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The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria
Motto: "Os Iusti Meditabitur Sapientiam" (Latin) "The Mouth of Justice Meditates Wisdom"
Anthem: Lilium (Latin) "Lilium"
Region		Spiritus
Capital		Vermillion, Capital Terr.
Largest city		Tanahog, Vermillion Terr.
Official languages		English, Hebrew
Recognised national languages		English, Hebrew, Japanese, Consigahrian Sign Language
Ethnic groups		92.7% Native Consigahrian 3.3% Gerenstran, 2.4% 10000 Islander, 1.4%Ceroulian, 0.2% Other
Demonym		Consigahrian
Government		democratic constitutional and parliamentary autocracy
-	Prime Minister	Prime Minister Keenen D. G. Hobbes Davis X
Legislature		The First Legislature of Consigahria
-	Upper house	Parliament
-	Lower house	Representative Assembly
Founded The Vermillion Treaty
-	Federation of Consigahria	November 6th, 1790 - June 20th, 1792
-	Monocratification of Consigahria	September 11th, 1808
-	West Consigahria secession	October 21st, 2007
-	Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War	December 12th, 2008 - May 27th, 2011
-	Population Day	December 03, 2012
Population
-	2035 estimate	15,744,000,000 (15.744 billion) (1st)
GDP (PPP)		2035 estimate
-	Total	R$ 438,473,878,081,414.44
-	Per capita	R$ 27,850.17
Gini (2035)		40.0 medium
HDI (2030)		0.946 very high · 3
Currency		Ruice ((R) (R$) (r))
Time zone		West Consigahrian Time Zone (WCTZ) (-1), Central Consigahrian Time Zone (CCTZ) (0), Eastern Consigahrian Time Zone (ECTZ) (+1) (UTC-1 to +1)
-	Summer (DST)	CDST (UTC-1 to +1)
Drives on the		right
Calling code		+1 51
Internet TLD		.co.con.spr
1.	This information is subject to change.
2.	The current year in Consigahria is 2035.
3.	This article contains borrowed images of cityscapes, non-sexual frontal nudity, and religious symbols. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria and the Vermillion Plantations (also known as the Just Monocracy of the Consigahrian Commonwealth, commonly as Consigahria, and colloquially as the Aria; formerly the Holy Dictatorship of the Consigahrian Principality) is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning democratic constitutional and parliamentary autocracy ruled by Prime Minister Keenen Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X with an even hand. The Jewish nation has been ruled by the Davis Royal Family since its federation. World-renowned for its compulsory youth fighting academies, compulsory five-year military service, pristine beaches and compulsory public nudity, Consigahria is the most populous nation in Spiritus. Its primarily-isolationist population of 15.706 billion Consigahrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often. The blunt, compassionate, hard-working people are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which, and the government is taking steps to eradicate its corporate thumbnail to something more like home.

The powerhouse Consigahrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,070 trillion ruices a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Arms Manufacturing industry. Average income is 68,158 ruices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The skyline of Coaxie, Dixie, and Phados, boroughs of Vermillion City, Capital Terr., Consigahria. Foreground, center: the Coaxie Building. Background, left: the Dixie Building. Background, right, from left to right: the Cogswell Building, the Reese Building, the Staves Building; the Cratsk Building (white tapering top).

The pool at the base the Dixie Building in Dixie, Vermillion City, Capital Terr.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vermillion. The average income tax rate is 81.7%, and even higher for the wealthy, and the government is currently investigating ways to lower it.

Badminton is banned due to unacceptable violence inherent to the game, oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest raven hunting institutions. UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, public nudity is compulsory, all-natural foods are becoming a major fad, and all beauty contests have been banned. Rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people, reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, and heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in. The state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, Consigahria's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded, Vermillion is a police state during international summits, and prospective parents are cheering on the streets as they no longer need a license to have children. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Consigahria's national animal is the raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Judaism, and its currency is the ruice.

Consigahria is Spiritus' leading importer and is generator of the largest chunk of the gross regional product. In imports and exports, Consigahria generates R$4.9 trillion per month on average.

Consigahria is among the top 10% of Spiritus nations for most compassionate citizens, most eco-friendly governments, most beautiful environments, most developed, healthiest citizens, longest average lifespans, largest public transport department, smartest citizens, most popular tourist destinations, and best weather; Consigahria is among the top 10% of world nations for most scientifically advanced, most average, most compassionate, most eco-friendly governments, largest public sector, nicest citizens, most pacifist, and largest public transport department; Consigahria is among the top 5% of Spiritus nations for most godforsaken, highest police ratios, and safest, and is #1 for Largest Populations; and Consigahria is among the top 5% of world nations for most compassionate citizens, most cultured, most beautiful environments, most godforsaken, most developed, healthiest citizens, longest average lifespans, lowest crime rates, highest police ratios, largest populations, safest, smartest citizens, most popular tourist destinations, and best weather.

Geography

Consigahria is placed on the western coast of Spiritus' mainland, facing the Vermillion Sea and more westwardly the North Pacific Ocean. To its eastern border is the Federation of Wuufu. Across the ten-mile-wide Voya Straight to the south is the Dictatorship of Skanes. Consigahria's mainland is about 6,200 miles from east coast to west, and about 3,500 miles from north to south, comprising 92% of its entire landmass. The easternmost point on Buyou Island, Buyou Island Territory, is temperate forest, and Providence and Kaede Islands in the same territory are renowned paradises. The basic outline of the mainland, save for its connection to Wuufu and the northern peninsula of Koyoumaru Terr., is beach, and as you travel further inland, it gets sandier and sandier, but as it becomes more humid, the sand dissipates into hills and valleys of temperate chaparral and colder-atmospheric rocks. Even further inland is the chilly Central Consigahrian Mountain Range, or the CCMR, comprised of snowy hills and mountains. The tallest mountain, most of which is covered in snow and glacial ice, is 30,560-foot-fall Mt. Perseverence in south central Pincock Terr., a dormant stratovolcano which hasn't erupted since 1634.

Vermillion and Haruji Island Territories are separated by a 75-meter riverbed that is the Seppuku River, which spans for only five or so miles, met at either end with the North Pacific Ocean. The southernmost peninsula of Vermillion Terr. is Capitol Territory, which is entirely comprised of Vermillion City's numerous and diverse suburbs.

