Interakia

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Politics
Politics in Interakia is quite different each state has 10 senators. Islands with more than 300.000 people are allowed to have 1 senator more for every 50.000 people. The National Chambre is only allowed to speak Esperanto and English in parlement. However the Lower Chambre needs atleast a 66% majority Atheïst/Ufologist in chambre, while in the National Chambre there is full religious freedom. The National Chambre is made of senators. After the senators are voted. People have another run to vote for the State General and the President aswell as every 11 minister leaders. Interakia has ministries: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Events, Internal Minister, Foreign Minister, Agriculture Minister, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Issues and Ministry of Environment.

Human Rights
Human rights differences drastically in scores. Some say Interakia has good human rights well others say human rights are poorly monitored. However Interakia is quite progressive when it comes up to abortion. Abortion is free on situations of rape, health or economic issues and not free but still availible upon request in other situations.

Well people are availible to vote from 19 years old and on, while people 12 years and older are eglible to vote if they have proof they have a job, are volunteer in an institution or graduated from social studies. Well voting isn't land-owned based and gender based.

Besides Interakia has reserved all basic rights for LGBT-People, they were the first to legalize Same-Sex marriage in 1991. Aswell there was never anyone prosecuted since independence for being gay. There is also a law put in place since 1984 that parents who punish children for being LGBT can be put in jail up to 2 years or a refusal of parentsship.

Besides rape is not tolerated during every day on the year with one day in exception on summer solstice. Sentences can be from 2.400 dollar fine up to live long jail. While rape which bring social and health issues to the victim can bring live long jail sentences.

However due to it proximity with Austronesian cultures cannibalism used to be a normal thing in Interakia prior colonial years. Nowadays cannibalism is rarely seen and people can be punishabel to live long sentences if they do. However Interakia does still maintain capital punishment only for "killing or attemping of killing of people on religious or ideological grounds/motives". While the suspects can be eaten to death according to Interakian law.

Geography
The climate of Intarkia is mainly tropical. However on the Attols of Interakia there is mostly a one side semi-arid climate side and one lush tropical rainforest climate side. Most islands and archipelago's are around 12 by 12 kilometers in size. While some like Tejter are mountainous. Others are flat or just slightly hilly. However the island chain lays in The Philippine Sea between China, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines, Palau and Indonesia. The only island without a tropical climate is Sensaparloko. While the climate in Sensaparaloko is close to a tropical climate. Technically it is a humid suptropical climate with a mossoon type of rainfall.

All of the islands in Interakia do have some kind of coral underwater making it the place with the most snorkling people per capita. The fauna is also diverse in Interakia with over 100 mammal spieces and 1600 bird species. While marine live makes up to largest portion of wildlive in Interakia.

Infrastructure
Interakia's infrastructure is quite good compared to most countries in Oceania. Numourus expressways are build on most islands while according to Interakia law. Each island has to be connected with a tunnel or a bridge. Aswell the fastest speed in Interakia is 130 km/h on the bridge link from Ijnterpore to Equinox City. Most 2x2 lane expressways that have a emergency lane are 110 km/h. This also apply to some seperated lane bridges aswell. However most expressways are 90 km/h and don't have emergency lane's and sometimes don't have exits with traffic lights.

Interakia also has a gigantic network of car ferries sproud troughout the island chain and even has car ferries connecting to The Philippines, Japan, Palau, Australia, Hawaii, P.R China, Vietnam, Samoa, Guam and Indonesia. With daily car ferry traffic to Australia and The Philippines. Also Interakia is connected by flight to over 70 countries across the globe. However Manila, Tokyo, Jakarta, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Sydney and Brisbane are best connected by flight.

Bigger Island States have a metro network and/or a train network. Cycling is also a huge outdoors activity. Despite most roads are not cyclist friendly, there are no laws on banning cyclists on taking the roads, even on expressways.

Economy
The economy of Interakia is mostly based of tourism and oil. They are the 12th largest oil producer compared with Nigeria and Venezuela and the 15th largest Natural Gas production compared to the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands and Egypt. This in return give Interakia a boost in there economy. Most of this money went into ports, education, health and infrastructure.

Thanks to the position between major exporters namely The Philippines, Japan, Australia, China and The United States. Most trade stops by Interakia. Which makes it one of the smallest countries with bussiness entrepeneurs. Thereby many skyscrapers are build and many islands have a simular structure with Singapore. Offices are not uncommon to see in many cities. Also many digital nomads reside inside Interakia.

Due to open policies and free internet. Interakian government refused to cooperate with net neutrality and censorship filters even if it is copyright related. Also it is one of the most free visa policies for tourism and digital nomads.

Also tourism plays a big role in Interakian culture and economy. Producing 7% of the economy while employing around 21,5% of the population. Each year a little over 2,1 million visit Interakia. Namely from The Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, The UK, Australia, China and The Philippines.

Many Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese, Australians and a minority of Mainland Europeans travel with car, caravan or camper to camp inside Interakia. Interakia is home to many small charm campings with swimming pools or close to the beachside. Which in return the small islands have the highest concentrations of campgrounds in Asia.

Fishing makes up 0,7% of the economy but employes around 11,4% of the population. Many sail yaughts are in the ports, mostly for recreational use or fishery. Many of the recreational sail yaughts are from boat travellers from Indonesia, Philippines, Australia and Japan.

Also Interakia produces around 170.000 tons of Coconut. Agriculture plays a roll in the smaller inhabitated island states. Coconut, Banana's, Wine, Lavender, Ananas, Mango, Tulips and Lemon are most produced products.

