Fictional Countries' Political Parties

[DC Al Fine]

After reading afleitch's thread, I've decided to make a thread specifically dedicated to made up country's political parties/systems. Here's an example:

Political Parties:

Social Democratic Party: Economically left wing party that has been dominant for most of modern Mechonian history.  Has a lot of strength amongst Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish blue collars and young professionals.  Pretty much, the party of the majority.  Also strong amongst first generation non-whites.  Although generally assocatied as the left wing in the nation, has a broad tent on social issues ranging from super liberal professionals to reactionary laborers.  Represents roughly 56% of Parliament.

Spiritualist Party: A "libertarian left" wing party that bases a lot of it's philosopy out of "naturalist" political doctrine.  Supports strong degree of civil libertarianism that includes getting rid of Marijuana taxes, opposition to "authoritarian leftism" of the Social Democrats, and stronger environmental protections.  Strong amongst Neo-Paganists, Spiritualist groups, Buddhists, and some Atheists.  Represents roughly 1.5% of Parliament.

The Values Party: Socially conservative economically populist party.  Real popular amongst highly religious voters and Asian immigrants.  Supports efforts to ban abortion, put in a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage, and support for more universal education funding.  Represents roughly 4% of Parliament.

Liberal Party: The mainstream right wing party.  In general opposes the expanse of Mechonian government and keeping the government out of people's lives.  Fiscally conservative and socially libertarian is probably the best way to describe it.  Popular amongst the middle and upper classes and conservative Paganists.  Represents roughly 30% of Parliament.

Coalition for Reform: The other right wing party.  Believes that immigration quotas need to be brought back to curtail the impact of new immigrants that drown out jobs for the Mechonian worker.  Believes that Mechonia needs to return back to a heavy protectionist policy, cut back on government spending, and increase pay for law and order.  Odd bedfellows with the Liberal Party, which is much more libertarian in general.  Attracts the obvious suspects.  Represents roughly 9.5% of Parliament.

Feel free to tack on any relevant history, demographics etc. I'll add the Kingdom of DC Al Fine in a day or two.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Doing this instead of my Forensics class reviews.

Cathconian Political Parties

Cathconia has traditionally been divided between West and East. Contemporary political parties formed about 130 years ago.

The Cathconian Party

The Cathconian Party, part of a strong Eastern Cathconia tradition of pro-industry, pro-finance, is formed around a few key principles. First off, high tariffs to protect domestic industry. This has been seen in the past as both a pro-business and then later a pro-labor stance. As well, in later years, though there was still a large amount of support from Eastern businesses, a trust-busting faction developed. On immigration, they are typically the more opposed faction and thus have had to deal with large immigrant communities in Eastern cities. As well, they tend to support higher taxes and large, paternal welfare programs. They've been opposed to a large number of "Republican" foreign interventions, viewing them as distracting from more internal conflicts. There is a Western faction, comprised largely of impoverished farmers that are wary of immigrants and rather anti-internationalist. The stereotype of a Cathconian Party voter is either an Eastern fatcat corporatist "statist", though in lesser use is a xenophobic farmer.

The Republican Party
The Republican party is your traditional Western Cathconian party. They favor low tariffs, domestic quasi-libertarianism (though immigrant communities have provided certain moralistic traits to the party). They are welcoming of immigrants, viewing them as increasing the fabric of what was originally an immigrant's country. In foreign policy, they might be called "expansionist" or even "pro war" given that a central part of the Republican Party's ideology is expanding democracy and the republican form of government to all corners of the globe. This in the past has involved protecting burgeoning independent republics in Cathconia's own hemisphere. The stereotype of a Republican Party voter is a cowboy with little interest in helping his fellow man and a disdain for most other countries (aside from of course those that Cathconia has liberated).

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Socialist Republic of Carlland

A vast, sprawling Socialist Utopia!

Religion:

Christianity/Sect of Christianity (Catholicism, Mormonism, etc.): 45.6%
Atheism: 40.3%
Judaism: 12.7%
Islam: 0.8%
Other: 0.6%

Official Language: None, though English is most prevalent.

Political Parties:

Socialist Party: One of three major parties. Supports Socialism (no kidding) and social Liberalism. Is mostly supported by the Atheist population (36% of Atheists are registered Socialists) and has relative support from Christians (13%) Makes up for roughly 60% of Congress, and holds the Presidency.

Traditionalist Party: Another of the three major parties. Supports little Government regulation on the Economy. Supports extreme Government regulation on abortion, marriage and other issues. Supported vastly by Christians (28%) but also has support from the Muslim population as well as some of the Jewish population. Makes up for about 26% of Congress.

