No, I don't think that would work. Number one, I think it's too white, I mean yeah whites are cool but come on that leave nothing for everyone else. And a 14% native population just seems absurd.
The biggest issue, I think, is the notion of a peaceful transition to independence, the pre-existence of dominant western institutions and the prosperity level of your average Canadian province. We have nothing to start with. No roads in need of repair, no political instability, no rampant poverty or tensions. Just your average rivalry between two groups of Celtic white people. And obviously, it wouldn't be able to be independent in the wake of 1812- the British would subjugate the shit out of that colony if it was worth taking in the first place.
In Calaverde, we had problems to fix- a rebel coalition had just kicked out a military dictatorship. Problems abound, like infrastructure repair and the economy. In Elizia, a domineering single party state ceded control to democrats. Idk about Aurentina and Baltonia. If you look at Dagmar, where we started off comfortably in a social democracy, really nothing of note happened. No political shocks or yuge scandals, because clean governance and economic prosperity is the norm in the region. We'd be getting not only that starting as a white ex-colony off the coast of Nova Scotia (meaning one of Canada's largest, most developed cities is a few kilometres away).
I'd like to put forth a separate proposal. I've been thinking of Greeks, Arabs, Romanians even, Tatars, etc. I think I might work on a post-Arab Spring state sometime. But in the stead of those, here's an idea I had that might emulate what we're looking for well.
The location will be the south Atlantic ocean, off the coast of South Africa. Let's say hereabouts. Population from a million to two million, nothing too big, not tiny either. Its history will be as a former colony, swiped by either the Dutch, French or Portuguese (English/Spanish are boring and tried already). Here are some bullet points, under the assumption we're doing Dutch for the most part, because that's my favored culture.
- Colonized originally in the 1700s.
- Area had a unique pull to settlers and managed to attract a sizeable white population by the 20th century.
- Development of more unique traditions and culture as a result of the mixing between native culture and Dutch whites.
- Demographics something like 40% black, 40% white, 15% mixed-race and 5% everything else.
- If we go Dutch, then religion will be mostly Protestant (if we want to shake things up, we can make them Quakers or give them a special denomination instead of just regular ol' Calvinists). Otherwise Catholic, which is a bit flat, don't you think?
- Dutch speakers, with a Dutch-inspired creole evolving from native languages too. Maybe also a completely native language unique to the islanders, with enough significance that politicians would speak English as a bridge language.
- Occupied by the USA during the Second World War in the same agreement by which they did so with Suriname.
- After a period of unrest in the early 70s (around when Suriname left), building racial tensions are overshadowed by a surge of nationalism which developed after the war. The economic boom of post-war Europe kinda ignores this place.
- After a lot of turmoil and a near descent into chaos, a coalition government of basically every group on the island removes itself from the Netherlands shortly after Suriname does the same.
- The coalition immediately descends into squabbling and the entire country breaks down a la Cyprus in a way.
- Just before everyone is about to start killing each other... you guessed it. White-dominated military takes over and restores order at the cost of, y'know, freedom. Unlike other dictatorships, it's not that good at keeping the blacks down. Not to say that they're disenfranchised per se- well, they are, but so are whites. De facto segregation comes into place as the "National Unity" government spends the next 20 years overseeing economic ruin and lots of turmoil.
- No one really intervenes for fear of making things worse, similar to how the rest of Africa was at war in the late 90s and early 2000s.
- The NU government struggles with controlling the island especially in the last decade, where rebel groups rise up and take over parts of the country. They're all eventually quelled, since they occur one at a time.
- Around 2015, the economy just nosedives and the camel's back breaks. The NU government, despite doing its damndest, can't hold onto power unless they want to start slaughtering their own people. International powers, fearing a civil war, push a peaceful transition from power and the installation of democracy.
- And that's where we are now.
Thots? And yes, it does very much resemble Elizia and Calaverde, but I believe that is a strength in our background.
) and that was at the very beginning of the incarnation. For the Senate to continue, we need more than just voting and writing bills.
