Idea: Mock Parliament

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Might as well give it a go

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Interesting. Will say more soon, but have to go now...

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Relief map:



Probably got something horribly wrong somewhere.

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3 bilingual mixed blood public servants/teachers/centrists so far... who knew I'd actually wish for crazies to join in...

Will an Ernie Bevin/Arthur Deakin type do?

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The Gros Pitons, the eastern range, are actually higher than the wester Nieves range. The highest mountain in Arcadia, Mount Hannover, is 5,340 feet and is located on the border between Hesperia and Arcadia. Other than that it pretty much fits with my description of it. One other thing, Rocheport is right on the border with Arcadia, its on the Limer River, which forms the border with Arcadia.

You may also want to add in Charlesville in the valley to the east of Fort Rochier. It has a population of 38,429.

All of which should be easy to fix. I was going to do it now, but my computer is doing what it usually does around 11 o clock (ie; being bloody stupid) so I'll wait till the morning.

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Name: Arthur Ernest Watson
Province of Birth: New Wales
Ethnic Background: rural Anglophone
Religion: Methodist
Political stance: Democratic Socialist
Party: Antillia Labour Party

Background: Watson is a cloth-cap wearing Trade Unionist with no formal education, a thick West Coast accent and little knowledge of the French language. He is known for his dislike of the Antillian Establishment, for his hatred of Communism.
He was born into rural poverty in the Nieves Mountains, and moved to New Merthyr (an industrial suburb of Wellington) to find work at a young age. After working in various manual occupations, fell in with the growing Trade Union movement. Watson rose through the ranks of the Transport & Industrial Workers Union (TIWU) becoming its General Secretary at the age of 34 and later helped (in a behind-the-scenes way) to orchestrate the creation of the Trades Union Federation (TUF) and the Antillia Labour Party.

Antillia Labour Party

The ALP is a large Democratic Socialist (or Social Democratic if thee prefers; in generic terms there's no real difference. And we are just at a generic stage as these things go, right?) party, based around Trade Unions and local Party machines and with a great deal of working class support.
Suspected Communists are thrown out of the Party (sometimes literally) and the Party has aquired an interesting habit of organising marches of miners, dockers and so on through towns on election days.

Policy stuff:

The ALP is in favour of economic development, the Welfare State and so on and so forth. It is officially neutral on "social issues" (in practice it tends to lean somewhat conservative on them, but things vary from province to province). And so on and so forth.

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Name: Arthur Ernest Watson

Arthur: Arthur Deakin
Ernest: Ernie Bevin
Watson: Sam Watson

Just to give an idea what this individual is going to be like...

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Al-we already have the Social Democratic Party-maybe you should join that instead?

No.

But a merger or alliance at some point would certainly be possible as well as realistic; especially if the assumption is that the island has only just rid itself of a dictatorship.