Kelly Island

**Kelly Island** (officially the **Parliamentary Republic of Kelly Island**) is an island country in the Western Outer Region bordered by Asauna to the west, Tikal Island to the north, and Valentine to the south. It was established in 1912 and the capital and largest city is Central City.

The island is home to native creatures including native sand wasps, mud daubers, golden crickets, and yellow banded salamanders. Temperatures can range from 115 to 135 degrees fahrenheit in the summer and 70 to 80 degrees in the winter because of the mostly sandy terrain, but temperatures may differ in forested areas.

Kelly Island is a developing country, ranking 78th in the Global Development Index. The capital, Central City, is underdeveloped and mostly relies on private bus agencies that use retired buses from foreign countrys, most specifically from the United Kingdom. These buses receive 18 speed manuals, more robust engines, and beefier brakes, and Desert Island even has a travel advisory stating to avoid travelling in them.

The island country is criticized for its use of heavy-handed punishments towards its citizens, including offenses such as plagiarism, connecting to someone else's Wi-Fi network without permission, smoking in public, and jaywalking, and even relatively mundane offenses such as spitting gum on sidewalks and even criticizing the monarch or a police officer. The country also lacks a bill of rights as well as freedom of speech in its constitution and the constitution allows for laws to be passed to limit freedom of expression to preserve public order. The nation scored a 60/100 on the Freedom Index in 2021.

Other major issues across Kelly Island are corruption, lack of investigative standards, excessive mass shootings, arbitrary detention, piracy, and attacks caused by Rosaul Rebels. The national government has repeatedly stated that they were working on lowering these crimes, but so far nothing has happened. Central City, the island's capital, is among the most dangerous destinations on the Yoshi Planet, due to pervasive corruption among government officials and mass shooting and other violent crimes, as well as repeated attacks by Rosaul Rebels in the past. Since 1999 however, Kelly Island's national government, along with supporting nations, have done a good job on catching Rosaul Rebels. The number of them dropped from approximately 350,000 in 1995 to only 250 in 2017. As of 2022, there are only 88 of them left due to efforts made by Bob Odell to reduce the size of the Rosaul Regime.

## History

### Elective Government (1912 - 1949; 1994 - 2022)

Kelly Island's government consists of a monarch who is elected and serves on a term of four years, but the same monarch may run a second term if they are elected a second time. The government of Kelly Island has been accused of handing harsh sentences for even mundane infractions, and since 1994 severely punished people just for depicting or even drawing portraits of Benjamin Rosaul, as it would undermine the security of the state. Even playing or simply possessing or even working towards playing or possessing any games that depict the rosaulist regime can easily land someone in prison for five to ten years.

Moreover, offenses such as underage drinking, driving without a license, driving with a suspended license, connecting to someone else's wi-fi without consent, plagiarism, vandalism, graffiti, and shoplifting, and even relatively minor offenses such jaywalking, flipping off a police officer, filming or photographing an arrest, or simply insulting the head of state are punishable by lengthy prison sentences that can be as long as five, ten, or even twenty years, and fines can sometimes be as high as K$500,000. The government occasionally arrests journalists for filming police scenes and covering protests. Under the government's Caning Act, individuals can be sentenced to 10,000 lashes for spraying or drawing communist symbols as well as pro-communist or pro-rosaul messages on public buildings, or even simply displaying signs supporting communism or rosaul, even from outside one's own window.

### Rosaul's Regime (1949 - 1994)

After Benjamin Rosaul took over the central government, he quickly suspended all civil liberties and all private businesses on the island were nationalized for the remainder of his rule. He formed Rosaulist Kelly Island, which was a form of totalitarian socialism that completely outlawed any private ownership and businesses and nationalized all existing ones. Rosaul would also plot an invasion against all nearby islands. Rosaul's rule ended after Desert Island captured him in July 1994 and in May of the following year he was given 87 consecutive life sentences plus 457,439 years. He was eventually deported back to Kelly Island in June 2002 and was subsequently executed in 2003.

### Parliamentary Republic (2022 - Present)

On June 5, 2022, the country announced that it was close to completing its transition into a parliamentary republic, in which the king would now become the president and a new prime minister was added. It completed its transition on June 8, 2022.

### Capital

As with other outer islands except for Desert Island, Kelly Island is a developing country, and as such, the capital is underdeveloped. There are abandoned apartment complexes and other buildings scattered throughout the city, along with land lots. Violent crimes including homicide, carjacking, theft, bank robberies, and corruption are endemic and investigation standards are so low that business workers and hotel brides are forced to set up crime scenes before police even arrive. It is estimated that around 20,000 citizens are murdered each year, and 50,000 citizens are victims of robberies, theft, and carjacking every year. Crime is so rampant that some developed nations including Desert Island even have travel warnings against traveling here.

### Crime Throughout The Country

Kelly Island is considered a dangerous place to be due to mass shootings, kidnappings, and disappearances. Central City is one of the most dangerous places on the island country due to corruption in law enforcement and the municipal government. Furthermore, violent crimes and mass shootings are a routine occurrence throughout the country, and kidnappings and disappearances, primarily carried out by RDRK fighters, is also endemic.

## Law Enforcement

Kelly Island's law enforcement has been criticized for the use of unusually hard punishments for petty offenses. Jaywalking is a crime punishable by six months in prison and/or K$6,000-dollar fines, while littering, spitting in public, chewing gum, and speeding are also crimes that lead to jailtime between five to twelve months in prison, as well as fines ranging from K$5,000 to K12,000. DUI is punishable by life in prison, and graffiti and vandalism are punishable by 100 lashes. Smoking in public is also a crime punishable by 100 lashes if caught, and an additional 900 are given if the cigar/cigarette is purposefully dropped on the ground.