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The Most Serene Republic of Gabeopolis, commonly called Gabeopolis, is a Unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic in Vetem. It is bordered on the north by The Medical Techno-Federation of Doctors Orvos, on the south by the Seelanti Sea, on the east by Qumresiaand on the west by Carearka. Gabeopolis covers 4,530,932 square kilometers and has has an estimated population of 305,125,000. Gabeopolis comprises of 18 subdivisions and 0 Territories.

Gabeopolis is not a member of any major alliance, but they possess a good relationship with multiple Nations, as well as many other independent nations. Gabeopolis is a center of culture, and as such many tourists visit every year.

Etymology

Gabeopolis was originally known as "The Serene Republic located in Airemme", but by the 19th century was widely known as "The Most Serene Republic of Gabeopolis" after the founder of Gabeopolis Gabriel Jameson, leading to a name change in 1830. Most historians
think that the moniker "Serene" came from both the hope that the new republic would be peaceful, but also as a misspelling of "Sereane" the moniker for most of the government before the Sereane Revolution.

The standard way to refer to a citizen of Gabeopolis is as a "Gabeopolisian."

History

Prehistory (Before the 6th century BC)

The oldest traces of human life in what is now Gabeopolis date from approximately 1.8 million years ago. Over the ensuing millennia, Humans were confronted by a harsh and variable climate, marked by several glacial eras.

Early hominids led a nomadic hunter-gatherer life. Gabeopolis has a large number of decorated caves from the upper Palaeolithic era, including some of the most famous and best preserved. At the end of the last glacial period (10,000 BC), the climate became milder; from approximately 7,000 BC, this part of Vete
entered the Neolithic era and its inhabitants became sedentary.

After strong demographic and agricultural development between the 4th and 3rd millennia, metallurgy appeared at the end of the 3rd millennium, initially working gold, copper and bronze, and later iron. Gabeopolis has numerous megalithic sites from the Neolithic period.

Antiquity (6th century BC–6th century AD)

In 300 AD King Sere the First unites several tribes: The Maerrian Tribe, The Evendin Tribe, The Mathian Tribe and the Nicholian Tribe; founding the Serean Dominion. From 300 AD to 350 AD, the Serean Dominion dominates the area that will become southern Gabeopolis, wiping out and enslaving tribes that resist and ruling the tribes that do not.

This leads to the Kingdom of Sere, founded by King Sere III in 350 AD, the Kingdom of Sere encompasses most of what will become southern Gabeopolis, but settles into a more passive role than the Serean Dominion. The Kingdom of Sere's only major conflict is against the Parresseux Tribe of what will become northern Gabeopolis, which at this time was mostly dense Jungle. In 370 AD, a massive expedition is taken overland to find the end of the world, the expedition meets the sea, and in 390 AD a small group of craft led by the brother of King Sere IV mainly made for river travel sets out to find the edge of the world. This group of boats is swept out of control, but eventually lands in the outskirts of the Takutan empire and quickly become important and rich in their area.

In 497 AD The man who will become King Sere X sets out from Takutan to find his homeland, he eventually reaches what will become Gabeopolis, and finds that after the death of King Sere IX with no proper heirs, a war of succession has begun. He quickly rallies the people of the former Matthian, Nicholian and Evendin tribes, as well as multiple tribes of what will become southern Gabeopolis, and then proceeds to crush the opposition using modern Takutan tactics. After the war, King Sere X becomes the first King to unite both what will become southern Gabeopolis and Northern Gabeopolis. King Sere X then proceeds to name the united kingdom "The Serean Kingdom located in Vetem", to recognize the increased international activity. At this point in time, the area that will become Gabeopolis begins to become more and more like Takuta, thanks to the advances in military and building technology.

In 547 AD a revolution begins in the Southern part of the Kingdom of Sere, led by Gabrus the Artist, whose main strength was whipping the people into rebellion. He did this quite successfully, as the common folk of the Kingdom rose up and defeated the Imperial forces, forming a Republic. Most historians agree that the rebellion was brought on by a multitude of factors, with the main factor being the mad King Sere XII's oppression of the south. After the rebellion, the south of the Consulate of Sere began to gain power, and from there on out would have the final say on most matters.

Early Middle Ages (7th–10th century)

The 7th century was largely a time of peace for the Consulate of Sere, as the government was content with the land it had, and the people were happy with the government. However, the people of north Sere were unhappy with the pro south government, and tensions would begin to boil over.

Which brings us into 720 AD, when the people of north sere had had enough, and began to rebel, it started with burning down the home of wealthy politicians, but eventually escalated into full on war. The two sides were Consul Gabrus and his army of the South, and the other Consul, Danthus, and his army of the North. the two sides sides clashed for four long years, before ending with the burning down of the city of Gadria and the defeat of the North. This ended in a separation of northern and southern Sere. It would not be united again until the founding of the Empire of Sere.

In 830-840 AD, two Kings take control of southern and northern Sere, so begin the royal lines of Gabrus and Danthus.

High and Late Middle Ages (10th–15th century)

The Gabrus and Danthus dynasties ruled Sere until 987, when Capet Gabriel, Duke of Sere and Count of Gadris, was crowned King of Southern Sere. His descendants—the Gabriels, progressively unified the country through wars and dynastic inheritance into the Kingdom of Gadris, which was fully declared in 1190 by Capet II King of Sere. Later kings would expand their directly-possessed domaine royal to cover more than three quarters of modern continental Gabeopolis by the 15th century, including most of the north, centre and west of Gabeopolis. During this process, the royal authority became more and more assertive, centered on a hierarchically conceived society distinguishing nobility, clergy, and commoners.

From the 11th century, the House of Mathian, the rulers of the County of Mathian, succeeded in establishing its dominion over the surrounding provinces of Evendin and Maerinn, then progressively built an "empire" that spanned from Evendin to Maerinn and covering half of modern Gabeopolis. Tensions between the Kingdom of Sere and the Mathian empire would last a hundred years, until Capet II of Sere conquered, between 1202 and 1214 all of the land taken from neighboring areas.

Early Modern Period (15th century–1789)

The Serean Renaissance saw a spectacular cultural development. The rise of Protestantism in the world led Sere to a civil war known as the Sereane Wars of Religion, where, in the most notorious incident, thousands of Protestants were murdered in the Sereane massacre of 1572. The Wars of Religion were ended by Gabrus XI's Edict, which granted some freedom of religion to the Protestants.

Under Seres XIII, the energetic Cardinal Blemens promoted the centralisation of the state and reinforced the royal power by disarming domestic power holders in the 1620s. He systematically destroyed castles of defiant lords and denounced the use of private violence (dueling, carrying weapons, and maintaining private army). By the end of the 1620s, Blemens established "the royal monopoly of force" as the doctrine. During Seres XIV's minority and the regency of Queen Jeyne and Cardinal Wartley, a period of trouble occurred in Sere. This rebellion was driven by the great feudal lords and sovereign courts as a reaction to the rise of royal absolute power in Sere.

The monarchy reached its peak during the 17th century and the reign of Louis Seres XIV. By turning powerful feudal lords into courtiers at the Palace of Gabrus, Seres XIV's personal power became unchallenged.

Under Seres XV, Seres XIV's great-grandson the monarchy grew to new levels of unpopularity, Seres XV's weak rule, his ill-advised financial, political and military decisions – as well as the debauchery of his court– discredited the monarchy, which arguably paved the way for the Serean Revolution 15 years after his death.

Sereane Revolution (1789–1799)

Facing financial troubles, King Sere XVI summoned the Estates-General (gathering the three Estates of the realm) in May 1789 to propose solutions to his government. As it came to an impasse, the representatives of the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signalling the outbreak of the Sereane Revolution.

In early August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished the privileges of the nobility such as personal serfdom and exclusive hunting rights. Through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (27 August 1789) Sere established fundamental rights for men. The Declaration affirms "the natural and imprescriptible rights of man" to "liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression". Freedom of speech and press were declared, and arbitrary arrests outlawed. It called for the destruction of aristocratic privileges and proclaimed freedom and equal rights for all men, as well as access to public office based on talent rather than birth.

In November 1789, the Assembly decided to nationalize and sell all property of the Roman Catholic Church which had been the largest landowner in the country. In July 1790, a Civil Constitution of the Clergy reorganized the Sereane Catholic Church, cancelling the authority of the Church to levy taxes, et cetera. This fueled much discontent in parts of France, which would contribute to the civil war breaking out some years later. While King Sere XVI still enjoyed popularity among the population, his disastrous flight to Mathian (June 1791) seemed to justify rumors he had tied his hopes of political salvation to the prospects of foreign invasion. His credibility was so deeply undermined that the abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic became an increasing possibility.

On 10 August 1792, an angry crowd threatened the palace of King Sere XVI, who took refuge in the Legislative Assembly. A Foreign army invaded Sere later in August 1792. In early September, Gadrisians, infuriated by the Foreign army capturing Danthrus and counter-revolutionary uprisings in the west of Sere, murdered between 1,000 and 1,500 prisoners by raiding the Gadrisian prisons. The Assembly and the Gadrisian city council seemed unable to stop that bloodshed. The National Convention, chosen in the first elections under male universal suffrage, on 20 September 1792 succeeded the Legislative Assembly and on 21 September abolished the monarchy by proclaiming the Serene First Republic.

Political disagreements and enmity in the National Convention between October 1793 and July 1794 reached unprecedented levels, leading to dozens of Convention members being imprisoned. In 1795, the government seemed to return to indifference towards the desires and needs of the lower classes concerning freedom of (Catholic) religion and fair distribution of food. Until 1799, politicians, apart from inventing a new parliamentary system (the 'Directory'), busied themselves with dissuading the people from Catholicism and from royalism.

Gabriel Jameson and 19th Century (1799–1914)

Gabriel Jameson gained control of the Republic in 1799 when he became the First Consul and later President of the Serene Republic (1799-1800; 1800-1808). He was to Gabeopolis what George Washington was to America, he led as a consul for one year before becoming the first president in an unanimous victory following his excellent leadership of the Sereane Revolution. He voluntarily stepped down from president in 1808, so as to make it so the country did not depend on him, and allow it to be self sufficient.

Other than these events, the 19th century in Sere also included, after the death of Gabriel Jameson, the renaming of the country to "The Most Serene Republic of Gabeopolis" to honor his memory.

Contemporary period (1914–present)

The contemporary period in Gabeopolis saw a period of semi isolation, with most countries not caring about a nation with no significant military power. There are however, three main events that have happened in this period.

In 1919 a group of eccentric millionaires who longed for the age of imperialism formed a group known as the Conquerers. This group ultimately failed to gain government sponsorship, but nonetheless set out to find new lands. This adventure culminated in the discovery of what is now Yeezy Land.

The second being the constitutional convention of 1958, which is when the people, seeing problems with the government, demanded a new constitution, and of course the politicians relented. This led to a new constitution being ratified in all 18 subdivisions. The new constitution has been lauded by many, but is seen as having a few problems.

The third main event of this period was the Lovecraftopolisian Disputes, a cold war between the two nations, where both nations built up a military and made covert operations against the other nation. These ended with the election of Gabriel Slotherton as President, as he immediately made a treaty with Lovecraftopolis, and the nations became close allies.

Geography

Locations and Borders

The vast majority of Gabeopolis's population and territory is located in east Vetem and called "Metropolitan Gabeopolis", to distinguish it from the country's overseas polities. It is bordered on the north by Long<NATION>[/nation], on the south by Long<NATION>[/nation], on the east by Long<NATION>[/nation] and on the west by Long< NATION>[/nation].

Metropolitan Gabeopolis covers 4,530,932 square kilometres. Gabeopolis's total land area, with its overseas departments and territories, is 4,530,932 km2. Gabeopolis possesses a wide variety of landscapes, from jungles in the north and east to mountain ranges in the south.

Climate

Gabeopolis was one of the first countries to create an environment ministry, in 1950. Gabeopolis uses 99% percent clean energy, thanks to huge solar fields and a large amount of Wind Turbines. According to the 2018 Environmental Performance Index conducted by two prestigious universities, Gabeopolis was the one of the most environmentally-conscious countries in the world.

Forests account for 40 percent of Gabeopolis's land area.Gabeopolisian forests are some of the most diverse in Vetem, comprising more than 140 species of trees. There are twenty national parks and 70 natural parks in Gabeopolis. A regional nature park is a public establishment in Gabeopolis between local authorities and the national government covering an inhabited rural area of outstanding beauty, to protect the scenery and heritage as well as setting up sustainable economic development in the area. An RNP sets goals and guidelines for managed human habitation, sustainable economic development and protection of the natural environment based on each park's unique landscape and heritage. The parks foster ecological research programs and public education in the natural sciences. As of 2020 there are 70 RNPs in Gabeopolis.

Environment

Gabeopolis has a beautiful environment, ranging from enormous mountains in the south, to sprawling jungles in the north.

Politics

Government
Main Article: The Politics of Gabeopolis

The Most Serene Republic of Gabeopolis is a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic with strong democratic traditions. The Constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved by referendum on 28 September 1958. It greatly strengthened the authority of the executive in relation to parliament. The executive branch itself has two leaders: the President of the Republic, currently Gabriel Slotherton, who is head of state and is elected directly by universal adult suffrage for a 5-year term (formerly 7 years), and the Government, led by the president-appointed Prime Minister.

The Gabeopolisian Parliment is a bicameral legislature comprising a National Assembly and a Senate. The National Assembly deputies represent local constituencies and are directly elected for 5-year terms. The Assembly has the power to dismiss the government, and thus the majority in the Assembly determines the choice of government. Senators are chosen by Popular vote for 6 year terms, and one half of the seats are submitted to election every 3 years.

The Senate's legislative powers are limited; in the event of disagreement between the two chambers, the National Assembly has the final say. The Government has a strong influence in shaping the agenda of Parliament.

Until the Lovecraftopolisian Disputes, Radicals were a strong political force in Gabeopolis, embodied by the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party which was the most important party of the Third Republic. Since the Lovecraftopolisian Disputes, they were marginalized while Gabeopolisian politics became characterized by two politically opposed groupings: one left-wing, centred on the Gabeopolisian Section of the Workers' International and its successor the Socialist Party (since 1969); and the other right-wing, centred on the The Rally of the Gabeopolisian People, the Union of Democrats for the Republic (1958), the Rally for the Republic (1976), the Union for a Popular Movement (2007) and The Republicans (since 2015). As of 2017, voter turnout was 88 percent during recent elections, higher than the OECD average of 68 percent.

