Palixia
03-06-2005, 22:10
Palixian Factbook
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Introduction Palixia
Background:
A country scared by wars has finally gone into peace with recent changes in it government system due to its new Prime Minister. Constantly trying to have power they have had many people rebelling thought normally end our peacefully
Geography Palixia
Location:
East of Gulf of Mexico in the Homestar Sea, Located between Funny Looking Islands and Korp, has 2 territories and over 120 islands.
Geographic coordinates:
18 00S, 65 00W
Map references:
Homestar Runner
Area:
total: 412,445 sq km
land: 410,934 sq km
water: 1,481 sq km
Area - comparative:
slightly larger than California
Land boundaries:
total: 2,233 km
border countries: Korp 614 km, Funny Looking Islands1,619 km
Coastline:
3,218 km
Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 14 nm (adjustments made to return a portion of straits to high seas)
exclusive economic zone: agreed boundaries or midlines
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Climate:
Tropical all season long average temperature 74 degrees
Terrain:
mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountain in west
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Valley of Noytowrn
highest point: Mt. Alequenta 745 m
Natural resources:
Uranium, wood, Oil
Land use:
arable land: 0.005%
permanent crops: 99.9%%
other: 0.005% (2005)
Irrigated land:
1,150 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards:
Flooding
Environment - current issues:
None
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
strategic location along Homestar Straits linking Baltic and South Seas
People Palixia
Population:
1, 840,000,00 (June 2005 .)
Median age:
total: 40.6 years
male: 39.49 years
female: 41.75 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.17% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
10.91 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
5.31 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.76 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 2.77 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 2.93 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80.4 years
male: 78.19 years
female: 82.74 years (2005 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.66 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.1% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
3,600 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 100 (2003 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Palixes
adjective: Palixian
Ethnic groups:
indigenous population: Palixian, Russian, German,
Religions:
Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Languages:
Palixian (Dialect of English) , Dutch
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99% (1979 est.)
male: NA%
female: NA%
Government Palixia
Country name:
conventional long form: Allied States of Palixia and it’s territories
conventional short form: Palixia,
local long form: Allied States of Palixia and it’s territories, De verenigde Staten van Piaixi en het is gebieden(Dutch
local short form: Pilaxi
Government type:
Representative Democracy with Parliament
Capital:
Clamptown
Administrative divisions:
8 States in Palixia, 2 Parrish in Kevistis, 1 State in Palixian Reform(lan, singular and plural); Palixia: Clamp, Capital Territory, Al-Quaza, Brinxton, Keptownsal, Naopalal, Dutch State, El Nona, Opalosca, Jeffiasit
Kevistis: Kevistis, Governmental Area
Palixian Reform, Palixian Reform
Independence: Multiple Dates 1st time July 8th, 1861 then claimed by U.S.S.R. 2nd time April 28th, 2005
Cabinet: Prime Minister of Palixia Joe Strummer (2005-)
Regent of Palixia Mick Jones (2005-)
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Hon. Andy Mitchell
Minister for the Atlantic Palixian Opportunities Agency Hon. Joe McGuire
Minister of Palixian Heritage and Minister responsible for the Status of Women Hon. Liza Frulla
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Hon. Joe Volpe
Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Kevistis, Palixian Reform and all other teritorries and States Hon. Jacques Saada
Minister of the Environment Hon. Stéphane Dion
Minister of Finance Hon. Ralph Goodale
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Hon. Geoff Regan
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Pierre Pettigrew
Minister of Health Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal Hon. Belinda Stronach
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians Hon. Andy Scott
Minister of Industry Hon. David Emerson
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Hon. Lucienne Robillard
Minister for International Cooperation Hon. Aileen Carroll
Minister of International Trade Hon. Jim Peterson
Minister of Justice and Attorney General Hon. Irwin Cotler
Minister of Labour and Housing Hon. Joe Fontana
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Hon. Tony Valeri
Leader of the Government in the Senate Hon. Jack Austin
Minister of National Defence Hon. Bill Graham
Associate Minister of National Defence,Minister for Internal Trade Minister responsible for Official Languages,and Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Hon. Mauril Bélanger
Minister of National Revenue Hon. John McCallum
Minister of Natural Resources Hon. John Efford
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Hon. Anne McLellan
Minister of Public Works and Government Services Hon. Scott Brison
(2004-)
President of the Leaders Privy Council for Palixia Hon. Lucienne Robillard
Minister of Social Development Hon. Ken Dryden
Minister of Transport Hon. Jean Lapierre
President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for the Palixian Wheat Board Hon. Reg Alcock
Minister of Veterans Affairs Hon. Albina Guarnieri
Minister of Western Economic Diversification Hon. Stephen Owen
Minister of State (Families and Caregivers)Hon. Tony Ianno
Minister of State (Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Palixia)Hon. Joe Comuzzi
Minister of State (Human Resources Development)Hon. Claudette Bradshaw
Minister of State (Infrastructure and Communities)Hon. John Godfrey
Minister of State (Multiculturalism)Hon. Raymond Chan
Minister of State (Northern Development)Hon. Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Minister of State (Public Health) Hon. Carolyn Bennett
Minister of State (Sport) Hon. Stephen Owen
Governor of Kevistis Lars Ulrich
Governor of Palixian Reform Mick Jones
National holiday:
Final Freedom Day, April 28th, 2005
Constitution:
April 28th, 2005
Legal system:
civil law system influenced by customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: Prime Minister Joesph Strummer (since 1 June 2005); Heir
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the prime minister
elections: following legislative elections, the prime minister is elected by the parliament; election last held 28 April 2005 (next to be held NA September 2008)
election results: Kevin Niemann reelected prime minister with 131 out of 349 votes later murdered
Legislative branch:
