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« on: December 10, 2013, 07:39:29 AM » |
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Essentially, Mungbean land combines the social welfare state of the Nordic nations with a distinctly socially conservative bent. It supports and promotes the growth of the family as the central unit of society (whether or not the family is headed by two men, two women, or one man and one woman is immaterial), has strong child benefits, universal access to child and health care, and a robust public education system, with a competing private education sector barred by law from charging tuition.
Mungbeanland is interventionist in foreign affairs, frequently participating in UN interventions and aid packages. It has lowered most of its trade barriers and supports a relatively free flow of immigrants into the country. It's political system is, broadly speaking, a variant of Westminster-style parliamentarian, with three well defined political parties vying for power. The Social Democratic Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the Liberal Party all represent varying shades of Mungbeanland's 'progressive nationalism', the unspoken state ideology ingrained in the DNA of the country.
The executive is headed by a monarch, who is constitutionally limited in power and scope. The judiciary is independent. The economy is dominated by a few large, multinational capitalist firms, which have become more and more prominent since the end of protectionism as a key policy in the past decade, a substantial victory for the Social Democratic and Liberal parties. Currently the Progressive Conservatives hold power in government, having capitalized upon voter discontent with the shift to a freer trading system and free flow of immigrants in the 2000s. The PC government has introduced a number of policies sure to arouse argument from the SDP and the LP, having recently placed before parliament a bill to limit immigration, the first such bill since the 2005 Immigration Act, which virtually abolished immigration quotas.
Mungbeanland is fairly religious, with a protestant majority and a substantial Catholic minority. Ethnically the vast majority of Mungbeanlanders are East Asian, although a growing immigrant population from the South Pacific and Latin America should not be overlooked.
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