Azebas

The Bolivarian Republic of Azebas(more commonly Azebas [Ah-zEE-bas] or unofficially Venezuela) is a nationalist presidential dictatorship located in northern South America. Azebas was founded after the Political Crisis of 2007 shook the American petroleum interests in Venezuela temporarily, allowing for billionaire industrialist Antonio Guerro Santiéz to overthrow the Venezuelan government with the assistance of defectors in the Venezuelan Armed Forces. Azebas is bordered by Colombia to the west, Trinidad and Tobago and the Carribean to the north, Suriname to the east and Brazil to the south. Azebas has a combined land area of 1,131,415 square kilometers with a population of 29,858,572. The country has an extremely high biodiversity rate, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin in the East.

Shortly after the establishment of Azebas on October 7th, 2007, Santiéz nationalized the petroleum industry and distributed funds evenly in gifts to the impoverished. He gained much support for his actions, and soon Santiéz had came into the possession of funds large enough to create a defense industry. With a functioning nationalized defense and petroleum industry, Azebas launched an invasion of neighboring Guyana, annexing the country after seven months of fighting. With the end of hostilities in 2009, the country experienced an economic boom period of increased domestic market growth. Azebas' unemployment rates lowered and the national income average raised significantly higher with the establishment of the ENFA, which granted government subsidies to people living on less than $1 a day. No deficit was reported in 2010, which revealed the government's policy of nationalization of major industries was successful to a large degree. The economic growth continued into 2011, where it stagnated and finally returned to a normal level. The economy has overall experienced a positive reaction to the dissolution of the United States.

Azebas is a unitary nationalist presidential dictatorship, under the supreme rule of the President of Azebas. The President's actual power is vested in the creation of laws and enactments, but the enforcement of these policies is left to the Armed Forces of Azebas. The President's Council of Advisers serve only to manage the government's interests that do not directly need the attention of the President himself. While being a dictatorship, Azebas still retains a certain level of freedom that is characterized by the rebel roots of the country's predecessors. However, some groups are oppressed to a safe degree as display that the President and his successors retain supreme and absolute power over the people. Another contradictory fact is that the economic freedom of the nation is also high, despite that the government can at any time take over entire industries. The GDP per capita is currently $19,893, and the national GDP is $593.976 billion. Azebas is currently ranked as a developing economy, but analysts believe the county can become a first world nation with its current economic standing being maintained for several more years.