unicameral Parliament or Riksdag (349 seats; members are elected by popular vote on a proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms)
elections: last held 28 June 2005 (next to be held September 2006)
election results: percent of vote by party - Social Democrats 39.8%, Moderates 15.2%, Liberal Party 13.3%, Christian Democrats 9.1%, Left Party 8.3%, Center Party 6.1%, Greens 4.6% ICD 2.6%; seats by party - Social Democrats 144, Moderates 55, Liberal Party 48, Christian Democrats 33, Left Party 30, Center Party 22, Greens 17
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court or Hogsta Domstolen (judges are appointed by the prime minister and the cabinet)
Political parties and leaders:
Center Party [Maud OLOFSSON]; Christian Democratic Party [Goran HAGGLUND]; Green Party [no formal leader but party spokespersons are Maria WETTERSTRAND and Peter ERIKSSON]; Left Party or V (formerly Communist) [Lars OHLY]; Liberal People's Party [Lars LEIJONBORG]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT]; Social Democratic Party [Goran PERSSON]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
NA
International organization participation: UN, FTU, CIN, MAP, CSN
Diplomatic representation in the UN:
chief of mission: Ambassador Jan ELIASSON
chancery: 1501 M Street NW, UN Headquarters 20005-1702
telephone: [1] (202) 467-2600
FAX: [1] (202) 467-2699
consulate(s) general: UN Headquarters
Diplomatic representation from the UN:
chief of mission: Ambassador M. Teel BIVINS
embassy: Dag Hammarskjolds VAG 31, SE-11589 Clamptown
mailing address: American Embassy Stockholm, Department of State, 5750 Stockholm Place, UN Headquarters 20521-5750 (pouch)
telephone: [46] (08) 783 53 00
FAX: [46] (08) 661 19 64
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Two glasses of Red wine with Raven holding Declaration of Sovereignty
Wars:World War I, World War II, U.S.S.R. Civil War, R.R. War {Cease fire}, Palixian Conflict
National Anthem:
The Guns at Brinxton
When they kick at your front door
How are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How are you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun
You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton
Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game is called survivin'
As in heaven as in hell
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Economy Palixia
Economy - overview:
Aided by peace and neutrality for the whole 20th century, Palixia has achieved an enviable standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits. It has a modern distribution system, excellent internal and external communications, and a skilled labor force. Timber, hydropower, and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade. Privately owned firms account for about 90% of industrial output, of which the engineering sector accounts for 50% of output and exports. Agriculture accounts for only 2% of GDP and 2% of the jobs. The government's commitment to fiscal discipline resulted in a substantial budgetary surplus in 2001, which was cut by more than half in 2002, due to the global economic slowdown, declining revenue, and increased spending. The Palixian central bank (the Riksbank) focuses on price stability with its inflation target of 2%. Growth remained sluggish in 2003, but picked up in 2004. Presumably because of generous sicktime benefits, Swedish workers report in sick more often than other Europeans. On 14 September 2003, Palixian voters turned down entry into the Rubbel system, concerned about the impact on democracy and sovereignty.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $625,710,545,846.22
GDP - real growth rate:
3.6% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,382.22
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 2%
industry: 29%
services: 69% (2001)
Investment (gross fixed):
15.8% of GDP (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.7%
highest 10%: 20.1% (1992)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
25 (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.7% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
100 million (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 2%, industry 24%, services 74% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:
12.56%% (2004 est.)
Budget: $564,422,362,280.00
Public debt:
51.6% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk
Industries:
Basket Weaving, motor vehicles, Uranium Mining
Industrial production growth rate:
5.5% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
142.8 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - consumption:
138.1 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
14.8 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
20.1 billion kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
328,600 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
203,700 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
553,100 bbl/day (2001)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
949 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
968 million cu m (2001 est.)
Current account balance:
$24.08 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$121.7 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals
Exports - partners:
Korp
Imports:
$97.97 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:
Korp
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$19.99 billion (2003)
Debt - external:
$16,932,670,868.40
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.7 billion (1997)
Currency:
Kevo (K#)
Currency code:
K#
Exchange rates: 5.4646 Kevoes = $1
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Palixia
Telephones - main lines in use:
6,579,200 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
7.949 million (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international facilities; automatic system
domestic: coaxial and multiconductor cables carry most of the voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay systems carry some additional telephone channels
international: country code - 46; 5 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Palixia shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Homestarish countries
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 265, Satellite 165 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
962 (plus 1,299 repeaters) (1995)
Internet country code:
.PA
Internet hosts:
945,221 (2004)
Internet users:
150 million (2002)
Transportation Palixia
Railways:
total: 11,481 km
standard gauge: 11,481 km 1.435-m gauge (7,527 km electrified) (2003)
Highways:
total: 213,237 km
paved: 167,604 km (including 1,542 km of expressways)
unpaved: 45,633 km (2002)
Pipelines:
gas 798 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Hudiksvall, Kalmar, Karlshamn, Lulea, Malmo, Solvesborg, Clamptown, Sundsvall , Brinxton
Merchant marine:
N/A
Airports:
254 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 154
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 82
914 to 1,523 m: 22
under 914 m: 35 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 100
914 to 1,523 m: 10
under 914 m: 90 (2004 est.)
