Starting Population     150                     % of Worldwide          0.5%                    

                                                Population                                      

Starting Income         2,402                   % of Worldwide          0.4%                    

                                                Income                                          

Starting GDP            46,942                  % of Worldwide GDP      0.8%                    

Starting Surplus        216                     % of Worldwide          0.7%
                    

                                                Surplus                                         

Comments: Navarre, which straddles the western end of the Pyrenees, was one of several small kingdoms established in the high mountain valleys of northern Spain after the collapse of the Visigothic kingdom following the Islamic invasion of 711.

The little kingdom has waxed and waned since, surviving partially by the valor and military abilities of its leaders (especially Sancho III the Great, 1000-1035, who controlled virtually all of the Christian regions of Spain), and the inability of the competing kingdoms to come to an agreement as to how to partition the little state. In the mid-13th century Navarre came under the rule of the French counts of Champagne , and in 1285 the throne passed to the King of France. On the death of Charles IV in 1328, Navarre was given to his daughter Jeanne (Juana II) in compensation for her disbarment from the throne of France by the Salic Law.

Ecclesiastically, Navarre is subject to the authority of the Archbishop of Saragossa, in Aragon . The kingdom is poor and thinly populated. It is peopled mostly by Basques, with some Spaniards in the southern areas and some Frenchmen in the north. It is, however, more or less self-sustaining in grains.