Cooperative Countries of a Shared World

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Official Name:  The United Republic of New Caledonia
Common Name:  New Caledonia (or N.C.)
Territorial Description:  Large sections of northern North America (OTL United States and Canada) plus OTL Greenland
Capital:  Rossburgh (located in OTL Nova Scotia)
Government:  Parliamentary democratic republic.  Legislative and executive is vested in a 723-seat House of Commons  whose members stand for election every fifth year.  Parliament elects a cabinet, comprised of a Prime Minister, to execute government policy.  The current Prime Minister of Sean Logan, a member of the Christian-Democratic Party, who has been serving since 2010.  
Level of Freedom:  Very high.  Individual freedoms, including freedom of speech and religion, are guaranteed by a national constitution that is enforced by national courts.  The government is secular.  Similar to OTL Western Europe, but with a more capitalist tinge.
Population:  260 million.  Most of the population is of Scottish or German ancestry, but most European populations are well-represented in New Caledonia due to large waves of immigration in the 19th and 20th Century.  Black Africans and Caribs (a fairly new immigrant population) is rapidly growing and represents close to 8 percent of the national population.  East Asians are about 3 percent of the population.  Hispanics and Native Americans exist in small numbers.  
Langague:  While it enjoys no official status, Scots-English is the first language of over 90 percent of the population, but Creole languages are spoken by a large number of Black immigrants.  
Religion:  52 percent of the population claims religious affliation; of those claiming affliation 45% are Protestant, 28% Catholic, 14% Neo-Pagan, 6% other Christian, 2% Jewish, 2% Islam, 3% other  
Level of Technology and Development:  New Caledonia was the undisputed center of science and technology during the 20th Century.  Today, it produces the world's most scientific intellectual property and has the world's best public univeristy system. New Caledonia has a space program, but it is entirely dependent on using Aragon bases located on Cape Canaveral.  
History:  Originally a Scottish colony, New Caledonia was released from Scottish control when the Scottish monarch was overthrown in 1848.  New Caledonia would be completely industrialized by 1870, and it would become the world's largest economy during the 1930s--a status that it has retained into the 21st Century. Its power as a nation is unparalleled:  it has the world's largest economy and military, which maintains bases across the globe.  It was the first nation to develop nuclear weapons, although it has never used them in wartime. Challenges in the 21st Century include redefining its role as a superpower in a more globalized world and maintaining internal cohesion in the face of a rapidly changing demographic landscape due to immigration.  Disputes over OTL Baffin Island are with Jalissalia have sometimes strained the two nations' relationship, but New Caledonia and Jalissalia remain each other's largest trading partners.  
Interesting Fact:  Rossburgh, the capital of New Caledonia with a metro population of close to 22 million, is the undisputed political, economic, and cultural capital of the Western world (much like New York City in OTL).

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Rockefeller, would it be possible to upload your map as PNG instead of a Jpeg?  Jpegs distort the colors a little bit when you blow it up to full size.

Done.

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Official Name:  The United States of East Africa
Common Name:   The "United States", or "East Africa"
Territorial Description:   The Horn of Africa extending west to the Nile and south to the Northern shores of Lake Victoria; also includes a small section of land on the Arabian Peninsula near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait used as a military and trading post.
Capital:   Braomo
Government:   Presidential republic; power is shared between a popularly elected president and a National Assembly (Congress).  Elections to elect the President and Congress are held every three years.
Level of Freedom:   Moderately High--the USAE is  mostly secular and individual rights and freedoms are protected for all citizens regardless of their race or religion.  However, religious fundamentalism (across all major East African religious groups) has resulted in a politically conservative culture which sometimes places limit on individual behavior in the name of moral decency--for example, abortion and homosexuality remain illegal and heavily discouraged.   
Population: 32 million
Languages:   English, Arabic, and Castilian enjoy official status; several other minor languages spoken throughout the country
Religion:   Of close claiming affiliation:  48% Muslim, 22% Protestant, 16% Animist, 9% Catholic, 5%; 22% of East Africans claim either no specific religion or no religion   
Level of Technology and Development:   Below average but improving; the large cities on the coasts have average standards of living, but the towns and villages in the rural interior often still lack electricity, safe drinking water, paved roads or adequate healthcare facilities.
History:   This region of East Africa has had the attention of both European, Arabian, Persian, and East Asian traders for centuries.  However, it was not until the 16th Century that much of East Africa was organized into colonies by the European powers.  A number of European states controlled portions of the USAE at one point or another, and no single colonial influence is predominant.  During the rapid decolonization that followed the Third Pan-European War of the 1930s, the colonies that would comprise the future USAE were all released by their colonizers.  In 1961, these colonies (peacefully putting aside their religious and ethnic differences) were able to unite under the banner of the United States of East Africa to promote a common defense and economic vision.  The main factor motivating this unification was the rapid militarization of the Kingdom of Arabia during the late 1950s and 1960s, and that nation's attempt to close the Sinai Canal.  In response, the USAE claimed a small portion of land near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait that it uses to control shipping traffic exiting the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea, and vice versa.  This situation--with two large nations controlling  important chokepoints on the same body of water--has sometimes resulted in a contentious relationship between the Kingdom of Arabia and the USAE.  Tensions flared during the War of the Nile (1988-1995) between the two countries, but after a peace was brokered relationships have cooled between the two former rivals.  However, the situation remains precarious due to both nations' large militaries and historical rivalry.         
Interesting Fact:   The USAE's prime position on the Indian Ocean and large manufacturing industries make East African ports some of the busiest in the entire world

