Kingdom of Spain

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**Spain** (Spanish: *España*) formally the **Kingdom of Spain** (Spanish: *Reino de España*), is a country in Southwestern Europe, including the Berber lands in North Africa. Its continental area is situated in the Iberian Peninsula, and the African area is situated in Morocco.

In the middle of the Modern Ages, Scottish-Northumbrian immigrants moved to the Iberian peninsula, and made their King, Albert I, the ruler of the country. Later, due to marriage with the Berber Queen, Albert I united Spain and Morocco.

Spain has been part of the now abolished ITO, and has had high tensions with the United Kingdom. Spain is an absolute federal parliamentary monarchy, with King Albert I as its head of state. Spain is split between between four main regions, each having its respected viscount.

## History

### Foreign powers

Between the 11th and 13th centuries, before the Kingdom of Spain was established, it found itself mostly occupied by other empires. Those include Ibiza, Morocco, England and Denmark. In the 12th century, the First Kingdom of Spain was established, as a sattelite state to the Kingdom of England. Spain was a very weak and often overlooked state, though Ibiza claimed the whole Iberian territory to be theirs. In the late 13th century England fully occupied the country, thus ending the First Kingdom of Spain.

### Independence

The Spanish people were not happy with their new English occupiers, and soon enough revolts broke out. What occured next was the Spanish War of Independence, which was one of the bloodiest conflicts of European history. With both sides gaining a lot of support, Spain eventually won and gained their independence. This war inspired many more occupied territories such as Denmark, France and Romania, thus ending the Golden Age of England.

Support for a monarchy in Spain was extremely high, and they instantly looked for a local catholic to rule their country. They found Felipe Lopez to be the King, and he was crowned King Felipe I of Spain in 1358. Never again did a foreign power fully occupy Spain.

### Scottish settlers and a new king

In the late 17th century, a new King arose to power, Ferdinand VII. Ferdinand was arrogant and did not care for his people. People often found themselves starving in the streets of cities, and those who were caught by police forces were often executed or sentenced for jail. Any revolts were instantly put down by order of the King Himself.

In 1699, Scottish settlers, attacked by the English, fled to Spain in high numbers. The King of Scotland-Northumbria was there with them, and the Spanish saw this as a chance to overthrow the Spanish King Ferdinand VII, who was now at the old age of 59, infected by an unknown disease. Rumours spread that he was infected by the Devil himself because he was trying to be worse than him. Ferdinand was unable to speak and thus couldn't give orders to stop Albert I, the young King of Scotland, to take over. When the numerous Scottish and Northumbrians, as well as many Spaniards arrived in Madrid, they marched into the palace and found Ferdinand dead.

Albert was elected King of Spain the very next week, and promised Freedom of Religion. This particular law made him very popular with all the people of the Kingdom. In 1700 he was crowned King of Spain in the Palace of Spain, and married the Queen of the Berbers, Lunja IV that same year. This caused territorial expansion with Morocco.

### Conflict with England

In 1700, England claimed the territory of Gibraltar to be theirs, for no particular reason. Spain claimed it to be their own, and got support for their claim of most of the countries. Later, many countries withdrew from this support to prevent any kind of war. Tensions got high and eventually the two parties organised a debate, which lead nowhere, but it did lower the tensions between the countries.

The case has not been solved, with both nations still recognising Gibraltar as their own.

## Politics

The Kingdom of Spain is an absolute monarchy, however the King must comply with the Bible as well as support the creation of a Parliament. Public elections are not held, but the high nobility and viscounts of each region elect a Parliament, with the approval of the monarch.

### Monarchy and Royal Family

The King combines legislative, executive, and judicial functions, but still shares power with the Prime Minister. Due to the King having most of the power, he does not need the approval of the Prime Minister or Parliament to do anything, but vice versa, the Parliament and Prime Minister do need the approval of the King.

The King has the most influence over the country and over politics, and elects the viscounts of each Spanish region as well as the Prime Minister.

### Legal System

The Bible is the official constitution in Spain, while the Quran is the official constitution in the Berber part of the Kingdom. The Parliament makes the laws of the country, but these are highly influenced by the King. The King also has full power to create his own laws if chooses to do so.

## Demographics

The population of Spain is estimated to be around 7 million inhabitants. The ethnic composition of Spain is estimated to be around 0.5% Scottish, 79.3% Spanish and 20,2% Berber. Most citizens live in the big cities of Spain and Morocco. Biggest are Marrakech, Madrid and Barcelona.

### Languages

Spanish is the official language of Spain, with minor official languages such as Berber languages and Scots.

### Religion

100% of the population of Spain is religious, with around 45% practising protestant christianity, 20% practising Sunni Islam and the remaining 35% practising catholic christianity.