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====Bank Secrecy====

In Cohe, the issues of {{wpl|banking privacy}} and {{wpl|information security}} is one which is treated in much the same way as private property or an individual’s person. While individual persons cannot access the information of another on the activities of their banking, a federal or state level organization can do so with due cause. What constitutes due cause, however, is not given form through a singular law or definition but instead through a conglomerate of differing state laws as well as some few federal laws, though the apparatuses used to determine fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, and anti-{{wpl|usury}} lending do often fall under the banner of anti-terrorism organizations within the federal government itself.

~~===Major Industries===~~

~~[[File:0 Carrières du Hainaut à Soignies (2).JPG|thumbnail|350px|right|Calingra Quarry]]~~

Cohe’s economy is widely diversified, in part due to the natural abundance of resources within the northern portion of the country as well as major population densities within the southern portions of the country. The largest national industry, by far, would be the mining industry about the Diamode Alps which plays host to large deposits of iron ore, lignite, uranium, copper, nickel, while smaller deposits exist of gold, silver, zinc, manganese, and tin. The mining of these ores accounts for a vast number of jobs within the country which are both sold abroad and sold to other domestic corporations for use locally. Due to the placement of these deposits, {{wpl|underground mining (hard rock)|underground mining}} and {{wpl|in-situ leaching}} are the most common forms of methods while only two open {{wpl|quarries}} exist on the northern side of the country.

The fishing industry within the country is also a major source of economic strength, with a total of four million tonnes of fish caught every year on average due to long ranging fishing vessels employing mainly {{wpl|purse seining}}. The proliferation of vessels often is likened to civilian fleets, which ships rotating in a shift-line manner to reduce stress and fatigue on crew members. Despite this, the Cohen Navy still receives nearly a hundred calls for aid every year, mainly due to engine failures or {{wpl|man overboard}} situations. Even with this danger, the industry only continues to grow as demand across [[Levantia]] increases. Recent proliferation of fishing companies employing independent fishers under their roster has lead to some protests and a mild counter-culture, though skirmishes between the factions have not been extreme in recent history.

Due to heavily forested areas to both the north and south of the Diamode Alps, the timber industry is a major contributor to Cohe’s GDP with over $330 Billion contributed in 2036 as well as employing significant numbers of the population. Due to the perfection of {{wpl|silvicide}} and {{wpl|herbicide}} use, specific trees are enabled to grow in contrast to others while selected areas are kept off-limits to timber companies, enabling a continuous cycle of fully renewable forestry. As can be expected, significant oversight is present within the timber industry by both state and federal governments due to the importance of ensuring that such efforts do not hold more damage than the money they bring in. In addition to this, civil programs are in place to ensure invasive species are kept limited and controlled, as such species could prove to be exceptional damaging to the ecology and by extension the economy.

A manufacturing industry is present within Cohe, producing a variety of both civil and military goods for domestic and foreign use. This was initially born during the 1800s when the mining industry began to take flight through the Rudnik brothers, three men who purchased both iron and nickel mines as well as began the construction of local factories and, through the simplicity of production, outpaced many domestic and foreign competitors in local prices. Today, the Cohe industrial base is a piece of national pride in many ways, contributing $670 Billion to the GDP. Local production includes such things as civil appliances, industrial works, as well as military products in terms of rifles, missiles, and warships of a heavy scale.

~~===Power Production===~~

~~[[File:JE Temelin1.jpg|thumbnail|350px|right|Pored Nuclear Plant, 1978]]~~

Pre-[[Second Great War]], Cohen power production was entirely coal driven with smaller, more local plants producing for localized, unconnected power grids in singular townships and some isolated counties. In the midst of the industrial pull immediately prior to the [[Second Great War]], the main producer of power within Cohe would still be the use of coal, which could be found in major abundance within the country itself. However, power plants along the length of the Alps provided for much of the major population centers while some of the new {{wpl|hydroelectric power plants}} along the twin rivers gave power to nearby areas. A rudimentary national power grid was in development, though such progress would be interrupted. These areas would prove to be significant military targets during the war by strategic bombing, both in order to disrupt domestic production as well as to attempt to flood portions of the country in order to disrupt military efforts and maneuvers.

