New Zealand

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The coat of arms of New Zealand.

New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is a semi-colonial capitalist state in the South Pacific. Its territory comprises of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and around 600 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres (103,500 sq mi). Its capital city is Wellington and its main economic hub is Auckland.

As of 2019 the country has a multi-ethnic albeit largely White-Settler population of 5,084,300 people (June 2020), and a developed yet undiversified First World economy with an annual GDP of 135 billion USD (2019). It is a member of the Imperial British Commonwealth but has been functionally independent, and therefore possessing its own robust bourgeoisie, since the 25th of November 1947. The country has its origins in the ill-worded annexation of the country with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

New Zealand is currently administered by a social-democratic government headed by a coalition of the New Zealand Labour Party and the Green Party under Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni.