Charlotte Ryberg

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Minoa and Charlotte Island The Mind of Charlotte Ryberg
Flag	Emblem
Map of Minoa and Charlotte Island (red and peach) in comparison to continental Europe (white) and part of Asia (Grey)
Motto	"One nation to rise against the demons"
Official Language(s)	Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, German, Greek, Japanese
Region	Funen
Population	91,739,355 (881,921,178,082 Galaxy-wide)
Formation
- Greece	25 March 1821
- Athenian Democratic Republic and partition of Greece	25 November 1976
- Minoa and Charlotte Island	25 March 2025
Capital (and largest cities)	Antjepolis, Charleroi
Government	federal, parliamentary, representative democratic republic
Area  - Total  - % water	108 338 km² 2.8235
National Animal	Blue tit (bird)
National Colours	PMS Process Blue and PMS 123
Currency	Tala
Anthem	Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Risen from Ruins)
ISO Nation Code	MIA
Internet TLD	.ch, .cs
Phone Code	1
Currency Code	MIT
Carplate Codes	M
International Sports Code	MIA
WA Status
PDAS rating	A
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The Mind of Charlotte Ryberg represents two countries of Minoa and Charlotte Island in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula and the western end of the Anatolian peninsula. The country as in real life would have borders with Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea separates the two mainland regions (commonly known as Minoa and East Mound), while the Corinthian (Ionian) Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of reclaimed and artificial fens, islands, islets and rock islands.

The roots of the culture of Minoa can be traced to the bygone civilization of Greece, generally considered to be the cradle of Western civilization. As such, it is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy. Modern Minoan civilization was revived in 2024 (Minoan era) to steer the country away from its communist past.

Minoa and Charlotte Island are multi-lingual countries and has seven national languages: Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, German, Greek and Japanese. Minoa was founded on 25 March 2024, which politically marked the end of Greek civilization and the communism regime which brought it down.

Both countries are developed although internationally independent of many organizations. Although a member of the World Assembly and holds a permanent seat in the WA Security Council, it has consistently declined to join the European Union and NATO since the end of communism. Antjepolis and Charleroi are the capital cities; Arta, Heraklion, Istanbul, Izmir, Medea, Patras, Rhodes, Taunton , Therma and the Fens Falrio conurbation are among the two countries' other major cities.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early origins 1.2 Independent state 1.3 Partition 1.4 Downfall of Greece 1.5 Return of the Minoans 1.6 Recovery 2 Government and politics 3 Transport 4 Communications 4.1 Computing and Internet 4.1.1 Domains 5 Diplomacy 5.1 International organizations 5.2 By country

[edit] History

Main article: History of Charlotte Ryberg

[edit] Early origins

The territory of modern Minoa was the first area in Europe where advanced early civilizations emerged, beginning with the precursors to the Greek civilization, the first Minoan civilization in Crete and the Mycenean civilization on the mainland. Later, city-states emerged across the Balkan peninsula and spread to the shores of Black Sea, South Italy and Asia Minor reaching great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, expressed in architecture, drama, science and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens (now Antjepolis) under a democratic government. Athens and Sparta led the way in repelling the Persian Empire in a series of battles. Both were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually Macedon, with the latter under the guidance of Alexander the Great uniting and leading the Greek world to victory over the Persians, to presage the Hellenistic era, itself brought only partially to a close two centuries later with the establishment of Roman rule over Greek lands in 146 BC. Many Greeks migrated to Alexandria, Antioch, Seleucia and the many other new Hellenistic cities in Asia and Africa founded in Alexander's wake.

The subsequent mixture of Roman and Hellenic cultures took form in the establishment of the Byzantine Empire in 330 AD around Constantinople, which remained a major cultural and military power for the next 1,123 years, until its fall at the hands of Ottomans in 1453. On the eve of the Ottoman era much of the Greek intelligentsia migrated to the Italian territories and much of non-Ottoman occupied Europe, playing a significant role in the Western European Renaissance through the transferring of works of Ancient Greeks to Western Europe. Nevertheless, the Ottoman millet system contributed to the cohesion of the Orthodox Greeks by segregating the various peoples within the Ottoman Empire based on religion, as the latter played an integral role in the formation of the identity of Greece.

