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=Etymology=
=Etymology=
The name for the country '''Maloria''' comes from a Spanish word meaning angelic or graceful. Is is believed by ancient historians that the name Maloria was used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus when describing the Malorian Islands to his colleagues. The Malorian Islands was known by many names throughout history, including but not limited to La Terre du Lions when under French rule and Isla de Angelica under Spanish rule.
The name for the country '''Maloria''' comes from a Spanish word meaning angelic or graceful. Is is believed by ancient historians that the name Maloria was used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus when describing the Malorian Islands to his colleagues. The Malorian Islands was known by many names throughout history, including but not limited to Gasconia when under French rule and Isla de Angelica under Spanish rule.


=History=
=History=
==Pre-Independent Malorian Islands (1553-1910)==
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Prior to 1910, The Malorian Islands was under the rule of the Spanish Empire from 1553 to 1812 and under French rule from 1815 to 1910. The region was seen as very important to both nations, as the nation was rich in sugar and bananas. The Spanish Empire first held the Malorian Islands as Isla de Angelica after it was first explored by Italian colonist and explorer Christopher Columbus. In 1812, the Second French Empire under Napoleon III conquered the Spanish Empire within Isla de Angelica and renamed the islands to La Terre Du Lions.
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===The Malorianese Revolutionary War (1907-1910)===
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In 1907, La Terre Du Lions went to war with the French Third Republic over its level of autonomy within France during the Malorianese Revolutionary War. From 1907 until July 9th, 1910, the provisional government of the Malorian Islands was established to form a temporary government and to fight France. The former governor of La Terre Du Lions, Malik Dubois, became the head of state of the provisional government on February 8th, 1907. On July 9th, 1910, the Treaty of St. Bernard was signed and a referendum was officially held to determine if the Malorian Islands wished to continue as an autonomous region of the French Third Republic or to be an independent nation. The referendum was held with the majority of voters wishing to be an independent nation. The former colony island known as La Terre Du Lions then formed the Republic of The Malorian Islands with Dubois becoming the first President of the Republic.
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==The First Republic of the Malorian Islands (1910-1942)==
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[[File:ProvoFlag.jpg|thumb|The flag of the Republic of the Malorian Islands (1907-1947)]]
===Reforms under President Dubois===
After independence was made by the Republic of the Malorian Islands, President Dubois pushed reforms within the country to improve the nation's economy from a purely agricultural economy into a partially agricultural economy. Dubois made these reforms through a visa policy that encouraged entrepreneurs, industrialists, and workers to immigrate to the Malorian Islands. This policy enacted by the Dubois Administration was successful short term, but affected the nation long term.


===Foreign Relations of the First Republic of the Malorian Islands===
| heading1 = [[Spanish Maloria |Spanish colonialism of the Malorian Islands]]
Under the Dubois Presidency, he embraced a policy of isolationism and neutrality throughout World War I and the beginning of World War II. Striving for a "Maloria First" policy of domestic and foreign policy, his government and the Malorian Islands focused on the affairs of its citizens rather than get involved with the affairs of other nations.
| content1 = 1553 - 1812


==Interwar Period (1933-1942)==
| heading2 = [[French Maloria #French Maloria (300BCE-500CE)|French colonialism of the Malorian Islands]]
| content2 = 1812 – 1910


===The LeMonde Administration===
| heading3 = [[The First Republic of Malorian Islands |First Republic of the Malorian Islands]]
President Dubois died in office on March 3rd, 1933 with then-Vice President Veronique LeMonde becoming President of the Republic. LeMonde led the nation, ensuring the economy did not suffer nor improved through minor government intervention. Under the LeMonde Administration, President LeMonde also improved ties with the United States under President Franklin Roosevelt and the United Kingdom.
| content3 = 1910 – 1942


