NationStates Jolt Archive

Federal Norwegian Republic
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Geography
Location: western part of Scandinavia in Northern Europe.
Coordinates: 59°56 N, 10°41 E
Area:

Total: 324,220 sq. km
Total: 307,860 sq. km
Total: 16,360 sq. km

Borders: 2,542 km
Coastline: 25,000 km
Climate: Temperate
Natural Resources: petroleum, hydropower, fish, forests, minerals

Economy
GDP: purchasing power parity - $207.3 billion (2006 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.0% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $47,800 (2006 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 2.3%
industry: 41.4%
services: 56.3% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line: 10,4%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 4.1%
highest 10%: 21.8% (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (2006 est.)
Labor force: 2.4 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: services 74%, industry 22%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 4% (1995)
Unemployment rate: 3.5% (2006 est.)
Employed persons as percentage of population: 70.0% (3rd qtr 2006)
Budget:

revenues: $195.8 billion
expenditures: $133.1 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.)

Industries: petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding, pulp and paper products, metals, photovoltaics,software, electronics,chemical, timber, mining, textiles, fishing
Industrial production growth rate: 1.8% (2006 est.)
Electricity - production: 108.9 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 0.4%
hydro: 99.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.4% (2001)

Electricity - consumption: 112.8 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - exports: 3.8 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - imports: 15.3 billion kWh (2004)
Agriculture - products: barley, other cereals, potatoes; beef, milk; fish
Exports: $122.6 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Exports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish
Exports - partners: UK 25.5%, Germany 12.6%, Netherlands 9.9%, France 9.1%, US 6.7%, Sweden 6.5% (2005)
Imports: $59.9 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: Sweden 14.6%, Germany 13.6%, Denmark 7.3%, UK 6.8%, China 5.5%, US 5%, France 4% (2005)
Debt - external: $350.3 billion; note - Norway is a net external creditor (30 June 2006)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $2.1 billion (2003)
Currency: 1 Norwegian Krone (NOK) = 100 øre
Exchange rates: Norwegian kroner (NKr) per US$1 - 6.10159 (December 2006), 6.7256 (May 2004), 8.0129 (January 2000), 7.7992 (1999), 7.5451 (1998), 7.0734 (1997), 6.4498 (1996), 6.3352 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year

Government:
Long Form: Federal Norwegian Republic
Short form: Norway
Type of government: "Presidential Democracy"
Prevailing Government Ideology: Fascism
President: Otto Albert Nordli
Congressional Body: The Stortinget
Judicial Body: Supreme Court
State-sponsored religion: Norwegian Church of the Norse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology)
Capital: Oslo

Military:
Regular Army Soldiers: 150,000
Home Guard Soldiers: 70,000
Air Force aircraft: 10,320
Navy vessels: 140

History from 1989:
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Norway was expected to embrace a new era of prosperity and freedom. However, tensions were increasing between the Social Democrats and the Conservatives in the legislature. A major civil war broke out in 1992, leaving millions for dead and causing radical reform in Norway. The monarch, Harald V, was executed by firing squad by Social Democrats the same year, and the Church of Norway was abolished in 1993, replaced by the Norwegian Church of the Norse (which promotes Norse mythology and nationalism). The Conservatives won the civil war in 97, and Norway rapidly became a more and more fascist nation.

People:

Comunicación Oficial Entre el Estado Reformado Fascista de Nicaragua y la República Noruega Federal

We are the Fascist Reformed State of Nicaragua, you may have heard of our monopoly over the Gulf of Mexico's oil supplies. Well, we offer a trade agreement between our two nations. We sell you oil, tax and tariff free, but you must still pay the regulated price elevated by five percent, this is in exchange that you allow us a discount from buying military weaponry from your fine nation. Many of these transactions would be between our two governments, but since you are a capitalist nation, some may be conducted privately, but it is unknown whether you do not allow unknown powers to by from your private sector. If this is the case, we request that we be allowed, for a tax and tariff free trade of oil. Though, you will have to protect the oil tankers ourself, and if they are lost, you must still compensate for the oil which was lost.

Signed,
Caleb Ramon Solis
Main Premier of the Fascist Reformed State of Nicaragua

Official Israeli Communique
The State of Israel would like to open an embassy in Oslo.
You can open an embassy in Tel Aviv in return.