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The Republic of United Nations


Background:

The United Netherlands was founded, when the nations of The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg entered into the Benelux Defense Union. An union designed to unite the people of the Benelux countries into one nation to provived for the common defense under one Army, Navy, and Air Force and to promote the free movement of workers, capital, services, and goods in the region. The countries of Sri Lanka and Venezuela were incorpated into the United Netherlands as Dominions.

In recent years the power and influence of the United Netherlands has grown. First with the incorporation of the Islands of Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago into the Kingdom. Second, was the forming of the EATO Alliance with the Kingdom as a founding member. The future does indeed look bright for the citizens of the United Netherlands and her dominions.

In a recent development, a new nation had been born with the incorpulation of the Iberian Peninsula into the United Netherlands. This new nation was to be named after the most populous of both countries, the Kingdom of the Iberian Netherlands or the Iberian Netherlands for short. However, for most people that live within the kingdom simplely calling it the Netherlands is standard pratice. While from the outside the Iberian Netherlands may look like one kingdom, it is in fact composed of two different kindgoms. The Kingdom of Iberia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (or United Netherlands for short). Though both kingdoms are highly woven into the other, each kindgom handles its own affiars with each country that makes of the two kindgoms further handling their own local affiars. Through this highly complex system of webs has the Iberian Netherlands brought prosperity and freedom to the world.

With the dismantlement of the Kingdom, a new United Nations was born. This one would not fail. The Capital Headquarters were to be placed in the most populous country in the Republic, that location turned out to be Madrid Spain.

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Geography
Total Area: 2,158,615.9 Sq km
Andorra: 468 Sq km
Argentina: *
Aruba: 193 Sq km
Belgium: 30,528 Sq km
Christmas Island: 135 Sq km
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 14 Sq km
Comoros: 2,170 Sq km
Europa Island: 28 Sq km
Gibraltar: 6.5 Sq km
Juan de Nova Island: 4.4 Sq km
Luxembourg: 2,586 Sq km
Madagascar: 587,040 Sq km
Mauritius: 2,040 Sq km
Mayotte: 374 Sq km
Netherlands: 41,526 Sq km
Netherlands Antilles: 960 Sq km
Portugal: 92,391 Sq km
Reunion: 2,517 Sq km
Seychelles: 455 Sq km
Spain: 504,782 Sq km
Sri Lanka: 65,610 Sq km
Trinidad and Tobago: 5,128 Sq km
Tromelin Island: 1 Sq km
Venezuela: 912,050 Sq km

Natural Resources: Hydropower, mineral water, timber, iron ore, lead, construction materials, silica sand, carbonates, phosphate, fish, guano deposits and other fertilizers, graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, sand and gravel, copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, silver, gold, uranium, marble, clay, gypsum, copra, cinnamon trees, lignite, mercury, pyrites, magnesite, fluorspar, sepiolite, kaolin, potash, gems, asphalt and diamonds.

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People
Total Population: 147,359,596
The Kingdom of the Netherlands: 16,491,461
The Kingdom of Belgium: 10,379,067
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: 474,413
Benelux (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg): 27,344,941
The Kingdom of Spain: 40,397,842
The Portuguese Republic: 10,605,870
The Principality of Andorra: 71,201
The Protectorate of Gibraltar (Part of Spain): 27,928
Iberia (Spain/Gibraltar, Portugal and Andorra): 51,102,841
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: 20,222,240
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: 25,730,435
The Protectorate of Aruba: 71,891
The Protectorate of Netherlands Antilles: 221,736
The Protectorate of Trinidad and Tobago: 1,065,842
The Republic of Madagascar: 18,595,469
The Protectorate of Seychelles: 81,541
The Protectorate of Comoros: 690,948
The Protectorate of Mayotte: 201,234
The Protectorate of Reunion: 787,584
The Protectorate of Mauritius: 1,240,827
Europe Island: no indigenous inhabitants (small military garrison oversees a meteorological station)
Juan de Nova Island: no indigenous inhabitants (small military garrison oversees a meteorological station)
Tromelin Island: no indigenous inhabitants (small military garrison oversees a meteorological station)
The Protectorate of Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 574
The Protectorate of Christmas Island: 1,493
Argentine Republic: *
Languages: Dutch (official), Frisian (official), French (official), Luxembourgish (official), Spanish (official) and Portuguese (official)