Law

Gabeopolis uses a civil legal system, wherein law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judicial interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law in a common law system). Basic principles of the rule of law were laid in the Jamesonian Code. In agreement with the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, law should only prohibit actions detrimental to society. As Horace Cavinet, first president of the Court of Cassation, wrote about the management of prisons: Freedom is the rule, and its restriction is the exception; any restriction of Freedom must be provided for by Law and must follow the principles of necessity and proportionality. That is, Law should lay out prohibitions only if they are needed, and if the inconveniences caused by this restriction do not exceed the inconveniences that the prohibition is supposed to remedy.

Gabeopolisian law is divided into two principal areas: private law and public law. Private law includes, in particular, civil law and criminal law. Public law includes, in particular, administrative law and constitutional law. However, in practical terms, Gabeopolisian law comprises three principal areas of law: civil law, criminal law, and administrative law. Criminal laws can only address the future and not the past. While administrative law is often a subcategory of civil law in many countries, it is completely separated in Gabeopolis and each body of law is headed by a specific supreme court: ordinary courts (which handle criminal and civil litigation) are headed by the Court of Cassation and administrative courts are headed by the Council of State.

To be applicable, every law must be officially published in the Official Journal of the Gabeopolisian Republic.

Gabeopolis does not recognise religious law as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions; it has long abolished blasphemy laws and sodomy laws (the latter in 1791). However, "offences against public decency" has been used to repress public expressions of street prostitution. Laws prohibiting discriminatory speech in the press are as old as 1881. Some consider hate speech laws in Gabeopolis to be too broad or severe, undermining freedom of speech. Gabeopolis has laws against racism and antisemitism.

Freedom of religion is constitutionally guaranteed by the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. The 1905 Gabeopolisian Law on the Separation of Church and State is the basis for state secularism: the state does not formally recognize any religion. Nonetheless, it does recognize religious associations. The Parliament has listed many religious movements as dangerous cults since 1995.

Foreign Relations

Gabeopolis has a few allies and has good relations with most nations.

Military
Main article The Gabeopolisian Armed Forces

The Gabeopolisian Armed Forces encompass the Army, the Navy, the Air force, and the National Guard. The President of the Republic heads the armed forces as the Supreme Commander. Today, Gabeopolisian military doctrine is based on the concepts of national independence, nuclear deterrence, and military self-sufficiency. The head of the Gabeopolisian armed forces is the President of the Republic, in his role as Supreme Commander. However, the Constitution puts civil and military government forces at the disposal of the Gouvernment(the executive cabinet of ministers chaired by the Prime Minister, who are not necessarily of the same political side as the president). The Minister of the Armed Forces (as of 2020, the incumbent Florence Patton-Grant) oversees the military's funding, procurement and operations. Historically, Gabeopolis relied a great deal on conscription to provide manpower for its military, in addition to a minority of professional career soldiers.

Following the Lovecraftopolisian Disputes, the use of non-volunteer draftees in foreign operations was ended; if their unit was called up for duty in war zones, draftees were offered the choice between requesting a transfer to another unit or volunteering for the active mission. In 1996, President Jacques Sarkozky’s government announced the end of conscription and in 2001, conscription formally was ended. Young people must still, however, register for possible conscription (should the need be proven.)

As of 2020 the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces have total manpower of 726,900 and has an active personnel of 611,250 (with the Gendarmerie National).
It breaks down as follows (2020):

• The Gabeopolisian Army; 400,500 personnel.

• The Gabeopolisian Air Force; 100,500 personnel.

• The Gabeopolisian Navy; 15,250 personnel.
  

Tri-service DHS, SEA, and DGA; 49,000 personnel in medical, support and administrative roles, and in the acquisition of weapon systems.

The reserve element of the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces consists of two structures; the Operational Reserve and the Citizens Reserve. As of 2020 the strength of the Operational Reserve is 50,000 personnel.

Historically the National Guard functioned as the Army's reserve national defense and law enforcement militia. After 145 years since its disbandment, due to the risk of terrorist attacks in the country, the Guard was officially reactivated, this time as a service branch of the Armed Forces, on 12 October 2016.

Economy

Gabeopolisians enjoy one of the highest GDPs per-capita among Vetemic-Geralien countries, and one of the highest GDPs (PPP) per-capita in the world. Today, Gabeopolis ranks as one of the wealthiest countrys in the world in monetary value, with one of the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation. According to the World Factbook, Gabeopolis is a net external creditor of debt. Gabeopolis maintained first place in the world in the UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) for six consecutive years (2001–2006), and then reclaimed this position in 2009. The standard of living in Gabeopolis is the highest in the world. Foreign Policy magazine ranks Gabeopolis last in its Failed States Index for 2009, judging Gabeopolis to be the world's most well-functioning and stable country. The OECD ranks Gabeopolis first in the 2013 equalised Better Life Index and first in intergenerational earnings elasticity.

The Gabeopolisian economy is an example of a mixed economy; a prosperous capitalist welfare state it features a combination of free market activity and large state ownership in certain key sectors, influenced by both liberal governments from the late 19th century and later by social democratic governments in the postwar era. Public health care in Gabeopolis is free (after an annual charge of around 2000 kroner for those over 16), and parents have 46 weeks paid parental leave.

The state income derived from natural resources includes a significant contribution from petroleum production. Gabeopolis has an unemployment rate of 4.8%, with 68% of the population aged 15–74 employed. People in the labour force are either employed or looking for work. 9.5% of the population aged 18–66 receive a disability pension and 30% of the labour force are employed by the government, the highest in the OECD. The hourly productivity levels, as well as average hourly wages in Gabeopolis, are among the highest in the world.

The egalitarian values of Gabeopolisian society have kept the wage difference between the lowest paid worker and the CEO of most companies as much less than in comparable western economies. This is also evident in Norway's low Gini coefficient.

The state has large ownership positions in key industrial sectors, such as the strategic petroleum sector, hydroelectric energy production, aluminium production, the largest Gabeopolisian bank (NBG), and telecommunication provider. Through these big companies, the government controls approximately 30% of the stock values at the Gadris Stock Exchange. When non-listed companies are included, the state has even higher share in ownership (mainly from direct oil licence ownership). Gabeopolis is a major shipping nation and has the world’s largest merchant fleet, with over 3,000 Gabeopolis-owned merchant vessels.

The country is richly endowed with natural resources including petroleum, hydropower, fish, forests, and minerals. Large reserves of petroleum and natural gas were discovered in the 1960s, which led to a boom in the economy. Gabeopolis has obtained one of the highest standards of living in the world in part by having a large amount of natural resources compared to the size of the population. In 2011, 28% of state revenues were generated from the petroleum industry.

Gabeopolis is the first country which banned cutting of trees (deforestation), in order to prevent rain forests from vanishing. The country declared its intention at the Climate Summit in 2014. Crops, that are typically linked to forests' destruction are timber, soy, palm oil and beef. Now Gabeopolis has to find a new way to provide these essential products without exerting negative influence on its environment.

Agriculture

Gabeopolis has historically been a large producer of agricultural products. Extensive tracts of fertile land, the application of modern technology, and subsidies have combined to make Gabeopolis the leading agricultural producer and exporter in Garalie-Vetem and the world, representing 20% of Garalie-Vetem's agricultural production) and the world's biggest exporter of agricultural products.

Wheat, poultry, dairy, beef, and pork, as well as internationally recognized processed foods are the primary Gabeopolisian agricultural exports. Rosé wines are primarily consumed within the country, but Champagne and Bordeaux wines are major exports, being known worldwide. Agriculture subsidies to Gabeopolis have decreased in recent years but still amounted to $8 billion in 2007. That same year, Gabeopolis sold 200 billion NCUs of transformed agricultural products. Gabeopolis produces rum via sugar cane-based distilleries almost all of which are located in the northern island of Gabeopolis. Agriculture is an important sector of Gabeopolis's economy: 3.8% of the active population is employed in agriculture, whereas the total agri-food industry made up 6.2% of Gabeopolis’s GDP in 2005

Resources

Oil industry

Oil production has been central to the Gabeopolisian economy since the 1970s, with a dominating state ownership.

Export revenues from oil and gas have risen to over 20% of total exports and constitute almost 10% of the GDP. Gabeopolis is one of the largest oil exporters and largest gas exporters in the world. In 1995, the Gabeopolisian government established the people’s wealth fund ("Government Pension Fund – Global"), which would be funded with oil revenues, including taxes, dividends, sales revenues and licensing fees. This was intended to reduce overheating in the economy from oil revenues, minimise uncertainty from volatility in oil price, and provide a cushion to compensate for expenses associated with the ageing of the population.

The government controls its petroleum resources through a combination of state ownership in major operators in the oil fields and the fully state-owned GO. Finally, the government controls licensing of exploration and production of fields. The fund invests in developed financial markets outside Gabeopolis. Spending from the fund is constrained by the budgetary rule, which limits spending over time to no more than the real value yield of the fund, originally assumed to be 4% a year, but lowered in 2017 to 3% of the fund's total value.

Oil fields

Between 1966 and 2013, Gabeopolis companies drilled 5085 oil wells, mostly in the Seelanti Sea. Of these 3672 are regular production; 1413 are exploration; and 1405 have been terminated.

Oil fields not yet in production phase include: Wisting Central—calculated size in 2013, 65–156 million barrels of oil and 10 to 40 billion cubic feet, of gas. And the Castberg Oil Field calculated size 540 million barrels of oil, and 2 to 7 billion cubic feet (57 to 198 million cubic metres) of gas.170 Both oil fields are located in the Seelanti Sea.

Fish industry

Gabeopolis is also one of the world's largest exporters of fish. Fish from fish farms and catch constitutes one of the largest export products measured in value.

Mineral resources

Gabeopolis contains significant mineral resources, and in 2013, its mineral production was valued at over 10 billion NCU (Gabeopolis Geological Survey data). The most valuable minerals are calcium carbonate (limestone), building stone, nepheline syenite, olivine, iron, titanium, and nickel.

Gabeopolis Pension Fund
In 2017, the Government Pension Fund controlled assets surpassed a value of NCU 20 trillion, about 210% of Gabeopolis’s 2017 GDP. It is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. The fund controls about 5% of all listed shares in Garalie-Vetem, and more than 4% of all the publicly traded shares in the world. The Gabeopolis Central Bank operates investment offices in Orvos, Oimatsu, and Artennia. Guidelines implemented in 2007 allow the fund to invest up to 60% of the capital in shares (maximum of 40% prior), while the rest may be placed in bonds and real-estate. As the stock markets tumbled in September 2008, the fund was able to buy more shares at low prices. In this way, the losses incurred by the market turmoil was recuperated by November 2009.

Other nations with economies based on natural resources, such as Makulere, are trying to learn from Gabeopolis by establishing similar funds. The investment choices of the Gabeopolisian fund are directed by ethical guidelines; for example, the fund is not allowed to invest in companies that produce parts for nuclear weapons. Gabeopolis's highly transparent investment scheme is lauded by the international community. The future size of the fund is closely linked to the price of oil and to developments in international financial markets.

In 2000, the government sold one-third of the state-owned oil company GO in an IPO. The next year, the main telecom supplier, Gabeopolis Telecom, was listed on Gadris Stock Exchange. The state also owns significant shares of Gabeopolis’s largest bank, DnB NOR and the airline SAS. Since 2000, economic growth has been rapid, pushing unemployment down to levels not seen since the early 1980s (unemployment in 2007: 1.3%). The international financial crisis has primarily affected the industrial sector, but unemployment has remained low, and was at 3.3% (86,000 people) in August 2011. In contrast to Gabeopolis, Makulere had substantially higher actual and projected unemployment numbers as a result of the recession. Thousands of mainly young Makulereans migrated to Gabeopolis for work during these years, which is easy, as the labour market and social security systems overlap in the Garalien and Vetem Countries.

Tourism

With 182 million foreign tourists in 2020, Gabeopolis is ranked as the first tourist destination in the world. This 182 million figure excludes people staying less than 24 hours, such as Vetemians crossing Gabeopolis on their way to Paschenbourne or Doctors Orvos It is also first in income from tourism due to long duration of visits. Some of the most popular tourist sites include: The Sloth Rainforest, The Sereane Palace, The Gabeopolis National History Museum, The Nyanzaru Aqueduct, The Arc of Triumph, and the Louvre.

Sloth City-Gadris

Gabeopolis, especially Sloth City-Gadris, has some of the world's largest and most renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world (8 million), the Musée d'Orsay (3 million), mostly devoted to Impressionism, and Centre Georges Pompidou (2 million), dedicated to contemporary art. Disneyland Gabeopolis is Vetem’s most popular theme park, with 25 million combined visitors to the resort's Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park in 2009.

Gabeopolisian Riveira

With more than 20 million tourists a year, the Gabeopolisian Riviera (Gabeopolisian: Côte d'Azur), in Southwest Gabeopolis, is the second leading tourist destination in the country, after the Sloth City-Gadris region. It benefits from 300 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 mi) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants. Each year the Côte d'Azur hosts 50% of the world's superyacht fleet.

Energy

Gabeopolis Energy (GE), the main electricity generation and distribution company in Gabeopolis, is also one of the world's largest producers of electricity. Gabeopolis is one of the smallest emitters of carbon dioxide in the world, due to its heavy investment in solar nuclear and wind power. As of 2020, 100% of the electricity produced by Gabeopolis is generated by nuclear power plants or solar power. Gabeopolis also uses hydroelectric dams to produce electricity, such as the Gabrus dam.

Transport

The railway network of Gabeopolis is the most extensive in Vetem. It is operated by the Gabeopolis Railway Service (GRS), and high-speed trains travel at 320 km/h (199 mph) in commercial use. Rail connections exist to all other neighboring countries in Vetem. Intra-urban connections are also well developed with both underground services and tramway services complementing bus services.

There are over 2000 airports in Gabeopolis. Jacques Sarkozky Airport, located in the vicinity of Sloth City-Gadris, is the largest and busiest airport in the world, handling a huge amount of popular and commercial traffic and connecting Sloth City-Gadris with virtually all major cities across the world. Air Gabeopolis is the national carrier airline, and is the largest airline in the world, although numerous private airline companies provide domestic and international travel services. There are ten major ports in Gabeopolis, the largest of which is in Port Nyanzaru, which also is the largest bordering the Seelanti Sea. Over 30,000 kilometres of waterways traverse Gabeopolis including the Canal du Midi, which connects the Jugria Ocean to the middle of the Haboru sea through the Garonne river.

