Hometown

** TRADE RESULTS: Life has always been a little rocky in Hometown. Not the highest life expectancy, not the least amount of people living in poverty. Until now. You made a wise choice during the trading fair and became involved in the Gold Mining Industry. Your people have jobs, and are healthier and happier. There is just one little problem; Crysco. They want your gold and will do whatever it takes to get it. Will you hold them back? A game of Risk will settle this war.

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Demographics
**Population**: 13,276,517 Major infectious diseases: degree of risk: high ** Languages:**
 * Age structure:**
 * 0-14 years: 39.4% (male 2,664,058/female 2,573,006)
 * 15-64 years: 56.8% (male 3,655,184/female 3,884,331)
 * 65 years and over: 3.8% (male 231,652/female 268,286) (2009 est.)
 * Life Expectancy: 70.29 years
 * food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
 * vector borne disease: dengue fever and malaria
 * water contact disease: leptospirosis (2009)
 * Religions:**
 * Ethnicity:

Landscape
**Climate:** tropical; hot, humid in lowlands; cooler in highlands
 * Natural hazards**: numerous volcanoes in mountains, with occasional violent earthquakes; Coast extremely susceptible to hurricanes and other tropical storms
 * Geography:** mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau
 * Political Divisions:** there are three different provinces, Bergg, Firy, and Yohks

Economy
**Exports:** coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom ** Imports: fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity Industries: sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism ** Agriculture products: sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens**Percentage of People Below Poverty Line**: 56.2% (2004 est.)
 * Natural Resources:** petroleum, nickel, rare woods, fish, chicle, hydropower
 * Budget:**
 * revenues: $4.07 billion
 * expenditures: $5.563 billion

** Military **
All male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are liable for military service; conscript service obligation varies from 12 to 24 months; women can serve as officers.
 * Manpower available for military service:**
 * males age 16-49: 2,861,696
 * females age 16-49: 3,062,967

== Government:


 * Type of Government: Monarchy
 * Leader: Queen Deanna Hamilton
 * How the leader is selected: We picked Deanna becuase she is the oldest and the only girl.
 * What the government is responsible for providing: We are responsible for providing homes, jobs, food, water, money, emergency services, entertainment, clothing, cleaning supplies, and military.
 * How decisions are made: Decisions are decided by telling Deanna, then she decides what will happen.
 * Any other important information about the government: In our government Deanna is our Leader. She makes all decisions. Derek is her assistant, he does everything she tells him. Anthony is our servant, he makes our food, cleans our palace, and answeres to the Queens every need.

Culture:
= Holidays and Celebrations: = = 1. Queen Deanna Day (celebrated on the May 28) = = -Everyone sends the Queen a small gift and has the day off = = -It is important becuase it is the day the Queen became the leader of the country. = = 2. Aweekoff (celebrated on January 24) = = -Everyone can have one week off = = -It is important becuase everyone could use an extra holiday = = 3. Anthony S. Day (celebrated on October 16) = = -everyone has the day off, and sends Anthony some sort of birthday wish = = -it is important becuase it is the date of his birthday and he is the Queens best servent = = 4. Derek Day (celebrated on August 7) = = -one day where the Queens assistant can rule for the day = = -it is important because the Queen felt her assisant was so good that he could rule for at least one day = = __Education__ The people learn the history of our country by choosing to have an educated tutor that we provide.= =The parents have the choice what age they want their kids to start learning.= =The teachers are educated adults that the queen has chosen. They use a lot of methods.= =Survival skills are tought most by the parents and some by the tutors.= = Language: = = Language we speak: English = = ways to communicate: Talk, text, call = = Food: The three main foods are eggplant, alphabet soup, and deer meat. The food is prepared by servent because the people of hometown believe that it is bad luck to make yor own food. The get the food by hunting with guns, or growing it with gardening tools. Meal times are around 5:30 am, 11:00 am, 2:30 pm, and 9:30. As special rewards for being good, children are given pickles to eat. = = = = =