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Name of country- **Kaka** Abbreviation- **KA** Brief History- **Kaka originated out of the early family that inhabited the island in 1460 BCE. Out of that family a ruler came and the family grew into a clan then grew larger to the population of the country. The Kakanian people have lived there for many years and have been a very culturally oriented group. They, to this day, stay true to their large teepees and sacred rituals of the island.** National Flower- **Red Flower** National Bird- **Limpkin** National Tree- **Mangrove** National Anthem- **Oh Hail Kaka**
 * DUE MARCH 3RD- 10 POINTS**

Location- **South of the north-western hump of Africa at cordinates (0,0)** Capital City- **Akak** 5 Major Cities- **Atanzia, Kantenia, Artinga, Kringa, and Akka** Size— **About the size of Indiana** Climate- **Humid, rainy, wet, and hot** Terrain- **Swampy Marsh, little land, and a few small hills.** Natural Resources- **Timber, wax, and diamonds** Arable Land- **10%** Environmental Issues- **Flooding and toxic waste**
 * DUE MARCH 3RD- 20 POINTS**


 * Total Population: **290,547**
 * Average Age: **32-36**
 * % of people in urban areas: **13%**
 * Nationality: **Kakanians**
 * Religion(s):
 * 62% Christianity ( 34% Presbyterian, 18% Catholic, 6% Baptist, 4% Methodist)**
 * 38% Other ( 36% Kakanistran, 2% Atheist)**
 * Language(s): **Mix of English and Kakanish,** Other: **Little bit of Spanish and French**
 * Traditional dress/clothing: **Sometimes men and women don't wear shirts.**
 * For women: traditional skirts called kakias for men: they wear khakis or nice pants.**
 * Food (most popular meals for all meal sittings): **Karakaria- triple cocoa cake with all kinds of chocolate**
 * Poofah- a dish of delicious veggies and sausage mixed with a special Kakanish sauce.**
 * Major National Holidays (must have at least 2 and explain the origin of each):
 * National Dance Day (December 2): The wife of the early family absolutely loved dancing that she wanted to do it everyday all the time. The father did not have this same opinion. He deemed one day out of the year for all inhabitants of the country to dance for 24 hours straight to fulfill this dancing desire until the following year.**


 * Nistra Day (February 29): The 36% of Kakanistra believers honor their great god, Nistra, on this day. It is believed that he was born, lost his virginity and died on this same day different years throughout his life. His loyal disciple observed this and started observing this day in his memory. Many followed and it became a holiday.**

Customs: __General:__
 * 1) Spitting on the national flag, bird, tree, or flower shows high disrespect to the country.**
 * 2)** **Sticking up your pinky and your right ring finger at someone is highly offensive and disrespectful.**
 * 3) All types/forms/shapes of smoking and inappropriate drug use is prohibited ALWAYS.**
 * 4) At least** **16 years old to obtain boater's license and driver's license.**

__Marriage:__ Similar customs as those shared in the United States.
 * 1) Kakanian married couples MUST have a marriage license renewed every 11 years.**
 * 2) Rehearsal dinners, bridal showers, wedding cakes, ring and vow exchanges,etc. are usually held.**
 * 3) You must be at least 19 years old in order to get married.**

__Some Taboos__: (must have at least 2)
 * 1) Women wearing all black or red on their wedding days results in un-successful marriages.**
 * 2) In the Kakanistran religion, hunting on Sundays and Monday mornings is against the religion's respect for animals.**


 * DUE MARCH 17TH- 20 POINTS**


 * Overview of economic system (provide clear description and explanation).
 * The country Kaka always became known and referred to as a free market economy. Kakanians believe that individuals and** **businesses**
 * should exchange money and products through an organized and regulated market. Therefore, we highly encourage** **the means of trading**
 * and importing and exporting with many different countries.** **Furthermore, Kaka allows privately** **owned businesses** **and that those who own**
 * private businesses should be granted permission to own factors of production (land,****labor, and capital).** **The** **majority of our individuals in fact**
 * do own private businesses. Our country has never preferred the types** **of economy where the** **government control the factors of production and**
 * the type, amount, and price of a product sold. Therefore, Kaka** **also agrees with the term****"laissez faire" meaning our government does not care to**
 * intervene in the marketplace at all times (majority of the time). Kaka has created** **laws to ensure and protect the property rights of individuals or**
 * businesses. As result, o****ur government** **has decided to only intervene at desperate** **times/measures; which occurs rarely in our marketplace.**