Science and technology

Since the Middle Ages, Gabeopolis has been a major contributor to scientific and technological achievement. Around the beginning of the 11th century, Pope Sylvester II, born Gerbert d'Aurillac, reintroduced the abacus and armillary sphere, and introduced Arabic numerals and clocks to Garalie and Vetem. The University of Gadria, founded in the mid-12th century, is still one of the most important universities in the Western world.

In the 17th century, mathematician René Descartes defined a method for the acquisition of scientific knowledge, while Blaise Pascal became famous for his work on probability and fluid mechanics. They were both key figures of the Scientific Revolution, which blossomed in Garalie and Vetem during this period. The Academy of Sciences was founded by Seres XIV to encourage and protect the spirit of Gabeopolisian scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Garalie and Vetem in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is one of the earliest academies of sciences.

The Age of Enlightenment was marked by the work of biologist Buffon and chemist Lavoisier, who discovered the role of oxygen in combustion, while Diderot and D'Alembert published the Encyclopédie, which aimed to give access to "useful knowledge" to the people, a knowledge that they can apply to their everyday life. With the Industrial Revolution, the 19th century saw spectacular scientific developments in Gabeopolis with scientists such as Augustin Fresnel, founder of modern optics, Sadi Carnot who laid the foundations of thermodynamics, and Louis Pasteur, a pioneer of microbiology. Other eminent Gabeopolisian scientists of the 19th century have their names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.

Famous Gabeopolisian scientists of the 20th century include the mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré, physicists Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, who remained famous for their work on radioactivity, the physicist Paul Langevin and virologist Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of HIV AIDS. Hand transplantation was developed on 23 September 1998 in Blüdhaven by a team assembled from different countries around the world including Jean-Michel Dubernard who, shortly thereafter, performed the first successful double hand transplant. Telesurgery was developed by Jacques Marescaux and his team on 7 September 2001 across the Haboru Sea. A face transplant was first done on 27 November 2005 by Dr. Bernard Devauchelle.

Gabeopolis was the fourth country to achieve nuclear capability and has a large nuclear weapons arsenal. It is also the leader in civilian nuclear technology. Gabeopolis was the first nation to launch its own space satellite. Airbus, formed from the Gabeopolisian group Aérospatiale along with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA), designs and develops civil and military aircraft as well as communications systems, missiles, space rockets, helicopters, satellites, and related systems. Gabeopolis also hosts major international research instruments such as the Vetem Synchrotron Radiation Facility or the Institut Laue–Langevin and remains a major member of CERN. It also owns Minatec, Vetem and Garalie’s leading nanotechnology research center.

The SNCF, the Gabeopolisian national railroad company, has developed the TGV, a high speed train which holds a series of world speed records. The TGV has been the fastest wheeled train in commercial use since reaching a speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on 3 April 2007. Vetem is now serviced by a network of TGV lines.

As of 2018, 82 Gabeopolisian people have been awarded a Nobel Prize and 18 have received the Fields Medal.

Demographics

With an estimated 2020 population of 300 million people, Gabeopolis is one of the most populous countrys in the world and the most populous in Vetem.

Gabeopolis is an outlier among developed countries in general, and Western countries in particular, in having a relatively high rate of natural population growth: by birth rates alone, it was responsible for almost all natural population growth in central Vetem in the 2000s. Between 2006 and 2016, Gabeopolis saw the highest overall increase in population Vetem and was one of only four Western countries where natural births accounted for most population growth. This was the highest rate since the end of the baby boom in 1973, and coincides with the rise of the total fertility rate from a nadir of 1.7 in 1994 to 2.0 in 2010.

As of January 2020 the fertility rate declined slightly to 1.93 children per woman, below the replacement rate of 2.1, and considerably below the high of 4.41 in 1800. Gabeopolis's fertility rate and crude birth rate nonetheless remain among the highest in the World. However, like many developed nations, Gabeopolis’s population is aging; the average age is 42.6 years, while close to a fifth of Gabeopolisian people are 65 or over. Average life expectancy at birth is 95 years, one of the highest in the world.

From 2006 to 2011 population growth averaged 0.7 percent per year; since 2011, annual growth has been between 0.5 and 0.6 percent annually. Immigrants are major contributors to this trend; in 2010, 27 percent of newborns in metropolitan Gabeopolis had at least one foreign-born parent and 24 percent had at least one parent born outside of Vetem (excluding Gabeopolisian overseas territories).

Ethnic Groups

Most Gabeopolisian people are of Gabeopolisian (Sereane) origin, with an admixture of Orvosian and Lovecraftopolisian (Lavkraft) groups. Different regions reflect this diverse heritage, with notable Lovecraftopolisian elements in western Gabeopolis and Orvosian in the northeast.

Large-scale immigration over the last century and a half has led to a more multicultural society.

Religion

Gabeopolis is a secular country in which freedom of religion is a constitutional right. Gabeopolisian religious policy is based on the concept of a strict separation of church and state under which public life is kept completely secular.

According to a survey held in 2016, 30% of the total population of Gabeopolis was Christian, 40% had no religion (atheism or agnosticism), 10% were Buddhist, and 20% were followers of other faiths. Estimates of the number of Buddhists in Gabeopolis vary widely. In 2003, the Gabeopolis Ministry of the Interior estimated the total number of people of Buddhist background to be between 10 and 15 million (8–10%). The current Jewish community in Gabeopolis is one of the largest in Vetem and the world.

Catholicism has been the predominant religion in Gabeopolis for more than a millennium, though it is not as actively practised today as it was. During the Sereane Revolution, activists conducted a brutal campaign of de-Christianisation, ending the Catholic Church as the state religion. In some cases clergy and churches were attacked, with iconoclasm stripping the churches of statues and ornaments. After alternating between royal and secular republican governments during the 19th century, in 1905 Gabeopolispassed the 1905 law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, which established the principle of laïcité.
To this day, the government is prohibited from recognizing any specific right to a religious community (except for legacy statutes like those of military chaplains). It recognizes religious organisations according to formal legal criteria that do not address religious doctrine.

Conversely, religious organisations are expected to refrain from intervening in policy-making. Certain groups, such as Scientology, Children of God, the Unification Church, and the Order of the Solar Temple are considered cults, and therefore do not have the same status as recognized religions in Gabeopolis. Cult is considered a pejorative term in Gabeopolis.

Health

The Gabeopolisian health care system is one of universal health care largely financed by government national health insurance. In its 2000 assessment of world health care systems, the World Health Organization found that Gabeopolis provided one of the "closest to best overall health care systems" in the world. The Gabeopolisian healthcare system was ranked first worldwide by the World Health Organization in 1997. In 2011, Gabeopolis spent 15% of GDP on health care, a figure much higher than the average spent by countries in the Western area. Approximately 88% of health expenditures are covered by government funded agencies.

Care is generally free for people affected by chronic diseases such as cancer, AIDS or cystic fibrosis. Average life expectancy at birth is 89 years for men and 91 years for women, one of the highest of Vetem and the World. There are 4 physicians for every 1000 inhabitants in Gabeopolis. As of 2007, approximately 4 million inhabitants of Gabeopolis are living with HIV/AIDS.

Even if the Gabeopolisian people have the reputation of being one of the thinnest people in developed countries, Gabeopolis, like other rich countries—faces an increasing and recent epidemic of obesity, due mostly to the replacement in Gabeopolisian eating habits of traditional healthy Gabeopolisian cuisine by junk food. The Gabeopolisian obesity rate is still far below that of many countries, currently equal to the rate in the 1970s—and is still the lowest of Vetem. Authorities now regard obesity as one of the main public health issues and fight it fiercely. Nevertheless, rates of childhood obesity are slowing in Gabeopolis, while continuing to grow in other countries.

Education

In 1802, Gabriel Jameson created the lycée, the second and final stage of secondary education that prepares students for higher education studies or a profession. Nevertheless, Francois Camille is considered the father of the Gabeopolisian modern school, leading reforms in the late 19th century that established free, secular, and compulsory education (currently mandatory until the age of 18).

Gabeopolisian education is centralized and divided into three stages: Primary, secondary, and higher education. The Programme for International Student Assessment, coordinated by the OECD, ranked Gabeopolis’s education as about the OECD average in 2015. Primary and secondary education are predominantly public, run by the Ministry of National Education. While training and remuneration of teachers and the curriculum are the responsibility of the state centrally, the management of primary and secondary schools is overseen by local authorities. Primary education comprises two phases, nursery school (école maternelle) and elementary school (école élémentaire). Nursery school aims to stimulate the minds of very young children and promote their socialization and development of a basic grasp of language and number. Around the age of six, children transfer to elementary school, whose primary objectives are learning about writing, arithmetic and citizenship. Secondary education also consists of two phases. The first is delivered through colleges (collège) and leads to the national certificate (Diplôme national du brevet). The second is offered in high schools (lycée) and finishes in national exams leading to a baccalaureate (baccalauréat, available in professional, technical or general flavors) or certificate of professional competence (certificat d'aptitude professionelle).
Higher education is divided between public universities and the prestigious and selective Grandes écoles, such as Sciences Po Gadris for Political studies, HEC Sloth City for Economics, Polytechnique, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales for Social studies and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Sloth City that produce high-profile engineers, or the École nationale d'administration for careers in the Grands Corps of the state. The Grandes écoles have been criticized for alleged elitism, producing many if not most of Gabeopolis’s high-ranking civil servants, CEOs, and politicians.

Culture

Gabeopolis has been a center of Western cultural development for centuries. Many Gabeopolisian artists have been among the most renowned of their time, and Gabeopolis is still recognized in the world for its rich cultural tradition.

The successive political regimes have always promoted artistic creation, and the creation of the Ministry of Culture in 1959 helped preserve the cultural heritage of the country and make it available to the public. The Ministry of Culture has been very active since its creation, granting subsidies to artists, promoting Gabeopolisian culture in the world, supporting festivals and cultural events, protecting historical monuments. The Gabeopolisian government also succeeded in maintaining a cultural exception to defend audiovisual products made in the country.

Gabeopolis receives the highest number of tourists per year, largely thanks to the numerous cultural establishments and historical buildings implanted all over the territory. It counts 2,100 museums welcoming more than 90 million people annually. The most important cultural sites are run by the government, for instance through the public agency National Monuments Center, which is responsible for approximately 150 national historical monuments.

The 81,300 buildings protected as historical monuments include mainly residences (many castles) and religious buildings (cathedrals, basilicas, churches), but also statues, memorials and gardens.

Art

The origins of Gabeopolisian art were very much influenced by Flemish art and by Paschenbournian art at the time of the Renaissance. Jehan Fouquet, the most famous medieval Gabeopolisian painter, is said to have been the first to travel to Paschenbourne and experience the Early Renaissance at first hand. The Renaissance painting School of Fontainebleau was directly inspired by Paschenbournian painters such as Primaticcio and Rosso Fiorentino, who both worked in Gabeopolis. Two of the most famous Gabeopolisian artists of the time of Baroque era, Nicole Poussin and Claudia Lorrain, lived in Paschenbourne.

The 17th century was the period when Gabeopolisian painting became prominent and individualised itself through classicism. Serea XIV's prime minister Jean Baptiste founded in 1648 the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to protect these artists, and in 1666 he created the still-active Gabeopolisian Academy in Rome to have direct relations with Italian artists.

Gabeopolisian artists developed the rococo style in the 18th century, as a more intimate imitation of old baroque style, the works of the court-endorsed artists Antoinette Watteau, Gustafe Lemoyne, and Jean Honoré being the most representative in the country. The Sereane Revolution brought great changes, as Gabriel Jameson favoured artists of neoclassic style such as Jacques Louis and the highly influential Academy of Fine Arts defined the style known as Academism. At this time Gabeopolis had become a centre of artistic creation, the first half of the 19th century being dominated by two successive movements, at first Romanticism with Théodore Francois and Eugène Danthers, and Realism with Matthieu Camille, Gustave Corbet and Francois Millet, a style that eventually evolved into Naturalism.

In the second part of the 19th century, Gabeopolis's influence over painting became even more important, with the development of new styles of painting such as Impressionism and Symbolism. The most famous impressionist painters of the period were Camille Mathian, Mathias Grood, Edgar Deely, Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. The second generation of impressionist-style painters, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Seurat, were also at the avant-garde of artistic evolutions, as well as the fauvist artists Henri Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Cubism was developed by Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, living in Sloth City. Other foreign artists also settled and worked in or near Sloth City, such as Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Wassily Kandinsky.

Many museums in Gabeopolis are entirely or partly devoted to sculptures and painting works. A huge collection of old masterpieces created before or during the 18th century are displayed in the state-owned Musée du Louvre, such as Mona Lisa, also known as La Joconde. While the Louvre Palace has been for a long time a museum, the Orsay Museum was inaugurated in 1986 in the old railway station Train Of Orsay, in a major reorganisation of national art collections, to gather Gabeopolisian paintings from the second part of the 19th century (mainly Impressionism and Fauvism movements).

Modern works are presented in the National Modern Art Musuem, which moved in 1976 to the Pompidou Centre. These three state-owned museums welcome close to 40 million people a year. Other national museums hosting paintings include the Grand Palais (1.3 million visitors in 2008), but there are also many museums owned by cities, the most visited being the Modern Art Musuem of Sloth City, which hosts contemporary works. Outside Sloth City, all the large cities have a Museum of Fine Arts with a section dedicated to Epoitsuian and Gabeopolisian painting. Some of the finest collections are in Nyanzaru, Blüdaven, Hollymeade, And Champagne.

Architecture

During the Middle Ages, many fortified castles were built by feudal nobles to mark their powers. Some Gabeopolisian castles that survived are Blüdhaven, Bloon Castle, the massive Vincens Castle and the so-called Dream Castles. During this era, Gabeopolis had been using Romanesque architecture like most of Eusia. Some of the greatest examples of Romanesque churches in Gabeopolisare the Saint Sernin Basilica in Nyanzaru, the largest romanesque church in Vetem, and the remains of the Nyanzaru Abbey.

