New Eastgate
23-11-2003, 04:07
Published by Hexton Press.
Printed in Raysee, Gregoria.
Sponsored by McFlee’s Revitalising Tonic – One sip each day and you’ll be fit as Polynesian warrior!
"Quot homines, tot sententiae"
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/new_eastgate.jpg
(Submitted to UN at time of last census-)
Category: Capitalizt
Civil Rights: World Benchmark
Economy: All Consuming
Political Freedoms: Very Good
Background-
First settled in the late C16th by European (mainly British) explorers, New Eastgate became quickly isolated from the outside world. This isolation owing largely to the vast distances involved and greatly distracting struggles with the formidable landscape and savage Polynesian population was incidental rather than political.
To-day the western states struggle to civilise the Godless natives in the north and east as civil conflict bubbles following the continued refusal of the peripheries (Waylu and Great Hoode) to recognise the king, or even to accept the law of the church.
Geography et cetera-
Location-
Island in the Pacific, on the equator south of Hawaii.
Area (land, estimated)-
Around 3,920,000 square miles, or 6,300,000 square kilometres. This estimate covers the entire continent, Western States, Peripheries, native, and virgin lands.
Area Comparative-
Around two-thirds the size of China or the USA, not far from twice the size of India or three times the size of Greenland.
Terrain-
Low rolling hills and shallow valleys in the west, mountainous in the south east and hugely so in the north, vast plains in the east.
Climate-
Mostly temperate in the west, approaching tropical north until mountains create much colder conditions, relatively cold winters in the south and in the far north, semi-arid across the eastern Great Efferuus Flats
Natural resources-
Coal, iron ore, timber, fish, arable land, gold, silver.
(Also natural gas, uranium, and oil, for which the nation is yet to find any significant uses, as well as many other undiscovered minerals and such).
Natural hazards-
Moderate tornadoes in east, mild earthquakes in north, some flooding.
Clades Mountains- These almost wholly unexplored peaks dominate the north except for a strip of potentially bountiful forest (the Arcanus) on the east coast. Mount Caligo rises an estimated 20,000 feet plus. The Gran Desavi river is the largest in the land and could accommodate sizeable vessels. The Great Efferus Flats extend well over 1,500 miles east from any half serious Eastgater settlement, and prospectors believe that the native “infested” lands possess considerable mineral, animal and arable resources.
People-
Population- 12,624,000 according to the recent pan-state census
Ethnic groups-
British/Irish(/Walmingtonian) ~80%, other European 20%
Religion-
Catholic (official). The Eastgate Catholic Church is dissatisfied with what it has learned of the modern Church and of present day Rome, and tends to take a more traditional hard-line stance.
Language-
English, official; Latin widely taught to a basic degree amongst literate classes; many regional (English) dialects have evolved almost unrecognisably, largely amongst the illiterate classes
Literacy-
(Age 15 and over can read and write)
Male- 55%
Female- 35%
Total population- 44%
Government et cetera-
Country name:
Conventional long form: The Democratic Federation of New Eastgate
Conventional short form: New Eastgate
Also known as Eastgate, The Federation, The Federation and Peripheries of New Eastgate, The Disputed States of New Eastgate.
Government type:
Confederation of senate-driven states meeting as required for the Combined State Council.
Fiat Lux! -Motto of the CSC.
The Federation of States-
Goston-
Population- 3,137,000
Capital- Sudbury (225,000)
Ports- Port Gavin (480,000)
Other Major Towns-Larton (178,000)
Notes- 2nd most populace and wealthy state. Sudbury is the seat of the monarchy, and capital of the federation.
Baston-
Population- 6,100,000
Capital- Hexton (4,500,000)
Ports-Toluaa (1,100,000)
Other Major Towns- Two listed towns gradually sprawling across entirety of Baston Island.
Notes- Wealthiest and most densely populated state. Population primarily sited on Baston Island. Home to 2nd largest river in the federation (the Pollice).
