Gwilym Republic

The Gwilym Republic is a large, spacefaring empire that originated from Gerra. It has many allies including Space Prussia but many enemies as well. Their main enemy is the Jam Incursion who wish to destroy the Gwilymverse. It is one of the three superpowers in the Gwilym Galaxy. Also, it is the largest country in the galaxy as well.

##### **History**

The Gwilym Republic was founded in 922 by a group of nobility gwilyms who wanted to unite their lands and create a democracy to combat the already existing Gwilym Empire, however it largely stayed a pretty uninfluential country for a large period of time. It remained this way until 1904, when a new prime minister was elected, Gwodfrey Geiner, who rapidly began to militarise and industrialise the country, transforming it into a great power. Eventually, in the year 1983, the Gwilym King attemped to take over Gwiddle Earth, starting the War of the Crown (Ewan and Gwilym had also entered the stage a year prior due to time acting differently in the Gwilymverse). By the year 1988, the Gwilym Republic had won and took over the Gwilym Empire along with setting up a few puppet sates in the north of Gwiddle Earth, essentially controlling the entire continent. Now, with the gwilyms united, the Republic could begin to expand into space. It did so quickly as many of the scientist gwilyms who worked for the Gwilym Empire had joined the Gwilym Republic, developing new technologies including portal travel, which allowed ships to travel large distances in a very short period of time (100 light years per minute), but also due to the *Space Appropriation Programme,* which allowed companies to claim space and planets in the name of the Gwilym Republic with government subsidies however this failed after the *Gwaire Gongo Company* was found to be committing various atrocities on its planets against the native aliens so the companies were annexed. Throughout this fast expansion came new allies and enemies, first finding the Faltarre Mandate and then Space Prussia. It would enter a number of wars along side Space Prussia, including the Jam Incursion and the Galactic Emergencies. The Jam Incursion in particular came as a great surprise to the gwilyms as their eastern border with the Gwilym Galaxy's edge was largely undefended due to it not bordering anyone, so it allowed Jam to launch an invasion with ships and weapons he had secretly stockpiled and take over the industrial heartland of the Gwilym Republic, which allowed them to produce enough equipment to stay active. Unfortunately for the Jams, over 3 billion gwilyms joined the Gwilym Armed Forces because of the Jam Incursion which, along with allied help from the Space Prussians, Yilcharians and Toys (from toy city) plus some more reorganisation, caused a huge pushback, forcing the Jams to retreat and lose a huge amount of their territory. At the moment, the Gwilym Repubilc is a stable country, even due to the recent Jam Incursion.

##### **Government**

The Gwilym Parliament is made up of the lower House of Gras (who come up with new laws) and the upper House of Shmees (who make laws official). For the lower house, an MP from each planet with a population higher than 100,000 is voted in which comes to 470 seats however this number increases to 508 when you include the gwapitol planets of Gerra, Graxia, Gwil Prime, Gwavorista and Gwaltarre (also known as Faltarre) which get more seats each due to their larger populations (over 5,000,000,000) - 3 for Graxia; 6 for Gerra; 7 for Gwaltarre; 10 for Gwavorista and 12 for Gwil Prime. These MPs are voted in every 5 years and represent the people from each planet. The prime minister is elected every 10 years via a system of voting which counts every vote as a whole instead of from separate planets. The upper house's MPs are chosen directly from the different parties, with each party getting one seat in the upper house for every 5 seats in the lower house, coming to roughly 102 seats.

The two major political parties are the Gwilym National Party (centre - left) (lead by Gwaniel Gworgan) and the Gwilym Communist party (who are more socialist than communist) (lead by Gwatthew Gwight). The National Party believes that they should go with whatever decision is best for the majority of the population whilst the Communist Party goes with a decision that will attempt to benefit everyone instead of just a majority. One of the main rivals of the Gwilym Republic is the Cothorian People's Republic - the foreign policy of the Communist Party is to ally with the Cothorians whereas the National Party finds them to be untrustworthy. Similar views however include remaining in the Porpoise Pact and continued heavy industrialization.

### Polictical Parties

Gwilym National Party - Yellow (253)
Gwilym Communist Party - Red (210)

Chill Party - Purple (22)

Gween Party - Lime (19)

Faltarre Independent - Dark Turquoise (3)

Gwascist Party - Dark Green (1)

##### **Demographics**

The main ethnic group of the Gwilym Republic are the Gwilyms, making up 74% of the population. In second are the Farrerians who make up 22% of the population. Farreians live mostly live in the western Gwilym Republic due to the annexation of their land by the Yik Devastation and later by the Gwilyms during the Yik Emergency. 2% of the population is made up of Cothorians, most of whom had lived in Cothorian People's Republic before being integrated into the Gwilym Republic during the 2nd Galactic Emergency.

##### **Other**

Gwarlitia.

Space Appropriation Programme.