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This is the factbook for Australia and New Zealand in ESS. It is not finished, this is just the most basic stuff.

The main ESS thread is here:
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=522785


Government of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand (FANZ)

Governor General: Lewis Hollingshead
Prime Minister: Cliff Patterson
Deputy Prime Minister: Niel Warren
Minister for Foreign Affairs: Andrew Watson
Minister for Defense: John Collins
(other ministers not listed)
Director of Project Skywatch: Peter Anderson

Ruling Party: The Federation Labour Party holds a majority in the Federation parliament.
Official Opposition Party: Liberal Party
Leader of the Opposition: Barry Phillips
Capital: Canberra



History of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand (FANZ)

After prior treaties bringing the two nations together in various alliances and the so called "Confederation" program which moved in the direction of union without a vote, the Australian Labour Party and the Labour Party of New Zealand, both of which formed majority governments in their respective countries at the time, endorsed a public referendum on the matter of forming a federation which would unify the two countries. The reasons for this were primarily that it would increase national security for both nations.

On June 1, 2008, a public referendum approved the formation of the federation and within days the parliaments of the two nations approved the Constitution of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand as authorized in the referendum. The two governments were then merged with Australian Prime Minister Cliff Patterson elected as the first Prime Minister of the Federation.


Statistics:

Integration of the two countries is proceeding, but has only just begun so statistics are given for each country separately.


Australia

Population estimate: 20 million
GDP: $514 billion USD

Military:
Defense budget (2001) $6.752 billion USD
Army: 25,150 plus 16,200 reservists
Navy: 12,750 personnel 6 diesel submarines and 9 frigates
Air Force: 13,200 personnel, plus 2,000 reservists. 156 combat aircraft including 35 F-111s and 71 F-18s.


New Zealand

Population estimate: 4 million
GDP: $80 billion USD

Military:
(If we had a real military, we wouldn't be forming a federation with Australia, now would we?)

Defense budget (2000) $788 million USD
Army: 4,400 plus 3,890 territorial force
Navy: 2,080 personnel, plus 1,350 reserves, 3 frigates
Air Force: 3,050 personnel, 42 combat aircraft

- Official Statement by the Western European Federation.

Welcome Australia and New Zealand! The world is currently very unstable, so we support your decision to remain neutral to affairs. We would like to offer you an embassy in London, UK, due to your nation having historical ties with Britain. We would also like to further discuss bettering our diplomatic relations, whether it be through anti-aggression pacts, mutual defence or discussion about trade. We also wish to open an embassy in Sydney.

Official Communique

The GEACPS also respects your neutrality, and, being one of your closest neighbors, the GEACPS would be interested in an embassy exchange. From there we could work on diplomacy.

The Union of the Russias would like to establish diplomacy with your fine nation and start by exchanging embassies.

The GGA would like to estaablish diplomatic relations with your country including an embassy exchange.

Greetings to everyone who has expressed interest in diplomatic relations with us. At present Australia and New Zealand remain separate, sovereign nations, though the idea of forming a Federation is the burning issue of the day and may soon be up for a referendum in both countries.

The so called "Confederation" that had been partially implemented previously has fallen apart.

The Australian government is not planning on establishing any new embassies nor entering into any agreements to allow new foreign embassies in our country until this issue is resolved because it will result in a radical shift in our foreign policy and the organization of the foreign ministry either way. If the Federation is approved by the two parliaments and by referendum, we will merge our foreign ministries into one and be consolidating embassies worldwide. If the proposed federation with New Zealand does not pass, Australia will be seeking a comprehensive review of its strategic alliances and probably looking for new allies.

We are not authorized to speak for New Zealand at this time, but we have heard that they do not have sufficient funds in their foreign ministry budget to open new embassies at this time.

Thank you for your friendly interest and your patience.

The Foreign Ministry of Australia is pleased to announce to the world that the referendum on the formation of a federation between Australia and New Zealand has passed and is being implemented. As a consequence, the Foreign Ministry of Australia is now merged with the Foreign Ministry of New Zealand and is now called the Foreign Ministry of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand (FANZ).