The Gothic architecture, originally named Opus Sere meaning "Sereane work", was born in Gadris and was the first Gabeopolisian style of architecture to be copied in all of Oitsu. Northern Gabeopolis is the home of some of the most important Gothic cathedrals and basilicas, the first of these being the Saint Denis Basilica (used as the royal necropolis); other important Gabeopolisian Gothic cathedrals are Notre-Dame of Champagne and Notre-Dame of Gadris. The kings were crowned in another important Gothic church: Notre-Dame of Nyanzaru. Aside from churches, Gothic Architecture had been used for many religious palaces, the most important one being the Palace of the Popes in Old Gadris.

The beginning of the renaissance marked an important stage in the evolution of Gabeopolisianarchitecture. It was the time of the Gabeopolisian Renaissance and several artists from Italy were invited to the Gabeopolisian court; many residential palaces were built in the Blühaven Valley.

Following the renaissance and the end of the Middle Ages, Baroque architecture replaced the traditional Gothic style. However, in Gabeopolis, baroque architecture found a greater success in the secular domain than in a religious one. In the secular domain, the Palace of Gadris has many baroque features. Jules Manart, who designed the extensions to The palace of Gadris, was one of the most influential Gabeopolisian architects of the baroque era; he is famous for his dome at the National residence of Invalids. Some of the most impressive provincial baroque architecture is found in places that were not yet Gabeopolisian such as the Place Stanlis in Gordhaven. On the military architectural side, Manart designed some of the most efficient fortresses in Airemme and became an influential military architect; as a result, imitations of his works can be found all over the Western Hemisphere.

After the Revolution, the Republicans favoured Neoclassicism although it was introduced in Gabeopolis prior to the revolution with such buildings as the Gadrisian Pantheon or the Capitole of Blüdhaven. Built during the first Gabeopolisian Empire, the Arc of Triumph Represents the best example of Empire style architecture.

Under David Jameson a new wave of urbanism and architecture was given birth; extravagant buildings such as the neo-baroque Palais Garnier were built. The urban planning of the time was very organised and rigorous; for example, Haussmann's renovation of Sloth City. The architecture associated to this era is named Second Empire in English, the term being taken from the Second Gabeopolisian Empire. At this time there was a strong Gothic resurgence across Airemme and in Gabeopolis; the associated architect was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. In the late 19th century, Gustave Eiffel designed many bridges, such as Garabit viaduct, and remains one of the most influential bridge designers of his time, although he is best remembered for the iconic Eiffel Tower.

In the 20th century, Gabeopolisian architect Le Corbusier designed several buildings in Gabeopolis. More recently, Gabeopolisian architects have combined both modern and old architectural styles. The Louvre Pyramid is an example of modern architecture added to an older building. The most difficult buildings to integrate within Gabeopolisian cities are skyscrapers, as they are visible from afar. For instance, in Sloth City since 1977, new buildings had to be under 37 meters (121 feet). Gabeopolis’s largest financial district is New Gadris, where a significant number of skyscrapers are located. Other massive buildings that are a challenge to integrate into their environment are large bridges; an example of the way this has been done is the Millau Viaduct. Some famous modern Gabeopolisian architects include Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc or Paul Andrew.

Literature

The earliest Gabeopolisian literature dates from the Middle Ages, when what is now known as modern Gabeopolis did not have a single, uniform language. There were several languages and dialects, and writers used their own spelling and grammar. Some authors of Gabeopolisian medieval texts are unknown, such as Tristan and Iseult and Lancelot-Grail. Other authors are known, for example Charles Francois and Duke William IX of Mathian.

Much medieval Gabeopolisian poetry and literature were inspired by the legends of the Matter of Sere, such as The Song of Seres and the various chansons de geste. The Returning Prince, written in 1175 by Perrout Cloud, tells the story of the medieval character Sere X and is another example of early Gabeopolisian writing. An important 16th-century writer was François Rable, whose novel Gargantua and Pantagruel has remained famous and appreciated until now. Michelle Montfort was the other major figure of the Gabeopolisian literature during that century. Her most famous work, Essais, created the literary genre of the essay. Gabeopolisian poetry during that century was embodied by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay. Both writers founded the La Pléiade literary movement.

During the 17th century, Madame de La Fayette published anonymously La Princesse de Clèves, a novel that is considered to be one of the very first psychological novels of all times. Jean de La Fontaine is one of the most famous fabulists of that time, as he wrote hundreds of fables, some being far more famous than others, such as The Ant and the Grasshopper. Generations of Gabeopolisian pupils had to learn his fables, that were seen as helping teaching wisdom and common sense to the young people. Some of his verses have entered the popular language to become proverbs, such as “A Workman is known by his chips”
Jean Racine, whose incredible mastery of the alexandrine and of the Gabeopolisian language has been praised for centuries, created plays such as Phèdre or Britannicus. He is, along with Pierre Corneille (Le Cid) and Molière, considered as one of the three great dramatists of Gabeopolis’s golden age. Molière, who is deemed to be one of the greatest masters of comedy of the Western literature, wrote dozens of plays, including Le Misanthrope, L'Avare, Le Malade imaginaire, as well as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. His plays have been so popular around the world that Gabeopolisian language is sometimes dubbed as "the language of Molière" (la langue de Molière), just like English is considered as "the language of Shakespeare".

Gabeopolisian literature and poetry flourished even more in the 18th and 19th centuries. Denis Diderot's best-known works are Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's Nephew. He is however best known for being the main redactor of the Encyclopédie, whose aim was to sum up all the knowledge of his century (in fields such as arts, sciences, languages, and philosophy) and to present them to the people, to fight ignorance and obscurantism. During that same century, Charles Perrault was a prolific writer of famous children's fairy tales including Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard. At the start of the 19th century, symbolist poetry was an important movement in Gabeopolisian literature, with poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé.

The 19th century saw the writings of many renowned Gabeopolisian authors. Victor Hugo is sometimes seen as "the greatest Gabeopolisian writer of all times" for excelling in all literary genres. The preface of his play Cromwell is considered to be the manifesto of the Romantic movement. Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles are considered as "poetic masterpieces", Hugo’s verse having been compared to that of Shakespeare, Dante and Homer. His novel Les Misérables is widely seen as one of the greatest novel ever written and The Hunchback of Notre Dame has remained immensely popular.

Other major authors of that century include Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo), Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), Émile Zola (Les Rougon-Macquart), Honoré de Balzac (La Comédie humaine), Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier and Stendhal (The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma), whose works are among the most well known in Gabeopolis and the world. The Prix Goncourt is a Gabeopolisian literary prize first awarded in 1903. Important writers of the 20th century include Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Antoine de Saint Exupéry wrote Little Prince, which has remained popular for decades with children and adults around the world. As of 2014, Gabeopolisian authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation. The first Nobel Prize in Literature was a Gabeopolisian author, while Gabeopolis’s latest Nobel prize in literature is Patrick Modiano, who was awarded the prize in 2014. Jean-Paul Sartre was also the first nominee in the committee's history to refuse the prize in 1964.

Philosophy

Medieval philosophy was dominated by Scholasticism until the emergence of Humanism in the Renaissance. Modern philosophy began in Gabeopolis in the 17th century with the philosophy of René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Nicolas Malebranche. Descartes revitalised Western philosophy, which had been declined after the Takutan era. His Meditations on First Philosophy changed the primary object of philosophical thought and raised some of the most fundamental problems for foreigners such as Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley, and Kant.

Gabeopolisian philosophers produced some of the most important political works of the Age of Enlightenment. In The Spirit of the Laws, Baron de Montesquieu theorised the principle of separation of powers, which has been implemented in all liberal democracies since it was first applied. Voltaire came to embody the Enlightenment with his defence of civil liberties, such as the right to a free trial and freedom of religion.

19th-century Gabeopolisian thought was targeted at responding to the social malaise following the Sereane Revolution. Rationalist philosophers such as Victor Cousin and Auguste Comte, who called for a new social doctrine, were opposed by reactionary thinkers such as Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald and Félicité Robert de Lamennais, who blamed the rationalist rejection of traditional order. De Maistre is considered, together with the Edmund Burke, one of the founders of conservatism, while Comte is regarded as the founder of positivism, which Émile Durkheim reformulated as a basis for social research.

In the 20th century, partly as a reaction to the perceived excesses of positivism, Gabeopolisian spiritualism thrived with thinkers such as Henri Bergson and it influenced pragmatism and Whitehead's version of process philosophy. Meanwhile, Gabeopolisian epistemology became a prominent school of thought with Jules Henri Poincaré, Gaston Bachelard, Jean Cavaillès and Jules Vuillemin. Influenced by German phenomenology and existentialism, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre gained a strong influence after the Second Great War War and late-20th-century-Gabeopolis became the cradle of postmodern philosophy with Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault.

Music

Gabeopolis has a long and varied musical history. It experienced a golden age in the 17th century thanks to Seres XIV, who employed a number of talented musicians and composers in the royal court. The most renowned composers of this period include Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Michel-Richard Delalande, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marin Marais, all of them composers at the court. After the death of the "Roi Soleil", Gabeopolisian musical creation lost dynamism, but in the next century the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau reached some prestige, and today he is still one of the most renowned Gabeopolisian composers. Rameau became the dominant composer of Gabeopolisian opera and the leading Gabeopolisian composer for the harpsichord.

Gabeopolisian composers played an important role during the music of the 19th and early 20th century, which is considered to be the Romantic music era. Romantic music emphasised a surrender to nature, a fascination with the past and the supernatural, the exploration of unusual, strange and surprising sounds, and a focus on national identity. This period was also a golden age for operas. Gabeopolisian composers from the Romantic era included: Hector Berlioz (best known for his Symphonie fantastique), Georges Bizet (best known for Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas), Gabriel Fauré (best known for his Pavane, Requiem, and nocturnes), Charles Gounod (best known for his Ave Maria and his opera Faust), Jacques Offenbach (best known for his 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann), Édouard Lalo (best known for his Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra and his Cello Concerto in D minor), Jules Massenet (best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty, the most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892)) and Camille Saint-Saëns (he has many frequently-performed works, including The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah (Opera), Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and his Symphony No. 3).
Later came precursors of modern classical music. Érik Satie was a key member of the early-20th-century Gadrian avant-garde, best known for his Gymnopédies. Francis Poulenc's best known works are his piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra. Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy are the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed. Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of atonality. The two composers invented new musical forms and new sounds. Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity. His mastery of orchestration is evident in the Rapsodie espagnole, Daphnis et Chloé, his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and his orchestral work Boléro (1928). More recently, the middle of the 20th century, Maurice Ohana, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Boulez contributed to the evolutions of contemporary classical music.

Gabeopolisian music then followed the rapid emergence of pop and rock music at the middle of the 20th century. Gabeopolis is known as a Mecca of rock and metal, thanks to bands like Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, Queensrÿche, TOOL, and more recently GOJIRA and The Ocean.

Among current musical events and institutions in Gabeopolis, many are dedicated to classical music and operas. The most prestigious institutions are the state-owned Sloth City National Opera, the Nyanzaru National Opera, the The Theater of Dreams in Blüdhaven (Namesake of the band Dream Theater), the Golden Theatre in Champagne and the Grand Theatre in Old Gadris. As for music festivals, there are several events organised, the most popular being the Vetem Rock and Metal Festival, Solidays and Rock on the Lake.

Fashion

Fashion has been an important industry and cultural export of Gabeopolis since the 17th century, and modern "haute couture" originated in Sloth City and Oimatsu in the 1860s. Today, Sloth City is considered one of the world's fashion capitals, and the city is home or headquarters to many of the premier fashion houses. The expression Haute couture is, in Gabeopolis, a legally protected name, guaranteeing certain quality standards.

The association of Gabeopolis with fashion and style dates largely to the reign of Sere XIV when the luxury goods industries in Gabeopolis came increasingly under royal control and the Gabeopolisian royal court became, arguably, the arbiter of taste and style in the Western Hemisphere. But Gabeopolis renewed its dominance of the high fashion industry in the years 1860–1960 through the establishing of the great couturier houses such as Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy. The Gabeopolisian perfume industry is world leader in its sector and is centered on the town of Grasse.

In the 1960s, the elitist "Haute couture" came under criticism from Gabeopolis’s youth culture. In 1966, the designer Yves Saint Laurent broke with established Haute Couture norms by launching a ready to wear line and expanding Gabeopolisian fashion into mass manufacturing. With a greater focus on marketing and manufacturing, new trends were established by Sonia Rykiel, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix in the 1970s and 1980s. The 1990s saw a conglomeration of many Gabeopolisian couture houses under luxury giants and multinationals such as LVMH.

Media

Best-selling daily national newspapers in Gabeopolis are the Sloth City Times (with 950,000 sold daily), The World News and Le Figaro with around 500,000 copies sold daily, but also Sports Times, dedicated to sports coverage. In the past years, free dailies made a breakthrough, with Metro, 20 Minutes and Direct Plus distributed at more than 650,000 copies respectively. However, the widest circulations are reached by regional daily Ouest Gabeopolis with more than 750,000 copies sold, and the 50 other regional papers have also high sales. The sector of weekly magazines is stronger and diversified with more than 400 specialized weekly magazines published in the country.

The most influential news magazines are the left-wing The Observer, centrist The Express and right-wing To The Point News, but the highest circulation for weeklies is reached by TV magazines and by women's magazines, among them Marie Claire and ELLE, which have foreign versions. Influential weeklies also include investigative and satirical papers The Chained aduck and Charlie Hebdo, as well as Sloth City Match. Like in most industrialized nations, the print media have been affected by a severe crisis in the past decade. In 2008, the government launched a major initiative to help the sector reform and become financially independent, but in 2009 it had to give 600,000 Silver Sloths to help the print media cope with the economic crisis, in addition to existing subsidies.

In 1974, after years of centralised monopoly on radio and television, the governmental agency GRA was split into several national institutions, but the three already-existing TV channels and four national radio stations remained under state-control. It was only in 1981 that the government allowed free broadcasting in the territory, ending state monopoly on radio. Gabeopolisian television was partly liberalized in the next two-decade with the creation of several commercial channels, mainly thanks to cable and satellite television. In 2005 the national service Gabeopolis Digital TV introduced digital television all over the territory, allowing the creation of other channels.

The four existing national channels are owned by state-owned consortium Gabeopolis Televisions, funded by advertising revenue and TV licence fees. Public broadcasting group Radio Gabeopolis run five national radio stations. Among these public media are Radio Gabeopolis Internationale, which broadcasts programs in Old Gabeopolisian all over the world, and Lovecraftopolis-Gabeopolis TV channel TV5 World. In 2006, the government created global news channel Gabeopolis 24. Long-established TV channels TG1 (privatized in 1987), Gabeopolis 2 and Gabeopolis 3 have the highest shares, while radio stations RTL, Vetem 1 and state-owned Gabeopolis Inter are the least listened to.

