Politics in Lifannia

Politics of Lifannia takes place in a framework of a semi-democratic government. The Lifannian Parliament has 1124 members, which represent around 400 thousand people. 11 Members are unelected.

The Leader of Lifannia is an unelectable position since the 1970's, after the takeover of the whole government by Antanas Smetona. He also remains to be the Leader to this day. Beyond the National government, Regions have parliaments too, and Provinces, Counties and Municipalities have some sort of councils with some power. The Parliament of Brazil and Rena is seperate of that of Lifannia's, an if needed the Parliaments all join into a united session. The Parliament is not dominated by one party, with coalitions having to be formed to make any major changes nation wide.

## History

After Lifannia's Reestablishment, there was no parliament, rather Lifannia as ruled by an absolute Monarchy, with the monarch being Lith the Seventh. After the 1945 coup the Monarch was allowed to stay but had all of its powers removed, and Lifannia was then ruled by a democratically elected Leader. It is unknown why the post of ruling the country was not called president or any other name, but regardless, this made Lifannia a lot more free. in 1946 The leader's cabinet became Electable, with 42 seats being electable. This resulted in the first Parliament Lifannia had, which was way smaller than the current one. Eventually The system of Elections changed from nation wide members to members representing a territory, such as country, province and region.

After the Election of Mitokas, it was decided to split the parliament into 2: A lower and upper parliaments. Upper parliaments only Included Members of Parliament from Provinces and Regions, while the upper parliament included County members too. This change, however, favored the more conservative parties more, and resulted in a Conservative stronghold on power during the 50s and 60s, due to the fact less populated places, which were more right leaning, had as much as a say as more denser places. During this time, unelected officials had seats in the parliament and 3 parties had strong power over the government, those being the Liberals, Conservatives and the now extinct old Socialists parties.

Despite the unfavorable circumstances, a newly created nationalist party would take over Lifannian politics for the next 30 years, with its founder Mantynas becoming Leader and the party getting the majority of seats in the 60s. After Mantynas came around Antanas Smetona, who countinued with Mantynas' policies, but with less support in the parliament, due to the fact the Nationalists lost the parliament to the Conservatives (who renamed themselves to the Mitokians at that point). This caused the 1970s Coup against the Parliament by Antanas Smetona, with his reasoning being that the other parties stopped trying to help the people and only tried to help themselves.

WW1 would significantly change Lifannia's Course in history however. After the annexation of Silesian lands, protests and riots sparked in Silesia, which later became a fight between Silesian Militia and Lifannian Military. These fights helped the Socialists, Fascists and Liberals also rise up against Smetona's hold of the government, causing the 3rd Lifannian civil war. While in the end Smetona's Government won with lots of foreign support, 6 years later Antanas Smetona would vanish, causing his allies to panic and to join a union with Yare Yare, creating GGDL. This event, however, was deemed aggressive, and Lifannian lands were split. This caused mass anger across the population, and Nationalist groups started to get more support. The anti-Unionist were the most popular among these, who sought to Get back all of Lifannian Territories before 1980, but to also split away from GGDL.

By the late 80s, the Anti-Unionists demanded to the GGDL government to issue the first ultimatum to Czelesia, which worked. This event did spark a long spree of tensions between the GGDL and EU, which Czelesia was in. Later, More Ultimatums to various countries were made, and by 2000, 99% of all Lifannian Territories pre 1980 were under the control of GGDL. By 1995 a new Lifannian Government formed, with a completely different political scene and structure, which is the modern parliament to this day. The Parliament had 935 seats, with each seat representing 400,000 people. There was no majority party, and there were more distinct parties. The Leader was elected to be the Nationalist Kiolnas, but was later deposed in favor of Antanas Smetona, who came back by that point. This era of government also saw the rise of goal parties.

After the warming of relations between the world and GGDL and the Split of GGDL in 2003, The two most Nationalist Parties: Anti-Unionists and National Interest, had become success parties. This Resulted in the parliament shifting from a more right wing controlled government to a more centrist one. The annexations of Brazil and Rena did not have a major effect on the parliament, as their parliaments remained seperate. During the Yugoslavian crisis the parliament was shut down for a couple years due to a fear of terrorism. Most changes in party seats now depend on International and Domestic events: SAH civil war caused a decline of seats for the Mitokians and Socialists, while the Illegallies incident sparked for a goal Party to be created: The Illegalies party.

