"Alexander McGillvary's Muscogee Empire was forged in fire, blood, and British support. The Muscogee Empire has come under scrutiny recently for it's atrocity denialism, especially when it comes to it's slaver past. However, Muscogee representatives in the World Union insist and always have insisted that these were simply products of their time, especially considering the things around it. Indeed, only a few months after the nation's independence, revolutionary war hero Elijah Clarke illegally crossed the Oconee river in Georgia and began burning Muscogee towns. However, between putting down the nascent Red Stick Revival and negotiating several treaties with Britain and the Interconfederated States, the Muscogee Empire was able to carve out a niche for itself. This was in no small part due to Alexander McGillvary's foreign gallivants that won him the respect of European and American alike.
McGillvary, also known by his Muscogee name Hoboi-Hili-Miko, was a son of a Scottish plantation owner in southeastern North America. Growing up, McGillvary was exposed to the wider trading world of Europe, as well as stepped in the culture of the local Muscogee native americans. Indeed, one of the earliest accounts of him that we have was when he visited the notorious Nodoroc site, where he began propagating the story that he had fought and killed the infamous Wog monster that lived there. While quickly condemned by conservative Muscogee leaders as trying to commercialize and Europeanize their ancient culture, more and more imaginative stories about this man were printed in European publishing houses. In fact, McGillvary himself became the inspiration for several adventurers in the early 1800's, the most famous being the first King of Hellas, the good Lord Byron. Stories of a Forgotten Life, an collaborative work of poetry between McGillvary and Byron, is still often taught today in public schools across the English-speaking world.
However, McGillvary was as shrewd as he was charming. During the Wars of the French Revolution, McGillvary was able to establish the port of New Itaba, formerly Spanish Pensacola, to help trade British goods with the far more wary Cherokee and Chickasaw nations, in return for pelts and other goods that could be shipped back to Britain without harrying by the Légions Indigènes, nomadic Native American tribes armed by the French in Louisiana to chase out Spanish and British traders in the vast middle lands of North America.
By 1813, the tide of the world was changing. The Rationalist Regime of France had been overthrown and members of the Bourbon monarchy reestablished on the French throne. Quebec ultimately was returned to France, as it was both seen as far too expensive to maintain and also a distraction tpwards from the rather unprofitable markets of North America and away from the British Indies and the Anglo-Dutch Spice Islands Company. In 1824, Alexander McGillvary died, leaving his rather-scandalously bred son Gordon McGillvary on the Muscogee throne. Gordon McGillvary, while nowhere near as charismatic as his father, had a particular fascination with demographics and logistics. He established factories across the Muscogee Empire, to compensate for the rapidly approaching British abolition of slavery which would spell doom for the Muscogee slave trade as well. After a brief war with the Alabama and the Koaxati, the iron-rich Red Mountains came under his control. Millions of tons of iron would ultimately be extracted from these massive deposits, enough to turn the once rather barren farmland and countryside of the Muscogee Empire into an amalgram of steel and smoke. Gordon's rule over the Muscogee was not without it's blunders. In 1836, Gordon began passing legislation for the unambiguous criminalization of slavery. This infuriated many of the white planters that had helped establish the Muscogee Empire as a way to gain more land apart from the rapidly filling Georgia and Carolinas. Many of these planters decided to outright kill their slaves, which lead to the Great African Revolt (1845), which was only quashed after the Chatot Accords, guaranteeing rights towards anyone living within the "traditional territory" of the Muscogee Empire. On the one hand, modern thinkers champion these accords as the first legislation in the Americas granting rights to citizens regardless of skin color. However, others mention that what could be defined as the "traditional territory" of the Muscogee Empire could easily be subject to change depending on region and judge. This was only solved in the late 1930s when Brock v. Abrams forced the Empire to officially extend the "traditional territory" to all lands held by the Muscogee Empire in North America.
[Several pages of the book are lost. There are a few snippets detaling a possible Muscogee colonial empire in Africa, but these are even more whitewashed than the glowing reports of McGillvary. There are also reports suggesting the Empire became a constitutional monarchy after it's near destruction in a large war in the early 20th century.]
-pire today is a vibrant, united nation. Old men, drinking the Black Drink on their porches in New Itaba, in the distinctive almost Southeast-Asianesque homes that dot the land on massive stilts to prevent hurricane surge from washing them away. In the city proper, goods of all kinds are bought and sold, both in person, and on the new Interweb that has swept the nation. I would like to think that McGillvary would smile on us if he could see how our nation has pulled itself together to forge a new and glorious future for you, me, and all Muscogee.
Affa Primus, 2034."
