Sorry for the time it took for me to update, this one was a bit on the longer side and I ended up losing inspiration once or twice
The American Exiles/Early American Diaspora
The
American Exiles (also known as the
American Refugees, the
Early American Diaspora or the
Blue American Émigrés) are the community of descendants of those who fled the United States of America (1776-1926) in the aftermath of the First World War and the wake of the Second American Revolution (1920) and Civil War (1920-1926) due to their opposition to the revolutionary (Communist) American political climate. Although the term has been used broadly to refer to anyone who has left the USSA due to regime changes or political opinions, they original exiles are markedly different from the later ones, having retained more of their pre-war culture and lacking the influences of communism and socialism, and often prefer to be called
first-wave exiles.
Most exiles left the United States from 1920 to 1926, numbering in over 3 million individuals (although exact numbers are impossible to know and estimates vary wildly), traveling by foot, train, ship and plane, although some also managed to leave during the late-1920s and the 1930s. Besides them there were also those (numbering on around a million) who, while considered by modern historians as exiles, never had to actually flee, instead living on the exchanged territories in the West, the Plains and New England. Although historically characterized as comprising of the fleeing upper and middle classes, the exiles spanned all classes of american society and included military soldiers and officers, intellectuals of various professions, dispossessed (or not) old and new money aristocrats, politicians and government officials, various anti-communist governments from the civil war period, and ideologically opposed people of all ranks, including farmers and workers. Although their bulk was, admittedly, of white americans, there were also large groups of Native and African americans among the exiles of the first wave, who left either due to disagreeing loyalties with the new government, personal opposition to communism or fear of what the new government may bring.
Of the exiles, a large portion migrated to Canada and Oregon, bolstering the countries populations, while on the south many fled to Mexico and the Caribbean countries, in special Cuba where the southern elites would soon establish their neoconfederate state; many also fled across the sea, either to the British Isles, Scandinavia or Hawaii, and some would even establish a short-lived republic on the “American” Treaty-Port of Shanghai. There were also the breakaway states of the US, like California, who due to its size and population is considered more of a subset of the larger american diaspora, and the three buffer republics of North America, whose origins are directly intertwined with the Civil War and the exiles.
In the aftermath of their migration, the exiles tried to settle down the best they could and, soon after, established a community among themselves, often times centered and led by the old american upper classes, whose war-heroes and still-wealthy members served as a focus beam for the stateless americans. Most often occurring on territories either a part of or connected to the Albish Empire (where there was some interest of the government to focus the incoming americans on leaders that would work with them), some of the leaders of the exiles during their earlier years were:
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1944) and Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1965), who were the de facto rulers of Canadian New England for much of the 20s, the 30s and the early 40s; they had already been respected beforehand (their family and actions during the First World War being the reason behind it) while during the Civil War Franklin basically took over northern New England as an warlord, which, after swearing allegiance to the Albish Crown, made him the region’s administrator for decades, besides also being considered the supreme leader of the americans in Canada
- John D. Rockefeller (1839-1935), who while much impoverished due to the loss of his properties and accounts in the US was still considerably rich (and known for his philanthropy before, during and after WWI); living in Montreal, he was the de facto leader of the large american community there until his death
- Margaret Carnegie (1897-1978), the richest heiress on the US before the war, and still extremely rich beforehand (due to Andrew Carnegie’s having much of his money either in person or with the Rothschilds of London), she led american exile society in the St. Lawrence Basin and the Great Lakes for most of her life
- William S. Sims (1858-1933), the most respected American admiral during the First World War and Roosevelt’s second in command during their time as warlords, he was responsible for the mostly navy-originated exile society on Newfoundland, being known for his work in training new cadets as much as for his position as the great
- Ottowa W. Gurley (1868-1944), who was before, during and after the First World War one of the wealthiest black men in the United States, in the 1900s he founded the district of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which he led until the civil war when, fearing both white and communist attacks (seeing as how Greenwood was the first “Black Wall Street” due to its local wealth), he commandeered his entire community northward, settling down on what became the modern city of Greenwood, Alberta, a center of the Canadian Afro-American community to this day, which he headed until his later years