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Government
Country name: The Republic of United Nations (long); The Republic (short)
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy/Democratic Socialist Republic/Repubic/Parliamentary Democracy/Federal Republic
Capital Headquarters: Madrid
Capitals: Andorra la Vella, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Luxembourg, Antananarivo, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Colombo and Caracas
Provincial Capitals: Oranjestad, The Settlement, West Island, Gibraltar, Moroni, Port Louis, Mamoutzou, Willemstad, Saint-Denis, Victoria and Port-of-Spain

Exective Branch and its Cabinet of the Republic
King: William I
Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs: Willem Drees and José María Aznar
Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister of Belgium: Wilfried Martens
Second Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minster of Portugal: José Socrates
Minister of Economic Affairs: Jean-Claude Juncker and Pedro Solbes
Minister of Interior and Kingdom Relations: Johan Remkes and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Minister of Foreign affairs: Ben Bot and Cristina Narbona
Minister of Justice: Piet Hein Donner and Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Minister of Education, Culture and Science: Rudy Demotte, Carmen Calvo and Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo
Minister for Development Cooperation: Armand De Decker
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport: Hans Hoogervorst and Elena Salgado
Minister of Defence: Henk Kamp and José Antonio Alonso
Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment: Sybilla Dekker and Miguel Ángel Moratinos
Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management: Karla Peijs
Minister for Government Reform and Kingdom Relations: Vincent Van Quickenborne
Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality: Cees Veerman and Elena Espinosa
Minister of Social Affairs and Employment: Els Van Weert and Jesús Caldera
Minister for Immigration and Integration: Rita Verdonk and Jesús Caldera
Minister of Public Works: Magdalena Álvarez
Minister of Public Administrations: Jordi Sevilla
Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism: Joan Clos i Matheu

Legislative Branch of the Republic:
The Seat of Government, the legislative branch is a bicameral parliament located in the city of The Hague. representatives from all members of the Kingdom are either elected/appointed to the Eerste Kamer ("first chamber") or the Tweede Kamer ("second chamber"). Currently, there are a total of 2,339 seats in both chambers with 740 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 1,599 seats in the Tweede Kamer. The following is the number of seats for each member of the kingdom. All members in Parliament serve a four-year term.
Andorra: 9 seats in the Eerste and 19 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Aruba: 21 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Belgium: 71 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 150 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Christmas Island: 9 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 7 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Comoros: 33 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Gibraltar: 18 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Luxembourg: 20 seats in the Eerste and 40 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Madagascar: 100 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 160 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Mauritius: 70 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Mayotte: 19 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Netherlands: 75 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 150 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Netherlands Antilles: 22 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Portugal: 76 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 154 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Reunion: 45 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Seychelles: 34 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Spain: 259 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 350 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Sri Lanka: 75 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 150 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Trinidad and Tobago: 36 seats in the Tweede Kamer
Venezuela: 55 seats in the Eerste Kamer and 112 Tweede Kamer

Judicial Branch of the Republic:
Each member has its own form of a judicial branch.

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Economy
Agriculture Products: Small quantities of rye, wheat, barley, oats, vegetables, aloes, livestock, fish, sugar beets, fruits, grain, tobacco; beef, veal, pork, milk, bananas, pawpaws, coconuts, vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, copra, cassava (tapioca), wine, grapes, dairy products, livestock products, coffee, sugarcane, cocoa, rice, beans, peanuts, tea, corn, pulses, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), sorghum, tropical fruit, tomatoes, olives, cinnamon, sweet potatoes, tuna, citrus, eggs, hides, oilseed, spices and rubber

