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}}'''The Constellation''', officially the '''Constellation of Southern African States''', is a country located in Southern Africa. Generally it is accepted that the beginnings of The Constellation was the Angola-Vaalia Friendship Agreement signed in 19xx, though the offical signing of the Articles of Constellation happened years later in 19xx. The role of national capital is divided into three and shared by Luanda (Legislative), Maputo (Judicial) and Pretoria (Executive). Transport between the three capitals can be achieved in little over three hours utilising the Constellation’s Hyperloop, and data can be shared near instantly over laser-data glass wire.

The terrestrial population of The Constellation is over 165 million people and covers an area of 3,914,565 square kilometres making it the 10th largest country by population and 7th by land area.

The Constellation is a union of the southern African states of Angola, Namibia, Vaalia, Mozambique and the Mzansi. Angola, Namibia, Vaalia and Mozambique are referred to as state republics and Mzansi as the state kingdom within the federal framework of the Constellation. A multiethnic nation, hundreds of recognised languages are used across the lands and extraterrestrial holdings of the Constellation, the primary national languages are Afrikaans (AF), Portuguese (LU), and Standard Bantu (OB). The Constellation borders many countries on the African continent. From northwest clockwise countries that The Constellation borders are Zaire, Katanga, Zambia, Rhodesia, Botswana, Nyasa-Malawiland, Tanzania, Eswatini, Lesotho, and British South Africa. Possessing an anti colonial and pan africanist ideology, the Constellation maintains good relations with most of her African neighbours, but is locked in ongoing conflicts with the remaining colonial states in the region, notably the Belgique Afrique ruled State of Katanga, and the British backed Rhodesia and British South Africa. The Vaalia State Republic and Mzansi both have active land disputes with both Rhodesia and British South Africa dating back to the 1930s and British Colonial Rule. Despite this, the Constellation aims to maintain positive relations with the more (European/British?) aligned majority rule states in the region such as Zambia and Nyasa-Malawiland. Further afield, the Constellation maintains strong relations to (non aligned?) States and pan-african movements. The constellation has positive relations with the social republics of Brazil and Chile in South America, the Federal Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Southern Europe, the Libyan Jamahiriya, Egyptian Socialist Republic and the Kingdom of Ethiopia in North Africa, the Indian Republic and the Union of Burma in South Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Republics of Indonesia and Vietnam in South East Asia. Working relationships are maintained with The United States, Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China, while relations with the legacy colonial European powers are generally poor if not outright hostile.

The Constellation operates as a federal republic made up of four constitute state republics and a state kingdom. Each of these constitute states hold equal political power within the Constellation and have their own constitutions and internal governments. The Angolan State Republic is a presidential regionalised republic, with its capital the primate city Luanda being both the state republic capital and the legislative capital of the Constellation. The Namibian and Mozambican State Republics are both unitary semi-presidential republics. The capital of Namibia is Windhoek is also the largest city in Namibia. Maputo is the capital of the Mozambique state capital and also the judicial capital of the Constellation and contains the national level courts. The Vaalia State Republic is a mess and role-plays at being some wannabe anarchist body politic but doesn’t want to admit it. The largest city in Vaalia is New Johannesburg, with the greater New Johannesburg area containing more than half of the state republic’s population. Pretoria acts as the political capital for the state republic, and is the location of the executive branch of government, but officially Vaalia lacks a state level capital. Mzansi is a constitutional parliamentary monarchy in which power is shared between the House of Zulu and State President alongside a parliament. Mzansi has twin capitals, Ulundi (including the seat of the House of Zulu of Nongoma) and Mthatha which contains the parliament. The largest city of Mzansi is eThkwini, also known as Durban. Mzansi also recognises the British South African cities of East London (known as eMonti to uMzansi) and Williamstown (Bhisho) as an occupied cities part of their traditional people’s lands.

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