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| ==Economy==
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| *Tourism
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| **The tourist season is from May to September.
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| **Along both the east and west shores and the shores of Ammouliani, wherever there are sandy beaches, B&Bs have been built to accomodate tourists. The buildings may not be taller than three stories and all have shared bathrooms. The beaches are free for sunning, swimming and other beach sports. Modest bathing suits are required.
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| **One of the Drenia Islands has beautiful sandy beaches. There is a boat that will ferry people to the island to enjoy the sun, sand and sea. There is a taverna on the island but no other buildings.
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| **Wind-surfing and hang-gliding are permitted. There is not enough surf for surf-boarding.
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| **There are opportunities for skin-diving. The territorial waters of the Republic are a wildlife reserve and scuba diving is not permitted.
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| **Tour boats ply the waters so that the monasteries may be seen from the sea.
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| **There is a museum in Ouranoupoli, in the 14th-century Byzantine tower, that displays many art works from the monasteries.
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| **With advance notice artifacts from the monasteries will be brought to the museum to enable both male and female scholars to study them.
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| **All three towns have marinas where both citizens and foreigners may keep their boats.
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| **Bicycles are very popular in the Republic and may be rented. There are several hostels along the Aktí-Ouranoupoli highway.
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| **If you'e looking for theme parks and mad activity, this is not the place for you.
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| *Agricultural
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| **Several monasteries are responsible for the olive harvest.
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| **One monastery harvests chestnuts.
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| **Each monastery has vineyards and makes its own wine. What is not used by the monks is sold to the local communities.
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| **The Monastery of the Annunciation has a grove of cherry trees. They make a liqueur from the fruit which they sell. The monks don't drink the liqueur.
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| **Several of the monasteries have extensive bee hives.
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| **The interior of the Lowland is devoted to the growing of wheat. The Monastic Republic is self-sufficient in bread.
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| **Homemakers have their own vegetable gardens and may sell their produce in the marketplace.
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| **The interior of Ammouliani is covered with citrus groves.
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| *Crafts
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| **The town of Aktí has a flourishing silk textile industry.
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| **In the town of Ouranoupoli carpets are hand woven.
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| **One of the monasteries makes stained glass.
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| **Any monastery that has a monk so talented produces hand painted icons.
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| *Fishing
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| **All three demes have fishing fleets. Since the territorial waters of the Monastic Republic are a wildlife preserve, the fishing fleets must go outside the five-mile limit to fish.
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| ==Health and Public Safety==
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| ===Health===
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| *There is a community hospital in Ouranoupoli.
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| *There is a clinic and an emergency treatment facility in the other two towns.
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| *The hospital and the clinics provide screening for various diseases.
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| *Serious cases are medevaced by helicopter to the nearest medical center in the Hellenic Empire.
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| *Vaccinations and inoculations are required of all children when they enter the school system.
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| *Medical insurance is provided to all the citizens by the government.
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| *Tattooing and body piercing are not permitted in the Monastic Republic.
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| *The blood bank visits the monasteries three times a year. Personnel and equipment are flown in by helicopter. Each monk physically capable is expected to donate; hermits are excluded.
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| *Burial is not permitted in the Monastic Republic. Bodies must be cremated and put into the columbaria provided by the government.
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| *Monks on the Holy Mountain bathe more frequently than those *here*. There is no hot water, but water heated by the sun is provided.
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| ===Public Safety===
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| *The Gendarmery (<font color=blue>Χωροφυλακή</font>)
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| **Each town has a detachment of the gendarmery. Each detachment consists of a captain, two lieutenants, and the enlisted personnel.
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| *The Air Fleet (<font color=blue>Αεροφυλακή</font>)
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| **Each town has a search-and-rescue helicopter.
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| **Each town has a medevac helicopter.
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| *The Coast Guard (<font color=blue>ακτοφυλακή</font>)
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| **Each of the towns has two patrol crafts. The gendarmery post has one.
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| **Each of the towns has a search-and-rescue vessel.
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| **In each of the towns the coastguard station is located just outside the town limits.
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| ==Transportation==
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| *Fossil fuel-driven vehicles are not permitted in the Monastic Republic, with the exception of farm vehicles, emergency vehicles, the helicopters, the ferries and the tour boats.
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| *The streets within the towns and villages are paved two-lane roads.
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| *There is a paved two-lane "highway" linking Ouranoupoli and Aktí.
