Castrolla

The United Republic of Castrolla, or simply referred to as Castrolla is a country in Antarctica with 750 thousand citizens. The capital is New Castrolla, Castrolla is a Constitutional Presidential Republic.

Castrolla is one of the oldest countries in Antarctican history and has always always had a central democracy. Castrolla is the head of the Castrollan Archipelago.

Castrolla also has many states such as Water States and 8 other islands around it, mainly used as either government islands, manufacturing islands, or as tourist attractions.

Finding of Land
After the a civil war in Great Castrolla, Great Castrolla needed to find better routes to places like Hindia to trade more with them due to the devastating effect the war had on its economy. During that time, little was known of the shape of the world with common belief being that going too far would lead to one falling off the earth. Jorge Cucumber, son of a famous sailor attempted to debunk such theory and claimed that going East would lead them to Hindia faster. They originally planned on simply going east and attempting to get directions from penguins who were more familiar with the land; however, they encountered a powerful storm which threw them off course and instead threw them west. When the storm finally calmed down, their ship was wrecked on the shore of an island which, unknowingly, was about 30 miles from Great Castrolla. The land they found was surveyed and found to be vacant, they simply named it Castrolla, additionally, 8 mini-islands were found around the main island and the region was named "Castrollan Archipelago". At that time, the government caused great outcry and civil unrest from the public as the King frequently abused his authority. Cucumber and his sailors kept quiet about the island, only telling close family and friends about it, most of them which ended up moving to and establishing a new country. Cucumber told the King of the storm and about being thrown off course and being unable to find Hindia, the King was however more focused with other issues and dismissed him.

Establishment of a government (1122)
During the first few years of the new country, a temporary government system was established and a central governing article was formed, the Constitution. The first Constitution proved to be ineffective however as it gave the central government very little power in rule over the country. Local town governments could simply chose to follow a law or not with the central government not being able to enforce them, during that time, a Congress was formed to rewrite the Constitution which had it as a goal to establish a more powerful central government more power.

The First Constitution Committee was formed on October 7th, 1127 with each large city sending a delegate, during that time it was agreed a strong central government was necessary for a good country but that a very powerful one would do away with the liberty in mind that the country had been trying to establish. A key point piece of the Constitution was the establishing of a Captial which was a must for the government as government buildings were dispersed throughout the land, it would however prove to be a difficult task with many residents of different cities protesting and petition for the capital to either be in their city or not to be. It was ultimately decided that a new city should be formed, following the example of Water States, an island in the Archipelago which had success doing so.

Construction of the new city started on May 23rd, 1130. Many challenges were faced, especially since the land the new city would be founded on was full of trees and wildlife and was far from established cities and ports like Portside. The Legislative Building was the first building to host the legislative branch which at that time was comprised of the Deciding House and Powers House. A Presidential Place was made, and shortly after construction was finished on the Presidential Place, an election was called. The first president of Castrolla was ultimately decided to be James Cucumber, grandson of Jorge Cucumber. The new government was somewhat fragile with the new Constitution still not giving the government much power over cities and states but still established a better legislative branch and presidential system.

Colonization by Great Castrolla (1566-1685)
During the mid-1500's, Great Castrolla was about to collapse. Many countries stopped trading with them because of their demanding nature and policies which caused wars with nations in the past, that however caused tensions in Great Castrolla to flare up and a collapse in the economy due to problems trading with other nations. Coups were becoming a more common thing and caused chaos all over the nation with many of the high ranking officials being exiled often or gone missing.

The King, in a desperate state, ordered the burning of cities where objection to the King was high. However, during the burning of a port city called Port Tero'to, a solider found a map which had directions to Castrolla which was not a recognized land at the moment; the solider made copies of the map and showed his friends and family the map. Some of them sailed to check if the land was an actual island or just a hoax and were greeted by some settlers in the island of Island City which wasn't marked in the map due to the age of the map. Those sailors went back to Great Castrolla and started to disperse the news about a new island which they found, eventually more and more people started sailing to the island. At some point, the map made it's way to the press and the king. After the publicity that Castrolla had gained, thousands rushed to it causing Island City and other islands around Castrolla overwhelmed. Due to the mass flock of people, many once populated cities were left desolate and even royal subjects had left to the new land which infuriated the King and ordered the invasion of Castrolla.