Electricity Production(P) and Consumption(C):
Aruba: 770 million kWh(P) and 716.1 million kWh(C)
Belgium: 87.07 billion kWh(P) and 79.66 billion kWh(C)
Comoros: 18 million kWh(P) and 16.74 million kWh(C)
Gibraltar: 106.1 million kWh(P) and 98.69 million kWh(C)
Luxembourg: 5.549 billion kWh(P) and 6.14 billion kWh(C)
Madagascar: 825.4 million kWh(P) and 767.7 million kWh(C)
Mauritius: 1.941 billion kWh(P) and 1.805 billion kWh(C)
Netherlands: 98.8 billion kWh(P) and 101.6 billion kWh(C)
Netherlands Antilles: 1.017 billion kWh(P) and 945.8 million kWh(C)
Portugal: 47.42 billion kWh(P) and 44.01 billion kWh(C)
Reunion: 1.19 billion kWh(P) and 1.107 billion kWh(C)
Seychelles: 241.3 million kWh(P) and 224.4 million kWh(C)
Spain: 254.8 billion kWh(P) and 231.2 billion kWh(C)
Sri Lanka: 7.308 billion kWh(P) and 6.796 billion kWh(C)
Trinidad and Tobago: 6.076 billion kWh(P) and 5.651 billion kWh(C)
Venezuela: 87.44 billion kWh(P) and 81.32 billion kWh(C)

Oil Production(P) and Consumption(C):
Total Production and Consumption of Oil: 3,365,922.27 bbl/day(P) and 4,244,700 bbl/day(C)
Aruba: 2,363 bbl/day(P) and 6,500 bbl/day(C)
Belgium: 13,060 bbl/day(P) and 624,200 bbl/day(C)
Comoros: 700 bbl/day(C)
Gibraltar: 23,500 bbl/day(C)
Luxembourg: 55,700 bbl/day(C)
Madagascar: 89.27 bbl/day(P) and 15,000 bbl/day(C)
Mauritius: 21,000 bbl/day(C)
Netherlands: 94,870 bbl/day(P) and 920,000 bbl/day(C)
Netherlands Antilles: 72,500 bbl/day(C)
Portugal: 326,500 bbl/day(C)
Reunion: 18,500 bbl/day(C)
Seychelles: 7,600 bbl/day(C)
Spain: 24,540 bbl/day(P) and 1.544 million bbl/day(C)
Sri Lanka: 79,000 bbl/day(C)
Trinidad and Tobago: 150,000 bbl/day(P) and 29,000 bbl/day(C)
Venezuela: 3.081 million bbl/day(P) and 530,000 bbl/day(C)

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Transportation
Airports: Aruba-1, Belgium-43, Christmas Island-1, Cocos (Keeling) Islands-1, Comoros-4, Europa Island-1, Gibraltar-1, Juan de Nova Island-1, Luxembourg-2, Madagascar-116, Mauritius-6, Mayotte-1, Netherlands-27, Netherlands Antilles-5, Portugal-66, Reunion-2, Seychelles-15, Spain-157, Sri Lanka-16, Trinidad and Tobago-6, Tromelin Island-1 and Venezuela-375

Roadways:

Ports and terminals:

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Military (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11539814&postcount=17)
Army: 1,675,632 active personnel and 451,300 reserve personnel
Navy: 121,078 active personnel and 35,600 reserve personnel
Air Force: 79,094 active personnel and 16,000 reserve personnel

Defense Condition (DEFCON)
DEFCON 5: Normal peacetime readiness
DEFCON 4: Normal, increased intelligence and strengthened security measures
DEFCON 3: Increase in force readiness above normal readiness
DEFCON 2: Further Increase in force readiness, but less than maximum readiness-Current Status
DEFCON 1: Maximum force readiness

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Our Embassies with the International World
The Empire of Rethan (No relations)
Kingdom of Kopparbergs (No relations)
United Federation of Military Command (Ally)
The Republic of India (Ally)
The Union of South Africa (No relations)
The United Autonomous Republics of Central Asia (No relationsl)
The Brazilian Empire of Dweladelfia Prime-Ambassador Napoleon Dante (Ally)
The Philippines Protectorate (Warm relations)
The Emirate of Alif Laam Miim-Ambassador Nasrallah ibn Mustafa (No relations)
People's Republic of Asian China-Ambassador Mr. Ji Mingyi (No relations)
The Sharina Technocracy (No relations)
The Republican Republic of Great Romeo(No relations)

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EATO Alliance (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=498113)

With the finishing of the reforms of the government and the armed services. The government of United Earthlings decleared they were now ready to open embassies to their fellow nations of the world.

