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Revision as of 18:08, 6 June 2012

Languages: 
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Belgium
Flag of Belgium   Coat of Arms of Belgium

On the map


General
General rank 48
Anthem The "Brabançonne" <video type="youtube" id="cUplg16ovjY&autoplay=0&loop=1" width="100%" height="25px" frame="false" position="center" />
Motto Strength through Unity
Capital Brussels
Demographics
Language English, Dutch, French and German
Population 642
Politics
President Nohjis
Party Res Belgica
Economics
Currency Flag-Belgium.jpg Belgian Franc (BEF)
Minimum salary Flag-Belgium.jpg 1.00 BEF
Military
Territories 3
Communication
Website Official Forum
IRC chat

Map of Belgium

Last update December 20th, 2011


Belgium (French: Belgique, Dutch: België, German: Belgien) is a small, neutral country in Western Europe of the Northern Hemisphere. Belgium is currently in its third era of existence, having been part of two different unions, one with the Icon-UK.png UK and one with the Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands, called the Icon-United Netherlands.png United Netherlands. Belgium is a parliamentary democracy. It had maintained a neutral stance in the politics and wars surrounding it, until recently when it decided to help ONE and the UK against a French/Irish/Canadian invasion. This caused tension between France and Belgium and soon war was declared.

Icon history.png History

Main article: History of Belgium

Belgium was among the first countries in the beginning of eRepublik. Belgium's population grew slowly before they agreed to merge with the United Kingdom in April 2008. In February 2009, 10 months after Belgium merged with the United Kingdom, two resistance wars were launched to free Belgium, the first failed but the next succeeded. It wasn't until the 21st February 2009 before Belgium became a complete independent nation.

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Icon-social-mic-home.gif Communication

The main language in Belgium is English, however French, Dutch and to a lesser extent, German (as the national languages of Belgium) are also used.

Chat:

Official Forum:

Paper-Compass.png Geography

Belgium borders the original territories of Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Through the years, as a result of military activity, Belgium has bordered other countries too - like Poland and Ireland.

The original territory of Belgium is composed of several regions: BrusselsFlanders (occupied by Icon-Estonia.png), and Wallonia.

Its current territories are listed below:

Original Owner Resource Map
Brussels Icon-capital.gif Icon-Belgium.png Icon - Fruits.png Fruits Region-Brussels.png
Wallonia Icon-Belgium.png Icon - Iron.png Iron Region-Wallonia.png


Current Neighbours
Neutral Allied Hostile
Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands
Icon-France.png France
Icon-United Kingdom.png United Kingdom



Icon achievement Hard Worker on.gif Economy

Taxes

Product Work Tax Import Tax VAT
Icon - Food Q3.png Food 0% 15% 5%
Icon - Weapon Q2.png Weapon 0% 10% 1%
Icon - Aircraft Q1.png Aircraft weapon 0% 0% 0%
Icon - Moving ticket Q3.png Moving ticket 0% 0% 0%
Icon - House Q3.png House 0% 10% 1%
Raw material Work Tax Import Tax VAT
Icon - Food Raw Materials.png Food raw material 0% 35% -
Icon - Weapon Raw Materials.png Weapon raw material 0% 20% -
Icon - Aircraft Weapon Raw Materials.png Aircraft weapon raw material 0% 0% -
Icon - House Raw Materials.png House raw material 0% 5% -
  • Last update: 12 April 2016

Belgian Treasury

Information about the Belgian treasury can be found here.

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Icon position country president.gif Presidents

  • See here to view the election results.

The following table lists Presidents of Belgium.

Name Period Party
Olv007 (De-Facto) January 2010 - February 2010 Belgium for Belgians
Olv007 February 2010 - March 2010 Belgium for Belgians
Elynea March 2010 - April 2010 Belgium for Belgians
Ragoth April 2010 - May 2010 Res Belgica
Apotygma May 2010 - June 2010 Belgium for Belgians
Apotygma June 2010 - July 2010 Belgium for Belgians
AlphaMFPEFM_Z July 2010 - August 2010 Belgium for Belgians
Thore Thoreson August 2010 - September 2010 Free Belgium
Theneka September 2010 - October 2010 Belgian Communist Party
MaryamQ October 2010 - November 2010 Res Belgica
ThomasRed November 2010 - January 2011 Belgium for Belgians
Sammy Tanghe January 2011 - February 2011 Res Belgica
LeValeureuxLiegeois February 2011 - February 2011 Belgium for Belgians
Shadowukcs (De-Facto) February 2011 - March 2011 Res Belgica
ThomasRed March 2011 - April 2011 Belgium For Belgians
NLSP April 2011 - May 2011 United Left Alliance
mittekemuis May 2011 - July 2011 United Left Alliance
Fhaemita Malodorous July 2011 - August 2011 United Left Alliance
Critically August 2011 - September 2011 All TOgethers
Monsieur Guillontine September 2011 - September 2011 Belgian Communist Party
Jofroi (De-Facto) September 2011 - October 2011 All TOgethers
Jamster737 October 2011 - November 2011 Belgium for Belgians
Ward De Bever November 2011 - December 2011 the Om party
MaryamQ December 2011 - January 2012 Res Belgica
Nohjis January 2012 - March 2012 Res Belgica
David Cnudde March 2012 - March 2012 Belgium for Belgians
Goopypants (De-Facto) March 2012 - April 2012 the Om Party
Bruno CND April 2012 - May 2012 All TOgethers
mittekemuis May 2012 - June 2012 Res Belgica