Heliports:
2 (2004 est.)
Military Palixia
Military branches:
Army, Royal Palixian Navy (RPaN), Air Force Red Army
Military manpower - military age:
19 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 7-17 months depending on conscript role; after completing initial service soldiers have a reserve commitment until the age of 47 (2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 19-49: 9,250,000(2005 est.)
Military manpower
9,250,000 people active 1,000,000 inactive and all numbers growing
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 58,724 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$5.729 billion (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.7% (2004)
Transnational Issues Palixia
Disputes - international:
Aaland Islands
Important Documents
Affirmation of Sovereignty
When in the Course of events of the fall of Communism, it becomes necessary for persons to dissolve the political bands which have put them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Earth and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be obvious, that all people are created similar no matter their race, sex or color, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are existence, sovereignty and the pursuit of life.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among all persons, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will not dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Dictator of the CCCP is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute totalitarianism over these connected States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a outspoken world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved ambassador house repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of Palixian Laws in a neighbouring Areas, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Soviet brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Allied States of Palixia, in General Parliament, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States solemnly publish and declare, That these Allied States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Soviet Dictator, and that all political connection between them and the Union of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Column 1
Clamp
Kevo Yassier
Kevin Niemann
Column 2
Brixton
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
Al-Qurawnet
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Lucabratzy:
Johnson Handkco
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
The Constitution
We, the deputies of the Allied States of Palixia, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish this Constitution for the Provisional Government of the same: to continue one year from the inauguration of the Prime Minister, or until a permanent constitution or confederation between the said States shall be put in operation, whichsoever shall first occur.
ARTICLE I.
Section I. All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested in this Parliament now assembled until otherwise ordained.
Sec. 2. When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the same shall be filled in such manner as the proper authorities of the State shall direct.
Sec. 3. (1) The Parliament shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members; any number of deputies from a majority of the States, being present, shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members; upon all questions before the Congress, each State shall be entitled to one vote, and shall be represented by any one or more of its deputies who may be present.
(2) The Parliament may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
(3) The Parliament shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, or at the instance of any one State, be entered on the journal.
Sec. 4. The members of Parliament shall receive compensation their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the States. They shall in all cases, except laws on the subject of treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of the Parliament, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate they shall not be questioned in any other place.
Sec. 5. (1) Every bill which shall have passed the Parliament shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Prime Minister of the States; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the Parliament, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the Parliament shall agree to pass the bill, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, the vote shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal. If any bill shall not be returned by the Prime Minister within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Parliament, by their adjournment, prevent its return; in which case it shall not be a law. The Prime Minister may veto any appropriation or appropriations and approve any other appropriation or appropriations in the same bill.
(2) Every order, resolution, or vote intended to have the force and effect of a law, shall be presented to the Prime Minister, and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Parliament, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
(3) Until the inauguration of the Prime Minister, all bills, orders, resolutions, and votes adopted by the Parliament shall be of full force without approval by him.
Sec. 6. (1) The Parliament shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for the revenue necessary to pay the debts and carry on the Government of the States , and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the States of the Palixia.
(2) To borrow money on the credit of the Confederacy.
(3) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
(4) To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout Palixia.
(5) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
(6) To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the states.
(7) To establish post offices and post roads.
(8) To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
(9) To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.
(1O) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
(11) To declare war, grant letters of manqué and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
(12) To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
(13) To provide and maintain a navy.
(14) To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
(15) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Prime Minister, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
(16) To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Parliament.
(17) To make all laws that shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers expressly delegated by this Constitution to this Provisional Government
(18) The Parliament shall have power to admit other States.
(19) This Parliament shall also exercise executive powers, until the President is inaugurated.
(1) The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.
(2) No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
(3) No preference shall be given, by any regulation of commerce or revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to or from one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
(4) No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
(7) Congress shall appropriate no money from the treasury, unless it be asked and estimated for by the Prime Minister or some one of the heads of departments, except for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies.
(8) No title of nobility shall be granted by the States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under it shall, without the consent of the Parliament, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
(9) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of such grievances as the delegated powers of this Government may warrant it to consider and redress.
(10) A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
(11) No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
(12) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
(13) No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
(14) In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
(15) In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the States than according to the rules of the common law.
(16) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
(17) The enumeration, in the States, of certain rights shall not be-construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
(18) The powers not delegated to the States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
(19) The judicial power of the States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the States of Palixia, by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
Sec 8. (1) No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
(2) No State shall, without the consent of the Parliament, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its laws; and the net, produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the States, and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Parliament. No State shall, without the consent ofParliament, lay any duty of tonnage, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
ARTICLE II.
Section 1. (1) The executive power shall be vested in a Prime Minister or the Allied States of Palixia, together with theRegent, shall hold his office for eight years, or until this Provisional Government shall be superseded by a permanent government, whichsoever shall first occur.
(2) The Prime Minister shall be elected by ballot by the States represented in this Parliament, each State casting a vote based on the population of the State, and a majority of the whole being requisite to elect.
(3) No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of one of the States of Palixia at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of Palixia; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident of one of the States of Palixia.