[edit] Independent state

After the Greek War of Independence, successfully fought against the Ottoman Empire from 1821 to 1829, Greece was finally established under the London Protocol. In 1827, Ioannis Kapodistrias, of the Ionian Islands, was chosen as the first governor of the new Republic. However, following his assassination, the Great Powers installed a monarchy under Otto, of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach. In 1843, an uprising forced the King to grant a constitution and a representative assembly. Due to his unimpaired authoritarian rule, he was eventually dethroned in 1863 and replaced by Prince Vilhelm (William) of Denmark, who took the name George I and brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. In 1877, Charilaos Trikoupis, who is attributed with the significant improvement of the country's infrastructure, curbed the power of the monarchy to interfere in the assembly by issuing the rule of vote of confidence to any prime minister.

As a result of the Balkan Wars, Greece successfully increased the extent of her territory and population, a challenging context both socially and economically. In the following years, the struggle between King Constantine I and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's foreign policy on the eve of World War I dominated the country's political scene, and divided the country into two opposed groups.

In the aftermath of World War I, Greece fought against Turkish nationalists led by Mustafa Kemal, a war which resulted in a massive population exchange between the two countries under the Treaty of Lausanne. According to various sources, several hundred thousand Pontic Greeks died during this period. Instability and successive coups d'état marked the following era, which was overshadowed by the massive task of incorporating 1.5 million Greek refugees from Asia Minor into Greek society. The Greek population in Istanbul had shrunk from 300,000 at the turn of the century to around 3,000 in the city today. On 28 October 1940 Fascist Italy demanded the surrender of Greece, but Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas refused and in the following Greco-Italian War, Greece repelled Italian forces into Albania, giving the Allies their first victory over Axis forces on land. The country would eventually fall to urgently dispatched Nazi German forces during the Battle of Greece. The German occupiers nevertheless met serious challenges from the Greek Resistance. Over 100,000 civilians died from starvation during the winter of 1941–42. In 1943 virtually the entire Jewish population was deported to Nazi extermination camps.

After liberation during World War II, Greece experienced a bitter civil war between Royalist and Communist forces, which led to economic devastation and severe social tensions between its Rightists and largely Communist Leftists for the next 30 years. The next 20 years were characterized by marginalisation of the left in the political and social spheres but also a significant economic growth, propelled in part by the Marshall Plan.

In 1965, a period of political turbulence led to a coup d’état on 21 April 1967 by the US-backed Regime of the Colonels. On November 1973 the Athens Polytechnic Uprising sent shock waves across the regime, and a counter-coup established Brigadier Dimitrios Ioannides as dictator. On 6 November 1976, two years after Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus, the regime was overthrown by the urgently-called East German-sponsored communist side led by Liana Cataloña, which invaded southern Greece, forcing the ailing royalists to retreat to the north, thereby diving Greece into two states: the communist East German (Athenian) Sector in the south, proclaimed as the German Athenian Democratic Republic on 25 November 1976, and the former royalist Ionian Sector in the north, becoming the (third) Hellenic Republic on 25 March 1977.

[edit] Partition

Under Liana Cataloña's Athens the entire Christian population were stripped of value and deported to Ionia in revenge for the extermination of the entire Jewish population back in World War II. In retaliation Ionia expelled the entire German and English population. Up to 1 000 000 people may have died as a result of the campaign. Nevertheless, Athens gained better international recognition than Ionia and became the tenth member of the European Union on 1 January 1981. Unlike other communist states in the European continent, Athens opened its economy to the free market, whilst retaining publicly-owned companies as its contenders. Civil and political rights improved dramatically to a point where communism was merely a cultural symbol. In Ionia the Hellenic Republic reinforced its culture over the population: cities were emptied, and the entire population were sent on forced marches to rural work projects and compulsory Orthodox Christian rituals. They attempted to rebuild the country's agriculture on the model of the 11th century and discarded anything considered detrimental to the Hellenic culture. Over half a million Greeks, out of Ionia's total population of 5 million at the time, died from executions, overwork, starvation and disease in a period between 1977 and 1987.

