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República Popular de San Huberto
« on: March 20, 2020, 02:54:04 AM »
República Popular de San Huberto
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San Huberto, officially the People's Republic of San Huberto (Spanish: República Popular de San Huberto), is a country in northeastern Cotf Aranye. It is bordered on the north by the Siwash mountain range, on the west by the Rodinian Sea, on the south by the Emerald Strait, and on the east by the Karifan Ocean. Its coastline consists of craggy cliffs and rocky beaches, and countless coves and inlets cut the western seaboard. The government of San Huberto has long maintained an internationally unrecognized claim to the land on the opposite side of the Emerald Strait, the Zona en Reclamación (the "zone under dispute"). The capital and largest urban area is San Huberto City (Spanish: Ciudad de San Huberto).

Climatically, the peninsula where San Huberto is located is characterized as a temperate zone, an area where summers are cool, and winters are wet and mild. Major climatic conditions and trends are structured by proximity to the ocean on the west, south, and east and the Siwash Mountain range on the north. San Huberto's regional climatic variations can be summarized in 4 points: precipitation generally increases from south to north, temperature generally decreases from south to north, the amount of inhabitable land decreases from south to north, and the length of salmon runs decreases from south to north.

San Huberto consists of 12 counties and the Capital District, which covers San Huberto City. San Huberto is among the most urbanized countries in Cotf Aranye; the vast majority of hubertanos live in the cities along the coast, especially in the capital, San Huberto City which is also the largest city in the nation.

San Huberto has long abided by a policy of military neutrality. For most of its existence, the nation has been content to concern itself with its own affairs.

Government Type:- Republic
Population:- 17,084,358
Capital City:- San Huberto City (Spanish: Ciudad de San Huberto), abbreviated as CDSH (1,755,107)
Demonym:- hubertana/o(s)


ECONOMY

Currency:- San Huberto Peso (SHP)
GDP (per Capita):- $‬2‬87,341,817,2‬02‬ ($16,819)
Unemployment Rate:- 4.7%
Main Industries:- Machinery, Metallurgy, Forestry, Fishing, Mining, Agriculture, small-scale High-Tech/Electronics


DEMOGRAPHICS

Ethnicity:-
71.9% Mestizo
13.5% White
7.2% Black/Afro-hubertana/o(s)
7% Indigenous
0.3% Others
Languages:-
Spanish (official)
Siwash Wawa (unrecognized)
Religions:-
82.7% Catholicism
6.6% Protestantism
4.7% Irreligious
3.5% Indigenous spiritual practices
2.7% Other religion/Unspecified
Average Life Expectancy:- 79.74 years


GOVERNMENT


(Distributists: Pink - Radicals, 22‬ seats / Red - Moderates, 42‬ seats. Constitutional Democrats: Blue - 36 seats. Falangists: Yellow - 20 seats.)

Head of State:- Vacant
Head of Government:- Vacant (de jure) / Tlatelolco López (de facto)
Name of Legislative Body:- Constitutional Assembly
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Re: República Popular de San Huberto
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2020, 09:30:14 PM »
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Re: República Popular de San Huberto
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2020, 10:05:22 PM »
Military


FUERZAS DE DEFENSA DE SAN HUBERTO (FDSH)
38,500 Regulars / 19,000 Reservists
35 x Tejon Infantry Fighting Vehicle
40 x Mapache Infantry Fighting Vehicle
100 x Puercoespín Armoured Cars
30 x Rinoceronte Armoured Personnel Carrier
70 x Rinoceronte II Armoured Personnel Carrier
20 x Conejo Infantry Mobility Vehicle
20 x Liebre Infantry Mobility Vehicle
100 x Lobo Mobility Vehicle
15 x Leopardo Rocket Artillery
20 x Tigre Self Propelled Howitzer
20 x León Towed Howitzer
20 x Pequeño Leon Towed Howitzer
10 x Zorro Mobile Surface to Air System
5 x Colibrí Helicopter
FUERZA AÉREA DE SAN HUBERTO (FASH)
8,500 Airmen / 2,500 Reservists
20 x F-27 Águila Multi-role Fighter
12 x F-21 Halcón Fighter
20 x A-11Gaviota Ground Attack Aircraft
15 x A-37 Cuervo Counter Insurgency Aircraft
5 x E-208 Albatros Reconnaissance Aircraft
2 x P-3 Pingüino Maritime Patrol Aircraft
1 x K-130 Frailecillo Tanker Aircraft
15 x C-130 Pinzón Transport Aircraft
10 x C-130X Súper Pinzón Transport Aircraft
10 x T-314 Anadón Light Trainer/ Light Ground Attack
10 x T-101 Pato Advanced Trainer/Light Fighter
3 x U-1 Fantasma Unmanned Air Vehicle
15 x H-6 Colibrí Helicopter
10 x H-1 Garza Helicopter
10 x H-58 Cisne Multi-Purpose Helicopter
ARMADA DE SAN HUBERTO (ASH)
7,500 Sailors/ 2,000 Reserve