===Invasion of The Malorian Islands===
| heading4 = [[The Malorianese Republic#Malorianese Republic|Axis occupation of the Malorian Islands]]
On June 25th, 1940 Nazi Germany invaded and conquered the former French Third Republic. While LeMonde did not acknowledge the threat of both Nazi Germany and the newly established puppet state the French State at first, the LeMonde Administration began conscription on November 12th, 1940 to build the Malorianese National Guard. This did not stop Nazi Germany and the French State. On December 6th, 1942, Nazi Germany and the French State invaded the Malorian Islands. The invading Nazi and French forces captured St. Bernard and overthrew President LeMonde on December 9th, 1942.
| content4 = 1942 – 1945


==The Malorianese Republic (1942-1945)==
| heading5 = [[The Government of the Republic of Malorian Islands in exile #The Government of the Malorian Islands in exile |The Government of the Republic of the Malorian Islands in exile]]
[[File:FascistPartyMaloria.jpg|thumb|The party flag of the Malorianese Renaissance Party, a pro-German fascist party that was the ruling party of the Malorianese Republic during WWII.]]
| content5 = 1942 – 1945
The Malorianese Republic, established and installed by both Nazi Germany and the French State, was a puppet state led by Oberst Heinrich Laissez. Oberst Laissez, as the de facto Malorianese head of state, set new laws that were in similarity to the National Socialist model Nazi Germany was promoting. All political parties, excluding the Malorianese Renaissance Party, were banned. Those that were deemed to be political threats and/or "undesirables" to the newly established regime were to be either sent to Germany to face a punishment of hard labor within Nazi Germany's many concentration camps or were executed outright by the Malorianese National Police. While Patron Laissez ruled the Malorian Islands as a dictator, resistance pipelines were already forming. The Malorianese Popular Front, a left-wing Marxist-Leninist rebel army formed in 1936 to combat the social democratic government of LeMonde, temporarily ended its policy of class warfare in favor of working with other resistance groups within the Malorian Islands. This included the Free Malorian Army and the Malorianese National Guard-in exile.


===Foreign Relations of the Malorianese Republic===
| heading6 = [[The Second Republic of Malorian Islands]]
[[File:FascistMaloria.jpg|thumb|The national flag of the Malorianese Republic during Axis occupation.]]
| content6 = 1945 – 1947


The fascist puppet state had foreign relations only with nations that officially recognized it. These nations included the French State, Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, the Empire of Japan, and other Axis Powers nations. Laissez, as head of state of the Malorian Islands under Axis occupation, adopted the term "Le Patron" (meaning boss in French) to identify his new leadership role as the head of state of the Malorian Islands.
| heading7 = [[The People's Federal Republic of Malorian Islands]]
| content7 = 1947 – 1953


===The End of The Malorianese Republic===
| heading8 = [[The Kingdom of Malorian Islands]]
On August 12th, 1945, the dictator of the Malorianese Republic was assassinated by the Malorianese Resistance (with assistance from both the OSS and the NKVD). Patron Laissez was assassinated by car bomb at approximately 12:05 PM Malorian Islands time after making a speech atop the balcony of the Republican Palace. After his assassination, some remnants of the German Army that weren't yet recalled back to Germany attempted to maintain control of the Malorianese Republic.
| content8 = 1953 – 1997


==The Malorianese Government-in-exile (1942-1945)==
| heading9 = [[The Third Republic of Malorian Islands]]
After the Malorian Islands were invaded by the Axis Powers, President LeMonde seeked asylum in neutral Costa Rica as a way to "coup-proof" her government-in-exile as well as to maintain nations with both nations within the Allies and the Comintern such as the Second Spanish Republic government-in-exile and the USSR.
| content9 = 1997 – 2018


===Foreign Relations of the Malorianese Government-in-exile===
| heading10 = [[Malorian Islands#Malorian Islands |The Federation of Malorian Islands]]
She furthered foreign relations with Allied nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the French government-in-exile, and the Soviet Union. As President-in-exile she formed her own cabinet consisting of former staff under President Dubois as well as her own administration. With help from the United Kingdom, she was also able to form the Malorianese National Guard-in exile as a resistance movement against the fascist government within the Malorian Islands.
| content10 = 2018 –


==End of WWII In The Malorian Islands==
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The failed effort to maintain a fascist state within the Caribbean was foiled through the efforts of Allied forces on September 7th, 1945 during Operation Gadsden. The invasion of the Malorian Islands overthrew the fascist dicatorship, abolishing both the fascist government and the Malorianese Renaissance Party as well. President LeMonde was allowed to return two days after the invasion to continue her duties as the President of the Republic.
 