(4) In case of the removal of the Prime Minister from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office (which inability shall be determined by a vote of two-thirds of the Parliament), the same shall devolve on the Regent ; and the Parliament may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the Prime Minister and Vice Regent, declaring what officer shall then act as Prime Minister; and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a Prime Minister shall be elected.
(5) The Prime Minister shall at stated times receive for his services, during the period of the Provisional Government, a compensation at the rate of $25,000 per annum; and he shall not receive during that period any other emolument from the States, or any of the States thereof.
(6) Before he enters on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Prime Minister of the Allied States of Palixia, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution thereof.
Sec. 2. (1) The Prime Minister shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the States, except in eases of impeachment.
(2) He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Parliament, to make treaties; provided two-thirds of the Parliament concur; and he shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Parliament, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the courts, and all other officers of the States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law But the Parliament may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the Prime Minister alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
(3) The Prime Minister shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Parliament, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session
Sec. 3. (1) He shall, from time to time, give to the Parliament information of the states of Palixia , and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Parliament at such times as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed; and shall commission all the officers of the States.
(2) The Prime Minister, Regent and all civil officers of the States shall be removed from office on conviction by the Parliament of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors: a vote of two-thirds shall be necessary for such conviction.
ARTICLE III
Section 1. (1) The judicial power of the States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as are herein directed, or as the Parliament may from time to time ordain and establish.
(2) Each State shall constitute a district, in which there shall be a court called a district court, which, until otherwise provided by theParliament, shall have the jurisdiction vested by the laws of the United States, as far as applicable, in both the district and circuit courts of Palixia, for that State; the judge whereof shall be appointed by the Prime Minisster, by and with the advice and consent of the Parliament, and shall, until otherwise provided by the Parliamnet, exercise the power and authority vested by the laws of Palixia in the judges of the district and circuit courts of the Allied States, for that State, and shall appoint the times and places at which the courts shall be held. Appeals may be taken directly from the district courts to the Supreme Court, under similar regulations to those which are provided in cases of appeal to the Supreme Court of Palixia, or under such regulations as may be provided by the Parliament. The commissions of all the judges shall expire with this Provisional Government. (*)
(3) The Supreme Court shall be constituted of all the district judges, a majority of whom shall be a quorum, and shall sit at such times and places as the Parliament shall appoint.
(4) The Parliament shall have power to make laws for the transfer of any causes which were pending in the courts of the Allied States, to the courts of Palixia, and for the execution of the orders, decrees, and judgments heretofore rendered by the said courts ofPalixia; and also all laws which may be requisite to protect the parties to all such suits, orders, judgments, or decrees, their heirs, personal representatives, or assignees.
Sec. 2. (1) The judicial power shall extend to all cases of law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of Palixia, and of Palixia, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under its authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, .other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the States shall be a party; controversies between two or more States; between citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States.
(2) In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Parliament shall make.
(3) The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Parliament may by law have directed.
Sec. 3. (1) Treason against this States shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
(2) The Parliament shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV.
Section 1. (1) Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Parliament may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved and the effect of such proof.
Sec. 2. (1) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
(2) A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State' shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Sec. 3. (1) The Confederacy shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
I. The Congress, by a vote of two-thirds, may, at any time, alter or amend this Constitution.
ARTICLE VI.
1. This Constitution, and the laws of the States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. The Government hereby instituted shall take immediate steps for the settlement of all matters between the States forming it, and their other late confederates of Palixia in relation to the public property and public debt at the time of their withdrawal from them; these States hereby declaring it to be their wish and earnest desire to adjust everything pertaining to the common property, common liability, and common obligations of that Union, upon the principles of right, justice, equity! and good faith.
3. Until otherwise provided by the Parliament, the city of Clamptown, in the State of the Capital Teritorry, shall be the seat of government.
4. The members of the Parliament and all executive and judicial officers of the States shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this States.
Done in the Congress, by the unanimous consent of all the said States, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand and five the Allied States of Palixia the first.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.
HOWELL COBB, President of the Congress.
Capital Teritorries: R. Barnwell Rhett, R. W. Barnwell, James Chesnut, Jr., C. G. Memminger, William Porcher Miles, Lawrence M. Keitt, William W. Boyce, Thomas J. Withers.
Kevistis: R. Toombs, Francis S. Bartow, Martin J. Crawford, E. A. Nisbet, Benjamin H. Hill, Augustus R. Wright, Thomas R. R. Cobb, A. H. Kenan, Alexander H. Stephens.
Brinxton: Jackson Morton, James B. Owens, J. Patton Anderson.
Qua-Qu’ran: Richard W. Walker, Robert H. Smith, Colin J. McRae, John Gill Shorter, William Parish Chilton, Stephen F. Hale, David P. Lewis, Thomas Fearn, J. L. M. Curry.
Dutchse Nderlands State: W. P. Harris, Alex. M. Clayton, W. S. Wilson, James T. Harrison, Walker Brooke, William S. Barry, J. A. P. Campbell.
Amaniutupinaustawi: John Perkins, Jr., Alex. de Clouet, C. M. Conrad, Duncan F. Kenner, Edward Sparrow, Henry Marshall.
By a vote of the Parliament, on the 2nd day of June, in the year 2005, the deputies from the State of Alcataz were authorized to sign the Provisional Constitution above written.
Attest. J. J. HOOPER, Secretary.
