Verbiza
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People's Communal Republic of Verbiza Народна комунална република вербиза Narodna komunalna republika verbiza | |
|---|---|
| Motto: Оцеляването е недостатъчно Otselyavaneto e nedostatŭchno Survival is insufficient | |
| Anthem: Държавен химн на републиката Dŭrzhaven khimn na republikata State Hymn of the Republic | |
| Capital and largest city | Dobescau |
| Official languages | Verbizan |
| Demonym(s) | Verbizan |
| Government | Single-party socialist state under a federal system |
| Elisabeta Dobescu | |
| Vasile Țăranu | |
| Legislature | Popular Forum |
| Established | |
• Verbizan Revolution | 5 April 1926 |
| Population | |
• 2015 estimate | 1.2 million |
• 2010 census | 1.105 million |
| Currency | Rublă (VRA) |
| Date format | 01 Jan 1900 |
| Driving side | right |
Verbiza, officially the People's Communal Republic of Verbiza (Verbizan: Republica comunală populară verbița) is a landlocked sovereign federal republic under a single-party socialist system wherein all citizens live in primarily remote, mountainous communes instead of traditional cities and towns. The capital and largest city, Dobescau, is the sole exception and largely resembles a normal population center, though its neighborhoods are largely organized along the same lines as the communes found in the five provinces.
The People's Communal Republic of Verbiza was born out of protests by left-wing trade unions in the hills of central Verbiza during the early 20th century, then a province of !NATION. Dissatisfied with poor working conditions and marginalization of the Verbizan language and culture, community organizer Elmo Dobescu began organizing general strikes in an effort to improve working conditions and earn recognition of Verbizan rights. Escalation of tensions from both sides eventually led to violence between the protesters and the government, which led to the Verbizan Revolution (1922 - 1926). The Verbizan Revolution ended with the formal establishment and recognition of Verbiza as an independent state. Verbiza adopted a socialist, multi-party, communal federation as a system of government.
Landlocked, mostly mountainous, and lacking sophisticated infrastructure, Verbiza remained a poor backwater for the entirety of the 20th century. This was also due in part to the inefficiencies of an economy solely based on manual mining from communal villages. Since 2006, however, Elisabeta Dobescu, granddaughter of the founder Elmo Dobescu, rose to power and began implementing economic reforms to open the country to more modern economic methods, while retaining the prima facie aspects of the communal system her grandfather designed.
Today, Verbiza is slowly developing its national infrastructure, education system, and economy. Despite improvements, the country is regularly criticized by international monitors for human rights abuses, unfair election policies, and general lack of freedom for political voices right-of-centre.
Politics
Verbiza operates as a federal republic under a single-party socialist system wherein all citizens live workers' communes. The Community Party of Verbiza (Partidul comunist din Verbița) is the sole legal party.
The Verbizan legislature, the Popular Forum (Forum popular), is a unicameral body comprised of representatives from all of the country's organized communes. The Popular Forum votes internally to form the Central Government (Guvernul central), the chair of which is the Vice President and head of government, currently Vasile Țăranu.
The President of Verbiza, currently Elisabeta Dobescu, is the head of state and is elected a national popular vote every four years.
In theory, the President is little more than a figurehead who wields veto powers while the Vice President, in their role as Chairperson of the Central Government, holds the most political power along with the legislature. In reality, power effectively resides with whoever serves as Chairperson of the Communist Party of Verbiza, which has always been the President.
There is no independent judiciary in Verbiza. Instead, all matters related to the law are handled by wandering Judicial Marshals (Mareșal judiciar) appointed by the Communist Party who travel from commune to commune to interpret the law.
Administrative divisions
Verbiza is divided into four provinces, each of which contains several major workers' communes (analogous to cities) and hundreds of smaller satellite communes (analogous to towns and villages).
| Province | Capital |
|---|---|
| North Verbiza | Rîbnița / Râbnița |
| Central Verbiza | Frunză |
| Capital Province | Dobescau |
| South Verbiza | Basarabeasca |
Military
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The Army of the Mountains (Armata munților) is the official name of the armed forces of Verbiza. It is comprised of the Ground Forces (Forțele terestre) and the Air Defense Forces (Forțele de apărare aeriană). Due to Verbiza being landlocked, there is no navy, but there is a small unit of vessels used for patrols of rivers and lakes. There are about 5 thousand active duty service members enlisted in the Army of the Mountains and 15 thousand reservists. Additionally, most civilians receive basic firearms experience through practical experience or through basic education courses during secondary education.
Verbizan military defense strategy focuses almost entirely on self-defense. Due to the limited resources of the Verbizan military and likely superiority of an enemy force during an invasion, Verbizan defense doctrine relies heavily on asymmetrical, guerrilla, and partisan tactics. Much of the existing national infrastructure is designed to be destroyed to create difficulties for invading and occupying military forces.
Since most of the country is mountainous, the military trains extensively in mountain warfare under the assumption that the mountains would act as the national redoubt.