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Official Name:  The United Celtic Republics
Common Name:  The Celtic Union or "C.U."
Territorial Description:  Ireland, Wales and Cornwall
Government:   Confederal presidential republic, all three Celtic nations are governed by separate Celtic parliaments who elect a national president with very limited constitutional powers.  However, beginning in the 1970s the president has become to play a more important role in Celtic government and, some have argued, usurped the role of the Celtic parliaments at times.
Capital:   No national capital; Dublin, Cardiff, and Truro are the capitals of the independent Celtic republics.  For all intensive purposes, however, Dublin is the social, political, and economic center of the Celtic Union.  The national president maintains a private residence.
Population: 10 million
Religions:   Roman Catholic (35%), Neo-Pagan (28%), Protestant (13%),  Other (2%), Irreligious (22%)
Languages:  No official language, the three Celtic languages (Irish Gaelic, Cymraeg, and Cornish) have supreme status in their respective realms.  The use of the French or English languages in public has been outlawed, by decree of the national president with the consent of all three Celtic parliaments, since 1924.  Today, less than 30 percent of the population maintains basic fluency in English or French. 
Level of Tech and Development:  Traditionally one of the most backward regions of Western Europe, economic reforms coupled with an increase in multinational trade propelled the Celtic Union to "firt world" status during the 1970s.  Today, the country is only marginally behind the rest of Western Europe in terms of technological development.
Level of Freedom:  Moderately high.  Civil liberties and individual rights are protected, but in many ways racism towards French-English people and customs is still institutionalized.
History:   All three of these Celtic republics existed under French-English control until 1922.  Following the Second Pan-European War (1880s), cries for the creation of a independent Celtic state became louder as ethno-nationalistic thought swept through most of Europe.  The dawn of the 20th century in France-England saw increased tensions between the Celts and their mainly Germanic rulers.  In 1918, following a terrorist attack on London by a Celtic nationalist group, French-English troops placed the Celtic regions under martial law.  This placed new strains on the relationship between Scotland (who had traditionally been the strongest international supporter of the Celts) and France-England.  Following a series of diplomatic missteps between Scotland and France-England, tensions erupted in the Pan-Celtic War (1920-1922) in which the Celtic republics declared their independence and joined the ranks of Scottish troops to fight the French-English.  Early in the war, France-England used its superior navy to blockade Scottish and Celtic ports.  The magnitude of the war deepened when French-English seamen commandeered a New Caledonian merchantship bound for Brittany and detained the crew in England on suspicion of supplying munitions to the Celts.  In response, New Caledonia joined the Pan-Celtic Alliance and, after the New Caldonian navy was able to command control of the North Atlantic, France-England surrendered.  Sovereignty for the Celtic republics was negotiated, and these republics agreed to unite under a confederal government for their protection.  France-England's lost of the Celtic republics in the 1920s ultimately would set the stage for the Third Pan-European War's eruption only a decade later.  The war also served to secure the undisputed position of New Caledonia as a world power.  The Celtic Union remained neutral in the Third Pan-European War, and has maintained this isolationist foreign policy well into the 21st Century.  Former  president Aidan O'Keefe was chiefly responsible for the Celtic Union's intensive modernization efforts of the 1970s and 1980s, and he is considered a transformational (yet still controversial) figure among Celtic historians.  Today, the Celtic Union is an increasingly urban, connected society struggling to stay in touch with its ethnic roots.  This struggle is best represented by neo-nationalist groups who, since the late 1990s, have engaged in power struggles with the political “establishment” of the Celtic Union that favors further modernization and integration.
Interesting Fact:  The Celtic Union is the only nation of  Europe that does not have any sovereign debt, this is mainly due to the C.U.’s almost non-existent military, privately run health care system, and high import tariffs.   

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This has been super annoying.

I have tried to post a new nation twice today, but both times my computer and been uncooperative and I have been unable to post.

Currently, I am too angry to try again because, both times, I was literally a mouse-click away from having my country's profile complete. 

I will try again tomorrow. 

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This has been super annoying.

I have tried to post a new nation twice today, but both times my computer and been uncooperative and I have been unable to post.

Currently, I am too angry to try again because, both times, I was literally a mouse-click away from having my country's profile complete. 

I will try again tomorrow. 

I hope you typed it into Word or Notepad first and weren't directly typing into the forum text box...

Nope!  I will try to get it up later today, someone else can go if they want to...just save me OTL Mexico