===Pre-Independent Malorian Islands (1553-1910)===
The Malorian Islands as a nation has had a confusing and complicated history prior to its official founding by Spanish colonists in the 1550s, as most of any historical records or artifacts pertaining to the Malorian Islands were destroyed by the Spanish colonists throughout their rule and the French invasion of the Malorian Islands. On November 12th, 1553, the Spanish Navy under the command of Captain Herman Victor Salazar invaded and made the modern day Malorian Islands into a colony of the Spanish Empire. The official name of the Malorian Islands under the Spanish Empire was declared to be a Province of Spain known as El Provincia de Maloria (known in English as The Province of Maloria). In 1812, the French Empire under Napoleon I invaded the Province of Maloria and annexed the Malorian Islands as a colony of the French Empire. The French military (under the control of military governor Jean-Luc Bernard of the French Navy) initiated several cultural reforms to the islands to rid the nation of any Spanish influences. French became the official language of the Malorian Islands, the name of the capital was changed from St. Charles to St. Bernard, and the name of the nation changed from the Province of Maloria to the Province of Gasconia.
 
===Independent Malorian Islands (1910-Present)===
In 1907, Malorianese revolutionaries grew annoyed of having a lack of autonomy within their own borders and overthrew the military governor of the Province of Gasconia. This uprising by Malorianese revolutionaries turned into what would become the Malorianese Revolutionary War which lasted from 1907 to 1910. In 1910, the Republic of the Malorian Islands was declared. The usurper to the role of Governor and leader of the anti-colonial revolutionary movement within the Malorian Islands, Abraham Dubois, would then become the first President of the Malorian Islands through the Malorian Islands' first election taking place. Between the years of 1911 and 1927, President Dubois initiated some reforms to ensure the economy would retain stability through nationalization of some small industries within the Malorian Islands and the "Malorian Islands First" policy initiated by President Dubois (which was a form of autarky and self-determination by the Malorianese government). President Dubois died in office in 1927.
 
In 1927, after the death of Abraham Dubois, then-Vice President Veronique DuMond was elected to power in a snap election.
 
=Foreign Relations of the Malorian Islands=
 
After the fall of the military government and the transition to democracy, the Malorian Islands has maintained relations with its neighbors of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela as well as maintaining cordial relations with western nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Under the presidency of Frank Perry, the nation has shifted its trade and political relations to the Russian Federation, Poland, and the Republic of Belarus. Since 1992, the Malorian Islands has also recognized the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, the Republic of South Ossetia, and the Republic of Abkhazia despite their limited recognition.
 
On August 11th, 2020, The Malorian Islands severed all ties with the Republic of Belarus after President Perry established relations with the newly formed Belarusian Transitional Council and Belarusian government-in-exile. This move was done after the President of Belarus won his sixth electoral term and attacked protestors throughout Belarus.
 
=Politics=
The Malorian Islands is a federal presidential republic governed by a president and the Council of the Republic. The term for each presidency is five years. Under the 2012 constitution, the president could serve for only one term but a change in the constitution in 2019 abolished term limits for the Presidency. The House of Representatives has the power to appoint the prime minister, make constitutional amendments, call for a vote of confidence on the prime minister, and make suggestions on foreign and domestic policy. The National Senate has the power to select various government officials, conduct an impeachment trial of the president, and accept or reject the bills passed by the House of Representatives. Each chamber has the ability to veto any law passed by local officials if it is contrary to the constitution.
 
