CANTONS OF STATE
The State of Angalicania is divided in 14 semi-autonomous cantons which works as devolved administrations - with a major self-governance in different areas and matters. The cantons has their own governments (Board of Ministers), parliaments (Cantonal Senate) and head of governments (the Prime Minister). Of the 14 cantons, ''Canton of the Imperial Federation-Islands'' has got a special status with more self-governance and autonomy. The cantons also've got their own form of constitutions, Order of the Canton, which is settled by the Congress of the People in the General Assembly of State.
LIST OF CANTONS AFTER POPULATION
- Canton of the Imperial Federation-Islands
- Canton of Roseport
- Canton of Carmichael
- Canton of Sarteni Paeuley
- Canton of Mercani
- Canton of Charts Bastia
- Canton of Guardenia
- Canton of Llianes
- Canton of Vecchio Harbor
- Canton of Francesca Islands
- Canton of Mt. Levrain
- Canton of Metropolium
- Canton of the Autumn Islands
- Canton of Azali Zamber
CANTONAL INFORMATION AND CHARACTERISTICS:
CARMICHAEL:
The Canton of Carmichael originates from the old Kingdom of Cahrlinden and Santa Velvet during the Angalicanian Empire. The Kingdom of Cahrlinden och Santa Velvet was during the Imperial Age much larger than the today Canton of Carmichael as the Kingdom covered much of the today Canton of Roseport, who were created in the new 1917 Constitution, as well as other Cantons. Carmichael as a pre-Facilid Kingdom is therfore one of the oldest Cantons in it's today organized form.
The Canton of Carmichael is the 3rd largest Canton of Angalicania with it's largest city Velvet as the 3rd largest State-wide city with more than 1 million inhabitants. The City of Velvet is a major urban metropolitan city but is maybe most famous for the great Bourbon University of the Midwales, Angalicanias oldest and according the many foremost university founded in 1295. It's therefore also one of the oldest universities in Europe and the whole world. BUM host thousands of visiting students, fellows and researchers every year and offers studies in a range of areas and topics. It also makes Velvet to one of the foremost student cities with a famous student life in the inner cities. The City of Velvet has also large CBD where banking, financial services and investment is major sectors of the economy.
The cantonal capital, Santa'Elena Di Ari is also one of the major urban cities in Angalicania and the 8th largest city. Therefore, the Canton of Carmichael vests two of the foremost largest urban cities in Angalicania. The Canton of Carmichael have also a good of a lot rural areas but foremost the rest of the Canton consists small- and medium sized cities.
In fact, the the Canton of Carmichael has the highest propotion of local government areas (LGA:s) as in any other Canton of the State. One of the reasons is because of the local government system Carmichael has but the Canton has also unprecedented many towns, communities and medium-sized businesses.
The economy Carmichael is characterised by the general industries and sectors important for Angalicania as the service sector, financial services, natural gas, nutrition oil, biogas, forestry, telecommunications and manufacturing. In Carmichael especially however utilities production, the fashion industry and transportation is specially large economic areas. The Velvet Fashion Week is one of the largest fashion weeks in Europe and many major brands and fashion houses is residents of Velvet or Santa'Elena di Ari. Utilities is the largest manufacturing sector of Carmichael and the Canton also hosts many of the largest transportation, haulage and infrastructure operating companies.
The Canton of Carmichael is also the canton with the highest christian population elsewhere in Angalicania. Even though the inner-cities of Velvet and Santa'Elena di Ari has pretty much the same religious rates as the other urban metropolitan areas, rural Carmichael and non-urban Carmichael has a very high christian population. Almost whole of the christian population is aligned with the Angalicanian Church but catholic churces also is pretty frequent.
The Canton of Carmichael is one of the foremost Congregationist strongholds. Since the 1950s, the Canton has almost exlusively voted blue. This also applies to the City of Santa'Elena di Ari which is pretty unusual for the larger, urban inner-cities as they more often vote progressive. Carmichael is also the only Canton where the Traditionalist Party meets up with the other parties and does well in the Cantonal elections. However the Congregationists and Traditionalists runs joint tickets to the State elections and Traditionalists elected to the Chamber of Deputies caucuses with the Congregationists as full-worthy members (and formally, as Congregationists). However, Velvet as the 3rd largest urban area doesn brake the cantonal pattern and has more often voted progressively.
