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The Kingdom of Texas (more commonly: Texas) is a Ritterist monarchy located on North America. The country is composed of five states and one free city. The kingdom is bordered by the United States to the east, north, Mexico to the south, and a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico in the southeast. Texas was founded in 2004, after the United States, and most of the Western world, demised to a large economic and political turbulence. The five states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arkansas formed a faux union inside the United States on January 18th. The states declared their independence one month and two days later on the 20th. Clark County, Nevada, joined the union as the state of Valley two months later, on April 19th.

Texas' political system is based around the principles of Ritterism, which advocates for the rule of a nation by its people as opposed to a nation led by a single ruler. To appease its large size, the nation has a monarchy established out of the House of Austin, founded by the contemporary relatives of Stephen F. Austin. The sovereign exists to insure the stability of law, and serves to represent the interests of the nation as a whole in domestic and international affairs. Other than the sovereign, the government is composed of several national offices which provide for the basic necessities of the people, in culture, infrastructure, and diplomacy. Otherwise, the government is made up of independently organized estates, which serve as administrative and judicial associations of people syndicated on their personal ideas and ulterior culture. To establish a basic set of rights and the directive of the national government, the code of law was established in 2004 along with the nation itself.

Texas has a developed economy based with a free market involving government regulations only on imports and environmental policies. The nation's economic structure is based around localized resource production, and the development of creation resources into artisan goods for both domestic and international consumption. The lowering rates of industrialization in cities after a series of economic agreements made by certain estates in the protection of the economy. The mid 2010s were characterized by the development of an economy based on primary outputs, and the lowering prices of raw materials and basic needs brought a redefined network of artisan production. Instead of mass production, goods within the country are produced locally and independently, which is largely a trait of sociopolitical Ritterization. While the majority of artisan goods remain locally made, a certain amount of goods are produced en masse. The contemporary economic structure of the nation is similar to that of the United States shortly before the Industrial Revolution, which many analysts believe has a positive effect on Texas domestically, and the practice largely eliminates a large amount of globalization into Texas.

As a result of its highly localized and domesticated sociopolitical system and economic structure, Texas remains largely neutral in most global political affairs. However, the Kingdom does have a large amount of trade with the United States and Canada, though it is not signatory nation of the NAFTA. Texas is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the Organization of American States, as well as an observer of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Caribbean Community, and the Latin American Union.

Etymology
The English word Texas derives from the Spanish transliteration for the Caddo word Tejas, which means allies or friendship, which the Spanish used to describe the Caddo and their native lands in East Texas. During Mexican rule, the area was apart of the state of Cohuila y Tejas, which then transferred into Texas as an English word. Throughout the rest of its history, there has been a large area known as Texas. The Kingdom of Texas was chosen as the nation's name with independence in 2004. Because Texas contributed most of the population, land area, and socioeconomic importance. and also had its own history of recognized independence, the state was chosen as the nation's namesake.

Pre-Independence
Contemporary Texan history begins with the works of Allison Ritter in the late 1990s. Several of her pieces criticized the American government's moves to revitalize the American economy by encouraging corporatism, which she believed was the downfall of the capitalist system. Her writings proposed a "third way" opposing both communism and capitalism, but instead advocating for a more traditionalist stance towards economic and social advancement. A major advancement in the founding of this new ideology was the advocacy of a simple lifestyle and the downplay of an advanced socioeconomic network that was developing across the United States. Her writings were seen as one of the main influences on the foundation of the new Texas, and throughout the early 2000s she gained most of her popularity in her home state of Texas. Around 60% of the population of the state agreed with what had been established in her writings, and soon, most of the American southwest became a large center of her ideology. "Ritterism" grew popular throughout mostly the poorer populations of the southwest, and most found themselves in support of the socioeconomic policy which opposed corporatism and mass consumerism. More conservative American politicians criticized the new found ideology as "communist," while more liberal politicians claimed the ideology encouraged poverty. Along with the Ritterist economic views becoming popular, the values of small communities, family, and social harmony also became popular among the people. A separatist movement was established in the June of 2001 by Allison Ritter and several of her closest friends, which advocated for the independence of five southwestern states from the United States.

Independence
The foundations of the new separatist movement were largely anti-government and became popular among poorer, younger, and less established persons within the five states and some outlying areas as well. Those persons became politically apathetic and made no effort to support certain political figures within their states. This led to a large failure within the 2001 elections, in which the five stats had the lowest percentage of active voters, and Democrats within Washington called upon the Democrats in the five states to reaffirm their position within politics. n the February of 2001, a petition was established by Ritter to end the participation of the southwest within the Union, which won support from the majority of her followers and successfully garnered almost 14 million signatures by the end of 2002. In the February of 2003, two years after she established the petition. The petition was submitted to the capitol buildings of the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, as well as the United States Capitol Building. The secession debate, which had been ended around 1869, became a major feature of many news shows across the United States, and several leading Democrats across the country supported the move of those states to leave. The decision was brought into a bill within the legislature, and the majority of Democrats agreed that the states should secede or otherwise continued political apathy would tear apart the Union itself. Overall, by the end of 2003, most states, with the exception of Mississippi and Alabama, supported the secession of the five states to re-balance the politics of the United States. By the January of 2004, the two states were pressured into supporting the movement, and the bill was signed into law by President George Bush on January 27th. Between January 18th and February 20th, the union of the five states was in political limbo as many in opposition to the independence fled into the United States, mainly older, Republican voters. To prevent the President's residence from becoming invalid, the United States Congress introduced a bill which allowed for persons born in the seceding states before the secession to keep any of their federal positions they had previously held with no future restrictions.