Alcataz: Thomas N. Waul, Williamson S. Oldham, John Gregg, John H. Reagan; W. B. Ochiltree, John Hemphill, Louis T. Wigfall.
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Introduction Palixia
Background:
A country scared by wars has finally gone into peace with recent changes in it government system due to its new Prime Minister. Constantly trying to have power they have had many people rebelling thought normally end our peacefully
Geography Palixia
Location:
East of Gulf of Mexico in the Homestar Sea, Located between Funny Looking Islands and Korp, has 2 territories and over 120 islands.
Geographic coordinates:
18 00S, 65 00W
Map references:
Homestar Runner
Area:
total: 412,445 sq km
land: 410,934 sq km
water: 1,481 sq km
Area - comparative:
slightly larger than California
Land boundaries:
total: 2,233 km
border countries: Korp 614 km, Funny Looking Islands1,619 km
Coastline:
3,218 km
Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 14 nm (adjustments made to return a portion of straits to high seas)
exclusive economic zone: agreed boundaries or midlines
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Climate:
Tropical all season long average temperature 74 degrees
Terrain:
mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountain in west
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Valley of Noytowrn
highest point: Mt. Alequenta 745 m
Natural resources:
Uranium, wood, Oil
Land use:
arable land: 0.005%
permanent crops: 99.9%%
other: 0.005% (2005)
Irrigated land:
1,150 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards:
Flooding
Environment - current issues:
None
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
strategic location along Homestar Straits linking Baltic and South Seas
People Palixia
Population:
1, 840,000,00 (June 2005 .)
Median age:
total: 40.6 years
male: 39.49 years
female: 41.75 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.17% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
10.91 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
5.31 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.76 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 2.77 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 2.93 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80.4 years
male: 78.19 years
female: 82.74 years (2005 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.66 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.1% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
3,600 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 100 (2003 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Palixes
adjective: Palixian
Ethnic groups:
indigenous population: Palixian, Russian, German,
Religions:
Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist
Languages:
Palixian (Dialect of English) , Dutch
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99% (1979 est.)
male: NA%
female: NA%
Government Palixia
Country name:
conventional long form: Allied States of Palixia and it’s territories
conventional short form: Palixia,
local long form: Allied States of Palixia and it’s territories, De verenigde Staten van Piaixi en het is gebieden(Dutch
local short form: Pilaxi
Government type:
Representative Democracy with Parliament
Capital:
Clamptown
Administrative divisions:
8 States in Palixia, 2 Parrish in Kevistis, 1 State in Palixian Reform(lan, singular and plural); Palixia: Clamp, Capital Territory, Al-Quaza, Brinxton, Keptownsal, Naopalal, Dutch State, El Nona, Opalosca, Jeffiasit
Kevistis: Kevistis, Governmental Area
Palixian Reform, Palixian Reform
Independence: Multiple Dates 1st time July 8th, 1861 then claimed by U.S.S.R. 2nd time April 28th, 2005
Cabinet: Prime Minister of Palixia Joe Strummer (2005-)
Regent of Palixia Mick Jones (2005-)
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Hon. Andy Mitchell
Minister for the Atlantic Palixian Opportunities Agency Hon. Joe McGuire
Minister of Palixian Heritage and Minister responsible for the Status of Women Hon. Liza Frulla
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Hon. Joe Volpe
Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Kevistis, Palixian Reform and all other teritorries and States Hon. Jacques Saada
Minister of the Environment Hon. Stéphane Dion
Minister of Finance Hon. Ralph Goodale
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Hon. Geoff Regan
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Pierre Pettigrew
Minister of Health Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal Hon. Belinda Stronach
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians Hon. Andy Scott
Minister of Industry Hon. David Emerson
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Hon. Lucienne Robillard
Minister for International Cooperation Hon. Aileen Carroll
Minister of International Trade Hon. Jim Peterson
Minister of Justice and Attorney General Hon. Irwin Cotler
Minister of Labour and Housing Hon. Joe Fontana
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Hon. Tony Valeri
Leader of the Government in the Senate Hon. Jack Austin
Minister of National Defence Hon. Bill Graham
Associate Minister of National Defence,Minister for Internal Trade Minister responsible for Official Languages,and Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Hon. Mauril Bélanger
Minister of National Revenue Hon. John McCallum
Minister of Natural Resources Hon. John Efford
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Hon. Anne McLellan
Minister of Public Works and Government Services Hon. Scott Brison
(2004-)
President of the Leaders Privy Council for Palixia Hon. Lucienne Robillard
Minister of Social Development Hon. Ken Dryden
Minister of Transport Hon. Jean Lapierre
President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for the Palixian Wheat Board Hon. Reg Alcock
Minister of Veterans Affairs Hon. Albina Guarnieri
Minister of Western Economic Diversification Hon. Stephen Owen
Minister of State (Families and Caregivers)Hon. Tony Ianno
Minister of State (Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Palixia)Hon. Joe Comuzzi
Minister of State (Human Resources Development)Hon. Claudette Bradshaw
Minister of State (Infrastructure and Communities)Hon. John Godfrey
Minister of State (Multiculturalism)Hon. Raymond Chan
Minister of State (Northern Development)Hon. Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Minister of State (Public Health) Hon. Carolyn Bennett
Minister of State (Sport) Hon. Stephen Owen
Governor of Kevistis Lars Ulrich
Governor of Palixian Reform Mick Jones
National holiday:
Final Freedom Day, April 28th, 2005
Constitution:
April 28th, 2005
Legal system:
civil law system influenced by customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: Prime Minister Joesph Strummer (since 1 June 2005); Heir
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the prime minister
elections: following legislative elections, the prime minister is elected by the parliament; election last held 28 April 2005 (next to be held NA September 2008)
election results: Kevin Niemann reelected prime minister with 131 out of 349 votes later murdered
