Canada (Vegetarian World)

New England, formally the Republic of New England is a democratic nation in eastern comprising thirteen provinces and a federal district that acts as a fourteenth province. It is a wealthy nation, with one of the highest living standards in the world.

Geography
Canada makes up a good portion of northern and northeastern.

Vegetarianism
54% of Canadians are vegetarian (2010 estimate). As elsewhere, vegetarianism is currently growing and is predicted to further increase in percentage.


 * 54% Vegetarian
 * 30% Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian
 * 13% Vegan Vegetarian
 * 10% Lacto Vegetarian
 * 01% Ovo Vegetarian
 * 46% Non-Vegetarian

Ethnic Groups
Canada is settled mainly by people of British descent. This is mainly because of a small population density of natives upon the arrival of Europeans, as well as the independence of several native states (,, and ), in addition to the majority French-speaking state of. (However Canada and these four other countries make up the, which is not to be confused with the nation of Canada.) Percentages are as follows:
 * 85% European
 * 06% Pemhakamik Aboriginal
 * 04% Canadian Aboriginal (including Anishinaabe, Cree, and Nunavut)
 * 02% other Pemhakamik Aboriginal
 * 01% Oriental
 * 01% Indian
 * 0.5% Sub-Saharan African
 * 0.5% Pachan
 * 04% mixed ancestry
 * 02% others

Religions
This is what Canadians professed to be (as of 2006):
 * 41% Nonreligious
 * 26% atheist
 * 15% agnostic
 * 24% Cathar
 * 10% Christian
 * 05% Quaker
 * 03% Catholic
 * 02% other Christian
 * 06% spiritual (Unitarian Universalist, etc)
 * 02% various Aboriginal beliefs
 * 05% Deist
 * 05% Jewish
 * 01% Hindu
 * 03% Buddhist
 * 01% Jain
 * 02% other

Languages
Below is a list of the primary languages spoken at home.
 * 88% English
 * 05% French
 * 03% Aboriginal Algic languages
 * 01% German
 * 01% Dutch
 * 01% Spanish
 * 01% Yiddish
 * 01% other Aboriginal languages
 * 03% others (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Wolof, Nahuatl, Arabic, Muskogee, Hebrew, Tamil, etc)

Note: Because English is the language of instruction in schools outside Semi-Autonomous Aboriginal Areas, and English is taught as a second language in the SAAAs, around 98% of New Englanders can speak English.

Flag
The flag of New England was first used just after the 1931 Statute of Westminster gave New England its independence. The Union Flag makes up the canton. Its fourteen stripes represent the thirteen provinces and the federal territory. The blue, white, and red stripes on the top right quarter of the flag signify the colors (red, white, and blue) that had always been most associated with New England. Red stands for the Aboriginals, as well as for the blood shed to make the nation. White stands for the European population, as well as for purity. Blue, a neutral color, stands for all other immigrants who have made New England their home, as well as for reason and intelligence. Starting from the bottom red stripe in the flag, and excluding the white stripes, there is a rainbow (red, gold/yellow, green, blue). This rainbow also stands for diversity that both the population and nature exhibit, while each of the colors also has a specific meaning. Yellow/Gold is for the sun that is rising over the nation. (It is also the stripe associated with the Federal Territory, but officially, no stipe represents one particular entity.) Green is for the prolific nature to be found in New England. Finally, blue is for the the water bodies in and surrounding New England, which are full of life.

Urban Planning Trends
In New England, as in most other places in the world, cities are defined as contiguous areas with a population of over 100,000 people. Towns have from 1,000 to 99,000 people, and villages have up to 1,000 people. Neighborhoods and districts are certain sections within all of these settlements where people live. Most neighborhoods and districts have a center based on some public transportation infrastructure. Cities can contain towns, which in turn contain numerous neighborhoods.

Most New England cities, towns, and villages are relatively compact. Blocks are often formed by parallel streets and perpendicular intersections. Buildings often reach pretty close to the street, and if need be, there is parking for vehicles behind them. Many cities have "density laws" - that is, there needs to be a certain density in a city before it can expand further. Various measures are in place to protect cities from rampaging fires because of dense development, including laws regulating what building materials are used.

A certain percentage of land in a city must also be set aside for agriculture, and another percentage for nature. Generally, in large cities, it's around 10% for each. Furthermore, by law in most provinces, all of the crops produced in a city must be sold in that same city or county.

Architecture is often regulated by a committee, and new projects often have a group design charrette, bringing in members of the community, government officials, and architects to talk about the impacts and find agreeable solutions for most participants. Often, neighborhoods will exhibit differing architectural styles. In fact, architecture is one of the factors that has really come to define individual neighborhoods or districts. If a neighborhood is mostly one style in nature, it is often more difficult to build in widely differing styles. Thus, for example, experimental architecture woulb rarely be allowed in historic districts. However, many neighborhoods to not have a certain architectural standard, and thus are more open to new types of building designs.

Transportation
New England has a well developed transportation system. Its rail network has successful coverage of every settlement of over 10,000 people, and many with lower populations. The main line is the "", which stretches from to, and goes through such major cities as , , and. Of course, at these and other hubs, branch lines sprout out, making up the bulk of the coverage net.

Most cities have a relatively large train and streetcar network, with electric buses making up most of the rest of the public transportation systems. While commuter train lines have stops usually no closer than one kilometer apart, streetcars and buses often have stops every 1/4th kilometer or so. By law, every neighborhood in a city must have at least two streetcar or electric bus stops - one in each direction. Most cities use contactless smart cards that afford passengers highly discounted transfers from trains to streetcars and vice versa.

In cities (settlements of over 100,000 people), 52% of people go to work using public transportation systems of some sort. In addition, 33% use bicycles or walk. 15% use automobiles. In towns and rural areas, the public transportation percentage is significantly lower.

Opinions
Over the past few years, as in much of the world, there has been increased political friction between much of the "animal rights" contingent, who desire to ban meat in New England because animals are sentient beings whose rights cannot be taken away, and the "pro-choice" contingent, who feel that people should have the choice of whether to eat meat (and thus kill animals) or not.

Music
The music scene is similar now to how it was at the turn of the 21st cenutury. That is, the extension of 1980's style music into the present, along with a slowly growing diversity of styles. Also notable is the recent domination of Oriental music in the New England scene, shown by the fact that the best selling album of the year in three of the first seven years of the 2000s (2000-2006) in New England were Japanese albums - Mai Kuraki's "Delicious Way" in 2000, and Hikaru Utada's "Deep River" in 2002 and "Ultra Blue" in 2006. This means that the plurality of annual best-sellers hail from Japan, as the rest of the four years were taken up not just by New Englanders but by the British, and Pacificans as well. (However, it should also be noted that Hikaru Utada was born in New York, New England.)

Contemporary Architecture
The current architecture constructed over the past few years in New England has been a mixture of "modern unorthodox", "Beaux-Arts Neo-Classical", and "Neo-Art Deco". However, several major projects slated to begin in 2007 are showing a return to early 1990's-style "Neo-Gothic" and 1980's-style "Neo-Baroque".