The Democratic Republic launched the Greater Athens Plan in 1980 as part of the rebuilding and expanding its capital Athens to open the economy to foreign investment. The plan involved the drainage and raising of much of the Attica Basin to form artificial islands, which attracted concerns from global environmental groups due to the impact it would have on marine life, unless it was moved south into the Aegean Sea. Island C (Charlotte and Springfield) was planned as a new city with Islands S (San Andreas) and Y (Ydra) within the Fens Falrio conurbation. In 1985 the plans were approved as well as the proposal to move marine life southwards and upon completion in 2000, Island C was incorporated as Charlotte Island, an autonomous state within Athens, which had moved away from communism by then.

On 1 August 1990, Athens converted to a federal republic: the move was as a result of the loss of its most important communist ally, East Germany. The reunified Federal Republic of Germany had deeply opposed Athens willingness to continue as a communist state, as the ideology was rapidly being rejected in many eastern European countries, and had threatened to sever diplomatic relationships in December 1989. The democratisation of Athens resulted in further economic growth, a fast growing service sector and growing revenues from tourism, which had been uncontrolled by the state since 1978. Athens even considered joining the Euro in 2001 but was abandoned in favour of retaining the Kuna, the currency of Athens between 1997 and 2026, which steadily grew in value and eventually became one of the most used currencies in the world. In northern Greece, however, Macedonia (which gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1992) invaded the north east, which was controlled by the Ionian Sector, and proclaimed the Macedonian Republic of Greece (Thrace) on 1 January 1994. The economies of both countries were already in free-fall due to its pro-agrarian ideology and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Between the end of the drachma system in 1997 and the fall of Greece in 2024, Ionia and Thrace suffered both the worst hyperinflation in the world, to a point where its currency could not even be redenominated.

While Ionia and Thrace continued to regress, the influence of Czech, Chinese, Danish, English and Japanese cultures in the 2000s began to diversify Athens, where standards of living rose to unprecedented levels and its capital, Athens City (later Antjepolis) successfully organised the 2004 Olympic Games. The Chinese, Danish, English and Japanese languages were officially recognised as majority in 2007 although the Czechs had to wait until the Minoan resistance in 2024. Athens also gained significant influence over western provinces of Turkey, leading to the incorporation of many provinces into the federation between 2004 and 2009, much to Turkey's dismay.

[edit] Downfall of Greece

In 2006, a proposal known as the One Greece Policy was presented to the United Nations. The proposal would have extend Athens' de jure sovereignty over the other Greek states, yet some countries already recognised Athens as the de jure government of Greece. The proposal gained progress when the UN accepted the plan and imposed all-out sanctions against Ionia in 2008 but Liana Cataloña, then Chancellor of Athens, did not favour a federal republic to run the unified state and preferred a return to an adaptation of the old system instead. The failure of the One Greece Policy was marked by the fatal shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos which resulted in the 2008 Attica blockade when Cataloña covertly worsened the situation by ordering the invasion of eastern Attica by extremist Hungarian communists and Mamaris by pro-Islamic Turkey. The UN retaliated by imposing blanket sanctions against these areas. The massive condemnation of the operation led to expulsion of Athens from the European Union and ultimately the abandonment of the plan in January 2009.

The blockade deeply tarnished the reputation of the Cataloña government, and even affected the confidence of Greece as a whole: many people on all sides became more suspicious of the government's activities. The disclosure of secret documents in March 2022, in relation to Cataloña's activities on the internet triggered a period of political turbulence and racial hatred across the Greek states and Persia, which steadily deteriorated into the Minoan war in January 2024. The peaceful resistance led by Anita-Nunu and Seigneur of Minoa Antje Ackermann during the 2024 Olympic Games in Antjepolis and the fall of the Athens Wall on 20 August 2024 led to the fall of the Hungarian Sector, and international organizations withdrawing recognition of Athens in favour of a Minoan state. Athens eventually fell to Minoa, along with Cataloña's government, Cyprus, Ionia, Iran, Macedonia and parts of Turkey, in a failed coup d’état on 25 August 2024.

