The Government of the Netherlands

​Political Information

 * Government - Empire
 * Currency - Dutch Guilder
 * Location - Europe, Asia, Caribbean, Americas, and The East Indies
 * Leaders - High Council of the Republic
 * Number of Troops - 70,000
 * Number of Naval Ships - 500
 * Trading Company - United East Indian Company (V.O.C.)

Dutch Economy
Trade was the Netherlands' saving grace during the Eights Years War versus Spain, and is to this day. Having risen out of the ashes—as a new nation—was a Protestant stronghold in northwestern Europe where science, trade, and freedom of thought were to forever flourish. The Dutch have one of the most superior navies and trade companies, allowing them to prosper and maintain a military able to fend off attacks from the Spaniards to the south. Having burned the English fleet an anchor in 1689, forcing the English to sign a peace treaty, and won the Franco-Dutch War (assisted by her allies, Denmark-Norway, the Holy Roman Empire, and Brandenburg, and Spain, whom she had set aside her differences with) versus France, England, Sweden, Münster, and Cologne, she, though small, has fended off years of invasion. This was partially owed to Maarten Tromp and Michiel de Ruyter, two strategical geniuses, the latter of which's strategies were copied by the famous Lord Horatio Nelson in the Battle of the Nile.

Territories
Europe
 * Netherlands (Home Region)


 * Belguim

West Indies (Caribbean)
 * Curaçao


 * Saint Maarten
 * Saba
 * Saint Eustatius
 * Leeward Islands (negotiated for from French)

South America
 * Berbice (Dutch Guyana)


 * Suriname Rio Grande do Norté
 * Paramaribo
 * São Luís do Maranhão
 * Paraiba
 * Recife
 * Bahai
 * Demerary

East Indies
 * New Guiena


 * Moluccas
 * Sulawesi
 * Boreno
 * Java
 * Batavia
 * Sumatra
 * Malacca
 * Spice Islands

Asia
 * Deshima


 * Macau


 * Canton


 * Kota


 * Belanda


 * Pangkor Island


 * Al Mukha, Persia


 * Bandar-e Abbas, Persia


 * Bushehr, Persia


 * Esafhan, Persia


 * Khark, Persia


 * Kerman, Persia


 * Shiraz, Persia

India
 * Zeylan


 * Coromandel
 * Dutch Malabar, Lanta Suratte
 * Myanmar
 * Bengalen
 * Mauritius (island in Indian Ocean, negotiated for from French)

Africa
 * Luanda


 * Lobito
 * Dakhla
 * Dakar
 * São Tomé and Príncipe
 * Kaapstad
 * Dutch Guinea, (Nederlandse Gold Coast, West Africa)
 * Elmina
 * Slavenkust (Dutch Slave Coast)

Government
High Council, advised by Stadholder and Ministers

Stadholder - Nathaniel Huntington III

Empress - Daisy D'Este

Arch-Duchess - Kelly Wellington-Mallace

Ministers:

Kelly Wellington-Mallace (Interior Minister), Arabella Wellington (Foreign Minister), Yarghsworth Wellington (Minister of Justice)