On June 18th, 1566, an invasion was started on the weak Castrollan government which had no military. The invasion was started on Island City, which was the first island encountered when entering north on the Castrollan Archipelago. Initially, many Castrollans thought more penguins were arriving and were lined up on the beach ready to greet what they thought were just new settlers. The soldiers however misinterpreted the friendly gesture and started to fire cannons into the coast. They proceeded to attempt to burn the island down but failed due to a snow storm. However, once they realized the island was not actually Castrolla, they proceeded marched into the Castrollan mainland but were lost in the wilderness of the island. Once having found and reached the capital, they proceeded to burn every building and take the president, and other lawmakers hostage and exiled them to an island east of Castrolla, now known as New Water States.

Many more were imprisoned for "treason", including family members of the king. Castrolla was then named a new colony, and its best colony as there were many gold mine and silver; countries were forced to trade with Great Castrolla because of the amounts of spices and gold they had at that time. Soon after, the country was flooded with taxes, with many fleeing back to Great Castrolla to escape the elevated tax rate, the country was in a critical state. The few that decided to stay, were fed up with the cruelty of Great Castrolla and in response organized many protests which resulted in many being imprisoned.

Independence War
For hundreds of years, the remaining people on Castrolla were subject to intense taxation and injustice. By the 1800's however, many had plotted to stage a coup against the Great Castrollan government and organized a militia with Jorge Washurton being commander, a major battle in the war was at the Battle of Snowshire, as Great Castrolla started realizing the threat that the militia posed they tried to control everything to the point it was considering to changing its name to the Dictatorship State of Great Castrolla and regions but the militia using some strategies fought off Great Castrolla with the help of Batavia (although they claim they didn't help). Great Castrolla signed the Treaty of Parie just shortly before it disappeared without a trace. But its revenge would be nasty.

Burning of New Castrolla
On April 22, 1824, Great Castrollan troops somehow marched from Port Buren in West Castrolla to the capital, New Castrolla. The Castrollan Army was ready to defend New Castrolla and the White House. First Lady Doll Flournoy refused to leave the White House without taking some precious artifacts such as the painting of the Battle of Water Isailand and the painting of President Washurton, all the items she requested were stored in the 56th Bunker on Houseview Avenue, meanwhile troops marched into New Castrolla and made a turn to Presidential Street. President Frank Flournoy and his wife ran out of the White House and left New Castrolla for Pengicero, the city to the west of New Castrolla. Great Castrollan Troops matched directly to the Castrollan Capitol as it was worthy of noticing and broke into it. They stole the painting of the Fire of Kostmost St and even more items, the attempted to burn down the Capitol but failed when they saw most items were not at all flammable, finally they used a bunch of wooden chairs and furniture they found in the House of Fame and tried to ignite it and they did. From miles away, the flame could be seen, the Capitol exploded into flames and Great Castrollan troops headed down Main Street to the White House. They blew down through the gates and destroyed everything in their way even the royal fountain which was a gift. They broke through the White House Windows and looked for anything to steal but found the empty White House. Infuriated, they used axes to break through the White House walls and set the infrastructure ablaze, they marched out and headed toward the Royal Castrollan Treasury in hopes of finding money but found 1 document saying "We certainly got you, General, haven't we?". The general was infuriated and ordered them to burn down the Treasury. They finally headed towards Powerhouse where the 9 judges were hiding the the left house wing. As troops rushed through Powerhouse, stealing everything they could, a storm suddenly hit New Castrolla out of nowhere. The fires died out and a tornado formed, the tornado literally was following the Great Castrollan troops off the city and was the longest lasting tornado in history as it lasted 3 hours (according to some sources) chasing the troops off of Castrolla and into Port Buren. But the troops haden't given up get! They marched into Isailand, into the capital of Vynland where Parliament was previously hosted and attempted to takeover by assassinating Governor James Patterson but failed and were forced out of the Castrollan Archipelago.