## Political Issues

### Social Issues

#### Poverty and Homelessness

While Poverty is not a big issue, there are discussions about the poor and homeless people and how much do they give back to society. In the 90s, The Nationalist government decided to give free housing to younger poorer people in exchange to serve in the Military. While the military part of this no longer functions, the program itself still exists and includes all age groups. Some have come to argue that the poor and homeless ended up in their situation because of their actions and that they are benefiting for free from other people, while others argue that it is better for the economy and society as a whole for some to get jobs and instead of living in the streets.

#### Ethnic and Racial Tensions

While racism is not widespread, there is some ethnic tension between the minorities. Corsicians and Flanderians in Jogo Sitis usually commit the most crimes against each other, Meanwhile Renians blame and attack Byzantines due to their history, And Lifannians have a negative opinion of Qixingers due to the Various independence movements in the Caucas Region and the Extremist parties that Qixingers usually vote for. Despite all this, Ethnic tension has significantly went down since the 90s, as Lifannia enacted more laws to combat the tensions and the newer generation of people having less grudges against each other.

#### Anarchy Island

Anarchy Island is the worst possible sentence a prisoner could get, but only 20% of the criminals that have been sent there have been sent for horrible crimes. The rest of the 80% is Mayonakians and Qixingers, which without any citizenship and no state for them to be deported to, get deported to Anarchy Island. A lot of people argue that the idea of the island itself is immoral and that Anarchy Island should be dissolved as soon as possible, while others say that a lot of horrible criminals deserve to be there and that it is less expensive to send them there than to hold them for life.

#### LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+ people lack the rights that Straight people have, and face other problems. It was not until the 1970s that people who transitioned into the opposite gender could change their documents. Most Sexualities are not recognized, and Homosexuals cannot marry, form unions or adopt children. Only 18% of the population support gay rights, and its a number which has been only stagnating, and in fact, a number lower than in the 1940s. Most people see gays as people with a sex addiction and as degenerates, and only one major party supports gays: The minority party. Other parties choose to not support them to not lose voters or spread propaganda against gays themselves.

### Economic Issues

#### The free market and Lifannia

There is varied discussions and about the free market in Lifannia. Lifannia has put some limitations on the market, especially in transportation, to the point where most people argue Lifannia is closer to socialism than to capitalism. In opposition, other people argue that Lifannia has put up those limitations to prevent consumers from being taken advantaged off. Lifannia itself has several state owned companies competing in the market, such as Lifannian Airways, LVC and the Lifannian Construction company.

#### Lota and other foreign currencies

The Lota is the world's most valued currency compared to the CPD, standing at around 10 CDP for a Lota. This is double of even the second most valued currency, the French pound. Ironically enough, the Lota gained a lot of value after France stopped using the Lota and switched to their French pound. Some argue that the Lota is too valued and should have its value deflated, while others argue it is needless to deflate it and could cause severe consequences. Lota was also introduced into Rena and Brazil in 2030, and some have thought about the exportation of the currency into other countries.

#### Future Economic growth

The Economy of Lifannia has been sustaining on a strong growth rate and industry, which is becoming less secure due the bigger death rate and a smaller birth rate. While population loss is very unlikely due to the birth rate still being very high, the growth rate is smaller than that of the 1940s-1990s. The government is split on the solution to keep the Economy growing.

## Religion

Religion in Lifannia dates back to the foundation of the Country. Paganism was the main religion before merging with Lithism, a branch of Dualism. Dualism remains to be the biggest religion with 65% of people identifying as Dualists. The other major Religions are Christianity, Budhism and Judaism. Most of these religions grew by having villages with only that specific religion of people living in them, with some transforming into Major Cities, such as Marijampolė.

Religiousness has increased significantly since the 60s, going from 65% Believers to 79%. Many attribute this to the unification of Lifannian Paganism and Lithism in the 80s, thus end the centuries of conflict between the groups and the general tensions of the 80s-90s bringing people to seek hope.

Christians in Lifannia used to be mostly protestants, but since the 2000s Catholism has taken over as the main Christian branch.

Politically, Dualists and Atheists have the most common. Lithism does not play a major part in Life for the average believer, as was incouraged by many spreaders of it. Christians tend to be more right leaning, Jews and Budhists centrist. Most parties support keeping Dualism as the national Religion in Lifannia, meanwhile the Minority party Rejects this notion, meanwhile some extremist Dualist parties argued for other religions to be banned.