During the war itself, emergency programs would lead to multiple underground power plants in order to protect such things from strategic bombing. As small as could be to power such things as factories and lighting for search lights, they lacked mass output to maximize concealment, lessen the chance of a bomb strike, and conserve resources and fuel. Often near rivers, many such plants relied on underground streams for power while other operated in the far more usual coal manner. Produced to roughly the same specifications under the Board of Engineers and the Cohen Army Corps of Engineers, injuries would prove to be high due to construction faults, bombing, and a series of sabotages from insurrectionist movements. Nevertheless, these emergency plants would provide power and enable Cohe to keep active. Following the wars end these emergency plants would cease operation due their scale of power production.

Following that period, most of the power structure for Cohe was rebuilt during the late 1950s, though significant advancements in energy technology would lead to a vast experiment. In 1957, construction for the Pored XB-01 Plant began, the idea of such unlimited energy widespread, and uranium deposits in the alpine regions would be put to work. In 1963, construction of the plant was completed and it produced enough power to provide for not only the testing area but the surrounding power grid itself. After control testing for several years the station would be expanded and designated the Pored Nuclear Plant in 1965 and continues to operate normally even today with modification. The success of the Pored station would lead to the construction of nearly a dozen other similar nuclear plants across the country and today such power contributes to nearly 3/4ths of the total power output of the country.

More recently, renewable power sources have spread across the country, mainly in terms of wind power. Large farms of wind turbines can be found along the length of the Diamode Alps, reliant upon the omnipresent high winds within that area. Such wind plants contribute both to the practical research efforts in perfecting the technology as well as local power grids and ensuring a sustainable, continuous source of power is present in the region. In addition to this, solar technology has made a recent rise in the 2020s in an effort by consumers to lessen the costs of power for their own households, leading to many private houses as well as some affordable housing projects to have roofs lined with solar paneling.

~~===Healthcare===~~

Cohe has legalized a {{wpl|universal health care|universal}}, tax-based health care system based around a series of taxes and tariffs. These include taxes against the person, of which can be considered minor in their scale and impact on most of the population while not afflicting those below the poverty line, as well as corporate taxes for foreign based companies and conglomerates operating within Cohe. Due to this taxation effort, funding from the government in order to make up the extra slack is lessened, popularizing the idea among Cohen politicians while the civilian populace continues to enjoy the benefits of a {{wpl|universal health care|universal}} system. In 2030, Cohen ranked highly internationally with an average life expectancy of 78 for men, 84 for women, as well as a low infant mortality rate (4.4 per 1,000 live births). Practicing physicians were approximately 4.2 per 1,000. In a government survey in 2033, outcomes, hospital wait times, and quality of care were considered to be good by 78% of the 1.3 million participants across the nation, average by 20% of those participants, and poor by the remaining 2%. Robust constitutional protections by the government have given, for most citizens, ample considerations towards both the LGBT community and the argument of abortion.

===Transportation===

Personal transportation has a mix of automobiles and public transportation, though numbers of usage vary between urban and rural parts of the country. With an extensive highway system developed and built in the 1990s, per-capita vehicle ownership for Cohe is approximately 430 vehicles per 1,000 Cohen in 2030, leading to 30,100,000 active vehicles in the nation in the same year. Due to urban congestion recent attempts have been made in furthering public transportation to include an underground subway system linking Miden with outlying districts and regions as well as railed subways within the city, enabling most of the urban population to go about their day without ever requiring to drive. As a result of this, more recent surveys in 2035 indicate the average Cohen adult (accounting for all drivers and non-drivers) spends 30 minutes driving every day, traveling 18.6 miles (30 km). With this decline in personal automobile usage, the government has instituted buy-back policies, either selling the vehicles abroad following refurbishment or recycling them for other use. Due to cheap and prolific nuclear technology, many newer vehicles are electrically powered. In 2035, surveys indicated that approximately 60% of current vehicles (Then estimated to be approximately 26,400,000) were compact vehicles.

