Ceticilia

Ceticilia getklé
Flag Coat of arms
Demonym(s)	Ceticilian
Government	Presidential system with direct democracy
• President	Jean-Luc Caliastre
Establishment
• Formation	2016 March 29
• Current Constitution	2024 April 22
Population
• 2024 estimate	9

Ceticilia is a presidential republic founded on international cooperation, laissez-faire values and free development of personality, especially in regards to LGBT rights and as a response to homophobia in German politics. Originally a direct democracy with the presidency being the only governmental role, Ceticilia went through a number of ideological and political reforms throughout the years. Ceticilian culture has been strongly influenced by German, Spanish and English aspects, with its cultural constructed language, Cet, originally planned as a link between those three languages, which was ultimately dropped and Cet entirely disconnected from its identity as Ceticilian. After being temporarily dissolved in late 2023, Ceticilia was reëstablished a few months later under a new constitution.

Ceticilia's territories, before they were relinquished, lay in Germany, Spain, Macau, and the United States, with the metropolitan parts of Ceticilia all well within Germany. Because of a trilateral agreement between Altannia, Ceticilia, and Chuk Wan Shan, all three nations bordered each other; Westweiden, part of Altannia proper, lay next to Ostweiden, a part of metropolitan Ceticilia. Sheeplandia, the former westernmost part of Ceticilia, has historically caused tensions between Altannia and Ceticilia, as Sheeplandia was once a territory of Altannia and unlawfully seceded to rejoin Ceticilia.

Etymology

The name Ceticilia has no intrinsic meaning and was chosen for its sound, although it is speculated that the name was inspired by the names Cecilia and Celestia. Ceticilia's name has been said to exude the "cellar door" effect by Jean-Luc Caliastre. The Cet name of Ceticilia, cetcile, comes from cet and cil, meaning 'get' and 'clay', respectively. In the current iteration of Cet, it is rendered as cetklé 'get-clay', which is itself a reference to the term for land in Polandball comics, as Ceticilia was often looking into expanding its physical territory.

History

Founding

In late 2015 to early 2016, Lily Jane Rotfels and Taylor Torres were discussing micronationalism and, in particular, the Republic of Borkenfels. The republic was not accessible to people internationally, which inspired Rotfels and Torres to create a nation for people from all around the world. This idea was the prototype for what would become Ceticilia. According to Rotfels, the names Liberalia or Ceticilia-Liberalia were suggested along with Ceticilia. The nation was formally founded on 2016 March 29 by Rotfels, Torres, Jordan Lord, and Jessica S. Rotfels was elected as the first President of Ceticilia with 3/4ths of the vote.

The first constitution of Ceticilia was ratified in August of 2016 and laid out some basic frameworks for Ceticilian governance, such as the presidential terms, and the position of Chief Justice, though it was a rudimentary document. On 2016 August 15, Torres was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of Ceticilia, the only judicial position at the time, which she remained as until elected as President in 2017. Her most notable act was banning the Anarchist Party of Ceticilia for being perceived a threat to the integrity of Ceticilia. In its wake, Lord, the party founder, founded the Anarctarian Party. Lord eventually gave up on this party and started another, the Geolibertarian Party of Ceticilia, which existed until Ceticilia's dissolution in 2023.

Political Turmoil

In 2017, the Geolibertarian Party and the Progressive Party of Ceticilia had numerous arguments, with the Geolibertarians accusing the Progressives of corruption and dictatorial rule, while the Progressives accused the Geolibertarians of being overly dramatic and slanderous. This mudslinging settled until the Presidential election, which incited another wave of fighting. The Presidential election concluded with Geolibertarian candidate Lord being awarded 4/15 votes in the first round and 0/12 in the second. The election ended with six votes for both Torres and Rotfels, both Progressives, after they had already tied in the primaries. This problem was solved by the Presidency being voluntarily ceded to Torres by Rotfels.

Shortly after her election to president, Taylor Mia Torres used a sockpuppet account and infiltrated the Geolibertarian Party under a false name, "Kurisu". She managed to be elected leader of the Geolibertarian Party in that operation but was ultimately found out via an IP-trap. Elemer San Miguel, the Chief Justice at the time, counted that offense as unconstitutional and swiftly impeached her, about one month after her election. This event was known as #WolfyGate, in reference to the username of Torres in some online spaces, though because of the name Kurisu is a reference to Steins;Gate, the incident was later also called #SteinsGate. Following this incident, Rotfels became acting president but managed to win another presidential election in the same month, though under a different party, the Social Democratic Party of Ceticilia.

Two months into the term, Lily Jane Rotfels tried to stage a coup to establish the Kingdom of Ceticilia, leading to being impeached. This impeachment was overturned because the acts which were committed to that point were not actually in conflict with the constitution, though the Chief Justice demanded a referendum take place. This referendum, for the establishment of a kingdom, went in favor of Rotfels, with a majority of 100% (6-0).

