This'll be finished later, but for once in my life I'm going to drop an unfinished application. I have to go to work, but I'm leaving this for review and input since it's clearly a Work in Progress. Gracias. [b]Flag:[/b] [img]https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/9b8b8ba5-fb42-4926-8ceb-42f26a26124e/dd0a4zx-216c6929-f721-4e8c-a985-507f7ee4bcc5.jpg[/img] [b]Nation Name:[/b] People's Liberatory Republic Yaguarapias (Republaxcas Mianapas Yaguarpax Plienas) [b]Type of Government:[/b] Autonomous Anarchist Confederation [b]Head(s) of Government:[/b] Nominally there are no individual heads of the government due in part to the national structure. But the general ruling body is the Federal Caracal below which are a network of local municipal caracals; or popular assemblies formed on a direct democratic basis in the form of an open town hall. Between the local municipalities and the Federal Caracal are confederations of differing caracals openly working among one another to achieve a common local or national objective or goal. The Federal Caracal in this respects acts largely as a mediating body elected from local steering committees, or the executive councils of the local caracals with the power to set agendas, though not make active decisions by themselves. Parallel to the federal system of local councils is the National Liberation Army comprised of effective militias which lends to the military structure of the Republic. Granted however active servicemen or women of the armed forces are barred from civil service until they leave the army. The presiding commander is Commandant In The First Leoman Exlocaca. Federation of Industrial Workers (Federas Palal Manufacturel) - The 'national' union of industrial workers and craftsmen in the confederation. [b]Economy:[/b] The predominant industry in the Republic has been agriculture and agricultural products based around banana or coconut plantations and coffee in the interior mountains. But in other regions there is a vast raw material extraction in the high mountains. Industrially, the Republic relies mostly on cottage industry though prior to the Revolution there had been efforts to develop a modern industry that has since been seized by the national labor union. The industrial labor unions control the industrial manufacture of gods and resource extraction and is itself comprised as being an alliance of mostly autonomous but mutually supportive unions within the larger union. The agricultural output has likewise by unionized under the auspices of far more localized unions of ranchers, farmers, and plantation workers. The production of and use of the labor of any of the members is decided by the members themselves. [b]Unique Technologies:[/b] Qualomaxtiti - Or an AutoGyro, a primitive helicopter primarily used to move supplies or persons over the rain forest. [b]Primary Species:[/b] The Jaguateca are the primary natives of the area. Though since their revolution they have openly accepted the dissidents or emmigrants of other nations and there's a growing population of foreign residents adding to the cultural milieu of the confederation. [b]Population:[/b] 38 million. [b]Culture:[/b] The origins myth of the Jaguateca have it that the first of their race was made from the darkness of the jungles when the panther god jumped the young girl in the forest. And as the god bit into her neck she drew a knife and cut the throat of the god. As both lay in a dying embrace the magical blood of the panther god intermixed with the blood of the girl as it was swept down the mountain rivers where it watered the roots of a mango tree. The magical blood, drunk from the roots of the tree imbibed in the fruit the magic of creation and as the fruit grew and ripened it dropped to the forest floor and split, giving birth to the first Jaguateca, half human and half feline. Due to living in a state between man and animal the Jaguateca people revere both the animal world and the human world and lived for centuries in a kinship between the two. Their naturalistic, paganist ways recognized an innate spirituality in each thing in the natural and artificial world that heightened their spiritual and materialist connection with the world. As the eons wore on this believe developed further as as a sort of pluralistic world view. While globalization of trade and empire eroded many of the orthodox beliefs and destroyed much of the old ways in colonization, the innate pluralistic approach has remained as they began to absorb in time new ways and new ways of appreciating their ontological perception of the world. The Jaguateca are principally egalitarian sexually and don't believe in clear distinction between the capacity of man or woman and that all souls are fundamentally the same. As such there's no gendered difference in the activity of man or woman. Owning a pet is unheard of, because of the same logic and anything that might be considered a pet has historically been allowed to move about the community as it will. Prior to colonization marriages were open relationships, although this conception of marriage does not exist in the more urban locations. Child rearing is also in itself a communal affair, with an early life emphasis on not just the parents themselves but the entire extended family before the whole of the community. [b]Religion and Other Beliefs:[/b] Jaguateca orthodoxy holds a purely pagan world view, though there has been some syncretic mergers with outside religions has they have come and go. Principally there if reverence to the parent gods, or guardians: the Panther Father and the Water Woman or Padro Pandero and Madri Aquadeico. Otherwise, many other facets of the natural or created world are observed as having a special spirit of their own and the belief is to handle all in respect. Water of all things is given the highest respect, since in their tropical homeland the rainy season can send torrential rains which can threaten entire community, especially those in the mountainous highlands where flash floods are common. The act of flooding is spoken of as being a reenactment by nature of the fight in the river when the blood of the human girl and panther god was played out. [b]Location/Territories:[/b] Island 26 [b]Climate:[/b] The archipelago that makes up the confederation is a diverse range of biomes. From the large island of Santo Gran split by its dormant volcanic mountain, separating the wet northern half from the drier and cooler southern half. The outlying islands are also likewise rich and fertile tropical islands whose climates made for prized plantations. [b]Military:[/b] [b]Magic Prevalence/Usage:[/b] [b]History/ Background Info:[/b] [b]Nation Relations (Can be as simple as a brief two line summary for your neighbors): [/b]