Early Texas
The newly found nation was based upon a series of documents known as the Code of Laws which implemented the Ritterist estate system and an official monarchy headed by the House of Austin. Instead of establishing a series of government offices in an already established city, the monarchy decided to create a new city which would embody the nation through a single vestige. Construction began on Grand Flatts City, signifying that Texas would create itself anew, and reshape its human geography to reflect the new political and socioeconomic system of Ritterism. Known as the Great Renovation, many communities across the nation realigned themselves to better suit a more traditionalist way of life, with the end of an entirely suburban way of life towards a more dispersed method of living. Instead of large metropolises owing up to a single consolidated unit, metropolitan areas grew to represent a large band of smaller towns under a unified identity and regional name. This period, largely taking place between 2004 and 2008, consisted of a major migration of more conservative residents out of the nation into the Southern United States and massive renovation projects occurring across many metropolitan areas. A revitalization of the Texan economy was established through a method of agricultural de-intensification which would allow for a more labour intensive industry and the foundation of an artisan economy based upon the workings of man as opposed to that of machines. More modern industries which required a larger corporate body to operate effectively were chartered by the crown, and several major crown companies came into existence under Texan royal prominence. Petroleum based industries remained a large feature of the nation, and more advanced methods of fuel consumption began research under grants allowed by the monarchy in a effort to strengthen the Texan holdings in the refinement of crude oil. Under agreement with the crown, foreign corporations with major holdings in Texan industries were allowed to either operate under a foreign-based team or liquidate their assets within the nation entirely. Because of the major reworkings of the monarchy's importance in the economy, the government found itself in the ownership of massive profits and invested the majority of that money in the re-establishment of the nation.

Contemporary nation
By the end of 2009, the majority of national renovation was coming to a close, with several international newspapers calling the event the "Great Texan Down-Do" in reference to the spread of the population into smaller, integrated communities. Because of a different political system, a large number of people, namely older, more conservative persons, left the nation into the bordering United States. Unemployment dropped by a large rate down to only 4.2% of the population seeking employment. By the end of 2012, the nation had received a large amount of criticism from Western capitalists for the ownership of many major industries that formerly belonged to major corporations focused on transportation and commerce. Some conservative outlets compared the new Texan politico-economic structure as similar to that of the Soviet Union, which, much more moderate third part outside outlets even disputed with those against Texas. In all, the growth of a more localized system of economics aided by a centralized system of nationalized transportation and trade created a much more anti-corporate and communal Texas, which some outlets have claimed completely changes the face of the nation.

Politics
Texas is a monarchy with the principles of a Ritterist democracy infused into its government. In a Ritterist monarchy, the monarch serves as a person of political organization and as a governmental figure head. Essentially, the monarch reigns as a symbol of government and the pure representation of the government in domestic and international affairs. Otherwise, governmental power is instead vested into the national offices which are composed based upon the processions of the estates general. The estates general is the meeting of all estates of the nation, which are in turn the political and sociographic representatives of groups of people based on a common feature. In all, the government is generally composed of the national offices, which are ruled by the code of law as dictated by the estates general, and over all, the sovereign represents the centralized government as a whole in both domestic and international affairs.

Demographics
The Texan population is primarily composed of mixed ethnicity immigrants that have formed three major ethnic groups over the course of the period of the United States rule. The largest groups, Anglo-, African- and Hispanic-Americans, compose over 95% of the population, and make up the majority of all people inside in Texas' borders. The remaining 5% belongs to new immigrants, the majority of which are from Asia and Mexico, Asian-Americans and Native Americans. 62% of all Texans are Anglo-Americans, making it the dominant racial group in Texan demographics. 17% of all Texans are of African-American background, which is the second largest ethnic group in the country. 16% of Texans are Hispanic-American, which makes up the remainder of the three primary American ethic groups. Asian-Americans are not considered to be apart of the major three population groups because their percentage does not total over 10%. Instead, they make up only 3% of the Texan populace. 1% of the total population belongs to Native Americans, which are primarily found in rural areas of the country. The remaining 1% is composed of first generation immigrants from Mexico and Asia, of which is the two largest immigration factors in the nation. By 2080, it is expected that the Hispanic-, African- and Anglo-American groups will have interbred enough to be counted as one whole ethnic group known as Texans.

Cities
The listing is by the proper population of the city, not the metro area.