Parche

Republic of Parche République de Parche
Flag of Parche Flag Presidential coat of arms of Parche Presidential coat of arms
Motto: "Avec nos frères nous sommes"
Anthem: "La fête musical du Parche"
Capital	Fortin Jeaniste
Largest city	la Sanctuaire
Official languages	Gaullican
Recognised national languages	Gaullican
Recognised regional languages	Babise, Hennish
Ethnic groups (2013)	Parche-Gaullican (54.7%), Parche-Bahian (13.2%), Babise (12%), Parche-Hennish (7.8%), Other native groups (6.4%), Weranian (3%), Other euclean groups (2%),
Demonym(s)	Parchise
Government	Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic
• President	Jean-François Lemaîtrie
• Vice President	Lambert Asselineau
• Juge en chef	Louis V. E. Fleuriau
• Président de l'Assemblée	Grégory Berlioz
Legislature	Le Congrés
• Upper house	Le Sénat
• Lower house	L'Assemblée nationale
Independence from Gaullica
• Confederation	August 11 1873
• Independent constitution	November 14 1887
• Sovereign Republic	December 20 1936
• Current constitution	August 11 1990
Area
•	1,074,128.19 km2 (414,723.21 sq mi)
Population
• 2013 estimate	53,432,100
• 2013 census	53,432,100
GDP (PPP)	2014 estimate
• Total	$2.21 Trillion
• Per capita	$41,360
Gini (2012)	51.2 high
HDI (2012)	0.794 high
Currency	Platinete (PLT)
Time zone	VST+7
Date format	mm-dd-yy
Driving side	right
ISO 3166 code	PA
Internet TLD	.PA

Parche, officially The Republic of Parche or République de Parche, is a Federal Presidential Republic located in Asteria Inferior. The country is one of Asteria Inferior’s largest with it’s 1074128.19 km2 (667431.03 sq mi) and one of the most populated nations in Asteria Inferior, as well as one of the more populated in La Gaullophonie with a 2013 estimated population of 53,432,100. It is divided into eighteen regions varying in area but almost equalling each other in population. The capital is Fortin Jeaniste, the country’s third largest city and cultural as well as commercial centre. Located in the River Delta of the massive Cuvimont river, it is listed as an important world heritage site and widely visited as Asteria Inferior’s primary urban tourist city.

The Republic of Parche’s coastal regions generally enjoy living standards that of Euclea and the west, with an advanced and organized economy. It is one of the world’s largest exporter of livestock, sugar and crops, including the growing resource that is soy beans and it’s many uses. The major industry is agricultural production, but an automotive and oil industry uses the many natural resources of Parche for other important exports. Inner Parche is however decades behind the technological and economic process of the rest of the country. Locations where native populations such as the Babise groups and Parche-Bahians are among the most underdeveloped.

What is now Parche was settled by hundreds of tribes in the Babise group about 12,000 years ago. The first euclean expedition to discover the River Delta of the Cuvimont river was Willem Daane, who explored the area extensively in 1562. The Hennish did not establish much more then a trading post on Île de Daane however, as of today a Parchise Island and region. It was the Guallican crown that decided to establish a colony in what is now Parche, and built a fort and port in the Cuvimont river Delta, named after Guallican Marquis Émile de Cuvimont who was chosen to administer the colony. It expanded significantly in the early 1700s and waged wars against the native tribes, pushing them further into central Asteria.

History

EVERYTHING is highly WIP, waiting on expansion and approval

Confederation

The twelve regions of Cuvimont were pooled together in the Parche act of 1873, establishing the Confederation of Parche. This was mainly done to increase local administrative efficiency and to ease the Central Gaullican government’s grasp on the Colonial Governor, now Confederate Chancellor. The 1st Chancellor to serve was Jacques Août Felenieau, a social reformer and aggressive expander. He would with approval from the the young King Albert III ban the import of Bahian slaves to Parche, widely to the plantage owner’s discontent. The need for cheap forced labour would however be solved by enslaving the babise tribes. In The late Babise wars the Parchise forces would explore, pillage and murder it’s way down the Cuvimont river and it’s tributaries. Establishing fortresses and increasing military presence, the Parchise settlers could expand inland with the help of railroad. Gaullican capitalists and investors took great interest when exploring soldiers brought rumours of vast Diamond excavations and ancient temples in gold. When these rumours turned out to not meet with reality, the native population suffered even more and was displaced or enslaved by the government agencies. Something that was found by the foreign mining companies was ores of minerals in rock, leading to a mining industry either way. The productional boom in the inland regions would come with the demand for rubber in Euclea, where the vast amounts of natural rubber in the Acluvan rainforest.

By 1887, Parche was largely independent economically with close ties to Asteria and Roeselle among others. Common understanding between plantage owners and politicians saw demands of further independence being handed to the then King Albert III’s government. While considered bold and as a sign of rebelliousness from the Parchise, it was accepted and the Confederation of Parche received the right to it’s own constitution, remaining as a Dominon in the Gaullican Empire.