In order from largest to smallest, major public areas are Tanahog (Vermillion Terr.) (pop. 2.0714 billion), Soho City (Soho Terr.) (pop. 1.6 billion), Vermillion City (Capitol Terr.) (pop. 1.2 billion), Enryuu (Voya Terr.) (pop. 82 million), Dockmackie (Pincock Terr.) (pop. 37 million), and Konomahamaru (Koyoumaru Terr.) (pop. 35 million). Consigahria's smallest populated area is Parich Island (pop. 1 person) off the east coast of Voya Territory.

Vermillion, Soho, Pincock, Koyoumaru, and Voya Territories comprise the mainland; and Buyou and Haruji Island Territories comprise the Ryu'ujou Islands. The Ryu'ujou Islands, except for Providence and Kaede Islands, have enacted their own laws which restrict any non-Native Consigahrian from so much as entering the waters without medical necessity.

Voya and Koyoumaru Territories compete for largest territorial landmass, but Koyoumaru trumps its younger sister territory by 1,200 square miles.

Consigahria as a whole has 42 populated islands.

History

Antiquity to Present

For a complete list of Prime Ministers in Consigahria's history see List of Prime Ministers of Consigahria.

Confederation

On November 6th, 1780, the Vermillion Plantations (the Consigahrian mainland), including most of Wuufu, a vast, world-renowned area notorious for its increasingly fertile lands and sturdy ecosystems, was seized by multiple groups including the once-powerful but now extinct Queendom of Geneva and the Francod Republic! Warfare between the nations burnt down multiple forests and killed more than 20% of the animals and plant life, including the now-extinct Cherfauna rhododendron. War between seven countries total, each of them currently extinct themselves, destroyed one mountain and activated another. Two years passed before the warfare ceased and the wildfires were finally under control. One June 20th, 1782, the Vermillion Treaty was signed and ratified, and the Holy Dictatorship of Consigahria and the Vermillon Plantations was formed in the West Pacific.

Federation of a dictatorship

The Davis Royal Family has been in power since the nation's federation, starting it off as a dictatorship. 37-year-old Dictator for Life Cornelius Davis I had a child in celebration of the nation's federation, founded a gold mine, instituted a currency called the golden coin, and ruled for 16 years before being assassinated by his bodyguards in January of 1808. After the bodyguards were killed for treason, shortly after his 17th birthday, the Dictator for Life's son Cornelius Davis II proclaimed himself in the death and absence of his father the First President of the official Monocratic Democracy.

A growing democracy

In his 86th year of life, year 1888, Davis II made a public announcement that it was he who had ordered his father's bodyguards to assassinate him, then committed a planned suicide in his home that night alongside his personal doctor, friends and family. Davis II had two sons, one of whom died in early infancy and one of whom grew, and one daughter who also grew. Cornelius Keenen Samuel (Davis IV), the 33-year-old youngest, would assume the throne on March 28th, 1888, after Davis II's death by natural causes, simply because Amelia declined. Davis II's other son, Vincent Cornelius Davis III, died at two months of age from a severe, unexplained chronic fever; and his daughter, Amelia, would grow and marry to die at age 49 from a rather severe case of untreated schizophrenic depression and suicide. In a nationwide address following Davis II's death, it was revealed that the President knew he would probably be forgiven, but would like to stress that he took a life, and no matter what the consequence he must give his own in order to be right with the Lord. His son was crowned the following day.

In life, Davis IV married four times, and with all four marriages only had two sons who were legitimately his. His other three wives had prior children. Davis IV ruled benevolently for 91 years until his own death by old age at 124 years. He passed away on December 25th, 1979, giving the throne to his eldest son of Royal blood, Keenen Cornelius Key Davis V. 40-year-old Davis V assumed the throne on Christmas Day of 1979, and would rule for exactly 20 years before his symbolic resignation to his own son. 21-year-old C. Keenen Timothy Davis VI assumed the throne on Christmas Day of 1999 from his 60-year-old father and would "usher in the new millennium, a new age". Davis VI would rule for 13 years.

Davis VI and his wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Keenen Timothy Davis IX, in his third year of rule. When Davis VIII was just 10, his father was diagnosed with cancer and had to resign his position to his younger brother, Davis VIII's uncle, Keenen Timothy Davis VIII, who ruled ruthlessly for two years and was assassinated by a bitter citizen. His 28-year-old son, Keenen Drummond Davis IX, took the throne shortly after his assassination, and ruled for three years. Although Davis IX initially brought peace to the nation, he was seen as a pushover, and once the citizens began to push hard, the Prime Minister pushed back even harder with a harsh tax backlash. Another assassin consequentially attempted his life in November 2027, but failed, prompting the Prime Minister to resign to his 21-year-old younger brother, a move that probably saved his own life. Davis X assumed the throne in late November 2027 and issued a new law in a public television address to the nation: "...any attempted and failed murder will be treated as treason and not attempted murder, meaning if caught or turned in, any Consigahrian alive who has tried to assassinate a Prime Minister will go to jail and stay there until they die; and any attempted and successful assassination will be treated far worse - the assassin will die that very day."

Keenen Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X currently rules with an equally benevolent and iron fist, having greatly advanced his security and the security teams of his cabinet and their associates.

West Consigahria and the Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War

Following the regional move to 10000 Islands, the western territories of Buyou and Haruji seceded on October 21st, 2007, becoming the United Dictatorship Republic of West Consigahria. They retained their status of independence for over a year. On December 12th, 2008, a massive civil war broke out between Consigahria and the Queendom of Gerenstra. Gerenstra tried to establish embargoes on Consigahrian export ships, and Consigahria warned them to stand down. "For our Majesty," claimed the seamen, "we will never stand down." West Consigahrian (The United Dictatorship Republic of West Consigahria) navy, without Consigahria's leader asking them to, blew the Gerenstran ships up, sparking the civil war. The leader of Consigahria was furious and "looked like he wanted to slap the Prime Minister of West Consigahria in the face," said a paparazzi member to the succeeding meeting. Apologetically, on December 27th, 2008, Retrove proclaimed that West Consigahria would rejoin its homeland to fight the war together. Consigahria officially reannexed West Consigahria exactly a week later.

On January 1st, 2009, West Consigahria poises an ultimatum to Consigahria--they would remain rejoined under one condition, that they retain their independence as their own nation. Consigahria agrees, as long as West Consigahria applied for and was admitted to the World Assembly, serving as a representative for both countries. In early November, 2010, a major terrorist group from the North Pacific attacked thousands upon thousands of major businesses in Vermillion. Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VI dispatched troops to the foreign country whose name was withheld from the media (Gerenstra) the terrorist agency was from. Consigahria was now officially in war. Citizens were baffled and furious at the sudden spike in taxes and the complete abolition of welfare and a few other public benefits instated previously by the government.