Modernist Party: The other major party. A "Libertarian" like party that is supported mostly by the youth of the country. Supports Laissez-Faire Capitalism and Social Libertarianism. Makes up for 14% of Congress.

Environmental Anarchy Party: A minor party. Supports completely disbanding Government and living a primitive lifestyle in nature. Only about 5% of residents are registered with this party. Does not hold any Congressional seats.

My Little Party: A minor "joke" party. Wants to install Rainbow Dash as President. Doesn't have much support (for obvious reasons.)

[Supersonic]

I'll add my own in due course, but if I lived in these hypothetical countries I would probably back:

Political Parties:
Liberal Party: The mainstream right wing party.  In general opposes the expanse of Mechonian government and keeping the government out of people's lives.  Fiscally conservative and socially libertarian is probably the best way to describe it.  Popular amongst the middle and upper classes and conservative Paganists.  Represents roughly 30% of Parliament.

Coalition for Reform: The other right wing party.  Believes that immigration quotas need to be brought back to curtail the impact of new immigrants that drown out jobs for the Mechonian worker.  Believes that Mechonia needs to return back to a heavy protectionist policy, cut back on government spending, and increase pay for law and order.  Odd bedfellows with the Liberal Party, which is much more libertarian in general.  Attracts the obvious suspects.  Represents roughly 9.5% of Parliament.

Swing voter between the Liberal Party and the Coalition for Reform. It would probably come down to the candidates. I would probably lean Liberal as I'm not a big fan of protectionism.

Cathconia has traditionally been divided between West and East. Contemporary political parties formed about 130 years ago.

The Republican Party
The Republican party is your traditional Western Cathconian party. They favor low tariffs, domestic quasi-libertarianism (though immigrant communities have provided certain moralistic traits to the party). They are welcoming of immigrants, viewing them as increasing the fabric of what was originally an immigrant's country. In foreign policy, they might be called "expansionist" or even "pro war" given that a central part of the Republican Party's ideology is expanding democracy and the republican form of government to all corners of the globe. This in the past has involved protecting burgeoning independent republics in Cathconia's own hemisphere. The stereotype of a Republican Party voter is a cowboy with little interest in helping his fellow man and a disdain for most other countries (aside from of course those that Cathconia has liberated).

Definitely Republican here. Immigration would be the sticking point for me here as I'm largely opposed to it (unless there is a clear deficiency of the nations own workers in a part of the economy). However on foreign policy, tariff control and domestic affairs I think I would happy in this party.

Traditionalist Party: Another of the three major parties. Supports little Government regulation on the Economy. Supports extreme Government regulation on abortion, marriage and other issues. Supported vastly by Christians (28%) but also has support from the Muslim population as well as some of the Jewish population. Makes up for about 26% of Congress.

Modernist Party: The other major party. A "Libertarian" like party that is supported mostly by the youth of the country. Supports Laissez-Faire Capitalism and Social Libertarianism. Makes up for 14% of Congress.

I would probably be part of the Modernist Party, though I could also vote for the Traditionalist Party depending on their candidates and as they seem to the biggest right wing party, I would also tactically vote for them if they could win office.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Political Parties of Scottland

Red Party: Supports social democracy and social liberalism.  Favors workers' rights, urban renewal, infrastructure development, and a somewhat interventionist foreign policy.  Opposes strict border control and prefers tax increases, instead of spending cuts, for deficit reduction.

Light Party: Your standard center-left party.  The party's primary focus is support for rural communities and scientific advancement.  Most of its members support abortion rights and limited gun control, but the party officially takes a neutral stance on both these issues.  Supporters a secure border, but also simplifying the immigration process and aiding economically disadvantaged nations so that illegal immigration is of minimal concern.  Economically populist with a fiscal responsibility streak.  This party has the presidency and controls both chambers of the legislative branch.

Whig Party: Your standard center-right party.  This party can be compared to the American Republican Party, but takes a more pragmatic approach to economics and a more libertarian approach to social issues.  The Whigs see eye-to-eye with the two leftist parties on same-sex marriage, national healthcare, and foreign policy, but takes a strong stand against illegal immigration.  Prefers spending cuts, instead of tax increases, for deficit reduction.

[afleitch]

Andrewland parties.

Moderate Party - A centre right liberal conservative party with links to the trade unions and guilds
Liberal Party - A centre right economically liberal party that is slightly to the right of the Moderates on economics
Social Democrats - As the name suggests
Green Party - Likewise
Agrarian Party - Loose alliance with the Greens (who are more urban); a rural interest party

Seats:

Moderates 41
Liberals 16
Social Democrats 30
Greens 8
Agrarian 5

[Hatman 🍁]

I have yet to do a write up of my country, but here are the parties

(Washburnist Socialist Republic)

Liberal Alliance: This party is the traditional governing party. On the WSR political spectrum, they are on the centre, but on the traditional spectrum, they are quite left wing, and adhere to the true values of Washburnist Socialism.