Government

The Belgium Parliament (Belgisch Parlement - parlement belge)

The following table lists the current members of the Belgian cabinet:

Name Position
BrunoCND President
Nohjis Minister of Finance
Djonydjo Minister of Foreign Affairs
Johny English A Minister of Foreign Affairs
Viridi MoFA underminister
Cooke4444 Minister of Home Affairs
Jonathan Clay Vice-minister of Home Affairs
Cotarius, Procuste MoHA underministers of immigration
Karakoran Minister of Defense
DonMatteo Under-minister of Foreign Affairs
SX80 Minister of FUN
Mudduck95 Minister of Communication
Jofroi Advisor and passwords keeper

A formal structure of the Belgian cabinet was specifically not included in the constitution when it was created. Although there have been several amendments proposed to include one, none have been successful to date, with few making it to a vote. The reason for this is to allow the president to structure his/her cabinet as they wish to maximize the efficiency of the government. As of yet, no two consecutive presidents have used the same cabinet structure.

An example of the advantages of this flexibility is Thore Thoreson's cabinet in July-August 2010 where the new position of Chief of Staff was created so that Medrolke could be a member of the cabinet without having to manage a ministry, which he wasn't able to do as he was serving in the US military at the time.

Icon position party president.gif Political Parties

The political parties of Belgium are listed below. They are the current parties of the Belgian Freedom Period, and may be subject to immediate change.

Logo Party Name Initials Political Stance Party President Congress Seats Members Names of Congressmen/Congresswomen
50px United Left Alliance ULA Center-left, Libertarian Evalarkata 0 (0 %) 5
50px Belgium for Belgians BfB Center, Libertarian Manekemaan 2 (0 %) 34 Goran73, tommot
50px Belgian Communist Party BCP Far-Left, Libertarian Critically 6 (0%) 13 Critically, ombrenoire, TurboPunk, Jonathan Clay, A Vegan, jamster737
50px the Om party OM Center, Anarchist GoopyPants 1 (0 %) 17 Wolfenn
All TOgethers.jpg All TOgethers ATO Center-left, Authorian ahakas 9 (0 %) 27 Jofroi, Olv007, Cotarius, Procuste, Bruno Cnudde, ahakas, ErnestoChope,Cooke4444, Radakovic Nemanja
Party-Res Belgica.jpg Res Belgica RB Center-right, Libertarian Mudduck95 12 (0%) 42 Mudduck95, el1temkd, NLSP, MaryamQ, Ray Captain, Ernest Bogdansson, Oleksandr, Jacob van Artevelde, Helviro, Bert_en_Ernie, Xgentis Lempereur, AndreasC
50px Belgian United Party BUP Center, Libertarian vdsy 0 (0%) 4


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Icon Field Marshal.jpg Military

Main article: Belgian Army
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The Belgian Armed Forces Logo

The Belgian Army has three military unit: The Belgian Armed Forces (state-owned). It was re-activated by then Minister of Defence Vulcain on November 19 2010. Its MU leader is Shadowukcs. The Belgian Civilian Army (state-owned), open to all Belgian citizens and led by the Minister of Defence. The Belgian Training Academy is the Belgian army MU for new players.

Icon-pact.gif Alliances

Belgium is a neutral country. Through its history and mainly through the wars with France and United Kingdom, Belgium has signed Mutual Protection Pacts (MPPs) with countries, members of ONE, mainly to defend its regions. At the moment, Belgium is trying to balance and to save its neutrality with signing MPPs with countries from both alliances - ONE and EDEN.

Belgium has mutual protection pacts with the following countries:


Embargo List

This country doesn't have any trading embargoes at the moment.


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