Liberal

Liberal, temporarily was known as The Unified Constitute of Liberal Republic (1690-1900) and now officially known as The Unified Federal Republic of Liberal, is a country in the Nopton region of the Amereuroslavic continent on Planet Zord, Ferhovian Galaxy. It borders the countries of Contenealous, LC, Russian Spaw, Yassen, Evene Evil, Wah, Lavon, Weil, Tasvolkia, Orlen, Bookerow, and Antonlom. It is the most powerful country on Planet Zord purely in terms of imperial prowess since it is and was among those imperialistic countries with the highest population and military personnel count ahead of New Britain, New France, The New Russian Federation, New Canada and Atlantis and behind the dissoluted Evil Empire. Not only that, but it is also the largest (being a bit larger than Russia) and second most populous country on Planet Zord. Liberal covers approximately 18,390,000 square miles of Planet Zord's land mass (5,000 miles long and 3,678 miles wide). At its imperialistic height, Liberal proper along with all its possessions, covered approximately 25,392,174 square miles of land, making it the largest imperial power/empire in Planet Zord's history. In terms of size, it surpassed the British Empire, which covered 13.5 million square miles of Earth's land mass. In general terms, however, The Neverine Provinces stands to be the most powerful and the most populous country on Planet Zord despite not having conquered weaker nations through imperialism. It has been a valuable ally to said countries for over a few centuries. Liberal also has the second largest economy in terms of GDP (nominal and PPP) behind The Neverine Provinces and a high per captia. Throughout its history, it has maintained the second most powerful military on Planet Zord in terms of manpower, industry, and advanced technology.

Demographics:


 * 96% White (Eurodore, Amereuroslavic)
 * 2% Asian
 * 2% Black

Territories:


 * Yah (Pervi Horse): 1700-1900
 * New Mongolia (1590-2000)
 * Wah (1700-1992)
 * Evene Evil (1700-1992)
 * Lavon (1700-1995)
 * Weil (1700-1997)
 * New Afghanistan (1770-1996)
 * New Turkey (1800-1991)
 * Tasvolkia (1714-1998)
 * Orlen (1716-1999)
 * Bookerow (1720-1994)
 * Antonlom (1720-1999)
 * Oklockmquo (1800-1991)
 * Milliequoso (1800-1990)
 * Boqumania (1810-1991)
 * Bamboo Strati Constitute or Bamboo Stranton (1810-1994)
 * Cornrotono (1810-1997)
 * Footloma (1810-1993)
 * Strang Island (1800-)
 * Vicker Island (1800-)
 * Sleeplish Island (1800-)
 * New Rochester (1800-)
 * Quantinium (1800-)
 * Liberal Hawk (1950-1990)
 * Wine Island (1949-1990)
 * Cork Island (1949-1990)

Territories (Planet Charliner):


 * Settlement District 01 (2021- )
 * Settlement District 02 (2021- )

Independent Satellite States


 * Wah (1997-)
 * Evene Evil (1992-)
 * Lavon (1995-)
 * Weil (1997-)
 * Tasvolkia (1998-)
 * Orlen (1999-)
 * Bookerow (1994-)
 * Antonlom (1999-)
 * New Mongolia (2000- )
 * New Afghanistan (1996- )
 * New Turkey (1991- )
 * Gofman (2001- )
 * The Confederation of Wine and Cork (1991-)

History
The course of Liberal's history has outlined its transformation from a small confederacy that formed from smaller tribal groups in 1360 with a population of 260,000 people into a giant industrial and imperialistic behemoth, having a significant impact on Planet Zord history.

The Liberal Confederacy
The confederacy was first formed through a mixture of several Anglan tribes and a few former kingdoms.

Industrialization
A decade after the establishment of the confederacy, the small nation began its industrial revolution, firstly on a small scale with the introduction of factories producing various forms of goods to aid in the increase of their supplies of all types, this included the creation of a few reservoirs that made drinking water and water used for the country's agriculture among other things easily accessible. In 1400, as the country was expanding in size making its way into Americunner territory, with the creation of new factories, costal ports and production depots, it began to engage in Planet Zord's Neo Western costal and inland trading network, engaging in the commerce of a variety of produced and raw goods with already industrialized countries such as New Britain, New France, The Neverines, and Atlantis. Within the next 190 years, as the country continued to increase in size, its military became increasingly powerful. In that regard, the overall effectiveness of military weapons, naval vessels and ships, of their personnel, and the country's large size meant that Liberal itself was heading towards becoming an industrial giant and soon to be imperial power.

Imperialism
TUCLR/Liberal was the largest imperial empire in Planet Zord history. At its peak in 1899, TUCLR proper along with all its possessions, covered around 25,392,174 square miles of land mass with a then population of around 470 million people and a military personnel size of 10 million troops. Despite the handover of the Yahish Island and the independent nation of LC forming, its imperial empire still maintained its size at around 24 million square miles until the 1990s. It was the only imperial power to retain most of its territories and even annex a few smaller ones, during the decline of other imperial powers. The country is reduced to its modern proper size of around 18 million square miles which includes its five nearby island territories, still in its possession.