On May 27th, 2011, the Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War ended with Consigahria as a collective temporarily united as the victors. Gerenstra has been overtaken as Consigahrian soil. Shortly after, on June 3rd, 2011, West Consigahria seceded for a final time in fraternity with its homeland, retaining its independence.

K. C. Davis VII inherits his late father's office

On November 4th, 2012, the nation came to a standstill to allow incense and lanterns to be filled as is the tradition when something of this nature happens; at 5:36 AM, just at sunrise, the ever benevolent Prime Minister Cornelius Davis VI was declared dead by natural means. Having died prematurely at age 34 due to an aggressive cancer, he had lived a good life filled with responsibility, love for his family and friends, and an undying affinity for his country. He will be buried in Majestic Manor Cemetery, where only Prime Ministers and family members of Prime Ministers may be buried after death. Halted in mourning, the nation will continue with Davis' only legitimate son, Prime Minister Keenen Timothy Cornelius Davis VII, age 16, in power. He had two identical boys by his third wife. Said a Rabbi, "In life, C. Davis VI had been a very benevolent ruler. He'd given us money when we asked for it, a place to sleep and job opportunities for the homeless...and so many more gifts that we as a country will never be able to give back to him. May he rest in peace." The nation is still rattled, incredibly nervous over being ruled by a 16-year-old who hasn't even graduated high school.

11 Billion Goal Reached

"December 03, 2012 - We Finally Hit 11 Billion! Flags, banners and posters line the nation as the record population continues to climb at 11.003 billion on the morning of December 3rd, 2012!" Population Day has been proclaimed as an annual holiday occurring five days before Hanukkah, on which day all citizens are exempt from taxation for 24 hours. The country has officially recovered from the Consigahrian-Gerenstran Civil War, and the previously abolished public benefits like welfare had been reinstated; but clothes had been outlawed except in cases of extreme cold (zero degrees celcius).

Recent history

After Davis VI passed away, his son Keenen Timothy Garret Davis VIII, Esq., was crowned as Prime Minister. Garret Davis would be imprisoned in his twelfth year for several attempted murder charges he couldn't refute, surrendering his role of Prime Minister to his younger brother, Keenen Drummond Garret Davis IX. Drummond G. Davis took the crown in 2024, and would serve for three years with a ruthless iron fist before his attempted assassination and resignation. Drummond G. Davis thence retired to an undisclosed location, and because he hasn't been heard from since, he's presumed dead. His younger fraternal twin brother, the youngest to ever take the throne, Keenen Drummond Garret Hobbes Davis X was crowned in 2027.

Culture

People

Consigahrian people, also known as Native Consigahrians, are a very loving, friendly, open, charitable, accepting Jewish people whose generations have resided in Consigahria since before its federation. The majority of Consigahrians are tan- or dark-skinned, while less than half are of Caucasian ancestry. Racism exists between the Caucausian and Black communities, and less between the Black and Latino communities. People who are frugal are seen as corrupt and are generally put down in the media, although these are the country's most renowned civilians and business owners.

Most Native Consigahrians have a milk- or dark-chocolate color to their complexions; are Jewish by conversion, are Jewish by marriage of a parent to a Jew, or are Jewish at birth; and are generally shorter than six feet. Most are "skinny", fit, or muscular. They have three types of hair, and because of its thickness it tends to be kinky: black and straight, black and curly, or blonde and curly. Most Native Consigahrians are proud (and sometimes arrogant) people because of their belief to have royal bloodlines from ancient Egypt. Native Consigahrians as a race are attributed to modern nudism, and are generally seen by the rest of the world as egotistical, snide, bossy, manipulative, blunt, and overtly sexual.

Although public nudity is compulsory, sexuality exhibited in public is generally frowned upon in Consigahria, both by the government and the citizens. Children are taught at a young age that the most sexual touching a man is allowed in public by his spouse is a passionate kiss, but not a series of passionate kisses or anything more arousing than that. This is primarily because public nudity restricts the ability to hide sexual arousal.

For gender roles etc., see the section on gender, family and social roles.

People in large cities like Tanahog and Vermillion are perceived as "pushier" than people in rural towns such as Kaito. The lower class tends to live either in apartments or single-story houses in very rural towns, or are clumped together in community buildings and skyscrapers in large cities' ghettos. The middle class, or working class, tends to live in skyscrapers such as these, and those in this class who are more charitable generally are happier because they have more privileges, such as excess electricity or water to waste. The high class (the self-proclaimed "top 2%" of society) live in large cities and are responsible for the normal high 65-80% average income tax rate, as they consume much of the country's goods for their own profit. The federal government is currently looking at stamping this out. According to various economists, the projected average income tax rate would gravitate around 30-42% if the wealthy would give more, and in the long term, everybody would benefit.

The current 65% income tax rate is what keeps the country's services running, and this revelation is what keeps the middle and lower classes so humble.

Outside the mountain ranges, Consigahrian life is based around water systems, primarily the ocean. Roughly 36-48% of the entire population lives within 100 miles of the coastlines.

Religion

The de facto national religion of Consigahria is Karaite Judaism; and the de jure national religion is all denominations of Judaism.

Most of Consigahria's populace is Jewish, as is much of its governmental staff. Judaism is a monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Mishnah and the Talmud. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God established with the Children of Israel. Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. Within Judaism there are a variety of movements, most of which emerged from Rabbinic Judaism, which holds that God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. Judaism claims a historical continuity spanning more than 3,000 years. Judaism has its roots as a structured religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age.

According to traditional Jewish Law, a Jew is anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism in accordance with Jewish Law. American Reform Judaism and British Liberal Judaism accept the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as Jewish if the parents raise the child with a Jewish identity. All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged since the time of the Talmud. The conversion process is evaluated by an authority, and the convert is examined on his or her sincerity and knowledge. Traditional Judaism maintains that a Jew, whether by birth or conversion, is a Jew forever.

Jewish observances

Most Consigahrian people are Jewish. Males born before 2110 are generally circumcised, and males born after that date aren't, as circumcision was outlawed in that year except in medical necessity. More than 60% of families attend a religious ceremony or gathering once a week. Males have their heads covered in public, either by a hat, beanie, or yarmulke; and those who do not are considered either rebellious or vagrant, usually one or the other. Teachings of chesed, charity, and self-betterment are passed down through the generations. Jewish holidays such as Hanukkah are celebrated as national holidays.

