Huaranga

Free State of Huaranga Whenua kore utu o Huaranga
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Location of  Huaranga  (dark green) in Anterra  (grey)
Capital and largest city	Point Sheore
Official languages	Hauamo
Recognised national languages	Huarangan Creole
Demonym	Huarangan
Government	Directivist Republic
• Premier	Ameliè Moela
• Directive Party Secretary	Ma Whenusha Aro
Legislature	Porowhita (Circle)
GDP (PPP)	2021 estimate
• Per capita	$ 12,475
GDP (nominal)	2021 estimate
• Per capita	$ 6,701
Gini (2021)	23.5 low
HDI (2021)	0.742 high
Currency	Huarangan Taara
Time zone	UTC-6 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	Not Observed
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+309
Internet TLD	.hua

Huaranga is a country in Central Avalonia, on the Hauamo peninsula. It shares land borders with Shenewa to the east and Côte des Hirondelle and Beauvillia to the south, while it has sea borders with the XX Gulf to the north and the Ingonian Sea to the west.

History

Colony and Empire of Belle Côte

See also: Belle Côte

The region was historically part of the Ovancian colony of Belle Côte.

New regime, same shit

Independence

*when shit breaks away...

Directivist Revolution

*commies doing commie

Demographics

Language

Since the directivist revolution, the official language of Huaranga has been Hauamo (a Hauaauru language spoken across the Hauamo peninsula prior to the arrival of Artemians). Despite this, the most commonly spoken language is Huarangan Creole (often only called Huarangan),which is a creole of Hauamo, Ovannois and Keumonie, with many additions brought by other Artemian or Ingonian languages. Native Huarangans usually speak both languages with high proficency, but literacy in Hauamo is low for individuals who attended school before or shortly after the directivist revolution, as education prior to the revolution was in Ovannois or creole.

Ethnicity

68% mixed (officially "Huarangan"), 26% natives (officially "Hauamo"), 3% artemians (officially "Artemian"), 3% other.

Religion

43% Hauamo polytheism, 15% christians, 38% non religious, 4% other

Education

Education in Huaranga is considered a human right. As such, education is free of charge for all Huarangan citizens of any age, including tertiary education.

The education system includes pre-school (children aged 3-5), elementary school (ages 6-12) and high school (ages 13-18). High schools are divided in lyceums and vocational schools. School attendance is mandatory until age 16, year in which vocational high schools release their first level vocational certification.

Tertiary education is also free for citizens. It includes 11 universities, which are then split in various campuses. Due to relatively low capacity, some years the universities cannot accept all the applications received. As such, many high-performing high school students are encouraged and supported in obtaining scholarships for universities abroad, mainly in Theyka, Shenewa, northern Avalonia and western Artemia. Various programs have been enstablished to encourage nationals that graduated overseas to return to Huaranga after their study experience is complete. Huaranga follows the ECOSEAS tertiary education model.

Cities

apart from the capital, the country has many middle sized cities

Politics

Flag of the Directive Party.

The Huarangan government is a directivist republic, enstablished after the revolution of 19XX. It is a semi-democratic system, with the Directive Party holding a permanent majority of the legislative, judiciary and executive power, while still allowing the existence and partecipation of other approved parties.

Executive power

The executive power is held by the Premier and their cabinet. The premier is elected by the Porowhita (parliament) every 4 years, just after the formation of the parliament itself. The premier cannot be the secretary of the Directive Party, but can be any other member of the Directive or other parties. The premier must then appoint their cabinet, formed of 7 ministries and various support staff. Some ministries must be led by members of the Directive Party. The cabinet must then pass a vote of approval by the parliament. If the premier is not from the Directive Party, they are allowed to choose a "Directivist advisor" from the party which acts as a liason between the premier and the party.

Ministries of the Free State of Huaranga

Ministry	Area of responsibility	Party
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	International cooperation, diplomacy	Directive Party
Ministry of Internal Affairs	Law enforcement, justice, national emergencies	Directive Party
Ministry of Planning	Treasury, labor, business, finance, commerce, economic development, central economic planning	Directive Party
Ministry of Land and Connections	Energy, infrastructure, agriculture, environmental protection	Any
Ministry of People's Future	Education, academics, scientific research	Any
Ministry of Social Opportunities	Social and economic equality, welfare, healthcare and prevention	Any
Ministry of Life	Culture, sport, arts, holidays and festivities	Any

Legislative power

The legislative power is held by the unicameral parliament called the Porowhita (circle). It is formed by 230 representatives, split between the Directive Party (116 seats) and representatives of other parties (114 seats), giving the Directive Party the absolute majority of seats regardless of election results. The representatives of other parties are elected by popular vote every 4 years. In the same election, citizens can name five preferences for the representatives from the Directive Party.

Huaranga has universal suffrage for all citizens aged between 16 and 70.

