Acrea

Kingdom of Acrea Königreich Akrien
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: In Treue Fest
Anthem: "Rufst du, mein Vaterland." [1]
Capital	Bern
Largest city	Straßburg
Official languages	German
Demonym(s)	Acrean
Government	Federal Constitutional Monarchy
Legislature	Parliament of Acrea
• Upper house	Reichstag
• Lower house	Landtag
Population
• 2017 census	190,953,903
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Total	$11,619,926,905,356
• Per capita	$60,852
Currency	Ducat (Đ or đ) (DUC)
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy CE
Driving side	right
Calling code	+62
ISO 3166 code	ACR
Internet TLD	.ar

Acrea (German: Akrien), officially the Kingdom of Acrea (German: Königreich Akrien) is a country located Eracura in Tyran. It is a federal constitutional monarchy. It is bordered by land to the west and north by Azura and Montemayor and Alemarr.

Owing to its size, Acrea has a diverse landscape, with lush forests, rolling light hills, and snowy mountains. With a total territory spanning 3.36 million square kilometres, it is the 3rd largest nation in Tyran by land area and the second largest by population. The name Acrea comes from the Kingdom of Acre, considered to be the foundation of modern Acrea.

In the 21st Century, Acrea is a regional leader in various industries including technology and maintains a high standard of living sustained with a large skilled workforce and productive society, and it maintains a national social security and universal healthcare systems, and low-tuition university educations.

Government

Law

Acrea possesses only one major criminal code under national law. Regional criminal codes do exist, but do so only to cover small offenses. By constitutional law a region is forbidden from trying an individual for a crime on both a regional and national level if the same offense is covered in both criminal codes, and since 1996 have been mostly prohibited from passing new laws that are already covered by national criminal law.

Offenses are classified into five tiers, which are organised based on the maximum possible penalty or sentence for offenses within a respective tier. Fifth tier offenses are not considered criminal, and cover infractions and petty misdemeanors such as traffic violations, with the highest possible punishment being fines. Fourth tier offenses and above are considered criminal.

Sentencing in Acrea is heavily based upon circumstance; rather than sentencing based on the crime alone, it is frequently carried out in a manner that considers the circumstances under which the crime took place, as well as the intentions and mental state of the individual being charged. For this reason, crimes are generally categorised with specific within Acrean legal code which, whilst more complicated in the education of legal workers, aids in defining the exact nature of the crimes and individual commits.

Since reforms in the late 1970s, the Acrean penal system has largely focused on rehabilitation rather than punishment. Prison sentences have varying degrees of punishment depending on the ultimate sentence, naturally. All prison facilities are operated by the National Penitentiary Service (NSIN) which is operated under the direction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). The facilities range from rehabilitation facilities (ex. drug abuse and alchohol-based offenses), to prisons ranging from low to medium security (ex. larceny, involuntary/accidental manslaughter, minor violent offenses), to maximum security internment centers (ex. severe violent offenses, murder). Numerous detention centres aim to utilise inmates for various kinds of labour, and inmates may be hired to perform manual labour for public works projects.

Law Enforcement

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There are at least two levels of police forces in any given region of Acrea; regional police and national police. As opposed to maintaining separate police departments in towns and cities, regional police are recruited and maintained by the regional government and assigned to departments in towns and cities. National police can be found everywhere within Acrea. Additionally, prior to 2012 a gendarme border protection force was maintained. The responsibilities of this force were instead given to the military and the force disbanded, with members still in service being re-assigned to the NSIN, the National Penitentary Service, which is responsible for the security of criminals and guarding prisons. SWAT and heavy policing duties are the responsibility of OMON, a gendarmerie force recruited from the MVD police forces. OMON officers receive special training in various types of situations including hostage rescue, tubular assaults, and counter-terrorism.

The effectiveness of the Acrean law enforcement is thought to contribute to the relatively low rate of violent crimes such as homicide relative to the population in Acrea. Other factors in addition to MVD control, including location, contribute to the low rates of major drug abuse compared to population. Following legal and police reforms during the 1980s and economic reforms throughout the 1970s and through the 1990s, white collar crime remains one of the largest concerns for Acrea.

Military

Main article: Acrean Armed Forces

The Premier is commander-in-chief of the Acrean Armed Forces, which is headed ultimately by the Minister of Defence. The Acrean military is the largest in Tyran by number of military personnel, of which it maintains 1.77 million active duty personnel as of 2018. Foreign deployments of the Acrean military are maintained largely in Quenmin and Shalum. The Group of Soviet Forces Shalum is the Acrean military's largest deployment, with over 250,000 personnel stationed in the country.

The Armed Forces are divided into the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy. The Naval Infantry is a sub-service of the Navy, and the Airborne Troops (VDV) are considered a sub-service which is directly under command of the Army, but utilises resources from both the Army and the Air Force. The budget for the Acrean Armed Forces for 2018 was approximately 3.8% of the nation's GDP, about $536 billion. The Acrean military is supported by a large and fully indigenous defence industry, and produces almost all of its own military equipment. The Acrean defence industry also has a large number of exports, with Acrean military equipment being used in the militaries of Shalum, Cacerta, Quenmin, Chihon, and Ruvelka.

Economy

Energy

The Acrean government, since 2000, has invested heavily in nationalising renewable energy methods, with the eventual goal of making at least 80% of the nation's needs met through the use of renewable energy sources by 2030. Approximately 40% of the nation's energy requirements were met using renewable energy in 2015, of which the most efficient have been wind farms in the North Sea and solar farms in the south. The Acrean Government has also done extensive work to begin utilising ever greater amounts of hydroenergy, employing extensive development programmes in order to implement newer and more efficient technology.

Acrea is a strong oil producing economy. Expansive offshore drilling in the sea and in the arctic has yielded large reserves not found in continental Acrea. One of the chief goals of the Acrean Navy is the protection of Acrean economic assets at sea. However, the majority of the oil is exported which results in comparatively high domestic gas prices.