The National Senate is led by the Prime Minister, who is assisted by a Deputy Prime Minister in his duties. The current Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are Salvador Marquis and Jackson Hollande, respectively. The Speaker of the House of the Representatives is led by Elaine Verose. The leaders of both the National Senate and the House of Representatives are elected through the political party holding majority within either the upper or lower houses of the National Council of the Republic. As of 2020, the National Senate is led by the Malorianese People's Party whilst the House of Represenatives is held by the Party for Peace and Democracy.
 
The Prime Minister, followed by the Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the House of the Representatives, are the first three representatives that act in the line of Malorianese presidential line of succession in the event the President is unable to carry on with his duties as the President of the Federation of the Malorian Islands.
 
=Culture=


==Post-war Period (1945-1947)==
==Television and Radio==
Ever since 1948 with the establishment of Radio Bordeaux and TeleMal in 1960, Malorianese television and radio stations are both owned by the state government and by private businesses throughout the Malorian Islands. Local radio stations like Perestroika Radio (established in 1987 by Belarusian emigre Zlatko Keremov) exist on islands like Ulyanovsk as a way to cater to the local minority populations of the Malorian Islands.


===The Second Republic of the Malorian Islands (1945-1947)===
==Music==
[[File:MalorianPopularFront.jpg|thumb|The war flag of the Malorianese Popular Front, a left-wing Malorianese vanguard revolutionary organization.]]
Music in the Malorian Islands has taken inspiration from not only its neighbors of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic but other trade partners the Malorian Islands cooperates with such as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. As a result, a genre of Malorianese Bolero music has existed in the Malorian Islands since the 1940s. EDM music has also begun to have a rise in popularity in 2011 after the military government of the Malorian Islands was dissolved, allowing for a more progressive style of music and culture to form in the country.
[[File:MalorianWarFlag.jpg|thumb|The war flag of the Malorianese Armed Forced (1911-present)]]
After the end of World War II, the country faced near economic collapse as the economy was weakened due to France and Germany took advantage of the Malorian Islands' national goods and supplies. LeMonde and her social democratic government failed to successfully implement economic and social reforms that would've fixed the issues that were facing the Malorian Islands as of 1947.


===The Malorianese Civil War (1945-1948)===
==Cinema==
The failed economic and social reforms of the LeMonde government forced the left-wing rebel group, the Malorianese Popular Front, to re-form under the leadership of Evan Gonzales. The Marxist rebel leader and his army, supported by the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, fought the Malorianese National Guard aggressively between late 1945 and early 1947. LeMonde's government began to crack under pressure as some elements of the population rioted against the government in Freedom Square within St. Bernard. Knowing that the end was near, LeMonde and her government invited the higher echelons of the Malorianese Popular Front to peace talks between the rebel group and the LeMonde government with the end result being the eventual MPF's introduction into the Council of the Republic before eventually seizing power altogether on February 28th, 1947. The coup d'etat against the LeMonde marked the end of the Second Republic of the Malorian Islands and the LeMonde Administration. Some sections of the Malorianese Armed Forces that were not loyal to Gonzales still fought against Gonzales' government as late as mid-1948 until a ceasefire was created to end the civil war.
Despite influences from both the United States (and briefly, Soviet film), the Malorianese film industry is a small industry that doesn't have much influence outside the Malorian Islands and the Caribbean.


===The Collapse of the Second Republic of the Malorian Islands===
==Art==
In early 1947, LeMonde relinquished power and allowed Gonzales and the Malorianese Popular Front to take power in the Malorian Islands. LeMonde lived in seclusion after her fall from power, eventually dying in a small village not far from Bordeaux in 1956.
==Sports==
The official sports of the Malorian Islands are baseball and soccer, with the Malorian Islands having unofficial status within the Micronational Football League and the Micronational Baseball League. The national soccer team of the Malorian Islands was formed in 2012, with the national baseball team of the Malorian Islands forming in 2019. The President of the Malorian Islands hopes to form a basketball team in the Malorian Islands by 2022.


