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Republic of New Refugia
« on: May 10, 2018, 09:38:25 PM »

Motto:- The People Rule
National Anthem:- 'Victory'[/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vc-WwpsEk]

BACKGROUND

Once a quarrelsome Confederacy of city-states along a coast rich with easily-accessible fisheries, the people of Refugia are divided by differences real or perceived in ethnicity, religion, politics, and mercantile interests. The unusual diversity of peoples in the area is due to the coastal cities having been settled simultaneously as the colonies of many empires long lost to antiquity. Civil war and smaller scale strife was common, and though Refugian lands were relatively bountiful in terms of resources, political disunity and competition held the Confederacy back. Efforts at peaceful reform were moderately successful, but the Confederacy's rotten core was exposed after ethnic tensions in the city of Matilda Harbor boiled over into outright racial warfare. Soon, the rest of the Refugian states embroiled themselves in the Matildan Civil War, supporting either their favored ethnicity or attempting in vain to keep the peace. Five years of warfare proved devastating, as people quickly forgot their initial interest in the conflict and began fighting endlessly to settle scores. Only via a combination of international sanction and outright martial exhaustion was a general armistice finally signed in the Haven Accords. Realizing another such conflict would shatter the Refugian people beyond repair, the social, political, and spiritual leaders who remained undertook a vigorous policy of reconstruction, achieving a surprising degree of success at healing tensions in the nation's population centers, though there is much work to be done. Fear of another conflict and a genuine desire for national development led the public in deciding on unification during the Republican Referendum,  which had been drafted and proposed by a loose coalition of Refugia's leading political theorists. Rising from the ashes of the Refugian Confederacy, the Republic of New Refugia looks to the future with cautious optimism, hoping that in the future its many differences can lead to strength and not bloodshed.

Government Type:- Federal Parliamentary Republic
Population:-:- 5.5 Million
Capital City:- Matilda Harbor (1.2 Million)
Demonym:- Refugian


ECONOMY

Currency:- Refugian Federal Note (Note)
GDP per Capita:- ~34,000N
Unemployment Rate:- 4.8%
Main Industries:- Fisheries (47%), Transit (23%), Tourism/Service (12%), Minerals (9%), Other (9%)


PEOPLE

Ethnicity:- Osuwan (20%), Matildan (19%), Lalibelan (11%), Opalese (10%), Tynius (9%), Various Others (31%)
Languages:- No Official Language | Matildan (63%), Meadowspeak (12%), Osuwan (10%), Other (15%)
Religions:- No Official Religion, Religious Freedom Guaranteed | Universalist Spirituality (36%), Local Customs (54%), Unaffiliated (10%)
Average Life Expectancy:- 63


GOVERNMENT

Head of State:- Prime Minister Uma V. Dayal [Republican Party]
Head of Government:- President Sophia Brightell
Name of Legislative Body:- Parliament of New Refugia
Refugia Factbook [https://independentorder.net/index.php?topic=817.0]