Aztec Empire (Aztec Empire)

The Aztec Empire is a dominant power in the world, it dominates the south part of North America. From its victory against the spaniards, it grew up to become a powerfull nation. It has (apart from the United States) the most advanced technology, armed forces and a very stable goverment.

They managed to recover from the devastating plagues that the Spanish brought with them in time to trounce the Spanish.

Within the US, it is the father of the atomic bomb, by the Poject Manhattan-Mixco

Goverment and Politics
The Empire is a democratic monarchy whose head of state is an Emperor from the House of the Hueicutilli. The Prime Minister, the head of government, is the leader of the dominant party in Congress. Congressional elections are held every five years. There are two major parties, Democratic Revolution Party (DRP) and the National Action Party (PAN).

The Empire has strong sociopolitics relationships with the U.S. since its independence in the XVIII century; because the empire helped them to obtain it. They fought together in the First World War and the Second World War againist the Axis, principally the Incan Empire.

Administrative Divisions
The country is divided in 29 provinces or prefectures, 1 Federal District, were is located the capital, both in the continental part; and two territories outside the continent, one in the south part of Greenland an the other one in East Africa.

Urbanization
More than 87% of the population in the empire lives in cities, so, it is the country with most urbanized inhabitants (in propotion of its total poputaion) in the world.

The twenty most important cities:

Armed Forces
The Royal Aztec Air Force, the Aztec Army, the Aztec Navy and the Nuclear/Space Division are all collectively known as the Aztec Armed Forces. The current Commander-in-chief is Admiral Yăhuilli Ahuitzol, being managed by the Minister of National Defense.

The total defense spending currently accounts for 1.05% of total national GDP, which represents approximately 89,9 billion dollars (ranked 1st, within USA).

The Armed Forces of the Aztec Empire are one of the most powerful ones in the world. They have a 600 years history and tradition, since the rise to their enemies (Tlacopan) around the XV century. It is composed from around 1.3 million men.

Geography
The Aztec Empire is located at about 23° N and 102° W in the southern portion of North America. It is also located in a region known as Middle America. Almost all of Empire lies in the North American Plate, with small parts of its Central America portion on the Pacific and Cocos Plates. Geophysically, some geographers include the territory east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (around 12% of the total) within Central America. Geopolitically, however, the empire is considered part of North America along with the United States.

The empire's total area is 2,072,550 km², making it the world's 12th largest country by total area, and includes approximately 6,000 km² of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of California.

Biodiversity

The empire is one of the 18 megadiverse countries of the world. With over 200,000 different species, it is home of 10–12% of the world's biodiversity. The empires ranks first in biodiversity in reptiles with 707 known species, second in mammals with 438 species, fourth in amphibians with 290 species, and fourth in flora, with 26,000 different species. It is also considered the second country in the world in ecosystems and fourth in overall species. Approximately 2,500 species are protected by Mexican legislations. The Aztec government created the National System of Information about Biodiversity, in order to study and promote the sustainable use of ecosystems.

In the empire, 270,000 square kilometres are considered "Protected Natural Areas." These include 34 reserve biospheres (unaltered ecosystems), 64 national parks, 4 natural monuments (protected in perpetuity for their aesthetic, scientific or historical value), 26 areas of protected flora and fauna, 4 areas for natural resource protection (conservation of soil, hydrological basins and forests) and 17 sanctuaries (zones rich in diverse species).

The discovery of the Americas brought to the rest of the world many widely used ingredients. Some of Mexico's native ingredients include: chocolate, tomato, maize, vanilla, avocado, guava, chayote, epazote, camote, jícama, nopal, tejocote, huitlacoche, sapote, mamey sapote, many varieties of beans, and an even greater variety of chiles, such as the Habanero. Most of these names are in indigenous languages like Nahuatl.

Economy
The Aztec empire has a mixed capitalist economy that is fed by rich natural resources a developed infrastructure and a high productivity. Its national GDP is the second largest in the world after the US'. The Empire has the 1st place by percapita GDP, it is the 2nd largest importer of goods and the 4th largest exporter. The United States of America, Germany, China and the Republic of Great Colombia are their principal commercial partners. The principal exportation of the Empire is the electronic machinery and its principal importation are the cars.

The country has a lot of resources, it has large oil deposits and it is the first producer of silver and gold in the world. The principal agricultural produccion are the corn, the avocado, the chilis, the wheat and many fruits (principally bananas). Three quarters of the population works in the services industry.

The economy is connected with the US economy, so its currency is conected with the american dollar.

The country is the 4th most visited country in the world with 49.2 million of turists in 2007, its posisioned after France, Spain and the United States of America.

Transportation
The paved-roadway network in the Anahuac is the second most extensive in America 2005. Nonetheless, Anahuac's diverse orography—most of the territory is crossed by high-altitude ranges of mountains, have led to difficulties in creating an integrated transportation network and even though the network has improved, it still cannot meet national needs adequately; so this the 67% of the population have never used the national roadways system, prefering aerial transport or even the High Speed Train.

Being the first American country to promote railway development, the network, is about at 330,952 km. Most of the rail network is mainly used for merchandise or industrial freight and was mostly operated by Mexihca Treinej MT (Aztec National Trains), privatized in 1987.

In 1999, the Empire had 16,806 airports, of which 933 had paved runways; of these, 55 carry 97% of the passenger traffic. The Nezahualcoyotl International Airport in Tenochtitlan remains the second largest in America and the 2nd largest in the world transporting 95 million passengers a year. There are more than 30 domestic airline companies of which only three are known internationally: Aeromexihca, Mexihcanej and Amexihcaj Airlines.

Mass transit in the Empire is very important. Most of the domestic passenger transport needs are served by an extensive bus network with several dozen companies operating by regions and about 10 lines of High Speed Trains. There also exists many interurban train passenger transportation between cities. Inner-city rail mass transit is available at Tenochtitlan, Chichen Itza, New Otumba, New Azcapotzalco, Cacaxtla, Zipolite, Purepechcalli, Mixco, Tulum and Hutatemallan with the operation of the subway and in many cases high elevated train due the orography and climate; this makes the Aztec Empire the country with more cities with subway system. There also exists suburban train systems in many cities such Tenochtitlan, Chichen Iza, Cacaxtla, etc

Sports
The National sport is the Tlachtli, that is considered the ancetor of the Basketball. It is a very old sport, the first references of this sport date from 5,000 years ago. It is atribuided to the Olmec culture, sometimes called the mother culture. In the past, it was a sacred sport a ritual that was dedicated to the Gods, and the winners were sacrified to them. Nowdays, is a popular sport, and its only prupose is the recreation; and it have been like that since the XVIII century, when the emperor dicted in a reform that the game will be like that during the proccess known as the Easternization.

Other popular sports (ordered by popularity) are the Soccer*, Baseball, and Basketball, principally to the empire cultural exchange with the USA.

The Aztec Empire is an important country in the summer Olimpic Games, adding more than 2,000 medals in all the XX century. It has been the host of 4 Olimpic Games: Tenochtitlan 1904, Chichen-Itza 1953,  New Otumba 1968 and Tenochtitlan 1992.


 * Tlatchtli is the most popular sport in the Empire.