The Commonwealth of Maiden's Isle is a nation in Oceania off the coast of the Republic of Jerna. It was created on 15 May 2009 with the purchase of the island, formerly known as Rottnest Island, by the King of Germany. In a treaty with the Rottnest Island Authority (now the Isle Authority), which administered the island, Maiden's Isle was granted independence by way of a Personal Union with Germany. The King of Germany, currently Michael von Preußen, has absolute control within the island, assuming the title of Lord Protector of Maiden's Isle. When the Lord Protector is not on the island, or when he so prescribes, local governmental functions are vested in the Isle Authority, which acts as a regnal council.
The local economy is firmly rooted in tourism, with ninety-five percent of the gross national product coming directly or indirectly from tourism-related industry. Despite its economic importance, tourism is strictly limited due to the unique ecology of the island, which is home to several species of flora and fauna not found elsewhere. Under Australian control, the island was protected as a Class A Natural Reserve, but as the island had fallen largely into disuse since the breakup of that country, such designation was deemed unnecessary by the Republic of Jerna. Since independence, the government has worked to preserve the wilderness areas on the island.
First discovered by Europeans in 1610, the island remained unnamed until 1681 when English captain and cartographer John Daniel labelled it Maiden's Isle on a map of the Western Australian Seaboard. The name was subsequently abandoned by Dutch settlers in exchange for Rottnest Island, a derivative of the DutchRattenest, after the quokka, a native marsupial which was believed to be a form of large rat. Subsequently claimed jointly by the Netherlands, France, and England, it was incorporated into the BritishSwan River Colony in 1830. Lakes on the island provided an invaluable source of salt for the mainland colony.
Michael was born in the German Democratic Republic, in East Berlin. Gaining prominence as a politician, he was elected president of the Student Government at Albert-Schweitzer-Oberschule as a teenager. A talented student, Michael gratuated young at the age of sixteen, then gaining a law degree at the Free University of Berlin.
In 2007, following the creation of the German National Unionist Party (DNUP), the federal German government moved to ban the party as 'unconstitutional' under the Strafgesetzbuch, claiming it was a reformation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The Party hired a team of lawyers headed by Michael to lead the defense. After a lengthy battle, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the Party, citing Michael's argument that the party, while politically fascist, 'firmly opposed the racist and undemocratic policies of the Großdeutsches Reich and the Nazi Party'.
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