Stylyflysa

Overview
The state of Stylyflysa is an authoritarian democracy, subject of Versonnex with a high level of autonomy. The island is part of Artemia, but is located between Kesh and Artemia. The people of Stylyflysa are the heltics, and are similar to people of Versonnex. The Island was colonised during the Heltics migration from the north.

Ethymology
Stylyflysa is made from two words : Styly, which mean in heltic "New", and Flysa, which is in the local religion the name of the godess of Sea. Stylyflysa could be translated as "The New Frisa".

The First People
The first people who arrived on the island where the heltics who came from the northern land and migrate to the south. The land was colonised by a bit of people, but show no interest during a long time. Only a minority of heltics went on the island, majority of these peoples where fisherman and merchant. The colony develepped slowly and by himself/

The Kingdom Era (1405-1671)
An union of the heltics culture was created under a kingdom. The island started to be more colonised during that period, local nobles saw the island as a potential trade center and also as an advanced naval dockyard. It's also in this period that the island started to see the incomming migration of Seratofians who trying their luck on the island which was fastly increasing in number.

The collapse of the Heltic Kingdom (1672-1680)
When the last king of the Heltic Kingdom died, his fives sons tryied to take the power and started a civil war. The kingdom exploded into severals smaller kingdoms. The island saw in this civil war the opportunity to take his independance, and do so. The declaration of independance was pretty easy for the island, as the mainland was too busy to fight each other, and had no opportunity to invande the island. The main threat of the island was foreign power, who had interest and the area, and the locals of the island, who doesn't agreed on which form of government to set. The richs locals reached the land of Velsonnex, which show sympathy thoward the island. They agreed to set up the island under the reign of the king of Velsonnex, but as an state with very high level of autonomy, with his own government form.

The set of the Authoritarian democracy (1680-1683)
When a contract was signed between Velsonnex and Stylyflysia. A prince was choosed by the King of Velsonnex. This one was a rich merchant who owned a lot of land on the Island, and had close link with prince from the mainland. He tryied to impose his son as heir, but the locals strongly disagree and tryied to rebel. A group of merchant and powerful artisan succeed to form an organised group, and convinced the people to follow their ideal. Their objective was to form a strong representative government. In 1682, their group started to march on the capital city of Lumina. The Prince send is army and tryied to stop the group of rebels. But after some battle, they got defeated, and many soldiers of the royal army join the rebels. At the end of the year 1682, the rebels captured the capital and proclaimed the government. The king of Velsonnex, when he learned that the island was strongly instable, and that the local royal family could be killed threatened to intervene on the island. The newly formed government succeed to make a deal with the king, they accepted to stay as an high autonomy state, and to keep the prince and his familly alived. In exchange, a new representative government was formed, which was the actual authoritarian democracy. In the year 1683, the stability came back, the royal family was set free, and a constitution was created.

Government
The Stylyflysian government is an authoritarian democracy, which mean that the president is elected by the people for life, and have a huge executive power. He can pass many laws without oppositions. But there is still many limits to his power. The president must make a council of minister. These ministers don't have any power, and must just advise the president in his work of leading the country.

Counter Power
The first form of counter power is the parliement, which can oppose a decision of the president if more than 50% of it agree. They also appoint a prime minister, which will select judges, and then give a list of judges to the parlement that will agree on, or not. If the parliement do not agree on the list of judges, the prime minister need to make a new one. The prime minister also work as a parliement president, which mean that he must make sure that the parliament work correctly. The second main counter power is the justice. They are totaly independant from the president, and can attack legaly both the president and the parliement if there is any form of corruption. A special justice court is made for the government, the particularity of this one is that there must be a judge of the same political party as the accused, and one of the opposite political party, in order to preserve neutrality.

Autonomy
The government is linked to Verlonnexi by the presence of the Prince of stylyflysa. Even if his power is very small in the Stylyflysian government, he also represent the island in the familly council of Verlonnexi as the 13th familly. Verlonnexi government can't intervene in Stylyflysian politics, excepted if there is an attempt of rebellion or state coup. A special unit is also trained by Verlonnexi in order to protect the prince. This was made in order to assure the neutrality of this unit, and make sure that Stylyflysian army can't take control of them and get rid of the Prince. Verlonnexi can fund activities and event in Stylyflysia until they are not political. They are not allowed to fund any political party. Stylyflysa must follow Verlonnexi diplomacy, and so is forbidden to make alliances with his ennemies. But they can trade with every other country. Stylyflysia own an army, independant from Verlonnexi army. This army is only for the auto defence of the island, and is not supposed to be use in an offensive way, except if it was exceptionnaly needed.

Getting a new president
There is 3 case that need to elect a new president : If the president die, if he got arrested by the justice and loose his function, or if the referendum of presidential replacement have get 50% in favor of replacement. This type of referendum can be hold by the parliement if 50% of it agree, this referendum aim to remove the actual president by asking people opinion. The president can't oppose to this referendum, if he try, it will be see as an attempt to stage a coup, so Velsonnexi would be allowed to intervene. If less than 50% agree to oppose the president, then the referendum is canceled, and the parliament can't hold a new presidential opposition during 5 years. If the referendum succeed, the president is remove, and new elections are made. During the time of the elections, the prime minister take the head of the government as temporary-president.

Capital City
The city of Lumynia is located in the south-east of the island, in the bay of bogăție which was often used by merchant boat in the past.

Climate
The climate of Stlyflysa is mediterranean, with wet winter and hot summer. Some coast of the island are made of cliffs.

Agriculture
Stylyflysa is not having much agriculture, and need to import, which the State do by importing from Versonnex. The principal food source is fishing.

economy
The economy of Stylyflysa is focused on trade and banking center, which is the result of the island not having a lot of natural ressources.

Ethnicity
The main ethicity of country is the heltic, which are similar to heltic from Versonnex. There is also a minority of Seratofians on the island

Social Structure
The society of Stylyflysa is mainly divided between rich and poor. Many merchants and people working in banks own the majority of property, while low qualified jobs stay pretty rare.

Military
Stylyflysa own an army that can be used for the defence of the island. They are under Stylyflysian high commandment, which can receive orders from Velsonnex high quarters. But every offensive operations made by the Stylyflysian army must be approved by the prince of the state. The army of the island is mainly focused on defensive strategy, and marines are the most important special forces of the army. The island mainly focus on static defenses to protect the island. Static AAA missiles are commonly used, because cheaper for the defence of the island. The Stylyflysian navy mainly focus on corvette, in order to patrol around the island, and to protect fishing and trading boat. The island also coastal anti-boat missiles, in order to engage heavy boats without needed expensive armements. Stylyflysia produce his own armement corporation which is called "Henri-Martyn". They developped the main guns of the Stylyflysian army, but also the most used DMR of the Velxonnian army, the Henri-Martyn Tragatori Puska 1.