Gregoria-
Population- 487,000
Capital- Raysee (47,000)
Ports- Landlocked.
Other Major Towns- A land of villages, private farms, and church properties.
Notes- Spiritual centre for Eastgate Catholic faith. 2nd home of the monarchy. Heavily farmed low rolling hills dominate the state.
Waylu-
Population- 1,250,000
Capital- Tupu City (250,000)
Ports- Tupu City (-)
Other Major Towns- Mostly 'virgin land' (native populations only recently repulsed)
Notes- Home to one of the four great rivers (Waylu). Scene of many disputes with displaced Polynesian natives. Timber and fishing industries dominate the economy.
Great Hoode-
Population- 1,650,000
Capital- Fort Ludele (18,500)
Ports- Fort Ludele (-), Fintoria (10,000) (mainly fishing port- possible launch-pad for eastward expansion)
Other Major Towns- Rural population.
Notes- Relatively poor state. Cold winters. Scene of many early battles between settlers and natives.
Suffrage:
21 for Eastgate-national males. Questionable democratic freedoms in the peripheries.
Economy-
Small groups of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals are firstly concerned with Commerce, although Law and Order and Religion and Spirituality are also on the agenda. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the book publishing industry, followed by steam engine manufacturing and gambling. Coal and iron mining, shipbuilding, and tonic sales industries are also highly profitable.
Currency:
Eastern Dollar
Population below poverty line:
49% (official)
Unemployment rate:
8.9% of men over 15 (official)
Industries:
Mining (iron ore, coal, copper, tin, gold, silver), prospecting for those and other resources, forestry, fishing, farming and food processing, metal working, masonry, construction, brewing, ship building, armaments, steam engines, tonics and other medicines, publishing, gambling.
Industrial production growth rate:
28%
Agricultural products:
Wheat, corn, other grains, fish, cotton, beef, pork, dairy products, vegetables, timber.
Exports:
US$8million
Export commodities:
Iron ore, coal, timber, fish, grain, cotton.
Export partners:
Andaman and Nicobar (100%), seeking deals with Iansisle and awaiting further foreign contact
Imports:
Minimal.
Import commodities:
Horses.
Import partners:
Andaman and Nicobar (100%), likely to seek further deals with other nations for fresh livestock, as many of the nation's imported animals are by now extinct in New Eastgate, or else of increasingly poor breeding stock following generations of isolation.
Debt, external:
N/A
Transportation:
Railways:
47 miles, expanding rapidly. Wide-gauge Arnold-Pattern preferred.
Highways:
Unknown; thousands of miles
Paved: several hundred miles
Waterways:
As yet unknown.
Canals popular in peripheries while rail looks to dominate the western states.
Ports:
See Federation of States section for major ports
Merchant marine:
Unknown numbers of coasting vessels. Fleet set to undergo major ocean-going expansion.
Military-
The King’s Militia
State Militias
State Fleets in Baston, Goston, Waylu, and Great Hoode (in approximate order of size)
Current affairs-
Eastgate is enjoying a revolution of science and industry following the Union Crown Gala in Port Gavin, at which inventor Charlton Arnold fully displayed his locomotive steam engine. Increasing contact with the outside world promises a wealth of commercial opportunity.
On a darker note the three modernising royalist Christian states in the west face the prospect of all out war with the periphery states of Waylu and Great Hoode after the massacre of a King’s Militia detachment by Hoodeian ruffians at Fort Ludele.
Significant threads-
The industrial revolution and first contact:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80585
The civil war builds:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=96405&highlight=
(ooc: Yes, you may be noticing a complete disregard by New Eastgate for the native population who apparently don’t count as discoverers of the little continent. I shan't be accepting any invasions by more advanced nations with the justification of Eastgate's backwards society (one nation, since banned, already tried that one), because that's just boring..uh, and my friend has a..billion star destroyers! So there! But as is evidenced by our export market, Eastgate is a modern nation in era if not technology, so you can see us and get invovled..)