- The Vanderbilt Family, in special Ava E. Vanderbilt (1853-1933), who, although better known for being Emperor Leonard’s grandmother-in-law, was the center of New Yorker society during and after the Civil War, being responsible for helping establish the Long Island Militia due to her previous leadership of the suffragette movement as well as for being the one to request Albish re-annexation of the islands as a defense against the Red forces, being New York and Long Island’s de facto ruler until her death
- The Green Siblings, Harriet (1871-1946) and Edward (1868-1937), who walked hand-to-hand with the Countess of Brookholt in commandeering New York, both the children of the most known miser of Wall Street, Harriet was Ava’s social right-hand-woman, while Edward, who served in the US Army (reaching the rank of Colonel) and served as mayor of New York in the 1910s, was the military leader of the LIM
- The Cabot and Ford Families, who became the center of the community on Canadian Michigan, theirs was a bit more problematic of relation, as their command of said community came in part due to their control of much of the region’s industries as well as their cozying up with the Canadian government
- and The Astor Family, in special John J. IV (1864-1940) and his children, who became the leaders of the american exile community in Hawaii, having fled there during the early stages of the civil war due to Astor’s daughter-in-law (Adele Likelike Robinson, a New Zealander-Hawaiian heiress and aristocrat) and soon entering the pineapple-growing business, which, due to their employing mostly of american refugees, resulted on their de facto control of the community (in special after the failed Sugar Cane Coup of 1926)
Although the nearly one century has passed since they left the US, the American Exiles still remain a visible cultural group on Canada and Alyaska and although some of them have stopped existing or have mostly been integrated into the Albish upper class, some of those families who led the community in the past have continued to do so, with the ones who are most recognized for that being:
- The Roosevelts have mostly remained the premier family in New England, either through social influence or in positions of power (as the Roosevelts have historically been high-ranking members and leaders of the New England administration and military) and have also spread outside of their original “territory” into the larger Canada, with many of the family’s members being involved in local and imperial politics. Known for their often high marriages (including some minor members of the Imperial Family), the Roosevelts are also a part of the peerage of Canada, with their members including the Duchess of Vermont, the Duke of Rochester and the Earl of Middlebury
- The Vanderbilts, who have not only remained the social center of the Islands but also are considered possibly the overarching heads of the american exiles in Albion, their numbers are too large for the family to be centralized on its entirety, but the Brookholt branch has, historically, been considered the most important among the clan, in no small part due to their direct relation to the Imperial Family (with the current Duke of Manhattan, Lawrence B. Vanderbilt, being the third cousin twice removed of Empress Charlotte), which has resulted on the branch being considered of a higher level as the “commoner” cousins of the ruling dynasty of Albion
- The Fords (the Cabot Clan having moved shop to Australia in the 50s) have continued to commandeer the Detroit society, having historically been one of the group of families who hold the control of the Michigan government and military for the past how-many decades. They aren’t an exactly beloved bunch (that honor probably goes to the Rosenbergs) but they are a savvy one who has made an art out of gaining votes through the carrot-and-stick method
- and the Robinson-Astors, who have continued to commandeer and sustain the american exile community in Hawaii to this day as well as remained one of the leading families of Hawaii, being known not only for their familial connections to the House of Kamehameha (and its branches and cousins) but also for being the creators and owners of South O’ahu, the world’s largest artificial island, who not only houses much of their farms in Hawaii but also much of the american exile population of the country (which makes them the largest landowners of the country, as besides SO they have the ownership, either through inheritance or takeover, of nearly two of the eight main Hawaiian Islands)
- Of note is also the Afro-American community in Alberta and Montana, who, although not led by a single family, still has a sort-of ruling council made of its most esteemed families, like the Gurley, Winfrey and Stradford families. The Indian-American community (also known as Native Americans and American First Nations), although sometimes identified as being a part of the exiles (in special more racially mixed tribes like the Kaw and Osage) have historically preferred to be identified as being a group all on their own; similarly, the Minnesotan Nordics also prefer to be identified that way, either being identified as being a Nordic-descend ethnic group or as being an ethnic group of First Nation and European origins (like the Metis)
Extra: Besides Canada and Hawaii, there also exist somewhat large populations of the american diaspora living in Mexico, Alyaska, Oregon, the Caribbean, South America, Iberia and the British Isles, who due to some reason or another are identified (internally and/or externally as not being a part of the exiles proper (although they in general “descend” from them):
