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|name = United Slabovian Empire (Slabovia) | |name = United Slabovian Empire (Slabovia) | ||
|image1 = [[File: | |image1 = [[File:Flag of Slabovia.jpg|250px]] | ||
|motto = ''Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc'' <br> "After this, therefore because of this" | |motto = ''Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc'' <br> "After this, therefore because of this" | ||
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|head of government = Chancellor | |head of government = Chancellor | ||
|3rd_h = | |3rd_h = | ||
|hos_name = [[King George II]] | |hos_name = [[King George II of Slabovia|George II]] | ||
|hog_name = [[Chancellor Rankin MacGillivray|Rankin MacGillivray]] | |hog_name = [[Chancellor Rankin MacGillivray|Rankin MacGillivray]] | ||
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'''Slabovia''' (also known as The United Slabovian Empire) is a [[micronation]] founded (retroactively) by [[King George II|George Bragg]], Patrick Goddard, [[Chancellor Rankin MacGillivray|Rankin MacGillivray]], and David Yarker in the mid 1980's. Its origins can be traced to those ridiculous questions that teachers used to ask in early high school, like "an apple costs $3.50 in Outer Slabovia where the tax rate is 21%. What is the total tax payable on a baker's dozen of apples?" By grade 11 the founders had figured out that there was no Slabovia and set about creating one so that such questions could be contested (which never actually worked). | '''Slabovia''' (also known as The United Slabovian Empire) is a [[micronation]] founded (retroactively) by [[King George II of Slabovia|George Bragg]], Patrick Goddard, [[Chancellor Rankin MacGillivray|Rankin MacGillivray]], and David Yarker in the mid 1980's. Its origins can be traced to those ridiculous questions that teachers used to ask in early high school, like "an apple costs $3.50 in Outer Slabovia where the tax rate is 21%. What is the total tax payable on a baker's dozen of apples?" By grade 11 the founders had figured out that there was no Slabovia and set about creating one so that such questions could be contested (which never actually worked). | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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The United Empire of Slabovia is ruled with a velvet glove in an iron fist by a constitutional military dictatorship. However, this Government would be entirely functional if it weren't for Slabovia's inept, inefficient, and officiously bureaucratic Civil Service. The Slabovian Civil Service, led by Lord Yarker, is a very inbred bureaucracy consisting of 1,764 departments. Policies and practices of the Civil Service are rather Vogonesque in nature (minus the poetry). The Civil Service is the true broker of all power in Slabovia. | The United Empire of Slabovia is ruled with a velvet glove in an iron fist by a constitutional military dictatorship. However, this Government would be entirely functional if it weren't for Slabovia's inept, inefficient, and officiously bureaucratic Civil Service. The Slabovian Civil Service, led by Lord Yarker, is a very inbred bureaucracy consisting of 1,764 departments. Policies and practices of the Civil Service are rather Vogonesque in nature (minus the poetry). The Civil Service is the true broker of all power in Slabovia. | ||
The reigning monarch, [[King George II]], appoints appropriate nobles, and in some cases ordinary (or extraordinary) citizens, to preside over the various government portfolios. These positions are invested with the power of the crown within the parameters of the particular portfolio. | The reigning monarch, [[King George II of Slabovia|King George II]], appoints appropriate nobles, and in some cases ordinary (or extraordinary) citizens, to preside over the various government portfolios. These positions are invested with the power of the crown within the parameters of the particular portfolio. | ||
==Military== | ==Military== | ||