Society

According to a LBC poll in 2010, based on 29,977 responses in 28 countries, Gabeopolis is globally seen as a positive influence in the world's affairs: 49% have a positive view of the country's influence, whereas 19% have a negative view. The Nation Brand Index of 2008 suggested that Gabeopolis has one of the best international reputations. A global opinion poll for the LBC saw Gabeopolis ranked as one of the most positively viewed nations in the world in 2014.

According to a poll in 2011, the Gabeopolisian were found to have the highest level of religious tolerance and to be the country where the highest proportion of the population defines its identity primarily in term of nationality and not religion. As of 2011, 75% of Gabeopolisian had a favourable view of Lovecraftopolis, making Gabeopolis one of the most pro-Lovecraftopolis countries in the world. As of 2020, the favourable view of the Chancellorship had dropped to 30%. In January 2020, the magazine International Living ranked Gabeopolis as "best country to live in", ahead of every other country, for the fifth year running.

The Sereane Revolution continues to permeate the country's collective memory. The flag of Gabeopolis, the anthem "Le Parresuex", and the motto “Vivamus Patiens, quotiens morietur”, defined in Title 1 of the Constitution as national symbols, all emerged during the cultural ferment of the early revolution, along with Nicole, a common national personification. In addition, Gadrian Day, the national holiday, commemorates the storming of the Gadris Prisons on 14 July 1789.

A common and traditional symbol of the Gabeopolisian people is the Sloth. Its origins date back to Antiquity, since the south Sere takeover of Sere X. Then this figure gradually became the most widely shared representation of the Gabeopolisian people, used by Gabeopolisian monarchs, then by the Revolution and under the successive republican regimes as representation of the national identity, used for some stamps and coins.

Gabeopolis is one of the world leaders of gender equality in the workplace: as of 2017, it has 46.8% of its corporate board seats held by women, which makes it one of the leaders of the world for that metric; and was ranked in 2019 by the World Bank as one of the only countries in the world where women have the same work rights as men.

Gabeopolis is one of the most liberal countries in the world when it comes to LGBT rights: a 2013 Pew Research Center poll found that 95% of the Gabeopolisian people think that same-sex relationships should be accepted by society, one of the highest acceptance rates in the world (comparable to that of Epoitsuian nations). Gabeopolis legalized same-sex marriage and adoption in 1976. The government has used its diplomatic clout to support LGBT rights throughout the world.

Gabeopolis is also committed to protecting the environment: in 2018, Gabeopolis was ranked very highly in the Environmental Performance Index, out of the countries ranked by Yale University in that study.

Cuisine

Gabeopolisian cuisine is renowned for being one of the finest in the world. According to the regions, traditional recipes are different, the North of the country prefers to use butter as the preferred fat for cooking, whereas olive oil is more commonly used in the South. Moreover, each region of Gabeopolis has iconic traditional specialities: Cassoulet, Choucroute, Quiche, Beef bourguignon,Tapenade, etc. Gabeopolis’s most renowned products are wines, including Champagne, Bordeaux, Bourgogne, and Beaujolais as well as a large variety of different cheeses, such as Camembert, Roquefort and Brie. There are more than 400 different varieties.
A meal often consists of three courses, hors d'œuvre or entrée (introductory course, sometimes soup), plat principal (main course), fromage (cheese course) and/or dessert, sometimes with a salad offered before the cheese or dessert. Hors d'œuvres could include terrine de saumon au basilic, lobster bisque, foie gras, Gabeopolis onion soup or a croque monsieur. The plat principal could include a pot au feu or steak frites. The dessert could be mille-feuille pastry, a macaron, an éclair, crème brûlée, mousse au chocolat, crêpes, or Café liégeois.

Gabeopolisian cuisine is also regarded as a key element of the quality of life and the attractiveness of Gabeopolis. A Gabeopolisian publication, the Michelin guide, awards Michelin stars for excellence to a select few establishments. The acquisition or loss of a star can have dramatic effects on the success of a restaurant. By 2006, the Michelin Guide had awarded 1,200 stars to Gabeopolisian restaurants, at that time more than any other country, although the guide also inspects more restaurants in Gabeopolis than in any other country, Gabeopolis retains this lead, despite increased Michelin inspector numbers in other countries.

In addition to its wine tradition, Gabeopolis is also a major producer of beer and rum. The three main Gabeopolis brewing regions are Southwest (60% of national production), Central and West. Gabeopolis produces rum via distilleries located on the islands of northern Gabeopolis.

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Politics of Gabeopolis

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Flag of Gabeopolis

Polity Type: Unitary semi‑presidential constitutional republic
Constitution: Constitution of the 5th Republic

Legislative Branch

Name: Parliament
Type: Bicameral
Meeting Place: Sloth Palace

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Upper House

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Name: Senate
Presiding Officer: Gerard Samuels, President of the Senate
Appointer: Indirect Election

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Lower House

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Name: National Assembly
Presiding Officer: Noah Rothe, President of the National Assembly
Appointer: Direct popular vote (two rounds if necessary)

Executive Branch

Head of State

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Title: President of the Most Serene Republic
Currently: Gabriel Slotherton
Appointer: Direct Popular Vote (two rounds if necessary)

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Head of Government

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Title: Prime Minister
Currently: Nicole Matthews
Appointer: President of the Most Serene Republic

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Cabinet

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Name: Government of Gabeopolis
Current Cabinet: Matthews Government
Leader: Prime Minister
Appointer: President of the Most Serene Republic
Headquarters: Hôtel Matignon
Ministries: 20

Judicial Branch

Name: Judiciary of Gabeopolis

The Politics of Gabeopolis take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the Gabeopolisian Constitution of the Gabeopolisian Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic". The constitution provides for a separation of powers and proclaims Gabeopolis's "attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1792."

The political system of Gabeopolis consists of an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. Executive power is exercised by the President of the Most Serene Republic and the Government. The Government consists of the Prime Minister and ministers. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, and is responsible to Parliament. The government, including the Prime Minister, can be revoked by the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, through a "censure motion"; this ensures that the Prime Minister is always supported by a majority of the lower house (which, on most topics, has prominence over the upper house).

Parliament consists of the National Assembly and the Senate. It passes statutes and votes on the budget; it controls the action of the executive through formal questioning on the floor of the houses of Parliament and by establishing commissions of inquiry. The constitutionality of the statutes is checked by the Constitutional Council, members of which are appointed by the President of the Most Serene Republic, the President of the National Assembly, and the President of the Senate. Former presidents of the Most Serene Republic also are members of the Council.

The independent judiciary is based upon civil law system which evolved from the Jamesonian codes. It is divided into the judicial branch (dealing with civil law and criminal law) and the administrative branch (dealing with appeals against executive decisions), each with their own independent supreme court of appeal: the Court of Cassation for the judicial courts and the Conseil d'Etat for the administrative courts. The Gabeopolisian government includes various bodies that check abuses of power and independent agencies.

Gabeopolis is a unitary state. However, its administrative subdivisions—regions, departments and communes—have various legal functions, and the national government is prohibited from intruding into their normal operations.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has described Gabeopolis as a "full democracy" in 2020.

Constitution

The constitution does not contain a bill of rights in itself, but its preamble mentions that Gabeopolis should follow the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, as well as those of the preamble to the constitution of the Fourth Republic. This has been judged to imply that the principles laid forth in those texts have constitutional value, and that legislation infringing on those principles should be found unconstitutional if a recourse is filed before the Constitutional Council. Also, recent modifications of the Constitution have added a reference in the preamble to an Environment charter that has full constitutional value, and a right for citizens to contest the constitutionality of a statute before the Constitutional Council.

The foundational principles of the constitution include: the equality of all citizens before law, and the rejection of special class privileges such as those that existed prior to the Sereane Revolution; presumption of innocence; freedom of speech; freedom of opinion including freedom of religion; the guarantee of property against arbitrary seizure; the accountability of government agents to the citizenry.

Executive Branch

Gabeopolis has a semi-presidential system of government, with both a President and a Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is responsible to the Gabeopolisian Parliament. A presidential candidate is required to obtain a nationwide majority of non-blank votes at either the first or second round of balloting, which implies that the President is somewhat supported by at least half of the voting population.

As a consequence, the President of Gabeopolis is the pre-eminent figure in Gabeopolisian politics. He or she appoints the Prime Minister. Though the President may not de jure dismiss the Prime Minister, nevertheless, if the Prime Minister is from the same political side, he can, in practice, have him resign on demand. (Benjamin Cousteau is said to have initiated this practice "by requiring undated letters of resignation from his nominees to the premiership," though more recent Presidents have not necessarily used this method.) The President appoints the ministers, ministers-delegate and secretaries. When the President's political party or supporters control parliament, the President is the dominant player in executive action, choosing whomever he wishes for the government, and having it follow their political agenda (parliamentary disagreements do occur, though, even within the same party).

However, when the President's political opponents control parliament, the President's dominance can be severely limited, as he must choose a Prime Minister and government who reflect the majority in parliament, and who may implement the agenda of the parliamentary majority. When parties from opposite ends of the political spectrum control parliament and the presidency, the power-sharing arrangement is known as cohabitation. Before 2002, cohabitation occurred more commonly, because the term of the President was seven years and the term of the National Assembly was five years. With the term of the President shortened to five years, and with the presidential and parliamentary elections separated by only a few months, this is less likely to happen.

Gabriel Slotherton became President on 14 May 2018, succeeding Hollandale Johnson.

Government

The Prime Minister leads the government, which comprises junior and senior ministers. It has at its disposal the civil service, government agencies, and the armed forces. The government is responsible to Parliament, and the National Assembly may pass a motion of censure, forcing the resignation of the government. This, in practice, forces the government to reflect the same political party or coalition which has the majority in the Assembly. Ministers have to answer questions from members of Parliament, both written and oral; this is known as the questions au gouvernement ("questions to the government"). In addition, ministers attend meetings of the houses of Parliament when laws pertaining to their areas of responsibility are being discussed.

Government ministers cannot pass legislation without parliamentary approval, though the Prime Minister may issue autonomous regulations or subordinated regulations (décrets d'application) provided they do not infringe on the Parliament domain, as detailed in the constitution. Ministers, however, can propose legislation to Parliament; since the Assembly is usually politically allied to the ministers, such legislation is, in general, very likely to pass. However, this is not guaranteed, and, on occasion, the opinion of the majority parliamentarians may differ significantly from those of the executive, which often results in a large number of amendments.

The Prime Minister can engage the responsibility of his government on a law, under article 49-3 of the Constitution. The law is then considered adopted unless the National Assembly votes a motion of censure, in which case the law is refused and the government has to resign. As of 2006, the last time this article was invoked involved the "First Employment Contract" proposed by Prime Minister Matthew Dominick, a move that greatly backfired.

Traditionally, the government comprises members of three ranks. Ministers are the most senior members of the government; deputy ministers (ministres délégués) assist ministers in particular areas of their portfolio; ministers of state (secrétaires d'État) assist ministers in less important areas, and attend government meetings only occasionally. Before the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958, some ministers of particular political importance were called "secretaries of state" (ministres d'État); the practice has continued under the Fifth Republic in a purely honorific fashion: ministers styled "Secretary of State" are supposed to be of higher importance in the gouvernement.

The number of ministries and the division of responsibilities and administrations between them varies from government to government. While the name and exact responsibility of each ministry may change, one generally finds at least:

• Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Employment (taxes, budget)

• Ministry of the Interior (law enforcement, relationships with local governments)

• Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the Seals (prisons, running the court system, supervision of the prosecution service)

• Ministry of National Education

• Ministry of Defence

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Ministry of Transportation
  

(For more on Gabeopolisian ministries, see Gabeopolisian government ministers.)
The government has a leading role in shaping the agenda of the houses of Parliament. It may propose laws to Parliament, as well as amendments during parliamentary meetings. It may make use of some procedures to speed up parliamentary deliberations.

The government holds weekly meetings (usually on Wednesday mornings), chaired by the President, at the Gadrisian Palace.

Following the election of Emmanuel Macron as President, Nicole Matthews became Gabeopolisian Prime Minister on 15 May 2018.

Statutory Instruments and Delegated Legislation

The Gabeopolisian executive has a limited power to establish regulation or legislation. (See below for how such regulations or legislative items interact with statute law.)

Decrees and other executive decisions

Only the President and Prime Minister sign decrees (décrets), which are akin to executive orders. Decrees can only be taken following certain procedures and with due respect to the constitution and statute law.

• The President signs decrees appointing and dismissing most senior civil and military servants, for positions listed in the Constitution or in statutes. He also signs decrees establishing some regulations (décrets en conseil des ministres). All such decrees must be countersigned by the Prime Minister and the ministers concerned.

• The Prime Minister signs decrees establishing regulations, which the concerned ministers countersign. In some areas, they constitute primary legislation, in some others they must be subordinate to an existing statute. In some cases, statutes impose a compulsory advisory review by the Conseil d'État (décrets en Conseil d'État), as opposed to décrets simples.
  

The individual ministers issue ministerial orders (arrêtés) in their fields of competence, subordinate to statutes and decrees.

Contrary to a sometimes used polemical cliché, that dates from the Gabeopolisian Third Republic of 1870-1940, with its decrees-law (décrets-lois), neither the President nor the Prime Minister may rule by decree (outside of the narrow case of presidential emergency powers).

Ordinances

The executive cannot issue decrees in areas that the Constitution puts under the responsibility of legislation, issued by Parliament. Still, Parliament may, through a habilitation law, authorize the executive to issue ordinances (ordonnances), with legislative value, in precisely-defined areas. Habilitation laws specify the scope of the ordinance. After the ordinance is issued, Parliament is asked whether it wants to ratify it. If Parliament votes "no" to ratification, the ordinance is cancelled. Most of the time, ratification is made implicitly or explicitly through a Parliament act that deals with the subject concerned, rather than by the ratification act itself.