The Porowhita elects the premier and approves their cabinet, proposes, discusses and approves new laws and discusses and approves government acts.

Judiciary power

The judiciary power is split between the Directive Judges and the General Courthouses.

Directive Judges are courtrooms which regulate relationships between state entities and the Directive Party. As the Directive Party does not control most state entities, but does have a significant power over them, disagreements often happen between these and it is the the Directive Judges responsibility to oversee and regulate these relationships.

General Courthouses meanwhile are the civil and penal courtrooms for both non-political and political entities. The system is layered in three tiers: the Peace Judges (1st tier), the Return Judges (2nd tier) and the Terminal Judges (3rd tier).

The Directive Party

The Directive Party is the principal political party in Huaranga. It gained power during the directivist revolution, and despite it's possibility to enstablish a totalitarian directivist state, the leaders of the party decided to enstablish a semi-democratic system. It is the most influential poltical power in the country, with the automatic assignment of the majority of the legislative seats, and the permanent control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Planning.

Economy

The Huarangan economy is a middle-income centrally planned economy, enstablished with the directivist revolution. The state entity involved with controlling and planning the economic activity in the country is the Ministry of Planning, the head of which is by law a member of the Directive Party. While classical entrepeneurship and corporations are generally not allowed, small businesses such as artisanal shops, tourism industry enstablishments (hotels, restaurants, bars) and workshops can operate as they would in a capitalistic or mixed economic system.

Huaranga is a developing economy, with an estimated GDP per capita (nominal) of $ 6,701, although economical figures such as GDP may not be accurate in Huaranga due to it's unique economic system. Huaranga has a higher than average income equality due to the labour regulations set by the government.

Agriculture

Agriculture has been a fundamental economic sector both in the history and the present of Huaranga. While a colonial possession, the countries economy was almost exclusively based on monocrop, tropical cash-crop plantations such as tobacco, indigo, citrus, coffee, cocoa, sugar, bananas and oil palms.

Since independence, and especially after the directivist revolution, these monocrop plantations were replaced with polyculture and intercrop plantations that often also practiced crop rotation, while the specific crops cultivated were largely the same.

Currently, the export of these cash-crops still represents a sizeable portion of the exports of Huaranga. In the recent decades, Huarangan coffee has increased in popularity and reputation as a particularly high quality product.

Energy

Huaranga is net energy importer. It lacks any significant fossil fuels deposits and does not operate any nuclear power installations. New government programs for an increase in use of renewable energy sources have been approved, but as of 2022 only 5% of Huarangan energy derives from renewable sources.

Huaranga mainly imports energy from neighbour Côte des Hirondelle.

Infrastructure

Huaranga features a modern infrastructure system, based on the commerce roads built by the Ovannois colonial overlords to better move the crops from the plantations to the ports.

Currently, most of the infrastructure has been built with the guidance of the Directive Party, which recognized the need for a dense and modern infrastructure network as a requirement for economic and social development across the country. Highways and railways account for a vast majority of internal travel and transport. Huaranga has one of the highest population/km of railway ratios for a developing country.

International transport and travel is permitted by a series of road and railway connections with neighbouring countries, the presence of three international airports and two major international passenger ports. Ferries usually depart for destinations in nearby New Valentina and Shenewa.

Manufacturing

The industrial and manufacturing sectors have increased in importance in the Huarangan economy ever since the independence, when it was decided to diversify the economy due to the total reliance on crops.

Services and Tourism

As a developing economy, the services sector only represents about 46% of the national economy, but it's growth rate has been increasing for almost two decades.

Specifically the tourism industry has seen exponential growth in the recent decade as a low cost, tropical destination for northern and southern Avalonian markets such as Tavaluda, Argata and Siwi. In contrast with more popular destinations like Theyka and Encarnação, Huaranga can deliver similar levels and quality of services for a lower price that may cater to lower-middle income markets in Avalonia.

The recent popularity growth has also been accredited to a successfull promotion campaign by the Tourism Consortium (the state entity that oversees tourism, part of the Ministry of Planning), which was spread through the internet and used as it's pull factors the Huarangan tropical landscapes and it's unique creole culture.

The Tourism Consortium manages 5 Regional Brands, each of which manages a number of Destination Brands. Destination Brands may cover the territory of a single city, or multiple cities encompassing a certain geographic feature, like a mountain or a lake. Each brand (may it be regional or a destination) is formed by local government representatives and representatives of local tourism businesses and entities, along with relevant figures of the local area when necessary. Each brand would enstablish it's own regulations, marketing and practices to most effectively promote and develop tourism in it's area. Some brands also cross over with enogastronomic and other products to cross promote various industries. This brand-based tourism governance system has since been implemented in Theyka.

Culture

Despite directivism the culture it's still the vibrant and eccentric mix of hauaru and various artemians.