WSR Conservatives: This is the party of the WSR right wing. They are about bringing in more free market reforms, etc, but nothing too drastic. They are also cautious about implementing anything new to the social order. (eg they support civil unions for gays, are against 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions). They would be seen as a centre-left party on the traditional spectrum

New Democratic Party This is the party of the far-left. To get an idea of what their views are, think of a party full of opebos.

Independence Party: This is a personality cult of one of the more eccentric politicians. More of a libertarian leaning party, but would bee seen as left-libertarian on the traditional spectrum.

Green Party: Think of your traditional Green Party, but on steroids. For example, they want to ban cars, factories, they are against building anything really. They are against anything that could even remotely affect the environment. They would put people in jail for littering.

Communist Party: Your traditional communist party. They want to install a Soviet-style Communist dictatorship and are not afraid to campaign on it. They are a small party, but still win a handful of seats.

Separation Party: This is a regional separatist group. Except, the region they represent makes up a majority of the country. Therefore they are big players. They are usually the main opposition party. And they like to oppose everything.

Republican Party: This is the party in favour of reform. They are against the current political system. While the WSR is the greatest democracy of all, they believe there needs to be changes to make it "better". They are centre-right on the WSR spectrum.

[Mechaman]

After reading afleitch's thread, I've decided to make a thread specifically dedicated to made up country's political parties/systems. Here's an example:

Political Parties:

Social Democratic Party: Economically left wing party that has been dominant for most of modern Mechonian history.  Has a lot of strength amongst Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish blue collars and young professionals.  Pretty much, the party of the majority.  Also strong amongst first generation non-whites.  Although generally assocatied as the left wing in the nation, has a broad tent on social issues ranging from super liberal professionals to reactionary laborers.  Represents roughly 56% of Parliament.

Spiritualist Party: A "libertarian left" wing party that bases a lot of it's philosopy out of "naturalist" political doctrine.  Supports strong degree of civil libertarianism that includes getting rid of Marijuana taxes, opposition to "authoritarian leftism" of the Social Democrats, and stronger environmental protections.  Strong amongst Neo-Paganists, Spiritualist groups, Buddhists, and some Atheists.  Represents roughly 1.5% of Parliament.

The Values Party: Socially conservative economically populist party.  Real popular amongst highly religious voters and Asian immigrants.  Supports efforts to ban abortion, put in a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage, and support for more universal education funding.  Represents roughly 4% of Parliament.

Liberal Party: The mainstream right wing party.  In general opposes the expanse of Mechonian government and keeping the government out of people's lives.  Fiscally conservative and socially libertarian is probably the best way to describe it.  Popular amongst the middle and upper classes and conservative Paganists.  Represents roughly 30% of Parliament.

Coalition for Reform: The other right wing party.  Believes that immigration quotas need to be brought back to curtail the impact of new immigrants that drown out jobs for the Mechonian worker.  Believes that Mechonia needs to return back to a heavy protectionist policy, cut back on government spending, and increase pay for law and order.  Odd bedfellows with the Liberal Party, which is much more libertarian in general.  Attracts the obvious suspects.  Represents roughly 9.5% of Parliament.

Feel free to tack on any relevant history, demographics etc. I'll add the Kingdom of DC Al Fine in a day or two.

Hey man thanks for adding mine

[DC Al Fine]

Ugh, just spent 30 minutes writing a post and then lost it. Will try again later.

[traininthedistance]

Expanding on my post in the other thread:

There are five main parties: the Greens, Liberals, Social Democrats, Conservatives, and Center.  Each party has two preferred coalition partners, and two parties it doesn't like that much.  Generally whichever party gets a plurality will invite its two preferred parties.  Since the Greens are the largest party right now, they get to invite the Liberals and Social Democrats, despite the fact that those two parties are somewhat in friction.

The Green Party likes the Social Democrats and the Liberals, and it doesn't like the Center or the Conservatives.  Although, it is not 100 percent opposed to forming coalitions with any of them.  The Greens here are somewhat more pragmatic and less ideological than most other green parties, and their willingness to work with anybody was presumably a big help in becoming the current largest party, despite their newness.  Their base is less-wealthy white collar workers: academics, students, artists, bureaucrats, etc; their general ideology can probably be best described as technology-positive environmentalism.  As far as they relate to other "leftist" ideals, they do advocate for social justice for minorities and women, but explicitly reject anti-capitalist and Marxist thought, believing that an otherwise capitalist market that properly corrects for externalities does the best job of delivering environmental benefits and general prosperity.

