Philadelphian Union
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The Philadelphian Union is an association of five North American states:
- Republic of Illinois
- Republic of Kansas
- Nation of Lakota
- Republic of New Netherland
- Republic of Pennsylvania
A sui generis entity, this union offers its members a common market, defence policy, foreign policy, currency for its members, and a binding constitution including human rights standards. However, it is looser than any federal state, as its members maintain control over their laws, police force, citizenship and immigration, natural resources, and all other matters.
The seat of the Union is the city of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
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[edit] Geography
The Union extends throughout east-central North America, with coastline on the Western Sea, the Great Lakes, and the Crystal Sea of the Atlantic Ocean. It borders Canada to the north, Massachusetts Bay, Vermont, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to the northeast, Virginia, Louisiana, and Texas to the south, and California to the west.
[edit] Government
The executive branch of the Union is the Council of the Philadelphian Union or Union Council, composed of the Union Ministers and two National Ministers named by each state. A maximum of one of a state's two National Ministers at a time may be replaced by another cabinet minister from the sending country for discussions on particular subjects. The Union Ministers for their part, each of whom is responsible for a department of the Union Administration, are elected by the Union Assembly; there are minimum thresholds for the representation of each member state among the Union Ministers. The Council is presided by a Chair of the Council of the Philadelphian Union of the designated for a period of one year on a rotating basis.
The legislative branch of the Union is the Assembly of the Philadelphian Union or Union Assembly composed of three hundred members directly elected by the citizens of the Union, largely on a population basis.
The judicial branch of the Union is the High Court of the Philadelphian Union, which deals with matters within the competences of the Union.
[edit] Areas of responsibility
The Union's only powers are those specifically devolved to it by its constitutive treaties among the member states, though they may agree by ad hoc treaties to cooperate and use Union resources for common issues. This allows them to use the Union to broker joint projects that may be of supra-national import or be excessive for a member state's resources. The Union is financed by transfer payments from the member states, also agreed to by treaty.
The Union has a joint foreign policy, accrediting joint ambassadors to foreign countries, though the member states may send general delegations to foreign countries and high commissioners to one another. The Union constitutes a single customs area and has a common currency, the Philadelphian dollar. While the member states maintain nominally separate militaries, they are overseen by a joint Union Command.
[edit] Languages
The Union has three working languages: English (spoken in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Kansas), Dutch (spoken in New Netherland), and Lakota (spoken in Lakota).
