For God, Crown, and Country.

This is a project based around a map @GBehm made for me which I've been working on and off with for some time. This is primarily intended as a work-and-learn experience, with the goal of slowly mastering wikiboxes and graphics in the process. I also have a bunch of ideas that wouldn't fit with the more indepth, more established Yankee Dominion project. Along with The Yankee Dominion contributors, I want to thank @GBehm, @LeinadB93, @Turquoise Blue, @Kanan, @lord caedus, and others for inspiring this concept which I've been long obsessed with. This is a semi-open project, intended to be slightly less collaborative than my other project but if it takes off that could quickly change. I'm open to any and all kinds of advice and criticisms as well! Hope you enjoy!


The Commonwealth of America.
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Born from the nexus of history and philosophy, the Commonwealth of America is the foremost economic and military powerhouse on the North American continent and one of the most critical member states of the broader British Empire. With a total population of just over of 250 million citizens representing a diverse variety of different demographics, the Commonwealth of America spans from the Arctic to the Caribbean, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Neighboring Mexico, Cuba, and the West Indies Federation, America has long enjoyed an active and often dominant role in the hemisphere. The Commonwealth is also the predominant English speaking nation on the North American continent, though French, Spanish, and an assortment of indigenous languages are also spoken widely across the country.

The capital is located in the city of Philadelphia, though other prominent cities include Atlanta, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Georgetown, Halifax, Liverpool, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Pittsburgh, Portland, Quebec, Tampa, Toronto, and Wolfesboro.

A highly developed nation, the Commonwealth boasts an abundance of natural resources and a long tradition of industry. With the seventh highest GDP per capita and ranked first by the Human Development Index, the Commonwealth of America is both the foremost economic power of both North America and the broader British Empire. Its advanced economy, the fourth largest in the world, relies on well-developed trade networks, agricultural and industrial export, finance, technology, and tourism. America is part of several major international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the G7 (formerly G8), the Group of Ten, the G20, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Organization of American States.

The Commonwealth of America is a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II reigning as head of state, though executive powers are wielded through the Governor-General, who is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The American Parliament is a bicameral legislative body, with the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, allocating its seats in proportion to population whereas the Senate consists of only two members for each province. The Dominion is a realm within the Commonwealth of Nations, and is officially bilingual. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, and education. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. The current Prime Minister is Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party, while Paul Ryan is the leader of the Conservative Party, which constitutes the opposition. Other parties represented in Parliament include the separatist Bloc Quebec, the environmentalist Grassroots, the Democratic Party, and the populist People's Party.

Various indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now America for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. What followed after was a period of unrest over taxation, colonial autonomy, and corruption led to the ultimate Confederation of Britain’s continental holdings. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the British North America Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament, except for the power to amend its constitution.


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Justin Pierre James Trudeau (b. December 25th, 1971) is an American politician who has served as the 30th American Prime Minister since 2015, and has led the Liberal Party since 2013. The youngest Prime Minister to ever assume office, Trudeau is in addition to that the third Prime Minister to have followed in their father's footsteps to hold the nation's highest political position (alongside Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Paul Martin Jr.) and the first in a generation to occupy #10 America Avenue with young children.

Born in Ottawa to future Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the future Prime Minister spent much of his childhood in the public eye during his father's tenure as Prime Minister from 1976 until 1980. Graduating with a Bachelors in Arts from McGill followed by four more years at Georgetown where he earned a Bachelors in Education, Trudeau worked in his home province of Quebec as a high school drama teacher for a period while also holding jobs as a nightclub bouncer, camp counselor, and even snowboard instructor. Trudeau's socially progressive politics were influenced by his youthful activism, which included work on behalf of environmental causes, immigrant aid organizations, LGBT rights groups, and other charitable foundations. Until his 2008 election to Parliament, Trudeau also served as President of the Trudeau Foundation and Library, which his late father had launched in 1987.

But his passion lied in politics, and the young Trudeau was propelled back into the national limelight following his well received eulogy at the funeral of his father in 2000. An activist who was actively sought by liberal candidates across the Commonwealth in the 2003 federal election, Trudeau finally entered elected office in 2008 federal election when he was elected over a Bloc incumbent to the House from a Montreal based riding. Though he did not receive a position within the Rodham cabinet as expected after the campaign, he remained a well known and increasingly speculated about backbencher. Reelected in 2010, Trudeau was widely recognized as a more progressive voice in the party by the time of the 2013 Liberal leadership convention, where he was elected leader of the party on the first ballot over rivals Joe Biden and Kirstin Gillibrand. Sweeping into office over the unpopular Conservative government of Willard Romney in 2015, Trudeau took office as the 30th Prime Minister with a minority government. He is expected to call a federal election at some point in 2020 before or at the expiration of the current parliament's mandate.


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The 2015 American Federal Election was held on October 19th, 2015 to elect the members of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of America. Contested in all 333 federal election districts (referred to as "ridings"), the election saw the Liberal Party surge past their opposition to form a minority government with Democratic supply and confidence. Charged by public dissatisfaction with the Romney government's austerity budget and the unprecedentedly left-wing campaign of Bernie Sanders and the Democrats, the Liberals were able to romp to victory over the incumbent government. The results of the election saw Romney resign as leader of the party in it's aftermath, setting the Tories on the course for the 2016 Conservative Party leadership convention. Gilles Duceppe similarly resigned as leader of the Bloc, and a period of fluctuating and divisive leaders succeeded him until Rheal Fortin restored order to the regionalist Francophone party.
 
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