The Liberals like the Greens and the Conservatives, and they don't like the Center or the Social Democrats.  Despite the Liberals and the Center both claiming the mantle of "moderates", they are very different: the Liberals are the party of urban professionals and the elite, and tend to be center-right (by Trainland's standards that is) on economics and strongly left on social issues.  Whereas the Center Party is a party of rural interests, and is socially conservative but economically interventionist.  The Liberals would probably be considered "social liberals" in general; they are the most heavily secular and technocratic party of the five; while their calls for lower taxes and fiscal restraint place them on the center-right of Trainland's spectrum, they are also well-educated realists, and on economic issues probably fall in the center-left by US standards.

The Social Democrats obviously like the Greens and the Center, and don't like the Liberals or Conservatives.  Their base tends to be immigrants and manual laborers.  They are easily the most left-wing on general redistribution issues, but tend to maintain a "broad church" on other issues, which leads to a leadership which takes a more populist approach, and they are often mealy-mouthed centrists on social issues.  They were for a long time the largest party of the left, but have fallen on relatively hard times since their heyday in the 1960s.

The Conservatives like the Liberals and the Center, but not Greens or SocDems.  They poll best among people who actually drive cars, i.e. police officers, contractors etc., basically better-off blue collar folks, and their signature issues tend to be a reduction in the carbon tax, as well as a hawkish foreign policy.  The Conservatives have generally been the main party of the right, and have adapted their views as the concerns of the right wing have shifted over time.  They're hurt today by the fact that many fiscal center-right individuals have defected to the Liberals, leading them to fight mainly a losing battle on social issues.

The rural-focused, communitarian Center likes the SocDems and Conservatives, but not so much the Liberals and Greens.  This causes a lot of problems for them these days, since the Social Democrats and Conservatives are the only two parties who outright refuse to form a coalition together, and the Liberals and Greens have been the two largest parties for most of the past 25 years.  So the Center Party has the bleakest prospects. 

There are several fringe protest parties as well, the largest three being a) a rump of Marxists, b) an anti-immigration far right populist group, and c) a libertarian/Pirate sort of thing.  All three of them will occasionally send someone to Parliament, but currently none of the five mainstream parties will have anything to do with them- the cordon sanitaire is in full effect.

The main unique thing here, of course, is the very close working relationship between the Liberals and Greens, as well as the fact they tend to do better than your "typical" red and blue teams.  This is because, although they disagree on redistributionist issues, both have a strongly technocratic bent (as opposed to the relative populism of the other three parties), and are to the nation's left on social issues- and even on redistribution, it's fairly easy for them to come to a center-left compromise most of the time.  The philosophical basis of their social leftism is sightly different (social justice vs. live and let live), but they have generally been able to find common cause for the past quarter-century.

...

A brief note on the history of the parties: There's a lot of similarity with the UK, actually.  You start out with the urban secular bourgeoise voting Liberal and the rural landowners voting Conservative.  The Liberals enact voting reform and some mildly progressive things in the early 20th Century, but their left flank quickly gets eaten up by a rising Socialist party, and voting reform empowers poor rurals to put together various religiously-flavored populist parties which initially break down upon sectarian lines but merge into the Center Party.  The Conservatives dominate the 20s (with the Center's help), and they enact the beginnings of things like urban growth boundaries and limits to cars in cities on "rural preservation" and "law and order" grounds.

The Socialists take power after the Depression and bring along the (rapidly-shrinking) Liberals and Center to prove they're not crazy, then add the Conservatives too when WWII hits.  (Basically everyone except a crazy fascist splinter that arose in the 20s and rapidly dies after the war.)  Post-war is mostly Socialists vs. Conservatives (edge to Socialists but it goes back and forth), with the Center and Liberals fighting a third-party battle mostly along secular vs. religious lines, with the winner getting to be the junior coalition partner.   You've also got a sizable protest Communist vote that never gets into gov't.

Everything goes topsy-turvy in the 70s.  The Green Party arises, and takes votes from the Socialists.  So does deindustrialization and a resurgence in Communists.  The Socialists try to hang onto power by bringing the Commies into their coalition, this proves VERY unpopular and a lot of voters bolt to the Greens and Liberals (who try to position themselves as basically an SDP-Lib Alliance).  Then the Conservatives take power, but get involved in a disastrous and unpopular foreign war, so sane Conservatives rush to the Liberals too.  Voila, mid-80s, the Liberals are the largest party again, and they surprise observers by bringing the surging Greens along for a "new look" coalition.  They've been more or less the two largest parties ever since (though the Socialists rebranded as Social Democrats and did take one election in the early '90s).  More recently, the chance of the SocDems breaking the yellow-green chokehold on the top two spots has been hurt by the Center Party's effort to take votes from the socially conservative immigrants who have been a large source of votes for them.  (The Center Party has bled some to far-right parties in response, though).  The Conservatives' best chance to ever get a plurality is if/when bureaucratic scandals ever get uncovered; they came close once in the early 2000s, but didn't quite make it.

