New Colorado Prefecture

New Colorado PrefecturePrefectuur Nieuw-Colorado新科罗拉多州 Xīn Kēluōlāduō Zhōuニューコロラド州 Nyū Kororado Shū 	New Colorado PrefecturePrefectuur Nieuw-Colorado新科罗拉多州 Xīn Kēluōlāduō Zhōuニューコロラド州 Nyū Kororado Shū
Prefecture 	Prefecture
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Nicknames: The Peninsula Prefecture 	Nicknames: The Peninsula Prefecture
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Country 	Enderron
Entered federation 	21 June 1797 (7th)
Capital 	Fairfield
Largest city 	Karburgh
Official languages 	EnglishJapanese
Ethnic groups 	48.3% Asian47.3% European1.5% Arab2.9% Other
Religion 	52.6% No Religion19.9% Buddhism13.8% Christianity11.4% Shinto2.4% Other
Demonym 	New Coloradan
Government 	
- Governor 	Shaneka Bhattarai (SDP)
- Lieutenant-Governor 	Jamie Chen (SDP)
- Premier 	Natalie Takayama (SDP)
- Deputy Premier 	Anthony Leon (SDP)
- Speaker 	Roger Popovich (SDP)
Legislature 	Prefectural Assembly
Federal representation 	
- Parliamentary seats 	/
- Parliamentary delegation 	
*4 SDP
Formation 	Formation
- Established 	16 September 1946
Area 	8,185 km² (10th)
Population (2018) 	
- Total 	901,532 (13th)
- Density 	110.1/km² (11th)
GDP (2017–18) 	
- Total 	$10.195 billion (15th)
- Per capita 	$11,309 (18th)
Time zone(s) 	EST (UTC+9)EDT (UTC+10)
Highest point 	TBA
Abbreviation 	NC
New Colorado Prefecture (abbreviated as NC, colloquially known as New Colo) is a prefecture in eastern Enderron. It is a peninsular prefecture, only being bordered by Sylvania Prefecture and the Batavian province of Queensland to the north, though it is connected to Tojima Prefecture to the east by the Tojorado Tunnel and Skygate Bridge. Its capital city is Fairfield, while its largest city is Karburgh.
The area now known as New Colorado was originally known as Nishihantō (西半島, lit. "western peninsula"), and its territory was formed in 1712 after the mainland portion of Tojima Territory was transferred to Spanish colonists, becoming part of the Sierra Leased Territory. It became South Sierra County and entered the Enderronian union in 1797, the seventh jurisdiction to do so. It renamed itself to "New Colorado", after the US state of Colorado, in 1885.
Today, New Colorado's culture is a mix between British, Spanish and Japanese influences. The prefecture retains a significant Japanese Enderronian minority forming almost a quarter of the population, and its official languages are English and Japanese. It is known for its dry climate, festivals and natural landscapes. Its population of 901,532 (ranked 13th in the country) is concentrated on the eastern and southeastern coast. The prefecture is highly rural outside of the cities of Karburgh and Fairfield, together home to two-thirds of New Coloradans, and its interior is largely uninhabited.
Much of New Colorado's interior is mostly mountainous and forested, making much of its area useless for large scale agriculture. New Colorado's economy is thus dominated by the mining, transport and technology sectors. It forms a vital land transport link between Tojima and the rest of the country. New Colorado is considered to be one of Enderron's poorer prefectures, and is frequently ranked low among prefectures in measures of economic growth, median household income, health, education and development. It has the lowest per capita GDP of any Enderronian prefecture.
==History==
TBA
==Government==
New Colorado has a semi-presidential political system, with the Governor of New Colorado Prefecture (currently Shaneka Bhattarai of the Social Democratic Party of Enderron) as the head of state, and the Premier of New Colorado Prefecture (currently Natalie Takayama of the Social Democratic Party of Enderron) as the head of government. Its unicameral parliament consists of the 35-member New Colorado Prefectural Assembly, with elections held every four years, using full preferential voting.
===Federal representation===
New Colorado elects 4 Members of Parliament to the Enderronian Parliament.
Name 	Party	Seat 	Term
Alex Banuelos 	 	Karburgh 	2006–
Tim Lunday 	 	Dover 	2014–
Julie Shaloub 	 	Griffith 	2014–
Stephanie Wilder	 	Charlestown	2010–
===Political culture===
New Colorado is well known as a stronghold for the centre-left Social Democratic Party, largely due to its economy based on mining and transport, both highly unionised working-class industries. The New Colorado Social Democratic Party dominates prefectural politics to the point that New Colorado is often described as having a dominant-party system. The SDP currently has a large majority in the New Colorado Prefectural Assembly, holding 23 of the 35 seats (65.7% of the total seats). The party has governed the prefecture continuously since 1988, and for all but two terms since 1964. The party also currently controls the office of governor, having done so continuously since 1996 and for all but one term since 1968, as well as all four New Colorado seats in the federal parliament. The SDP has held a majority of New Colorado's federal electorates continuously since independence except between 2006 and 2010, when the Liberals concurrently held Fairfield and Griffith.
New Colorado has only experienced three changes of government since it became self-governing in 1946; from the United Party to the Social Democrats in 1964, back to United in 1980, and then back again to the Social Democrats in 1988. The present Social Democratic government, currently in its ninth consecutive term of government, is the longest-existing continuous prefectural government in Enderronian history. From 1946 to 1964, a system of electoral malapportionment built into the New Colorado constitution allocated two-thirds of the seats in the prefectural parliament to rural areas, despite urban areas accounting for more than 60 percent of the prefecture's population. This allowed the United Party to hold onto power continuously during this period despite losing the popular vote. Similar malapportionment schemes were in place in Flinders, Longshan, Miranda, Sierra and Sylvania; all were abolished by the early 1970s following federal government intervention.
Although the Social Democrats are dominant throughout the prefecture, the party is particularly strong in Karburgh, especially in its heavily working class northern suburbs; the SDP regularly polls in excess of 80 percent in two-party-preferred terms in some suburbs of northern Karburgh. The Liberal Party performs strongest in the more middle-class city of Fairfield and its surrounds, and also retains pockets of strength in the smaller coastal towns and the rural hinterlands.
==Demographics==
New Colorado's population as of October 2018 is 901,532, making it the thirteenth-most populous prefecture in Enderron.
===Largest cities and towns===
Rank	Name 	Population
1 	Karburgh 	557,751
2 	Fairfield 	54,892
3 	New Guildford	21,530
4 	Helens Creek 	14,138
5 	Northville 	9,053
===Ethnicity, languages and religion===
Ethnic group 	Population	%
British 	332,485 	36.88
Japanese 	212,130 	23.53
Pacific Islander	94,300 	10.46
Chinese 	91,596 	10.16
Dutch 	67,344 	7.47
Korean 	16,768 	1.86
Irish 	11,540 	1.28
Filipino 	4,508 	0.50
Other 	70,860 	7.86
Ethnic region 	Population	%
European 	426,425 	47.30
Asian 	345,557 	38.33
Pacific Islander	94,300 	10.46
Other 	35,250 	3.91
Language 	Population	%
English only	463,838 	51.45
Japanese 	206,902 	22.95
Dutch 	60,944 	6.76
Mandarin 	47,962 	5.32
Samoan 	28,939 	3.21
Korean 	13,523 	1.50
Cantonese 	12,351 	1.37
Other 	67,074 	7.44
Religion 	Population	%
No religion	473,935 	52.57
Buddhism 	179,044 	19.86
Shinto 	102,504 	11.37
Catholic 	65,181 	7.23
Protestant 	58,870 	6.53
Other 	21,997 	2.44