Religious texts

The Jews use the Pirchei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) and the Mishneh Torah for moral guidance, the Haggadah for ceremonial guidance, and the Tanakh for authoritative scripture. The Pirchei Avot (פרקי אבות, Chapters of the Fathers) is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims of the Rabbis of the Mishnaic period, which Jews use as a template for their own behavior. The Mishneh Torah (מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה‎, Repetition of the Torah), subtitled Sefer Yad Hahazaka (ספר יד החזקה, Book of the Strong Hand), is a code of Jewish religious law which the Pirchei Avot is based on. Tanakh, a list of books considered to be authoritative scripture of the original Hebrew Bible, is an acronym of the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: Torah ("Teaching", also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi'im ("Prophets") and Ketuvim ("Writings") — hence TaNaKh. Modern versions of the Tanakh are the three subdivisions in one book, instead of three separate books considered the Tanakh as a collective, and so the term Tanakh is, in the nation's lexicon, a de jure singular noun.

Jewish ethics

Jewish ethical practice is typically understood to be marked by values such as justice, truth, peace, loving-kindness (חֶסֶד, chesed), compassion, humility, and self-respect. Specific Jewish ethical practices include practices of charity (צדקה, tzedakah) and refraining from negative speech. Proper ethical practices regarding sexuality and many other issues are subjects of dispute among Jews. Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel taught: "The world rests on three things: justice, truth, and peace" (Avot 1:18). Justice (משפט, mishpat), being God's must be vindicated, whether the object be of great or small value (Sanhedrin 8a). "Let justice pierce the mountain" is the characteristic maxim attributed to Moses (Sanhedrin 6b). Stealing and oppression, even if only in holding back overnight the hired man's earnings, are forbidden. Falsehood, flattery, perjury and false swearing are also forbidden. The reputation of a fellow man is sacred (Exodus 21:1). Tale-bearing and unkind insinuations are proscribed, as is hatred of one's brother in one's heart (Leviticus 19:17). A revengeful, relentless disposition is unethical; reverence for old age is inculcated; justice shall be done; right weight and just measure are demanded; poverty and riches shall not be regarded by the judge (Leviticus 19:15, 18, 32, 36; Exodus 23:3). Transversely, peace (שַׁלוָה, shalom) is one of the underlying principles of the Torah, as "her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are shalom" (Proverbs 3:17). The Talmud explains "the entire Torah is for the sake of the ways of shalom".

Simon the Just taught: "The world rests upon three things: Torah, service to God, and showing chesed" (Avot 1:2). Chesed is the core ethical virtue, closely linked with compassion in the tradition. Lack of compassion marks a people as achzar (אַכְזָר, cruel). The repeated injunctions of the Law and the Prophets that the widow, the orphan and the stranger should be protected show how deeply, it is argued, the feeling of compassion was rooted in the hearts of the righteous in ancient Israel.

Friendship is also highly prized in the Talmud; the very word for "associate" is "friend" (כחבר, chaver). "Get thyself a companion" (Avot i. 6). "Companionship or death" (Ta'anit 23a).

Respect for one's fellow creatures is of such importance that Biblical prohibitions may be transgressed on its account (Ber. 19b). Especially do unclaimed dead require respectful burial (see Burial in Jewish Encyclopedia iii. 432b: "met miẓwah").

In addition to teaching caring for others, Jewish sources tend to teach that man is duty bound to preserve his life (Berachot 32b) and his health. Foods dangerous to health are more to be guarded against than those ritually forbidden. Jewish ethics denies self-abasement. "He who subjects himself to needless self-castigations and fasting, or even denies himself the enjoyment of wine, is a sinner" (Taanit 11a, 22b). A person has to give account for every lawful enjoyment he refuses (Talmud Yerushalyim Ḳiddesh iv, 66d). A person should show self-respect in regard to both his body, "honoring it as the image of God" (Hillel: Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34), and his garments (Talmud Shabbat 113b; Nedarim 81a). According to Judaism, real life goes beyond the concept of breathing and having blood flow through our veins, it means existing with a purpose and connecting to God and others.

Prayer

Traditionally, Jews recite prayers three times daily, Shacharit, Mincha, and Ma'ariv with a fourth prayer, Mussaf added on Shabbat and holidays. At the heart of each service is the Amidah or Shemoneh Esrei. Another key prayer in many services is the declaration of faith, the Shema Yisrael (or Shema). The Shema is the recitation of a verse from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4): Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad—"Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God! The Lord is One!"

Most of the prayers in a traditional Jewish service can be recited in solitary prayer, although communal prayer is preferred. Communal prayer requires a quorum of ten adult Jews, called a minyan. In nearly all Orthodox and a few Conservative circles, only male Jews are counted toward a minyan; most Conservative Jews and members of other Jewish denominations count female Jews as well.

In addition to prayer services, observant traditional Jews recite prayers and benedictions throughout the day when performing various acts. Prayers are recited upon waking up in the morning, before eating or drinking different foods, after eating a meal, and so on.

The approach to prayer varies among the Jewish denominations. Differences can include the texts of prayers, the frequency of prayer, the number of prayers recited at various religious events, the use of musical instruments and choral music, and whether prayers are recited in the traditional liturgical languages or the vernacular. In general, Orthodox and Conservative congregations adhere most closely to tradition, and Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues are more likely to incorporate translations and contemporary writings in their services. Also, in most Conservative synagogues, and all Reform and Reconstructionist congregations, women participate in prayer services on an equal basis with men, including roles traditionally filled only by men, such as reading from the Torah. In addition, many Reform temples use musical accompaniment such as organs and mixed choirs.

Siddurim

A siddur (סדור, order) (plural: סדורים, siddurim) is a prayer book containing an ordered list of daily prayers. Readings from the Torah and the Nevi'im form part of the prayer services. To this framework various Jewish sages added, from time to time, various prayers, and, for festivals especially, numerous hymns.

The earliest existing codification of the prayerbook was drawn up by Rev Amram Gaon of Sura (Babylon) in circa 850 CE. Half a century later, Rav Saadia Gaon (also of Sura) composed a siddur in which the rubric is in Arabic. These were the basis of Simcha ben Samuel's Machzor Vitry (11th century France), which was based on the ideas of his teacher. Another formulation of the prayers was that appended by Maimonides, who wrote the Pirchei Avot, to the laws of prayer in his Mishneh Torah. This forms the basis of the Yemenite liturgy and has had some influence on other rites. From this point forward, all Jewish prayer books had the same basic order and contents, but each would be compulsorily individualized.