Vote share of the last election (2011).  Current coalition is Green-Lib-SocDem.

Greens: 29%
Liberals: 24%
Conservatives: 18%
Social Democrats: 17%
Center: 9%
Minor parties: 3%

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

I already have a fantasy republic called Ergney that I created back in 2011 that I regurlarly update and add new information and history to. The six parties currently in parliament are:

Socialist Labour Party (SLP)
36,2% ('09 election) - 43 seats (out of 109)

Emerged in the early 1900's as the political wing of the trade-unions in the country, advocating labour-rights and democratic socialism. Today it's main goal is to create a strong social safety-net, protect labour-rights and create economic equality while supporting a free market. Moderate to progressive on social issues, strongly support immigration.


National Alliance (NA)
35,5% ('09 election) - 41 seats

Founded as a merger of the National Party and the Liberal Party in 1945 it's been the major party of the right since, being a liberal-conservative big tent strongly supporting low taxes, a strong military, decentralisation of powers to the country's regions. Mostly moderate on social issues, but generally try to avoid the subject. 


Christian People's Front (CPF)
7,1% ('09 election) - 7 seats

Started in the 60's as a counter reaction to the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality, as well as other moral decay. The major social-conservative party that portrays itself as the defender of good Christian family values. Centrist on economic issues. Strongly support subsidies to agriculture which helps them be strong in rural areas.


Progressive Future Party (PFP)
6,8% ('09 election) - 6 seats

A party created in the 80's that stands for social-liberalism, enviormentalism, and combinding support for small business and a liberal market based economy with a strong modern welfere state. The number one choice for latte-liberals everywhere. 


Ergney Popular Movement (EPM)
6,4% ('09 election) - 7 seats

A populist anti-establishment, and nationalist movement. Wants more direct democracy. Supports having both a strong welfere system while still keeping taxes low by stopping immigration and slashing buerocracy.


United Left of Ergney (ULE)
5,6% ('09 election) - 5 seats

Not a party, but a cooperative list for three minor parties of the fringe left:
Democratic Communist Party (DCP) - What's left of Ergney's old Communist party. Hard-left.
People's Party of Vitra (PPV) - A regionalist Social Democratic party, supports decentralised power to regions.
Ecology Green Party (EGP) - Enviormental- and animal rights party. Very statist.   

[Dr. Cynic]

I've been thinking of doing this for awhile, but haven't gotten around to it. Eventually, I will...

[Peter the Lefty]

I've been thinking of doing this for awhile, but haven't gotten around to it. Eventually, I will...

This.

[TNF]

The Republic of New Fredonia is a progressive nation with a population of about 300 million. New Fredonians elect 600 representatives by means of proportional representation every four years, or whenever no party holds an overall majority in the nation's unicameral legislature, the Congress of the Republic, or Congress, for short. The nation's working language is English, though German, Yiddish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Russian are secondary languages employed by the Republic and it's people. The people of the Republic also elect a President in conjunction with the selection of the members of the Congress every four years, who is, for all intents and purposes, subordinate to the legislature.

The parties that currently occupy seats within the Congress are as follows:

The Conservative Party is one of the oldest New Fredonian parties. Initially the Conservatives spoke as the voice of New Fredonian industry, advocating for protectionism and likeminded policies to spur industrial growth. As the 20th Century dawned, the party gained an edge over its largest opponent, the Liberal Party when industrial workers, who had to that point been divided or cautiously allied with the Liberals, deserted the party in favor of the rising Socialist Party, giving the Conservatives an overall advantage following New Fredonia's participation in World War I. The Conservatives governed for the whole of the 1920s, presiding over the economic crash that followed before being swiftly kicked out in favor of the Social Democrats in 1932. Subsequent developments in the 1930s hurt the Conservatives; the growth of industrial unionism and the slew of factory occupations in the late 1930s emboldened the governing Social Democrats, who enacted a much more comprehensive agenda of wealth redistribution.