Demographics
Interakia demographics is quite diverse. Speaking of languages Interakia has two official governmental languages Esperanto (spoken by around 60 to 65% of population) and English (spoken by 96,4% of the population). These two languages are introduced since they have to find a neutral default which not influence the two biggest ethnic groups Dutch and Filipino's. Because of English as official languages this closest ties to Pacific Islands, Australia, UK, Philippines, US and Canada. While Esperanto have made hugh ties to Subsahara Africa countries aswell to Poland, Russia, Iran, Israel, Cambodia, Japan and China. This makes Interakia the closest Oceanic partner with Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Madagascar and Burundi.

Other languages spoken quite often is Dutch and Tagalog each spoken around 30-40% of the population. According to some research Interakians could have up to 42% ancestory of each ethnicity. Greek, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French, Northern-Sámi, Arab, Chinese, Maltese, German, Palauan, Klingon, Korean, Swedish and Finnish are each spoken between 2,5-4% of the population.

Aswell in health, Interakia health is pretty good ordered and the cheapest in Asia-Pacific regions. Heatlth and Education is covered in taxed and by default free for any Interakian citizen. It has the lowest deads of cancer in developed and developing world. Even though due it land use there are still slums existend and housing is expensive. 1/6 of the housing don't have running water or electricity. Still Interakia remain one of the healthiest in Asia.

Education is offered for free until first university diploma. The school structure is made on base of grades by subjects and subjects tend to be small rather than big. Interakians can choose for one diploma however if some subjects like Geography, History, Math, Economics or certain languages are higher than average. The diploma can be extended as a higher degree for some sectors of high school. Most Interakian start elementairy school starts on 6 years old and end 11-14 years old. Middle school ends on 21 years old, while high school ends 26 years old.

Despite the good education and health records. Crime such as pickpocketing can be high in certain area's. Due to high taxation on goods. While homocide rates are very low and suicide rates used to be high in the past but dropped drastically in the late 1990's. Nowadays it has the same suicide rate as Western-European countries.

Weed and Prostitution
Due to it's long colonization by the Dutch and Swedes. Interakia is one of the few Asian and Oceanic countries where Cannabis and Prostitution is legal and regulated. Many supermarkets, cafés and banks sell weed for people above 19 years old. Many people across Asia and Oceania go to holiday to try cannabis. Aswell many hotels offer sex rooms with multiple naked girls in one room aswell as nights with a prostitutes. Prostitution is regulated in Interakia. Prostitutes have to be 18 years old according to Interakian law and the buyer has to be within 10 year limit of the seller. While gambling is tolerated under 4000 Interakian Doekoe per game, which is approxementally 4400 US Dollars. People living inside Interakia are not allowed to gamble.

Food
Food in Interakia mainly derives from Dutch, Swedish, Indian, Indonesian, Surinamese, Greek and Filipino cuisine. Frikandel can be found everywhere and it is a staple food. Usually with fries that have pomegranate vinegar on it. Both rice and patatoes are equally frequently eaten under the populous. While baklava, kaiserbread and frikandelbroodjes can be found in bakeries. Most supermarkets have there own instant noodles shelfs and in small cities and communities have small outdoor shops or kiosk still exists where there arrive and distribute food aswell as sell basic needs and stands for road toll.

Interakia even has his own instant noodle brand called "Intermie" which sells in rendang, hot flavour, mild, barbeque with soya, thom kai and curry flavour. Which is sold in The Netherlands, Belgium, Bhutan, Philippines, Australia, Suriname, Indonesia, Myanmar and Laos.

In Interakia Italian ice cream usually have the flavour of pistache, salty liquorice or pandan flavour. Ube is popular under the Filipino minority while Lychee, Strawberry, Mango, Red Cola, Cola, Lemon and Vanilla are also frequently sold flavours.

Interakian Pizza is a popular fast food wrap which is closely link to the famous Turkish pizza. However instead of Dönner inside of the pizza. There is scrumbled egg inside of the pizza.

The government of Interakia also produced a law that increased meat tax from 25% to 45% and made fallés meat (or meat look-a-likes) tax-free. In return the bio-industry decreased with 32% which makes Interakia met the criteria of the Paris climate accords. Aswell the amouth of vegetarian rose from 7,1% to 28,9% in just one year time.

Also many communities on each island have small local homestead breweries and soda's. Due to SodaStream promoted small villages with water many people nowadays make soda's and beers that compete against eachother. This in return makes the competition sometimes even be intense and dangerous. Many foreigners are frequently dragged out to try there own variation of beer, alcohol and soda's.

The Filipino minority have spread adobo and balut as rapid wildfire troughout the country and many people in Interakia still eat Dutch sweet dishes such as hagelslagboterhammen, stroopwafels, poffertjes and pannenkoeken. Also Pho soup, loumpias and even Surinamese cassave cake are found inside Interakian restaurants.

Music
Music in Interakia is heavenly based and influenced by Eurovision, Scandinavian, Australian music aswell has heavenly influences of Joik, Qpop, OPM and Greek pop. Many Eurovision artists including winner Duncan Laurence and Getty Kaspers live in Interakia and are seen as national heroes. Recently rave as Little Big, Die Antwoord and Jack Parow has made a huge revival in Interakia. Also folk music has made screens big in Interakia certain joik artists as Jon Henrik Fjällgren has charted numourus times. OPM also is popularized in Interakia since 13% identify as Filipino in Interakia. Many artists such as Yeng Constantino, Calilly, Rivermaya, Sarah Geronimo and Sponge Cola have performed in Interakia.

However despite the multicultural genres dominating Interakian music scene, there is nothing like Eurovision in Interakia. It is so popular that in 2004 it came an official holiday. Many shops, office buildings and banks are closed during Eurovision. Each city has a screen in city centre where people gather to watch the show. House parties and parties in cafés, hotels and restaurants are not uncommon. Aswell many radio stations have fictional knock-off song contest troughout the year.