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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:37 pm

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     NVA punished as centre and centre-left make gains
     27 September 5090

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The conservative NVA has lost ground to their centre-left and moderate rivals as Vascania's split political landscape continues to produce inconclusive election results. Strong regional disparities remain, with more extreme parties like the VCP and the far-right FOP losing some seats but retaining very strong bases of support in their heartland areas. The resulting situation is one in which the moderate AVL will likely have the 'kingmaker' position, as their seat-total could bring either the centre left STUA or the aforementioned NVA across the line to make a majority in parliament. An STUA-AVL coalition seems most likely as the STUA have won the most votes and seats, with their leader Abhinav Vyas being the man most likely to become Prime Minister. Vyas is a moderate and a reformist who has campaigned on infrastructure development and better eldercare.

The incumbent Prime Minister, Modhee Rojash of the NVA, chose not to run for a second term due ill health and personally picked Kaba Kyouka as his successor. Ms. Kaba is the first major party leader to not be of mostly Vascanian ancestry, as she is three-quarters Sekowan and a quarter Kalam. Kaba's ethnicity was not brought up by opposition parties besides the hard right FOP, led by Ramith Vakalapudi, who accused the NVA candidate of being 'probably disloyal and unpatriotic'. Their vicious attacks on Kaba, combined with the middling economic success achieved by the incumbent government, led to her campaign faltering - though numbers rallied in the final week of the campaign thanks to a strong turnout operation in the north. Vakalapudi's party lost seats despite their energetic campaign, failing to capitalise on the perceived moderateness of their rivals on the right.

The centrist AVL avoided blame for the struggles of the coalition as leader Rushav Shilpakar - the incumbent Finance Minister - remains broadly popular for a series of middle class tax-cuts instituted halfway through the legislative term. Aaliya Malhotra of the Greens was attacked by the far-right for her 'Ahmadi ancestry', though Malhotra herself is a Daenist. Her party gained just one seat and is in the middle of an internal struggle about how best to distinguish itself from its rivals. Malhotra herself has suggested a merger with the AVL in the past but has reportedly soured on the idea after pushback from the grassroots membership. Other parties received just six seats: one for the Kalam Heartland Party; three for the Communist Party of Vascania; one 'Agricultural Independent' and one moderate independent.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:00 pm

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     Greens rebrand as 'Sustainable Vascania'
     3 August 5091

Green leader Aaliya Malhotra has announced that the Vascanian greens will undergo a significant rebrand to become 'Sustainable Vascania (SV)' - or 'Tikau Vasakana' in Rajutti. SV will be focused on social justice, secularism, pluralism, human rights and social equality - as well as their signature environmentalism - according to Malhotra, who will continue to lead the group. The announcement preceeds local elections in 5092 in states that are highly important to the party's continued political relevance, as the popularity of the AVL-STUA coalition continues to squeeze green support. Cities in Rajavant, Khond and Rajuttistan will elect their city councillors - all three states have a history of environmentalism and social liberalism that stands out in a country dependent on oil exports and with a generally socially conservative attitude

The environmentalist centre-left had struggled to gain traction, with its more moderate supporters increasingly attracted to the All-Vascania League and its more leftist members leaving for the STUA. This dilemma has seen SV's predecessor parties struggle to gain traction nationally or regionally. No state has elected a Green-affiliated government in majority or plurality for more than forty years, while the party lost its plurality on the Vakavana City Council six years ago and has since slipped to third there (behind the AVL and the centre-right NVA's local branch). If seats in similar cities can be gained on the local level, this could build a base for better results in the future. Sustainable Vascania will begin its campaigning early, with the unofficial motto "Respect + Justice = New Vascania" already trending on social media - with mockers and backers alike. Focusing on social justice could help among educated younger voters but continue to cap the party to a limited amount of support in other more traditionalist regions. Secularism could be a key part of the party's appeal to religious minority voters and the irreligious, but most people in Vascania remain committed Daenists.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Sun Mar 27, 2022 7:04 pm

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     Government's environmental promises 'broken' say campaigners
     14 January 5092

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Vascania's largest non-partisan environmentalist group - "1Vascania1Planet" or 1V1P - has accused the AVL-STUA coalition government of having 'broken' its campaign promises as oil production and deforestation continue at near-record levels in a number of states. 1V1P's leadership committee issued a press release slamming the government's 'deceit' after an announcement was made last week that the government would be revising its proposed restriction on logging permits - with environmentalists claiming that the revisions will significantly increase deforestation rates 'despite clear pledges to do exactly the opposite' from the government. This news comes after a series of environmentalist protests in Vatapor, the largest city in the state of Khond and one of the cities closest to the affected areas.