Meanwhile in the South Indian Ocean, the Korps Mariniers forces were coming ashore to secure the Island of Madagascar for the future use of the Kingdom.

Message to Ben Bot, The Kingdom of United Netherlands

Dear Mr. Bot,
We have seen your actions taken at the South American continent, and we hope that the Brazilian Empire and you comes to and end with the disturbances over there. We support you in the claim of the three islands outside Venezuela's coast.

We're interested in exchanging embassies with you, and we offer you a nice location for your embassy in our capital Tel-Aviv, Israel. If you want to, you're also welcome to open consulates in Algeria and Nigeria. We would like to have an embassy in Amsterdam, and maybe a consulate somewhere in Venezuela.

With respect,
Åke Stålhandske, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Kingdom of Kopparbergs

Message to Ben Bot, The Kingdom of United Netherlands

Dear Mr. Bot,
We have seen your actions taken at the South American continent, and we hope that the Brazilian Empire and you comes to an end with the disturbances over there. We support you in the claim of the three islands outside Venezuela's coast.

We're interested in exchanging embassies with you, and we offer you a nice location for your embassy in our capital Tel-Aviv, Israel. If you want to, you're also welcome to open consulates in Algeria and Nigeria. We would like to have an embassy in Amsterdam, and maybe a consulate somewhere in Venezuela.

With respect,
Åke Stålhandske, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Kingdom of Kopparbergs

Dear, Sir
Our government thanks you for your support in recognize our claim to those Islands. We are working hard to resolve this issue peaceful, but if war should come we are more then ready and willing to defend our nation. Hopefully, though cooler heads will prevail.

The embassy in your capital of Tel-Aviv sounds great. Will send an ambassador to your nation at our earliest convenience. You may use any vacant building in our Capital for your embassy or if none of those are to your liking you may build your own on a vacant lot. You may establish a consulate in Venezuela if you like, however be aware that our government is run from Europe, our homeland. If you like, you can set up a consulate in one of our Provincial Capitals which is where part of our nation is run from. This way you won't have to go through all the channels to make contact with us as Venezuela is just a Dominion and government administration is run from Amsterdam

Sincerely, Ben Bot
Minister of Foreign affairs

To: The United Netherlands

Dweladelfia Prime now recognizes that we are neighbors in the South American continent. We wish to open an embassy and send an ambassador to your nation.

We certainly understand your stand about the islands, and we hope that there will be a peaceful solution to this.

We'll send over a delegation of five men to look closer at Amsterdam, and to decide where to locate the embassy.

The consulate in Venezuela is ought to be a service to your inhabitants and our tourists, who may need to contact the authorities of Kopparbergs for some reason.

We're looking forward to continue these good relations between United Netherlands and the Kingdom of Kopparbergs.

Sincerely
Åke Stålhandske, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Kingdom of Kopparbergs

We certainly understand your stand about the islands, and we hope that there will be a peaceful solution to this.

We'll send over a delegation of five men to look closer at Amsterdam, and to decide where to locate the embassy.

The consulate in Venezuela is ought to be a service to your inhabitants and our tourists, who may need to contact the authorities of Kopparbergs for some reason.

We're looking forward to continue these good relations between United Netherlands and the Kingdom of Kopparbergs.

Sincerely
Åke Stålhandske, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Kingdom of Kopparbergs

We can arrange a tour of Amsterdam for your delegation if you so require and also an interrupter.

Were glad your citizens would like to visit our Dominion of Venezuela, however we can't guarantee their safety at this moment should war break out between us and the Brazilian Empire. However, we are making every effort to secure our rightful claims and maintain peace. If need be, you may build more then one consulate in Venezuela as its a big country and has lots of sites.

Sincerely, Ben Pot
Minister of Foreign affairs

We too look forward to good relations between our two nations.

To: The United Netherlands

Dweladelfia Prime now recognizes that we are neighbors in the South American continent. We wish to open an embassy and send an ambassador to your nation.

