Batavian Empire

The Batavian Empire (Bataavse rijk) commonly called 'the Empire', is a semi-constitutional empire. It is bordered by 12 nations: the Neo Roman Empire, Turkish-Ottoman Empire, Central African Empire, Ethiopian Empire, Helvetica, Lichtenstein, Morocco, Russia, India, Canada, New-Granada and Brazil. The Batavian Empire covers about 26,3 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 1,2 billion. The Batavian Empire comprises of certain subdivisions: 111 departments, 4 Crown Territories, 1 Imperial City and 1 Military Administrated Zone.

The Batavian Empire contains absolute world hegemony since the dissolution of the United Nations in 2041. They are the chairman of the Royal Alliance and have good relations with every member nation of the Royal Alliance. They also have some special relations with nations which are not a member of the Royal Alliance.

Formation of the Empire
In 2025 many Dutch citizens were very angry with their government and protests and sometimes even rebellions started all over the country. In Belgium and the Netherlands people lost the faith in their democratic political system which lead to more popularity of the royals. A young politician, Saviël, saw this and began with forming a rebellion to overthrow the democratic government. In the winter of 2027 his little army was big enough to start a rebellion and they gathered in the Dutch town Doorn. They started a march towards the capital city of Amsterdam, the police couldn't stop them and the army was mobilised way to late, and many soldiers even agreed with Saviël. A week after the beginning of the "Loyal March" Saviël's rebellion marched into the capital city, which lead to the surrender of the provinces Noord-Holland and Utrecht. One day later Flevoland also signed terms of surrender. Saviël named his growing resistance the Monarchists.

The Monarchists started with invading the province of Gelderland, The Netherlands started with an offensive near the Grebbenberg but it lead to a huge victory for the Monarchists. After this victory king Willem-Alexander decided to join the side of the Monarchists and told he was willing to sign terms of unconditional surrender. The parliament immediately proclaimed the republic and forced the king to abdicate. This lead to the point that more than half of the Dutch army deserted or joined the side of the monarchists. In the following weeks the provinces Overijssel, Drenthe, and Groningen surrendered. Although the Monarchists had huge advantage in the Netherlands, Europe supported the Republic of the Netherlands. To stop this Saviël ordered the growing monarchist organisations in Luxembourg to commit a coup d'état. The coup was a success which lead to a monarchist Luxembourg. With Limburg surrenders to the Monarchists they attacked Belgium from Luxembourg and Limburg.

Belgium had almost no soldiers left to fight and Saviël ordered the Monarchists to attack Brussels immediately. In a three days fight Belgium surrendered. With the loss of Belgium The Netherlands became isolated and vulnerable. Saviël decided to attack The Hague immediately, now the remaining Benelux was so vulnerable. With a final march and an army three times as big as the republic's The Hague was invaded seven days later. Zuid-Holland, Brabant and Frisia surrendered with this loss. In Zealand some volunteer French republican troops kept fighting for a few more days but were crushed and May 31, 2027 the Treaty of Doorn was signed which lead to the unification of The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and the proclamation of the Batavian Empire. The Empire was the jure constitutional but the parliament elections were not there yet and the Dutch crown was still unclaimed but guarded by Saviël.

The Triple Alliance
As soon as Saviël governed the Batavian Empire he started with militarising the land. Military service became compulsory and in half a year an army around the million people was ready to fight. The Dutch economy was also boosting with renewed gas drillings in the province Groningen. The country became quickly very popular because of a lot of civil freedom despite the autocratic government. A huge amount of emancipation and homo-sympathy swept across the country which was well supported by Saviël. After some pressure France agreed to have a referendum for French-Flandres with the option to join the Batavian Empire. This lead to 78% for unification and so French-Flandres joined the Batavian Empire December 8, 2027. A month later East-Frisia asked Germany for a similar referendum. In the first place Germany refused, but after a lot of pressure from Saviël they agreed and with a 65% voting for unification they also joined the Empire January 2, 2028. The Batavian Empire could benefit even more from these peaceful annexations.