Rajavant, Khond and Rajuttistan have all seen logging increase by up to 20% despite the All-Vascanian League's explicit party platform. Regulations had been slashed by the right-of-centre NVA-led government, despite internal party divisions on the subject, justified by slow economic growth and increasing demand for timber. Vascanian farmers and organisations representing them, who make up an influential faction in the right-of-centre parties in Vascania, have also been lobbying for more land on which to graze their animals as Vascanian meat products have recovered from a decade-long slump in demand abroad. The demand for products requiring deforestation has had a short-term positive economic impact on Vascania's GDP and trade relationships with some of its nearest neighbours, but campaigners remain concerned that failing to balance ecological concerns with economic growth could lead to long-term pain. Many of the same fiscal arguments made in favour of the timber industry's expansion have transferred from the old centre-right coalition to the new AVL-STUA one - causing anger among the coalition's core supporter base.

The government has rejected accusations of dishonesty and responded that the increase in deforestation is 'a temporary measure to ensure business growth'. The leaders of Sustainable Vascania - formerly the Green Party of Vascania - have joined in condemnation of the government and will be running on an explicitly anti-logging, pro-regulation platform in local and state elections leading up to the general election in 5095. Polling has shown Sustainable Vascania increase its support from less than 15% to nearly 30% in the three states most affected by the issue, while local referenda on permits are planned with activists confident of 'minor victories'. Legal challenges to the government's policy have thus far been unsuccessful.

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          Polling shows dip in support for monarchy
          1 March 5094

A poll has shown majority support for the abolition of the monarchy, marking the first such reputable poll for more than 170 years. The poll, conducted by East Kayal University, showed 51% support for a Republic and 38% support for the monarchy - with the remainder undecided or neutral. The poll asked respondents if they favoured retaining the monarchy or if they favoured some form of republican governance, but did not specifically state a system beyond that - presidential, semi-presidential or parliamentary. The poll also did not specify any other constitutional changes that would be attached, but it was still a 'striking' result in the words of the researchers who conducted it. Results showed significantly more support for the status quo in rural areas than in urban centres.

The poll results come as renewed interest in a republican system of government has been growing. Sustainable Vascania, which has had some success in recent local by-elections, has adopted a platform of holding a referendum on the issue. The preferred option to most republicans has been to establish a semi-presidential and federal republic with more or less the same federal system as presently exists. Others, particularly those aligned with the far-left Communist Party, have suggested the creation of an even more decentralised system with a heavier focus on direct democracy - especially in economic policy. Some on the right are also republican and seek to create a unitary republic with input from a non-hereditary religious body functioning as an upper chamber.

The last referendum on the monarchy was held nearly two centuries ago and resulted in a 56% vote in favour of the status quo, with those opposing the centuries-old institution being dissuaded from further constitutional reforms thereafter. Some analysts, particularly those on the political left, have since suggested that the result in 4926 did not signal support for the monarchy so much as opposition to the specific republican proposal on offer - which was on the more radical end of acceptable opinion at the time.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:39 pm

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     Sustainable Vascania stuns, parliament in pieces
     15 September 5095

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Sustainable Vascania (SV) has achieved one of the most shocking results in the history of Vascanian democracy, winning 177 seats and 24% of the vote - far above what polling had suggested. The SV had been polling at 14% - a distant fourth to the moderate AVL, conservative NVA and left-of-centre STUA. In reality, they are now the largest party in parliament and their leader Aaliya Malhotra is almost guaranteed the position of kingmaker and her pick of government ministry. Sustainable Vascania will struggle to form a coalition as a result of the fractious nature of parliament with all the other parties bitterly divided over key issues. Malhotra's preference is expected to be an agreement with the incumbent STUA and the more ardently left-wing Vascanian Community Party (VCP) - though an agreement could theoretically be reached with the current two governing parties in the STUA and the AVL.

In an extremely fractious and indecisive political environment, the rise of Sustainable Vascania was driven by a renewed interest in environmentalism stemming from a recent increase in logging and oil production. Successive governments of the left and right have overseen increased natural resource exploitation, causing anger among people located near Vascania's many ecological wonders and unique ecosystems. Though deforestation has come and gone in the past, the disappearance of vast areas of woodland has shocked many - with even the historically pro-oil VCP campaigning on a promise to impose much stricter regulations on forestry and fossil fuels. More generally, the SV has become the party most closely associated with Vascania's sizeable Hosian minority, which is particularly influential in the environmentally fragile states of Khond, Rajavant and Rajuttistan. This confluence of factors produced a massive increase in the support for Aaliya Malhotra's party, especially in coastal areas.