Kingdom of Ceticilia

The first monarchy of Ceticilia, the Kingdom of Ceticilia saw the implementation of the Senate and the House of Representatives, being the first Parliament of Ceticilia. From its inception, the Kingdom of Ceticilia attracted a lot of criticism, mainly from the Libertarian Socialist Party of Ceticilia, the party of Taylor Mia Torres. The governing party for all of the Kingdom's history was the Ceticilian Alliance. The Kingdom existed from 2017 July 27 and was disestablished by the queen on 2017 October 7, as a reaction to criticism of the system of governance, by disestablishing the Royal Senate and giving Parliament supreme executive and legislative power from 2017 October 7 onward. The office of President was reestablished not long after and a president elected on 2018 January 8.

The Royal Senate was handpicked by the queen of Ceticilia and roughly reflected party alliances. The House of Representatives was elected via Single Transferable Vote (STV) and saw the Ceticilian alliance get two thirds of the seats in both elections during that time.

Second Republic

The second republic saw many changes made during the kingdom remain in place. Parliament was an institution that was well established, though no longer bicameral. The name was changed from Kingdom of Ceticilia to Ceticilian Republic, differing from the first republic whose name was Republic of Ceticilia. The flag was reverted to the pre-kingdom one. The Second Republic saw the creation of the second oldest Ceticilian political party, the Democratic Socialist Party, which was created out of the union of Ceticilian Alliance and the Libertarian Socialists.

The Libertarian Socialists and the Geolibertarians never managed to get more than one seat in Parliament at the time, while the Ceticilian Alliance at its height managed to elect four Members of Parliament. The second republic was also the time of the Quiet Era, from 2019 to 2020.

Quiet Era

The election of Pablo Zumo called in the quiet era, during which nothing noteworthy happened. The election of Pablo Zumo in the first place was controversial, as he was an independent who later joined the Geolibertarian Party, and he tied with Taylor Mia Torres in the election, with Parliament tipping the vote in his favor by Lily Jane Rotfels abstaining and because his Altannian background might be problematic in Ceticilian politics, though these worries were unfounded.

Revitalization

With the election of Mya Dyth in 2020, Ceticilia revitalized, though her presidency did not last long. In the following years, Ceticilia remained reasonably active until the vacancy crises in 2022.

Second Monarchy

Jean-Luc Caliastre crowned himself Crown Prince during this time.

Third Monarchy coup attempt

Luna Aphelion crowned herself God Queen during this time. The legitimacy of her brief reign was doubted by Caliastre and Torres after procedural errors were discovered in the attempted monarchist coup. Aphelion herself did not pursue a defense of her coup in court, and the laws she attempted to pass during this time were not considered to have passed, let alone be enforceable. Monarchist and former queen Rotfels has mentioned that she believed the Aphelion monarchy to be legitimate, but neither she nor anyone else has attempted to advocate for this claim. Caliastre has compared the Aphelion coup attempt to the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.

Dissolution

The nation was dissolved on 2023 December 1, following a two-year period of failed projects, population decline, and low morale.

New Ceticilia

Shortly after the dissolution, Caliastre began work on a new nation called Astrea, which shared many citizens with the former Ceticilia. While some progress was made in various aspects, such as a constitution, website, and flag, nothing substantial was produced, and the project was abandoned in early 2024. However, the rough draft of the Astrean constitution served as the basis for what would become the new Constitution of Ceticilia. Caliastre designed the new Constitution with certain inalienable rights, including the right to vote and to partially amend the Constitution, and prohibited these rights from being repealed or amended. These protected articles were made in response to the political instability of Old Ceticilia. The Constitution also included a highly centralized government headed by a powerful President in response to the perceived inefficiency of Old Ceticilian Parliamentary politics. After a period of negotiation with members of the Ceticilian community, a draft was agreed upon and ratified on 2024 April 22.

The new Constitution proved to be inconsequential as Ceticilia faced the same issues as it did prior to its dissolution. With no hope of saving the nation without taking drastic measures, President Caliastre parted with Ceticilia's Telegram community on 2024 August 2 in search of new allies.

Government

Legislature

Parliament

The Parliament of Ceticilia or CetÞing was one of two independent but equivalent, and therefore unicameral, legislative means of Ceticilia and was elected every quarter year by all Ceticilian citizens. A bill was accepted into law as soon as a majority of seats voted in favor of it. The CetÞing had had the ability to amend the Constitution during some of its history, . The Parliament of Ceticilia was first formulated in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Ceticilia and consisted out of two chambers, the Royal Senate and the House or Representatives, with only the latter being elected by the public, while the monarch assembled the senate. The senate was dissolved as the kingdom was.

Referenda

Referenda may be petitioned by any Ceticilian citizen who obtains the required amount of signatures. Unlike Parliament, referenda may amend the Constitution. In Old Ceticilia, Constitutional amendments required a vote of two-thirds or more in favor of the amendment, plus quorum; the current Constitution requires only an absolute majority of votes in favor.