After Italian elections in March 2028 the Monarchistic party won a full majority in the parliament and held a referendum to restore the monarchy which led to a 56-44 outcome. As soon as the monarchy was restored Italy started tightening relations with the Batavian Empire and they formed a common defence/attack-agreement in the end of April. After a few weeks Poland joined the alliance and in May 2028 the Triple Alliance was born. The alliance combined the forces of the three militarising countries and if one nation was attacked the other nations would help with the defence. With the birth of this alliance Italy and Poland retreated from the NATO, with two major powers out the United States and Canada both resigned from the NATO. As soon as the United States and Canada retreated their troops from Europe Poland attacked aggressively the German Federation. This came as a total surprise and Germany moved all their forces to the eastern border, leaving the western border unarmed and Dutch forces immediately crossed the border. 12 Dutch divisions occupied the border areas and started with the invasion of Nordrhein-Westphalia. Germany had a shortage of troops to fight a two-side war and after a month fighting the German army surrendered. The treaty of Potsdam was signed which gave some western provinces to the Batavian Empire, including the Rheinland. and some eastern German lands to Poland. Bayern received independence as the Republic of Bavaria. The remaining provinces became the Unitary Republic of Germany.

Now that Germany was weakened enough Italy attacked Austria and Slovenia and invaded them without to much difficulty, since Germany was to busy with trying to rebuild their nation. Some Italian divisions also crossed the Croatian border to gain Istria. The rest of Croatia became a satellite state. The Italian army moved quickly to the west after the conquest in the east and did a dangerous attack on Corsica. The French army wasn't mobilised but still quick enough to move to Corsica. The French had an advantage but before the Italian forced were completely defeated Saviël declared war on France and attacked from the north. 25 Dutch divisions crossed the northern border of France in a quick march towards Paris. French divisions had some trouble in reorganising their army and were a bit late ready to face the Dutch. This lead to a French defeat and an open route for Dutch soldiers to conquer Paris. After two weeks Paris was completely surrounded. Italian forces re-attacked Corsica with their full force. After a French defeat in Normandy the French signed terms of unconditional surrender and had to give up Corsica to Italy. The Batavian empire took the whole north of France; including Normandy, Bretagne and Paris. After some negotiations South-France became a protectorate kingdom of the Batavian Empire. With the gained French lands, the Batavian Empire became just as strong as Italy and took the Unitary Republic of Germany as well. To complete the hegemony in continental Europe, Poland invaded Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Poland made Bohemia a protectorate. Now that the continental European powers were defeated or defected the United Kingdom mobilised their complete army, but Saviël had some tricks with him, as he really supported Scotisch national independence parties. Scotland asked for another referendum but the UK declined, because they were preparing for war. The Scotisch now demanded a referendum and proclaimed independence, Wales did exactly the same. England could do nothing more than accept the independence, but was enormously weakened by this move. The complete Dutch army crossed the Northsea and landed on English territory. The British armies fought back and a long war occurred for about half a year. But February 14, 2029 London fell and two days later the Treaty of Cambridge was signed. With this treaty Cornwall and Bristol stayed independent, but the rest of England became Dutch territory.

The conquest of Europe
Now that all major powers in Europe were defeated Saviël could expand his just built empire in Europe. To secure Great-Britain Dutch forces also occupied Scotland and Iceland. After that Saviël moved all Dutch forces to Denmark which fell in three days. The forces immediately crossed the sea to Norway, which fought back but had to surrender in three weeks. With some Polish help Sweden was invaded as well. Italy didn't want to stay behind and declared war on all the former Yugoslavian States and Albany. This became a long and terrible war which lasted for about five months but could only result in an Italian victory with huge air support from the Batavian Empire. The Italian Kingdom was secured with this, but Poland had trouble because their army was way to big for their lands, they hadn't much money left and had to invade their protectorate again, with Bohemia in their lands it saved them for a while, but economic trouble wasn't solved. Saviël ordered the Treaty of Strasbourg, which made the French Protectorate and the Republic of Bavaria full provinces of the Batavian Empire. The Batavian Empire was now enormous. To hit England one more time the Batavian Empire signed the Pact of Bremen, which secured the souvereignity of Ireland and made sure it would never be invaded by the Batavian Empire if they stayed completely neutral. To ratify this pact the Batavian Empire took Northern-Ireland from the remaining England and gave it to Ireland. Now there was only one problem left in Europe: Russia.