Other key stories of the campaign include the collapse of the far-right FOP and the emergence of the Communist Party of Vascania (CPV) - which now has official party status. The FOP has steadily lost ground in its northern heartlands and no longer tops the poll in any region. Some have attributed this to social liberalism's growing influence in urban centres including Sangora, which has historically been the political heart of far-right thought in Vascania. The Communists, meanwhile, gained ground in urban areas as a result of an energetic campaign by the party's collective leadership, some of whom were defectors from more moderate left-wing parties. Rising republican sentiment also contributed as the CPV are the only unambiguously anti-monarchy party in Vascania - though some others are weakly pro-Republic.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:15 pm

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          Vascania to abandon nuclear warheads
          20 March 5097

The Vascanian government has announced its plans to abandon nuclear warheads, with the small non-combat-ready arsenal of munitions currently in the country's possession to be safely disposed of by 5099. The news comes as Vascania's historic ally in the global east - Yingdala - has pledged to maintain its stockpile, drawing condemnation from other countries. The government has denied that the timing of the announcement is related to Yingdala's decision and reiterated that the government respects Yingdala's 'national autonomy'.

The governing Sustainable Vascania party had promised to deliver on the denuclearisation of Vascania in their most recent national campaign, though the Vascanian Empire has never created a fully-operational projectile ICBM. Short-range missiles had been created but later the scale of the project was reduced due to cost. The current warheads of the Empire likely number no more than 30, if that, and so the reduction would not constitute a major decline in the number of nuclear-capable devices existing in the world today.

The decision has been slammed by the main opposition party, the centre-right NVA, who said the decision was 'irresponsible' and risked 'diminishing the international standing of Vascania'. Other controversial and major reform plans such as a second referendum on the monarchy have so far taken a back-seat as issues like logging regulation and increased tidal energy capacity.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Sun Apr 03, 2022 9:52 pm

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     Rajutti's growing influence
     27 September 5098

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Above: map of Vascania's major languages

The most spoken language on the Vascanian continent has been Rajutti for millennia. With speakers stretched across the east coast, speaking often in mutually unintelligible regional varieties, Rajutti happened to find itself dominant in the most economically active and densely populated part of the landmass - with much of the language's vibrancy stemming from its use in Kamalata. Business, education, literature, film and television have been conducted disproportionately in Rajutti since the decolonisation of the region many thousands of years ago. It is no surprise, then, that shortly after the founding of a united Vascanian Empire, Rajutti quickly became the de facto lingua franca of the new state despite the historical political influence of Kalam in the north.

Roughly 32% of Vascanians now speak some variety of Rajutti as their first language, up from 24% when Vascania united. 70% of Vascanians have at least intermediate skills at reading Rajutti and 75% at listening - increases from 52% and 60% respectively at Vascania's unification. It would be simple and not entirely untrue to say that this marked increase is the result of the increased cultural dominance of Rajutti at the expense of local varieties lacking in national support, but it is also true that many people in Rajavant and Khond - with their own very well-supported regional languages - are adopting Rajutti as their language at home as well as work. Rajutti has become more than a language of practical benefits, it has gained prestige from it position and its recent history.

Rajutti is the language of VascaniaNews and the Kamalata Times, the royal family and parliament. Most parents now opt for their children to take Rajutti classes as well as local language lessons - with up to 20% of Vascanian children taking afterschool tutoring lessons to perfect their grammar and pronunciation. The language is also associated with some of the most iconic moments of Vascania's history - reporting on the Bhapori bombings, the Rapa Pile war, the election of many Prime Ministers and the Panorisa oil spill. As Luthori has fallen in prestige, it was inevitable for a new native language to take its place.

Resistance to Rajutti domination is fiercest in the north, where Kalam is perhaps more of a common cross-community language. Kalam speakers are the most likely to speak less than three languages after native Rajutti speakers, though even Rajuttistanis will often know multiple dialects of their mother tongue. Kalam - in all its many dialects - has an ancient history and strong roots to religious, political and other cultural traditions. It is also the most spoken variety of the Vanashishu languages, which are of extremely distant relation to the other languages on the continent despite extended contact and a number of loanwords going both ways.

