North Kabu

Kabu Republic Republik Kabu (Kabu)
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Motto: Persatuan, Negara, Demokrasi, Kesejahteraan "Unity, State, Democracy, Welfare!"
Land controlled by North Kabu shown in dark green, land claimed but not controlled shown in light green.
Capital and largest city	Magelang
Official languages	Kabu
Recognised regional languages	Ilatbarat
Demonym(s)	Kabu Kabuese North Kabuese
Government	Unitary semi-presidential republic
• President	Dian Suripto
• Premier	Kumat Dumarwulan
Legislature	Senate
Establishment
• Colony of Carolinian Islands	1797
• Start of Kabu Civil War	1941
• Treaty of City	1947
• Current Constitution	1990
Area
• Total	39,482 km2 (15,244 sq mi)
Population
• 2020 census	8,073,283
• Density	202.63/km2 (524.8/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2020 estimate
• Total	$121.3 billion
• Per capita	$15,023
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Total	$46.3 billion
• Per capita	$5,738
Gini (2020)	37.2 medium
HDI (2020)	0.751 high
Currency	Kabu shilling (RKS)
Internet TLD	.rk

North Kabu (Kabu: Kabupik Utara), officially the Kabu Republic (Kabu: Republik Kabu) is a state in Southeast Coius. While officially claiming the whole of the Kabu archipelago, its control is limited to the northeastern half of the archipelago and its claims of sovereignty over the southwestern portion of the archipelago are not universally recognised, with many recognising South Kabu, which the country shares a de facto maritime border with. The country's de facto territory consists of sixty-one islands, yet the vast majority of the population is concentrated on the three Telung Sadulur islands in the south or the Sedulur Loro pair in the north.

Sublustrian peoples first settled the island chain during the middle of the first millenium, with evidence of cities built up around paddy fields existing in Sedulur Loro from the 7th century CE. Through contact and trade with Dezevau and other nations in which it was practised, the now-dominant Badi faith arrived in the islands in the 9th century, with elemental cults appearing across the islands. Badi kingdoms and empires would emerge in later centuries, with many of them spanning the whole island chain at their peaks and becoming prosperous over the spice trade. This spice trade, however, would lead to the interest in the islands by the Estmerish !East India Company, which would attempt to establish control over the islands in the 17th and 18th centuries in order to monopolise the trade.

As the Company became increasingly dominant, Estmerish control was cemented and in 1797 the islands were made into the nationalised colony of the Carolinian Isles. Colonial rule would persist for the next thirteen decades with little interruption, until the Gaullican occupation during the Great War led to an upsurge in support for anti-colonial movements, which would increase further after the war when Estmerish promises on self-government were not fulfilled. However, after moves were made to establish an independent state, tensions between nationalists and socialists led to the outbreak of the Kabu Civil War in 1941, with the modern state of North Kabu coming into being in 1947 after the Treaty of City split the archipelago between the two groups. Since then, the country has gone through two periods of authoritarian rule from 1947-1965 and 1978-1990, yet since 1990 the country has democratised and liberalised.

North Kabu is considered to be an middle-income country with one of the fastest growing economies in Coius, with the country boasting a rapidly expanding tertiary sector. Since the transition to democracy, governments have made it a priority to achieve universal literacy and healthcare, with the government aiming to achieve a literacy rate of 98% and a healthcare coverage rate of 95% by 2025.

Politics and Government

Dian Suripto
President

Kumat Dumarwulan
Premier

Since the enactment of the 1990 Constitution of the Kabu Republic following democratisation, North Kabu has been a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, with the Constitution establishing four main institutions between which the powers of government are distributed: the President, the Government, the Senate and the Courts.

President

The President is established to be the head of state of North Kabu and is elected through universal suffrage through plurality voting to serve for a five year term. Intended to serve as a counterweight to the Government and to act as an oversight to their plans, the President is granted significant executive powers: serving as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and as the chief diplomat of North Kabu, they have significant power over foreign and defence policy. Furthermore, they have the power to veto laws that have not gained an absolute majority of 55% of the Senate.

The current President is Dian Suripto, a member of the Republican People's Party who was first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. He is the fifth President of North Kabu under the current Constitution and the fourth to come from the Republican People's Party - the only President not to come from the party was the Democratic Reform Party's Raharjo Suratman, who served between 2006 and 2010.

Government

The Government of North Kabu consists of the Premier, who serves as the nation's head of government, and his ministers. The Government is officially appointed by the President, yet it is required that the Government hold the confidence of the majority of the Senate and the Government can only be removed from office by a motion of no confidence within the Senate. Therefore, the Premier and his ministers are in practice chosen by the majority party or coalition within the Senate, yet due to the President's significant authority within foreign and defence policy it is common that they wield significant influence over the appointment of the Foreign Minister and Defence Minister.

As a result of the stalemate between left-leaning and right-leaning factions produced in the 2017 legislative election, the Government currently consists of a grand coalition between the Republican People's Party and the Democratic Reform Party, with both parties taking an equal number of ministries and the position of Premier being held by independent politician and former economist Kumat Dumarwulan.

Senate

The Senate of North Kabu carries the nation's supreme legislative power and is a unicameral body consisting of 175 members elected through a system of parallel voting for four-year terms. Ninety of its members are elected in single-member districts through plurality voting, while eighty-five are elected through a nationwide constituency under proportional representation. The Senate and its members have the ability to propose, pass, amend and reject legislation proposals, and also have the power to impeach a sitting President through a two-thirds majority, which results in their removal from office, yet this procedure has never been successfully utilised.

The Senate has largely been dominated by two main factions - the Patangist, conservative and Kabu nationalist Republican People's Party (PRR, Partai Rakyat Republik) and the liberal, progressive and pro-détente Democratic Reform Party (PRD, Partai Reformasi Demokratis). These two parties, founded during the 1988-90 transition to democracy, are the only two parties to have supplied a Premier, yet other more minor parties have played a role in the North Kabuese political protest, such as the national conservative National Front, the progressive Democratic Left, the economically liberal Innovation Party and the centrist Sotirian Association.

Law

North Kabu has a hybrid legal system of common and civil law heavily influenced by that of Estmere, with resulting influences from Solarian, Weranic and Gaullican legal traditions, with precedent and custom being recognised as sources of legal authority alongside codified legislation.

Notable differences exist, however, between the country's legal system and that of Estmere. Most notably, trial by jury was abolished in 1957 and the country still retains punishments since abolished in Estmere, with capital punishment still an active punishment used to punish murder, rape, treason, terrorism and drug trafficking and corporal punishment remaining as an occasionally used penalty for minor crimes such as petty theft. The methods used for these are normally hanging and caning respectively, and official government statistics state that over the 2010's about 19 people were sentenced to death.

The supreme court of North Kabu is the High Court of the Kabu Republic, which serves as the court of final appeal and has powers of judicial review. Underneath the court are provincial courts and then district courts, where cases are normally initiated.