Printed in Raysee, Gregoria.
Sponsored by McFlee’s Revitalising Tonic – One sip each day and you’ll be fit as Polynesian warrior!
"Quot homines, tot sententiae"
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/new_eastgate.jpg
(Submitted to UN at time of last census-)
Category: Capitalizt
Civil Rights: World Benchmark
Economy: All Consuming
Political Freedoms: Very Good
Background-
First settled in the late C16th by European (mainly British) explorers, New Eastgate became quickly isolated from the outside world. This isolation owing largely to the vast distances involved and greatly distracting struggles with the formidable landscape and savage Polynesian population was incidental rather than political.
To-day the western states struggle to civilise the Godless natives in the north and east as civil conflict bubbles following the continued refusal of the peripheries (Waylu and Great Hoode) to recognise the king, or even to accept the law of the church.
Geography et cetera-
Location-
Island in the Pacific, on the equator south of Hawaii.
Area (land, estimated)-
Around 3,920,000 square miles, or 6,300,000 square kilometres. This estimate covers the entire continent, Western States, Peripheries, native, and virgin lands.
Area Comparative-
Around two-thirds the size of China or the USA, not far from twice the size of India or three times the size of Greenland.
Terrain-
Low rolling hills and shallow valleys in the west, mountainous in the south east and hugely so in the north, vast plains in the east.
Climate-
Mostly temperate in the west, approaching tropical north until mountains create much colder conditions, relatively cold winters in the south and in the far north, semi-arid across the eastern Great Efferuus Flats
Natural resources-
Coal, iron ore, timber, fish, arable land, gold, silver.
(Also natural gas, uranium, and oil, for which the nation is yet to find any significant uses, as well as many other undiscovered minerals and such).
Natural hazards-
Moderate tornadoes in east, mild earthquakes in north, some flooding.
Clades Mountains- These almost wholly unexplored peaks dominate the north except for a strip of potentially bountiful forest (the Arcanus) on the east coast. Mount Caligo rises an estimated 20,000 feet plus. The Gran Desavi river is the largest in the land and could accommodate sizeable vessels. The Great Efferus Flats extend well over 1,500 miles east from any half serious Eastgater settlement, and prospectors believe that the native “infested” lands possess considerable mineral, animal and arable resources.
People-
Population- 12,624,000 according to the recent pan-state census
Ethnic groups-
British/Irish(/Walmingtonian) ~80%, other European 20%
Religion-
Catholic (official). The Eastgate Catholic Church is dissatisfied with what it has learned of the modern Church and of present day Rome, and tends to take a more traditional hard-line stance.
Language-
English, official; Latin widely taught to a basic degree amongst literate classes; many regional (English) dialects have evolved almost unrecognisably, largely amongst the illiterate classes
Literacy-
(Age 15 and over can read and write)
Male- 55%
Female- 35%
Total population- 44%
Government et cetera-
Country name:
Conventional long form: The Democratic Federation of New Eastgate
Conventional short form: New Eastgate
Also known as Eastgate, The Federation, The Federation and Peripheries of New Eastgate, The Disputed States of New Eastgate.
Government type:
Confederation of senate-driven states meeting as required for the Combined State Council.
Fiat Lux! -Motto of the CSC.
The Federation of States-
Goston-
Population- 3,137,000
Capital- Sudbury (225,000)
Ports- Port Gavin (480,000)
Other Major Towns-Larton (178,000)
Notes- 2nd most populace and wealthy state. Sudbury is the seat of the monarchy, and capital of the federation.
Baston-
Population- 6,100,000
Capital- Hexton (4,500,000)
Ports-Toluaa (1,100,000)
Other Major Towns- Two listed towns gradually sprawling across entirety of Baston Island.
Notes- Wealthiest and most densely populated state. Population primarily sited on Baston Island. Home to 2nd largest river in the federation (the Pollice).