2 x Atún Class Submarine
 1. Guerra de Totoneoc
 2. Buenpueblo
3 x Bagre Class Corvette
 1. La República
 2. Condado de San Pedro
 3. Martín de Rubén
10 x Nawahl Class Offshore Patrol Ship
 1. Guillermo Monro
 2. Gulfo de San Huberto
 3. Condado de San Santiago el Mayor
 4. Condado de San Felipe
 5. 17 de Septiembre
 6. Condado de San Mateo
 7. Aguaslentos
 8. Condado de San Santiago el Menor 
 9. Guerra de Tiguay
 10. La Revolución
5 x Mantarraya Fast Attack Craft
 1. Miguel de Lamatay
 2. Angél Bravo
 3. Estrecho de Esmeralda
 4. Condado de San Andrés
 5. Condado de San Bartolomé
10 x Morsa Class Missile Boat
 1. Cristobal de Hoyos
 2. Condado de San Juan
 3. Ciudad de San Huberto
 4. Condado de San Tomás
 5. La Concepción
 6. 5 de Noviembre
 7. Condado de San Judas Tadeo
 8. Condado de San Simón
 9. Condado de San Matías
 10. La Victoria

(OOC: Credit to DaveIronside)
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Re: República Popular de San Huberto
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2020, 08:14:05 AM »
Politics

The People's Republic of San Huberto is a parliamentary representative democratic federal republic. Under the Constitution, the President is both the head of state and head of government, as well as commander-in-chief. Typically, the President is the leader of the largest party in the Constitutional Assembly. The President is elected by the Constitutional Assembly and must maintain the confidence of the Assembly in order to remain in office.

The Constitution of San Huberto bans the formation of any party founded on a religious, linguistic, racial, sex, corporatist or regional basis, or violating the fundamental liberties, the fundamental values and components of the national identity, the national unity, the security and integrity of the national territory, the independence of the country and the People’s sovereignty, as well as the democratic and republican nature of the State.

Constitutional Assembly:
The Constitutional Assembly is the unicameral national legislature of San Huberto. It consists of exactly 120 members. Each of San Huberto's 12 Counties elects 10 representatives to this legislative body.

Parties in Government:

Margravists: (Spanish: Marquistas) Monarchists of various shades, (Constitutional, Absolutist, etc.) advocating for a restoration of the Margrave. This faction no longer exists openly; they either work underground, or are members of other parties, notably the Falangists and Constitutional Democrats.

Constitutional Democrats: (Spanish: Demócratas Constitucionales) During the Margraviate, composed of Liberals from the propertied classes, the Constitutional Democrats were the great party of political reform. Following the abdication of the margrave in 1936, it was this party that released the “Plan de Buenpueblo”, named for the settlement it was drafted in, that declared San Huberto to be a republic with universal suffrage and a secular government. This provisional government was overthrown by antagonistic elements of the armed forces that same year. It is common sentiment within the party, that the republican revolution they began has been hijacked by the Distributist Party. As Distributists have focused more and more on social/economic reform, the Constitutional Democrats have grown more and more conservative.