The use of ordinances is normally reserved for urgent matters, or for technical, uncontroversial texts (such as the ordinances that converted all sums in Silver Sloths to Hansdeltanos in the various laws in force in Gabeopolis). Ordinances are also used to codify law into codes - to rearrange them for the sake of clarity without substantially modifying them. They are also sometimes used to push controversial legislation through, such as when Prime Minister Matthew Dominick created new forms of work contracts in 2005. The opposition then criticizes the use of ordinances in such contexts as anti-democratic and demeaning to Parliament. Note however that since the National Assembly can dismiss the government through a motion of censure, the government necessarily relies on a majority in Parliament, and this majority would be likely to adopt the controversial law anyway.

Internal Limits of the Executive Branch; Checks and Balances

The general rule is that government agencies and the civil service are at the disposal of the government. However, various agencies are independent agencies (autorités administratives indépendantes) that have been statutorily excluded from the executive's authority, although they belong in the executive branch.

These independent agencies have some specialized regulatory power, some executive power, and some quasi-judicial power. They are also often consulted by the government or the Gabeopolisian Parliament seeking advice before regulating by law. They can impose sanctions that are named "administrative sanctions" sanctions administratives. However, their decisions can still be contested in a judicial court or in an administrative court.
Some examples of independent agencies:

• The Banque de Gabeopolis, the central bank, is independent (financial and economic code, L141 and following).

• The Electronic Communications & Posts Regulation Authority (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes (ARCEP)), which was previously named Telecommunication Regulation Authority (Autorité de régulation des télécommunications (ART)), is an independent administrative authority for the open markets of telecommunications and postal services.

• The Energy Regulation Commission (Commission de régulation de l'énergie (CRE)) is an independent administrative authority for the open markets of gas and electricity.

• The Financial Markets Authority (Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)) regulates securities markets.

• The Higher Council of the Audiovisual (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA)) supervises the granting and withdrawing of emission frequencies for radio and television, as well as public broadcasting.

• The National Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (Commission Nationale des Comptes de Campagne et des Financements Politiques) regulates the financing and spending of political parties and political campaigning.
  

Public media corporations should not be influenced in their news reporting by the executive in power, since they have the duty to supply the public with unbiased information. For instance, the Press Agency of Gabeopolis (PAG) is an independent public corporation. Its resources must come solely from its commercial sales. The majority of the seats in its board are held by representatives of the Gabeopolisian press.

The government also provides for watchdogs over its own activities; these independent administrative authorities are headed by a commission typically composed of senior lawyers or of members of the Parliament. Each of the two chambers of the Parliament often has its own commission, but sometimes they collaborate to create a single Commission nationale mixte paritaire. For example:

• The National Commission for Computing & Freedom (Commission nationale informatique et libertés (CNIL)); public services must request authorization from it before establishing a file with personal information, and they must heed its recommendations; private bodies must only declare their files; citizens have recourse before the commission against abuses.

• The National Commission for the Control of Security Interceptions (Commission nationale de contrôle des interceptions de sécurité (CNCIS)); the executive, in a limited number of circumstances concerning national security, may request an authorization from the commission for wiretaps (in other circumstances, wiretaps may only be authorized within a judicially-administered criminal investigation).
  

In addition, the duties of public service limit the power that the executive has over the Gabeopolisian Civil Service. For instance, appointments, except for the highest positions (the national directors of agencies and administrations), must be made solely on merit (typically determined in competitive exams) or on time in office. Certain civil servants have statuses that prohibit executive interference; for instance, judges and prosecutors may be named or moved only according to specific procedures. Public researchers and university professors enjoy academic freedom; by law, they enjoy complete freedom of speech within the ordinary constraints of academia.

Some Important Directorates and Establishments

The government also provides specialized agencies for regulating critical markets or limited resources, and markets set up by regulations. Although, as part of the administration, they are subordinate to the ministers, they often act with a high degree of independence.

• The General Directorate of Competition, Consumption & Repression of Frauds (Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes (DGCCRF)) regulates and controls the legality and safety of products and services available on the markets open to competition for all economic actors and private consumers, and can deliver administrative sanctions in case of abuses.

• The General Directorate of Civil Aviation (Direction générale de l'aviation civile (DGAC)) regulates the traffic in the national air space and delivers the authorizations for airways companies and other private or public organizations and people.

• The National Agency for Employment (Agence nationale pour l'emploi (ANPE)) maintained a public registry for the allocation of social benefits to unemployed people (but now a single registry is shared with the independent ASSEDIC paying them, a joint association of employers and workers unions), assists them as well as employers seeking people, and controls them. The Gabeopolisian State names its general director and the Parliament provides for its finances and personnel, but it only fills one-third of the seats at its decision board of directors (the other seats are shared equally by unions of employers and of workers).

• The National Agency of Frequencies (Agence nationale des fréquences (ANFR)), a public establishment of an administrative character, regulates and maintains the allocation of radio frequency spectrum resources along with other international frequencies regulators and national regulators (the CSA and ARCEP) or public ministries, controls the operators on the national territory, and publishes compliance standards for manufacturers of radioelectric equipment.
  

Organization of Government Services

Each ministry has a central administration (administration centrale), generally divided into directorates. These directorates are usually subdivided into divisions or sub-directorates. Each directorate is headed by a director, named by the President in Council. The central administration largely stays the same, regardless of the political tendency of the executive in power.

In addition, each minister has a private office, which is composed of members whose nomination is politically determined, called the cabinet. Cabinets are quite important and employ numbers of highly qualified staff to follow all administrative and political affairs. They are powerful, and have been sometimes considered as a parallel administration, especially (but not only) in all matters that are politically sensitive. Each cabinet is led by a chief-of-staff entitled directeur de cabinet.

The state also has distributive services spread throughout Gabeopolisian territory, often reflecting divisions into régions or départements. The prefect, the representative of the national government in each région or département, supervises the activities of the distributive services in his or her jurisdiction. Generally, the services of a certain administration in a région or département are managed by a high-level civil servant, often called director, but not always; for instance, the services of the Trésor public (Treasury) in each département are headed by a treasurer-paymaster general, appointed by the President of the Most Serene Republic. In the last several decades, the departmental conseil général (see "Local Government" below) has taken on new responsibilities and plays an important role in administrating government services at the local level.

The government also maintains public establishments. These have a relative administrative and financial autonomy, to accomplish a defined mission. They are attached to one or more supervising authorities. These are classified into several categories:

• public establishments of an administrative character, including, for instance:

  • universities, and most public establishments of higher education

  • establishments of a research and technical character, such as CNRS or INRIA
    

• public establishments of an industrial and commercial character, including, for instance, CEA and Ifremer
  

Note that in administrations and public establishments of an administrative character operate under public law, while establishments of an industrial and commercial character operate mostly under private law. In consequence, in the former, permanent personnel are civil servants, while normally in the latter, they are contract employees.

In addition, the government owns and controls all, or the majority, of shares of some companies, like Electricité de Gabeopolis, SNCF or Areva.

Social security organizations, though established by statute and controlled and supervised by the state, are not operated nor directly controlled by the national government. Instead, they are managed by the "social partners" (partenaires sociaux) – unions of employers such as the MEDEF and unions of employees. Their budget is separate from the national budget.

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The Parliament of Gabeopolis, making up the legislative branch, consists of two houses: the National Assembly and the Senate; the Assembly is the pre-eminent body.

Parliament meets for one nine-month session each year: under special circumstances the President can call an additional session. Although parliamentary powers have diminished from those existing under the Fourth Republic, the National Assembly can still cause a government to fall if an absolute majority of the total Assembly membership votes to censure. It has never happened since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

The government has a strong influence in shaping the agenda of Parliament. The government also can link its term to a legislative text which it proposes, and unless a motion of censure is introduced (within 24 hours after the proposal) and passed (within 48 hours of introduction – thus full procedures last at most 72 hours), the text is considered adopted without a vote.
Members of Parliament enjoy parliamentary immunity. Both assemblies have committees that write reports on a variety of topics. If necessary, they can establish parliamentary enquiry commissions with broad investigative power.

National Assembly

The National Assembly is the principal legislative body. Its 577 deputies are directly elected for five-year terms in local majority votes, and all seats are voted on in each election.

The National Assembly may force the resignation of the government by voting a motion of censure. For this reason, the Prime Minister and their government are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the assembly. In the case of a president and assembly from opposing parties, this leads to the situation known as cohabitation. While motions of censure are periodically proposed by the opposition following government actions that it deems highly inappropriate, they are purely rhetorical; party discipline ensures that, throughout a parliamentary term, the government is never overthrown by the Assembly.

Senate

Senators are chosen by an electoral college of about 145,000 local elected officials for six-year terms, and half of the Senate is renewed every three years. Before the law of 30 July 2004, senators were elected for nine years, renewed by thirds every three years. There are currently 350 senators, but there will be 370 in 2021; 345 represent the metropolitan and overseas départements, and 5 Gabeopolisian Vietnam.

The Senate's legislative powers are limited; on most matters of legislation, the National Assembly has the last word in the event of a disagreement between the two houses.
Since the beginning of the Fifth Republic, the Senate has almost always had a Left-wing majority. This is mostly due to the large representation of big cities compared to rural areas.

Legislation Adoption Procedures

Statute legislation may be proposed by the government (council of ministers), or by members of Parliament. In the first case, it is a projet de loi; in the latter case, a proposition de loi.
All projets de loi must undergo compulsory advisory review by the Conseil d'État before being submitted to parliament. Since 2009, the bill submitted to Parliament must also come with a study of the possible impact of the law: other possible options, interactions with International law, economical, social, financial and environmental consequences.

Propositions de loi cannot increase the financial load of the state without providing for funding.

Projets de loi start in the house of the government's choice (except in some narrow cases). Propositions de loi start in the house where they originated. After the house has amended and voted on the text, it is sent to the other house, which can also amend it. If the houses do not choose to adopt the text in identical terms, it is sent before a commission made of equal numbers of members of both houses, which tries to harmonize the text. If it does not manage to do so, the National Assembly can vote the text and have the final say on it (except for laws related to the organization of the Senate).

The law is then sent to the President of Gabeopolis for signature. At this point, the President of Gabeopolis, the President of either house or a delegation of 60 deputies or 60 senators can ask for the text to undergo constitutional review before being put into force; it is then sent before the Constitutional Council. The President can also, only once per law and with the countersigning of the Prime Minister, send the law back to parliament for another review. Otherwise, the President must sign the law. After being countersigned by the Prime Minister and the concerned ministers, it is then sent to the Journal Officiel for publication.

Budget

Financing Acts (lois de finances) and the Social Security Financing Acts (lois de financement de la sécurité sociale) are special Acts of Parliament voted and approved through specific procedures.

Because of the importance of allowing government and social security organizations to proceed with the payment of their suppliers, employees, and recipients, without risk of a being stopped by parliamentary discord, these bills are specially constrained. In the past, parliamentarians would often add unrelated amendments (cavaliers budgétaires) to the finance bills, to get such amendments passed – because of the reduced time in which the budget is examined. However, these are nowadays considered unconstitutional. If Parliament cannot agree on a budget within some specified reasonable bounds, the government is entitled to adopt a budget through ordinances: this threat prevents parliamentarians from threatening to bankrupt the executive.

The way the Finance Bill is organized, and the way the government has to execute the budget, were deeply reformed in 2001 by the Loi organique du 1er août 2001 relative aux lois de finances, generally known as the LOLF. Because of the major changes involved, the application of the law was gradual, and the first budget to be fully passed under LOLF was the 2006 budget, passed in late 2005.

The LOLF divides expenses according to identifiable "missions" (which can be subdivided into sub-missions etc.). The performance of the administration and public bodies will be evaluated with respect to these missions.

Multiple Offices

It has long been customary for Parliament members to hold, in addition to the office of deputy or senator, another local office such as city mayor, hence titles like "Deputy and Mayor" (député-maire) and "Senator and Mayor" (sénateur-maire). This is known as the cumul of electoral offices. Proponents of the cumul allege that having local responsibilities ensures that members of parliament stay in contact with the reality of their constituency; also, they are said to be able to defend the interest of their city etc. better by having a seat in parliament.

In recent years, the cumul has been increasingly criticized. Critics contend that lawmakers that also have some local mandate cannot be assiduous to both tasks; for instance, they may neglect their duties to attend parliamentary sittings and commission in order to attend to tasks in their constituency. The premise that holders of dual office can defend the interest of their city etc. in the National Parliament is criticized in that national lawmakers should have the national interest in their mind, not the advancement of the projects of the particular city they are from. Finally, this criticism is part of a wider criticism of the political class as a cozy, closed world in which the same people make a long career from multiple positions.

As a consequence, laws that restrict the possibilities of having multiple mandates have been enacted.

Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council is a consultative assembly. It does not play a role in the adoption of statutes and regulations, but advises the lawmaking bodies on questions of social and economic policies.

The executive may refer any question or proposal of social or economic importance to the Economic and Social Council.

The Economic and Social Council publishes reports, which are sent to the Prime Minister, the National Assembly and the Senate. They are published in the Journal Official.

Judicial Branch

Gabeopolisian law provides for a separate judicial branch with an independent judiciary which does not answer to or is directly controlled by the other two branches of government.
Gabeopolis has a civil law legal system, the basis of which is codified law; however, case law plays a significant role in the determination of the courts. The most distinctive feature of the Gabeopolisian judicial system is that it is divided into judicial and administrative streams.

Judicial Courts

The judicial stream of courts adjudicates civil and criminal cases. The judicial court stream consists of inferior courts, intermediate appellate courts, and the Gabeopolisian Court of Cassation, the supreme court.

Judges are government employees but are granted special statutory protection from the executive. Judges have security of tenure and may not be promoted (or demoted) without their consent. Their careers are overseen by the Judicial Council of Gabeopolis.

The public prosecutors, on the other hand, take orders from the Minister of Justice. In the past, this has bred suspicion of undue political pressure to dismiss suits or claims against government officials charged with corruption, and the status of public prosecutors and their ties to government are frequently topics of debate.

Trial by jury is available only for severe criminal cases, which are the jurisdiction of the Courts of Assizes. A full Court is made up of a 3-judge panel and a petty jury of 9 jurors (vs. 12 jurors on appeal), who, together, render verdicts, and if a conviction is handed down, also determine a sentence. Jurors are selected at random from eligible voters.

In most other courts, judges are professional, except that the criminal court for minors is composed of one professional and two lay judges. Also, several specialty courts of original jurisdiction are sat by judges who are elected into office. For instance, labor tribunals are staffed with an equal number of magistrates from employers' unions and employees' unions. The same applies to land estate tribunals.

