Montesayette
Montesayettean Commonwealth Communauté montesayette | |
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Motto: Ensemble vers un lendemain meilleur "Together towards a better tomorrow" | |
Location of Montesayette (dark green) | |
Capital and largest city | Nerfoy |
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Religion (2022) |
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Demonym(s) | Montesayettean |
Government | Federal presidential constitutional republic |
Hervé Dufriche-Desgenettes | |
Marielle Bettencourt | |
Jean-Baptiste Brisbois | |
Corbin Perreault | |
Olivie Fabron | |
Legislature | National Assembly |
Senate | |
House of Representatives | |
Area | |
• Total | 1,743,230 km2 (673,060 sq mi) |
Population | |
• 2017 census | 65,159,489 |
• Density | 39.53/km2 (102.4/sq mi) |
GDP (nominal) | 2022 estimate |
• Total | ₵1.72 trillion (13th) |
• Per capita | ₵26,380 (20th) |
Gini (2022) | 25.11 low |
HDI (2022) | 0.709 high |
Currency | Montesayettean pound (MSP) |
Time zone | AMT-1 |
Date format | dd-mm-yyyy (CE) |
Mains electricity | 230 V–50 Hz |
Driving side | right |
Calling code | +37 |
ISO 3166 code | SY |
Internet TLD | .sy |
Montesayette (Quebecshirite: /mɔ̃.tɛ.sɛt/), officially the Montesayettean Commonwealth (Quebecshirite: Communauté montesayette /kɔmy.nɔ.te mɔ̃.te.sɛt/), is a landlocked country located in Ecros. It shares borders with Terranihil to the south and west, Majocco to the north, and Quebecshire and Eleutherios to the east. The country is nominally a federation of nine provinces and one autonomous city, which is the capital and largest city of the country, Nerfoy, but in practice both its government and its economy are highly centralized. It has an estimated population of 65.15 million according to the 2017 census, of which roughly one-third live in the Greater Nerfoy Area, which includes Audrecelles City and Hamicourt alongside the capital itself. Other major cities include Lavignole, Chenonceaux and Brumeville.
Under the 1991 constitution, Montesayette is a federal presidential constitutional republic with a bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The country's head of state and head of government is the president, who is directly elected to a seven-year term, with no constitutional term limits in place. While the country is a multi-party democracy with free elections, the government under the Social Democratic Party (PSD) wields significant control and dominance over politics and society. The PSD has remained in power continuously since 1921, currently holding TBA out of TBA seats in the National Assembly following the 2023 Senate election. Montesayette is considered a middle power. It is a member of the Terraconserva Council of Nations, the Alliance of Central Ecrosian States, and the Eastern Ecros Free Trade Area.
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Montesayette is a federal presidential constitutional republic as outlined by the Constitution of the Montesayettean Commonwealth. According to L'Étoile Nerfoy, the Montesayettean Commonwealth is "a dominant-party state with the sheen of a progressive, modern state," ruled by the Social Democratic Party continuously since the end of the preceding socialist republic in 1921. Although Montesayette is nominally an "inclusive, socialism-oriented, democratic and secular federation that adheres to multi-party democracy," it has in practice maintained a system of guided democracy and highly centralized government since 1972, when the nation voted to end its decade-long period of federal parliamentary democracy. The current constitution, sometimes referred to as the Fifth Montesayettean Commonwealth, was adopted in 1991 with the aim to, according to the Dufour administration, "liberalize the nation while maintaining a strict regime of check and balance to avoid the mistakes of the Third Commonwealth," following a constituent assembly earlier the same year.
The Montesayettean national government is separated into three branches: executive, legislature and judiciary. The country's head of state, head of government and head of the Montesayettean Defense Forces in wartime is the president of Montesayette, who is directly elected to a seven-year term, with no constitutional term limits in place. The president can propose legislation to the National Assembly, declare a state of emergency or martial law, subject to the National Assembly's subsequent approval. The president also has veto power, subject to a two-thirds majority override by the National Assembly. However, the president does not have the power to dissolve the National Assembly. The president is also assisted in his or her duties by the Prime Minister of Montesayette, the Chief Cabinet Secretary, and his or her ministers, all of whom collectively form the State Council of Montesayette. The prime minister is the principal executive assistant to the president, with the president being the actual head of government, but not the prime minister.
Montesayette's legislative organ is the National Assembly, a bicameral federal legislature, composed of a Senate, and a House of Representatives. The former is made up of 50 senators, representing the nine provinces and one autonomous city of Montesayette at the federal level, and 10 co-opted senators. The House of Representatives consists of 150 members elected under an instant-runoff voting system to four-year terms. There is universal suffrage for adults over 18 years of age, with a secret ballot for all elected offices. At the federal level, Montesayette has been dominated by two relatively centrist parties since the 1991 constitution came into effect: the conservative Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the liberal Democratic Party (PD). The Social Democratic Party has been in power continuously since 1921, but since 1991 when Montesayette changed the election system for the legislature at both national and state level from the first-past-the-post voting system to an instant-runoff system, they have seen their authority challenged by the Democratic Party. Far-right and far-left politics have never been a prominent force in Montesayettean society.