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 ====Bank Secrecy====
 In Cohe, the issues of {{wpl|banking privacy}} and {{wpl|information security}} is one which is treated in much the same way as private property or an individual’s person. While individual persons cannot access the information of another on the activities of their banking, a federal or state level organization can do so with due cause. What constitutes due cause, however, is not given form through a singular law or definition but instead through a conglomerate of differing state laws as well as some few federal laws, though the apparatuses used to determine fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, and anti-{{wpl|usury}} lending do often fall under the banner of anti-terrorism organizations within the federal government itself.
-===Major Industries===
-[[File:0 Carrières du Hainaut à Soignies (2).JPG|thumbnail|350px|right|Calingra Quarry]]
-Cohe’s economy is widely diversified, in part due to the natural abundance of resources within the northern portion of the country as well as major population densities within the southern portions of the country. The largest national industry, by far, would be the mining industry about the Diamode Alps which plays host to large deposits of iron ore, lignite, uranium, copper, nickel, while smaller deposits exist of gold, silver, zinc, manganese, and tin. The mining of these ores accounts for a vast number of jobs within the country which are both sold abroad and sold to other domestic corporations for use locally. Due to the placement of these deposits, {{wpl|underground mining (hard rock)|underground mining}} and {{wpl|in-situ leaching}} are the most common forms of methods while only two open {{wpl|quarries}} exist on the northern side of the country.
-The fishing industry within the country is also a major source of economic strength, with a total of four million tonnes of fish caught every year on average due to long ranging fishing vessels employing mainly {{wpl|purse seining}}. The proliferation of vessels often is likened to civilian fleets, which ships rotating in a shift-line manner to reduce stress and fatigue on crew members. Despite this, the Cohen Navy still receives nearly a hundred calls for aid every year, mainly due to engine failures or {{wpl|man overboard}} situations. Even with this danger, the industry only continues to grow as demand across [[Levantia]] increases. Recent proliferation of fishing companies employing independent fishers under their roster has lead to some protests and a mild counter-culture, though skirmishes between the factions have not been extreme in recent history.
-Due to heavily forested areas to both the north and south of the Diamode Alps, the timber industry is a major contributor to Cohe’s GDP with over $330 Billion contributed in 2036 as well as employing significant numbers of the population. Due to the perfection of {{wpl|silvicide}} and {{wpl|herbicide}} use, specific trees are enabled to grow in contrast to others while selected areas are kept off-limits to timber companies, enabling a continuous cycle of fully renewable forestry. As can be expected, significant oversight is present within the timber industry by both state and federal governments due to the importance of ensuring that  such efforts do not hold more damage than the money they bring in. In addition to this, civil programs are in place to ensure invasive species are kept limited and controlled, as such species could prove to be exceptional damaging to the ecology and by extension the economy.
-A manufacturing industry is present within Cohe, producing a variety of both civil and military goods for domestic and foreign use. This was initially born during the 1800s when the mining industry began to take flight through the Rudnik brothers, three men who purchased both iron and nickel mines as well as began the construction of local factories and, through the simplicity of production, outpaced many domestic and foreign competitors in local prices. Today, the Cohe industrial base is a piece of national pride in many ways, contributing $670 Billion to the GDP. Local production includes such things as civil appliances, industrial works, as well as military products in terms of rifles, missiles, and warships of a heavy scale.
-===Power Production===
-[[File:JE Temelin1.jpg|thumbnail|350px|right|Pored Nuclear Plant, 1978]]
-Pre-[[Second Great War]], Cohen power production was entirely coal driven with smaller, more local plants producing for localized, unconnected power grids in singular townships and some isolated counties. In the midst of the industrial pull immediately prior to the [[Second Great War]], the main producer of power within Cohe would still be the use of coal, which could be found in major abundance within the country itself. However, power plants along the length of the Alps provided for much of the major population centers while some of the new {{wpl|hydroelectric power plants}} along the twin rivers gave power to nearby areas. A rudimentary national power grid was in development, though such progress would be interrupted. These areas would prove to be significant military targets during the war by strategic bombing, both in order to disrupt domestic production as well as to attempt to flood portions of the country in order to disrupt military efforts and maneuvers.