==The People's Federal Republic of the Malorian Islands (1947-1953)==
=Economy=
===Gonzales' Rise to Power===
The Malorian Islands have a market based mixed economy, with the state government owning at least 51% of all business within the Malorian Islands dominated by an economy based around textiles and coffee. The Malorianese economy is also reliant on a large tourism industry that had been prevalent in the country since the establishment of the Malorianese Tourism Board in 1967. The National Bank of the Malorian Islands and the Federal Treasury of the Malorian Islands is responsible for developing monetary policy for the Malorianese Mark, which is the current currency of the Malorian Islands as of 2020.
[[File:CommunistMaloria.jpg|thumb|The national flag of the People's Federal Republic of the Malorian Islands (1947-1953) and the Worker's Party of the Malorian Islands]]
On March 10th, 1947, the LeMonde Administration reached a compromise with the Malorian Popular Front, allowing Veronique LeMonde to step out of power and for Evan Gonzales to lead the Malorian Islands under a socialist government. To celebrate his accomplishment as President of the Republic of the Malorian Islands, he changed the name of the country to the People's Federal Republic of the Malorian Islands in an effort to legitimize his rule. This also meant changing the position of the head of state of the Malorian Islands from President to General Secretary of the Worker's Party.


===Foreign Relations of the PFRMI===
[[File:Malorian Jungles.jpg|300x300px|thumb|The wide and vibrant Dubois Rainforest in San Marcos, Malorian Islands]]
Under the rule of General Secretary Evan Gonzales, the Malorian Islands shifted its foreign relations from its western allies of the United States and the United Kingdom to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact to reflect its commitment to the ideas of both world communism and Joseph Stalin's adaptation of the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. General Secretary Gonzales also gave foreign aid and support to the Communist Party of China and the Irish Republican Army whilst in office. In 1950, at the start of the Korean War, Gonzales officially had his government recognize and send aid to North Korea as part of his doctrine of "keeping friends close" in order to have an effective relationship with any nation that leaned anywhere close to the Soviet satellite of power.
=Geography and Climate=
The Malorian Islands is located in the Carribbean, approximately 200 miles from Haiti and 150 from the Republic of Cuba as well as 1,300 miles from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. With the entire set of islands southwest of the Tropic of Cancer, the local climate is tropical, moderated by northeasterly trade winds that blow year-round. The temperature is also shaped by the Caribbean current, which brings in warm water from the equator.


===Socialism in the Malorian Islands===
=Demographics=
Under the guise of the Worker's Party of the Malorian Islands, Gonzales implemented social reforms including the re-distribution of wealth, land reform, and the nationalization of the sugar and banana industries. Gonzales also implemented economic reforms to significantly change the economy from a purely agricultural to a mostly industrial economy. While these reforms were mostly successful, the way that Gonzales and the socialist government implemented these reforms was through strict quotas and a ideal plan for a Five Year Plan (from 1947 to 1952). These strict quotas made Gonzales and his government unpopular through time but any dissent or rumors of an uprising were quickly stomped out through the Comite Populaire Des Affaires Nationales et d'Etat (People's Committee on State and National Affairs; CPDANE), the political police of the Malorian Islands during the Gonzales Era.
The Malorian Islands has a population consisting of mainly Francophone/Iberian descent citizens, with the minority being those that descended from slaves that came from Cuba and Haiti. In the 1980s, Russian and Belarusian immigrants emigrated to the Malorian Islands due to the increasing reforms within the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev allowing for open travel to any Soviet citizen. A majority of these Russian speaking citizens reside on the Province of Ulyanovsk (named after the city of Ulyanovsky in 1950 during the rule of the Worker's Party of the Malorian Islands), where the Russian and Belarusian cultures have blended with the culture of the Malorian Islands.