- Although originally identifying as being a part of the exiles, the Anglo-Mexicans (known in Mexico as Anglicans or Northerners) have long since become a culture of their own after the 20th century’s Holocaust and the effects of entering Mexican and Native American cultures into them. Numbering on around 5 million, who live mostly on the autonomous Kingdom of Baja California and on Tejas
- The earliest branch of the american diaspora, preceding even the exiles, are the Alaskan-Americans (also known as the Gold Rush Migrants) who came in droves to what is now modern Alyaska during the late 19th century in the region’s gold rush and never left, developing a mixed breed of west-coast American and old-believer Russian cultures that makeup about a third of the country’s population
(They are included even among the Alaskan nobility, with the MakDyak Clan being by birth a part of ancient Scottish nobility (Clan MacDuich) and in Alyaska being the only noble family to have the rank of "Grand Duke". Their first member in Alyaska came specifically during the Yukon Gold Rush and made a fortune that has still mantained the family over a century later)
- In Oregon there are two distinct groups, the Mormons (who will someday be commented upon) and the Pioneers (which are not entirely descended form the original pioneers, as the local american exile community is added to their numbers), who are the local american-descended community; marked by their often times complicated history with the Oregonian Government (in special due to the original rebellions), they mostly live in enclaves in the big cities or in small towns on the Willamette Valley and the Alava Peninsula, having their numbers at around some 80.000
- In the Caribbean, there are technically five different communities descended from the Americans:
- The Cuban-Americans, which make the largest of them, they descend from those who fled the south during the Race Uprisings in the Civil War, being made mostly of angle-descended whites or anglo-hispanics, and became known for, in the Interwar periods, taking over the Cuban Republic and establishing the Second Confederacy. Deported in droves in the aftermath of the war (mostly to reeducation camps in the USSA), most of their population nowadays is in the South, where they make around a fifth of the total population
- The Bahamian-Americans, who number some 15.000 people living mostly on the boroughs of Nassau or in the Keys, they are the biracial descendants of those who fled the south during the Civil War and ended up intermarrying in the past century
- The Puerto Ricans, they are the descendants of those white americans who migrated to the island during its time as an american territory (as well as those who became stranded there due to the wars), and while numbering at around some thousands, they are known for being a major part of the island’s tourism industry, being the owners or administrators of many of the hotels and resorts there
- The Antillean-Americans, they are the american exiles living in the various islands of the Lesser Antilles, numbering at the few thousands or hundreds and living in small ethnic pockets on the port towns of the region
- The Tobagonians, the smallest of the groups, who migrated in specific to the island of Tobago on the Southern Lesser Antilles, they are differentiated from other Antillean-Americans due to being the result of the intermingling of american exiles and Bharati immigrants. Considered something of a dying culture, they number in the lower hundreds
- In South/Central America, there are two “distinct” groups of american descendants:
- The Confederados in Brazil, a small group living in the Province of São Paulo who descend from american southerners who fled the US in the ending and aftermath of the 1st Civil War. Surprisingly racially mixed for a group whose ancestors literally fought to retain slavery (although, admittedly, they seem to have mostly shied away from slavery even at their start), their numbers nearly fell down to 0 in the early 20th century due to the Brazilian Civil War (mostly due to the Massacre at Americana), but have in modern times come to number around 40.000 people, who retain some american cultural traits and a English-tinted accent (although they have in general been greatly affected by the addition of Italian and Brazilian culture)
- The Bananas in Colombia and Panama, who descend from a mix of american exiles as well as of american emigrants who came over due to either the banana plantation or the Panama Canal, they have mostly integrated into the local cultures but still retain some small american traits (mostly the accent and religion). Not a large group, they number at around a hundred thousand people living either on the coastlines of the Colombian departments of Antioquia, Cordoba and Sucre or on the lands around the Panama Canal
- In Iberia the number of american exiles to come numbers at around some thousand, mostly from catholic regions of the East Coast (Maryland), who settled either on the north of Portugal or in Galicia their descendants, sometimes known as the Iberian-Americans or the English, number in the rank of the few hundred thousands in Galicia (where they make about a fifth of the population) or the tens of thousands in Portugal (making about 5% of the total population of the Minho Province), and have mostly integrated into the local culture and society. Their pockets in major Iberian cities (in special Seville, where they number at around 7.000) have managed to retain a bit more of their culture, although most have long since stopped speaking English and have long-since become more Latin in their Catholicism
