Plus Ultra (Latin) ("Further Beyond") | |||||||
| Anthem | "La Marcha Real" | ||||||
| Capital | Las Fuentes, Tenarife | ||||||
| Largest city | San Juan de Puerto Rico | ||||||
| Other cities | Las Palmas, Malabo, Cabo Bojador, Villa Cisneros | ||||||
| Language official |
Spanish | ||||||
| others | Arabic, Catalan, Euskera, Astur-Leonese | ||||||
| Religion main |
Catholicism | ||||||
| others | Islam | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
White | ||||||
| others | Arab, Black, many others | ||||||
| Demonym | Spanish | ||||||
| Government | Parliamentary Monarchy | ||||||
| Legislature | Cortes Generales | ||||||
| King | Felipe VI | ||||||
| royal house: | Borbón | ||||||
| Prime Minister | Sonia Sotomayor (SEIO) | ||||||
| Population | 5,740,250 | ||||||
| Currency | Spanish peseta (pegged to the ECU) | ||||||
| Time Zone | UTC -4 to +1 | ||||||
| Internet TLD | .if | ||||||
| Organizations | LoN, AU | ||||||
The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), popularly named as Spain-in-exile, is a parliamentary monarchy composed of Spain's former colonies besides the metrople; most notably the Canary Isles, Spanish Morocco, Puerto Rico and the island of Fernando Pó (or Bioko) off the coast of Kamerun. Spain also lays claim to the territory of the Rif and mainland Spain (controlled by the anarchist collective organised by the Union of Free Iberian Territories), the island of Annabón (controlled by Portugal), the Virgin Isles and Gibraltar (controlled by the United Kingdom), and Guam (part of the Pacific Union). Spain-in-exile is home to about 6 million people, partially natives from those lands, but also partially emigrants from the mainland fleeing Communist victory after the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish state was formed in the sixteenth century through the unification of the Crowns of Castile-León and Aragon. Through different changes throughout the XVIII and XIX centuries, Spain began a long process of liberalisation, but after the collapse of the French Third Republic and the establishment of the French State and its subsequent Drumontian iteration, Carlist rulers took over the country, re=establishing a very conservative monarchy with hints of Boulangisme. This collapsed after the Autumn Revolutions and the end of the Great War, but eventually increased instability in the kingdom because of terrible and expensive events such as the Rif War and the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera led to a civil war which resulted in Anarchist collectives taking over most of Iberia in the form of the UFIT. The remnant of the rightwing government in Spain, including the monarchy and the rightwing party CEDA, fled to the Canary Isles, where they imposed control over the colonial isles (except the Philippines and Guam) as well as Spanish Morocco (except for the Rif).
The new government was initially, and up until the 80s, a right wing authoritarian dictatorship mostly managed through semi-free elections heavily influenced by the military and CEDA, as well as through a system of block voting that maintained almost total dominance by part of the party over a divided and oppressed opposition. However, after the death of King Juan I in 1978 and the surprise victory by part of the leftwing SEIO (Sección Española de la Internacional Obrera) in elections in 1982 led to the adoption of a new Constitution, one that recognised Spain as a more democratic institution and implemented a proportional voting system.
The political system since has been a heavily democratic one that has permitted the growth of capitalism (with a welfare state built on it by progressive SEIO governments, while partially rolled back by CEDA). Today, Spain is by far the most developed nation in Africa, with a HDI of 0.850, almost the same as its counterpart in the mainland's.
History[]
see also: Spain
Government and Politics[]
Composition of the Cortes Generales after the 2015 election. In green nationalist factions, in red the PSOE, in pink SEIO, in yellow the PLE and in blue the CEDA.
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy with great importance within its Legislature, the Cortes Generales. These are elected on a period that can't be of any more than five years, by advise of the King following recommendation by the Prime Minister. Spain's political system is, to a degree, unchanged from the era of parliamentary monarchy in the 1930s' Trienio Liberal, with three main parties surviving the era:
- The social-democratic to socialist Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party or PSOE), currently led by MP Pedro Sánchez Pérez Castejón,
- The social liberal to classical-liberal Partido Liberal (Liberal Party, or PLE), currently led by MP Alberto Rivera, and
- The conservative Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right, or CEDA), currently led by MP, former Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition Marco Rubio.
In the 1970s a new leftwing opposition party modelled in the German SPD, the Eurasian New Trudoviks, and the French SFIO, the Sección Española de la Internacional Obrera (Spanish Section of the Workers' International, SEIO), was created as a form of a new social democratic opposition hat did not oppose the monarchy or Spanish capitalism, and quickly became a strong opposition figure, overcoming the CEDA for the first time in the momentous 1982 elections. The current leader of the SEIO is the Prime Minister, Sonia Sotomayor.
There's two minor parties, the leftwing nationalist FrePoLi centred on Sarhawi nationalism, and the Puerto Rican Independence Party, also socialist, which looks to create a socialist republic in Puerto Rico.
The most recent elections, those in 2015, led to CEDA getting 907,201 votes, 33.2% of the electorate, the most of any political party. They were, however, overcome by a coalition between SEIO and the PLE, which got a joint 126 votes, exactly what was necessary for a majority. Sonia Sotomayor, leader of SEIO, was elected Prime Minister. The PLE, which had previously propped up a much larger CEDA plurality, switched over perceived excessive social conservatism by part of Prime Minister Rubio.
International Relations[]
Spain is recognised as an "independent alternative to government" by the governments of almost all European nations, which don't really like the UFIT, albeit maintain their relationships over their membership of the Concert of Europe and support by the Communist Party of the Eurasian Union.
The closest allies to Spain in exile are Cuba and the United States of Colombia, also close enemies to Communist states propped up by the United States during the Cold War. It also has relatively friendly relations with France and Germany. However, it's not that close to either the United Kingdom or Eurasia, which both have relatively close relationships with the UFIT.