Gregoria-
Population- 487,000
Capital- Raysee (47,000)
Ports- Landlocked.
Other Major Towns- A land of villages, private farms, and church properties.
Notes- Spiritual centre for Eastgate Catholic faith. 2nd home of the monarchy. Heavily farmed low rolling hills dominate the state.
Waylu-
Population- 1,250,000
Capital- Tupu City (250,000)
Ports- Tupu City (-)
Other Major Towns- Mostly 'virgin land' (native populations only recently repulsed)
Notes- Home to one of the four great rivers (Waylu). Scene of many disputes with displaced Polynesian natives. Timber and fishing industries dominate the economy.
Great Hoode-
Population- 1,650,000
Capital- Fort Ludele (18,500)
Ports- Fort Ludele (-), Fintoria (10,000) (mainly fishing port- possible launch-pad for eastward expansion)
Other Major Towns- Rural population.
Notes- Relatively poor state. Cold winters. Scene of many early battles between settlers and natives.
Suffrage:
21 for Eastgate-national males. Questionable democratic freedoms in the peripheries.
Economy-
Small groups of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals are firstly concerned with Commerce, although Law and Order and Religion and Spirituality are also on the agenda. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the book publishing industry, followed by steam engine manufacturing and gambling. Coal and iron mining, shipbuilding, and tonic sales industries are also highly profitable.
Currency:
Eastern Dollar
Population below poverty line:
49% (official)
Unemployment rate:
8.9% of men over 15 (official)
Industries:
Mining (iron ore, coal, copper, tin, gold, silver), prospecting for those and other resources, forestry, fishing, farming and food processing, metal working, masonry, construction, brewing, ship building, armaments, steam engines, tonics and other medicines, publishing, gambling.
Industrial production growth rate:
28%
Agricultural products:
Wheat, corn, other grains, fish, cotton, beef, pork, dairy products, vegetables, timber.
Exports:
US$8million
Export commodities:
Iron ore, coal, timber, fish, grain, cotton.
Export partners:
Andaman and Nicobar (100%), seeking deals with Iansisle and awaiting further foreign contact
Imports:
Minimal.
Import commodities:
Horses.
Import partners:
Andaman and Nicobar (100%), likely to seek further deals with other nations for fresh livestock, as many of the nation's imported animals are by now extinct in New Eastgate, or else of increasingly poor breeding stock following generations of isolation.
Debt, external:
N/A
Transportation:
Railways:
47 miles, expanding rapidly. Wide-gauge Arnold-Pattern preferred.
Highways:
Unknown; thousands of miles
Paved: several hundred miles
Waterways:
As yet unknown.
Canals popular in peripheries while rail looks to dominate the western states.
Ports:
See Federation of States section for major ports
Merchant marine:
Unknown numbers of coasting vessels. Fleet set to undergo major ocean-going expansion.
Military-
The King’s Militia
State Militias
State Fleets in Baston, Goston, Waylu, and Great Hoode (in approximate order of size)
Current affairs-
Eastgate is enjoying a revolution of science and industry following the Union Crown Gala in Port Gavin, at which inventor Charlton Arnold fully displayed his locomotive steam engine. Increasing contact with the outside world promises a wealth of commercial opportunity.
On a darker note the three modernising royalist Christian states in the west face the prospect of all out war with the periphery states of Waylu and Great Hoode after the massacre of a King’s Militia detachment by Hoodeian ruffians at Fort Ludele.
Significant threads-
The industrial revolution and first contact:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80585
The civil war builds:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=96405&highlight=
(ooc: Yes, you may be noticing a complete disregard by New Eastgate for the native population who apparently don’t count as discoverers of the little continent. I shan't be accepting any invasions by more advanced nations with the justification of Eastgate's backwards society (one nation, since banned, already tried that one), because that's just boring..uh, and my friend has a..billion star destroyers! So there! But as is evidenced by our export market, Eastgate is a modern nation in era if not technology, so you can see us and get invovled..)