Furthermore, the FANZ is now engaged in a comprehensive review of its foreign policy and would be very interested in exploring the possibility of alliances with other nations.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the FANZ welcomes the initiative for closer ties between the FANZ and The Western European Federation. We would like to have a FANZ embassy in London. We would be willing to consider having a British embassy in Sydney, but we suggest instead that the WEF should have a consulate in Sydney and the embassy should be in Canberra which is our capital. Of course, since Sydney is a larger city and has more Western European visitors, we have no objection to a consulate in Sydney that is larger than the embassy in Canberra.

To the Honourable Government of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere:

The government of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand welcomes your initiative for an exchange of embassies and closer relations. You may rest assured that we will never underestimate the importance of good relations between us.

Andrew Watson,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Federation of Australia and New Zealand

To the Government of the Union of the Russias

The government of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand welcomes your initiative for an exchange of embassies and closer relations.

Andrew Watson,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Federation of Australia and New Zealand

To the Government of the Greater Germanic Alliance

The government of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand is willing to consider an exchange of embassies.

Andrew Watson,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Federation of Australia and New Zealand

To: FANZ

On behalf of her Highness; I would like to extend our greetings and respect to the Federation of Australia and New Zeland and to beging our diplomatic Relations with an Embasy Exchange; FANZ will be given an Embasy in New Dehli and Relations with FANZ would be upgraded from Neural to Friendly Status

Minister of Forign Afairs
Rei Arakawa.

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rei Arakawa,
Kingdom of Animarnia


The government of the Federation of Australia and New Zealand welcomes your initiative for an exchange of embassies. We accept your offer to open an embassy in New Delhi and we offer you a chance to open an embassy in Canberra, our capital.

Andrew Watson,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Federation of Australia and New Zealand

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the FANZ welcomes the initiative for closer ties between the FANZ and The Western European Federation. We would like to have a FANZ embassy in London. We would be willing to consider having a British embassy in Sydney, but we suggest instead that the WEF should have a consulate in Sydney and the embassy should be in Canberra which is our capital. Of course, since Sydney is a larger city and has more Western European visitors, we have no objection to a consulate in Sydney that is larger than the embassy in Canberra.

The Western European Federation hereby accepts your offer of an embassy and consulate in Australia, and will begin constructing one in London at once.

If you wish to begin opening relations with us further, something that due to your Western inclined ways and our historical ties we would be interested in, you can do this in a number of ways. We would be interested in perhaps discussing possible deals to do with trade. As always, you’re welcome into the Third Alliance, though we respect your neutrality in the world today, and infact it's a fresh change that we wish to remain.

To the Western European Federation:

We have made available to you an embassy site in Canberra and a consulate site in Sydney. We would be willing to discuss trade and other matters as you wish. As for joining alliances, we would not like to have to choose between our British friends and our American friends. So long as they are in different alliances, it would be difficult for us to move away from neutrality. On the other hand, we would prefer to be in a large alliance that is strong enough to guarantee our security.

Andrew Watson,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Federation of Australia and New Zealand

What, no response to my offer? Come on, let the visitors from the parallel universe be Nartenians!

What are you talking about? What offer?

Sten - I've heard of micronations, but that world is still not all that realistic. I'm a fanatic about realism. Here's a game I'm involved in running:


http://nationsandempires1.blogspot.com

You won't find a more realistic game.

But that's beside the point. You want someone other than your Zidnarians to be the people from another universe? Let them be Nartenians and I'll play them. Nartenia is my NS nation. Very high tech.

But let's not take up space on this thread with all this stuff. If you want to do this, let's talk about it on your diplomacy thread.

You mean this, I guess. And it's Zindarians, not Zidnarians.

So you want your Nartenians from a parallel universe to come into my country on ESS. I'll agree to that only if my Zindarians can come to your country (Nartenia, not Kenya).

I check out that game you were talking about. It looks interesting. I might want to play it.

Looks like this game is defunct. Your Zindarians can still visit Nartenia if they want to, though.

Where is Nartenia?

Sorry. I didn't know you had posted again. I thought this game was probably dead.

I won't be posting here again or checking it for responses, but to answer your question, Nartenia is wherever we want it to be. At the moment Nartenia is here:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=531357

Come visit. I'll send you a telegram in case you're not reading this anymore.

OOC: ESS is banned. Read the sticky at the top "Concerning Alt history threads"