Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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Antonio's country would be in many respects similar politically and culturally to somewhere like Norway or Iceland--a Nordic state without as pointed a reputation for social libertinism as Sweden--but its religious inheritance (not necessarily a religion currently dominant in practice, of course) would be Catholic rather than Protestant and it would have less of a tendency to backslide into economic austerity than not only most of Scandinavia but most of the world in general. It would be pointedly republican, probably with a weak ceremonial president and a strong parliament elected via STV in multi-member constituencies, unitary but perhaps with some devolution to the regions, and for the most part single-party-dominant under a social democratic outfit but obviously not a one-party or dictatorial state. It would be socially liberal as well as economically leftist but in some ways more conservative in its ingrained cultural assumptions (public aesthetics and the like) than would be immediately apparent.
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