The Russo-Dutch war
Russia had seen the growing threat of Saviël and the Batavian Empire, but took advantage of it now the United States had withdrawn from NATO and invaded Belarus, and the Baltic States. After that they invaded Ukraine, Moldova and the Caucasus States. Saviël had decided not to do anything but wait and had focused on the rest of Europe. Though the Batavian Empire wasn't interfering Italy was afraid of the Russian Federation and secured Romania with about ⅓ of their entire army. Not that this scared Russia. Russia committed a coup d'état in Bulgaria and from two sides they attacked Romania. Though Romo-Italian forces fought hard, the Russians destroyed their army and took Romania. Because of this victory Russia saw itself unstoppable and committed a coup d'état in Poland. As soon as this happened Saviël interfered and invaded the east of Poland and former Silesia. Although there was a little quarrel Italian forces agreed that the Batavian Empire would commit the invasion of Greece because of this huge loss of Italian forces in Romania. Although Greece fell in Dutch hands Russia wasn't completely stopped and started mobilising their troops behind the Finish-Russian border. Now Saviël reacted immediately and declared to the world that if the Russian federation would attack Finland the Batavian Empire would declare war on the Russian Federation. Russia did back down for a few weeks, but then suddenly attacked the remaining Finish Karelian provinces. As soon as Russia did this a huge Dutch army, supported by the entire Finish army fought against Russia. After a week the Finish war was ended with Russia gaining the eastern parts of Finland, and the Batavian Empire gaining the capital Helsinki and the western part. Now the Batavian Empire had declared war on Russia, Saviël started with plans for an invasion of Russia. With all the knowledge of the past failed invasions of Russia he knew he had to fight in the summer. Luckily the spring had just begun.

March 21, 2031 30 Dutch divisions attacked the north of Russia, from Finland and from Poland. With the Dutch army much better equipped the battle was in advantage for the Dutch and in October 2031 The Dutch army marched into St. Petersburg. This was a huge loss for the Russians, but as soon as the winter started they began a huge offensive against the Dutch troops. In the north they gained enormous victories and the Dutch troops were pushed a bit back, but there was no real breakthrough and St. Petersburg stayed in Dutch hands.

As soon as the spring of 2032 Dutch forces marched from the occupied Greek territory towards Russian-Bulgaria and crossed the border, with help of Italian forces the Dutch army had a quick offensive towards Ukraine and the Crimea and landed in the Caucasus. Though there was heavy Russian resistance Dutch forces were able to invade the oil fields in the Caucasus and Baku was conquered in the high summer of 2032. In the beginning of the autumn Dutch forces were able to invade Volgograd. This was a heavy punch for the Russians, since the oil fields were Dutch now, they decided to spend their winter in securing the road to Moscow. This hadn't much effect because in the spring of 2033 Dutch forces surrounded Moscow and June 2, 2033 the Russian Federation surrendered. Sixteen days later, June 18, 2033 the Treaty of Helsinki was signed, this treaty declared the withdrawal of Russian troops from European Russia and would cede the Russian lands between Europe and the Ural and the Franz-Josef Islands. The Russian Federation would also become the Russian Confederation which made them even more weak.

After the Russian defeat Saviël presented itself as Dutch Emperor and was crowned a year after the Treaty of Helsinki. From June 18, 2034 till 24 his coronation was held and he was crowned Emperor Saviël-Citus I.

Italian trouble
As soon as he was crowned Emperor Saviël began having trouble in England. England began with recruiting more and more soldiers and this concerned the Batavian Empire. Saviël didn't want to take any risk so he mobilised ten divisions and attacked England. In two days England was defeated and when Wales even showed a sign of sympathy for England, Saviël moved his British forces also to Wales and one day later Wales also signed the capitulation. After this move it was clear that the Batavian Empire had gained hegemony in Europe. This concerned their ally Italy and to secure their position in Europe they asked for Greece. Saviël refused to give Greece to the Italian Kingdom and warned them not to take it by force. Italy denied this and attacked with all their divisions. Immediately the Batavian Empire declared war on Italy and started a 'blitzkrieg' towards Rome. The Batavian Empire was about four times stronger than Italy and Rome fell in two weeks. The Italians kept fighting and replaced their capital to Budapest. Italy asked for a conditional surrender but Saviël gave the order to invade Budapest as well. November 29, 2034 Italy signed terms of unconditional surrender. Italy was only occupied for about one month. Because January 1, 2035 Saviël appointed one of his highest advisors as emperor of Italy and formed a new empire in Europe: the Neo Roman Empire. Now with the Neo Roman Empire at their side they started the invasion of the Iberian peninsula and February 3, 2035 the Dutch navy landed on Portuguese shores, conquering the nation in five days time. With help from the Italians they started with the invasion of Spain and Madrid fell February 28, 2035. Spain kept fighting for one more week with Sevilla as provisional capital city but signed a dual capitulation to the Batavian- and Neo Roman Empire on March 12, 2035. To finish is expansions in Europe he quickly invaded Malta and Cyprus and agreed with the independence of Switzerland, but not as a republic but as the Crowned Confederacy of Helvetica.

