Aftermath (OOC|Dead)

[Nouveau Quebecois]

Can i reserve a bandit clan? This rp looks great! dunno where would be a good place though, so i have a question - how easy is it to raid a bigger nation than you? Could a bantic clan reasonably survive off raiding a legitimate govt., or is it way too strong? Is a trading company a good raiding target?

raid? presumably. most likely.

conquer? oh no.

raid shadow legends?

[Sarderia]

Can i reserve a bandit clan? This rp looks great! dunno where would be a good place though, so i have a question - how easy is it to raid a bigger nation than you? Could a bantic clan reasonably survive off raiding a legitimate govt., or is it way too strong? Is a trading company a good raiding target?

Trade Company caravans are indeed the prime golden target for uncivilized outlaws roaming around. But the Trade Companies came with all post collapse Tech while bandit clans tech are mixed with medieval weapons, so it's going to be somewhat hard.

Nationstates Name:

Faction Name: The Missouri Caravan Company

Faction Type: Trading Company

Flag:
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Governing Ideology: Representative Democracy

Leader: Governor Alain LaForge

Territorial Claims:
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Population: 1,996

Armed Population: 500

• National Guards: 100
  • The National Guards are the Company’s most advanced forces and acts as a astrategic reserve and peacekeeping force. They are divided into ten platoons, each divided into fireteams of five personnels. Their main duties include garrisoning and security for vital assets, guarding Company officials in roadtrips, and assigned to guard Company trading outposts throughout Missouri. The National Guards are distinguished by their hidden mail vests and the advanced variety of weapons they carry, as well as their colorful and ornate suits.
• State Marshals: 150
  • The State Marshal Corps are assigned to each caravan and boat expeditions throughout the region, guarding cargo and men from each Company trading post to the other. The Marshals are a lightly-equipped, agile, and horse-mounted force, experts in subtlety, hiding, and long-range shootouts that suited the surrounding Midwest terrain. They are armed with long-range rifles, several sidearms, bows and arrows, fire bombs, lassos, and throwing knives, among others. In each trade expedition there is usually three groups of Marshals guarding them; the vanguard to check upon potential raiders, the guards on the caravans, and those hidden in the flanks to ambush raiders. The Marshals are under the Comissioner’s Office jurisdiction, meaning that they have the ability to detain and transfer hostile individuals to the Commisionnary Court.
• State Rangers: 120
  The State Rangers serves as the main expeditionary force for the Company. Their tasks includes patrolling the surrounding regions, tracking bandits and raiders, spying other communities that might be hostile to the Company, and discovering new trade routes for merchants. The Rangers are more lightly-equipped than the Marshals, but carried advanced weaponry like that of the National Guard’s.
• Sheriffs and Deputies: 130
  • Twelve deputies and a Sheriff for each county maintains order in the city and its surroundings, with responsibility for civilian security and emergency services. They are usually less equipped than the National Guard, but with more armaments than the Marshals. However, Deputies and the Sheriffs rarely uses firearms and instead resorts to diplomacy and non-lethal takedowns to impose law on criminals. Sheriffs are responsible for local security offices and county jails, though they might transfer dangerous criminals to the Company’s larger state jail.

Technology Level: Post-Collapse

History: Before the Collapse, the State government of Missouri provided citizens throughout the state, including those in St. Louis, designated shelter and quarantine locations to protect themselves from the deadly plague. This did not turn out to be effective, though, because a significant part of the population either left the region or became infected. Either way, the small community of remaining residents took it up to rebuild their city from scratch. As the downtown and surrounding regions were rendered uninhabitable due to the prevalence of infected creatures, they built a new settlement in St. Louis’ surrounding suburbs; claiming intact houses and demolishing the rest to create farms. Being on the confluence of the Mississipi and Missouri rivers, as well as the many smaller creeks such as the Deer Creek, the new settlement grew rich from farming and trading with the surrounding settlements.


Due to the many agriculture, brewing, and transport companies headquartered in the city before the Collapse, as well as the surrounding fertile lands, the small community soon cemented themselves as the prime hub of trade in the Missouri region. Over time, they cleared out St. Louis’ downtown regions, driving out the infected creatures, as well as estabilishing new bases in the abandoned buildings. Explorers set out camps as far as neighbouring Bellevile, guarding the city’s most important assets; bridges crossing the Mississipi. The community saw themselves as the legitimate successor of Missouri; and as such bonded together to found the Missouri Trading Company, establishing caravans across the plains and boats across the river. In many ways, the Company acts as a lifeblood for the surrounding communities; the Company’s caravans brought supplies and food, and in return estabilishing trading posts and buying local products.

