Macedonia (1983: Doomsday)

The Kingdom of Macedonia is a constitutional monarchy located in the lower Balkan peninsula near OTL Greece and Turkey.

After Doomsday
After Doomsday struck, what would become the Kingdom of Macedonia was part of Greece, Yugolslavia, and Bulgaria. After the disaster, the man who was Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, led a group of the royal house of Karadjordjević survivors along with a small army of just 800 people with no armored vehicles, just rifles and some machine guns, to conquer the area that was Yugoslavia, when his army failed to defeat the militia and warlords there, he moved south to conquer the region around the southern Balkans. Soon, there army was able to overrun the area and bring a short-lived peace to the area. Soon Alexander had to deal with the thousands who were still infected with radiation sickness, and soon the army was sent to gather medical supplies to help the ill as the numbers of the population continued to sharply decrease. Afte the numbers were brought under control the population of the area had gone down drastically, and Alexander managed to convince the people to hold through until a proper government could be established.

Creating a New Kingdom
Soon, Alexander had managed to gather up the people around a few major remaining cities, and the creation of a constitutional monarchy was announched to the public. It was announced in 1989 that in a year their would be a general election held to establish members of the national assembly who would then create a new constitution that the country would adopt. Afterwards, three political parties were established, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and the Socialist Workers Party, each gain support among different parts of the country. In 1990, the general election was in Skopje, the, then provisional, capital where Alexander and his government had set up shop, and canidates from each party all attended the elections where around 91% of the entire population gathered to vote. The members of the 100 member Assembly were announced, 53 Conservatives, 27 Liberals, 14 Socialists, 4 Nationalists, and 2 Freedoms, while the President who is elected is a member of the Liberal Party, giving the Conservatives the majority in the Assembly, but giving the Liberals a majority in the Federal government, however the Socialists have a a big enough seat that they can bring change and influence decisions in the Assembly, soon the Assembly meets to write a constitution. The next year, in 1991, the Assembly ratifies the constitution, establishing the powers of the Legislative, Executive, and the newly created Judicial, branches, and the next day the Assembly and Federal government meets in the now, de jure and de facto, capital city of Skopje, where Alexander was officially crowned king of the new constitutional monarchy, something that he had always dreamed of.

Government
The king is the traditional head of government and state, he oversees many official, ceremonial, and representative matters of the states, he bestows honors such as heads of the military and so on, although in many political matters he is advised by the President. He also has the power to dissolve the Assembly at the recommendation of the President, the remainder of the King's powers are all limited and overseen by the Macedonian constitution. The President is the real head of government and state and is elected every 5 years and can only serve two terms, just as is the Assembly, and is the leader of the Executive government, and his powers in this branch are that he can appoint and dismiss the members of his cabinet and coordinates the policies of the and activites of the government. As head of the Assembly he guides the law-making process, usually with the goal of enacting the policies of his government, and also is the tie-breaker in case of this event in the Assembly's law-making process. The heads of the Judicial system are the members of the Supreme Court, who are all apointed by the President, they control the judicial decisions on a federal level and act as the court in a federal case, thought they are appointed by the President, they are dismissed by either their own wish, or by the King. The Assembly is divided up into the three main political parties, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and the Socialist Workers Party, though they are allowed to have as many seats in the Assembly as voted for, their are laws in place by the constitution that limit the terms they can have to four, and a term is six years. The Assembly has the power to create new laws and add new amendments to their constitution.

Here is the descriptions of the politcal parties-
 * The Liberal Party, a mainly leftist party which fights for the basic rights and liberties of citizens and for a more democratic system of government.
 * The Conservative Party, a mostly rightist party which commits to poltical and economic practices of the democratic nations before Doomsday.
 * The Socialist Workers Party, a centre-left party which orginally was created to remake a communist country in Macedonia, but now mostly fights for the rights of the working class and the nationalization of certain industries.
 * The Freedom Party, a centre-right party dedicated to reducing the size of government, removing the monarchy, and decreasing governmental regulation of the economy.
 * The National Party, a far-right/far-left party that seeks to promote ethnic Macedonian power, and to basically turn Macedonia into a police state.

Military
The armed forces of Macedonia have expanded greatly over recent years thanks to the invention of new weapons, the introduction of new military policies, and finding of old weapons that were renovated. Originally made up of a few hundred troops gathered up by Alexander and the remaining members of the Yugoslav Royal Family, the army, after failing to take Yugoslavia, moved south to the lower Balkans and eventually help set up the Kingdom of Macedonia. In 1997, conscription was introduced to the country and now the armed forces are made up of professional soldiers who train at the three military academies across Macedonia. They have also helped recently to bring order to the outer parts of the country, which were recently ravaged by outsider warlords. The current size of the military is 150,000 troops, 100,000 in the army, 40,000 in the navy, and 10,000 in the air force.