The Malorian Islands were supported and propped up by the Soviet MGB and the East German Ministry for State Security in order to make the Malorianese secret police effective against any form of dissent towards the Marxist-Leninist regime. While as head of state, Gonzales began to develop a cult of personality around himself. He did this by glorifying the deeds of his pre-revolutionary activities as a humble socialist and leftist writer as well as skewing the media to have a strictly improved view of Gonzales. This was done by having any dissident journalists either imprisoned, assassinated clandestinely through the CPDANE, or just outright executed publicly.
=Military=
[[File:Military.jpg|300x300px|thumb|Soldiers belonging to the elite Alpha Group of the National Armed Forces of the Malorian Islands conducting a drill in San Marcos, Malorian Islands.]]
The National Armed Forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands is the national armed forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands. The National Armed Forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands consists of the Republican Guard, the Air Service, the Naval Forces, the Ministry for State Security Internal Troops, and the Space Corps as well as other independent formations within the borders of the Malorian Islands. The National Police and the Coast Guard, both of which have law enforcement and military functions, operate as components of the internal security forces in peacetime, when they are subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. In wartime, they are subordinate to the Army and Navy. The President of The Malorian Islands is the military's overall head. The National Armed Forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands follows a rank structure similar to the Swiss Armed Forces.

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The Federation of Malorian Islands
La Fédération Des Iles Maloriennes
Flag of Malorian Islands
Flag
Coat of Arms of Malorian Islands
Coat of Arms
Motto: Patrie, Dieu, Democratie
Anthem: "Forward, Maloria" National Anthem of The Federation of the Malorian Islands
MalorianMap.jpg
CapitalBordeaux
LargestSt. Bernard
Official languagesFrench, English
Recognised national languagesFrench, English
Recognised regional languagesSpanish, Haitian Creole, Runglish, Low German
Ethnic groups
(2019)
White (82%), Black (13%), Asian (2.5%), Hispanic (2.5%)
Demonym(s)Malorianese
GovernmentFederal presidential republic
• President
Frank A. Perry
• Prime Minister
John Moreau
LegislatureThe Council of The Republic
• Upper house
The National Senate
• Lower house
The House of Representatives
Foundation 
Independence from France (July 9th, 1910)
• Monarchy established
October 9th, 1953
• Military junta established
September 30th, 1993
• Monarchy abolished
January 11th, 1997
• Military junta abolished
August 19th, 2011
• Current Constitution
October 5th, 2018
Area
• 
750 km2 (290 sq mi)
• Water (%)
1.6
Population
• 2019 estimate
100,000
• 2019 census
102,256
• Density
105/km2 (271.9/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)2019 estimate
• Total
M221,000,000,000
• Per capita
M26,211
Gini29
low
HDI (2019)0.9824
very high
CurrencyMalorianese Mark (MM)
Time zoneUTC-4 (Malorian Islands Time)
Date formatmm-dd-yy
Driving sideleft
Calling code+503
ISO 3166 codeMAL

The Federation of Malorian Islands or simply The Malorian Islands, is a country in the northeastern Caribbean. It shares waters with Haiti, The Dominican Republic, and Cuba. The Malorian Islands was originally a colony of the French Empire until 1910, when eventually given independence by the French Third Republic in 1910. In 1942, The Malorian Islands was occupied by the French State and Nazi Germany during World War II before the puppet government was overthrown in 1945. In 1953, the Malorian Islands became an absolute monarchy led by King Quentin Farcoise after overthrowing leftist President of the Malorian Islands President Evan Gonzales. In 1993, the monarchy was de facto abolished in favor of a military junta led by anti-monarchist factions of the Malorianese Royal Army after King Quentin Farcoise died in 1989. Since the adoption of a democratic constituition in 2011, the Malorian Islands has functioned as a federal presidential republic.

Etymology

The name for the country Maloria comes from a Spanish word meaning angelic or graceful. Is is believed by ancient historians that the name Maloria was used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus when describing the Malorian Islands to his colleagues. The Malorian Islands was known by many names throughout history, including but not limited to Gasconia when under French rule and Isla de Angelica under Spanish rule.