The Conservatives were frozen out of the leadership of the government for the entirety of the 1930s and the 1940s, coming back into power in 1952 before losing power again in 1956 again in favor of the dominant Social Democrats. From the late 1950s until the 1970s, the party seemed to be in a terminal decline. Attempts to combat the Social Democrats and Liberals in the 1960s on social issues proved futile, as the generation that had fought the Nazis proved unwilling to pull the lever for a party widely viewed as 'authoritarian', at least with regard to personal matters. The 1970s saw a break for the Conservatives as an economic crisis shook the country and a coalition formed between the Conservatives and the Liberals, once thought impossible, that focused on 'beating down inflation'. Unfortunately, a second oil shock in the late 1970s tossed the coalition out once more in favor of the Social Democrats, who ran on a platform of 'neo-socialism', and have held on to Congress every year since.

The defeat of the party in the 1978 elections led to much soul-searching and the eventual takeover of the party by a far different kind of leadership by the end of the decade. The 1960s, a period of youth rebellion all over the world, touched New Fredonia as it did elsewhere. With the Social Democrats seen as the party of the establishment, many youthful New Fredonian radicals and dissenters found different avenues to express their displeasure with the state of affairs - chiefly among them the Conservative Party. Thus a party of industrialists overnight became a party of radical traditionalism, a party of businessman quickly gave way to a party of 'organic conservatism.' The election of 1960s radicals to the Conservative Party leadership at the 1978 leadership election saw a radical shift in party messaging and priorities. The Conservative Party, once opposed to regulation of pollution, became the party most supportive of pollution regulation. Once opposed to government spending and the welfare state, the party became one of 'family-friendly solutions.' Once turning a blind eye to corporate malfeasance, the new Conservative Party became a party 'dedicated to small business, farmers, and making sure that these groups are not harmed by big business or multinational capital'.

The strategy worked, as the Conservatives, who had to this point lagged behind, began rising in the polls. Though as of the most recent election (held last year) they had not been able to dislodge the ruling Social Democrats, they have nevertheless gained enough seats to win the official opposition since 1996.

The Conservative Party at a glance...
...Capital Punishment. The Conservative Party is steadfastly opposed to the application of capital punishment.
...Cultural Stance. Traditionalist. The Conservative Party has traditionally been aligned with Christian groups, but as of this writing, has moved in part away from this heritage as religion has become less and less of a force in New Fredonian society. The Conservative Party nevertheless opposes abortion, supports the privatization of marriage, supports strong immigration restrictions, is opposed to increased gun control, and tends to be more favorable of vesting social welfare benefits to families, rather than to individuals.
...Defense. The Conservative Party favors a shrinking of the military, nuclear disarmament, and a reduction in overall munitions stockpiles.
...Drug Policy. The Conservative Party generally opposes further liberalization of New Fredonian drug policy. It is however strongly pro-hemp and seeks to aggressively promote it's use.
...Economy. The Conservative Party is the party of small business. It favors a reduction in the amount of central planning in the economy and is favorable to some privatization (mostly of mid-sized businesses), and the enactment of strong antitrust law.
...Education. The Conservative Party has typically favored local control of education and wishes to see the ban on private, parochial, and homeschooling lifted.
...Environment. Arguably the 'greenest' party in New Fredonia, the Conservatives are very favorable to carbon taxation, mass transit funding, sustainable agriculture, and are, in large part, opposed to the continued use of nuclear power.
...Foreign Aid. The Conservative Party opposes foreign aid funding.
...Foreign Alliances. The Conservative Party is an isolationist party.
...Health policy. The Conservative Party generally favors the privatization of state-owned clinics and hospitals.
...Immigration. The Conservative Party is in favor of a reduction of the number of immigrants entering the country, and is, in essence, in favor of a closed border policy, regarding open borders or lax immigration law as a threat to social stability and environmental sustainability.
...Social Welfare. The Conservative Party generally favors a re-tooling of state welfare payments around the family, rather than around individuals.
...Taxation. The Conservative Party is favorable to the institution of a carbon tax, a national sales tax, and other taxes in an effort to prioritize individual spending that is ecologically and socially just.
...Trade. The Conservatives, true to their roots, are a protectionist party.

Going to do a write-up on the Liberals and the Social Democrats in a bit. Let me know what you think.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Why would a Green Party exist in the 60's?

[freefair]

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Fair point, I've changed it, so that they don't.

[Kingpoleon]

Communists for McCain/Mechaman: Usually Liberal Party; occasionally Spiritualist Party
Catchcon: The Republican Party
20RP12: Modernist Party
Scott: Whig Party
Afleitch: Liberal Party(?)
Hatman: Republican Party or Independence Party
traininthedistance: Liberals; Green Party-Conservatives the ideal coalition partners for me
Swedish Austerity Cheese: Progressive Future Party usually; occasionally National Alliance

I'm not sure about freefair or afleitch.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What about San Escobar?

[freefair]

What about San Escobar?

Main Parties:
Centralista Indipendenentista Associatione (CIA) on the free market catholic death squad right vs the Federatione Socialistico Bolivarianista (FSB) on the radical authoritarian marxist death squad left.