-During the war itself, emergency programs would lead to multiple underground power plants in order to protect such things from strategic bombing. As small as could be to power such things as factories and lighting for search lights, they lacked mass output to maximize concealment, lessen the chance of a bomb strike, and conserve resources and fuel. Often near rivers, many such plants relied on underground streams for power while other operated in the far more usual coal manner. Produced to roughly the same specifications under the Board of Engineers and the Cohen Army Corps of Engineers, injuries would prove to be high due to construction faults,  bombing, and a series of sabotages from insurrectionist movements. Nevertheless, these emergency plants would provide power and enable Cohe to keep active. Following the wars end these emergency plants would cease operation due their scale of power production.
-Following that period, most of the power structure for Cohe was rebuilt during the late 1950s, though significant advancements in energy technology would lead to a vast experiment. In 1957, construction for the Pored XB-01 Plant began, the idea of such unlimited energy widespread, and uranium deposits in the alpine regions would be put to work. In 1963, construction of the plant was completed and it produced enough power to provide for not only the testing area but the surrounding power grid itself. After control testing for several years the station would be expanded and designated the Pored Nuclear Plant in 1965 and continues to operate normally even today with modification. The success of the Pored station would lead to the construction of nearly a dozen other similar nuclear plants across the country and today such power contributes to nearly 3/4ths of the total power output of the country.
-More recently, renewable power sources have spread across the country, mainly in terms of wind power. Large farms of wind turbines can be found along the length of the Diamode Alps, reliant upon the omnipresent high winds within that area. Such wind plants contribute both to the practical research efforts in perfecting the technology as well as local power grids and ensuring a sustainable, continuous source of power is present in the region. In addition to this, solar technology has made a recent rise in the 2020s in an effort by consumers to lessen the costs of power for their own households, leading to many private houses as well as some affordable housing projects to have roofs lined with solar paneling.
-===Healthcare===
-Cohe has legalized a {{wpl|universal health care|universal}}, tax-based health care system based around a series of taxes and tariffs. These include taxes against the person, of which can be considered minor in their scale and impact on most of the population while not afflicting those below the poverty line, as well as corporate taxes for foreign based companies and conglomerates operating within Cohe. Due to this taxation effort, funding from the government in order to make up the extra slack is lessened, popularizing the idea among Cohen politicians while the civilian populace continues to enjoy the benefits of a {{wpl|universal health care|universal}} system. In 2030, Cohen ranked highly internationally with an average life expectancy of 78 for men, 84 for women, as well as a low infant mortality rate (4.4 per 1,000 live births). Practicing physicians were approximately 4.2 per 1,000. In a government survey in 2033, outcomes, hospital wait times, and quality of care were considered to be good by 78% of the 1.3 million participants across the nation, average by 20% of those participants, and poor by the remaining 2%. Robust constitutional protections by the government have given, for most citizens, ample considerations towards both the LGBT community and the argument of abortion.
 ===Transportation===
 Personal transportation has a mix of automobiles and public transportation, though numbers of usage vary between urban and rural parts of the country. With an extensive highway system developed and built in the 1990s, per-capita vehicle ownership for Cohe is approximately 430 vehicles per 1,000 Cohen in 2030, leading to 30,100,000 active vehicles in the nation in the same year. Due to urban congestion recent attempts have been made in furthering public transportation to include an underground subway system linking Miden with outlying districts and regions as well as railed subways within the city, enabling most of the urban population to go about their day without ever requiring to drive. As a result of this, more recent surveys in 2035 indicate the average Cohen adult (accounting for all drivers and non-drivers) spends 30 minutes driving every day, traveling 18.6 miles (30 km). With this decline in personal automobile usage, the government has instituted buy-back policies, either selling the vehicles abroad following refurbishment or recycling them for other use. Due to cheap and prolific nuclear technology, many newer vehicles are electrically powered. In 2035, surveys indicated that approximately 60% of current vehicles (Then estimated to be approximately 26,400,000) were compact vehicles.

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