Almeria

The Free Republic of Almeria (République Libre d'Almérie), commonly referred to as Almeria is a country located in North Balteca, between the Arkbetic Sea and the Baltian Peninsula. It consists of 12 provinces, and a total of 56 districts, all with very limited autonomy. The country uses an unusual government organisation, as it's the only one using a de jure non-partisan system, with political parties being forbidden by law. Almeria shares land borders with Tussence to its south, Dunica and Hyokoku to its east. With more than 117 million inhabitants, Almeria is the most populous nation in Balteca, and the third most populous in the world behind Ke Atsung and Haixiao. Almeria's economy is the largest in the world by GDP. Its national capital and most populous city is Sifort, located in the south of the country.

The first Paleo-Baltecans migrated from East Artopa and arrived through the Vaskil peninsula between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, and are the main ancestors of Native Baltecans such as the Tateneks. The colonization of current Almerian lands started in the 16th century, when Marc-Henri Alméras first settled the estuary of the Acquinsiaq river in 1572. Originally a group of multiple family-owned colonies, Almeria became a Glasean colony in 1625, and declared its independence in 1662 over the lack of political representation, and the mismanagement of the colony's resources. In 1670, the country gained its independence and was given the name Almeria in honor of the first glasean settler. During the 18th century, Almeria expanded north and west and begane to face critical infrastructure and social issues, related partially to the use of slavery, which ended up banned in 1793. Fortunately, West Artopa's instability provoked a massive wave of immigrants from Avedoran Countries, which also was a consequence of Almeria's membership in the  International Association of Avedoran Languages (AILA). This notable gain of demographic strength allowed Almeria to quickly industrialise during the 19th century, and allowed it to become one of the biggest economies in the world during that same century. As Almeria continued its course as a major world power, the start of the Great War brought a dilemma to the country's government. Almeria remained rather neutral during the conflict, and instead produced huge amounts of equipment for both sides, which, besides provoking a major boom in the country's economy, eventually resulted in the 1942 Bullet Crisis, which led to massive changes in the Almerian industry sector. The Great War marked the start of the emergence of Almeria as the main world power and further solidified its spot as the first economy in Mytas.

The Free Republic of Almeria is a non-partisan unitary parliamentary republic, and a representative democracy with direct aspects. Almeria's political system contains three branches. The legislative branch (Corps Législatif) is composed of mainly two houses : the Sénat, upper house, and the Assemblée Citoyenne, lower house. The Assemblée Citoyenne is the most unique element of the Almerian system, as its members are not elected, but selected by sortition in a pool of eligible almerian citizen. To access the Assemblée Citoyenne, one must be a citizen of Almeria born on Almerian soil and must either be elected in Departmental Councils (Conseils Départementaux) by voters of a department, or they have to attend the Departmental Councils meetings on a regular basis. To attend the Departmental Councils meetings, almerians have to have passed the DNES diploma, which is the name of final exams that almerian student pass at the end of High School. The Assemblée Citoyenne proposes most of the laws and acts as the first trial for new bills prposed either by the government or by the senate. The Senate (Le Sénat) acts as an upper chamber : it proposes laws to the Citizen Assembly and votes them after the latter, as a second instance on legislature. The Senate is the most powerful body of the Almerian political system, as it can dissolve the Citizen Assembly and can impeach the Prime Minister. Senators are elected by universal vote, as is the Prime Minister. The Senate also has a President (Président du Sénat), elected by the Citizen Assembly and members of Regional Councils, and ensures the organization and the direction of the debates, sees to the security and the good functioning of the Senate and is also charged to represent it near all the official organizations. The executive branch (Corps Exécutif) is composed of the Prime Minister, the Government and the almerian Cabinets. The Prime Minister (Premier Ministre) acts as the leader of the executive : he appoints his minister alone and acts as the main diplomatic figure of the country. The Government (le Gouvernement Républicain) is composed of multiple Ministries in charge of different sectors such as Defense or Economics. Those Ministries have affiliated Cabinets from which Ministers are chosen. The Cabinets are closed circles of specialists in their domain elected every 2 years by National Comitees, who are state unions for workers of specific domains in each departments. For example the Comité Médical du Gatois (Medical Comitee of Gatois), is a union of doctors and healthcare workers of the Gatois department, and they are able to elect multiple members for the Cabinets depending on the amount of members of the union. Finally, the Judiciary branch is composed of the Conseil Constitutionnel, which is a Constitutional Court composed of previous members of the Government or of the Senate. It has to main areas of power : the first is the supervision of elections in the country, ensuring the legitimacy of referendums. They issue official results and ensure proper conduct and fairness. The Council can deem an election invalid if improperly conducted. The second is the interpretation of the constitution, procedures, legislation and treaties. The Council can prevent laws that it declares as contrary to the Almerian Constitution, or that it deems contradictory with previously signed treaties and whatnot.