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Your RP territorial entity's name: Commonwealth of Virginia.
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): Subnational state.
Location: Virginia, upper southeastern United States, American Atlantic.
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: In the same manner, the constitution of Virginia (1971 edition) has provided for the past several decades. However, the government is reserved when it comes to dealing with people from the federal government, and some news agencies might even use the word "hostile". The Virginian government believes only it can solve the problems plaguing their state since one governor was quoted as saying "Washington cannot even find its ass even if you gave it a mirror".
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal? For now, this is not applicable, but one day it may very well be.
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Currently loyal to the United States, there is a growing amount of discontent, and political separatism which has begun to take over parts of Virginian Society. The major political party that has come into power is the National Democratic Party. A schismatic branch of the southeastern wing of the democratic party which left following contentions with the Beto O'Rourke presidency, and his policies. The newcomer into policies is the recently formed Commonwealth Party, a somewhat powerful force-feeding on the discontent of those who feel betrayed over the government's failure to resolve the depression.
Instead, they turn inward, focusing on restoring the status of Virginia, and are rumored to have secessionist sympathies, but their supporters claim the party advocates for increased state autonomy.
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?:
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=VA
*This is provided by the United States energy information administration, but admittedly some changes will have happened by this new decade.
Describe the cultural and ethnic character of your territory in the current RP year:
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Virginia has always had an important place within the U.S socio-political sphere due to its prominence as one of the original thirteen colonies. From the time of the revolution to the war of the states to today things have changed greatly. Regardless Virginians carry on distinct identity one that has become increasingly despondent with the federal government's role in solving the issues plaguing the country. Virginians have their take on literature, and the fine arts, and are a religiously diverse populace. The state is responsible for several contributions it has made to general southern cuisine, and American dining in general.
The hope remains, at least for Virginians that its various traditions, rites, and peoples will unite, and overcome what an impossibly bloated D.C cannot.
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?: Not Applicable.
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?:
https://demographics.coopercenter.org/s ... elease.pdf
Going off this the populations projected for 2050 could be eleven million following the percentage increase of a million every decade. Also for some estimates on racial makeup click the link below.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/popul ... state-2040
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: In 2019 things began to a turn following the tariff spats between the Trump administration, and the Beijing. Yet many could thank that they weren't directly affected at first, but would by 2020 become a national spotlight as entire towns were ravaged by the "Williamsburg Fever". An antibiotic-resistant bacteria born from when the wrong person met the wrong tourist while exploring colonial Williamsburg. Regardless of how people met the incompetence of the Northam governorship would leave 100,000 dead in Virginia alone. As the fever burned itself out killing a million U.S citizens across the Atlantic states people buried their dead, and Virginians raged at the electoral office come 2021.
With the democratic party humiliated former trump affiliate Corey Stewart held the governorship until 2029 promising tough reform in key areas especially places of entry. He stoked fears that rightly existed but also turned some Virginian republicans to questioning the trump administration due to his firing back in 2017. He ran big on claiming that Trumps inability to work with parts of the government distracted both the government and ultimately the CDC from ending the fever much sooner. Experts these days claim while governor Stewarts claim did have a basis, in reality, it is not entirely plausible to blame the government for the deaths of a million people.
Crenshaw's presidency was viewed as a failure due to his status as a one-term, and with the succession of Beto O'Rourke, some began to question current political directions. By 2032 the Virginian Democrats in an act of complaint against executive overreach officially splintered from the party under the name "National Democratic Party". The National Democrats would go on to form a patchwork in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. As mainstream democrats and the NDP fight it out in these states the wave of political fracturing hasn't spared republicans either. The lack of a potential republican presidency in the future and the ever-widening depression of 2034 has caused a complete collapse of the party in Virginia.
In its stead, the highly autonomist, and some would say resentful Republicans, independents, and ideologues have formed the "Commonwealth party". Lead in fashion by Francis Albright they seek to claim the governorship one of these days, but slowly spread their populist message across the state. Fueled by popular speeches given on issues of governance, and the abject failure of the federal government many have turned to the party out of some hope. You can watch it on the news, and read it in the papers as Albright's name continues to gain more prominence. The man might just make things right or is just an opportunist playing the long game like so many others.
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