[edit] Return of the Minoans

Recent Minoan chronology (1500 BC to date)
1600-1480 BC	LMIA	Neopalatial (New Palace Period)
1480-1425 BC	LMIB
1425-1390 BC	LMII	Postpalatial (At Knossos, Final Palace Period)
1390-1370 BC	LMIIIA1
1370-1340 BC	LMIIIA2
1340-1190 BC	LMIIIB
1190-1170 BC	LMIIIC
1100 BC-2025 AD	Subminoan/Greek
2025- AD	2MI	Modern Minoan (At Antjepolis, Renewal Period)

After the Minoan War, all Greek Sectors were in political and physical ruin, especially in the Hungarian, Macedonian and Ionian Sectors. The governments that were in charge of the sectors had lost recognition rapidly, while support for the newly-established Minoan government rose. On 5 October 2024, the UN General Assembly voted to establish the Charter of Minoa between Minoa and six of the involved nations: Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The charter resolved to:

• Conclude the existence of Greek civilization, and to declare the beginning of the second Minoan civilization (which was designated by UNESCO as 2MI, a follow-up from the subdivision of the first Minoan civilization) thereafter;
• Establish the state of Minoa, mandate the international recognition of the state, and dissolve the administrations of the Sectors (Athens, Hungarian, Ionia, Macedonia, North and South Cyprus, West Turkey) which preceded it;
• Accept the outcome of the first Minoan general election (which elected Antje-Marian Ryberg as the Seigneur of Minoa and Mohammed Soltani as the prime minister.
• Perpetually expel and prohibit Hungarian (until February 2032) and Turkish nationals from Minoa, and require Macedonian nationals to receive correctional education to denounce the old regimes (although the use of torture is now outlawed): this clause is famously known as Section 86a;
• Prosecute Liana Cataloña, Abbas Kargar Javid and Ali Khamenei for corruption, genocide and crimes against humanity, and to allow the Minoan government to make use of the death penalty upon conviction (but the death penalty was itself abolished later).

In addition, Czech culture was recognised along with the Blue tit as a national symbol, both of which replaced Greek elements to form part of a new Minoan identity, although the desicion to phase out the Greek language was subsequently reversed. Anita-Nunu Ackermann also became the Queen of Persia following the establishment of the constitutional monarchy in Persia.

Greek Civilization as a whole officially ended at midnight, 25 March 2025 and the Second Minoan Civilization came into being. The government of the two countries met in the former Bundestag building in Antjepolis the same day, marking the beginning of the Erneuerung (Renewal) era. Their first decision was to adopt the current flag depicting the Brandenburg Gate, which was built as a gift from Germany. Cataloña, Javid and Khamenei were convicted of all indicted charges and were executed at HMP Durham, United Kingdom, at 17:30 GMT, 10 September 2027, because the death penalty had already been abolished in Minoa, and the United Kingdom was granted special permission by the United Nations to carry out the sentence instead. The site of the execution was later demolished, largely to prevent it from becoming a Neo-Communist shrine.

[edit] Recovery

Minoa and Charlotte Island have since recovered from the wars through galactic expansion into the M25 Constellation, reinvestment, cultural reinvention and by achieving spectacular growth to become one of the largest economies in the world, with an annual economic growth rate averaging 21% in the last three years. The Jewish population have also started to resettle in the country, largely due to the instability of Israel in the last two decades. In addition, common standards between two countries are being gradually adopted, such as the single currency, the Tala, traffic signage and removal of all border controls between them.

[edit] Government and politics

Charlotte Ryberg in general is a federal, parliamentary, representative democratic republic. Minoa and Charlotte Island have their own parliaments. The political system of both countries operates under a framework laid out in two constitutional documents derived from the Charter of Minoa, known as the Základní Zákon (Basic Law) and the Zákon o Právech (Bill of Rights): named as such because the authors of the documents were Czech. Amendments to both documents generally require a 10-vote majority of all chambers of the parliament; the articles guaranteeing fundamental human rights, the separation of powers, the federal structure, the right to resist attempts to overthrow the constitution, and the ostracism of Hungarian and Turkish nationals are valid in perpetuity and cannot be amended.

