Marphonia

= Marphonia = "Map of Marphonia.pngMarphonia (also called Marzonia) is a country near Scandinavia. Its capital city is Liunnia."

History
Marphonia is a very recent country, as it's confederated in 1968. It was the union of various independent cities. Since its very beginning, Marphonia rejected all war, and even before the union, none of those cities ever entered WWI or even WWII. And apparently, it was evident since its first day; December 21, 1968. It was so evident that in Marphonia there was no war or conflict whatsoever, that they were accepted in the United Nations 30 MINUTES AFTER THEIR CONFEDERATION PARTY! (Yes, they had some kind of party on their first day, don't ask).

1970-1979: The first years
The first decade of Marphonia was pretty good for the times. There are work opportunities for everyone and very few deaths (3 to 5 deaths per year!!!! yes that few!!!!!!!!) Marphonia didn't join the European Union back then, and hasn't done yet either. Not much to say about the first decade.

1980-1989: Getting the hang of it
In 1980, the construction of The Marphonian Court (Da Marphos Zartë) was complete, and now Marphonia had a fully fledged central tribunal and proper laws. (I'll explain those later). In 1982, Television was introduced in the country (yes, in 1982) yet no movies aired back then, as theaters weren't a thing in Marphonia. Believe it or not, in Marphonia every copy of a movie produced and released before 1985 is illegal, as both the population and the government decided they were too slow. The first movie to ever end up into theaters in Marphonia, fully dubbed in Marphos language was actually Back to The Future. There still is no way to see movies prior to 1985 in Marphonia.

1990-1995: Television expands
In these years, the industry of television became very strong in Marphonia, with the born of the first Marphos TV channel IN 1992, 1Chanel, abbreviated commonly as 1C. (chanel actually means channel in Marphos language). Also came in production many Marphos TV series from 1994 onwards.

1996-present: Modern Marphonia
This is where Marphonia reached the peak of its population and soon became the richest country in the world, even richer than Switzerland. In 1998, tourism to the country has opened. In 1999, there was a world event at New Year's Eve for the countdown to the year 2000 and the first Marphos Nobel Prize was achieved by a woman called Liza Klankitom (yes that's how she's called). In 2001, the national Marphos football team was created: Marphos Klaciam. In 2004, Good Day, the first Marphos movie to ever win an Oscar was released. In 2005, a whopping THREE NOBEL PRIZES were assigned to Marphos people. In 2008, the first 40 years of Marphonia were celebrated. In 2011, the first Marphos mobile phone was created, the MA2 Lite (Uses Android). In 2017, ANOTHER 10 Nobel Prizes were assigned to Marphos people. In 2020, The Marphos Lockdown™ started, yet only 19 people died of COVID™. Yes I am not kidding. The lockdown ended in early 2021.

Population and economy
The current population of Marphonia, despite it's a seemingly small country, amounts to 108.72 million inhabitants, with 4.987 people born every year, and only 65 people dying every year. Also, the life expectancy is VERY HIGH: men usually live up to 139 years whereas women live up to 145 years.

Economy
As mentioned before, Marphonia is the richest country in the world. 65% of the money is from services, 20% is from primary activities such as agriculture and farming, and 15% is from the various industries.

Marphonia also happens to use several currencies: the Euros, the Canadian Dollars, the Finnish Markka, the British pounds, and the most used currency; the MarCash. (see this article for the exchange rate, but I haven't created it yet)

Language
Aside from the Marphos language, there are other official languages that are avaliable in theatres, on TV, and in most public buildings:


 * Marphos (Main)
 * English (Canada)
 * Italian (Italy)
 * Finnish (Finland)
 * Danish (Denmark)
 * German (Austria)

Laws and banned things
The laws are very simple in Marphonia: there are 3 tiers of crime:


 * Tier 1: Not so bad, also called "You are grounded"
 * Tier 2: Bad, also called "I'm never gonna forgive you after this"
 * Tier 3: Serious crime, totally gonna go into prison, also called "STOP RIGHT THERE YOU IDIOT"
 * Tier 4: THE MOST SERIOUS CRIME ANYONE COULD EVER COMMIT, also called "OH! OH!!! OH!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!! OOOOH!!!!!!!!!"

There luckly isn't any death punishment, but the punishments are very classic:

The legal drinking age is 17, whereas the legal marriage age is 19.
 * Lockdown from 1 day to 1 month
 * Prison from 1 week to 10 years, you will not be trusted by the police after being released.
 * You lose all of your money, lockdown for 1 week.
 * Let's not talk about this punishment, please

Education
More info here: Marphos school system

Education is very straight forward and probably is at the same level as the Finnish school system. School starts at 7:30 am, with a 30 minute long registration of every single student in school. The lessons start at 8:00 and end at 12:30 am, with an extra 30 minute recap of all the day's lessons at the end, thus finishing at a nice and round 1:00 pm. There also are after school clubs which go usually from 3:00 pm to 7:10 pm.

Trivia
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