As do we, let us know where we can establish an Embassy and we send an Ambassador to your nation as soon as is possible.

You may use a vacant building or build one to your specifications as your embassy in our nation. We look forward to hearing from you.

Were also glad, we could Peacefully settle our differences on the Islands. This is indeed a great moment for our two nations and we hope this peaceful and cooperate work ethic of our two nations continues for the foreseeable future.

Sincerely, Willem Drees
Prime Minister

We would like to take this time to ask all those nations we don't have embassies with to contact our Minister of Foreign affairs to see about establishing diplomatic contact with your government.

Sincerely, Willem Drees
Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs

The Republic if India would be interested in opening a trade lane with our neighbor nation, Sri Lanka. Our proximity can bring benefit to both our lands.

The Republic of India would also be interested in establishing an embassy within the Netherlands, so that we may be closer to your focal point of government. We feel the need to do so, in your support of India reclaiming the lost land of Pakistan, of which we greatly appreciate.

G. Anubark

The Republic if India would be interested in opening a trade lane with our neighbor nation, Sri Lanka. Our proximity can bring benefit to both our lands.

The Republic of India would also be interested in establishing an embassy within the Netherlands, so that we may be closer to your focal point of government. We feel the need to do so, in your support of India reclaiming the lost land of Pakistan, of which we greatly appreciate.

G. Anubark

Were glad your interested in opening ties between our two nations. As such, we look forward to meeting your Ambassador. If you so wish, you may open a consulate in our Dominion of Sri Lanka.

Will be sending our Ambassador to your nation as soon as possible.

Sincerely, Ben Bot
Minister of Foreign affairs

Updated

Adding a few more things and adjusted the relations.

The Emirate of Alif Laam Miim-Ambassador Nasrallah ibn Mustafa (No relations)

[ooc: I presume this means no more friendly contacts, then?]

[ooc: I presume this means no more friendly contacts, then?]

OCC: Nope, they can still happen. I removed my offical contacts but lefted my unoffical contacts and I'm still maintaining offical contact with my allies. So, I still have means to contact the world and the world to contact me. I just made it harder as my government has offically enter a Isolation period for a certain amount of time. You know, mistakes have bad consequences and to correct the mistakes of the past, my nation turned in on it self to reexamine who it was and what its principals are.

Confused yet? :D

The Emirate wishes to ask the new Republic of United Nations to restore their once lucrative diplomatic relations with the Emirate, seeing as our previous histories have not proven to be detrimental to either party, and furthermore citing that if the RUN does not recognize formal diplomatic relations with the Emirate, we will have to return the RUN Ambassador to his home - safely and in a convenient manner, of course. Regardless, we hope that the new government will recognize the extensive years cooperation between our two peoples and hopes that they will permit diplomatic relations to resume after the brief hiatus. If this is not possible, we pray Allah's blessings that your judgments will not lead you into foul weather.

Emir Jalal al Misri

The Emirate wishes to ask the new Republic of United Nations to restore their once lucrative diplomatic relations with the Emirate, seeing as our previous histories have not proven to be detrimental to either party, and furthermore citing that if the RUN does not recognize formal diplomatic relations with the Emirate, we will have to return the RUN Ambassador to his home - safely and in a convenient manner, of course. Regardless, we hope that the new government will recognize the extensive years cooperation between our two peoples and hopes that they will permit diplomatic relations to resume after the brief hiatus. If this is not possible, we pray Allah's blessings that your judgments will not lead you into foul weather.

Emir Jalal al Misri

OCC: Well for one, I plan on reestablishing ties with you. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Though, I did get to Kopps, so see it just takes time. I also plan on creating a new fact book. Haven't got to that yet either.

Also, RUN or the Republic of United Nations is a completely new entity, it hasn’t been around that long to. It has no officially relations with anyway at this time. The Kingdom did, but I killed it. Also, I pulled all my Ambassadors out and returned them home a long time again back when their was a Kingdom. I left Embassies with only a few select countries. Namely, my allies. Don't worry, I get a good post up soon setting up new contacts with your government.