ROSEPORT:
The Canton of Roseport is one of the newest Cantons in the modern organized, administrative form. The Canton had no practic predecessor before the Facilid Reign and were created with the new Constitution after the Second Borgenswar in 1917. formerly during the Angalicanian Empire, the Greater Adenport Region had been a part of the Kingdom of Adenport. The other parts of the today Roseport was mostly a part of the old, great Kingdom of Cahrlinden and Sankt Velvet as well as the minor royalty of the Principality of Sán Castello de Regalo. When the new Constitution was written in 1917, General Ford and the Men of Resistance wanted the Adenport Capital to be a part of a larger Canton as a geographical check and balace, instead of having Adenport as an own Canton or as a special district (as in the United States or Australia).
The Canton of Roseport is the 2nd largest Canton of State with the capital city of Adenport as the most populous city in both the Canton and the State. With more than 3 million inhabitants, Adenport is also one of the largest capital cities in Europe and a hub to both business, start-ups, science and innovation, banking, financial services, property, FinTech, manufacturing, the digital economy and the great service sector. Adenport has currently the largest CBD - Central Business District in the whole of Angalicania as well as the lower Eurosur (Spain, Portugal, Malta, Italy and Greece).
For Roseport, major economic sectors is trade, foreign commerce, the service sector, financial services, banking, international business, media, film/movies, leisure, start-ups and innovation. As Adenport is one of the economic hubs in Europe, the international economy with multinational business, investors and banking is more important to the Roseport economy than most other Cantons. The ports of Roseport, both in Adenport but also in Cumbria and St Rhosen, is used as a national docking point of imports and exports. Most imported goods and wares is taken to the Roseport ports to be transported around the State and Islands. Roseport has also a good of a lot agriculture and farming but in difference of for example in the Knot, it doesn't make up such a large part of the cantonal economy. Mainly, that's a consequence of the large amounts of money vested in the banking, property and financial services sectors that is large economic sectors in Adenport and Ipswich.
Ipswich is the second largest city of Roseport and the cantonal capital. It is also the 6th largest city in the whole of Angaliania with almost a million inhabitants. Ipswich has the 5th largest CBD in Angalicania with major sectors in banking, financial services and science but also electronics, computors, IT-services, aerospace and equiptment. Ipswich is one of the fastest growing urban cities in Angalicania with more than 6500 new inhabitants moving there every year and an urban development rate second only to Adenport.
Roseport is one of the swing-cantons in Angalicania that has voted red, blue and magenta varying during the years. A unique characteristic of Roseport is that all three major parties has had the prime ministership and governed the Canton during different periods. At the State level in contrast, the chairmanship of the People's Government has most often layed at the posession of the Socalist Party and the Congregationists. Another characteristic is that the Coalition Governments has been more creative than at the State level. The M.A has for exampled governed with the Socialist Party, the Congregationists have formed Coalition Government with the Left-Wing Greens as some example. The Liberal Party has also been unprecedented strong in the Canton of Roseport as the Canton of Metropolium,
The City of Adenport as an urban, inner-city metropolitan has generally voted progressive and voted socialist or at later times, liberal of left-wing green. The outskirts and suburbs of Adenport is however a Socialist strong-hold who've been voting socialist since the 1950s. In sharp difference on the other half of Roseport, Ipswitch is a conservative strong-hold and has mostly delivered Congregationists State Deputies and Cantonal Senators even if the Moderate Assembly also has a done quite a lot. Success in Ipswitch is a classic Government-sign. When the Socialist Party has formed State Government but also Cantonal Government, they've been able to take at least a couple of seats in the inner-city electorates of Ipswitch.
Rural Roseport is a classic rural-swinger who've during history choosed mostly between the M.A or the Socialist Party. The fortune of the Socialist Party is that rural Roseport has (or have had) a larger amount of primary industries than any rural area elsewhere in Angalicania. The MA:s policies directed to farmers, fishermen, foresters and rural small businesses have therefore not prevailed in rural areas with more farmers and small businesses. On later times however, voters in rural Roseport have also having turned to the Nats or the Block. The M.A has generally been stronger in the rural areas outside of Ipswich while the Socialist Party have been stronger in the rural areas ouside of Adenport and beside the coastal line, but that have also differed between elections. This dynamic flexability maked Roseport a swing-Canton, important to conquer if you wanna form State Government.
