Guadajara
Republic of Guadajara República de Guadajara | |
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Motto: Dios, Unión, Libertad "God, Union, Liberty" | |
Anthem: La Unión Áurea | |
| Capital | Guadajara City 30°59′28″N, 17°57′32″W |
| Largest city | Encarnación |
| Official languages | Spanish |
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| Demonym(s) | Guadajaran |
| Government | Unitary constitutional presidential republic |
| Noé Elías Melendez | |
| Victoria Eva Montdero | |
| Legislature | National Assembly |
| Senate | |
| Chamber of Deputies | |
| Independence from Spain | |
• Declared | September 15, 1821 |
| Population | |
• 2022 census | 27,327,407 |
| GDP (PPP) | 2022 estimate |
• Total | $1.543 trillion (23rd) |
• Per capita | $56,511 (23rd) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2022 estimate |
• Total | $771 billion (23rd) |
• Per capita | $28,213 (38th) |
| Gini |  32.1medium · 41st |
| HDI (2022) |  0.939very high · 12th |
| Currency | Guadajaran escudo (GJE) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (WEST) |
| Date format | yyyy-mm-dd (CE) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +214 |
| Internet TLD | .gj |
Guadajara (/ˈɡwaðaˈʝaɾa/), officially the Republic of Guadajara (Spanish: República de Guadajara; /'ɾepˈuβlika dˈe ɡwˌaðaxˈaɾa/), is an archipelago and island country in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The archipelago consists of six main volcanic islands and numerous smaller islands, with a combined land area of about ??? square kilometres (??? sq mi).
Guadajara borders the Canary Islands to the north and Madeira to the south, and lies between 728 kilometres (393 nautical miles) west of Morocco. The country's islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, and the Savage Isles.
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Government
Guadajara is a unitary constitutional republic and a representative democracy. The government is regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the Constitution of Guadajara, the country's supreme legal document. The seat of government is in Guadajara City, as designated by the National Assembly. Suffrage is secret, universal and equal.
The national government is composed of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial.
The legislative branch consists of the bicameral National Assembly, formed by the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The National Assembly passes laws, approves treaties and has the power of the purse and of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the government.
Its upper house, the Senate, is made up of ?? members, elected at-large to six-year terms, with each province drawing at least four seats. During the mid-term elections, half of the seats in the Senate are up for contest.
The lower Chamber of Deputies has ??? members, elected for a three-year term in single-member constituencies, with seats allocated to the provinces on the basis of population every eight years.
The President is the head of state and government, who leads the executive branch. They serve as commander-in-chief of the Guadajaran Defense Forces, can veto legislative bills before they become law (subject to parliamentary override) and appoint members of the Cabinet and other officers, who administer and enforce national laws and policies. The President is elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of five years and may not serve more than two consecutive terms.
The judicial branch includes the Supreme Court and lower national courts that interpret laws and overturn those they find unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has seven members appointed by the President, subject to Senate approval, who serve for life. The lower courts' judges are proposed by the National Board of Justice.