Novikan Republic

**Novika**, also known as the **Novikan Republic** and **Republic of Novika**, is an archipelagic country located west of the archipelagic country of Novaya and south of the island country of Katraissau. It is situated in the Western Pacific Ocean and consists of about 6,798 islands. Novika is bordered to the west by the Philippine Sea and to the east by the Western Novayan Sea. Peterborough is Novika's capital and largest city; other major cities include St. Ferdinand, Tengunoshima, Fredericksborough, Johnsburgh, New Madrid, Cadikina, and Tayavotas.

Novika is a member-state of the International Union, of the Unity Pact, and an observer-state in the Non-Aligned Movement. It is known for its industrially-automated economy, which produced goods and services through robotics. However, because of the nation's overconfidence in its industrially-automated economy, students at and above ages fifteen and sixteen don't require education or training and thus have too much free time and hold parties, which sees a drastic increase in student pregnancies; such a drastic increase in student pregnancy alarmed many nations which demanded the Novikan government to respond. Efforts to decrease student pregnancy by a Novayan-led international commission is already on its way. In stark contrast, its northern neighbor, the Federal Republic of Katraissau, holds moderate views toward its own industrially-automated economy (which required human hands to guide, maintain and operate them) and its students still receive education and training.

## Politics

### Overview

The Novikan Republic operates under a Liberal Democratic government, headed by a President. It is a unitary presidential constitutional republic and is a member-state of the International Union and Unity Pact, as well as an observer-state of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Its economy, while industrially-automated, have bred a form of overconfidence within the Novikan people, who now believed that students at and above ages 15 and 16 don't require training. Due to this, students at and above high school levels have more free time than what was allowed and threw parties. And due to their free nature, student pregnancies began to increase, which forced the International Union and later a Novayan-led international commission to intervene to reduce the number of student pregnancies.

### Military and law enforcement

The role of national security is handled by the Novikan Armed Forces, the unified military force of the Novikan Republic, and the National Police Agency, the law enforcement agency of Novika.

The Novikan Armed Forces is divided into the Novikan Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps (part of the Novikan Navy), Coast Guard, and Space Force. The Novikan military is involved in low-intensity conflicts against insurgent groups and humanitarian missions, peacekeeping operations, and rescue actions; it is involved in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, as part of the far-west Novayan-led mixed (consisting of Saiyanese, Gatromian, Riccindan, and South American units) IX Corps which went ahead to assault Baghdad and as part of the far-north Novayan-led Iraqi-Kurdish border defense forces.

The National Police Agency numbered about 50,570 officers: 17,000 sworn officers, 1,500 guards, and 32,070 civilian staff. Much like the Federal Police Service of Novaya, it has inherited/adopted the Fusoan/Japanese National Police Agency's ranks, uniforms, organization and structure; unlike the Federal Police Service, the Novikan National Police Agency had established prefectural police departments for each prefecture.