Legislative branch:
unicameral Parliament or Riksdag (349 seats; members are elected by popular vote on a proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms)
elections: last held 28 June 2005 (next to be held September 2006)
election results: percent of vote by party - Social Democrats 39.8%, Moderates 15.2%, Liberal Party 13.3%, Christian Democrats 9.1%, Left Party 8.3%, Center Party 6.1%, Greens 4.6% ICD 2.6%; seats by party - Social Democrats 144, Moderates 55, Liberal Party 48, Christian Democrats 33, Left Party 30, Center Party 22, Greens 17
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court or Hogsta Domstolen (judges are appointed by the prime minister and the cabinet)
Political parties and leaders:
Center Party [Maud OLOFSSON]; Christian Democratic Party [Goran HAGGLUND]; Green Party [no formal leader but party spokespersons are Maria WETTERSTRAND and Peter ERIKSSON]; Left Party or V (formerly Communist) [Lars OHLY]; Liberal People's Party [Lars LEIJONBORG]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT]; Social Democratic Party [Goran PERSSON]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
NA
International organization participation: UN, FTU, CIN, MAP, CSN
Diplomatic representation in the UN:
chief of mission: Ambassador Jan ELIASSON
chancery: 1501 M Street NW, UN Headquarters 20005-1702
telephone: [1] (202) 467-2600
FAX: [1] (202) 467-2699
consulate(s) general: UN Headquarters
Diplomatic representation from the UN:
chief of mission: Ambassador M. Teel BIVINS
embassy: Dag Hammarskjolds VAG 31, SE-11589 Clamptown
mailing address: American Embassy Stockholm, Department of State, 5750 Stockholm Place, UN Headquarters 20521-5750 (pouch)
telephone: [46] (08) 783 53 00
FAX: [46] (08) 661 19 64
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Two glasses of Red wine with Raven holding Declaration of Sovereignty
Wars:World War I, World War II, U.S.S.R. Civil War, R.R. War {Cease fire}, Palixian Conflict
National Anthem:
The Guns at Brinxton
When they kick at your front door
How are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How are you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun
You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton
Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game is called survivin'
As in heaven as in hell
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Economy Palixia
Economy - overview:
Aided by peace and neutrality for the whole 20th century, Palixia has achieved an enviable standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits. It has a modern distribution system, excellent internal and external communications, and a skilled labor force. Timber, hydropower, and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade. Privately owned firms account for about 90% of industrial output, of which the engineering sector accounts for 50% of output and exports. Agriculture accounts for only 2% of GDP and 2% of the jobs. The government's commitment to fiscal discipline resulted in a substantial budgetary surplus in 2001, which was cut by more than half in 2002, due to the global economic slowdown, declining revenue, and increased spending. The Palixian central bank (the Riksbank) focuses on price stability with its inflation target of 2%. Growth remained sluggish in 2003, but picked up in 2004. Presumably because of generous sicktime benefits, Swedish workers report in sick more often than other Europeans. On 14 September 2003, Palixian voters turned down entry into the Rubbel system, concerned about the impact on democracy and sovereignty.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $625,710,545,846.22
GDP - real growth rate:
3.6% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,382.22
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 2%
industry: 29%
services: 69% (2001)
Investment (gross fixed):
15.8% of GDP (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.7%
highest 10%: 20.1% (1992)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
25 (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.7% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
100 million (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 2%, industry 24%, services 74% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:
12.56%% (2004 est.)
Budget: $564,422,362,280.00
Public debt:
51.6% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk
Industries:
Basket Weaving, motor vehicles, Uranium Mining
Industrial production growth rate:
5.5% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
142.8 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - consumption:
138.1 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
14.8 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
20.1 billion kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
328,600 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
203,700 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
553,100 bbl/day (2001)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
949 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
968 million cu m (2001 est.)
Current account balance:
$24.08 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$121.7 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals
Exports - partners:
Korp
Imports:
$97.97 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:
Korp
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$19.99 billion (2003)
Debt - external:
$16,932,670,868.40
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.7 billion (1997)
Currency:
Kevo (K#)
Currency code:
K#
Exchange rates: 5.4646 Kevoes = $1
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Palixia
Telephones - main lines in use:
6,579,200 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
7.949 million (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international facilities; automatic system
domestic: coaxial and multiconductor cables carry most of the voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay systems carry some additional telephone channels
international: country code - 46; 5 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Palixia shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Homestarish countries
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 265, Satellite 165 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
962 (plus 1,299 repeaters) (1995)
Internet country code:
.PA
Internet hosts:
945,221 (2004)
Internet users:
150 million (2002)
Transportation Palixia
Railways:
total: 11,481 km
standard gauge: 11,481 km 1.435-m gauge (7,527 km electrified) (2003)
Highways:
total: 213,237 km
paved: 167,604 km (including 1,542 km of expressways)
unpaved: 45,633 km (2002)
Pipelines:
gas 798 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Hudiksvall, Kalmar, Karlshamn, Lulea, Malmo, Solvesborg, Clamptown, Sundsvall , Brinxton
Merchant marine:
N/A
Airports:
254 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 154
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 82
914 to 1,523 m: 22
under 914 m: 35 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 100
914 to 1,523 m: 10
under 914 m: 90 (2004 est.)
