Margate Antarctica Islands

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Republic of Margate Antarctica Islands or Republic of Margate South, Margate Antarctica Islands and MAI was an independent republic formed in 1998 with former Sherby Hoodwounds and Margate Cross Island. It has nearly been conquered by Sherby Hoodwounds in 2003, but escaped fate in 2004. They have recently been conquered by the United Penguin's Republic. Currently, they are making massive changes, which concerns the fact of needing to change the currency and yes.

History
In 1963, Mr. Neme from somewhere in what is now Eastshield was thinking about "something" on a very hot and sunny morning. He thought about the king of the land, who kept forcing penguins to pay him money every day. Mr. Neme was very angry, so his asked his fellow townspeople to follow him to a new place, where they get independence and their things. Therefore, he set sail on his trusty ship, Lous Alous a.k.a. Lousa, My Boat. They sailed for days and nights till they accidentelly knocked into something, causing the ship to sink. The townspeople swam out and nobody perished. And guess what the saw? Yes, it was the land. They happily swam ashore and started to build [[Limbous City|a large port with the tools they saved during the sinking. The population increased in numbers. They soon built buildings and have sufficient food and items. Mr. Neme was crowned the kind of the country. However, in 2000, the land in Eastshield started entering the borders, seizing one by one. It was renamed as Louk-Amoul. In 2001, somewhere in January, the king of the land in ??? was overthrown. A new king, named Bersen, allowed independence to the island again. Mr. Neme now had to think of a name.

He said: "I think that most penguins are Margatian, we should call this 'Margate Antarctica Island'" Mr. Neme at a press confrence

That was how the penguins lived in harmony and contributed to their island the best of the best.

In 2002, they had fallen into the Sherby Hoodwound War. They were going to be conquered by Sherby Hoodwounds, but fought back and defeated them in 2003.

In 2008, they made an agreement for being accepted to USA in Late 2009, but, the agreement was cancelled due to arguements by citizens. But later joined.

Later in November, they have made a merger with Sherby Hoodwounds and Margate Cross Island for being accepted into the country. Also, USA asked the republic to sign the treaty of Dorkugal. Yes.

Quitting being a Free Republic?
In June 2009, penguins argued that by being a free republic of the USA, they are part of it. They wanted to stop being a free republic and only have ties with them, but to this day, no decision has been made by the government. The protesst was crushed by UPR "security forces".

Gegography
There are 3 main islands in here:
 * Margate Central Island, where the capital lies and the richest in the community.
 * Margate Cross Island, the poorest country in the region.
 * Margate Sherby Hoodwounds, with a long and sufisticated monarch history, now turned into a buzzling site of new mordern items. They plan to break up once again.

Culture and Cuisine
The penguins wear traditional and normal clothes, and adopted the Halloween hat as the Lua Hat, like a pumpkin but without the face. Another famous clothing of the local penguins are Flowers Lovely, a funny name but acceptable to tourists. Many penguins like to wear this during Tropical Day. Local games include Seven Stones (parody of Five Stones),which is played by throwing rocks to other rocks to hit the stone in the circle out, ChaCha Lua and Flowers Frangipani (despite the name, there are no frangipanis in this game). The tasty foods include Mocha Mua, a snack which has chocalate in the inside and penauts on the outside. They are eaten among penguins. For puffles, they have their own, smaller version, Mocha Mama.

National Anthem
The National Anthem always changes with each national day (or independence day). Each theme song will become the next national anthem, instead of having the same anthem all the time that it gets boring every time. This year's national anthem is "What Do You See?", kind of a pop song. Every school has to sing the song whenver the start school. From 1965 to 1988, the national anthem was "The Gates of Margate". From 1988 to 2000, the song was "Onward The Margate!". From 2000 to 2004, the national anthem was "MAI TO GO." In 2004, the rule was implemented. Today, "The Gates of Margate" is the royal anthem and "Onward The Margate!" and "MAI TO GO." are songs played during each National Day.

The anthem was outlawed by the UPR governor.

Transportation
The most important transportation here is the bus services. AntarcticBus, a bus which travels penguins from the city to the countryside. It mostly costs 20C for 1km. Train is another, as PinguTrain carries penguins even faster and costs P1 each. Taxi is another type, mostly with carreer Blump!Taxi and Jewelcab, costing with starting price $2.80 due to fuel! Penguins are mad about this! For Air transport, the flag carrier is Margate Antarctic Airlines and TikiAir. Ferry and ship services, the famous Lous Alous take penguins for rides around the penisula around P200, and the other ferring services like FerryMe cost P10, 5 or less.

Education
Education in MAI consists of different grades and levels. Kindergarten is not compulsory and there are only 11 kindergarten schoolds (2 with both elementary and secondary) in the whole country. Elemantary consists of E1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. The most famous is Ling Fu Shen School and MAI Islandwide school (with Kindergarten and Secondary). Middle school is known as secondary in MAI. There is Lower Secondary and Higher Secondary. The most famous are Crimlim School, (dedicated to Happyface 141-the pledge consists of the name thrice), Barkjon Secondary (dedicated to Barkjon) and the three-grade in one school as said above. The next is High School, consists of High 1 and High 2. The very first one was MAI High (dedicated to Explorer, Turtle and Shroom as they have science and pranking enrichment programmes). Junior College is compulsary and so is University (MAI International University). All grades except Kindergarten are compulsary, otherwise fined or sentenced to jail for 4 months.

Health
Until the UPR invasion, health care was dealt by private hospitals due to MAI being a poor country. The Leader immedietly introduced Universal Health Care. In MAI, the health ratings have gone up ever since the invasion. Many have praised it and prefer it to the former corrupt government.

Economy and Currency
MAI is a poor country in Sub Antartica, relying on agriculture. The Invasion of Margate hasn't changed this and it still relies on international funds. They are only protected by the USA's Free Republic system, giving them enough money to survive. Previously, the former government spent this on the military, building it up to survive any attack. It had to borrow from other sources. It is still in a deep recession.

The country uses the Rupee as their currency. 500,000 rupees equals a fish. The pebble is also in use. The rupee may be abolished in favour of the Freero, though this hasn't been comfirmed.

Goverment
The goverment is a Direct Democracy. Very few creatures actually vote, since it doesn't change the country's situtation. Those who are elidgible to vote or have the time may. It consists of four parties unlike USA. The Penguins United Party (PUP), Democratic Alliance of Margatian Penguins (DAMP), and the Penguins Power Party (PPP) and the Margate Sherby Party (MSP; sucessor to Big Pingu Party, which was dissolved and now brought up again by former members of it plus former members of other Sherbian parties). There are voting polls in all 8 so called "states". The party with the most votes in each state will be combined and the winning party will have 80%, the 2nd 15% and the losing 5%. There are 175 seats in the country's goverment. Currently, the winning party is PUP, followed by PPP and DAMP. MSP did not win any seats as it was formed recently.

Cliamate
It is in degrees Celcius. 0 means very cold, 40 means very hot. 20 is warm and so as 30.