that maximizes personal liberty is the best choice.
• The policy choice that offers the least amount of necessary government intervention or regulation is the best choice.
• The policy choice that provides rational, market-based incentives is the best choice.
In foreign policy, neolibertartianism would be characterized by,
• A policy of diplomacy that promotes consensual government and human rights and opposes dictatorship.
• A policy of using US military force solely at the discretion of the US, but only in circumstances where American interests are directly affected.
Putting a different spin on it, the website "Neo-Libertarian" says that neo-libertarianism: [4]
...means making a political commitment to combat the initiation of force and fraud by the most effective and moral route possible; paleo-libertarians deal in words and thoughts, while neo-libertarians commit themselves to expanding freedom from the rhetorical world to the real world. It's the difference between saying something for freedom and doing something for freedom.

Progressive Centrist Party




Founded 1899

Headquarters 85 Maybery Lane, Avalon, Avalon

Political Ideology Ordoliberalism, Third Way(Centrism)

Color Red, Tan


Ordoliberalism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Ordoliberalism (also called German neoliberalism), the state must create a proper legal environment for the economy and maintain a healthy level of competition through measures that adhere to market principles.[1] The concern is that, if the state does not take active measures to foster competition, firms with monopoly (or oligopoly) power will emerge, which will not only subvert the advantages offered by the market economy, but also possibly undermine good government, since strong economic power can be transformed into political power. Quoting Stephen Padgett: "A central tenet of ordo-liberalism is a clearly defined division of labor in economic management, with specific responsibilities assigned to particular institutions. Monetary policy should be the responsibility of a central bank committed to monetary stability and low inflation, and insulated from political pressure by independent status. Fiscal policy- balancing tax revenue against government expenditure- is the domain of the government, whilst macro-economic policy is the preserve of employers and trade unions." The state should form an economical order instead of directing economical processes.
Ordoliberalism was developed in the 1930s-1950s by German economists such as Wilhelm Röpke (who spent the Nazi period in exile in Turkey), Walter Eucken, Franz Böhm and Hans Großmann-Doerth to create the German social market economy based on the German model.
Ordoliberalism was centered around the academic journal Ordo: Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Among the contributors to journal were Franz Böhm, Walter Eucken, Ludwig Erhard, Friedrich Hayek, Alexander Rüstow, and others.
Wilhelm Röpke considered Ordoliberalism to be "liberal conservatism," against capitalism in his work Civitas Humana (A Humane Order of Society, 1944). Alexander Rüstow also has criticized laissez-faire capitalism in his work Das Versagen des Wirtschaftsliberalismus (1950). The Ordoliberals thus separated themselves from other traditional liberals, the "paleoliberals," like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.
Third Way (centrism)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Third Way, or Radical Middle, is a centrist philosophy of governance that embraces a mix of market and interventionist philosophies. The Third Way rejects both top-down redistribution and laissez faire approaches to economic governance, but chiefly stresses technological development, education, and competitive mechanisms to pursue economic progress and governmental objectives.
Recent political leaders who have been said to have pursued Third Way policies include Tony Blair of the United Kingdom, Romano Prodi of Italy, Bill Clinton of the United States, Gerhard Schröder of Germany, Jean Chrétien of Canada, Wim Kok of the Netherlands, Ricardo Lagos of Chile and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil.
In the United States(and Rhodovia), Third Way adherents emphasize fiscal conservatism, some replacement of welfare with workfare, and a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional problems (as in pollution markets), while rejecting pure laissez-faire economics and other libertarian positions.

Socialist Party




Founded 1899

Headquarters 675 New Castle Ct, Avalon, Avalon

Political Ideology Democratic Socialism

Color Red, Green


Definitions
Many of those who describe themselves as socialists argue that socialism necessarily implies democracy, thus making democratic socialism a redundant term. The fact that one specific movement is called democratic socialism does not mean that other branches of socialism must be less democratic. The term is often used by those who wish to contrast this form of socialism with Communism, Stalinism and other ideologies that democratic socialists consider dictatorial in practice.
The terms democratic socialism and social democracy have often been used interchangeably, and many have considered them synonymous until recently. Now the term social democracy refers to an ideology that is more centrist and supports a broadly capitalist system, with some social reforms (such as the welfare state), intended to make it more equitable and humane. Democratic socialism implies an ideology that is more left wing and supportive of a fully socialist system, established either by gradually reforming capitalism from within, or by some form of revolutionary transformation. By fully socialist, this refers either to the idea of public ownership by a government that is democratically accountable to its citizens, or the idea of communism where everyone has equal power in the decision-making about the means of production.
The tension between the revolutionary and evolutionary tendencies of democratic socialism can be seen in the Socialist Party USA, which has members who advocate both types of positions (although the party statement of principles includes the word "revolution"). Revolutionary democratic socialists accuse those who favor evolution of supporting socialism from above, which does not abolish the capitalist system. Revolutionary democratic socialists believe that the political structures within existing capitalist societies serve as an impediment to full democracy, which they believe can only be achieved by establishing a new political structure built from the bottom up. Evolutionary democratic socialists accuse supporters of revolution of being impractical.
Evolutionary (reformist) democratic socialists and social democrats both typically advocate at least a welfare state, although some social democrats, being influenced by the Third Way, would be willing to consider other means of delivering a social safety net for the poorest in society. Revolutionary democratic socialists support a welfare state not as a means of achieving socialism, but as a temporary method of relief, and as a means of mobilizing the populace towards revolutionary ideals. Democratic socialists usually support re-distribution of wealth and power, social ownership of major industries, and a planned economy. Social democrats have largely abandoned these concepts. Many democratic socialists retain a Marxist (although often reformist) analysis, while social democrats might entirely reject Marxism.
Democratic socialists often believe not only in public ownership by a democratically-elected government but also in workplace democracy. Essentially this is a form of syndicalism, in which workers of a particular industry get to vote on major industrial decisions, the logic being that since such decisions affect them the most, they should have the largest voice in these matters.
Democratic socialist parties appeared before World War I when no country could be described as democratic in the full modern use of the term, because of electoral discrimination on the basis of gender, race and wealth. What distinguished these democratic socialists from revolutionary socialists was a willingness to work within a parliamentary democracy (even if large groups of people were disenfranchised), to improve the lives of working classes and win the vote. Revolutionary Democratic Socialism attracted greater support a few decades later, when many democratic socialists became disillusioned because social democracy had failed to abolish capitalism and had in many cases abandoned the goal of building a socialist society.










Conservative Party




Founded 1899

Headquarters 315 Aurora Blvd, Avalon, Avalon

Political ideology Neoconservatism, Conservation, Center-right

Color(s) Gold, Black

Neoconservative: Definition and views
According to Irving Kristol, the founder and "god-father" of Neoconservatism, there are three basic pillars of Neoconservatism:
1. Economics: Cutting tax rates in order to stimulate steady, wide-spread economic growth and acceptance of the necessity of the risks inherent in that growth, such as budget deficits, as well as the potential benefits, such as budget surpluses.
2. Domestic Affairs: Preferring strong government but not intrusive government, slight acceptance of the welfare state, adherence to social conservatism, and disapproval of counterculture
3. Foreign Policy: Patriotism is a necessity, world government is a terrible idea, the ability to distinguish friend from foe, protecting national interest both at home and abroad, and the necessity of a strong military.

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The Seal of Rhodovia is a Northern Goshawk in flight holding a fasces in its talons and an orange rose in its beak.