Falangist Party: (Spanish: Partido Falangista) Promoting strict national and social conservatism, Falangists maintained absolute power over the country for nearly three decades, from 1936 to 1962. Following the abdication of the final margrave and the defeat of republican forces in 1936, military officers joined with sympathetic Catholic clergy and the then small Falange Party, the former two taking up membership in the latter. The dictatorship presented its mission as "national reconstruction” and the creation of a “responsible government”. This junta dissolved the legislature and outlawed or suspended all political activities, exempting the Falangist Party. Despite their overthrow in 1962, the party maintains a sizeable base of support among the older generations, and the middle and upper classes. More recently, representatives have been elected from this party with policies characterized as centre-right such as the privatization of state-run companies, closer relations with the Catholic Church and embracing free-market capitalism.

Distributist Party: (Spanish: Partido Distributista) The Distributist Party is the largest and most powerful political party in San Huberto. Originally a revolutionary party of peasants, educated and rallied by radical Catholic priests in the countryside, the Distributist Party proposed immediate proletarian insurrection, and seizure of the government to implement its ideology based on Catholic social teachings. The Distributist Party has held uninterrupted power in the country for over 57 years from 1962 to present. After the previous Falangist government was overthrown, the Distributist Party was joined by many who had never been revolutionaries. Besides holding the Presidency of the Republic, until 1983 all members of the legislature belonged to the Distributist Party, while all of the County Governors were also from the Distributist Party until 1986. Among them there is, however, a wide difference of shades of political and economic opinion. Though unofficial, two distinct factions within the party are widely recognized:

  • Radicals: The radical wing of the party, internationalists, and opposed to all coalition with the propertied classes yet unwilling to break loose from the more conservative elements of the Distributist Party. This wing includes all shades of socialists who believe that society must progress by natural evolution towards socialism, and that the working class must conquer political power first.
  • Moderates: Numerically the larger group of Distributists, composed of cautious intellectuals, the leaders of the cooperative societies, and conservative peasants. Professing to be socialists, the moderates really support the interests of the petty bourgeoisie – clerks, shopkeepers, etc. The moderates are a nationalistic faction.
Other Notable Parties:

United Social Democrats: (Spanish: Socialdemócratas Unidos) Also called the “Nueva Vida” (English: New Life) group, from the name of the very influential newspaper which is its organ. A little group of intellectuals with a very small following among the working class, except the personal following of Maximiliano Siqueiros, its leader.

Riveristas: A very small and dwindling organization, composed almost entirely of the personal following of Salvador Rivera, one of the pioneers of the Distributist movement in the 1960s, and its greatest theoretician; now an old man, Rivera is extremely patriotic, too conservative for the Moderate Distributists.

Immediate Revolution Party: (Spanish: Partido de Revolución Inmediata) An offshoot of the Distributist Party during the revolution, when it was a powerful peasant movement, demanding immediate and total application of the Distributist program. Now an insignificant group of peasant anarchists.

Partido Ecotopía: The Green Party of San Huberto, chiefly an urban-ecology movement, concerned with a new approach to urban planning and a soft-energy path.

Communist Party: (Spanish: Partido Comunista) Formerly the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Socialista de Izquierda), its members now call themselves the Communist Party, in order to emphasize their complete separation from the tradition of moderate or parliamentary socialism, which dominates the Radical Distributists. Supporting a dictatorship of the working class, the Communist Party is largely seen as a mouthpiece for, and puppet of, the nearby USR.


Legislative Procedure
 
The “Directorio” is the presiding committee of the Constitutional Assembly, composed of representatives of the groups and political parties represented in the Assembly, customarily the most senior among them, in proportion to their numbers, and headed by the President. The Directorio arranges the Order of Business, and its members can be called upon by the President to take the chair pro tem.

Each question is stated in a general way and then debated, and at the close of the debate resolutions are submitted by the different factions, and each one voted on separately. The Order of Business can be, and usually is, smashed to pieces within the first half hour. On the plea of “¡emergencia!”, which the rest of the Assembly almost always grants, anyone from the floor can get up and say anything on subject. The delegates control the meeting, practically the only legislative functions of the President being to keep order by banging on his desk, with a gavel traditionally, but really whatever is on hand (a book, a shoe, etc.) and to recognize speakers. Almost all the real work of the session is done in the caucuses of the different political parties and factions, which almost always cast their votes in a body and a represented by floor-leaders, these being more senior members and party lieutenants. The result is, however, that at every important new point, or vote, the session takes a recess to allow the different factions to hold a caucus.