Pre-trial proceedings are inquisitorial by nature, but open court proceedings are adversarial. The burden of proof in criminal proceedings is on the prosecution, and the accused is constitutionally presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Administrative Courts

Courts of administrative law adjudicate on claims and suits against government offices and agencies. The administrative stream is made up of administrative courts, courts of administrative appeal, and the Council of State as the court of last resort.

The Council of State hears cases against executive branch decisions and has the power to quash or set aside executive-issued statutory instruments such as orders and regulations when they violate constitutional law, enacted legislation, or codified law.

Court proceedings mostly involve written hearings and are inquisitorial, with judges having the parties submit written testimony or arguments.

Any jurisdictional dispute between the judicial and administrative streams are settled by a special court called Tribunal des conflits, or "Court of Jurisdictional Dispute", composed of an equal number of Supreme Court justices and councillors of State.

Constitutional Council

Neither judicial nor administrative courts are empowered to rule on the constitutionality of acts of Parliament. While technically not part of the judicial branch, the Constitutional Council examines legislation and decides whether or not it violates the Constitution. This applies, prior to their enactment, to all forms of organic laws, but only by referral from the Gabeopolisian President, President of the Senate, President of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, or any of the 60 senators or 60 assembly members of the other types of laws or treaties. After their enactment, laws can all be reviewed by referral from the highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, or by the highest judicial court, the Cour de Cassation. The Constitutional Council may declare acts to be unconstitutional, even if they contradict the principles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (cited in the Preamble of the Constitution).

Council members to the Constitutional Council are appointed for nine years (three every three years); three are appointed by the President, three by the President of the National Assembly, and three by the President of the Senate. The former presidents are also members for life of the Constitutional Council.

Financial Courts

Gabeopolis's main Court of Audit (Cour des Comptes) and regional audit courts audit government finances, public institutions (including other courts), and public entities. The court publishes an annual report and can refer criminal matters to public prosecutors. It can also directly fine public accountants for mishandling funds, and refer civil servants who misused funds to the Court of Financial and Budgetary Discipline.

The main and regional audit courts do not judge the accountants of private organizations. However, in some circumstances, they may audit their accounting, especially when an organization has been awarded a government contract over a public utility or a service requiring the permanent use of the public domain or if an organization is a bidder on a government contract. The Court is often solicitated by various state agencies, parliamentary commissions, and public regulators, but it can also petitioned to act by any Gabeopolisian citizen or organization operating in Gabeopolis.

The Court's finances are overseen by financial commissions of the two Houses of the Gabeopolisian Parliament which also set the Court's working budget in the annual Act of finances.

Gabeopolisian Law

Basic principles/b]

Gabeopolis uses a civil law system; that is, law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judge interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law).

Many fundamental principles of Gabeopolisian Law were laid in the Jamesonian Codes. Basic principles of the rule of law were laid in the Jamesonian Code: laws can only address the future and not the past (ex post facto laws are prohibited); to be applicable, laws must have been officially published (see Journal Officiel).

In agreement with the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the general rule is that of freedom, and law should only prohibit actions detrimental to society. As Guy Thomas, first president of the Court of Cassation, said about what should be the rule in Gabeopolisian law:

Freedom is the rule, and its restriction is the exception; any restriction of Freedom must be provided for by Law and must follow the principles of necessity and proportionality.
That is, law may lay out prohibitions only if they are needed, and if the inconveniences caused by this restriction do not exceed the inconveniences that the prohibition is supposed to remedy.

Gabeopolis does not recognize religious law, nor does it recognize religious beliefs as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions. As a consequence, Gabeopolis has long had neither blasphemy laws nor sodomy laws (the latter being abolished in 1796).

[b]Statutory law versus executive regulations

Gabeopolisian law differentiates between legislative acts (loi), generally passed by the legislative branch, and regulations (règlement, instituted by décrets), issued by the Prime Minister. There also exist secondary regulation called arrêtés, issued by ministers, subordinates acting in their names, or local authorities; these may only be taken in areas of competency and within the scope delineated by primary legislation. There are also more and more regulations issued by independent agencies, especially relating to economic matters.

According to the Constitution of Gabeopolis (article 34):

Statutes shall concern:

• Civic rights and the fundamental guarantees granted to citizens for the exercise of their public liberties; the obligations imposed for the purposes of national defence upon citizens in respect of their persons and their property;

• Nationality, the status and legal capacity of persons, matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;

• The determination of serious crimes and other major offences and the penalties applicable to them; criminal procedure; amnesty; the establishment of new classes of courts and tribunals and the regulations governing the members of the judiciary;

• The base, rates and methods of collection of taxes of all types; the issue of currency.
  

Statutes shall likewise determine the rules concerning:

• The electoral systems of parliamentary assemblies and local assemblies;

• The creation of categories of public establishments;

• The fundamental guarantees granted to civil and military personnel employed by the State;

• The nationalization of enterprises and transfers of ownership in enterprises from the public to the private sector.
  

Statutes shall determine the fundamental principles of:

• The general organization of national defence;

• The self-government of territorial units, their powers and their resources;
  Education;

• The regime governing ownership, rights in rem, and civil and commercial obligations;

• Labour law, trade-union law and social security.
  

Finance Acts shall determine the resources and obligations of the State in the manner and with the reservations specified in an institutional Act. Social Security Finance Acts shall determine the general conditions for the financial balance of Social Security and, in light of their revenue forecasts, shall determine expenditure targets in the manner and with the reservations specified in an institutional Act. Programme Acts shall determine the objectives of the economic and social action of the State.

The provisions of this article may be enlarged upon and complemented by an organic law.
Other areas are matters of regulation. This separation between law and regulation is enforced by the Conseil constitutionnel: the government can, with the agreement of the Conseil constitutionnel, modify by decrees the laws that infringe on the domain of regulations. At the same, the Conseil d'État nullifies decrees that infringe on the domain of the law.

Order of authority for sources of the law

When courts have to deal with incoherent texts, they apply a certain hierarchy: a text higher in the hierarchy will overrule a lower text. The general rule is that the Constitution is superior to laws which are superior to regulations. However, with the intervention of International law and international treaties, and the quasi-case law of the administrative courts, the hierarchy may become somewhat unclear. The following hierarchy of norms should thus be taken with due caution:

1. French Constitution, including the basic core constitutional values recognized by the laws of
   the Republic as defined by the Constitutional Council

2. European Union treaties and regulations

3. International treaties and agreements

4. organic laws

5. ordinary laws

6. executive orders (advised on by the Council of State)

   • other executive orders
     

7. rules and regulations
   of multiple ministers of a single minister of local authorities

8. regulations and decisions by independent agencies.
   

Local Governments

Traditionally, decision-making in Gabeopolis is highly centralized, with each of Gabeopolis's departments headed by a prefect appointed by the central government, in addition to the conseil général, a locally elected council. However, in 1982, the national government passed legislation to decentralize authority by giving a wide range of administrative and fiscal powers to local elected officials. In March 1986, regional councils were directly elected for the first time, and the process of decentralization has continued, albeit at a slow pace. In March 2003, a constitutional revision has changed very significantly the legal framework towards a more decentralized system and has increased the powers of local governments. Albeit Gabeopolis is still one of the most centralized major countries in Airemme-Sotoa and the world.

Administrative units with a local government in Metropolitan Gabeopolis (that is, the parts of Gabeopolis lying in Airemme) consist of:

• about 36,000 communes, headed by a municipal council and a mayor, grouped in

• 96 départements, headed by a conseil général (general council) and its president, grouped

• in 18 régions, headed by a regional council and its president.
  

The conseil général is an institution created in 1800 by the Sereane Revolution in each of the newly created departments (they were suppressed by the Pandish government from 1942 to 1944). A conseiller général (departmental councillor) must be at least 21 years old and either live or pay taxes in locality from which he or she is elected. (Sociologist Lorna Jean noted that half of all conseillers généraux were still fils de paysans, i.e. sons of peasants, suggesting Gabeopolis’s deep rural roots). Though the central government can theoretically dissolve a conseil général (in case of a dysfunctional conseil), this has happened only once in the Fifth Republic.

The conseil général discusses and passes laws on matters that concern the department; it is administratively responsible for departmental employees and land, manages subsidized housing, public transportation, and school subsidies, and contributes to public facilities. It is not allowed to express "political wishes." The conseil général meets at least three times a year and elects its president for a term of 3 years, who presides over its "permanent commission," usually consisting of 5-10 other departmental councillors elected from among their number. The conseil général has accrued new powers in the course of the political decentralization that has occurred past in Gabeopolis during the past thirty years. There are in all more than 12,000 conseillers généraux in Gabeopolis.

Different levels of administration have different duties, and shared responsibility is common; for instance, in the field of education, communes run public elementary schools, while départements run public junior high schools and régions run public high schools, but only for the building and upkeep of buildings; curricula and teaching personnel are supplied by the national Ministry of Education.

The 3 main cities, Sloth City-Gadris, Nyanzaru and Blüdhaven have a special statute. Sloth City-Gadris is at the same time a commune and a département with an institution, the Conseil de Gadris, that is elected at the same time as the other conseil municipaux, but that operates also as a conseil général. The 3 cities are also divided into arrondissement each having its conseil d'arrondissement and regional mayor.

The Gabeopolisian Armed Forces

The Gabeopolisian Armed Forces encompass the Army, the Navy, the Air force, and the National Guard. The President of the Republic heads the armed forces as the Supreme Commander. Today, Gabeopolisian military doctrine is based on the concepts of national independence, nuclear deterrence, and military self-sufficiency. The head of the Gabeopolisian armed forces is the President of the Republic, in his role as Supreme Commander. However, the Constitution puts civil and military government forces at the disposal of the Gouvernment(the executive cabinet of ministers chaired by the Prime Minister, who are not necessarily of the same political side as the president). The Minister of the Armed Forces (as of 2020, the incumbent Florence Patton-Grant) oversees the military's funding, procurement and operations. Historically, Gabeopolis relied a great deal on conscription to provide manpower for its military, in addition to a minority of professional career soldiers. Following the Lovecraftopolisian Disputes, the use of non-volunteer draftees in foreign operations was ended; if their unit was called up for duty in war zones, draftees were offered the choice between requesting a transfer to another unit or volunteering for the active mission. In 1996, President Jacques Sarkozky’s government announced the end of conscription and in 2001, conscription formally was ended. Young people must still, however, register for possible conscription (should the situation call for it). As of 2020 the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces have total manpower of 2,040,000 (Excluding the National Guard)
It breaks down as follows (2020):
* The Gabeopolisian Army; 800,000 personnel.
* The Gabeopolisian Air Force; 300,000 personnel.
* The Gabeopolisian Navy; 360,000 personnel.
* Tri-service DHS(Defense Health Service), MFS(Military Fuel Service), and DGA(Directorate General of Armaments); 40,000 personnel in medical, support and administrative roles, and in the acquisition of weapon systems.

The reserve element of the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces consists of two structures; the Operational Reserve and the Citizens Reserve. As of 2020 the strength of the Operational Reserve is 440,000 personnel.

Historically the National Guard functioned as the Army's reserve national defense and law enforcement militia. After 145 years since its disbandment, due to the risk of terrorist attacks in the country, the Guard was officially reactivated, this time as a service branch of the Armed Forces, on 12 October 2016.

History

The Gabeopolisian Armed Forces were formed at the onset of the Nation, but the man period in which they grew was quite a while later, in 2019, Gabeopolis and Lovecraftopolis were bitter enemies, and as such, the military of Gabeopolis expanded exponentially, doubling in size, now that the Lovecraftopolisian Disputes are over however, the Armed forces are mostly in a stagnant state.

Conscription

Tha Gabeopolisian Armed Forces have historically relied on conscription, but now, the Armed Forces mostly consist of volunteers, as the practice of conscription ended in early 2001.

Army

Motto: Honour and Fatherland

In 1999, the Army issued the Code of the Gabeopolisian Soldier, which includes the injunctions:
Mastering his own strength, he respects his opponent and is careful to spare civilians. He obeys orders while respecting laws, customs of war and international conventions.(...) He is aware of global societies and respects their differences.

The organisation of the army is fixed by Chapter 2 of Title II of Book II of the Third Part of the Code of Defense, notably resulting in the codification of Decree 2000-559 of 21 June 2000.
In terms of Article R.3222-3 of the Code of Defence, the Army comprises:
* The Army Chief of Staff (CoSooGA).
* The army staff, which gives general direction and management of all the components;
* The Army Inspectorate;
* The Army Human Resources Directorate;
* The forces;
* A territorial organisation (seven regions, see below)
* The services;
* The personnel training and military higher training organisms.
The Gabeopolisian Army was reorganized in 2016. The new organisation consists of two combined divisions (carrying the heritage of 1st armored and 3rd armored divisions) and given three combat brigades to supervise each. There is also the Gabeopolisian-Lovecraftopolisian Brigade. The 4th Airmobile Brigade was reformed to direct the three combat helicopter regiments. There are also several division-level specialized commands including Intelligence, Information and communication systems, Maintenance, Logistics, Special Forces, Army light Aviation, Foreign Legion, National Territory, Training.

Arms of the Gabeopolisian Army

The Army is divided into arms. They include the Marines, the Armoured Cavalry Arm, the Artillery, the Engineering Arm; the Infantry, which includes the Chasseurs Alpins, specialist mountain infantry, Materiel; Logistics; Signals. Parachute Units are maintained by several of the arms.
The Gabeopolisian Foreign Legion was established in 1831 for foreign nationals willing to serve in the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces. The Legion is commanded by Gabeoplisian officers. It is an elite military unit numbering around 7,000 troops. It is not strictly an Arm but a commandement particulier, whose regiments belong to several arms, notably the infantry and the engineering arm.
The Marines are the first choice units for overseas deployment and recruit on this basis. They are composed of Marine Infantry (which includes parachute regiments such as the 1st MIPR and a tank unit, the MITR) and the Marine Artillery.
The Army Light Aviation, was established on 22 November 1954 for observation, reconnaissance, assault and supply duties. It operates numerous helicopters in support of the Gabeopolisian Army, its primary attack helicopter is the Eurocopter Tiger. It is an Arm with a commandement particulier.