Two authoritative versions of the Ashkenazi siddur were those of Shabbetai Sofer in the 16th century and Seligman Baer in the 19th century, neither of which are now considered relevant. Siddurim have also been published reflecting the views of Jacob Emden and the Vilna Gaon, renowned ancient specialists in studies of the Talmud, or shisha siddurim (the "six orders" found in the Mishneh Torah).

Religious clothing

A classical kippah, one variation of many.

A kippah (כִּפָּה, plural כפפת kippot; Yiddish: יאַרמלקע yarmulke) is a slightly rounded brimless skullcap worn by many Jews while praying, eating, reciting blessings, or studying Jewish religious texts, and at all times by some Jewish men. In Orthodox communities, only men wear kippot; in non-Orthodox communities, some women also wear kippot. Kippot range in size from a small round beanie that covers only the back of the head, to a large, snug cap that covers the whole crown.

An example of tzitzit

Tzitzit (Hebrew: צִיציִת) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tzitzis) are special knotted "fringes" or "tassels" found on the four corners of the tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tallis), or prayer shawl. The tallit is worn by Jewish men and some Jewish women during the prayer service. Customs vary regarding when a Jew begins wearing a tallit. In the Sephardi community, boys wear a tallit from bar mitzvah age. In some Ashkenazi communities it is customary to wear one only after marriage. A tallit katan (small tallit) is a fringed garment worn under the clothing throughout the day. In some Orthodox circles, the fringes are allowed to hang freely outside the clothing.

Tefillin (תְפִלִּין), known in English as phylacteries (etymologically from a Greek word meaning safeguard or amulet), are two square leather boxes containing biblical verses, attached to the forehead and wound around the left arm by leather straps. They are worn during weekday morning prayer by observant Jewish men and some Jewish women.

A kittel (Yiddish קיטל), a white knee-length overgarment, is worn by prayer leaders and some observant traditional Jews on the High Holidays. It is traditional for the head of the household to wear a kittel at the Passover seder in some communities, and some grooms wear one under the wedding canopy. Jewish males are buried in a tallit and sometimes also a kittel, which are part of the tachrichim (burial garments).

Gender, family, and social roles

In order to adopt children or birth children of one's own, parents must pass an extensive test issued by government officials. Parents must show that their houses are satisfactorily sanitary and that the children will be fed and housed appropriately. A child must be able to show comfort in his own house. A family is allowed as many children and as many spouses as the patriarch and/or matriarch deems necessary or prudent. Rules governing how the family interacts with each other is defined by the individual patriarch and/or matriarch.

In a typical Consigahrian patriarchal household, the patriarch dominates the house, and his wife shares in his wealth and in his authority. The patriarch (father) works daily nine- to twelve-hour shifts, or three daily three-hour shifts in different professions; the matriarch (mother) stays home to tend to the house and children who are aren't yet in school; the children who are in elementary school learn rudimentary mathematical and linguistic skills; the children who are in middle school learn advanced mathematical and linguistic skills; and the children in high school specialize their education how they see fit. In a typical matriarchal household, the same is true, but the father and mother roles are reversed.

At home, no matter what the family's financial standing, the parents generally have a disciplinarian style of teaching. Children who steal learn quickly that thieves may lose fingers. In Consigahria, children who misbehave are spanked, and so children are generally more pleasant and less susceptible to be defeated in a fistfight than children in less-disciplined countries. The parents generally raise their children according to the nationalized religious and largely nudist lifestyle. Poorer families, officially classed "middle class" (32.39%) and "lower class" (39.6%) (72% of the population), are generally conservative, while richer families, officially classed "upper class" (28% of the population), are considered spendthrift. Clothes are employed as either a punishment mechanism or as a means of warmth outside of the home; the most severe punishment legal to use on any person is to confine them in warm clothing within a room at no more than 112 degrees Fahrenheit for no more than two consecutive months, or three days without food and water. However, the insubordinate are normally punished more bearably, for example by means of confinement to one's bedroom, confiscation of toys or other electronic or entertainment devices, and corporeal punishment (spanking on the butt, hands, and/or thighs by hand, belt, or paddle). The utilization of melee weapons in corporeal punishment (defined as the use of anything other than the parents' own hand, belt, or paddle, and in any other location on the minor's body other than the butt, hands, or thighs) is an unlawful felony.

According to a 2126 survey, classed as a "study" by the government, of 10 billion individuals surveyed, gang activity was found prohibited in 63% of Consigahrian households but shockingly remained prevalent as a staggering 45% of minors aged 14-18 and a 36% of adults aged 21-40 had a gang affiliation. Most refused to speak at length about their activity as a gangbanger. 23% of gangs, found to be mostly comprised of lower-class middle school students, engaged in firearm warfare simply over the color of the set's uniform, firing upon fellow sets and burning bridges in their wakes. 70% of self-proclaimed "gangbangers" and 56% of self-proclaimed "gang members" (86% of the surveyed) claimed their gang affiliation was hereditary. The government concluded that all gangs operate under certain belief systems and are willing to defend those beliefs with a gun; that all gangs are subdivided into sets, which have their own unique individual traits; and that many gangs were family-oriented, meaning 81% of Consigahrian families either have or had gang affiliations.

Because of this survey, the ratio of police to civilians greatly became askew. In 2132,

At school, teachers are allowed to utilize corporeal punishment, but are not allowed to use their own hands or belts. They absolutely must use a paddle. Normally, teachers don't corporeally punish students because time doesn't allow. In this case, the student is sent to a principal who specializes in assessment of breach of school rules and federal laws and punishment. Some parents who don't want their children spanked by anybody other than themselves enroll their children in private schools. Homeschooling is conceptualized but doesn't ever happen in Consigahria. At school, students are generally happy, acquiescent, yielding, and kind to one another. Eye contact is paramount. Avoidance of eye contact is normally interpreted hostilely, and hostility is met with equivalent (reciprocal) hostility. Public displays of violence are generally frowned upon and discouraged. If students must get violent, they are encouraged to either take their affair away from school grounds, or seek counsel from a trusted staff member or from parents without getting violent.