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| *This paved "highway" continues past Aktí and on to the border with Greece and into Ierissos.
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| *Bicycles and tricycles are very popular modes of transportation.
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| *If motorized transportation is required, electric golf carts are used, just as on Santa Catalina island *here*.
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| *There is a large electric trolley between Ouranoupoli and Aktí.
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| *There is a small electric trolly in Ouranoupoli and Aktí.
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| *Ferry boats carry passengers between Ouranoupoli and Dafni, and between Ouranoupoli and Ammanouli.
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| *Donkeys can still be seen carrying burdens and passengers between and in the towns.
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| *Horses are permitted only on the island of Ammanouli, that is, if the owner wants to pay to import the feed.
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| *Each town, the gendarmery post, and the village has a heliport. Each monastery is required to maintain some place clear for a helicopter to land. The heliport is located as close to the town square (<font color=blue>πλατεία</font>) as possible.
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| ==Demography==
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| *The citizens of the Monastic Republic are mainly Greeks. Most of them are descendants of refugees from Turkey. There is also a sizable population of Lebanese, refugees from Lebanon. There has been some immigration from other parts of Europe, but it is kept to a minimum. Non-citizens may not live in the Monastir Republic.
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| *The Orthodox monks of the Greek monasteries are virtually all Greeks, but the monks of the national monasteries have come from their respective countries.
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| *Monastic Republic nationality
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| **A person whose father or mother is a citizen of the Monastic Republic at his birth is a citizen of the Monastic Republic by descent.
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| **Merely being born in the territory of the Monastic Republic does not confer citizenship.
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| **Every child who is found within the Monastic Republic and the whereabouts of whose parents are unknown is, until the parents of the child are traced, deemed to be a citizen of the Monastic Republic by descent.
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| **Any man who enters the novitiate in any one of the twenty monasteries becomes a citizen of the Monastic Republic.
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| **The acquisition of citizenship of the Monastic Republic by a foreign national is regulated by Law.
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| *Census of 2005
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| **The census figures are obtained from the registers that are kept by the townships and the monasteries.
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| **The name of every citizen and of every monk is recorded with the following details:
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| ***Register number
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| ***Date of birth or naturalization
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| ***Country of birth
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| ***Birthplace of parents
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| ***Complete address
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| ***Marital status and date of marriage
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| ***Occupation at time of census
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| ***If a farmer, crops they grow
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| ***Annual income
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| **The census of 2005 recorded
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| ***7,243 citizens in Ouranoupoli, of whom 194 were naturalized,
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| ***5,280 citizens in Aktí, of whom 449 were naturalized,
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| ***984 citizens in Ammanouli.
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| ***4,621 monks in the twenty monasteries.
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| **Giving a grand total of 18,128 citizens.
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| ==Culture==
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| *Public days of rest:
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| **January 6 (January 7 if January 6 falls on a Sunday), the Epiphany;
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| **February 2 (February 3 if February 2 falls on a Sunday), the Presentation of Christ;
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| **Good Friday;
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| **Easter Monday;
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| **Ascension Thursday;
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| **Pentecost Monday;
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| **June 29 (June 30 if June 29 falls on a Sunday), Sts. Peter and Paul;
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| **August 15 (August 16 if August 15 falls on a Sunday), the Dormition;
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| **the first Monday of September in election years;
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| **September 8 (September 9 if September 8 falls on a Sunday), the Birth of the Virgin.
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| **November 1 (November 2 if November 1 falls on a Sunday), All Saints Day;
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| **December 8 (December 9 if December 8 falls on a Sunday), the Immaculate Conception;
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| **December 24, Christmas Eve;
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| **December 25, Christmas Day (December 26 if December 25 falls on a Sunday).
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| ==Religion==
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| *The Orthodox Church of the Holy Mountain
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| **The Orthodox faith is the national Church of the Monastic Republic.
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| **The three towns each have an Orthodox church.
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| **The village and the gendarmery post have an Orthodox chapel for the benefit of the lay workers.
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| *The Catholic Church
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| **The three towns each have a Maronite Catholic Church.
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| **The Catholic parishes are part of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch.
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| **Three celibate diocesan priests are assigned to care for the Catholic citizens and the Catholic tourists.
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| **Should one of the priest be incapacitated, one of the Maronite priests of St. Maroun will be asked to fill in.
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