[Higgs]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Austria

[freefair]

Alternate History Federal Republic of the British Isles
Features Symmetrical Federalism, Written Constitiution, Bill of Rights, Greater European Integration (but no Euro), Direct Democracy, Judicial review, MMP or STV proportional representation in all elections, an elected Senate, and a clear division of power between branches and layers of government.
From Left to Right:
Left Alliance- Democratic Socialism
GreenRadicals- Green Progressivism
Social Democrats- Social Democracy
Progressives- Social Liberalism
Popular Democrats- One Nation Conservatism/Christian Democracy
Free Democrats- Conservative Liberalism
United Patriots- National Conservatism

Federal governments
1945-65- PD-SD GroKo with LA support
1965-1979- SD-LA with Prg support
1979-Feb 2003- FD-PD with UP support
2003-2011- SD-FD
2011- PD-Prg with FD support

Where the deposit requires 3.5% of the vote, as does the election of list candidates. There is also compulsory voting.

[Goldwater]

The Republican Party
The Republican party is your traditional Western Cathconian party. They favor low tariffs, domestic quasi-libertarianism (though immigrant communities have provided certain moralistic traits to the party). They are welcoming of immigrants, viewing them as increasing the fabric of what was originally an immigrant's country. In foreign policy, they might be called "expansionist" or even "pro war" given that a central part of the Republican Party's ideology is expanding democracy and the republican form of government to all corners of the globe. This in the past has involved protecting burgeoning independent republics in Cathconia's own hemisphere. The stereotype of a Republican Party voter is a cowboy with little interest in helping his fellow man and a disdain for most other countries (aside from of course those that Cathconia has liberated).

Time to move to Cathconia and become a Republican hack.

[President Johnson]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Austria

Don't let Tender see this.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Huh, this exists. Here's something I've posted in Random Maps a while ago:

A short explanation: me and a few friends from abroad have long been writing together, and about a year ago we created our own world, first with one continent, and each of us made his own unique natioמ with complex and different cultural characteristics. Mine is Kedumia, an island nation which already started fairly progressive in the medieval setting we first wrote in. Women were almost equal even back then (think Dorne in asoiaf), and while there obviously weren't any lgbt rights, there was a certain bit of tolerance. Now, we decided to write in modern settings, which could be equated to the WW1-era in our world, so I finally got the chance to write some politics.

Basically the Kedumian electoral system resembles a mash of Britain and Israel, with a King (titled "Nasie"- posters with some Hebrew knowledge will understand why) as a figurehead and a Prime Minister leading the government. The Kedumian Senate has 330 seats- 110 are constituency seats, which you can see in this map, and 220 are distributed through a national vote to party lists. This particular election is a strong Liberal victory after an unpopular Conservative ministry, with the Social Democrats under a new young leader performing far better than expected.
Here are the full election results:

Results of the Parliamentary Election, 2938 AU
Liberal Party- 101 Seats (77 National, 24 Constituency)
Conservative Party- 81 Seats (60 National, 21 Constituency)
Social Democratic Party- 54 Seats (37 National, 17 Constituency)
Traditionalist Party- 26 Seats (15 National, 11 Constituency)
Mountain and Sea Party- 24 Seats (15 National, 9 Constituency)
Birathari Heritage Party- 15 Seats (1 National, 14 Constituency)
Socialist Worker’s Party-13 Seats (8 National, 5 Constituency)
Ryvog’s Frontier Party- 11 Seats (2 National, 9 Constituency)
People’s National Front Party- 5 Seats (5 National, 0 Constituency)

The Coalition:
Liberal Party (101 Seats) + Social Democratic Party (54 Seats) + Mountain and Sea Party (24 Seats) = 179 SEATS

The Opposition:
Conservative Party (81 Seats) + Traditionalist Party (26 Seats) + Birathari Heritage Party (15 Seats) + Socialist Worker’s Party (13 Seats) + Ryvog’s Frontier Party (11 Seats) + People’s National Front Party (5 Seats) = 151 SEATS

And this is the description of individual parties:

Liberal Party: Economically centrist (a small tilt left as of 2938 AU), socially liberal (though falling short of endorsing same-sex marriage), for the status-quo when it comes to monarchy. A traditional ruling party since the Kedumian Senate was first established after Arnold's Rebellion, established by the man regarded as the first Prime Minister, or Legate- Dale Marinus.
Conservative Party: Economically right-wing, socially center-right. Fairly supportive of monarchy, but also for the status-quo. Established about two centuries ago by Traditionalists unwilling to continue supporting a hardline pro-nobility stance.
Social Democratic Party: Economically left-wing, socially center-left. They've been a mid-sized party (around the same size as the Green and Traditionalist parties) for years but have recently been gaining strength, and under its current leader, a promising female politician in her 40s, managed to do very well in the last election.
Traditionalist Party: Your friendly neighbourhood monarchists. Economically right-wing (even more than the Conservatives) and socially center-right (a bit to the left of conservatives), they support increasing the authority of the royal family (House Palamis), but are still for the current system of constitutional monarcy (other than a few fringe, extrme elements). Traditionally the main opposition to the Liberal Party and the now-gone peasant People's Partym, it has since become a mid-sized party for the Kedumian higher class.
Mountain and Sea Party- economically center-left and socially left (even more than the Liberals), staunch environmentalists. In a marine nation that treasures the sea like Kedumia, they manage to gain quite a lot of popularity in the coasts because of their opposition to offshore drilling and their call for preserving the sea, as well as in the Birathari Mountains (the two inland seats you see for them in the biggest island), where coal and iron mining are frustrating the Mountainsfolk, whose culture treasures nature.
Birathari Heritage Party: The resident sectorial party for the Mountainsfolk. Their views are loosely economically center-left and socially center-right, but they concentrate on Birathari interests- they try to combine environmentalism with supporting the creation of jobs and paying more federal funds to the Birathari for their "huge contribution in natural sources".
Socialist Worker's Party: Pretty obvious- the commies. Economically far-left and socially conservative. Because Kedumia is a fairly rich nation, the biggest economic power in the world, they aren't managing to gain much traction, save for some rural areas in Pach Isle, the poorest island (the one where you can see them holding 4 seats). A different (more extreme) communist party swept the Birathari Mountains about three decades ago, because the Mountainsfolk were noteably poorer and felt their natural sources were being exploited, and managed to create a revolution there, which took more than a decade to put down, until it was finally defeated by a Conservative Prime Minister. Due to that, the Socialist Worker's Party is unable to contest any seats in the Mountains.
Ryvog's Frontier Party: Another sectorial party. The people of Sharamis (the city in the northeastern tip of the eastern island, Seadrak), and to a lesser extent of that whole island, were very independent-minded and... different for centuries, and thus have a party to represent their own interests. Their patron god is Ryvog, the god of Fire and Riches, whose tone is darker than that of the other gods in the Kedumian pantheon. The people of Sharamis are especially tolerant of magic (yes, this is a low-fantasy world) which is despised by the rest of Kedumians in an almost racist fervour, so the people of this city prefer as little government intevention as possible. Due to that, this party is socially and economically libertarian (though they do support disaster relief funds to their island, which has a huge sacred volcano in its middle).
People's National Front: The resident far-right fascist party. Economically center-right and socially far-right, they're populist and authoritarian, but are unable to gain much strength in a progressive nation like Kedumia, especially with fascist regimes rising throughout Viscordia (the name of the main continent) and a looming war with them.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

This is from my nationstates country (with some additions):

Unified Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist Communist Party (UCP): Far-Left, a basic communist party. They threaten to split after their charismatic leader (who united the two main communist parties) was shot in a cafe.

Radical Party: The radical faction of the old Progressive Socialist Movement (PSM), they call for an end to capitalism, while not being as extreme (or authoritarian) as the UCP.

Moderate Socialist Party (MSP): The moderate faction of the old PSM. In a coalition with the SDP, they call for a nearly-socialist economy with some privatized industry and small business. Led by the incumbent president, me. However, the party has been moving more and more towards the SDP in some aspects, causing them to hemorrhage some support to the Radicals...

Social Democratic Party (SDP): A normal social democratic party with a growing democratic socialist wing.

Liberal Party: A typical social liberal party. Centre to centre-left, etc. Led by Ninja. Open to a coalition with the SDP and possibly the MSP if given concessions.

Unity Party: Centrist. Their platform is basically just saying that the government should be supported by a large majority of people. They lost their 1 seat in the last election.

Libertarian Party: A standard libertarian party. Socially left, economically right wing.

Conservative Party: The generic centre-right party, in staunch opposition to the current government. Somewhat more moderate on social issues.

True Conservative Party (TCP): A split from the Conservatives, the TCP focuses heavily on social issues, opposing gay marriage, wanting to ban all abortion, etc.

National Patriot Alliance (NPA): A far-right party. Accused of neo-nazism, but the leaders deny this. The largest opposition party after the conservative split.

Racial Justice Front (RJF): Die-hard neo-nazis, and not afraid to hide it. They claim the current government is committing white genocide, that "The god damn n*****s are the scum of the Earth" etc. They say the NPA doesn't go far enough on anti-immigrant rhetoric. Luckily they have little to no support.