FOLK FIELDS:
The Folk Fields is a generally used term for the heavily industrialized Cantons with large basic industries in manufacturing, mining, energy, natural gas, nutritional oil extraction, primary industries, manufacturing, paper milling and the forestry sector. The Folk Fields does usually include the cantonal line of Francesca Islands, Guardenia, Charts Bastia, Sarteni Paeuley and the western parts of the Imperial Federation-Islands.
The Folk Fields is also a conception of the cultural and socioeconomically situation after the steel and oil crisises and the closures of important industries during as well the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s well as during the financial crisis in 2008. These Cantons have faced large challenges in it's communities, who totally relied on these primary industries, and with the closure of them has faced an large economic setback leading to less revenue and less public services.
In light of the more digitalized, globalized and automated economic age, the small rural communities of the Folk Fields has faced depopulation, revenue losses and cuts to public services as schools, hospitals, care and infrastructure. However, both State- and Cantonal Government has tried to boost the economies of these former industrial communities with directed measures of education, training and economic development.
During the early 2000s, most communities in the Folk Fields recovered with vast amounts of public spending going into training, vocational education, public apprentice- and traineeships as well as Government subsidized jobs. The 2008 crisis however stroke down at the Folk Fields with massive strength. The natural economy with natural jobs and businesses went in to bankrupcy. Most of the natural industries and companies were forced to shut down or massively cut employments. When the economic crisis striked harder at the Government, public measures like apprenticeships, vocational education and employment subsidys were terminated leading to massive unemployment and drop of revenue leading to cuts to public services.
The Folk Fields is the foremost strong-hold of the Socialist Party. Trade unions and the worker's movement has historically been very strong around the Folk Fields. At later years however, many voters who've feeled abandoned by the Socialists have turned to the Nats but also the Block. It is in the Folk Field where most of the support for the Nats have comed as the Block is more right-winged in economic and social policy. The Congregationists, MA, Left-Wing Greens and Liberals does generally poorly in the most characteristic areas of the Folk Fields. In the most rural areas with much farmers and small businesses, the M.A however makes up some recovery. The Congregationists also picks up some support at the christian conservative countryside as well as in the larger cities.
THE KNOT:
The Knot is a generally used term for the most rural Cantons of mainland Angalicania: Vecchio Harbor, Mercani, Mt. Levrain, Sarteni Paeuley and the eastern parts of the Imperial Federation-Islands. The Cantons is geographically located in a Knot around each other and has the characteristics of rural communities and farming communities. Inhabitants living the Knot is usually called knotters and is usually characterized by the rural accent and the typical culture with food, music and sports.
The economies of the Knot is more dependent on farming, fisheries, forestry and the food industry than rest of Angalicania and especially urban Angalicania. The natural gas, biogas and nutrition gas sectors as well as the pulp- and paper industries is the largest primary industries and manufacturing sectors of the economies in the Knot.
Typical characteristics for the everyday life in the Knot is the large geographic distances between the communities. The rural communities in the Knot is becasue of the high dependency on the farming sector also especially vonourable to drought, bushfires and floodings. The rural communities in the Knot also struggles with distances to public services as healthcare, education, obstretic and the general labor market.
The rurality of the Knot is sometimes however heavily criticized. Some of the largest, most urban and most populous cities of Angalicania is located in the Knot as the urban metros of Hectoria, Santa Bolivár and Folks Regina. Critics says that the Knot as a concept ignores the large geographical and economical differences in these very cantons. They argue that the Knot is more of a general community culture in these Cantons more of than a characteristic as these Cantons have urban areas too. Still, inhabitants in these urban cities identify very much which the Knotting culture and way of life.
The Knotting culture is largely associated with the smoking of pipe tobacco, drinking of craft beer, local community events as markets, festivals and barbecues, small-scale fishing and self-pick. That's a difference to the way of life in more urban Angalicania with street festials, parades, fine arts like ballroom dance, ballet, musicals and operas, food- and bartrucks, urban air cinema and urban sports.