War in North Africa and the Middle East
Emperor Saviël wasn't finished after conquering Europe and helped Italy with invading Libya. After Italy also invaded the African country of Tunisia it was Algeria's turn. With the Treaty of Valetta Italy occupied the northern half of Algeria and the south stayed independent. The Batavian Empire declared war on Morocco and took the country with some help from Italy in two months, Western Sahara followed two days later. The United Nations condemned this actions as Neo Imperialism. The Batavian Empire denied this and saw it as a 'stabilisation of Africa'. They also invaded Egypt and committed a coup d'état in Sudan. The Batavian Empire enlarged their size enormously with this movement and it didn't stop their because Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania followed. September 31, 2035 the Dutch soldiers also invaded South-Algeria with stabilising their hegemonial position in North-Africa. The problem for the Batavian Empire arose quickly after the conquest of North Africa. In the Russian Confederation a monarchist coup occurred and the confederation capital Irkutsk was conquered by them, which lead to the proclamation of the Unitary Russian Empire. With a new Russian unitary state the Batavian Empire began to worry, also because the new government reacted very aggressively towards the Batavian Empire. To make new alliances Saviël aligned with Turkey. In the Treaty of Nicosia both parties agreed that Turkey would help invading the Middle East for more territory and securing the oil fields for the rest of the world. A long war followed between the Batavian Empire, the Turkish-Ottoman Empire, the Neo Roman Empire and the Middle East States. But in the winter of 2038 all of the Middle East was Turkish territory except for Israel, Lebanon, the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States. The island Soccotra became Italian. In February 2039 Dutch and Turkish armies attacked Iran. Iran prepared for this a long time and immediately launched a nuclear missile towards Turkish divisions. The Turkish army was hit enormously by this but with help of the Batavian Empire they invaded Tehran two months later. First they divided Iran, but later the Batavian Empire received the whole Iran since Turkey couldn't hendel the Iranians very good. Now that about 80% of the oil export had stopped in the world the United States began with feeling the trouble the Batavian Empire brought with her and started mobilising their army, for a possible counterstrike.

Conflict with the United States
Now that the Middle East was secured Saviël helped monarchist coups in Ethiopia and the Central African Republic. With a lot of military support from the Batavian Empire Ethiopia invaded Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya and Uganda and the Central African Empire invaded South-Sudan and Cameroon. January 1, 2040 the Batavian Empire proclaimed the Royal Alliance, the rival organisation of United Nations for all the nations aligned with the Batavian Empire. Emperor Saviël also invaded the rest of North Africa the months after the creation of the Royal Alliance. This is when America interfered militarily. The United States located about a 10.000 troops in Liberia securing this land. Saviël left Liberia first, but when the United States also attacked the Dutch Ivory Coast they stroke back. The war lasted for about eight days and led to a status quo ante bellum and an armistice between the U.S. and the Batavian Empire. This wouldn't last for long because March 4, 2040 the United States started the invasion of the Free State of Greenland. Even the UN condemned the attack but the Batavian Empire reacted much quicker with military intervention. With many Russo-Dutch soldiers from the invaded Russia the Batavian Empire had an advantage in fighting in the icy lands and March 15th Canada also declared war on the Batavian Empire and replaced the American troops. The Batavian Empire managed to conquer Greenland from the Canadians 10 days later and the Treaty of Nuuk was signed which secured peace between the Batavian Empire and Canada.

The Dutch-American war
In Canada was the social-liberal government which signed the treaty two weeks later was replaced by a conservative government which refused to ratify the treaty and attacked Greenland again. This attack, although it was supported by the United States, failed and the Batavian Empire used their entire army to attack the Canadian shores about a week later and on April 4, 2040. The landing on Canadian shore was a huge success and a Dutch invasion of Labrador and Newfoundland started. To stop the complete American army from interfering the Batavian Empire aligned with Russia after long negotiations and had to give up the land around the conquered Russian city Perm and give an enclave with Moscow back to the Russians. In exchange the Russians attacked Alaska, driving the American troops to the west. This worked and the Dutch invasion of Canada did go even faster than before and May 31, 2040 the whole province of Quebec was invaded by the Dutch army and an army marched towards Ottawa. This was the moment for the Canadians to surrender. The Conservatives presented the Treaty of Montreal. The Batavian Empire accepted the treaty and received Labrador, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The island l'Anticostal became an occupied territory of the Batavian Empire. With the Canadians out of the war the Batavian Empire focused completely on the United States. The United States couldn't do anything with their nuclear weapons because the Batavian Empire could fire missiles to the entire eastcoast from Nova Scotia any time. This lead to so much pressure that the United States was persuaded to accept peace and signed the Treaty of Honolulu where they had to give up Liberia to the Batavian Empire and Alaska to the Russian Empire and had to pay 300 billion to the Batavian Empire for war reparations. After this war the UN recognised the Batavian Empire as a nation and completely withdrew support from the old governments in Europe in exile.