Political parties

Ceticilian parties played a role from 2017 onward, in which the Progressive Party of Ceticilia and the Geolibertarian Party of Ceticilia were at the peak of their enmities. Though at the time parties were not legally recognized, party allegiance was nearly a prerequisite to achieving any political office, with every presidential election except the upset victory of Pablo Zumo in 2019 being won by a member of a political party. The most influential of which shifted a lot over time. In early Ceticilian history, the Progressive Party and the Geolibertarian Party were sizable, while the Sparkle Party was dormant for most of its short existence. With the scandal around #WolfyGate, Lily Jane Rotfels branched off from the Progressive Party and founded the Social Democratic Party of Ceticilia, though it was rather unsuccessful. The Libertarian Party was presumably founded somewhere around the time of the Kingdom of Ceticilia ^{[citation needed]}. The Kingdom of Ceticilia saw two dominant parties, the Libertarian Socialist Party, on the left of the spectrum and the Ceticilian Alliance, which was a monarchist big-tent party during the kingdom and a big-tent liberal party after it. The end of the monarchy saw the return of the Geolibertarians, while the Ceticilian Alliance dissolved, with their members joining the Geolibertarian Party and the newly founded Democratic Socialist Party of Ceticilia. The year 2018 also saw the most non-partisan members of parliament, though a majority of party members was always present. Álvaro Barredo and Nathan Deyak, formerly independent, founded the Ceticilian Collapse Cult, though it collapsed not long after it was founded. After a period of relative quiet in 2019, 2020 saw the creation of two new parties in the Ceticilian political sphere; the Ceticilian Ecological Union and the Conservative Party of Ceticilia, the former later became a caucus of the Democratic Socialist Party of Ceticilia until the dissolution of Ceticilia.

Party		Ideology	Spectrum	Leader	Parliament of Ceticilia	Status
	Democratic Socialist Party	Democratic Socialism	Left	Miguel Ceticiliam	5 / 6	Defunct
	Ceticilian Alliance	Social Democrat, Libertarian	Center	Lily Jane Rotfels	4 / 5	Defunct
	Ceticilian Ecological Union	Environmentalism, Socialism, Vegetarianism	Left	Lily Jane Rotfels	2 / 4	Defunct
	Geolibertarian Party of Ceticilia	Libertarian, Liberal	Center-right	Jordan Lord	2 / 5	Defunct
	Libertarian Socialist Party of Ceticilia	Socialist, Marxist	Left	Taylor Mia Torres	1 / 3	Defunct
	Ceticilian Collapse Cult	Unclear	Unclear	Álvaro Barredo, Nathan Deyak	2 / 6	Defunct
	Ceticilian Communist Party	Socialist, Stalinist	Left	Sean Ceticiliam	N/A	Defunct
	Sparkle Party	Environmentalist, Social Liberal	Center-left	Jessica S.	N/A	Defunct
	Progressives	Social Democrat, Left-Libertarian	Center-left	Taylor Mia Torres	N/A	Defunct
	Social Democratic Party of Ceticilia	Social Democrat, Libertarian, Social Liberal	Center-left	Lily Jane Rotfels	N/A	Defunct
	Libertarian Party of Ceticilia	Libertarian, Liberal	Center-right	Jørgen Natt	N/A	Defunct
	Anarchist Party of Ceticilia	Ancap, Anarchist	Right	Jordan Lord	N/A	Banned
	National Socialist Party of Ceticilia	Fascist	Right	?	N/A	Banned

Executive

The executive of Ceticilia consisted out of the head of state (usually the president) and the ministries and government offices. The most important of ministries was the MERI - the Ministry of Elections, Records and Immigration.

Head of State

#	Role	Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	President	Lily Jane Rotfels	2016-03-29	2017-03-29
2	President	Taylor Mia Torres	2017-03-29	2017-04-30	Impeached
3	President	Lily Jane Rotfels	2017-04-30	2017-07-27
	Queen	Lily Jane Rotfels (Jane I)	2017-07-27	2017-10-07	Abdicated
N/A	Executive	Parliament	2017-10-07	2018-01-08
4	President	Lily Jane Rotfels	2018-01-08	2019-03-29
5	President	Pablo Zumo	2019-03-29	2020-03-29
6	President	Mya Kelch	2020-03-29	2020-06-05	Resigned
7	President	Jordan Lord	2020-06-05	2020-06-30	Succeeded as Kelch's former Vice President
8	President	Taylor Mia Torres	2020-06-30	2021-03-29	Won extempore election
9	President	Lily Jane Rotfels	2021-03-29	2021-08-11
10	President	Taylor Mia Torres	2021-08-11	2022-03-29	Won extempore election
11	President	Jean-Luc Demièn Caliastre	2022-03-29	2022-09-13
	Crown Prince	Jean-Luc Demièn Caliastre (John II)	2022-09-13	2022-09-29	Government dissolved
N/A	Vacant		2022-09-29	2022-12-20	No head of state prescribed by law [citation needed]
12	Ruler	ChatGPT	2022-12-20	2022-12-23	Abdicated
N/A	Vacant		2022-12-23	2022-12-30	Direct democracy [citation needed]
13	President	Jean-Luc Demièn Caliastre	2022-12-30	2023-07-09	Won extempore election
14	President	Jordan Lord	2023-07-09	2023-08-12	Won extempore election; resigned
N/A	Vacant		2022-08-12	2022-08-27
15	President	Taylor Mia Torres	2023-08-27	2023-12-01	Won extempore election
Nation dissolved