Despite this, in the south especially, Rajutti is likely to continue its expansion as couples speaking two languages natively generally choose to raise children in Rajutti first and foremost. Internal migration from Kamalata to the south coast has sped up the process, as has Rajutti's dominance among Vascania's large Hosian minority. Fears of a total Rajutti takeover are unlikely to materialise, however, as still up to 82% of Vascanians have some knowledge of another language. While it is true that once-powerful languages can decline rapidly, public education and ample media produced in local languages is likely to maintain Vascania's great linguistic diversity. It must still be recognised, however, that this diversity exists only so long as Vascanians choose to protect it.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:36 pm

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     Sustainable Vascania to continue in government, republic referendum likely
     1 October 5100

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Sustainable Vascania (SV) has won a second mandate as the largest party in the parliament of Vascania and will now be able to choose their coalition partner or partners at their own discretion. The centre-left SV took votes from the liberal AVL and the social democratic STUA as both of the latter parties struggle under anonymous leadership and decreasing appeal among younger voters. SV's clear positions in favour of social liberalism, republicanism, environmentalism and a social market economy have attracted progressive voters who are not radical enough to vote for the socialist VCP or the communist CPV.

The struggles of the AVL and STUA may lead to more decisive results in Vascania's future elections, as the political divide in Vascania becomes more clean-cut between centre-left coastal cities and conservative rural towns. The historically left-wing centre of the country will likely continue to be helpful to the VCP and STUA's electoral prospects, but the slow rise of the Communist Party of Vascania (CPV) could threaten the left-of-centre duopoly in Bhaporistan, Utsal and Sanashtra. The far-right FOP continue to struggle while their centre-right adversaries in the NVA continue to lead the official opposition.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:46 pm

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     Vascania to hold monumental constitutional referendum
     1 August 5104

The Vascanian coalition government has won a key parliamentary vote to advance its republican constitutional proposals to a nationwide referendum. In a vote along party lines, the centre-left and liberal parties in parliament voted to advance the measure while the conservative parties and most independents refused. The far-left Communist Party refused to vote in protest at the precise details of the new constitution, though they have supported efforts to reform the current one. It marks the first time in nearly 200 years that Vascanians have been polled directly on a constitutional question but it has been the source of a large political movement since the defeat of the first republican proposal in 4926.

The proposed constitution would establish the 'Republic of Vascania', a federal state with a presidential system in which the president is directly elected by the whole nation to serve a five year term. The president would be elected by the single transferable vote method. Parliament would be retained as a unicameral body proportionally elected by multi-member constituencies alongside the presidential elections. The President would not be able to dismiss the parliament but the parliament would be able to remove the President from office by a two-thirds vote. The government will be secularised if the proposal is successful, removing the existing political influence of the state religion - Vascanian Daenism or Sundarat Dharma. The judiciary would be reformed also to create a new Supreme Court. Amendments to the constitution would be able to be made via a nationwide public vote or a super-majority in parliament. The cabinet will stay the same though the heads of each ministry will require approval from the President.

The referendum is opposed by conservative monarchists but also some more moderate figures who have criticised the vote as 'unnecessarily divisive'. It has been suggested that a more moderate proposal to reform the monarchy could have been passed with less division and argument - a suggestion proposed by the leader of the Avidangana Liberal Party, who have a small federal presence but significant standing in the state of Avidangana. Polls suggest somewhere around 50% of Vascanians support the creation of a republic with 40% for the monarchy and around 10% undecided - though in the 4926 referendum the republican campaign lost ground over time and ended up underperforming even their more pessimistic estimates.

The vote is scheduled for January 5105 and the Kamalata Times will provide live coverage of the results.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:33 pm

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     Monarchy defeated! Kalam Nadu in chaos!
     20 September 5105

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Above: a map breaking down results by statistical division. Divisions vary widely in size, from Kamalata with over 20 million residents to some with less than 600,000.

In a generation-defining vote, the Vascanian public have narrowly supported a measure to establish a republic - 53% to 47%. After a hard-fought campaign which brought Vascania's deep-seeded divisions out like nothing else, the densely populated eastern coasts and the post-industrial central belt swung the vote against the status quo. Cities like Bhapor, Sabuda and Vakavana voted for the measure by upwards of 65% - showing the growing influence of progressivism in urban centres. Cities with a high student population like Lavati and Kalinda (both in Rajuttistan), as well as the university cities on Kayal Island, went for a republic by much stronger margins than expected. The map is extremely different from the one resulting from the last referendum in Vascania, where the republicans could only carry small coastal cities. Now, they have majority support to push through their reforms.

