Stellar Republic of Gabriel

The Stellar Republic of Gabriel, or officially the Blessed Stellar Republic of Gabriel, is a sparsely-populated stellar republic that occupies the eponymous system of Gabriel in the Frontier. The country is most known within the Coalition of Congressional Republics for its internal distributist economy and governance, dictated by its official state religion of Roman Catholicism.
Formed in 2566 with recognition by the Coalition government and endorsement by the Roman Catholic Church, Gabriel is simultaneously the only Catholic and Christian polity in the CCR. Originally colonizing the system in 2501 with donations from the Catholic Church, settlers transformed the system from a soulless rest-stop along the east-to-west southerly route of the Frontier into one of the Coalition's most competitive agricultural powerhouses.
Being a distributist and theodemocratic presidential republic, the country has eschewed traditional financing within its domestic market, instead issuing one-use "bills of labor". However, it still uses the Coalition Congressional Note when trading with other countries, and accepts the note from foreign merchants and tourists that visit the nation. Having Roman Catholicism as its official state religion, all Gabrielan citizens and residents are required to be baptized in the Catholic faith, thus also making Gabriel the largest individual concentration of Catholics in the entirety of the Coalition.
Economically, Gabriel is primarily geared towards agriculture and aquaculture via both its massive farms on its capital world, Corinth, in addition to thousands of solar-powered farming stations orbiting the star of Gabriel. However, unlike most agriculturally oriented polities, Gabriel ensures that its crops and livestock maintain "maximum naturalness", eschewing modern genetic editing of foodstuffs and other agricultural products unless absolutely necessary. This has severely limited its overall productivity, but has led to the economic guilds of the country exploiting the lucrative market of organic groceries across the Coalition.
In recent times, the country of Gabriel has opened its borders to non-Christian tourists in order to bring in foreign capital. However, the government, led by President Vaughan Bernd, has enforced the blockage of all megacorporations from selling their products within the star system. Instead of interacting with megacorps, the country currently only accepts trade from merchant guilds from the Autonomous Kingdom of Nibelungenland or by individual merchants and smaller companies.
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