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| - The Kingdom also currently controls several colonies including Create in the Mediterranean Sea; Dutch South America (Suriname and (former French) Guiana) in South America; the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Sao Paulo, as well as the Tristan Da Cunha islands in the Atlantic Ocean (these serve as a naval bases for cross Atlantic journeys); Cocos Islands and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean (to serve as naval bases for cross Indian ocean journeys); the Dutch East Indies (the islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Moluccas Islands, and a few other smaller islands in the East Indies archipelago), Dutch North West Afrika, Dutch Equatorial Guinea, Dutch South West Afrika, the Comoros Islands; and Dutch Polynesia in the South Pacific. The Kingdom of the Netherlands also has the Sultanate
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| - The Kingdom also currently controls several colonies including Create in the Mediterranean Sea; Dutch South America (Suriname and (former French) Guiana) in South America; the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Sao Paulo, as well as the Tristan Da Cunha islands in the Atlantic Ocean (these serve as a naval bases for cross Atlantic journeys); Cocos Islands and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean (to serve as naval bases for cross Indian ocean journeys); the Dutch East Indies (the islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Moluccas Islands, and a few other smaller islands in the East Indies archipelago), Dutch North West Afrika, Dutch Equatorial Guinea, Dutch South West Afrika, the Comoros Islands; and Dutch Polynesia in the South Pacific. The Kingdom of the Netherlands also has the Sultanate of Oman as protectorates of the kingdom under Dutch protection. The Kingdom is a hierarchical, constitutional monarchy system spread across 11 countries on three continents. Each country has two chambers of parliament: a House of Representatives and a Senate. Below is the provincial councils for each of the provinces which make up the nation (these councils discuss matters of local and regional-provincial importance). The people vote for the representatives for each of the constituencies in that country and the leaders of provincial councils; whereas the Senate members are chosen by the provincial councils of that nation. The majority party in the House of Representatives chooses a leader to become prime minister of that country (usually the party leader, but it isn't always the case). The prime minister then chooses ministers from the House of Representatives to form a cabinet (the prime minister can choose whoever they want to be in their cabinet regardless of party affiliation, but usually the cabinet is made up of people from the same party of the prime minister. Furthermore, the prime minister/leader candidates in a party usually will have to show their party a list of the ministers who will form their future cabinet and this is the main say in who party members vote for in leader/prime minister elections, and is also used by the political parties in order to get votes from the people for representatives. File:Royal Coat of Arms of the Netherlands.svg Above the national chambers their is the Royal Council which is made up of the prime ministers of each nation in the Kingdom, and an experienced-senior member of each party in the House of Representatives with more than 20% of the house. The Royal Council's actions are then sent to the Monarch to approve (note the monarch has the power to veto actions and repel old laws but this veto can be challenged and sent to a referendum of the people or referendum of all ministerial positions across the Kingdom (provincial council members, Representatives, Senate members, and royal council members). The monarch will usually just green stamps decisions though. The Royal Council members are usually working on behalf of their party in their country and often just pass forward ideas to the Royal council to fast track it to royal assent. No one can sit in more than one chamber with the exception of the prime minister. Nobility can sit in any chamber too and are treated as just normal people by the political system, with the exception of the monarch. Direct family of the monarch cannot sit in a ministerial position par provincial council membership of where that member of the royal family usually lives. Legislation is formed in the House of Representatives when it is then sent up to the Senate to be approved to be implemented in that country; the legislation can then be chosen to be sent up to the Royal Council which then if it approves of, can force the implementation of the legislation in all member nations of the Kingdom. The Royal council, though, is usually dealing with big issues like diplomatic issues, national-multinational issues (issues which affect one or more of the nations in the Kingdom greatly), war, taxes, important legal issues etc. The Kingdom of the Netherlands' combined army of all of the member nations currently stands at an army of 400,000 regulars, 10,000 elite forces, and 650,000 reserve troops. The army stems from all parts of the Netherlands' global kingdom. The Dutch navy is also very powerful and has 2,519 iron clad ships, and loads of older galleons, sloops and around 255 new cruiser ships. Major Dutch industries include Gold and Diamond mining in the Boer states; rubber, coffee, and cocoa plantations in Dutch Congo and Dutch South America respectively; sand extraction in Dutch North West Afrika and Oman; manufacturing plants in Belgium, Netherlands proper, and Ethiopia; ship building in Netherlands proper; as well as agriculture, fishing, farming, logging, and banking.
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