East African Federation

The **East African Republic**, formerly known as the East African Federation, was a Republic in southeastern Africa that encompassed the former countries of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, Bambatawa, and English Equatoria.

Additionally, the EAR was northwest of Madagascar and southeast of Chad. They were also a member state of the organization United Nations, and a founding member of the African Council. After a period of inactivity, they were disbanded by their leader.

## Law and Government Structure

### Physical Subdivisions

   The EAR is divided into smaller self-governing entities below the head of state. In this case, the aforementioned nation is divided into *provinces*.

Each province's leader has the ability to self-govern; they can enforce laws, create laws, etc. However, laws are still confined to the province it is being enforced in, as well as the EAR's national law.

### Non-Physical Subdivisions

Additionally, the President does not rule alone. The President manages external affairs and enforces decrees, but the Cabinet approves local legislation, and votes on important projects for the nation.

The Cabinet and President are elected positions. Cabinet members can veto the decisions of the President, in the event that he is acting unjust or unreasonable.

## International Relations

On February 22, 2021, the EAF declared war on California, largely out of opportunity, as California had been greatly weakened by its pyhrric victory from Multi's Folly only a day before. Hoping to seize on the opportunity, and the clout of stamping out Someengineer1 once and for all (as he was an incredibly unpopular player), Keuradeurva declared war on California at 5:55 pm CST, with Presidential approval, and won after only an hour and a half of conflict, though Castle Zanzibar and Mombasa were moderately griefed in the process.

On February 25, 2021, founding member Keuradeurva left the nation (as he is known to do) to develop his new nation of Nordan in Nothern Canada. The EAF was allowed to keep most of its land on account of being well developed, but took the opportunity to reshape its borders.

On February 28, 2021, the Federation was reorganized into a Republic, after it was clear that the nation needed a more streamlined and centralized government, and with Keuradeurva's departure, there was no representative for Bambatawa. The nation reorganized its provinces.

On March 13, 2021, after its leader was coerced into collecting gravel for Shamski, and then told him to "go collect it himself" after he stole a shulker box, the nation was disbanded, to protect its structures from war and destruction. However, two days later, Madagascar was disbanded and its members banned (*See: Malagasy War*). As such, two days later, The EAR re-established itself, no longer under threat, and celebrated, starting contruction on a memorial to Dajiang and Vinland and all the fighters in the Malagasy War, for allowing them to exist now that the troublemakers were gone.

## Infrastructure

The EAF contains the beginnings to what President RisingWither hopes to one day be an extensive network of roads across the African continent called the African Interstate Highway System. Currently, a road extends from the nation's northern coastal border to its southern coastal border, though inroads are indevelopment.