The Caribic -and Pacific Islands
Because after the invasion of France and the United Kingdom a lot of overseas territories had no leader anymore. This lead to some chaos in the Caribbean because some islands just agreed with the new Dutch rule (like Bonaire and Bermuda) and other islands declared independence (like Guadeloupe and St. Martin). After the war in North-America the Batavian Empire decided to send a large fleet to the Caribbean to 're-invade' all the islands. This wasn't hard and after a month all the former dependencies were reconquered. Emperor Saviël just decided to invade the former dependencies also after that and so Jamaica, St Vincent, Barbados etc. also became Dutch. Only the island Hispaniola wasn't conquered but connected with the Batavian Empire in a personal union and made one country. Cuba wasn't invaded and was the only country where the communism was tolerated by the Dutch. Because this invasion had worked pretty good the Batavian Empire did the same with the Pacific dependencies and countries like Micronesia. To finish their work they also invaded Suriname and Guyana in a few weeks time.

Act of the Constitution
After the Batavian Empire covered around 26,2 square kilometres the direct military conquest stopped. Indirectly the Batavian Empire helped many monarchist organisations or political parties in other countries to commit coups in their countries. First the United States tried to stop them, but after the Latino-American war was fought and Mexico and Cuba, supported by the Batavian Empire, won, they were completely out of the game and many countries became kingdoms or empires. After they became monarchies they mostly joined the Royal Alliance which lead to the dissolution of the UN January 1, 2042. After this the Royal Alliance and the Batavian Empire had complete hegemony in the world. The Royal Alliance took over some old treaties of the United Nations, like the Antarctica treaty; but with all the land belonging to France, England or Norway passing over to the Batavian Empire. April 21, 2042 Saviël ordered the creation of a good and democratic constitution and was adopted March 21, 2042. After this the Act of the Constitution was a fact which made Saviël a semi-constitutional emperor with the right to suspend a few parts of the constitution and with control over the army. He was controlled by the elected Lower House (Consulate) and Upper House (Senate).

Geography
The Batavian Empire spreads all across the globe. It is the only country which is located in all seven continents. The capital city is Amsterdam which is in the department of the Netherlands. Amsterdam is the capital city because it's the cultural center of the Empire. It is by far not the largest city. Amsterdam isn't even close to the top 10. The largest city is Caïro in the department of Lower-Egypt with about 23 million citizens. Tehran, Lagos are also very large cities and the largest European-Batavian city is London.

The Batavian Empire contains 26,3 million square kilometers in 2050, which makes it the second largest Empire in history right behind the British Empire (which contained 35,5 million kilometers at his peak). Most people live in the European continent, which is also the cultural heart of the Empire. The highest population growth is in Africa. The nature in the Batavian Empire variates from deserts and mountains to forests and steppes. In the former Russian lands are enormous pine- and needle forests which spread as far as the eye can see. In the European departments are mostly oaks and leaf-forests.

Because the Dutch Empire is so large all the five main climates appear somewhere in the Empire. From cold polar climates on the North- and South Pole till hot tropical climates in Madagascar or Guyana.

After the dissolution of the United Nations the Royal Alliance took over the climate agreements made earlier. They even sharped them a bit more to secure a clean environment. The Dutch Empire is the fifth largest pollutant after the United States, China and Russia and India.



Population
The population of the Batavian Empire is different in every department. In some departments there is a high population density, and in other departments there is a small population or low density. There is also much difference between the resistance of people against the Dutch, or monarchist government. In the former Russian lands is the biggest resistance which sometimes even requires military intervention. In the European and polar regions is few resistance and acceptation, also because their wealth did improve and people didn't feel that much of a difference. In Africa is much difference between the resistance, in Madagascar and the islands around is much sympathy for the government though in Nigeria and the southern Sahara people are heavily against the empire. Nigeria is the department with the largest population, though they aren't officially treated differently there is a clear difference between how the government treats matters there. They listen more to the local legislature and doesn't overrule too many things. In the Middle East people want more of their own traditions and less Dutch or European, but agree with the monarchis way of ruling.