Because of the paramount gang activity in most low-class schools, uniforms have been enacted, and graffiti lines many hallways, some tagged with gang symbols to claim both the inking and the school. There have been recorded events involving minors, gang activity, and shootouts between neighborhoods.

Family dynamics

Most families are Jewish by blood. 41% of Jewish families are Reform Jewish, 29% are Conservative, 18% are Unorthodox, and 12% are Orthodox. And so, the common family names of ancient times, kinui chibah (כִּנוּי חִיבָּה, pet names) are still used today.

Language used among family and close friends

Jews use colloquial language among family and close friends that would be considered awkwardly inappropriate among strangers. Below is a list of a few Yiddish phrases.

• A bi gezunt (עה בי גזונט) - "As long as you're healthy", or "At least you've got your health". Used to negate something terrible that's happened. For example, your cousin's house burns down. A bi gezunt.
• Bissel, or bissela - A little bit.
• Boychick - A term of endearment used for young boys.
• Broche (ברוכה) - Prayer.
• Bubba, or Bubbe (בובבה) - A term of endearment used for grandmothers.
• Bubbala, or Bubbele (בובבהלא) - A term of endearment; "darling".
• Bupkes (בופקס) - Something absurd or worthless.
• Tsaya (צאיה) - animal, used to refer to unruly children.
• Chazerei (חזרי) - food that is awful.
• Chutzpah (חוצפה) - nerve, audacity, gall.
• Fercockt (פרקקת) - all fucked up.
• Fershlugeneh (פרשלגנה) - beaten up, messed up, no good.
• Fershtayin (פאַרשטיין) - Understand?
• Fetzel (פצל) - to flatulate.
• Fress (פרס) - eat quickly and noisily.
• Gevalt (גולת) - woe
• Goy (גוי) - gentile (a derogatory term meaning gentile); goyim (גויים) is the plural, and goyisher (גוישר) is the adjective.
• Kibitz (קבץ) - unwanted help during a game
• Klutz (קלוץ) - an awkwardly uncoordinated person or animal
• Kosher (כשר) - "comestible" as defined by Jewish dietary law, or "legitimate"
• Kvell (קול) - to beam with pride and pleasure
• Kvetch (מקטר) - to complain incessantly
• Luzzum, or Luzz 'em (לוזזום) - leave them alone.
• Macher (מכר) - sold, or ambitious
• Mazel tov (מזל טוב) - congratulations, good luck
• Magilla (מגלה) - long, revealing, boring, and complicated
• Mensch (מנשך) - a person of upstanding character
• Messhugeh (מסשוגה) - crazy
• Plotz (פלוץ) - to collapse
• Seikhel (סאיקהל) - good sense, good judgment
• Shlimazel (שלמזל), or shlemiel (שלומיאל) - a person with abhorrently bad luck, a chronic failure, or a born loser
• Shmegege (שמגג) - A petty person; "needle-dick" (an insult).
• Schmooze (שמאוז) - to talk in a gossip-like fashion; to barter.
• Schnoz (שהנוז) - nose
• Tsucheppennish (צוטכפפנש) - Something irratating that attaches itself like an obsession. "She has tsucheppennish..."
• Tuches (תוכס) - bum; butt; ass.
• Verklempt (בר קלמפת) - choked up.
• Zhlub, or schlub (זהלוב) - An insensitive, ill-mannered person.

Recreational drug use

Schedule A Drugs are not illegal at the federal or territorial level, such as adrenocorticoids, fusion inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, benzodiazepines, lithium, disulfiram, epinephrine, antihistamines, Vitamin B-12, haloperidol, aspirin, capsaicin, adrenocorticoids, topical antifungals, divalproex, risperidone, ticlopidine, acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, osmotic laxative, insulin, miglitol, niacin, orphenadrine, dronabinol, tetrahydrocannabinol, hydroxyzyne, guanadrel, and hydrochlorothiazides. An adult may possess and distribute any of these drugs as he wishes, but he won't likely have a large profit since the national healthcare associations ("NHAs") distribute these drugs without charge. These associations also screen for Schedule B Drugs, and if any are present in an individual's system, the association helps them to quit the drug and assume a safer Schedule A Drug alternative. Most NHAs employ legally binding paperwork which individual adults must fill out and submit, including a contract which prohibits the individual and any member of their immediate family from, for example, going to another NHA or lying to the NHAs, etc.

Schedule B Drugs are illegal at the federal and territorial levels, such as deathly controlled substances like methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy.

Compulsory public nudity

In 1913, a federal law was passed which prohibited clothing worn in public, but not clothing accessories, except in cases of extreme cold. Prohibited clothing legally includes all blouses, shirts, pants, undergarments, skirts, "skorts" (skirt-shorts), and all other clothing garments, except all jackets, hoodies, socks, shoes, sandals, hats, caps, skullcaps, beanies, piercings, tattoos classified as "clothing" such as permanent make-up, and diapers if necessary. Clothing which cover two body portions, such as one-piece pajamas and pantyhose, are specifically illegal to wear.

In its 2000 reestablishment, the law defined prohibited clothing as "fiber and textile material worn on the body to hide or obscure its cosmetic appearance, or for the purpose of hiding erogenous zones."

In its 2021 reestablishment, prohibited clothing was redefined into a list of specific clothing, which basically reverted to the above in a bullet list format, and some other clothing items such as diapers were decriminalized. After a few years, several people masqueraded as disabled people who compulsively defecated on themselves and claimed therefore they had to wear diapers, and after prosecution for breaking the compulsory nudity law, they countersued and lost. In the trials that ensued, it was established that diapers may only be worn in public if medically necessary. It was also established that fetishism, including manic fetishism, would not qualify as medical necessity.

It is not illegal to wear clothes in specific places, such as some clothe parks, most hospitals, a few private schools which require uniforms, and some places of worship, and residential places if the owner permits, or if the owners unanimously permit. It is also not illegal to wear clothes in public on recognized national and unrecognized (but provable) religious holidays. A person who breaks this law is charged with two counts of disruption of the peace. Repeat offenders are incarcerated for a short time in federal prison, where they are completely barred from clothing of all kinds.

The law was repealed in 1918, reinstated in 2000, repealed again in 2005, reinstated again in 2021, repealed yet again in 2030, and reinstated permanently in 2031. For each repeal, public schools operated by territories began to enforce uniforms on school grounds, while other schools merely began to allow students and faculty to dress to a modest extent however they pleased.

In 1913, the law was passed in order to "absolve all envy within a single nation and people under God" in an attempt to be regarded as a more holy nation to their deity.

