Ikaroan Serene Federation

### National Language(s)

English (official language), Vietnamese, Japanese, Bahasa Ikaroa, Te Roa, Filipino, Nanyang-Mandarin, and others.

### Religions

Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Shintoism, and others

### GDP

$157 billion (IKR???, circa 2189 AD/82 TNY)

The **Ikaroan Serene Federation**, also commonly referred to as the **ISF** or **Ikaroa**, is a federal directorial republic located in the continent of its namesake on the habitable moon of Terra Nova. Today, it consist of 13 states, 2 Autonomous Region and 4 Federal Territories, with geographic territories stretching from the Ikaroan continent on the equator all the way to Yukinohara island located at the Pearlescent Sea in the southern hemisphere. It shares land border with the Union of Proletarian Republics along the East Nusantanyar DMZ, with Free Territories of the Shattered Chains along the Yukinohara border, and with Federal Republic of Cadmus via the Vien Dia enclave. Furthermore, ISF also shared maritime border with UPR, FTSC, Utbah Confederacy and the New Republic of Deseret.

The settlers that will later become Ikaroa originally established the Pan-Pacific Trading Conglomerate colony in Fortuna Bay, although the lack of contact with PPTC and its Conglomerated Corporations had seen its people opted to forgo their initial objective to establish the Serene Federation to better organize and administer the growing Pan-Pacific colonies, with the expectation that ISF would be admitted as a member-states of PPTC rather than being treated as a colony. However, the news surrounding the Great Collapse on Earth and the possibility of the dissolution of the Conglomerate changed this, with ISF effectively become the legal, cultural and spiritual successor of all the member-states of PPTC overnight.

## Etymology

The name "**Ikaroa**" generally refers to both the nation (Ikaroan Serene Federation) and the continent as well as the continental plate where the Serene Federation was founded. The name is derived from the mythical long fish and the goddess **Ika-Roa** from the Maori's mythology, which is said to give birth to all the stars in the Milky Way. “**Te Ika-roa**'' can also refer to the Milky Way itself - a band of light crossing the sky made up of vast numbers of faint stars.

## Government and politics

### Government

The **Federal Government of Ikaroa** is based in the Federal District of the **Fortunan Capital District**, located within and separate from the city of Fortuna Bay, operating within the framework of representative democracy. The federal government of Ikaroa adheres to and is created by the Constitution of the Ikaroan Serene Federation, the supreme law of the land.

The federal government operates under the principle of separation of powers where it is divided into three separate branches: **Serene Council of Ministers** (executive), **Federal Diet** (legislative) and **Supreme Constitutional Courts** (judicial).

#### Executive

The executive body follows a directorial model, in which all members of the Serene Council of Ministers jointly serve as head of state and head of government, with each member in charge of their respective Ministerial portfolios, of which there are currently nine.

Ministerial Portfolios
 Ministry of Treasury
 Ministry of Urban Development
 Ministry of Welfare
 Ministry of Interior
 Ministry of Justice
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 Ministry of Defense
 Ministry of Agriculture

#### Legislative

The legislature is the bicameral parliament known as the Federal Diet, which is composed by:

* The meritocratic House of Councillors is a unique legislative body that perform a unique dual functions as both the traditional upper house of the Diet and an auditory and censure body that is reminiscent to the Taiwanese Control Yuan . Member of the HoC are selected based on their merit and distinction, with expertise based on their respective fields. The membership of this body are often made up of distinguished scientists, researchers, experts, religious clerics, as well as the representative of trade union and interest groups, among many other.
* The Cooperative Assembly is a legislative body that play its part as the traditional lower house of the diet, which consists of proportionally elected representatives on behalf of the Ikaroan population which will serve up to three years for a term, with each member are eligible to serve up to four terms. The parties and/or coalition that managed to gain simple majority at the very least will in turn formed the government for the aforementioned term

#### Judicial

The judiciary body is vested under the Supreme Constitutional Court which serves as the federal court. As the ISF operates in a federal manner, each of the Ikaroan states maintains their respective State Supreme Courts or their own, which is relatively autonomous but still ultimately answers to the Supreme Constitutional Courts.

## Administrative divisions

Ikaroan Serene Federation is functionally an asymmetric federation, where each administrative division enjoys a varying level of autonomy from one another. Although the majority of these division (the States of Ikaroa) are equal and uniform in term of their power afforded into an individual states, there are others who are afforded significantly greater autonomy due to the difference of political system (Autonomous Region) as well as those subjected under complete and direct control of the Federal Government (Federal Territories).

### Autonomous Region

Special Autonomous Regions of the ISF (by date of creation)
 Dirawong

## Economy

Ikaroa has a highly developed mixed-market capitalist economy. Despite having to contend with other emergent economic powerhouses such as Varangians, Dajiao and Nova-Africa, Ikaroa are able to maintain their innovative and economic competitiveness to a degree and rose up as one of the largest economy in Terra Nova. With about $157 billion(??) or IKR(???) in terms of GDP, Ikaroa become the second largest in Terra Nova (or third largest, when the combined economies of FSF are taken into account) as in 2189 AD/82 TNY.

The principal drivers of Ikaroan economy are composed of manufacturing and industry, energy, foreign trade, mining and services, although Ikaroa uniquely has a important primary sectors as well, chiefly the agriculture and petroleum-related industry. Each region across the ISF have their own specialization; Western Highlands region acts as the beating heart of high-tech industry, R&D, mining and global trade. Greater Cornucopia serves as major center of finance, heavy industry, petrochemical and space industry, the Southeast are known for their military-industrial complexes, and Archipelagic Ikaroa region specialized in maritime-centered industry, shipbuilding and, prior to the War of Liberator's Aggression, thriving cross-border trade with various cantons of FTSC.

The Ikaroan variant of capitalism has many distinct, and sometimes contradictory, features which either inherited from their old Asia-Pacific traditions or due to circumstances of history; influential keiretsu/chaebol-styled megacorporations such as Pha Son and CAPIA had to coexist and compete with a thriving and sizable small and medium enterprises sector, and ISF also have some of the most successful state-owned enterprises and cooperative sector. For example, the state-owned Synergetic Refineries and MEI is a world leading companies in petroleum and energy sector respectively, while some of the largest agro-cooperatives in the world are Ikaroan-based Kameh Agricultural Concern. Furthermore, while Ikaroa inherited some of their old cultural quirks such as Asian work ethics (chiefly the Japanese), they also unusually have a strong influence of trade union, public welfare and workers rights which are otherwise inconceivable in the old PPTC which the Ikaroan largely hailed from.