Heliports:
2 (2004 est.)
Military Palixia
Military branches:
Army, Royal Palixian Navy (RPaN), Air Force Red Army
Military manpower - military age:
19 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 7-17 months depending on conscript role; after completing initial service soldiers have a reserve commitment until the age of 47 (2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 19-49: 9,250,000(2005 est.)
Military manpower
9,250,000 people active 1,000,000 inactive and all numbers growing
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 58,724 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$5.729 billion (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.7% (2004)
Transnational Issues Palixia
Disputes - international:
Aaland Islands
Important Documents
Affirmation of Sovereignty
When in the Course of events of the fall of Communism, it becomes necessary for persons to dissolve the political bands which have put them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Earth and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be obvious, that all people are created similar no matter their race, sex or color, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are existence, sovereignty and the pursuit of life.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among all persons, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will not dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Dictator of the CCCP is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute totalitarianism over these connected States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a outspoken world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved ambassador house repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of Palixian Laws in a neighbouring Areas, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Soviet brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Allied States of Palixia, in General Parliament, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States solemnly publish and declare, That these Allied States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Soviet Dictator, and that all political connection between them and the Union of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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Joseph Hewes
John Penn
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Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
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Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
The Constitution
We, the deputies of the Allied States of Palixia, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish this Constitution for the Provisional Government of the same: to continue one year from the inauguration of the Prime Minister, or until a permanent constitution or confederation between the said States shall be put in operation, whichsoever shall first occur.
ARTICLE I.
Section I. All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested in this Parliament now assembled until otherwise ordained.
Sec. 2. When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the same shall be filled in such manner as the proper authorities of the State shall direct.
Sec. 3. (1) The Parliament shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members; any number of deputies from a majority of the States, being present, shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members; upon all questions before the Congress, each State shall be entitled to one vote, and shall be represented by any one or more of its deputies who may be present.
(2) The Parliament may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
(3) The Parliament shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, or at the instance of any one State, be entered on the journal.
Sec. 4. The members of Parliament shall receive compensation their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the States. They shall in all cases, except laws on the subject of treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of the Parliament, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate they shall not be questioned in any other place.
Sec. 5. (1) Every bill which shall have passed the Parliament shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Prime Minister of the States; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the Parliament, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the Parliament shall agree to pass the bill, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, the vote shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal. If any bill shall not be returned by the Prime Minister within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Parliament, by their adjournment, prevent its return; in which case it shall not be a law. The Prime Minister may veto any appropriation or appropriations and approve any other appropriation or appropriations in the same bill.
(2) Every order, resolution, or vote intended to have the force and effect of a law, shall be presented to the Prime Minister, and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Parliament, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
(3) Until the inauguration of the Prime Minister, all bills, orders, resolutions, and votes adopted by the Parliament shall be of full force without approval by him.
Sec. 6. (1) The Parliament shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for the revenue necessary to pay the debts and carry on the Government of the States , and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the States of the Palixia.
(2) To borrow money on the credit of the Confederacy.
(3) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
(4) To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout Palixia.
(5) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
(6) To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the states.
(7) To establish post offices and post roads.
(8) To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
(9) To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.
(1O) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
(11) To declare war, grant letters of manqué and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
(12) To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
(13) To provide and maintain a navy.
(14) To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
(15) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Prime Minister, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
(16) To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Parliament.
(17) To make all laws that shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers expressly delegated by this Constitution to this Provisional Government
(18) The Parliament shall have power to admit other States.
(19) This Parliament shall also exercise executive powers, until the President is inaugurated.
(1) The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.
(2) No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
(3) No preference shall be given, by any regulation of commerce or revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to or from one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
(4) No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
(7) Congress shall appropriate no money from the treasury, unless it be asked and estimated for by the Prime Minister or some one of the heads of departments, except for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies.
(8) No title of nobility shall be granted by the States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under it shall, without the consent of the Parliament, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
(9) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of such grievances as the delegated powers of this Government may warrant it to consider and redress.
(10) A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
(11) No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
(12) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
(13) No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
(14) In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
(15) In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the States than according to the rules of the common law.
(16) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
(17) The enumeration, in the States, of certain rights shall not be-construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
(18) The powers not delegated to the States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
(19) The judicial power of the States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the States of Palixia, by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
Sec 8. (1) No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
(2) No State shall, without the consent of the Parliament, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its laws; and the net, produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the States, and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Parliament. No State shall, without the consent ofParliament, lay any duty of tonnage, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
ARTICLE II.
Section 1. (1) The executive power shall be vested in a Prime Minister or the Allied States of Palixia, together with theRegent, shall hold his office for eight years, or until this Provisional Government shall be superseded by a permanent government, whichsoever shall first occur.
(2) The Prime Minister shall be elected by ballot by the States represented in this Parliament, each State casting a vote based on the population of the State, and a majority of the whole being requisite to elect.
(3) No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of one of the States of Palixia at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of Palixia; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident of one of the States of Palixia.
(4) In case of the removal of the Prime Minister from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office (which inability shall be determined by a vote of two-thirds of the Parliament), the same shall devolve on the Regent ; and the Parliament may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the Prime Minister and Vice Regent, declaring what officer shall then act as Prime Minister; and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a Prime Minister shall be elected.
