Keflistan
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Republic of Keflistan | |
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 Flag | |
| Location of Keflistan | |
| Capital and largest city | Kefli City |
| Official languages | English Spanish French |
| Religion | 82.8% Christianity 13.2% Traditional Regional Religion 2.5% Islam 1.5% Other |
| Demonym(s) | Keflistani |
| Government | Federal Constitutional Republic |
• President (Provisional) | Bosede Henryson |
• Vice President (Provisional) | Éric Marsh |
• Speaker | Nathan Brewster |
• President of the Federal Senate of Keflistan | Norman Stringer |
| Álvaro Norwood | |
| Legislature | Federal Congress of Keflistan |
| Representative Assembly | |
| Federal Senate of Keflistan | |
| Formation | |
• Kefli Cheifdoms | 1137 |
• Colony of Keflistan given Autonomy | 1575 |
• Independance from Ibica | 1715 |
• End of Kefli Civil War | 2021 |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,147,509 km2 (443,056 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2015 census | 41,445,290 |
• Density | 58.11/sq mi (22.4/km2) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2015 estimate |
• Total | $447 billion |
• Per capita | $10,799 |
| Gini (2020 (Estimate)) | 52.3 high |
| HDI (2020) | 0.421 low |
| Currency | Kefli Dollar (KFD) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +25 |
| Internet TLD | .kf |
Keflistan, officially the Republic of Keflistan, is a country making up the majority of Tecal Penisula. It is bordered by the Cortesia Ocean to the north, the Crisirian Sea to the south, and the Calmont Strait. Keflistan has a total area of 1,147,509 square kilometres (440,000 sq mi) and over 41 million inhabitants. The national capital and largest city, Kefli City, lies on the western bank of the Kefli River
Keflistan national identity is grounded in the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity, and the independence of Keflistan from foreign rule, stemming from the various ancient Keflistan kingdoms of antiquity. It is widely considered as the origin point of modern humans in Ostria, migrating across the Calmont Strait from Crisira.
Modern Keflistan can trace its roots back to the Ibican Colonial Period, in which parts were colonized Albion, Angola, and Cartier. The Colonial period ended with when the new united Ibican government agreed to cede the last remaining colony of Calmont to the Kingdom of Tecal. Following that, Tecal renamed itself to the Kingdom of Keflistan. The nation existed in this form until a proportedly democratic coup overthrough the monarch in 1987. Keflistan became a One Party State for the next 20 years, until the government promised to allow open elections. 2008 saw a clearly rigged election which inspired protests across the nation. Police crackdowns on non-violent protesters saw the protests turn to revolts.
Today, Keflistan is emerging from the civil war with a provisional government led by the Keflistan Democratic Front, and backed by the Ibican government. A new Constitution has been approved and a legislature elected, with the Provisional President Bosede Henryson leading the nation until a new President can be elected. The hard fought civil war has left Keflistan largely in ruin, with much of the nations infrastructure destroyed.
Government and politics
The politics of Keflistan takes place in a framework of a federal republic. The President is the both the head of state and the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President and the official they appoint. Federal legislative power is vested in the two chambers of Congress. The Judiciary is completely independent of the executive and the legislature.
The election of Keflistan's new Federal Congress was first held in February 2021. This congress adopted the whole of the current Keflistan Code of Law. The current provision President is Bosede Henryson. The KPF-led government of Henryson is focused on rebuilding the nation's devastated infrastructure, referring to itself as a "caretaker government." Keflistan today has six semi-autonomous Provinces and a Federal District that have the power to raise and spend their own revenues.
Demographics
Rural and urban life
Migration to urban areas is usually motivated by the hope of better lives. In peasant associations daily life is a struggle to survive. About 16% of the population in Keflistan are living on less than one dollar per day (2008). Only 65% of rural households in Keflistan consume the minimum standard of food per day (2,200 kilocalories), with 42% of children under 5 years old being underweight.