Because of high levels of social equality there is very little racial-discrimination. The government is doing everything in her power to fight it. Though there is no social-ethnic inequality, there is huge aristocratic community in the Dutch Empire which has some privileges. Some people, mostly in Europe, do agree with this and do not care much, but many people in the other continents disagree with this and try to fight this. Emperor Saviël has so far vetoed any law which limits the aristocratic power completely but did agree with some changes which would lead to a slow change in this aristocratic society. Emperor Saviël is under a lot pressure to change it. A large majority of the elected House and a small majority in the Senate supports change in the powers and advantages of aristocrats, but the barons from the baronies all over the Empire pressure Emperor Saviël to veto any change.

Language
When the Treaty of Doorn was signed in 2024 Dutch became the offical language in the country. When the conquest followed and more countries were added to the Empire English became the commonly used language, though Dutch stayed the offical language. The demissionary European Parliament advised the Emperor to undertake steps and proclaim English as the new official language. Saviël's own temporarily council cabinet advised him against this, since it would lead to the loss of his large mandate of monarchists in the Netherlands. Saviël decided to keep this issue closed untill the Empire would have settled and untill the 2042 he kept the status quo. After his first imperial order, the Act of the Constitution he launched a second order in which he declared English and Dutch the two official languages, but English as the language the government would be speaking.

Beside of the two official languages there are more than 50 languages spoken in the departments and the legislatures of the departments. Finnaly there are also regional recognised languages in which people in local communities can speak and which they can teach.

Religion
There is no official religion in the Batavian Empire. There is freedom of faith and there are no religions prohibited. There is a strict secular government which is not connected with church and the Emperor has to stay atheist in public, so that his religion is unknown and can't be used for political achievements. The largest religion in the Empire is Christianity, followed by Islam. There are thousands of small or tribal religions.

Race
There are a lot of ethnic groups in the Batavian Empire. The ethnic groups and race variates in every department. The Batavian Empire a rela multicultural pluriform state. There is no real meltingpot since all minorities and peoples keep there own traditions and values.

Government
=== The Emperor ===

The Batavian Empire is governed by a hereditary monarch, an Emperor. The Emperorship of the Batavian Empire (always spelled with a capital) is the sovereign head of state. After his coronation he is granted various titles, the most important are: Emperor of the Batavian Empire, King of Hispaniola and the Rio Plata, Prince of Holland, Zealand, Utrecht, Aragon and Castilla, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Antarctica, Co-Archduke of Austria, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Britain, Souvereign Lord of Russia, Magistrate of Frisia, Lictor of Scandinavia, Squire of Labrador and Baron of Amsterdam. The Emperor has a lot more (minor) titles which he founded after his coronation or he litteraly 'stole' from other nobility in Europe. Unlike common constitutional monarchies the Emperor has a large amount of political influence since he governs some provinces directly and has a seat in the Senate. With his seat he can debate with other Senators, propose amendments and veto a proposal. He also has the power to suspend the constitution for six months and with approval of a per aclamatio Senate even longer. The Emperor is also commander in chief, he can appoint any general or authorise an attack without any permission from the Consulate. The Emperor can declare a State of War with any nation as commander in chief, although it is likely he will ask the Senate for authorisation as well. The Emperor can also dissolve the whole House of Consuls or the Senate. Besides this he is allowed to dismiss any cabinet member, including the Prime-Minister or the speakers of both houses. The Emperor is always a member of the terHart-dynasty and a direct or indirect successor of Saviël-Citus I. An Emperor may choose to step down at any time, although it is common that they stay in charge untill their death.

