Clashonia (Pacifica)

Kingdom of Clashonia Känygstûm Klyšonyê
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Êninge ar Mäakté Unity creates strength
Anthem: "Hytté öbyr Klyšonyê" "Today over Clashonia"
Capital and	Käarylsbode
Official languages	Clashonian
Demonym(s)	Clahsonian
Government	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Upper house	Fêrsaamlyn
• Lower house	Läantâg
Area
•	188,519 km2 (72,788 sq mi)
Currency	Grošën

The Kingdom of Clashonia is an independent state located in eastern Cordilia. It borders Weisserstein to the north and west, Valkyria to the southwest, and Stoinia to the south. Its capital and most populous city is Carlsbad (Clashonian: Käarylsbode), with other major cities including Ostfurt, Neustadt, Fryburg, Guldenhaven, and Willemsbad. The country has a territory of 188,519 square kilometers, making it among the 20 largest countries in the South Pacific.

History

General Falk's coup and civil war

Valentin Falk

General Schumacher's coup and the creation of the Second Clashonian Republic

Baldewin Schumacher

Politics

Clashonia is a constitutional, popular monarchy and a unitary parliamentary democracy. The bicameral federal parliament is composed of the Assembly and the Landtag. The former is made up of 105 assemblymen appointed by the parliaments of the provinces. Prior to reforms in 2008, most of the Assembly's members were directly elected. The Landtag's 322 representatives are elected under a proportional voting system from multiple electoral districts. Clashonia has compulsory voting.

The King (currently Eckehard) is the head of state, though with limited prerogatives. He appoints ministers, including a Prime Minister, that have the confidence of the Landtag to form the federal government. The Council of Ministers is composed of no more than fifteen members. The judicial system is based on civil law and originates from the Klein era of the Second Republic, which was seen as the most judicially fair period of Clashonia's judicial history, second only to the reestablished monarchy period.

Political culture and factionalism

Due to its tumultuous history in the post-1943 coup, Clashonian political culture has been dominated by different political factions that could trace their origins to the period. Republican supporters of General/President Schumacher, President Klein, and President Sauer constantly clash over their respective ideals. This leaves the republican factions within Clashonia's politics to be heavily divided, with internal splinters within the factions also existing. Supporters of the monarchy are fairly unified under the royalist faction of government, which had been able to unite unlike the republicans. Factionalism is considered a large part of Clashonia's political culture, and has played a key role since the rise of Reiner Klein.

Republicans

The Republican factions were formed during the tenure of the three presidents of the Second Republic.

Schumacherists

The Schumacherists are supporters of General/President Baldewin Schumacher. They are considered nationalists conservatives and are proponents of isolationism, a planned economy, and a large government. They also supported the integration of both the Armed Forces and the judiciary into the hands of the government, then dominated by the Sovereign Clashonia Party. Due to this, they have also been considered as far-right and proponents of a one-party state, which was tacitly supported by the SCP until the fall of Schumacher.

Kleinists

The Kleinists are supporters of President Reiner Klein and they are considered moderates or liberal conservatives. The Kleinists are proponents of a market economy, medium government, the separation of power between the three branches of government, limiting the power of the Armed Forces in the country's politics, modernization, de-Schumacherification, and pushed for more global integration. Under his administration, the SCP lost considerable influence in the judiciary and the military, but Klein's reforms brought economic prosperity and pushed the SCP's popularity with the public to an all-time high. Despite being proponents for global integration, the Kleinists do not support joining any power blocs during the Cold War, preferring to stay neutral in the matter. Though, due to their policies, the Kleinist period of the Second Republic is much more closely aligned with the democratic bloc. After the fall of Reiner Klein from the SCP, his supporters left the party and formed their own, known as the Independent Democrats.

Sauerists

The Sauerists are supporters of President Ulfric Sauer. While rising through the ranks of the SCP as a staunch Schumacherist, he began to drift away from the General once he was in power. Schumacherists are politically liberal and are considered left-winged nationalists. They supported a planned economy, large government, and pushed for closer relations with the socialist bloc. Policies such as free healthcare and education were enacted during this period, though both became heavily politicized in support of the SCP. Eventually, Sauer and his supporters broke off from the Schumacherists, though still remaining as members of the SCP. De-Schumacherification was pushed harder with plans to eventually have the cult of personality surrounding General Schumacher was purged from the SCP. However, before this could be achieved, President Sauer was overthrown by a royalist coup which ended the Second Republic.