Baker Park
Commonwealth of Baker Park | |
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Anthem: "Hear Our Voices, Commonwealth" | |
| Capital and | Belle Haven |
| Ethnic groups | White 73%; Black 18.1%; Other 8.9% |
| Demonym(s) | Parker, Baker Parker |
| Government | Federal Parliamentary Republic |
• Head of State | Timothy M Wentworth |
• Prime Minister | Rebecca Schoenlien |
| Legislature | Parliament of the Commonwealth |
| Council of State | |
| House of Assembly | |
| Establishment | |
• Crown Charter | June 29 1880 |
• Commonwealth of Baker Park Act | November 11 1892 |
| Area | |
• Total | 472,976 km2 (182,617 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 53,112,000 |
• 2013 census | 51,367,963 |
• Density | 108.61/km2 (281.3/sq mi) |
| Currency | dollar |
| Time zone | AOTC +1 |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BPST) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | + 304 |
| Trigram | CBP |
| Internet TLD | .bk |
Baker Park, officially the Commonwealth of Baker Park, is a nation located in Atlantian Oceania on the southern end of the Calanian landmass, near the geographic center of the region.
Geography
History
Culture
People
Government
Economy
Education
Sports
Baseball
The Baker Park Baseball Association governs the sport in the Commonwealth. A league consisting of 20 clubs in 19 cities plays annually to determine a champion.
Basketball
The Commonwealth Basketball League (CBL) consists of 14 teams that play from late autunm to spring. For international competition, the sport is governed by Baker Park Basketball (BPB)
Football
Gridiron, or American style football, supplanted rugby as the main contact sport beginning in the early 20th century. The sport was first played in Baker Park in October 1911 when a group of students from University of Baker Park challenged their counterparts at the Agricultural & Mining College (now Baker Park A&M University) to a game of 11-a-side American football, to be played under the latest rules in use. The mining students had the advantage of having several of their number who had studied abroad and had seen & participated in the sport. The game was held on a Thursday half-holiday at a park near the A&M campus. A small crowd of students from both schools watched as the Baker Park contingent outlasted their hosts 10-5.
Approximately 2 weeks later, another student club at University of Osheana, with members who had experience with the game, challenged a group of interested men from the University of Ezra. The connection that led to this matchup were a pair of cousins who shared a fascination with the sport--Donald McInnis and Peter Frasier--who were members of the Osheana and Ezra clubs, respectively. They made arrangements for the Osheana team to travel by train to the University Park campus of U of E on a Saturday morning, for a contest to be played that afternoon, followed by a stag mixer. The hosts came out on top in this contest 8-5 and all of the players considered the game a success and arranged to play again the next year with Osheana hosting.
Ice Hockey
The Commonwealth Hockey Association (CHA) organizes it's 14 member clubs to play a 64 game schedule followed by an eight team playoff. The Commonwealth Hockey Federation (CHF) is the international representative of the nation.
Soccer (Association Football)
The Football Association of the Commonwealth is the governing body for the sport; it is represented by the Baker Park National Team in international competitions.
Professionally, the sport is under the authority of the National Soccer League, which has recently began branding itself as The National League to have a more consistent identity across it's various competitions.