Minoa has a parliamentary government based on the Westminster system. The Yuan (court) that meets in the Grand Agora has two branches: an elected Common Yuan and an semi-appointed Higher Yuan and any Bill passed requires the Seigneur's Assent to become law. They are the ultimate legislative authority in Charlotte Ryberg since it is able to pass laws common to both countries. The position of Prime Minister, Minoa's head of government, belongs to the Member of the Yuan who can obtain the confidence of a majority of the Common Yuan, usually the current leader of the largest political party in that chamber. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet are formally appointed by the Seigneur to form the Executive although the Prime Minister may choose the Cabinet and by convention the Seigneur usually respects the Prime Minister's choices. The Executive is drawn from members of the Prime Minister's party in both houses, mostly from the Common Yuan, to which they are responsible. Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and members of the Executive, all of whom are sworn into Hall of Minoa, and become Ministers of the Seigneur.

As of April 2035, the Seigneur of Minoa, currently Antje Ackermann, is the head of state of the federation, invested primarily with representative responsibilities and powers. Since 19 August 2032, The Rt Hon Katharina Carlsson MP, leader of a coalition consisting of the Pirate Party, the Simple Party and the Zulu Party of African Unity (popularly referred to as the Panda Coalition), has been Prime Minister, First Keeper of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service; and Mohammed Soltani MP, leader of the Minoan Blue Party, has been the Leader of the Opposition. For elections of a new Seigneur, to the Yuans and to the Charlottenburg, Minoa and Charlotte Island is currently divided into 896 constituencies, with 451 in mainland Minoa, 69 in Charlotte Island, 18 in Crete, 66 in the Islands and 291 in the Turkish counties. The former territory of Macedonia currently has only one seat (Skopje). Each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by a simple plurality. Elections to the Parliament are called by the Seigneur when the Prime Minister so advises. The election of the Seigneur is called on the death or abdication of the incumbent. There is no minimum term for the Common Yuan but the Zákon o Právech requires that a new election must be called within five years of the previous one.

[edit] Transport

Charlotte Ryberg has one of the most efficient and most developed networks of transportation in the world. The priorities to public transpiration and intercity rail means that its road system has one of the lowest congestion rates in the world.

[edit] Communications

The telephone, media and satellite communications infrastructure of Minoa have remarkably returned to a fully-developed and integrated standard with that of Charlotte Island in a short space of time. This was largely helped by the effects of the Minoan War in 2024, which permitted a major rebuilding and reintegration programme in Minoa. Copper wires which were damaged in the unrest were replaced by fibre-optics and wireless-capable masts erected in many areas. The programme introduced the communication-starved Hungarian and Ionian Sectors into the westernised Minoan system and new sea cables were installed across the Attica Sea. The Macedonian system was completely rebuilt to Minoan standards and opportunity was taken to fully standardise and integrate communications systems between the former Greek states in time for the establishment of the Minoan state on 25 March 2025.

The communication infrastructure of the former Macedonia, Hungarian and Ionian Sectors and parts of the former Athens were severely disrupted between 2008 and the Minoan War. Infrastructure in the Ionian Sector fell into disuse as a result of the 2008 Sanctions, which resulted in internet and civilian communications, both land and wireless, being cut off. The Hungarian Sector underwent the same situation when cables leading into their territory destroyed during the 2008 Attica Blockade. The unrest in the Minoan War caused severe damage to the infrastructure in parts of the former Athens (mainly in Attica and the Turkish counties) while the infrastructure in Macedonia was completely destroyed.

[edit] Computing and Internet

[edit] Domains

There are two active country-code Top-level domains: .ch for Minoa and .cs for Charlotte Island.

.ch was introduced on 1 January 2024 with the impending possibility of the Minoan state coming into being, replacing the .at and .mk TLDs. .cs was introduced on 1 April 2004 upon the incorporation of Charlotte Islands. The delegation and registration of the .ch ccTLD is managed by the University of North Antjepolis while .cs is managed by the Charlotte Island Communications Consortium. Registration is open to all except those based or living in Hungary, Libya and Turkey. Government institutions of both countries use .gov as the generic top-level domain instead of the ccTLDs.

The former ccTLDs were: .at for the former Athens which remains active until 31 December 2029; .el for the Hellenic Republic (Ionia), revoked on 6 November 2008 when the 2008 Sanctions were imposed and .mk for the former Macedonia, revoked on 25 August 2024 after the fall of Skopje a week earlier. A ccTLD was never assigned to the former Hungarian Sector.

[edit] Diplomacy

[edit] International organizations

Charlotte Ryberg represents Minoa and Charlotte Island and is internationally recognised by the World Assembly.

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