Jossia

The Azzurri Republic of Jossia La Repubblica Azzurra di Jossia
Motto: Unity in Strength
Anthem: In Defense of Our Freedom
Largest city	Tellaro
Official languages	Vespasian
Ethnic groups (2019)	Euclean (51%) Razzamista (24%) Indigenous (12%) Bahian (5%) Badawiya (4%) Coius (4%)
Demonym(s)	Jossian
Government	Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic
• President	Irene Fornaciari
• Luca Tesconi	Vice President
• President of the Senate of the Republic	xxxxx
• President of the Chamber of Represenatives	xxxxx
Legislature	National Congress
• Upper house	Senate of the Republic
• Lower house	Chamber of Represenatives
Independence from Etruria, 1808
• Colonization	1xxx
• Independence	1808
• Azzurri Revolution	1998-2001
• Azzurri Republic	2002
Population
• 2020 estimate	52,218,786
• 2018 census	51,590,386
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Per capita	J$23,462
Currency	Jossian Dollaro (JSD)
Time zone	UTC+15 (Western Lumine Time)
Date format	mm-dd-yyyy CE
Driving side	left
Internet TLD	.jos

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History

The Azzurri Republic of Jossia is the former colony of Etruria, having declared independence from the Etrurian First Republic in 1808.

Late 20th Century

Jossia has dealt with short-lived governmental changes in the late 20th century leaving a wake of state-sponsored terrorism and corruption that stained the soul of the nation. After the market crash of 1980, Jossia suffered from a financial fallout that included corporate bankruptcies, leading the nation into a recession. Within a year, the nation struggled with mass unemployment, food shortages, and public riots throughout the nation. Admiral Benito Maltoni came to power in 1984 after aligning himself with General Alfredo Candia in a military coup that overthrew the struggling President Carlos Bresciani in his last year of office. To pull the nation out of crisis, Maltoni simplified the tax code, cut taxes, curbed foreign spending, and created a massive public works program in an effort to modernize the economy. There was also a state takeover of strategic industries, notably oil and steel, to improve the nation’s strategic resources. In three years the economy grew more than 25 percent and unemployment fell 74 percent, but the program more than doubled the national debt.

Government intervention in industry was very uneven as Maltoni’s public works programs were only directed to expand its manufacturing sector, and quickly lacked direction elsewhere. A poor harvest during Maltoni’s second term in 1992 led to a grain crisis where government intervention provided subsidies for domestic growers but also cut spending and importation, creating widespread inefficiencies and food shortages throughout the nation’s urban areas.

As Maltoni’s government continued its reign for a third term, the people of Jossia started to rise up in protest of the growing inequality in the state The Azzurri, or Blue Coats, were the chief organizers of protests and led riots in all major cities throughout Jossia. Fearing his life, Maltoni ruled with an iron fist, consolidating his power and slaughtering dissidents in the name of progress. His downfall came in 1999, when Maltoni ordered his troops to fire on a Mapuche village after Jossia’s intelligence agencies suspected an attempt to blow up the Presidential Compound in Calabrimo. The wholesale murder of the village triggered an outrage from the nation. The Azzurri led the people in a revolution to bring back a democratic government for good. Led by future President Antonio Quarentata, the Azzurri Revolution from 1998-2001 against Maltoni’s government was a bloody, but successful, war for freedom. After the revolution, the support of the Azzurri was so strong across the nation, the state was renamed in their honor.

Modern Era

Now, a progressive state in its 18th year of pink tide, Jossia’s left-wing government continues to right the wrongs of its past, prosecuting human rights violators and paving the way for industrial growth, creating fiscal and trade surpluses to pay down debt.

Military

Trying to erase its corruptive, militant past, Jossia restructured its military and limited its power at the start of the 21st century. In 2003, Jossia enacted the Defense Law, which set to modernize the armed forces only for the use against foreign aggression, cease conscription laws enacted in the 1980s to lessen the size of each branch,limit the powers of each Branch’s leaders, and centralize operations under the authority of the President’s Joint Forces General Staff. The Jossia Armed Forces now consist of three professional volunteer branches, Army, Navy, and Air Force.The main focus of the current military is to continue to modernize and provide humanitarian aid along with protection of the region's waterways. The total active personnel in the Armed Forces is 169,000 and its current budget has decreased to 1.6% GDP. [list][*]Army: 102,000 personnel [*]Navy: 49,000 personnel [*]Air Force: 18,000 personnel[/b] [/list] [b] Nuclear Power:[/b] Nuclear energy first made its appearance in Jossia in the 1960s when the nation established a government organization to explore and develop nuclear power. Today, there is only one nuclear reactor in Jossia, the 418 MW SessaUno, a pressurized heavy water reactor that entered commercial service in 1978. After the coup of 1984, Admiral Maltoni announced having the capability of producing weapons grade uranium, but the nation has yet to build the facilities to do so or provided evidence they could. Since the Azzurri Republic, Jossia has pledged to use nuclear power solely for peaceful purposes. The nation is a proponent for non-proliferation and is highly committed to global nuclear security.

Economy

Jossia is a developed nation with a mixed market economy supported by primary industries of oil and metals. The nation possesses a developed industrial sector that provides numerous goods for the Asturian markets, like food processing, textiles and apparel, and tertiary industries in transportation and electronics. A growing number of the nation’s energy supply comes from renewable resources (12%) but Jossia’s oil industry maintains a strong grasp on energy production and consumption. The nation is considered a middle-income country and ranks well in economic freedom, but struggles in income equality. Jossia is moving towards becoming a socially progessive country, with heritage protection programs for its indigenous population and Equal Marriage Laws, but is still struggling to push the needle further left. Urban centers make up 82% of the population. Jossia is a middle power, a regional power, and a member of various international organizations, including the Community of Nations, International Council for Democracy, International Trade Organization, the Organization of Asterian Nations, the Asteria Inferior Common Market, and the League of Oil Producing States