Government Policy Positions
PoliciesStance
Drugs LawPossession of controlled substances is criminalized with severe sentences
Same Sex Marriage   Illegal
EducationSchooling from ages 4-18 and standard national testing from 12-18 mandated by law, schools run as enterprises owned by their teaching staff or operated pro bono by the Archdiocese of San Huberto
Property Ownership   Only citizens may own private property in San Huberto
Voting   All citizens over the age of 18
ProstitutionIllegal
Freedom of the PressNews stations have quotas for required "public service" broadcasting, media enterprises subjected to same regulations as other businesses
Freedom of MovementBorder crossings manned by San Huberto's Defense Force, visas and passports presented to soldiers there. Marine and aerial entrances operated by local law enforcement, visas and passports presented to customs stations
AbortionIllegal, except in cases of rape or incest, or if the mother's life is threatened
Health CareCraddle-to-grave medical insurance
Gun LawsSemi-automatic Rifles (except .22) banned from civilian ownership, arms for hunting/sporting/defense are legal and registered at the municipal level
Internet NeutralityNet-neutrality mandated by law, websites based in USR are blocked
Business OwnershipBusinesses must be jointly owned by all employees/apprentices
MarriageEncouraged by the Government
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Re: República Popular de San Huberto
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2020, 12:59:00 PM »
Economy

The economy of San Huberto is dominated by 3 types of organizations that wield tremendous influence over the financial state of the nation.

1. Trade Unions: Although mostly industrial in form, San Huberto labor unions are still called Trade Unions, in keeping with the Distributist belief in a "Society of Artisans", and presently have from 3 to 4 million members. These unions are also organized in a national body, the Hubertano Federation of Labor, which has its Directorate in the capital city.

2. Cooperatives: These are the workers' and peasants' Consumers' Cooperative Societies, which have several million members all over San Huberto. Founded by early Distributists, the cooperative movement is not supported by revolutionary socialist groups, as it is seen as a substitute for the complete transference of the means of production and distribution into the hands of the workers.

3. Collectives: Autonomous agricultural communities originally founded with the goal to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ". In recent decades, some collectives have privatized and secularized. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including small-scale industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.

Taxes:

There are no personal income, sales, or property taxes in San Huberto, except for a land tax meant to encourage concentrated development. The San Huberto tax system relies almost entirely on a corporation tax - a tax upon production enterprises (including individual craftsmen). The tax is based partly upon net income, but also partly upon "turnover," or gross income. The nation's confiscatory inheritance taxes are also notable; no citizen of San Huberto may inherit private property (distinguished from personal property).

Businesses:

Workers in a San Huberto enterprise must all be partners or apprentices; an individual cannot just set up a business, offer wages to employees, fire them when when they no longer need them, and pocket whatever profits he can make.

Businesses in San Huberto behave much like capitalist enterprises: they compete with each other, and seek to increase sales and maximize profits. However, the fact that the members of an enterprise actually own it jointly puts certain inherent limits on what these businesses do. For instance, they do not tend to expand endlessly, since the practical maximum size of a joint-ownership firm seems to be less than 300 people - beyond that they tend to break down into bureaucratic, inflexible forms and lose both their profitability and their members.

The absence of large conglomerates, with many smaller manufacturers in their place, requires stiff tariffs to protect domestic producers from larger foreign competitors capable of mass producing a greater volume of goods at lower prices.

Banking:

Direct absentee investment by one enterprise or person in another enterprise is not permitted. Surpluses can thus only be invested by lending them to the National Banking System, which in turn lends funds to enterprises at low interest rates. This arrangement gives the National Bank an immense leverage on the economy, and makes possible sometimes surprisingly large public investments. The National Bank maintains regional branches which operate with great autonomy.
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