History

Part of a series on the History of the Malorian Islands
Historic periods of the Malorian Islands
Spanish colonialism of the Malorian Islands
1553 - 1812
French colonialism of the Malorian Islands
1812 – 1910
First Republic of the Malorian Islands
1910 – 1942
Axis occupation of the Malorian Islands
1942 – 1945
The Government of the Republic of the Malorian Islands in exile
1942 – 1945
The Second Republic of Malorian Islands
1945 – 1947
The People's Federal Republic of Malorian Islands
1947 – 1953
The Kingdom of Malorian Islands
1953 – 1997
The Third Republic of Malorian Islands
1997 – 2018
The Federation of Malorian Islands
2018 –

Pre-Independent Malorian Islands (1553-1910)

The Malorian Islands as a nation has had a confusing and complicated history prior to its official founding by Spanish colonists in the 1550s, as most of any historical records or artifacts pertaining to the Malorian Islands were destroyed by the Spanish colonists throughout their rule and the French invasion of the Malorian Islands. On November 12th, 1553, the Spanish Navy under the command of Captain Herman Victor Salazar invaded and made the modern day Malorian Islands into a colony of the Spanish Empire. The official name of the Malorian Islands under the Spanish Empire was declared to be a Province of Spain known as El Provincia de Maloria (known in English as The Province of Maloria). In 1812, the French Empire under Napoleon I invaded the Province of Maloria and annexed the Malorian Islands as a colony of the French Empire. The French military (under the control of military governor Jean-Luc Bernard of the French Navy) initiated several cultural reforms to the islands to rid the nation of any Spanish influences. French became the official language of the Malorian Islands, the name of the capital was changed from St. Charles to St. Bernard, and the name of the nation changed from the Province of Maloria to the Province of Gasconia.

Independent Malorian Islands (1910-Present)

In 1907, Malorianese revolutionaries grew annoyed of having a lack of autonomy within their own borders and overthrew the military governor of the Province of Gasconia. This uprising by Malorianese revolutionaries turned into what would become the Malorianese Revolutionary War which lasted from 1907 to 1910. In 1910, the Republic of the Malorian Islands was declared. The usurper to the role of Governor and leader of the anti-colonial revolutionary movement within the Malorian Islands, Abraham Dubois, would then become the first President of the Malorian Islands through the Malorian Islands' first election taking place. Between the years of 1911 and 1927, President Dubois initiated some reforms to ensure the economy would retain stability through nationalization of some small industries within the Malorian Islands and the "Malorian Islands First" policy initiated by President Dubois (which was a form of autarky and self-determination by the Malorianese government). President Dubois died in office in 1927.

In 1927, after the death of Abraham Dubois, then-Vice President Veronique DuMond was elected to power in a snap election.

Foreign Relations of the Malorian Islands

After the fall of the military government and the transition to democracy, the Malorian Islands has maintained relations with its neighbors of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela as well as maintaining cordial relations with western nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Under the presidency of Frank Perry, the nation has shifted its trade and political relations to the Russian Federation, Poland, and the Republic of Belarus. Since 1992, the Malorian Islands has also recognized the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, the Republic of South Ossetia, and the Republic of Abkhazia despite their limited recognition.

On August 11th, 2020, The Malorian Islands severed all ties with the Republic of Belarus after President Perry established relations with the newly formed Belarusian Transitional Council and Belarusian government-in-exile. This move was done after the President of Belarus won his sixth electoral term and attacked protestors throughout Belarus.

Politics

The Malorian Islands is a federal presidential republic governed by a president and the Council of the Republic. The term for each presidency is five years. Under the 2012 constitution, the president could serve for only one term but a change in the constitution in 2019 abolished term limits for the Presidency. The House of Representatives has the power to appoint the prime minister, make constitutional amendments, call for a vote of confidence on the prime minister, and make suggestions on foreign and domestic policy. The National Senate has the power to select various government officials, conduct an impeachment trial of the president, and accept or reject the bills passed by the House of Representatives. Each chamber has the ability to veto any law passed by local officials if it is contrary to the constitution.

The National Senate is led by the Prime Minister, who is assisted by a Deputy Prime Minister in his duties. The current Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are Salvador Marquis and Jackson Hollande, respectively. The Speaker of the House of the Representatives is led by Elaine Verose. The leaders of both the National Senate and the House of Representatives are elected through the political party holding majority within either the upper or lower houses of the National Council of the Republic. As of 2020, the National Senate is led by the Malorianese People's Party whilst the House of Represenatives is held by the Party for Peace and Democracy.

