Hellenic Confederation

Local full name: Helleniki Synomospondia (Greek), Yunanca Konfederasyon (Turkish)
Local short name: Hellada or Hellas (Greek), Yunanistan (Turkish)
Conventional full name: Hellenic Confederation; often mistakenly referred to as Hellenic Republic or Hellenic Empire.
Conventional short name: Greece

Population: 50 million
Ethnic groups: Greeks (64%), Turkish (15%), Bulgarian (5%), Jewish (4%), Albanian (3%), Russian (1%), Roma (1%), Other (2%; Belarusian 0,5%, Lithuanian 0.25%, Spanish 0.2%, other 0.05%)
Religious groups: Eastern Orthodox Christian (70%; Greek Orthodox 65%, Bulgarian Orthodox 5%), Sunni Muslim (20%), Jewish (4%), Catholic Christian (4%; Greek Catholic 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), various others (2%)
Languages: Greek (Official), Turkish (Official), Bulgarian, Russian, Belarusian, English, and other (Lithuanian, Yiddish, Spanish)
Capital: Constantinople
Major cities: Constantinople [Istanbul], Athens, Thessaloniki [Salonica], Adrianople [Edirne], Gallipoli [Gelibolu], Iraklion [Candia], Khania [La Canea]

Armed forces: 760.420 on active duty, 1.898.160 in reserve
Armed forces branches: Army, Navy, Air force, Air defence forces, National Guard [wartime only]
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces: See Head of state.

Form of government: Multiparty Parliamentary Socialist Republic
First-level political division: 64 nomoi (prefectures) and 3 ypernomoi (super-prefectures) in 20 peripheries (regions) [map]
Head of state: President Aleka PAPARIGA (K.K.E.)
Emperor: His Panhypermajestic Majesty the Emperor and Autocrat Manuel III, King of the Romans, Master of the World and Master of Time, Crown Prince of Macedonia

Note: The Imperial post is not the highest office of the country, and not the head of state.

Head of government: Prime Minister Kostas KARAMANLIS (N.D.)
Parliament: Vouli ton Antiprosopon (House of the Representatives), consisted by 300 members
Political parties: Coalition of the Radical Left (Synaspismos Rizospastikis Aristeras - SY.RIZ.A. or Koalisyon Radikal Ayrıldı - KO.R.A.), Communist Party of Greece (Kommounistiko Komma Ellados - K.K.E. or Komünist Eğlenti -in Yunanistan - K.E.Y.), New Democracy (Nea Demokratia, N.D. or Yeni Demokrasi - Y.D.), People's Orthodox Rally (Laikos Orthodoksos Synagermos, LA.O.S.), Islamic Party of Greece (İslam Eğlenti -in Yunanistan - İ.E.Y. or Islamiko Komma tis Ellados - I.K.E.)
State constitution: adopted May 2006, last amended 2 July 2008
Important Dates: 22 March 2006 (Crete and Cassadine unite), 26 May 2006 (ISAF joins the Confederation)
National anthem: Imnos eis tin Eleftherian (Hymn to Freedom), lyrics by Dionisios Solomos and music by Nikolaos Mantzaros
National Motto: Eleftheria i Thanatos (Freedom or Death)

Currency: 1 unified drachma (Udrh), consisted of 100 lepta*

* The Cretan drachma was replaced by the unified drachma when a monetary and economic union was established between Thermopylai and Crete. The currency remained in use once the Confederation was formed, with the Hellenic Confederation officially succeeding Crete.

GDP (PPP) per capita: $37.000
GDP (PPP): $1,85 trillion
Exchange rate: 1 Udrh = $1,9976

Written by Dionysios Solomos.
Music by Nikolaos Mantzaros.

The Hymn to Freedom is a poem written by Dionysios Solomos, and has 158 stanzas. The Guiness Book of Records lists it as the largest national anthem. Below are the two first stanzas.

Greek Version (Greek Script)
Σε γνωρίζω από την κόψη
του σπαθιού την τρομερή!
Σε γνωρίζω από την όψη
πού με βία μετράει την γή!

Απ' τα κόκκαλα βγαλμένη
των Ελλήνων τα ιερά!
Και σαν πρώτα ανδρειωμένη,
Χαίρε, ω, Χάιρε Ελευθεριά!

Greek Version (Latin Script)
Se gnorizo apo tin kopsi
tou spathiou tin tromeri!
Se gnorizo apo tin opsi
pou me via metraei tin gi!

Ap' ta kokkala vgalmeni
ton Ellinon ta iera!
Kai san prota andeiomeni,
Haire, o, Haire Eleftheria!

English Translation
I shall always recognise you
By the dreadful sword you hold,
As the earth, with searching vision,
You survey, with spirit bold.

'Twas the Greeks of old whose dying
Brought to birth our spirit free.
Now, with ancient valour rising,
Let us hail you, oh Liberty!

Article from NSWiki (link)

The flag of the Hellenic Confederation (Σημαία της Ελλάδος, popularly referred to as the Γαλανόλευκη or the Κυανόλευκη, the "blue-white") is white cross on blue (plain) for the land flag and nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white for the naval flag. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross for the naval variant. The canton of the cross itself, in both the naval and land variant, is of red colour with a white star.

The cross symbolises Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of the country. The red colour represents the blood spilled for Greek freedom, whereas the star represents the strong Muslim/Turkish minority living in the country. According to popular tradition, the nine stripes of the sea flag represent the nine syllables of the phrase "Έλευθερία ή Θάνατος" ("Freedom or Death", " E-lef-the-ri-a i Tha-na-tos"), the five blue stripes for the syllables "Έλευθερία" and the four white stripes "ή Θάνατος". There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses of art and civilization (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks).

The above patterns were officially adopted by the First National Assembly at Khania in January 1898 and were used uninterruptingly by the independent state of Crete until its union with the Hellenic Confederation, from which point on the federal; state and the Cretan state itself continued using them. Although red has a 'clear' intepretation, blue and white have many interpretations, symbolizing the colors of the famed Greek sky and sea (combined with the white clouds and waves), traditional colors of Greek clothes in the islands and the mainland, etc.

The Hellenic Confederation is divided in 20 peripheries (regions) as following:

1. Bulgaria (capital city: Pyrgos [Burgas])
   Bulgaria's official languages include, besides the nation-wide Greek and Turkish, the natively spoken Bulgarian.
2. Eastern Thrace (capital city: Adrianople [Edirne])
3. Bosporus (capital city: Constantinople [Istanbul])
4. Western Thrace (capital city: Alexandroupoli)
5. Dardanelles (capital city: Dardanelles [Çanakkale])
6. Bythinia (capital city: Nicaea [Iznik])
7. North Aegean (capital city: Mytelene)
8. Central Macedonia (capital city: Salonica [Thessaloniki])
9. Western Macedonia (capital city: Kozani)
10. Epirus (capital city: Janina [Ioannina])
11. Thessaly (capital city: Larissa)
12. Central Greece (capital city: Lamia)
13. Western Greece (capital city: Patras)
14. Ionian Islands (capital city: Corfu [Kerkyra])
15. Peloponnesus (capital city: Tripoli)
16. Attica (capital city: Athens [Athena])
17. Cyclades (capital city: Ermoupoli)
18. Crete (capital city: Iraklion)
19. Dodecanese (capital city: Rhodes [Rhodos])
20. Cyprus (capital city: Nicosia [Lefcosia])