- And, finishing things up, are the american exiles of the British Isles, who came over in the war (by taking a ship from Canada or the major East Coast cities before chaos erupted) mostly during the early stages of the civil war and settled in London (mostly in the East End), Bristol and on the lands around Morecambe Bay. Nowadays the London and Bristol groups have mostly gone extinct (either assimilated or moved to Morecambe), but the Morecambians have managed to grow in numbers (bolstered by a mix of natural reproduction and migration from either other British communities, Cumbrians or, of all people, the Beothuk People of Newfoundland), with their settlements in the region having since become a semi-official city with nearly a million inhabitants (known as either Morebay or by the nickname of “Newer York”, given due to Walney Island’s resemblance in shape to Manhattan)
The American Buffer Republics
MASSACHUSETTS
The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, oficially the
Most Rightful and Honorable Commonwealth Nation of Massachusetts but colloquially known as either
Massachusetts or
Nantucket, is an island nation in northeastern North America consisting of 6 islands separated from the continental seaboard by the Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds. It lies nearly 6 km off the coast of the USSA state of Plymouth and is 37 km east of Rhode Island, the easternmost part of Albion’s American Military Territory. With a population of about 35.000 people over a land area of 374 km2, Massachusetts is one of the world’s smallest countries in area and has one of the largest national capitals in the world by percentage, as the town of Nantucket comprises the entire island it lies on, making up about a third of the country’s total are. The official national language is English, in specific the New Englander variation, while Italian, Irish and Spanish are major secondary languages, with over two thirds of the population being at least conversational in one of them.
Originally inhabited by the Wampanoag people, a native american nation who inhabited most of Plymouth and Massachusetts before colonial times (and are the probable origin for Nantucket’s name), Massachusetts’ territory was colonized by Europeans in the 1640s, when Thomas Mayhew secured it and the Elizabeth Islands as a proprietary colony and established it as a center of quaker settlement. A center for the whaling business for the 17th, 18th and much of the 19th centuries (still shown on the country’s flag, which is the original flag of the Town of Nantucket over the Union Jack), then becoming a vacation center together with Martha’s Vineyard when the whaling industry started to decline due to ambientalist restrictions.
Finally, in 1922, the government of the US state of Massachusetts, then fleeing Boston following the city’s capture by the Reds, established an administration in exile at Nantucket, at the time also a center for naval forces in the Eastern Seaboard (as a defensive position against any attack fo the Royal Navy during the First World War) and in 1923 also took control over the island of Martha’s Vineyard, establishing the commonwealth’s modern territory. Being involved in the Second American Civil War only until 1924, that same year the government of Massachusetts officially requested the protection of the Albish Empire, then already involved with the taking over of Rhode Island and New York. A Albish protectorate for the next five years, Massachusetts finally became its modern self in 1929, when it officially became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a
de facto republic under the aegis of Albion’s Imperial Crown, which it has remained being to this day.
Originally made of the quaker settlers of Nantucket, Massachusetts population has since then come to comprise of various groups due to immigration as well as the coming of refugees from the continent during the war, having a large black minority as well as a slight Asian one (mostly coming from Bharat) while its white majority is made of both English-descending protestants and Italian, Irish, Spanish, Jewish and German minorities. Religiously Massachusetts is overwhelmingly a Christian protestant nation, whose various groups (of whom the quakers make about 25%) make over 60% of the population, besides them there is also a large Catholic minority (making about a quarter of the population) and jewish and irreligious minorities. The Anglican Church (and its colleagues) is the state religion, but freedom of religion is the official policy of the government and guaranteed on its Bill of Rights.
Although known for its tense relationship with the USSA and for the fact that it has a permanent Vice-admiralty located on it, Massachusetts is a major tourist destination year-round, with it having a cyclic nature between those coming for the resorts and recreational areas during the summer months and those coming for the historical and scenic tours during the winter and autumn months, with the abandoned towns at Martha’s Vineyard making the island a center of urban explorers. Besides tourism the Commonwealths main sources of income are being a banking heaven, its status as a pitstop in the New York-Halifax sea-lane, and the local naval base, whose servicing makes much of the local economy when tourism dries up. Fishing and farming are also parts of the local economy
A
de facto oligarchy almost from the beginning, with its government being commanded by a clique of the major and older families, Massachusetts is currently under the Governorship of Zebulon III
[f] Kennedy, whose family has had 9 members before him holding the office (while among his relatives there are another 6 governors), while the current Head Councilman (who leads the General Court of Massachusetts) is Ignatius V Nickerson, who has held the position since early 2015. Besides them there is also the current Vice-Admiral to Massachusetts, Adelaide Swynford Burns, a native of Middletown, Rhode Island, who has led the Naval Base of Nantucket since the late 2000s.