House of Fame
The House of Fame is the upper house of Castrolla's Government (Congress). It votes to pass laws started by Parliament and has the power to start the impeachment process for any government official if 2/3 of the House approve. The House of Fame also has the power to override a presidential veto and approve war. The President can use a forceful adjourn to adjourn any branch of Congress or all of it, in that case, Powerhouse would over as the temporary legislative branch.

Parliament
Parliament is the name of the lower house of Castrolla's Legislative Branch. The Parliament has the power to start laws and filibuster any law if they wish, they have the power to independently override an executive action if 2/3 agree on the case.

Castrollan Assembly
The Castrollan Assembly, also known as the World Assembly, or the Assembly is the lowest branch of Congress. All significant cities/town(ships) are represented here. Citizens of towns can sign petitions for their representative to present an issue in the Assembly. If an issue 2/3 of the Assembly passes an issue, it will be passed to Parliament, and finally the House of Fame. Impeachment may be started here but at least 9/10ths of the Assembly agree on it.

Powerhouse
The Castrollan Powerhouse is the supreme court in all of Castrolla. It supervises laws and ordinances passed by lower courts, Congress, or the President and may strike them down as unconstitutional. In case the President, Vice-President, and all within the line of succession can not preform their duties as Chief Executive of the country, Powerhouse may takeover their duties in an aristocratic style until they can return and preform their duties. They may not however hold that power permanently or order executive actions. In case the President adjourns Congress, Powerhouse will be used as a legislative branch. Powerhouse cannot be adjourned and if needed can take control of the country until the next presidential election if passed by act of Congress.

White House
The White House has total control over everything, they may issue executive actions, deny (veto) laws, declare war and succeed Islands if needed. They however cannot dissolve Congress or Powerhouse and any action by the White House may be overridden by either Powerhouse or Congress though usually Powerhouse is the one who does that. Executive orders are rare. They may adjourn Congress and any office in the country but may not adjourn Powerhouse. If they adjourn Congress, Powerhouse will takeover as the legislative branch.

Treason
Treason can and usually will be punished by capital punishment. Treason is quite a powerful thing to be found of, if so, the defendant will have to go to Powerhouse and try to defend him or herself, they can be pardoned by Powerhouse, the President, the Assembly if passed will be represented by the House of Fame. If Powerhouse finds them guilty, they can be put in prison for life.

Education
All children are automatically enrolled into the Castrollan School District. All schools in Castrolla are provided by CSD and private schools are outlawed due to the iron grip that the Department of Education likes to hold over the Education System.

Crime
Crime is very low because of aggressive programs in school which teach children the dangers of crime. The prison system in Castrolla is overcrowded due to their strict policies on crimes.

Welfare
Welfare is a very large part of Castrollan life. Social Services like welfare are freely provided by the government to stimulate the growth of the work sector and impulse lower classes to work. Castrolla is sometimes regarded as a welfare state due to their large welfare programs.

Public Health Insurance
Castrolla provides health insurance for all their citizens and naturalized ones.

Mining
Castrolla is a country rich in iron and lead. There are a few diamond caves but Castrolla's stubbornness makes it impossible to map them out and mine them

Currency
Castrolla currently uses the Castrollan Dollar (CD) which is pegged at a whopping 6 Club Penguin Coins by the government in order to make the economy appear better than it is. The Castrollan Federal Money Reserve, Fed or the Castrollan Mint is the Castrollan money producer, the government always makes sure they have inflation at a right amount and resort to even the wackiest ideas to prevent a recession.

Banks
The government's official bank is J.P. Morgano Victoria-Chase. It is the only bank company, branches like PayBro are used as middle-mans between the user and the bank.

Location
Castrolla is in the Castrollan Archipelago, which is west of the Bloodstone Archipelago. Castrolla is in the middle as seen on the map:



Relations with other countries

 * Flag_of_North_Joseon.png North Joseon - There's no need to guess ( ≖‿≖)
 * NewUnitedProvincesFlag.png United Provinces - Ok.
 * USA_flag.PNG United States of Antarctica - Very Good.

Trivia

 * Castrolla really isn't a parody of anything, but is based off many countries such as the United States of America, Greece, England and a few others