House of Consuls
The Consulate (sometimes reffered to as Parliament, Congress or Staten-Generaal) of the Batavian Empire comprises of two legislative houses. The Lower House is the House of Consuls, or simply the House (sometimes reffered to as House of Representatives, House of Commons or Chamber of Deputies) and comprises of 500 seats. The House of Consuls is located in the capital city Amsterdam and is elected every 5 years without any midterm elections. The House of Consuls has the authority to make laws, repeal laws or propose amendents. After a proposal received a simple majority of votes it is passed to the Senate which can't amend but only debate it and vote. If the proposed bill is passed by a majority in the Senate it is enacted. An amendment needs a simple majority in the House, but a ⅔ majority in the Senate. Consuls can sit in the House without term-limits. Right now the House is filled with about 65% Europeans and the others being African, Asian, Canadian or Polonysian. There are 14 parties in the House: the USLD (113), LP (112), SDP (98), CD (51), ANF (32), RWC (20), GPP (17), RMO (16), NRU (16), PrPI (8), RPP (7), RLOF (5), CWP (4) and the IJG (1). The Speaker of the House is elected every term by the members and is elected with a majority of at least 200 seats.

The Senate
The Senate (sometimes reffered to as First Chamber, Chambre de Réflection or Council of Departments) is the Upper House of the Consulate. The Senate comprises of 115 seats and is located in Amsterdam. The 111 departments each choose one Senator which represents their department. The elections of the Senate are every 2 years. There is no term-limit for a Senator. The capital city of Amsterdam can send 3 Senators insetad of 1. The 114 Senators discuss the proposals suggested and passed by the House of Consuls and can stop them if their is a minority of Senators in favour. There is a ⅔ majority required to pass amendments. The Senate can also propose amendments themselves, this is called a Unicameral Amendment. There is a ⅔ majority required to pass a Unicameral Amendment. The Senate is also the consultant branch of the Emperor. If the Emperor makes a decision about his Crown Territories, the Imperial City or makes any military moves he can ask the Senate for a Advisory Session in which the Senate consults the Emperor, or if he wishes to, can even vote in (dis)approval of the earlier token decision. This is a council, although the Emperor is likely to awnser this. The Emperor is also in posses of a seat in the Senate. This seat is marked as the 115th Seat or Imperial Seat. With this seat he is able to attent any plenary meeting and participate in debates. He is also able to launch a Veto and stop any proposal or amendment.

Imperial Cabinet
After the elections of the House of Consuls a cabinet is to be formed. A party can only form a cabinet if it is ensured by the support of a majority in the House (50%+1 seat). It is very unlikely that one party gains the absolute majority so the party with the largest amount of seats can start with trying to form a coalition. In the meantime the demissionary cabinet keeps in charge. When the largest party fails to propose plans for a coalition within six weeks the second largest party gets the opportunity to try. As soon as a coalition proposal is made the House elects an informator consulati (commonly called Prime-Minister-Elect) who visits the Emperor and proposes the formation plans. The Prime-Minister-Elect doesn't need a majoity in the House to be elected, just more votes in favour than not in favour. If the Emperor agrees with the coaltion proposed the Prime-Minister-Elect and his contemplated ministers visit the Emperor which formerly appoints them in a new cabinet. A member of the cabinet needs to give up his seat in the House (if he had one). During the term the Prime-Minister can change the coalition, he needs approval from the Emperor for this.

The Imperial Cabinet is the head of the executive branch and lead by the Prime-Minister. In the Batavian Empire the Emperor is not a part of the cabinet, though the Emperor stays responsible for the government since it governs in his name. The Prime-Minister is also the leader of the Council of Ministers which meets every morning from monday till friday. The Prime-Minister also has a weekly chat with the Emperor which is usually mondays. The Prime-Minister and his ministers can propose bills to the Consulate and thus also participate in the legislative proces. They are also responsible to the House of Consuls and are obliged to attend plenary meetings if asked to. The House of Consuls can also petition a motion of distrust. If the motion is accepted by the House it is likely for the Prime-Minister or his whole cabinet to resign. The Emperor can also dismiss a minister or the Prime-Minister during their term. If the Prime-Minister is to be dismissed by the Emperor the deputy is appointed as Prime-Minister till the next election.

At the moment the USLD forms a coaliton with the LP, CD and PPR since January 1, 2049. The coalition is ensured by a 293 seats mandate in the House.

Foreign Relations
The Batavian Empire is a world power and probably the most important country in the world concerning diplomacy. The Batavian Empire was the nation which took initative in 2040 and formed a coalition of nations known as the Royal Alliance. The Royal Alliance was in that time the direct opposit of the United Nations, which strived for self-determination, since the Royal Alliance strived for world superpowers. The Batavian Empire has a permanent Star Seat in the Star Council where it is the most important member.