Most poor families (75%) share their sleeping quarters with livestock, and 40% of children sleep on the floor, where nighttime temperatures average 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the cold season. The average family size is six or seven, living in a 30-square-meter mud and thatch hut, with less than two hectares of land to cultivate. The peasant associations face a cycle of poverty. Since the landholdings are so small, farmers cannot allow the land to lie fallow, which reduces soil fertility. This land degradation reduces the production of fodder for livestock, which causes low milk yields. Since the community burns livestock manure as fuel, rather than plowing the nutrients back into the land, the crop production is reduced. The low productivity of agriculture leads to inadequate incomes for farmers, hunger, malnutrition and disease. These unhealthy farmers have difficulty working the land and the productivity drops further.
Although conditions are drastically better in cities, all of Keflistan suffers from poverty and poor sanitation. However, poverty in Keflistan fell from 44% to 29.6% during 2000–2011, before the Civil War broke out. In the capital of Kefli City, 55% of the population used to live in slums. Now, however, a construction boom in both the private and the public sector has led to a dramatic improvement in living standards in major cities, particularly in Kefli City. Notably, government-built condominium housing complexes have sprung up throughout the city, benefiting close to 60,000 individuals. Sanitation is the most pressing need in the city, with most of the population lacking access to waste treatment facilities. This contributes to the spread of illness through unhealthy water.
Despite the living conditions in the cities, the people of Kefli City are much better off than people living in the peasant associations owing to their educational opportunities. Unlike rural children, 69% of urban children are enrolled in primary school, and 35% of those are eligible to attend secondary school.
Health
Keflistan's main health problems are said to be communicable (contagious) diseases worsened by poor sanitation and malnutrition. Nearly half the population do not have access to clean water. These problems are exacerbated by the shortage of trained doctors and nurses and health facilities.
The state of public health is considerably better in the cities. Birth rates, infant mortality rates, and death rates are lower in cities than in rural areas due to better access to education, medicines, and hospitals. Life expectancy is better in cities compared to rural areas, but there have been significant issues witnessed throughout the country in recent years due to the Civil War. Despite sanitation being a problem, use of improved water sources is also on the rise; 81% in cities compared to 11% in rural areas.
Keflistan has a relatively high infant and maternal mortality rate. Currently, the maternal mortality rate stands at 420 per 100,000 live births. Only a minority of Keflistanis are born in hospitals, while most are born in rural households. Those who are expected to give birth at home have elderly women serve as midwives who assist with the delivery.
The low availability of health-care professionals with modern medical training, together with lack of funds for medical services, leads to the preponderance of less-reliable traditional healers that use home-based therapies to heal common ailments.
Education
Education in Keflistan was dominated by the Kefli Church for many centuries until secular education was adopted in the early 1950s. The current system follows school expansion schemes which are very similar to the system in the rural areas during the 1980s, with an addition of deeper regionalization, providing rural education in students' own languages starting at the elementary level, and with more budget finances allocated to the education sector. The sequence of general education in Keflistan is five years of primary school, three years of indermediate school, and four years of secondary school.
Access to education in Keflistan has improved significantly. Approximately three million people were in primary school in 1994/95, and by 2008/09, primary enrolment had risen to 8.2 million – an increase of over 200%. Access to education recently has been stifled by the Kefli Civil War, though the provisional government has made a priority out of restoring the education system.
Transportation
Personal transportation is dominated by automobiles. About 40% of personal vehicles are vans, SUVs, or light trucks. Mass transit accounts for 9% of total Keflistani work trips. Transport of goods by rail is extensive, though relatively low, but growing numbers of passengers (approximately 2 million annually) use intercity rail to travel, partly because of the low population density throughout much of the Keflistan interior. However, ridership on National Rail grew by almost 37% between 2000 and 2010. Also, light rail development has increased in recent years. Bicycle usage for work commutes is minimal.