 * Economic Challenges
 * Our country has a problem with inflation, for the inflation rates are not increasing rapidly, but yet they are still increasing as the years**
 * continue. As result, the Kakanian government has created many meetings trying to plan different ways to reduce inflation rate. Also, the country**
 * Kaka has problems with importing more goods rather than exporting new goods, at times our country tends to consume lots more rather than**
 * producing. For this year (2011) Kakanians plan to set up new industries that will allow our country to create more products for exports in exchange**
 * for more money. The economy has also tried to come up with ways that may increase our availability of land use that allows us to plant more food**
 * products as well. Another main goal is for Kaka to aim towards the increase of our overall GDP and GDP capital. We hope that by the end of this year,**
 * Kakanians will learn to save more of the imported resources and export twice as many goods/services/products as last year (2010).**

population numbers!)- **$80,000** *GDP growth rate (is economy growing or slowing? At what rate from previous two years?)- *Labor force by occupation (% agricultural; % industrial; % service)- Agricultural- 4**5%** Industrial- **38%** Service- **27%** *Unemployment rate- **5.3%** *% population below the poverty line- **3.6%**  *Income distribution - (nation's total income distributed to its population)  *Inflation rate (compare to previous two years)-  *Name of currency- **Chelly**  *Exchange rate to US dollar- **1 U.S. Dollar = 1.38 Chelly**  *Agricultural products (must have at least 3—must coincide with geography)- **Rice, Peanuts, Timber, Bananas, Fish, Minerals**  *Industries- **Lumbering, food processing, mining, and little manufacturing**  *Major exports- **Timber, minerals, rice, and fish**
 * GDP (overall real GDP expressed in US dollars)- **$800,000**
 * GDP per capita (also expressed in US dollars—make sure this coincides with your
 * 0.5% (2008)**
 * 1.25% (2009)**
 * 1.50% (2010) - most recent**
 * Agricultural (farming) - $33,706 - $35,206 per year**
 * Services (manufacturing) - $27,000 - $29,026 per year**
 * Industrial (mining, timber) - $31,678 - $32,654 per year**
 * 1.14% (2008)**
 * 1.22% (2009) **
 * 1.25% (2010) - most recent**


 * Minerals**


 * Fish**


 * Rice**


 * Timber**

// *Major imports- **Capital equipment, food products, petroleum, chemicals, steel and iron, and clothing products.** //

//Steel//

Iron

Petroleum

*Importing Partners- **United States, Iran, France, United Kingdom, China, and Germany**
 * Exporting Partners- **United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, and China**


 * DUE APRIL 10TH- 100 POINTS**

__*Government type (must match economic system)__
 * Temporarily a constitutional monarchy Kaka contains a King and Queen, so the King and Queen become head of the overall state/country**
 * but the Prime Minister becomes head of the government. However the government includes that the King and Queen have also decided to reduce a**
 * lot of their power that controls the economic system allowing a free market economy system to continue forming. Therefore, the powers of the**
 * King and Queen become limited by Kaka's constitution.**
 * **Federal Power Distribution**
 * Parliamentary or Presidential?- **Parliamentary**
 * Subdivisions of Power (i.e. States/Providences/Parish)? - **There are no subdivisions of power.**
 * Current Government established in- **1200 BCE**
 * Legal System- **Kaka is a bicameral system. There is the Ruling Monarchs and Court along with the Peoples' Representation. The Ruling Monarchs and Court is the classic system of a constitutional monarchy with the King and Queen along with the Prime Minister. This also includes the Cabinet Members, people that express the legislative ideas of the Heads of State and Government. The Ruling Monarchs and Courts hold only 20% of the power. The Peoples' Representation holds the remaining 80%. This group has 120 representatives in 30 districts of Kaka, with 4 representatives for each district. Annual meeting**s **are held within districts to discuss occasional plans and ideas of the Monarchs and the people give their opinion.**