The Prime Minister, followed by the Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the House of the Representatives, are the first three representatives that act in the line of Malorianese presidential line of succession in the event the President is unable to carry on with his duties as the President of the Federation of the Malorian Islands.

Culture

Television and Radio

Ever since 1948 with the establishment of Radio Bordeaux and TeleMal in 1960, Malorianese television and radio stations are both owned by the state government and by private businesses throughout the Malorian Islands. Local radio stations like Perestroika Radio (established in 1987 by Belarusian emigre Zlatko Keremov) exist on islands like Ulyanovsk as a way to cater to the local minority populations of the Malorian Islands.

Music

Music in the Malorian Islands has taken inspiration from not only its neighbors of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic but other trade partners the Malorian Islands cooperates with such as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. As a result, a genre of Malorianese Bolero music has existed in the Malorian Islands since the 1940s. EDM music has also begun to have a rise in popularity in 2011 after the military government of the Malorian Islands was dissolved, allowing for a more progressive style of music and culture to form in the country.

Cinema

Despite influences from both the United States (and briefly, Soviet film), the Malorianese film industry is a small industry that doesn't have much influence outside the Malorian Islands and the Caribbean.

Art

Sports

The official sports of the Malorian Islands are baseball and soccer, with the Malorian Islands having unofficial status within the Micronational Football League and the Micronational Baseball League. The national soccer team of the Malorian Islands was formed in 2012, with the national baseball team of the Malorian Islands forming in 2019. The President of the Malorian Islands hopes to form a basketball team in the Malorian Islands by 2022.

Economy

The Malorian Islands have a market based mixed economy, with the state government owning at least 51% of all business within the Malorian Islands dominated by an economy based around textiles and coffee. The Malorianese economy is also reliant on a large tourism industry that had been prevalent in the country since the establishment of the Malorianese Tourism Board in 1967. The National Bank of the Malorian Islands and the Federal Treasury of the Malorian Islands is responsible for developing monetary policy for the Malorianese Mark, which is the current currency of the Malorian Islands as of 2020.

The wide and vibrant Dubois Rainforest in San Marcos, Malorian Islands

Geography and Climate

The Malorian Islands is located in the Carribbean, approximately 200 miles from Haiti and 150 from the Republic of Cuba as well as 1,300 miles from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. With the entire set of islands southwest of the Tropic of Cancer, the local climate is tropical, moderated by northeasterly trade winds that blow year-round. The temperature is also shaped by the Caribbean current, which brings in warm water from the equator.

Demographics

The Malorian Islands has a population consisting of mainly Francophone/Iberian descent citizens, with the minority being those that descended from slaves that came from Cuba and Haiti. In the 1980s, Russian and Belarusian immigrants emigrated to the Malorian Islands due to the increasing reforms within the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev allowing for open travel to any Soviet citizen. A majority of these Russian speaking citizens reside on the Province of Ulyanovsk (named after the city of Ulyanovsky in 1950 during the rule of the Worker's Party of the Malorian Islands), where the Russian and Belarusian cultures have blended with the culture of the Malorian Islands.

Military

Soldiers belonging to the elite Alpha Group of the National Armed Forces of the Malorian Islands conducting a drill in San Marcos, Malorian Islands.

The National Armed Forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands is the national armed forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands. The National Armed Forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands consists of the Republican Guard, the Air Service, the Naval Forces, the Ministry for State Security Internal Troops, and the Space Corps as well as other independent formations within the borders of the Malorian Islands. The National Police and the Coast Guard, both of which have law enforcement and military functions, operate as components of the internal security forces in peacetime, when they are subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. In wartime, they are subordinate to the Army and Navy. The President of The Malorian Islands is the military's overall head. The National Armed Forces of the Federation of the Malorian Islands follows a rank structure similar to the Swiss Armed Forces.

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