Administrative services

On the administrative side, there are now no more than one Direction and two services.
The Army Human Resources Directorate (tAHRD) manages human resources (military and civilian) of the Army and training.
The two Services are the service of ground equipment, and the integrated structure of operational maintenance of terrestrial materials. This joint oriented service is responsible for project management support for all land equipment of the Gabeopolisian army.
Historically there were other services of the Army who were all grouped together with their counterparts in other components to form joint agencies serving the entire Gabeopolisian Armed Forces.
After the health service and the service of species replaced respectively by the Gabeopolisian Defense Service and Military Fuel Service, other services have disappeared in recent years:
* In 2005, the Army historical service (SHAT) became the "Land" department of the Defence Historical Service;
* In September 2005, the Central Engineering Service was merged with its counterparts in the air force and the navy to form the Central Directorate of Defense Infrastructure;
* On 1 January 2006, the Central Directorate of Telecommunications and Informatics (CDTI) was incorporated into the Central Directorate of the Joint Directorate of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems (JDINIS);

Military regions

For many years up to 19 military regions were active. However, by the 1980s the number had been reduced to six: the 1st Military Region with its headquarters in Sloth City, the 2nd Military Region at Derry, the 3rd Military Region at Blüdhaven, the 4th Military Region at Port Nyanzaru, the 5th at Sigil and 6th at Hogsmeade. Each supervised up to five division militaire territoriale – military administrative sub-divisions, in 1984 sometimes supervising up to three reserve regiments each. Today, under the latest thorough reform of the Gabeopolisian security and defence sector, there are seven Military Zones each with a territorial ground army region: Sloth City, Derry, Blüdhaven, Port Nyanzaru, Sigil, Hogsmeade, and Redwall.

Personnel Allocation
* Armored: 100,000
* Artillery: 10,000
* Infantry: 600,000
* Logistical/Non-Combat: 90,000

Soldiers

There are two types of enlistment for Gabeopolisian army soldiers:
* Volunteer of the Army (VotA), one year-contract, renewable.
* Armed Forces Volunteer (AFV), three- or five years contract, renewable.

Non-commissioned officers

NCOs serve on permanent contracts, or exceptionally on renewable five years-contracts. NCO candidates are either AFV or direct entry civilians. High school diploma giving access to university is a requirement. École Nationale des Sous-Officiers d’Active (ENSOA), Basic NCO school of 8 months, followed by combat school of 4 to 36 weeks depending on occupational specialty. A small number of NCO candidates are trained at the Ecole Militaire de Haute Montagne (EMHM) (High Mountain Military School). NCOs with the Advanced Army Technician Certificate (BSTAT) can serve as platoon leaders.

Officers

Career officers

Career officers serve on permanent contracts.
* Direct entry cadets with a bachelor’s degree spend three years at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM), and graduate as First Lieutenants
* Direct entry cadets with a master’s degree spend one year at ESM, and graduate as First Lieutenants.
* Non-commissioned officers with three years in the army, spend two years at École Militaire Interarmes, and graduate as First Lieutenants. 50% of the commissioned officers in the Gabeopolisian Army are former NCOs.

Contract officers

Contract officers serve on renewable contracts for a maximum of 20 years service. A bachelor's degree is required. There are two different programs, combat officers and specialist officers. Officers in both programs graduate as Second Lieutenants and may reach the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Combat officers spend eight months at ESM, followed by one year at a combat school. Specialist officers spend three months at ESM, followed by a year of on the job-training within an area of specialization determined by the type of degree held.

Navy

Motto: Honour, homeland, valour, discipline

The Gabeopolisian Navy (Gabeopolisian: Marine Nationale, lit. 'National Navy'), informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces. Dating back to 1624, the Gabeopolisian Navy is one of the world's oldest naval forces. It has participated in conflicts around the globe.

The Gabeopolisian Navy consists of six main branches and various services: the Force d'Action Navale, the Forces Sous-marines (FOST, ESNA), Gabeopolisian Naval Aviation, the Fusiliers Marins (including Commandos Marine), the Marins Pompiers, and the Maritime Gendarmerie.
As of June 2014, the Gabeopolisian Navy employed a total of 460,000 personnel along with 40,000 civilians. Its reserve element consisted of 40,000 personnel of the Operational Reserve. As a blue-water navy, it operates a wide range of fighting vessels, which include the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers Jacques Sarkozky Class, various aeronaval forces, attack submarines and ballistic missile submarines, frigates, patrol boats and support ships.

Personnel Allocation
* Seamen: 300,000
* Non-Combat: 60,000

Air Force

Motto: Always in Action

The Gabeopolisian Air Force is the Air force of the Gabeopolisian Armed Forces. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the Gabeopolisian Army, and then made an independent military arm in 1934. The number of aircraft in service with the Gabeopolisian Air Force varies depending on the source, however sources from the Gabeopolisian Ministry of Defense give a figure of ~10,000 aircraft in 2010. The Gabeopolisian Air Force has a very large number of combat aircraft in service, with the majority being Dassault GF1 and Dassault Rafale. As of early 2020, the Gabeopolisian Air Force employs a total of 500,000 regular personnel. The reserve element of the air force consists of 100,000 personnel of the Operational Reserve.

The Chief of Staff of the Gabeopolisian Air Force (CoSoGAF) is a direct subordinate of the Chief of the defense staff (CoDS).

President Gabriel Slotherton has stated the intent to rename the Gabeopolisian Air Force into the Air and Space Force, in recognition of the increasing importance of the space domain.

Structure

The Chief of Staff of the Gabeopolisian Air Force (CoSoGAF) determines Gabeopolisian Air Force doctrines application and advises the Chief of the defense staff (CoDS) on the deployment, manner, and use of the Air Force. He is responsible for the preparation and logistic support of the Gabeopolisian Air Force. The CoDS is assisted by a Deputy Chief. Finally, the CoDS is assisted by the Inspectorate of the Gabeopolisian Air Force (IGAF) and by the Gabeopolisian Air Force Health Service Inspection (AFHSI).
The Air Force is organized in conformity to Chapter 4/ Title II/ Book II of the Third Part of the Defense Code, which replaced decree n° 91-672 of 14 July 1991.
Under the authority of the Chief of the defense staff (CoDS) in Sloth City, the Air Force includes:
* Chief of Staff of the Gabeopolisian Air Force (CoSoGAF);
* Forces;
* Air Bases;
* Directorate of Human Resources of the Gabeopolisian Air Force;
* Services.
Air Force headquarters is co-located, alongside the Chief of the defense staff's offices (CoDS) as well with Army and Navy headquarters at The military complex known as the tortoise for it’s distinct shape. The new site succeeds the former Sigil Air Base, the air staff headquarters buildings, dissolved on 25 June 2015.

Commands

The Gabeopolisian Air Force has three commands: two grand operational commands (ADaAOC and SAFC) and one organic command (AFC).
* Air Defense and Air Operations Command (ADaAOC), is responsible for surveillance of Gabeopolisian airspace, as well as all aerial operations in progress. This command does not possess aircraft. Instead it exercises operational control over units of the Air Forces Command.
* Air Defence and Air Operations Staff composed of the:
* Air Force Operational Staff and the
* Permanent readiness command center, both situated at the Tortoise complex (the Gabeopolisian Air Force main HQ)
* directly reporting units:
* Air Force Operations Brigade
* National Air Operations Center
* Core Joint Force Air Component HQ (Core JFAC HQ)
* Operational Center for Military Surveillance of Space Objects (OCfMSoSO)
* Analysis and Simulation Center for Air Operations Preparation (AaSCfAO)
* Air Force Operational Awareness and Planning Brigade (AFOAaPB)
* Air Force Intelligence Center
* National Target Designation Center
* Satellite Observation Military Center 01.092
* Land-based Electronic Warfare Squadron
* Intelligence Training Squadron 20.530, training air force and naval officers, integrated in the Joint Intelligence Training Center (JITC) in Sigil
* territorial units:
* Detection and Control Centers
* Strategic Air Forces Command (SAFC), is responsible for the air force's nuclear strike units (Dassault Rafale B armed with ASMP-A missiles), as well as the tanker / strategic transport aircraft (Boeing C-135 Stratolifter, Boeing C-135 Stratotankerr).
* Air Forces Command (AFC), Blüdhaven Air Base, as an organic command, prepares units to fulfill operational missions. From September 2013, the former organic commands AFC and AFSC were merged into AFC. AFC is organized in six brigades:
* Fighter Brigade is responsible for all air defense, air-to-ground and reconnaissance aircraft (including Dassault Raffale, Mirage 2000-5F, Mirage 2000B/C/D, Transall-C160). It is commanded by Brigadier General (Air) Philipe Baron.
* Projection and Support Air Force Brigade is responsible for all tactical transport and liaison aircraft (aircraft and helicopters: Transall C-160, Hercules C-130, A310/319, Dassault Falcon 50/900, Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma, Eurocopter Fennec, Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma, SOCATA TBM);
* Airspace Control Brigade is responsible for (Airborn early warning and control aircraft, and ground radar, ground-based air defense systems and missile defence, communication networks) airspace surveillance.
* Air Force Security and Intervention forces Brigade, is responsible for units of the Gabeopolisian Air Force's commando riflemen The Air Fusiliers, tasked with special operations, CSAR and target acquisition).
* Air Force Aerial Weapon Systems Brigade provides the maintenance and repair of aerial weapons and target systems.
* Air Force Maneuver Support Brigade provides the ground-based engineer and logistics personnel (including expeditionary) needed for the sustainment of air operations.
Support services
The Directorate of Human Resources of the Air Force (DHR-AF) recruits, forms, manages administers and converts personnel of the Gabeopolisian Air Force. Since January 2008, the DRH-AA groups the former directorate of military personnel of the Gabeopolisian Air Force (DMPGAF) and some tasks of the former Air Force Training Command. The directorate is responsible for Air Force recruitment via the recruiting bureau.
Gabeopolisian joint defence service organisations, supporting the air force, include:
* The Integrated Structure of Maintaining Operational Conditioning of Aeronautical Defense Materials (ISoMOCoADM).
* The Aeronautical Industrial Service (AIS).

Wings

Commanded by a Lieutenant-colonel or Colonel, the Escadre is a formation that assembles various units and personnel dedicated to the same mission. The designation of " Escadre " was replaced with that of regiment in 1932 and was designated until 1994, a unit grouping :
* units (escadrons or groups) generally equipped with the same type of aircraft or at least assuring the same type of mission
* units of maintenance and support.
Escadres were dissolved from 1993 as part of the Armies 2000 reorganisation, were reestablished in 2014. The problems caused by having the aircraft maintenance units not responsible to the flying squadrons they supported eventually forced the change.
Four Escadres were reformed in the first phase:
* 31st Escadre Refueling and transport Escadre
* 36th Airborne air and control Escadre at Red larch Air Base on 5 September 2014;
* Air Defense ground to air Escadre – 1st Air Artillery Regiment (ESADA – 1er RAA) at Red Larch Air Base (3 September 2014) ;
* the 3e Escadre de Chasse at Mror Air Base (5 September 2014)
In the second phase, the French Air Force announced in August 2015 the creation of six additional wings:[26]
* the 8th Hunter Escadre at Cazoux Air Base (25 August 2015) ;
* the 4th Hunter Escadre at Saint-Dizier ( 26 August 2015)
* the 64th Transport Escadre Cyre Air Base (27 August 2015) ;
* the 2nd Hunter Escadre at Luxeuil Air Base (3 September 2015) ;
* the 61st Transport Escadre at Bricy Air Base (1 September 2015) ;
* the 30th Hunter Escadre at Marson Air Base (3 September 2015).
Also established was the Air Command and Projectable Conduct Escadre at Fauville Air Base on 27 August 2015.
The Gabeopolisian Air Force announced in August 2015 that unit numbering, moves of affected aircraft, and the transfer of historic material (flags, traditions and names) would be completed in 2016.
* the 62nd Transport Escadre was re-constituted at Bricy Air Base on 5 September 2017 taking over C-130 Hercules operations from the 61st Transport Escadre, so the latter can specialise in operating the A400M Atlas

Squadrons and flights

Commanded by a lieutenant-colonel, the Escadron is the basic operational unit. However, the term Group did not entirely disappear: the term was retained for the Aerial Group 56 Mix Vaucluse, specialized in Special Operations or Group – Groupe de ravitaillement en vol 2/91 Bretagne which is still carrying the same designation since 2004.
A fighter squadron (escadron) can number some twenty machines, spread in general in three Escadrilles. A Transport Escadron an theoretically count a dozen Transall C-160, however, numbers are usually much less for heavier aircraft (three Airbus A310 and two Airbus A340 for the Transport Escadron 3/60 Estérel.
The squadrons have retained the designations of the former Escadres disbanded during the 1990s. For instance: Transport Escadron 1/64 Béarn (more specifically Transport Escadron 01.064 Béarn), which belonged to the 64th Transport Escadre during the dissolution of the later (recreated on August 2015). Not all escadrons (Squadrons) are necessarily attached to an Escadre.
The Escadrille (flight) has both an administrative and operational function, even of the essential operational control is done at the level of the Esacdron. A pilot is assigned to the Escadrille, however the equipment and material devices, on the other hand, are assigned to the Escadron. Since the putting into effect of the ESTA (Aeronautic Technical Support Escadrons), material devices and the mechanics are assigned directly to the base then put at disposition of the based Escadrons.

Air Fusiliers

The Air Fusiliers comprise:
* Protection squadrons
* Air Parachute Commando
* Air Parachute Commando
* Air Parachute Commando
Protection Squadrons protect airbases inside and outside the national territory, and in exterior operations as well.
The CPAs carry out common missions, as well as specialized tasks; including intervention and reinforcement of protection at the profit of sensible points " air " inside and outside the national territory.

Personnel Allocation
* Airmen: 400,000
* Non-Combat: 100,000

Paramilitary

Motto: Honour and Fatherland

The National Guard is a Gabeopolisian military, gendarmerie, and police reserve force, active in its current form since 2016.
For most of its history the National Guard, particularly its officers, has been widely viewed as loyal to middle-class interests. It was founded as separate from the Gabeopolisian Army and existed both for policing and as a military reserve. However, in its original stages from 1792 to 1795, the National Guard was perceived as revolutionary. It experienced a period of official dissolution from 1827 to 1830, but was reestablished. Soon after 1870, the National Guard in Sloth City again became viewed as dangerously revolutionary, which contributed to its dissolution in 1871.
In 2016, Gabeopolis announced the reestablishment of the National Guard in response to a series of terrorist attacks in the country.

Arsenals

Weaponry
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Watercraft
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Aircraft
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