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Zuzu

 * Background: In 1853 Zuzu was a colony of Liechtenstein. In 1920 the native people of Zuzu repealed against Liechtenstein Parliamentary Democracy after see the effects of World War I.

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 * DUE MARCH 3RD- 10 POINTS**


 * Location: || Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Mozambique ||
 * Geographic coordinates: || 20 00 S, 47 00 E ||

Our country is proximally the size of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota combined.
 * Climate: || tropical along coast, temperate inland, arid in south ||


 * Terrain: || narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains in center ||


 * Natural resources: || graphite, coal, salt, quartz ||

//permanent crops:// 2.04% //Other:// 91.42% ||
 * Land use: || //arable land:// 6.54%


 * Environment - current issues: || soil erosion results from deforestation and overgrazing; desertification; surface water contaminated with raw sewage and other organic wastes; several species of flora and fauna unique to the island are endangered ||


 * DUE MARCH 3RD- 20 POINTS**

21.315% of people in urban areas Every Friday-Every Friday is a holiday, on this day you do whatever you want. July 18 is national block party day. April 2 national save the Rain Forest Day. Militarism.Cancer.
 * Total population:1.653 million
 * Average age:35
 * Nationality: Ziian
 * Religion(s): http://www.venganza.org/
 * Language(s):English and zion
 * Traditional dress/clothing;
 * Food:steak,baked potatoes, broccoli, apples, and corn
 * Holiday-Not a specific date in the year but it occurs around the time of Christmas. It is a day of celebrating the holiday seasons.
 * Walking bear foot all the time. Eating spaghetti every other Wednesday.


 * DUE MARCH 17TH- 20 POINTS**

*In the great land of Zuzu we like to say that we have a free market system. The businesses in our country have the free will to build, work, and own a company. Our government regulates the utilities and all public places. We allow the people to trade stocks and bonds freely on our stock market floor the Zuzu’s Investment and Trading or ZIT for short. The land of Zuzu dislikes the party of the republicans so therefore they are not allowed in our country and this prevents unnecessary budget cuts to protect our economy. W faces the nasty problems of republicans coming into our country and taking over our economy. We face the problem of a high unemployment rate but that is due to our recent recession. *GDP= $4.322 trillion *GDP growth rate 2010=1.459, 2009=-1.356, 2008=-2.008 *Labor force by occupation (10.321% agricultural; 45.346% industrial; 44.333% service) *Unemployment rate=8.249% *18.987% population below the poverty line *Income distribution
 * GDP per capita $33,251.98

*Inflation rate=2.6547 *Zizis *1 US dollar= .854 Zizi *Agricultural products: pineapples,star friut, pummelo fruit *Industries: coal mining, oil, logging *Major exports:coal,oil, tropical friut *Major imports:cotton,rice, wheat We export tropical fruits to the United States of America and in return we get cotton. We import our rice from China and in return we give them coal. We export oil to France and they give us wheat.


 * DUE APRIL 10TH- 100 POINTS**

*Our government in the country of Zuzu is a absolute monarchy. *Our Zia has all of the power and she makes all of the laws with some impute from the royal family. *We are a parliamentary government where we are ruled by a queen also known as the Zia. *Subdivisions of Power: Our country is split into parishes. *Our country’s government was established in 1922, shortly after we gained our freedom from Liechtenstein. *Legal System: We have a mix between common and religious law. *We have 3 branches of government that work together to run our great country. Executive: The Zia  *The Zia has to be born into the royal family and once she is ready to take power she must marry a man that she chooses and is approved by the current Zia. The man has no power in the government but he gets the publicity that the Zia gets. The Zia rules until she can no longer serve.

Legislative: Judicial:
 * The Zia is the only one. The Zia function is to be queen and to rule over the country and to signs all the bills to make them laws.
 * The Zia is chosen through the royal family.
 * We do not have a cabinet do to us having an absolute monarchy.
 * The political party that is currently in power would be a Democratic. If anyone within the royal family turns up being anything but Democratic they are banned from the country.
 * Since we have an absolute monarchy we do not have a legislative branch within our government.
 * The Queen assigns a chef justice that makes all the decisions in all the cases that come up.
 * No we only have one court system.


 * DUE APRIL 21ST - 100 POINTS**

*Budget: 3.94 trillion *Tax Revenue (broken down by types of taxes) 10 percent of all income is given to the Zia to help fund our government. *Spending (must coincide with revenue AND must coincide with economic/political System you chose) -Top 5 mandatory spending items Military, infrastructure, imports, government pay, and government bonds, -Top 5 discretionary spending items
 * DUE MAY 13th- 50 POINTS**



*Write a set of at least 10 rules/laws/standards of human right you desire for your country. 1. Deforesting of the rainforests is considered a felony. 2. Every household must throw a block party at least once a year. 3. Must eat spaghetti every other Wednesday. 4. The legal drinking age is 19 throughout the entire country. 5. If found guilty of driving you will permanently loose license and your car will be confiscated. No exceptions. *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.
 * DUE MAY 13th- 50 POINTS**


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 * DUE MAY 16th- 30 POINTS**
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