The Batavian Empire has, regardless of the Royal Alliance also good relations with the Russian Empire. Though the Russian government was very anti-Dutch with the proclamation of the Russian Empire, they grew closer and after the Dutch helped the Russians invade Alaska and gave Moscow back they made some military and economic treaties. The United States, The Republic of Kwomintang-China and Brazil are the main opponents of the Batavian Empire. Those three nations form a strong anti-monarch coaliton and heavily opose the Dutch ideas. Kwomintang-China used to be an ally of the Dutch, even had to thank them for existing but later opposed the Dutch after siding with Japan in taking controll of Taiwan and parts of Shandong.

Canada and Australia used to oppose the Dutch as well, but in the end of the 40's they started to allow trade and opened their gates for more diplomacy, thus beginning to give up the last parts of reactionairy hope in restoring the pre-Batavian world order.

Military
The military of the Batavian Empire, better known as The United Batavian Forces is the largest and strongest in the world with about 9 million active personel. They have a mobilisation capacity of about 200 million, making it the largest mobilisation capacity followed by India. They are very militarily active and participate in many civil wars or small wars across the globe. There is also a nuclear programm which is up to date, but highly discouraged by Emperor Saviël as he supports a nuclear-free world. There are however missiles located in Cuban-Florida, Nova Scotia and Alaska. The United States, the largest nuclear power, is constantly in danger with this. Saviël says this is only to prevent any actions which could be taken by the United States and to secure the peace in the world.

Economy
The Batavian Empire has a partially regulated market economy. Based on market exchange rates the Batavian Empire is today by far the largest economy in the world followed by Kwomintang-China and India. The Ministry of Finance, led by the Minister of Finance, is responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and economic policy. The Batavian Bank is the central bank of the empire and is responsible for issuing notes and coins in the nation's currency, the Royal Dutch Florin. Royal Dutch Florin is the world's largest reserve currency.

The Batavian service sector makes up around 73% of the national GDP. London is one of the three "command centres" of the global economy (alongside New York and Tokyo), it is the world's largest financial centre and it has the largest city GDP of the Batavian Empire. Berlin is also one of the largest financial centres in Europe. Tourism is very important to the Batavian economy and, with over hundreds of millions tourists arriving in the last year, the Batavian Empire is ranked as the major tourist destination in the world and London, Paris and Amsterdam take the lead in most visited cities in the empire.

Culture
After the Treaty of Doorn and the re-unification of the Benelux the Dutch started with 're-culturising' Belgium. Dutch became the offical language in the whole country and obliged for government instances and schools. During the conquest of Europe and North-Africa the Dutch were less active in the spread of their culture. They mostly left the native cultures in the countries invaded. Dutch style was however applied everywhere and in the whole Batavian Empire you could still see signs of the Dutch rule.

In the years that followed the Dutch influence in culture slowly decreased (although political influence increased). As soon as the Act of the Constitution was exectued and the first Consulate was elected the Houses of Parliament ensured native culture in departments all over the empire. Especially the African National Front hugly participated in this process. Certain laws were adapted to protect culture.

A large portion of European culture is however adpated in the Middle-East departments and North-Africa. beatifull French-style palaces were built for governors and Greek-style parliaments, this proces is still ongoing and the empire moves, although very slowly, in a simular cultural direction.

Infrastructure
Even before Saviël was crowned Emperor and was still in politics in the Netherlands, his party already had infrastructure as a top priority. As soon as he became the leader of the empire he started to build roads, railways and airports. In his vision a strong infrastructure would represent the prosperity of the nation and was very practical for military forces, who where then busy with an offensive.

The cabinets following the Act of the Consititution also had infrastructure as a main issue. They made excellent road connections between the departments and large cities in the empire. Futuristic and progressive railroads were established, connecting the Europe and Africa like never before. There was put hundreds of millions of dollars to enlarge Schiphol Airport as one of the biggest airports in the world and maintaining strong air connections with many nations in the world. The United States has a ban on planes from the Batavian Empire, so all air traffic to the United States goes via Canada.

Energy
"Clean and Green" was the mantra of the governments policy concerning environment. Since 2049 the Minister of Environment and Energy is a politcian from the Green Progressive Party who is striving towards a complete green economy in 2075. The Batavian Empire is very progressive concerning environment. At the moment the largest percentage of energy comes from nuclear power plants. The coal industry is fought by the government and many of the people, especially after huge trouble with smog in dense areas. There is a large hydro-energy project which should be covering 30% of the energy supply to the European departments in 1955. The solar-driven energy projects are mainly in the Sahara dessert.