[a] In specific with the New England accent. This causes some confusion to foreigners as the past century has caused many differences between Massachusetts’ accent and continental (USSA) New England, resembling more a mix between it and the Canadian, Irish and British accents
|b] Due to Nantucket being the overwhelming center of the commonwealth, many people just think they all are from there (which can be
very offensive for people not actually from Nantucket)
[c] Specifically a “oligarchical representative republic under a constitutional monarchy”
[d] Whose officially title is “King/Queen of New England and Lord of Massachusetts”
[e] Official date, some consider the start of the protectorate as being when the commonwealth was established
[f] Not the third Zebulon Kennedy (he is the only one with that name on the family either in modern times or history) but the third Zebulon to have served as governor, the Head Councilman is, equally, the fifth Ignatius to have held the office
NEVADA
Nevada, officially the
Free Republic of Nevada, is a sovereign landlocked nation in southwestern North America, bordered by Oregon to the north and California to the south.
De facto founded in the turn of the 20th century by Margaret Brown, when she led the founding of the city of Las Vegas, the republic was officially established in the 1920s during the Second American Civil War as a warlord state, becoming an internationally recognized nation a decade later.
Deriving its name from the defunct US State of Nevada (1864-1926), the republic is mostly located on the western banks of the Colorado River, which serves as its main source of water and energy. Its capital and largest city is the city of Las Vegas, whose population of nearly 2 million makes the overwhelming majority of the nation’s inhabitants. A cultural melting pot, Nevada recognizes four official languages within its borders, English, Spanish, Korean and Southern Paiute (the last being a native american language related to Aztec), while its population also has self-identified speakers of Chinese, Cantonese, Italian, Navajo, Hopi, German and Gaelic.
An oligarchy that has been called both a criminal state, a monarchy, a military dictatorship and a plutocracy all at the same time, Nevada is officially a republic whose government is made of a group of 15 people: a semi-figurehead president (whose descent from Margaret Brown is a prerequisite for holding the office), the Archmanager of Nevada (whose job it is to lead the Nevada civil service), the Chief Magistrate (who is both the head judge and head of the police), and the other 13 members of its administrative council, who are responsible for passing the laws of the country.
Often times called the “Home of Vice and Sin of North America”, Nevada, although also known as the “Entertainment Capital of the World” and a global leader of the hospitality industry, is a country centered on tourism and business of both the legal and illegal variety. Started as a worker’s town during the building of the Sherman Dam, Las Vegas, who is often correlated with the entirety of Nevada, is a metropolis known for its tourist attractions, hotels, “funhouses” and, most of all, its cassinos, who kickstarted its development into a metropolis. Prostitution, drug use and underage driving or sex are all legal in the republic as well, and its lax laws about marriage make it be known for having the largest rate of marriages and divorces in the world, as people often travel there to marry or divorce quickly.
Behind the sparkling side of things, Nevada is also known for its underbelly, as outside of The City the republic is made of a few sparse towns and settlements of varying levels of development and wealth dotting the desert. Las Vegas herself is also known for its dark underside, as while its police force is one of the most militarized in the world the city is infamous for its criminal syndicates, mafia families and gangs, who exist in a sort of inner world within the republic as they work under, together and allied with the Nevadan government. Said groups are so deeply involved in the nation that many are led by members of the government (some of whom only became wealthy due to organized crime), have “territories” within Las Vegas, and even war against each-other with the approval of the government.
Officially neutral in the many matters of North American geopolitics,
de facto Nevada is a buffer zone between its neighbors, who have a gentleman’s agreement about anything involving the republic, with its gang wars having often served as proxy conflicts between the two. Recently there has been some instability brought to the republic in the way of a terrorist group self-entitled as “Bane”, who have become infamous for their bombing attacks, murdering wealthy individuals and families and publishing a manifesto expressing their objective of abolishing Nevada, eliminating its ruling class and establishing an anarchist state on the place of the republic.
