About Acadia

XYZ in Acadia

Acadia emerged in the early 1990s from two decades of civil war, and has attempted to rebuild itself into a functioning democracy with a growing economy. Over the past 25 years, Acadia has received significant international aid and support to help rebuild democratic institutions and has benefitted from trade agreements to promote economic growth and industry.

Although it was able to secure high rates of economic growth from 2010 to 2020, Acadia was greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which not only affected its economy but also increased social discontent at the blatant inequalities across the country. Since 2023, political organizing around economic inequalities has increased but the ruling government continues to be concerned about what they consider to be dissent that is harmful to Arcadia.

Politics

Acadia is a multi-party parliamentary democracy with parliamentary elections taking place every 4 years. Its government and parliament has been dominated by the Acadia Conservative Party (ACP) who has been in power for the past 25 years and dominates at all levels of the state.

The current Prime Minister has been head of the party for decades and has been prime minister since the first elections in 1996. The long-ruling Acadia Conservative Party (ACP) has largely staked its legitimacy on economic growth, and often points to its ambitions to move Acadia from being a less developed country to a lower middle-income country.

Acadia Tomorrow

There has been increasing polarization among the country’s political factions that could cause some volatility in the future. The ACP is unused to sharing power, and there are clear indications that it could revert to increasingly repressive tactics to retain control when it feels threatened.

Acadia’s opposition coalition, which organizes under the name Acadia Tomorrow, was quite successful in the 2024 elections, and secured electoral strongholds in 2 of Acadia’s 4 urban hubs. Acadia Tomorrow is primarily supported by a coalition of young workers – especially those who have worked for several years in factories around urban hubs – and university students.

Feminist activists (working on gender justice, LGBTQI+ rights, etc.) have grown in political mobilization.