Military Branches: Lackadaisiclan Armed Forces: SL Army, SL Navy, SL Airforce, SL Missile Defense Corps
Military service Age and Obligations: No one is allowed into the armed forces before the age of majority(18), conscription was made illegal by constitutional amendment in 1758. Typical contracts run for 10 years.
Manpower available for military service: Male: ~1.28 billion Female: ~1.22 billion
Manpower fit for military service: Male: 1.15 billion Female: 0.58 billion
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually: Male: 47.64 million Female: 43.92 million
Military Expenditures: 2.535% of GDP ($4,437 billion)
Militias and Paramilitary Groups: Estimated at approximately 534 million persons
Standing Forces: Total:11,371,256 (0.23% of the populace) Airforce:2,967,898 Army:3,801817 Missile Defense Corps:1,113,369 Navy:3,488,172
Reserve Forces: Total:17,056,884 (0.34% of the populace) Airforce:1,469,224 Army:9,810,953 Missile Defense Corps:525,265 Navy:5,251,442
Nuclear Arsenal: Total War Heads: 3,090,524 Total by Output: 9,271,572 MT Largest War Head: 10 MT Average War Head: 3 MT Smallest war head:20 kT
The Kingdom of Westersire is a fledgling, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its cynical population of 6 million are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.
Sanctaria is a constitutional parliamentary republic and is a member state of the World Assembly. The Houses of Parliament is a bicameral parliament composed of the President, the Senate as the upper house and the House of Deputies as the lower house. Eagleton Manor is the official residence of the President of Sanctaria, while both Houses of Parliament meet at St.George's Palace in Sanctus.
The President serves as head of state, and is elected for a ten to twelve-year term and may be re-elected twice. The President is primarily a figurehead, but is entrusted with certain constitutional powers. The President has absolute discretion in some areas, such as referring a bill to the Supreme Court for a judgement on its constitutionality. Once the House of Deputies elects the head of government, the President appoints that person as the Prime Minister. Most Prime Ministers have served as the leader of the political party that gains the most seats in national elections. The Prime Minister then appoints the Government.
The Senate is composed of one hundred members, and is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members selected in a number of ways. Fifty are appointed by the mayors of Sanctaria's fifty largest cities (as determined by the previous census), ten are appointed by the outgoing Prime Minister, twenty-five are elected by graduates of Sanctarian Universities, and fifteen are elected by Sanctarian Trade Unions, giving a total of one hundred members. The House of Deputies has had 550 members (MPs) elected to represent multi-seat constituencies under the system of proportional representation and by means of the single transferable vote.
There are various political parties represented in the Houses of Parliament but in the current parliament, the largest parties are the Government party, the Sanctarian Conservative Party and the Official Opposition party, the Democratic Left Party.