__*Branches of Government__
Executive: __Head of State:__ **1 or 2 (King and Queen). The King and Queen appoint a new Prime Minister every 4 years, and they also appoint and dismiss important** __Head of Government:__ **1 (Prime Minister). The Prime Minister of Kaka controls the government agencies, appoints or dismisses cabinet members every 3 years, and** **is charge of informing the King and/or Queen on the government.** __Main Cabinet Members (Ministers):__ **Since Kaka is a small country there are only 10 main cabinet members. The main cabinet members; also known**
 * How the election process occurs & how are members of government chosen?
 * Since the government is constitutional monarchy, an election process does not permanently take place for the choosing of the government**
 * is mainly in the hands of the Prime Minister and the King and/or Queen. Nobody votes on the King and Queen of Kaka, the position is**
 * only changed if the King or Queen dies, then the next family member in line steps into place. Elections may take place by the Kakanian people**
 * for the Prime Minister****, however** **the King and/or Queen chooses** **the final decision of Prime Minister regardless of the Kakanians peoples' decision.**
 * How many? (jobs/functions of each)
 * ministers, judges, armed force officers, etc. The Head of State is involved in pardoning certain people in convicted crimes, the King and**
 * Queen can take control or give up land, create treaties, declare war and peace, and recognize foreign states whenever they choose to.**
 * as the Ministers are in charge of the controlling and regulating whichever Kaka department that the Prime Minister appoints them to do.**

__King & Queen-__ **Johnson III & Victoria Leize**
1) Secretary of State Treasury- **Terenzio Benz** 2) Secretary of State for Justice- **Kenzee Dardah** 3) Secretary of State for Defense/Welfare- **Felipe Maroon** 4) Secretary of State for Health- **Rei Pennin** 5) Secretary of State for Education- **Diana Nimshi** 6) Secretary for State International Development- **Danny Genslow** 7) Secretary for State Transport- **Winslow Martine** 8) Secretary for State Environment & Food Affairs- **Genny Evadne** 9) Secretary for State Business, Enterprise, & Finance- **Peter Zodico** 10) Secretary for State Foreign Affairs- **Phelan Zenna**
 * Cabinet Positions

Legislative: are total numbers and why of participants?- **Bicameral house, 13 in Ruling Monarchs and Court. 120 in the Peoples' Representation** Judicial: Are there additional branches? If so- what are thy and how are they chosen? **No**
 * If there is a legislative body, detail what kind of house structure exists and what
 * What political party is currently in power?- **Republican/ Rightists**
 * How many chambers? **12 chambers**
 * How are the courts structured?- **One main court made up of 10 people chosen by the Queen, 30 other courts- 1 for each district**
 * Is there a court that has more power than the other? **the main court holds the most power**
 * Political Parties -Do a few dominate? If so- what are they? And why?
 * Mainly the Moderate party is dominate over all the others. Kaka is a very relaxed country.**

**Total: $4,805,000,000 billion (It's low for we have a small country)** **Property Tax: $696,664,442 (we don't own a lot of land)** **Sales Tax: $1,601,666,667** **Income Tax: $2,506,668,891**
 * DUE APRIL 21ST - 100 POINTS**
 * Tax Revenue (broken down by types of taxes)

*Spending (must coincide with revenue AND economic/political) **Expenditures: $5.217 Billion**

__ Mandatory spending items __ __ Discretionary spending items __
 * 1) **Defense**
 * 2) **Health**
 * 3) **Government**
 * 4) **Environment & Energy**
 * 5) **Education**
 * 6) **International Affairs**
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 * Defense || Health || Government || Environment ||
 * 1) **Social Security**
 * 2) **Income Security**
 * 3) **Medicare**
 * 4) **Medicaid**
 * 5) **Food & Nutrition**
 * 6) **Veteran Benefits & Services**
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 * 1) **No person may walk about in public if he or she has the common cold.**
 * 2) **One may not spit on a bus.**
 * 3) **You may not have a mustache if you are over six feet tall.**
 * 4) **It is illegal to stand around any building without a good reason to be there.**
 * 5) **Hitting a vending machine that stole your money is illegal.**
 * 6) **Musical car horns are banned.**
 * 7) **On Mondays, it is illegal for one to whistle very loud after 11:00 PM.**
 * 8) **Doors of all public buildings must open outwards.**
 * 9) **Women may not drive in a house coat.**
 * 10) **It is illegal to shoot “silly string” at parade participants.**

*Must have at least 2—one political and one economic. Be sure to thoroughly explain the issue and the reasons for your country's position.


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 * DUE MAY 16th- 30 POINTS**


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