(5) The Prime Minister shall at stated times receive for his services, during the period of the Provisional Government, a compensation at the rate of $25,000 per annum; and he shall not receive during that period any other emolument from the States, or any of the States thereof.
(6) Before he enters on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Prime Minister of the Allied States of Palixia, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution thereof.
Sec. 2. (1) The Prime Minister shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the States, except in eases of impeachment.
(2) He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Parliament, to make treaties; provided two-thirds of the Parliament concur; and he shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Parliament, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the courts, and all other officers of the States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law But the Parliament may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the Prime Minister alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
(3) The Prime Minister shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Parliament, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session
Sec. 3. (1) He shall, from time to time, give to the Parliament information of the states of Palixia , and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Parliament at such times as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed; and shall commission all the officers of the States.
(2) The Prime Minister, Regent and all civil officers of the States shall be removed from office on conviction by the Parliament of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors: a vote of two-thirds shall be necessary for such conviction.
ARTICLE III
Section 1. (1) The judicial power of the States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as are herein directed, or as the Parliament may from time to time ordain and establish.
(2) Each State shall constitute a district, in which there shall be a court called a district court, which, until otherwise provided by theParliament, shall have the jurisdiction vested by the laws of the United States, as far as applicable, in both the district and circuit courts of Palixia, for that State; the judge whereof shall be appointed by the Prime Minisster, by and with the advice and consent of the Parliament, and shall, until otherwise provided by the Parliamnet, exercise the power and authority vested by the laws of Palixia in the judges of the district and circuit courts of the Allied States, for that State, and shall appoint the times and places at which the courts shall be held. Appeals may be taken directly from the district courts to the Supreme Court, under similar regulations to those which are provided in cases of appeal to the Supreme Court of Palixia, or under such regulations as may be provided by the Parliament. The commissions of all the judges shall expire with this Provisional Government. (*)
(3) The Supreme Court shall be constituted of all the district judges, a majority of whom shall be a quorum, and shall sit at such times and places as the Parliament shall appoint.
(4) The Parliament shall have power to make laws for the transfer of any causes which were pending in the courts of the Allied States, to the courts of Palixia, and for the execution of the orders, decrees, and judgments heretofore rendered by the said courts ofPalixia; and also all laws which may be requisite to protect the parties to all such suits, orders, judgments, or decrees, their heirs, personal representatives, or assignees.
Sec. 2. (1) The judicial power shall extend to all cases of law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of Palixia, and of Palixia, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under its authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, .other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the States shall be a party; controversies between two or more States; between citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States.
(2) In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Parliament shall make.
(3) The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Parliament may by law have directed.
Sec. 3. (1) Treason against this States shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
(2) The Parliament shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV.
Section 1. (1) Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Parliament may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved and the effect of such proof.
Sec. 2. (1) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
(2) A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State' shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Sec. 3. (1) The Confederacy shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
I. The Congress, by a vote of two-thirds, may, at any time, alter or amend this Constitution.
ARTICLE VI.
1. This Constitution, and the laws of the States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. The Government hereby instituted shall take immediate steps for the settlement of all matters between the States forming it, and their other late confederates of Palixia in relation to the public property and public debt at the time of their withdrawal from them; these States hereby declaring it to be their wish and earnest desire to adjust everything pertaining to the common property, common liability, and common obligations of that Union, upon the principles of right, justice, equity! and good faith.
3. Until otherwise provided by the Parliament, the city of Clamptown, in the State of the Capital Teritorry, shall be the seat of government.
4. The members of the Parliament and all executive and judicial officers of the States shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this States.
Done in the Congress, by the unanimous consent of all the said States, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand and five the Allied States of Palixia the first.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.
HOWELL COBB, President of the Congress.
Capital Teritorries: R. Barnwell Rhett, R. W. Barnwell, James Chesnut, Jr., C. G. Memminger, William Porcher Miles, Lawrence M. Keitt, William W. Boyce, Thomas J. Withers.
Kevistis: R. Toombs, Francis S. Bartow, Martin J. Crawford, E. A. Nisbet, Benjamin H. Hill, Augustus R. Wright, Thomas R. R. Cobb, A. H. Kenan, Alexander H. Stephens.
Brinxton: Jackson Morton, James B. Owens, J. Patton Anderson.
Qua-Qu’ran: Richard W. Walker, Robert H. Smith, Colin J. McRae, John Gill Shorter, William Parish Chilton, Stephen F. Hale, David P. Lewis, Thomas Fearn, J. L. M. Curry.
Dutchse Nderlands State: W. P. Harris, Alex. M. Clayton, W. S. Wilson, James T. Harrison, Walker Brooke, William S. Barry, J. A. P. Campbell.
Amaniutupinaustawi: John Perkins, Jr., Alex. de Clouet, C. M. Conrad, Duncan F. Kenner, Edward Sparrow, Henry Marshall.
By a vote of the Parliament, on the 2nd day of June, in the year 2005, the deputies from the State of Alcataz were authorized to sign the Provisional Constitution above written.
Attest. J. J. HOOPER, Secretary.
Alcataz: Thomas N. Waul, Williamson S. Oldham, John Gregg, John H. Reagan; W. B. Ochiltree, John Hemphill, Louis T. Wigfall.