Death and nudity

Most Consigahrians choose to be dressed in tachrichim, a black robe, for their "burial," as that is the religious custom. Some choose to remain unclothed.

The term "burial" has undergone some change since the nation's antiquity. Today, the term is generic and refers to the way the dead prefer their bodies to be treated after death. Some choose cremation; some choose to be buried in their physical body and tachrichim; while others choose simply to be left undisturbed until the detritivores are finished with it. Some prefer to literally be buried six feet under the ground; but most families would have to travel long distances to bury their loved ones, so the nationalized cremation movement is usually how the dead prefer their bodies to be disposed of.

In 2015, the government made cremation of the dead compulsory because cemeteries across the nation were absolutely full. "If the family of the dead can transport the cadaver across an international border without desecrating it, they may dispose of it however they please, in accordance with that nation's laws," an RA justice said.

Just Be Nice, OK?

In 2014, the federal government introduced a "Just Be Nice, OK?" initiative, which stimulated widespread compassion. Today, citizens of Consigahria are taught, or "brainwashed" if one prefers, to love and give unconditionally. Whether it's a teaching, encouragement, or brainwashing, it's yielded a much better economic result, and the country is better off for it.

Population Day

Population Day has been proclaimed as an annual recognized national holiday occurring five days before Hanukkah, on which day all citizens are exempt from taxation for 24 hours. Citizens are exempt on this day from all taxes, including and especially sales, property and income tax.

Government

The Prime Minister has the power to create and enforce laws; create, limit and destroy organizations of all kinds; and to regulate the Parliament and Representative Assembly. The Parliament, a group of ten hand-chosen individuals elected from the territories, also has the power to create laws; but the Representative Assembly, a group of 150 individuals hand-selected by the Prime Minister and by Prime Ministers past, are responsible for amending laws which require amendment by unanimous vote. The Prime Minister does not have the right to directly influence tax rates or percentages as it pertains to the national monetary systems. The Prime Minister has the right to declare war and civil war, and also has the right to execute anybody in his jurisdiction without trial or reason, though the Parliament decided in 1901 that the Prime Minister must indicate a "proper reason ... before the execution takes place, or he may be impeached and replaced."

Spending

The entirety of the Consigahrian economy comes from the burgeoning small businesses as per federal law, but recently, it's been dominated by a number of large international corporations. The nation is controlled entirely by the federal government.

In December, 2031, 30.9% of income tax was spent on police funding, 26.1% was spent on public and private education, 17.5% was donated to official national environmental activist groups, 14.2% was spent on expansion of the national rail systems, 4.1% was spent on social legislation and policies, 3.4% was spent on welfare, 3.3% was spent on industry, and 0.5% was spent on the national guard to support the bombing of a terrorist nation. In January, 2032, 32.2% went to education, 36.1% went to law and order, 17.6% went to environmental protection, and 14.1% went to public transport; and other government spending details concerning defense, welfare, and others was either eliminated or redacted.

Because of the nation's alarmingly high 81% tax rate, most of the working class (57.616% of the population) and half of all unemployed but able (5.61% unemployed) utilize the nation's underground, but highly efficient black market, which introduces technically-illegal drugs, counterfeited goods, illegal mining, logging, and other trades, school loan fraud, and tax evasion. The government either ignores it entirely or pretends it doesn't exist.

Parliament

Consigahria's Parliament has the right to create laws and settle federal-level lawsuits based on their constitutionality. The Parliament created the nation's constitution, the Consigahrian Federal Body, shortly after the ratification of the Vermillion Treaty.

See Federal and territorial laws of Consigahria for a complete list of laws.

People in power under the Prime Minister

The Royal Vizier

Royal Vizier Cameron Kuntz.

The Royal Superintendent

Royal Superintendent Parker Methlod.

The Royal Staff

Royal Head Chef Roy Mathers. Royal Sous Chef Martin Percholeaux. Royal Saucier James Percholeaux. Royal Senior Chef Tammy Brooks Childer. Royal Chef de Partie Cory Esperanza. Royal Cuisinier Xu Xa. Royal Cuisinier Xu Xi. Royal Commis Trace DuPont Pierce. Royal Commis Martha Fairchild. Royal Plongeur Chance Cristobal.

The Prime Minister's Cabinet

Head Minister of Defense Patrick Wood; Head Minister of Law and Order Kieran Marmo; Head Minister of Education Ciriaco Alfero; Head Minister of Environment Craig Nelson; Head Minister of Public Transport Alfeo Novak; Head Minister of Social Policy Giosuè MacCarrick; Head Minister of Industry Iser Wakahisa; Head Minister of Welfare Rodolfo Foley.

Politics

Politics in Consigahria are held on a very tight leash. The Prime Minister is presented with a few daily Supreme Court cases on which there are no legislation. The Prime Minister creates laws in this way; he decides what is best, and his decision is referenced in law forevermore, until a successor imposes a contradictory law, which negates the previous. The Representative Assembly immediately nips unnecessary addenda in the bud.

The decisions are generally made in either a father-knows-best decision-making process or one which benefits everybody in the long term. Prime Ministers Davis 2-9 have worked very hard to make Consigahria the place it is today through its extensive legislation.

Elections

Citizens are granted every ten years with official polls, called ballots, on which they indicate in pen which representatives they want representing their area in the Representative Assembly. The representatives which appear on the ballot are hand-chosen by the Head Minister of Law and Order.

It began months before the nation's federation, when some citizens rebelled violently against the dictatorial government and were executed on the spot for treason. After this act, Dictator for Life Cornelius Davis I was assassinated in his personal chamber by his security guards, who were ordered to commit the act of treason secretly by the Dictator's son. The Dictator's successor promised one day elections would be widespread in the nation.

Today, citizens are allowed to participate in elections, although not too many.

High police ratios in urban areas

A Consigahrian citizen, identity masked, holds a sign that reads in red "too many cops - too little justice."

The 4:1 police ratio in large cities leaves some families completely against them as a whole agency. Revulsion toward police officers has existed in Consigahria since its antiquity, when the police would burn houses down as punishment for harboring a fugitive of the law. Of course, today such arson is a person felony. The police ratio is abnormally high because 31% of the money the Treasury earns through income tax, and because of that yearly allotment of over 96 trillion ruices, there are about 2.2 billion police officers across the nation policing the other 13-odd billion around. A total revolt would be practically impossible to stop, if every citizen were to rise up against the government; and the Jewish government would simply step aside. But the Prime Minister would sooner have NBI, CIA and Division arrest whoever would try to take his throne from him.

