Canabai

Canabai is a western country in Sector 5, founded by NerdieSanders. Canabai is bordered by Port Random to the north, Athyras and the Giggitee Sea to the east, and the West Sea to the west. Its capital is City of Canabai, while the largest city is Port Random. 
Canabai originally started as an independent sport complex for the server, until the nearby Little Saigon's communist government was overthrown, and Canabai annexed Little Saigon, kickstarting the great expansion of the City, which was mostly southward. Canabai remained as a city-state until Nerdie expanded the territory westward to the West Sea, creating Levanski, and changing the status of Canabai to a country. 
Canabai saw itself as a big influence in the server from its early beginnings, and thanks to NerdieSanders' WorldEdit privilege, Canabai was able to grow and expand so quickly. Foreign-affairs wise, Canabai used to sided itself with Port Random and Newport, and against Athyras and Viktoria; however Canabai has since normalized its relationships, especially with Viktoria and its creator, Tudor. During the newcomer wave of 2018, Canabai has tried to introduce a certain degree of aesthetics to them (with unsuccessful efforts), and now the state tries to focus itself instead and have smaller projects outside, with the exception of the Wilhelm Kemp Tennis Complex in Sanostonburg. 
== Etymology ==
The name Canabai can be traced all the way back to the creation of Canabai Sport Complex. When Nerdie built the Ice Rink in the desert, he asked Fegelein1906 for a suggestion to name the ice rink. He came up with Canabai, a combination of Canada and Dubai. The name was also given to the sport complex itself and later on, the city.
== Politics ==
Read more at Political parties of Canabai.Canabai is a federal republic, whose head of state is the President of the Republic, who leads the nation's foreign policy and is the commander-in-chief of Canabai's defensive forces. Canabai's head of government is the Prime Minister, who leads the nation's executive branch called the Government. 
Legislative power is vested in the Parliament, and the Government has limited rights to amend or extend legislation. Because the Constitution of Canabai vests power to both the President and Government, the President has veto power over parliamentary decisions, although this power can be overruled by a majority vote in the Parliament.
The Parliament consists of 218 members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected via the single transferable voting system in 14 voting districts which follows closely with towns and cities boundaries, and each district is represented by 1 to 74 MPs. The 4 largest voting districts—Canabai City, Levanski, Newport, and Kovansberg—are further divided into sub-voting districts which closely follows the cities' district boundaries, and ranges from 1 to 18 MPs. There is one non-voting district in which there is virtually no inhabitants.
Judicial power lays in the Supreme Court, which contains 5 supreme justices, and lower federal courts, which has two federal judge each.
=== History ===
Ever since the creation of Canabai and its governance in 2015, Nerdie only established the Parliament and the Government. At some point later in 2016-2017, Nerdie found space in Canabai City to dedicate to the Supreme Court, thus establishing the judicial branch.
In summer 2018, Nerdie started a tradition of doing elections for the composition of the Parliament every two months, which gave birth to much of Canabai's political lore, such as the rise and fall of certain parties and House-Of-Cards-like assassinations of its Prime Minister. Nerdie still does this tradition periodically as long as he is in the server.
After a period of hiatus from Nerdie in late 2019, Nerdie decided to give Canabai a constitutional crisis in order to give the country a Presidential role and a written Constitution for him to rely on (Nerdie actually used the constitutional crisis as an excuse to explain the inaction of the Government during his hiatus). Much of the Constitution is based on the actual Constitution of Finland. He started discussing the creation of a written Constitution immediately after he came back on January 3, 2020, and finished writing it on February 21, 2020. The Constitution was officially ratified on February 28, 2020.
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