The 'Republic of Vascania' will be proclaimed officially next year and the first president will be elected shortly thereafter. Changes to the flag, anthem and legislature will follow in due course. The combined centre and centre-left have received 46% of the vote in the legislative elections held concurrently with the referendum, meaning they can likely institute the referendum result without further alterations thanks to support from the left-populist VCP and the Communist Party of Vascania. Areas that voted for the centre-right NVA or the far-right FOP correlate strongly with areas that voted to keep the monarchy. The leadership of the NVA has refused to acknowledge the election result and has promised to fight the legitimacy of the vote in the court system - which, ironically, would be reformed if the referendum results were enforced.

Fury has been the main response from the pro-monarchy side, particularly in Kalam Nadu. In the north of the predominantly Kalam-speaking state, the "no" campaign frequently received upwards of 70% of the vote while the state overall voted 64%-36% in favour of the monarchy. Northern citizens have already rallied in the streets to oppose the referendum result, demanding that the monarchy be maintained and votes from certain areas of the country to be thrown out due to perceived 'irregularities' in the count. Kalam Nadu's state government has filed a series of official complaints to the electoral commission, alleging that voting in certain suburbs of Kamalata was dogged by fraud and 'republican intimidation tactics'. A protest in the far-northern port city of Sangora devolved into a riot, with police officers refusing to control the crowd and instead joining in acts of vandalism and unauthorised demonstrations.

Given the extreme divisions of the Vascanian continent, especially the extreme conservatism of Kalam Nadu's northern two-thirds, the appeal of inciting and participating in civil unrest has increased. Already the leadership of the far-right FOP have called for protests to continue indefinitely. Some party members are even calling for independence if the monarchy is abolished - either recreating the ancient Kingdom of Vanakalam or creating a new United Kingdom of Kalam Nadu and Avidangana. Polls have always shown northern independence as a fringe view with less than 10% support - but everything is now up-in-the-air thanks to the close result of this fractious vote.

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Re: Vascania

Postby Pragma » Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:02 pm

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     Vascania In Rewind: 5100-5200
     30 December 5199

Vascania looked on the precipice of total regeneration after the success of a referendum to establish a republic held in 5105. The nation was divided almost perfectly in two halves, with many smaller divisions interacting below the surface. The north's distinct culture and politics, the economic struggles of the central regions, the divisions over oil and ecology - all of these threatened to fracture the nation and even lead to the dis-unification of the continent. In spite of this, the changes anticipated in that year would be much less drastic when realised.

Though officially a republic was established, the symbols of Vascania remain mostly the same. The former royal family still commands respect and prestige among Vascanian conservatives, despite their lack of any constitutional role. Despite initially being envisioned as a more partisan role, the vast majority of presidents since 5105 have been largely ceremonial in nature. To avoid further divisions, most political parties agree to supporting independent candidates who represent marginalised sectors of Vascanian society. President Chambeli Bajpeyi, the first head of state from Kayal Island and the first female president, served from 5136 to 5149 as an independent and vetoed only two pieces of legislation. President Karam Chetti of Bhapor became the first Ahmadi president but was also the most controversial; actively involved in the political process. After his defeat for re-election in 5170, the presidency returned to a largely non-partisan position.

The political parties of Vascania have changed, split and merged in a variety of ways. The alliance of the green-focused Sustainable Vascania and liberal All-Vascania League parties has formed into the modern Democratic Vascania Party (abbr. DVP), which is economically centre-right and socially centre-left. The conservative NVA has re-branded as the National Alliance (abbr. NAT) and maintains a right-wing outlook on social and economic matters. The left-wing STUA is now the Socialist & Cooperative Alliance (abbr. SCA) which remains the favoured party of the trade unions. Among the medium-sized parties remains the far-right Popular Freedom Party (abbr. PFP) and the far-left Communist Party of Vascania (CPV). The populist VCP has increasingly fractured and a series of regionalist parties with small parliamentary representations are now the main competitors of the "big five" parties.

Kamalata's urban area has grown in population relative to the rest of the country, while rural areas have become more sparsely populated. People have generally moved increasingly towards the coasts, especially in the south and east. Hosianism remains a sizeable minority in the states of Rajavant and Khond, but irreligion is the fastest growing belief system (or lack thereof). The central regions of the country have been disproportionately affected by economic stagnation and low wage-growth, hampered by a general malaise in the Vascanian economy.

Low economic growth, a smaller international profile and political stagnation leave Vascania as a troubled state in 5200 - or a sleeping giant in the estimations of others. A more liberal, coastal and internationalist Vascania could rise to international prominence once again - but conservatives and socialists alike offer very different visions of the future and will oppose the governing Democratic Vascania Party's vision of a globalised continent. Regional divisions, the infamous oil debate and social progress will all be hot-button issues for any Vascanian government in this new century. What is certain, however, is that a country the size of Vascania will not be silent forever.

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