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Vaklori has been noted for its enthusiastic culture around sports and for its participation in international sporting events such as the Aldanic Games and the World Cup, which it most recently hosted in 2020. Association football is the most common sport in the country, but there is a professional league for nearly every major international sport in the country.
==Government==
[[File:Maeve Holstein.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Maeve Holstein, Prime Minister of Vaklori and leader of the Ademar Democrats, pictured in 2021.]]
Politics in Vaklori takes place in the framework of a multi-party, parliamentary, constitutional monarchy. Unlike Asendavia, the powers of the monarch in Vaklori are only symbolic and are only used on the express advice of the elected government. Since 1989, the National Diet has been a unicameral body with 640 seats; prior to then, the Diet consisted of a popularly-elected lower house known as the Legislative Assembly and an upper house known as the Synod whose membership was appointed by the Kaiser of Asendavia. In 2005, the Electoral Reform Act set fixed-length terms of four years for the Diet. As a compromise to ensure passage, the Act also lowered the percentage of the vote a political party needs to receive to gain representation in the Diet to 0.75%, which has resulted in a marked increase in the number of elected parties. No single party has attained a majority of the Diet since 2005, with coalition governments becoming the norm. The Diet is elected in a closed-party list proportional representation system with each of the country's twelve provinces serving as an electoral district with a number of seats proportional to its share of the population of the entire country. The Constitution requires these districts to be reapportioned at least every twelve years.
===Current Government===
[[File:Vaklori National Diet 2021.png|thumb|left|300px|The current National Diet of Vaklori, as of 5 October 2021. The parties are, from left to right:<br /><br />'''Government:'''<br />Ademar Democrats: 121 seats<br />Liberal Alliance: 87 seats<br />Agrarian Center Party: 72 seats<br />Free Democratic Party: 23 seats<br />Pirate Party: 11 seats<br />Crypto Revolution: 7 seats<br /><br />'''Other Parties:'''<br />Labor Party: 77 seats<br />Green Party: 29 seats<br />VKLeft: 29 seats<br />Communist Party: 22 seats<br />Vaklori Communist Party: 7 seats<br />Ailurine Voice: 6 seats<br />Stand Up!: 3 seats<br />Alliance of Man: 1 seat<br /><br />'''Official Opposition:'''<br />Royal Nation Party: 109 seats<br />New Popular Party: 29 seats<br />Pensioners Party: 3 seats]]
Elections in 2021 resulted in a coalition led by the Ademar Democrats Party entering government. The leader of the Ademar Democrats, Maeve Holstein, became Vaklori's first female Prime Minister. The coalition is broadly center to center-right, and is considered to be somewhat fragile, consisting of the Ademar Democrats (an Ademarist party of the center-right) as well as the Liberal Alliance (classical liberals), Agrarian Center Party (agrarian populists), the Free Democratic Party (centrists), and for the first time, two minor parties: the Pirate Party, focused on issues of information freedom and government transparency, and the Crypto Revolution Party, which advocates for financial deregulation and the adoption of cryptocurrency. Stated policy goals for the Holstein Government include lowering taxes on businesses and individuals, revamping the country's system of crop insurance and farm subsidies, undertaking an audit of the National Bank of Vaklori as well as the Ministries of Treasury and Defense.
The official opposition consists of three parties: the Royal National Party (a monarchist party), the New National Party (a big tent populist party), and the Pensioners Party, which advocates for issues relating to the retired and elderly. The Royal National Party and New National Party had never collaborated in any coalition prior to 2021, but agreed to serve together with the Pensioners Party so that their coalition, at 141 seats, was larger than the coalition of the Labor Party, Green Party, and VKLeft at 139 seats and therefore took the spot of Official Opposition. The Labor/Green/VKLeft coalition had previously served as government from 2013 to 2017, but the 2021 elections saw Labor—the previous largest party—lose 50 seats due in large part to the unpopularity of increased fuel taxes, accusations of corruption in regard to the country's 2020 World Cup bid, and controversy surrounding Vaklorian membership in the [[Alliance of Northwest Gondwana]], which increased in unpopularity after perceived political and economic instability in its most powerful member, [[Tavaris]].
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