Due to their often-long history in the ruling of Nevada, where they have been the people in charge for generations, the author feels a need to identify some of the main dynasties of the republic, as well as some who are now only history but are still of note, who are:
- The Brown Family, the most obvious of them, being the hereditary presidents of Nevada and descending from its head founder, Margaret “Unkillable Molly” Brown, they currently comprise of 28 members, of whom 7 live in other countries, and besides serving as the heads of Nevada they also are its richest family, having a monopoly on the energy and water distribution on the republic as well as other financial ventures both within and outside of Nevada
- The Barrueco Family, at the largest made of 44 people, the Barrueco Clan were a Hispanic-American family whose origins date to the beginnings of Las Vegas, having moved there during the city’s early years and establishing themselves as citrus farmers before expanding to the business of organized crime. The family, who in the early 2000s were the wealthiest in the republic and one of the richest in the world, was massacred in 2009 at their own mansion, with the only survivor, Helena (who at the time was only 12), moving to Russia, where she has lived since
- The Marchand Family, a family who gained power in the 30s when its founder, King Marchand (whose wife became known as a female impersonating a male female impersonator), became one of the leading mobsters in Nevada and California after moving there from Chicago. The family, with its 15 members, is known for being almost like hereditary socialites, being the center of Nevada’s diplomats and welcoming officers and being also some of the main actors of the Californian movie industry
- The Gordon Family, a more recent addition to the ranks, having been started when John Gordon Jr. migrated from New Jersey in the 1970s and became the Chief Magistrate of Nevada. The family is small, with only some 5 members, but they are considered the undisputable heads of the Nevadan civil service, with John’s daughter, Barbara, being the Archmanager of the republic
- The Castle Family, another victim of the byzantine disputes of Nevadan politics, the Castle Family flourished in the mid-to-late 20th century in the republic, having started as the owners of a bookshop before expanding to command most of the printing in the country. They were always a small bunch, and in the end died out in a single well-placed bombing in ’97
- The Andretti Family, another family who rose through organized crime (having been started by Sal Andretti, a mobster and close friend of King Marchand, having migrated with him to Nevada), nowadays they, who have an astonishing 112 members (mostly due to Sal Jr.’s many mistresses), have become the heads of the food and alcohol industry in Nevada, a position they gained in part due to taking over the Barrueco territory following their murders (which most people blame the Andretti for)
- The Jackson Family, a family who started when its current head, Samuel (born in 1949), moved to Nevada in the aftermath of the Second World War, having as its members him, his children, his grandchildren and their consorts (numbering in total 13), they are one of the few among the post-founding families of power to not have risen to the position through the organized crime, as Samuel had luck in marrying the heiress to a cassino and expanded from there, with him and his children controlling a considerable chunk of the entertainment business of the republic
- The Todd Family, another odd one, being the smallest and the most recent among Nevada’s main families, originally the Todds were a part of the entertainer class of Las Vegas, being known as acrobats and contortionists, and only in the current generation that this changed, when Burford Gilbert Todd, mostly known as “Billy” (born in 1992), entered the police force at the age of 17 and rose through its ranks, becoming the Chief Magistrate after his mentor’s retirement in 2018. The family comprises of Billy and his 3 siblings
- The Kim Family, the only Asian family on this list, who started as Korean immigrants who came to America in the early 20th century, the Kim clan (whose members number in the 70s) rose to power in the 40s and 50s, when Mexico exterminated the then-leading yakuza clans in the city, and have since then mostly remained in power as the leading bosses of the mob in Las Vegas’ “Asian Sector”. Known for their involvement in the drug trade and the very hereditary nature of their leadership, the Kim clan is also known for their somewhat strange honor code and way of dealing with enemies, as they will not kill children on purpose (and even in the case of traitors will only exile them to somewhere unknown) but almost always execute any enemy or traitor by cutting their face out while the person is still alive
[a] The local Nevada accent being akin to a mix between American, Oregonian and Californian English, with a Spanish tilt
|b] Specifically Southern Paiute
[c] Although
Nevadan is also used, and
Vegan is sometimes used as a joke
[d] Some don’t agree with this characterization, preferring instead to call it some sort of oligarchical monarchy due to the Brown Family’s hereditary control of the Presidency. It is also something of a military dictatorship, as peace is mostly mantained by the police, who is
de facto an army
[e] California and Oregon formally recognized Nevada in 1935, although it had already become their buffer state in the late 1920s and was
de facto recognized by them since 1926
YELLOWSTONE
Yellowstone, officially the
Republic at Yellowstone (also known as the
Yellowstone Republic), is a landlocked country situated at the confluence between Central, Western and Northern North America and bordered by Canada to the north, Oregon to the west, and the USSA to the south and the east. Located mostly on the eastern side of the Continental Divide, Yellowstone is geographically divided by a variety of mountain ranges and plateaus, including the Middle Rocky Mountains, it is also located on top of the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest volcanic caldera in the Americas and only rivaled by the Lake Toba Caldera in a world scale, which is responsible for the high levels of volcanism and geological activity within its territory. Although having a land area of over 20.000 km2, Yellowstone has a permanent population of around 25.000 people (with its biggest city, Buffalo, alone housing nearly half of it), making it one of the most sparsely populated nations in the world with a density of around 1 person by square kilometer.
