THE FREE REPUBLIC OF NICOBAR
The Free Republic of Nicobar is an unrecognised narco state located in the eastern half of the Indian Ocean. The state shares maritime borders with the Scandinavian-owned Andaman Islands, the People’s Democratic Republic of Siam and the Sultanate of Aceh. The nation’s capital is the small city of Campbell Bay, with a population of around 8,500 denizens. Current population estimates of the island chain as a whole range from around 80,000 to 110,000 citizens, about half of which are under de-facto slavery.
The Free Republic was originally known as the Independent State of the Nicobar Islands, ruled by members of the former mixed-race Nordic-Indians and their native inhabitants after gaining independence after a referendum that was held in 1980. The referendum in question was plagued with corruption, vote-rigging and corporate-backed assassinations as it was later revealed that the independence movement was mostly funded by drug kingpins from not only Nicobar, but also from nearby nations such as the British Raj, Afghanistan, Deccan, Siam and British Singapore.
Despite the drama surrounding the referendum and the cover-up that ensued by the local government, Nicobar gained it’s de-facto independence, but was under the de-jure control of a mob of Nicobarese drug lords that were the centre of the infamous ‘Golden Triangle’ - the zone of opioid production that spans from Eastern India all the way to Indochina and as far south as Malaya. The small island chain was quickly forgotten about in the geopolitical mess of the Cold War, as the fall of the Worker’s Republic in Germany and the ensuing Civil War led to much of the world’s problems being put on the back burner – with the issue of the Nicobarese drug syndicates being among them.
Despite the fact that the Nicobar was promised a bright future as an independent state by their European overlords and the billions of pounds of Consortium aid would flood into the country to both fight the drug kingpins and build up necessary infrastructure, it can be safely said that the complete opposite happened throughout the three tumultuous years that the Independent State existed. The drug lords that had once haunted the alleyways and nightclubs of the once-popular holiday destination quickly turned an imperfect representative democracy it into an oligarchy that thrives off of the Indo-Pacific Slave Trade, the Golden Triangle and numerous other illegal industries.
Nicobar exists today as a haven for smugglers in the Eastern Indian Ocean, but is also home to a substantial Siamese minority who fled their homeland throughout the 1970’s and early-to-mid 80’s. The Siamese that stayed on Nicobar have since integrated into the nation’s criminal hierarchy, mostly working as captains on the ships that smuggle all forms of goods in and out of Nicobar and beyond. The rest of the island is made up of the native Indian peoples from the Subcontinent and the ruling minority of mixed-raced Nordic-Indians that were the result of the mostly-Danish settlers interbreeding with the locals.
Nicobar remains unrecognised by the bulk of the world and is now considered de-jure Scandinavian territory by the Consortium. The only nations that trade with Nicobar are the Canontese, East Indies, Liberians and Patagonians – and that’s not including the thousands of criminal gangs that also profit from the island chain’s perfect geopolitical position.