Governmental Structure
Once the TUCLR had started annexing land as colonial territories in the early 1700s, they began to create a stable governmental system for each one. On the top was a territorial premier for each territory, who would answer to the Imperial Committee back on the mainland who answered to the President of TUCLR. The premier was either someone from the TUCLR mainland or a local native who was educated and had experience in neo-western politics whilst his subordinates such as the representatives of the districts of each territory, were a mix of TUCLR nationals and the native peoples residing in each territory. Most of the time, the territorial government would not have to answer directly to TUCLR mainland but instead figured things out themselves unless in certain circumstances where it was necessary to do so. How the districts would be divided into, would be up for the natives to figure out sometimes with the aid of TUCLR nationals. Private companies, in communication between the Imperial Committee and the territorial premier, from the TUCLR mainland industrialized each territory with surplus laborers comprised of the native peoples, but at the same ensured that economies of each territory were balanced with stability between industrialization and agriculture (except in some territories where soil was too untenable for crops) with goods being flown into the territorial economies and also into the TUCLR mainland. In these companies, natives who showed intellectual initiative in the business sectors were allowed to take up certain positions within the companies' leadership, but not too many. Educational institutions such as locally created Universities, and other schools were run by an interracial facility, a mix of TUCLR nationals and local territorial natives. Measures were taken to ensure that the native peoples received the best neo-western education possible, so they could have a say in their local affairs under TUCLR rule or/and they could also pursue other fields of studies such as medicine, philosophy, engineering etc. Plus, a certain amount of military personnel from the TUCLR would be placed in each territory. This imperial government model was used in a similar fashion by other imperial powers such as New Britain, Atlantis, New France, New Russian Federation, and New Canada in order to properly manage their territories which was done successfully. Therefore, (depending on which continent each territory was based in), in the long run, the native peoples learned how to become more intelligent, technologically literate, how to run excellent economies and governments properly and efficiently, and how to have a good military under the leadership of the most powerful imperial powers on Planet Zord, except for the Evil Empire.

Crata
In the late 1500's, in order to begin to establish itself as an imperial power, Liberal had taken over the Ancient Dynasty of New Mongolia as its first territory outside the Amereuroslavic continent. Liberal had mobilized at least 300,000 of its 3.1 million soldiers into the region, taking it over with relative ease forcing the country to be governed by an imperial premier having authority over the region, representing the country of Liberal itself. This was in response to the scramble to imperialize the Continent of Crata with New Britain, Atlantis and New France having already taken some parts of it through their strong militaries combined with their technological warfare over the native Cratans. In the new established Imperial state of New Mongolia, Liberal began to mobilize more soldiers over time, at least until the late 1800's.

During the Early 1800's when The Ottoman Superior Empire dissolved due to a series of battle losses against the combined forces of The TUCLR, New Britain, New France and Atlantis, stationed in Crata during those times, Liberal had gained a couple more territories, New Afghanistan which was not a part of the dissolved empire, but was conquered with relative ease, and New Turkey as per agreement with the other imperial powers.

Amereuroslavic Continent
During the next hundred years, Liberal had never sought out to imperialize any other countries until the late 1600's when the country had renamed itself as The Unified Constitute of Liberal Republic or TUCLR for short. They were looking to expand even though their country itself was already the biggest on the continent and has been for a couple of centuries. Therefore, it had conquered and imperialized many of the surrounding kingdoms such as Wah, Evene Evil, Tasvolkia, Orlen, Bookerow, and Antonlom. The TUCLR, in the early 1800's, had also managed to conquer a couple of small island nations such as Strag, Vicker, Sleeper Islands and a large island (consisting of 700,000 native islanders) split into the territories of New Rochester and Quantinium (all are territories that Liberal still holds on to presently). These islands are near the TUCLR on the other end of its border. Most famously, in 1700, it managed to imperialize an island consisting of Yahish tribes and named it Pervi Horse. Once the TUCLR managed to conquer their territories, like other imperial powers, began to create infrastructure based on the philosophy of their own home nations by creating new cities that would serve as transportation and trading centers, specialized central puppet governments, and banking systems. In an Earthly scene, they were Westernizing their territories.

Bamboo
The TUCLR first conquered a couple chucks of the continent of Bamboo in 1801 as territories called Oklockmquo and Milliequoso that used to be made up of several ancient Hanto and Canvoto tribes. In 1810, the TUCLR managed to conquer even more land, formed into the territories of Boqumania, Bamboo Strati Constitute (renamed to Bamboo Stranton once the TUCLR title was dropped in 1900), Cornrotono, Footloma. Again, this was all in response to what the other imperial powers were practicing. The TUCLR wanted to join in and in many aspects, they were already powerful enough to do so.

Planet Charliner
Today the country has engaged in space exploration conquering a few territories on the nearby Planet of Charline. They have invested their own money into the construction of a couple port cities still in progress of completion. A few active military bases also reside there.

Regions
The regions inside Liberal proper are listed as follows:


 * Liberal Federative Region
 * Upper Liberal
 * Americunnim
 * Sibienia
 * Lower Liberal

Population
Liberal today, is the second most populous country on Planet Zord, surpassing a few countries, formerly having more of a population count than Liberal.

Demographics per decade
Age Demographics

Projections
If current population trends resume at 35-40 million people per decade, it is projected that its population will be close to 970 million people by the end of the century.