Although Yellowstone’s territory has been inhabited by native americans for at least 11.000 years, the republic’s history only properly begun in the 1870s, when President Ulysses S. Grant established the Yellowstone National Park and Resort on what is now the republic’s northwestern corner. The only official instance of ecotourism in history, Yellowstone was, for the first 50 years or so of its history, a major inland holiday location in North America, having various small hotels and resorts within its expanse of natural beauty. It was during that time that Yellowstone Town, the republic’s capital, was founded, serving as a service-town for the resorts and for the rangers who administrated the national park. Finally, in the 1920s, Yellowstone became a small “warlord state” during the Second Civil War, being led by Horace M. Albright, who had been Yellowstone’s Superintendent since 1919.
Finally established in 1926 as a directorial republic at the end of the civil war, Yellowstone remained a major tourist destination even after that and has remained being so to this day, being a buffer state between its neighbors as much as a pleasant attraction for their high echelons. Due to its origins, the republic is sometimes classified as one of the closest things to a true communist state in the world, as outside of overarching issues and the park itself the republic’s board of directors (which was only slightly changed from when it was made of the monetary administrators of Yellowstone) is not involved in the matters of its 25 settlements, who each exist as autonomous administrative divisions, often times as direct democracies. Due to its location in the middle of three powerful states, two of whom are a part of the Commonwealth and the other being in barely speaking relations with them, Yellowstone is also known as a location where espionage of all sorts occurs between the powers of the world, who consider it a neutral ground for shady deals and shadowy conversations, something that is only helped by Yellowstone rather lax police force, which as a branch of the Yellowstone Rangers is more focused on local matters and protecting the park.
Possibly one of the greenest states in the world, Yellowstone is marked by being covered almost entirely by its original vegetation, in part due to the republic’s only harsh laws on preservation, which makes over 90% of its total area. It is also known for lacking an official driving side due to its near-absolute prohibition of automobiles (only some government sectors and people with permits can drive them), being one of the countries with the smallest number of motors
per capita and one of the countries with the highest number of carriages and steam locomotives still in use.
Although
de facto English, Yellowstone lacks any official national language, having a somewhat diverse population due to work-migrants and the native american tribes living within it. It also does not have a local currency, recognizing a dozen different coins due to its history as a center of tourism, of which the Pound and the USSA Dollar are the most commonly used, with every shop having their prices set for at least those two.
Although not often noticed, Yellowstone is still, technically, an oligarchy, as its Board of Directors, which include the direct descendants of its two founding fathers, H.C. Albright and President Grant, is made of hereditary positions held by its shareholders, with the only offices of Yellowstone’s decentralized central government to not be inherited being Superintendent and Chief Manager.
[a] Although most people think it is “of”, officially the name of the republic is “at Yellowstone”, referring to the fact that the government recognizes the land of Yellowstone as being a unique thing and being of its own
|b] Named after one of its founder, Buffalo Bill (originally it was named “Cody”, which was one of his personal nicknames, and colloquially is still known by that)
[c] Although
de facto it is English
[d] Officially identified by the state, who considers “Yellowstonian” as being dumb and prefers to use the nickname given by locals to their own country, the Black Bear Republic (a bit of a complicated origin but it involves the black bear being the main simbol of Yellowstone as a park and resort)
[e] Actual citizens, not counting tourists or people who not actually live in Yellowstone but have properties or citizenship there
[f] Yellowstone recognizes the US dollar, the Californian dollar, the Imperial Pound, the Alyaskan ruble, the Mexican peso, the German mark and the Brazilian real (as well as some other minor currencies)
[g] Yellowstone does not have any official or standardized driving side, normally people use the right, although due to government parameters most actually walk or use bicycles or trams to move (Yellowstone prohibits automobiles outside of a few special necessities, so most people either don’t have any vehicle or have a horse-drawn cart, truck or carriage)