Veratlantian Republic

This is an article related to the Union of the Veratlantean States

The Free Republic of Veratlantia is one of the Nation-State of the Atlantic Federation. It is further divided into 11 States.

The Veratlantian Republic is the largest and most populous Nation-State of the Atlantic Federation. Its population count includes the Federal District of Liberators City, raising the number up to 42 million inhabitants. Several of the Atlantic Federation's most important medium and large-sized cities are located within the Veratlantian Republic. Historically, the Veratlantian Republic has been the most influential and powerful force in the region, and its political undertakings largely helped to shaped the current territorial configuration of the UVS. History The Veratlantian Republic roots back to the League of Alianta, a union of city states and districts that controlled the East coast of the main island, founded in 1780, right after the Independence Wars were won. Its culture derives from a mixure of the Portuguese and British colonists that first settled the region, but it quickly started to differ from that of their colonial counterparts as the region evolved independently over time, adapting to the Veratlantean Mainland. The League of Alianta grew stronger, richer and more influential as it held important port cities over the Alianta Straight, and the city of Alianta had been picked as its capital in 1787.

In the following decades, the other states west of the League of Alianta - such as the Amerion Free States, and the Lionese Free State - became inclined to simply join the League of Alianta, essentially culminating in the creation of the Republic of Transveratlantia (with a notable "i" instead of an "e" that remained until present times) in 1840. The only modern Veratlantian (Transveratlantian) state that remained independent and fairly stable at the time was the Republic of Galiston, but they too joined the Crowned Union of the Greater Veratlantea in 1860. By then, even large portions of today's New Aquitaine and New Iberia were part of the so called Union.

The Union of Greater Veratlantea - also called Pan Veratlantea, eventually negotiated its way into controlling nearly all of the Veratlantean Mainland, with exception of the Realm of Northern Veratlantea. It was a Crowned Union that had a Royal Family, but was led by a Superior Council, and his Common Counselors, 10 in total. In short, it was a Consular Republic with a unicameral Parliament of Landlords, vested with little power. The Union of Greater Veratlantea, although successful in picking up with the industrial revolution, building of major ports along its coasts and developing its economic power and colonization of the interior, was very aristocratic and undemocratic, which eventually started to cause ruptures to its political structure, inspired by the Galistonian Revolution in 1876. The slow reforms of the Galistonian Council dragged the Libraëritan half of the United Kingdom of Northern Veratlantea to enter the now simply called Republic of the Greater Veratlantea in 1877. With less and less power and a growing pressure for democracy and fairness, the non-transveratlantian states seceded from Greater Veratlantea by 1907 all but the Iberian Republic and 1908 including the Iberian Republic.

This threw Greater Veratlantea in a political crisis that eventually ended in the foundation of the Free Veratlantian Republic, a now fully democratic, presidentialistic state that was much welcomed by its neighbors. By 1911, at the Summit of the Veratlanteas, Anthony Coinns proposed the creation of a Union of all modern Veratlantean states, detailing extensive aspects of its functionality and government. Satisfied with the proposal, leaders from all Veratlantean States signed the Unification Treaty in 1912 - and this marked the entrance of the Free Veratlantian Republic into Union of the Veratlantean States, most commonly known the Atlantic Federation. A year later, an exception would be made and the Realm of Northern Veratlantea would join the same union as the Crowned Republic of Northern Veratlantia.

Economy


The focus of the Lionese economy varies from region to region. The East coast is highly turned to industrial manufactures, automobile production, shipbuilding and various plastics and electronics products. It is in the East that most of the largest banks of the republic are located, and where most companies maintain their headquarters. The Southeast produces technology and has advanced aeronautics a defense industries, as well as an extensive variety of technology products for domestic use, such as smartphones, tablets and personal computers. The Southeast, Southwest and the West Coast differ from that pattern.

The Veratlantian Republic is highly industrial in the east, being home to the Atlantic Federation's leading industries, specially metalworks, shipbuilding, and electronics. It has the largest individual economy in the Veratlantic Archipelago and disposes of several major ports and airports. The Atlantic Federation is highly dependent on the Veratlantian Republic for the conjuncture and functioning of its Federal economy, and it covers a core region for the nation. It's infrastructure sets the standard in the Veratlantean mainland, and most of AF's major highways and railways cut through the red republic.

In the Central areas, where the Atlas mountain range cuts the Main Island in half, and in the dry high lands of the Southwest, mining is a major economic activity. Companies not only mine, but produce all kinds of products derived from the mining activity: steel, copper cables, rare-earth elements, microchips, coins, and nuclear fuel cells are some of the examples. Iron Ore, Coal, Gold, Silver, Copper and Uranium are found in large quantities and relatively close to one another, making the Veratlantian Republic very cost effective region for mining with reduced investments in dedicated infrastructure.

In the Western Coast, along the plains western plains, large scale farming is the main economic activity. The cities here tend to be smaller than on the East Coast, with the exception of a few, like Amerion. From the West Coast comes most of the Veratlantean produce, as well as locally produced meat from large livestocks. Veratlanteans in general tend to consume a lot of meat and fish in a daily basis, making it an important economic activity for the Republic. The Veratlantian Republic, as does the rest of the Atlantic Federation, tends to import food from Latin American countries and the United States due to the elevated demand. Imported goods come cheap across the Atlantic, so the practice takes place to help lower the costs of food in the Federation.

Geography
The Veratlantian Republic extends itself over large North-South distances, with a constant East-West width that follows the Veratlantean Dorsal in what used to be Ocean floor millions of years ago. It is essentially divided in West and East because of the Atlas Mountain Range, a narrow chain of snow capped mountains that cuts through the Veratlantean Mainland until the Lions valley, in the central regions of the country. To the Southwest the elevation rises again, but only to form a large dry plateau in the state of Lissenshire, rich in all kinds of mineria, uncluding Uranium. The East Coast tends to be warm and dry, in a phenomena similar to the Canadian Chinook Winds, reaching the warm waters of the shallow Straight of Alianta. The West is windy, cooler and rainier than the East, and its flat lands geography make for speedy Atlantic winds that rush up the Atlas Mountains.

Within the Atlantic Federation, it borders New Aquitaine, Northern Veratlantia and the Iberian Republic. It is also connected to the Galbadian Mainland through a tunnel in the Arms of the Straight, narrow projections of land into the Straight of Alianta that make it possible to connect the two islands spanning from both the Veratlantean and Galbadian mainland. However very close, the two islands are not connected by land and the Straight of Alianta is entirely navigable.

The climate of the Veratlantian Republic is mildly warm, with snow covering the tallest mountains during winter, but leaving the much lower plains untouched by the cold, with ever-positive temperatures (Celsius). The climate is slightly colder to the North and slightly warmer to the South, but the difference is not extreme.

Because of its narrow format, the Veratlantian Republic has one single timezone, and a relatively varied weather, which is considered to be beneficial by the majority of its inhabitants.



States of the Veratlantian Republic
Northern Alianta State Lower Marsellia State Alianta State Amerion State Elizabeth State Alstona State Central Veratlantia State Lissenshire State Eleosor State Galiston State Lions State