Army
The army of Macedonia started out as the small force assembled by Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, after they failed to set up a new kingdom in the northern part of Yugoslavia, they moved south, pulling together many other smaller cities and towns into their new country. After Alexander was crowned king of the new nation, the army was nationalized and the original fighting force became the core of the nations defense for the time being, though it was mostly small and new troops were only added lightly and it functioned more like a militia. In 1997, however, conscription was introduced and the number of people in the army increased greatly and soon an army academy was set up in Skopje to help train the normal troops and officers of the new, and now professional, army. Now the army uses an array of weapons found in raided former Yugolsav and Greek military bases, including assault rifles, sniper rifles, and machine guns, but a great advance happened in 2001 and 2005 when tanks were used again in the army and their regional power increased greatly.

Agriculture
Like many Post-Doomsday soceities, Agriculture was the main industry of Macedonia from 1991-1994, food that was in excess was stored in storehouses which were located in most towns and cities, and in times of need th food would be equally distributed among the population. However, due to the large amounts of arable farmland of Macedonia, food quickly came in excess in the storehouses, and now the government decided that people should expand into new indsutries as to expand the economy and generate a greater wealth for Macedonia. The Agricultural industry boomed once more in 1997, when the recently reopened steel industry lead to the resumed production of tractors, and soon Agriculture became a major industry again and food was in greater excess once more. Today, Agriculture is the fourth biggest industry in Macedonia, trailing only behind Mining, Steel, and Energy.

Steel and Mining
In 1995, after agriculture in Macedonia flourished, the government decided it was time to diversify the economy, and that the best place to start was with mining. In the later half of that year, three new iron mines, and two new coal mines, were opened in Macedonia, and some mining equipment was made functional because they had been fitted to run on biodiesel. In 1996, mining iron and coal became became a large and booming industry in Macedonia, by then employing 10% of the population, and soon factories began to open up in the major Macedonian cities that began to produce steel from the iron that had been mined. Within the next few years, the steel industry also boomed and many people began to migrate to major cities to get jobs working at these factories, and steel would soon become a valuable resource in rebuilding the nation.

Automobiles
After 1996, when steel became producable again, many people began looking at rebuilding the automobile industry in Macedonia. In 1997, the Macedonian Automobile Company (MAC), became the first company in the new country to start building new automobiles, although at that time they only had one factory in Skopje, and it only made motorcycles that were made to run on biodiesel. Thenin 1999, they started mass-producing cars again, though at a slow rate, but by now had also made enough money to build a few more factories in the country. Then in 2001, two new companies, the Bitola Automobile Works (BAW), and the Greater Macedonian Automobiles (GMA), and the automobile industry boomed as with the added competition to the industry. In the modern day, the automobile industry is still a large industry, in fact it is the fifth largest industry in the entire kingdom.

Arms
In 1997, after steel had become a large industry in Macedonia and consctription had been introduced to the military, an arms industry was created in the kingdom to make weapons for the army, and also make it so the government didn't have to make the weapons themselves. In 1998, the first new machine guns and assault rifles began to roll off the line and they were bought by the government, almost immediately, and were distributed to the armed forces soon after. Then in 2001, after years of being an industry and with steel and energy major industry and a model being found in an old Yugoslav military outpost, the government ordered the companies to begin making the T-55 tank again, and by 2005, they had developed M-84 main battle tank, and also put it into production, although they don't have the capacity to mass-produce them the make a few each year.

Energy
In the mid 90's, when the automobile and mining industry boomed in Macedonia, energy was obviously the next part if the economy that had to be made viable again. The mining industry fed into energy as coal was made the first major source of energy for Macedonia and was first used to power new mining equipment and eventually in 1999, coal was used to power their brand coal-burning electricity factories, that at first only supplied energy to the king's palace and other government offices. Then in 2005, the Macedonian Energy Company (MEC), began building coal-burning factories in the major Macedonian cities and for the first time in over 20 years, electricity was brought to the people of Macedon. In 2006, biodiesel, which had originally been only made by the government and some other farmers, was first being made by the MEC and sold to people to support the automobile industry, and now research is being started on new, renewable energy sources.