In 1906, there was a 12:1 police ratio, and 80% of homes in Vermillion City were burned and their residents shot for an attempted revolution, one that would have murdered seven billion more people, that Division didn't want to happen. With the Prime Minister's permission, these homes and lives were destroyed. The city was rebuilt larger and larger in symbolism of the prosperous relationship between the Consigahrian government and its constituents. In 2131, 17 million homes in Tanahog were ransacked by police in search of a terrorist; 8.2% of its residential district was ravaged, leaving another three percent terrified.

Consigahria National Armada

Consigahria National Armada
Military and psychic manpower
Military age	15-49
Availability	age 15-49: 93%
Fit for military service	age 15–49
Reaching military age annually	5.62 billion
Current size of forces	12,600
Military expenditures
Amount	Unknown
Percent of GDP	0.5%

The Consigahrian National Armada (also known generally as Consigahria National Armada and Consigahria National Guard, and known colloquially as the national armada, the national guard, and the NatArms) is a broad term that generally refers to two entities, either the Consigahrian Royal Army or the Royal Navy; or specifically to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines as a whole, a singular entity.

When referred to as Consigahria National Guard or the national guard, it refers to a small fraction of troops from these groups as separate entities confederated against the public in times of riot. This has happened only once in Consigahrian history, resulting in the impeachment of a Prime Minister, and it has been water under the bridge for decades. The subject is considered taboo to bring up in haute or public company.

As a nation, Consigahria is a mainly isolationist state which only militarizes against foreign offense forces. In its entire history, the Consigahrian National Armada has only participated in two wars: the war in which confederated forces who later formed the Consigahrian Dictatorship fought for rights to the Vermillion Plantations, and the war in which West Consigahria and mainland Consigahria confederated to fight against Gerenstran military embargo ships.

In total, there are 12,600 reserve officers in the ranks of the national armada. These reserve officers are highly-trained assassins trained by the Consigahrian government. In event of declaration of war or anticipation of declaration of war, 52% of the total adult population and 20% of the juvenile population of the nation will be recruited and trained to fight and kill in close quarters and at great distances; and to fund this, the country will suffer a 20% tax hike in all areas. In event of riot or civil war within the nation, the nation guard will be dispatched, and those exhibiting riotous behavior will be subdued if possible, or if the person or situation is too dangerous they will be non-fatally incapacitated and jailed. In event of civil war within the region, as Spiritian law prohibits civil war, the entire national armada will be dispatched where necessary.

The national armada is an immense force, considering the national population has exceeded 15 billion, more than 90% of the entire world; and alongside its federal agencies, the country is in total definitely a force to be reckoned with. All four branches of the national armada have 3,150 reserve officers each.

Consigahrian Royal Army

Under construction.

Consigahrian Royal Navy

Under construction.

Consigahrian Royal Air Force

Under construction.

Consigahrian Royal Marines

Under construction.

Government agencies

The Corporal Service

The Corporal Service, colloquially known as the CS, is a federal intelligence and protection organization which is responsible for the protection of the Davis Royal Family, their staff, and all their subordinates. The CS is comprised of about 12,670 members who are trained to kill at the double, armed or not. The CS is responsible for less than one percent of deaths every year in Consigahria, and all of these deaths were a direct result of an attack on the Royal Family. CS and its sister agencies NBI and CIA often collaborate and act together.

The Operatives' Division (of the Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria)

The Operatives' Division of the Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria, known in Consigahria as simply the Operatives' Division or colloquially as Division, is a branch of the World Operatives' Division, which has many branches in many nations across the world. Put simply, they employ psychic individuals and train them to hunt psychic criminals down where non-psychic intervention was impossible. According to a WOD study, roughly 57% of the entire world is psychic, and 12% of that group are employed with Division.

Consigahria's Division sector employs 12,600 personnel as of 2031.

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency of Consigahria, known mostly by its domestic names Central Intelligence Agency and the CIA, is the nation's primary intelligence agency. Its 240,000-some employees operate from domestic, international, and regional embassies, and from many other locations around the world. The staff of the CIA report to the Director of National Intelligence, who reports directly to the Minister of Defense.

The CIA has four traditional principal activities, which are gathering information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals; analyzing that information, along with intelligence gathered by other U.S. intelligence agencies, in order to provide national security intelligence assessment to senior policymakers; carrying out or overseeing covert activities and some tactical operations by its own employees, by members of the U.S. military, or by other partners; and prosecution of national and international drug cartels who either don't fulfill or overshoot their quotas.

National Bureau of Investigation

The National Bureau of Investigation of Consigahria (National Bureau of Investigation, or NBI), is an intelligence and investigation agency centered in Consigahria responsible for the nation's protection from, to, and monitoring of extraterrestrial activity, and protection of the nation during international struggles by tactical long-range firearm and helicopter-rocket combat, or by hacking computers and networks across the world. The NBI is capable of shutting down the world's strongest supercomputers: it's been done. NBI agents are said to be the "ninjas of the government agencies". The NBI employed 15,240 personnel in 2035, employing a total staff of 31,120.

Central Operations, Weapons and Technology Agency

The Central Operations, Weapons and Technology Agency is a nationalized intelligence and weapons-monitoring agency which operates in Consigahria. It employs around 15,000 agents who they specially train to fight with firearms and without. The main purpose of the agency to make sure the black market stays within its quota limit as far as importation of guns, ammunition, drugs, and other weaponry and technology are concerned.

COWTA has been involved in two international wars and remains involved in hundreds of domestic disputes per year. Only 12 COWTA agents die in the line of duty per year.

National Police Agency

The population of Consigahria is almost dominated by a nationalized police agency, conveniently called the National Police Agency, also known officially as NPA (abbreviated) and colloquially as the police, the cops, and similar vaguer terms. Every territory's police officers answer directly to a single Territory Police Commander, or TPC, who in turn answers directly to the Minister of Defense. Every territory has its own TPC. Every territory is subdivided into counties. Every county is operated by one County Sheriff, and many Deputy Sheriffs.

Many cities, and have their own separate branch of the NPA. Examples include Vermillion City Police Department, Dockmackie Police Department, and Koto Police Department, and 72 others. Often but not always, in these urban agglomerations each borough has its own subdivision within the branch.

Further reading

• Davis Royal Family
• Federation of Consigahria