NS Nation Name: The Allied States of Anowa
Country Name: Protectorate of Delta, or The Protectorate
Religion: Gridironism: An interpretation involving the hoarding of steel for use in tools and equipment to spread the will of the All Spirit Yahweh. A slightly holy union of Animism and Christianity. Involves smoking an abundant amount of marijuana to 'become closer with Yahweh'.
Rulers Name and Title: Protector Ingrid KonigsdottirFlag/logos of nation: FlagHistory of your country: The Origins of the Protectorate could find themselves almost three hundred years ago, when First nations farmers found the Utopia f Delta, a pre-infection town located on an ancient river delta, giving very fertile soil and an a collection of viable fishing sites. It wasn't until a collection of other Neo-Catholics arrived in which Gridironism started to rise. A slight misinterpretation of a very crudely translated bible, led to the worship of the massive Skyscrapers in the rest of Vancouver in the form of reshaping them into armor, weapons, tools and farming equipment. Worshipping steel as a gift from god to spread his will. Over the course of the next hundred years or so, they slowly had the steel girders that held them up stripped and re-purposed, the vehicles and random tidbits found in the few remaining other structures were fashioned into a similar way. Their smithing skills growing all the while.
After the complete stripping of the former city of Vancouver, the now large population needed to expand, so they looked both across the Strait of Georgia (Now the Strait of Yahweh), and to the Puget Sound to the south. It took another hundred years to harvest a majority of the steel from both other metropolitan centers, in which a few buildings collapsed, their rubble deemed 'Holy Sites' with routine pilgrimages and animal sacrifices to avoid further smitings. It was around this time that a Protector was first named, Jason Gray, a man who managed to become one with Yahweh by consuming the wild plants found in the Islands between the three metro centers in a secret ritual. From then on the Protectorates were the only ones who knew the ritual, and would be expected to teach the successor when they were chosen.
It was also around this time that a pattern in the water was noticed: Salmon spawning. With a cyclical and annual abundance of protein the population of the Protectorate ballooned, and with the other industries of cattle farming, and the seeding in Delta and Vancouver, it now had a very stable food supply. And they now could afford a standing army.
Fast forward another hundred years, and the Protectorate started becoming a prosperous kingdom, and discoveries were being made quite commonly, breach loading firearms were being combined with self rifling ammo, pulleys were being used in bows and construction, irrigation and fertilizer granted more prosperous crops, and better smithing techniques were being utilized with better tools. The population broke the million person mark, and things were looking up. And then The Haida Invaders started harassing them. And for the first time the Protectorate had to go to war.
Things became very socialist very quickly, with the onset of a serious threat people came together out of fear. They began sharing with those who didn't receive as much food in hopes to provide more meat for the grinder. People began working harder to produce more goods, and in turn got better equipment to produce said goods. It was an odd reconstruction of a War Economy.
Over the next three years Protector Graham Hanlon waged a gruesome genocide against the Haida on the Eastern coats of the former Northwest of America. Crucifixions came back into practice, and mass graves were dug. Temples using the bones of the Haida dead were constructed to provide a more open spirit for Yahweh to contact. And eventually the Haida stopped coming. But it came at a price, many Deltans were dead, and their Protector was getting sicker by the day. Yet on his death bed, he passed his torch to his charge, an abnormal 13 year old girl by the name of Ingrid Konigsdottir. The current Protector.
That was a little over a decade ago. And now it seems things will become... greater.
Founding Date: 2291
Population: 998,987
Army Size and Equipment: ~75,000 Total; 30k Footsoldiers, 12k Heavy Cavalry, 22k Archers, 2k Musketmen, A collection of medium sized barges and longboats to commune across the water.
Economic Overview:A purely socialist community, everyone is fed appropriately, and everyone is equipped appropriately. Soldiers get weapons and armor, and are fed better for better physical form; Farmers get plows and grain crushers, and are fed a little less than soldiers so harvests are not cut short; and the rest of the population is fed the same. Major trade in agriculture and with excess concrete cannibalized from buildings, smoked and salted meats are also traded commonly, most notable of which is salmon meat. Iron and steel is hoarded with notable zeal, even escalating to violence with distant traders.
Territory of country: Puget Sound, Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Fuca, BC Lower Mainland and the northern shore of the Columbia river.
1890 - DO NOT REMOVE