Culture: Due to the hardships following the Collapse, the Company’s society had taken a closer approach to religion. As such, the society is mainly based off Midwestern culture with significant influences of religion, mostly Christianity. The Company uphelds democratic and libertarian values such as economic and political freedom, and are among the most friendly states to wandering survivors in the country. There is also a strong hierarchical tradition. Religion and state is not separated, as the Company’s shareholders are mainly religious foundations, counties, farmer unions, and small traders. There exists a strong sense of collectivism and democratic values within the Company; members are called citizens instead of employees, and positions such as managers and directors are democratically elected, instead of appointed.

The MCC is essentially a mix between a corporation and a state. Each citizen are a member of a shareholding institution of the Company, be it foundations, unions, counties, or even smaller trading companies. The assets of the MCC and it’s shareholders are separated, but in practice the MCC controls all of them except for the county governments. The Company’s Governor are elected via caucuses between the shareholders’ representatives; the Board of Supervisors, appointed by the shareholders, is the legislative branch of state. The Commissioners are independent officials elected by individual citizens that act as an audit and judicial agency for the Company. St Louis itself is divided into several counties that follow the traditional American county administrations. These counties exists as an administration for individual citizens, independent and separate from the Company. While independent counties govern their respective areas of the city, control of trading outposts and bases are administered by the Company. In short, the counties are part of public life for citizens; the Company their work.

Law enforcement is conducted by the Company in behalf of individual counties. A Sheriff is elected from Company-chosen candidates, and the Sheriffs are subordinate to the Company’s judicial system. Trials are held by Company Commissioners with civilian jurors. The abandoned STC Warehouse located near Kosciusko, St. Louis, has been refurbished and turned into a penitentiary – criminals are either sent here or to work in Company projects such as building caravans or boats. A public defender is assigned to each trial. For minor crimes such as thievery, criminals are often assigned to community service, instead of harder punishments.

Religion plays an important role within the MCC community, with almost 80 percent of the citizens adhering to Christianity, courtesy of the hardships experienced in the Collapse. Several branch of churches estabilished themselves within the city, most notably Evangelical Protestants, Lutherans, Baptists, and the Latin Church, a splinter of the Catholic church. Most of these churches operate their own religious foundations, which provided most of the healthcare and welfare operations in the MCC. They also act as shareholders within the company, which is why caravans often carried religious missionaries with them. The Company granted religious freedom to citizens, and the community is highly tolerant of other beliefs, including Atheism. Conservative values such as the right to bear arms, limited government, job expansions and others are respected in the Company charter and made up for significant portions of the law

Theme: Might be added later

ID TAG 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

Finally; some good old fuckin government
*spits*
Bout time we had some traditional Americana round these here parts

All apocalyptic nations always had to be some sort of strange government and culture. THought I'd try something different and bring the light of Freedom™ into the wastes.

[Bewhua]

raid? presumably. most likely.

conquer? oh no.

raid shadow legends?

this execution of innocents brought to you by raid shadow legends^TM

[Bewhua]

just realized i said bantic clan. coupled with the default flag i must look real smart

[Ralnis]

You sad raider clans and your neutral territories of nothing. You're no match to the West Coast raider clan with the giant airship and soon the entire state underneath their sphere of influence. Enough to push any pesky Republic from making anymore moves.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

You sad raider clans and your neutral territories of nothing. You're no match to the West Coast raider clan with the giant airship and soon the entire state underneath their sphere of influence. Enough to push any pesky Republic from making anymore moves.

This cringepost brought to you by filthy bandit clan™

[Ralnis]

You sad raider clans and your neutral territories of nothing. You're no match to the West Coast raider clan with the giant airship and soon the entire state underneath their sphere of influence. Enough to push any pesky Republic from making anymore moves.

This cringepost brought to you by filthy bandit clan™

Right, the strongest of the filthy bandit clans.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

This cringepost brought to you by filthy bandit clan™

Right, the strongest of the filthy bandit clans.

ev'ry bandit looks the same to me: sky bandit, shark bandit, dead bandit, red dead redemption bandit, yall bandits best stay outta this 'ere county

[Beutarch]

Right, the strongest of the filthy bandit clans.

ev'ry bandit looks the same to me: sky bandit, shark bandit, dead bandit, red dead redemption bandit, yall bandits best stay outta this 'ere county

east coast legit gov'ts:
divided in spirit, united in hating bandits.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

ev'ry bandit looks the same to me: sky bandit, shark bandit, dead bandit, red dead redemption bandit, yall bandits best stay outta this 'ere county

east coast legit gov'ts:
divided in spirit, united in hating bandits.

Im so glad the friggin bandit space ship thing is on the other coast; having to deal with bandits is one thing but having to deal with sky bandits is equivalent to 300 doomsday prophets I did the math

[Ralnis]

east coast legit gov'ts:
divided in spirit, united in hating bandits.

Im so glad the friggin bandit space ship thing is on the other coast; having to deal with bandits is one thing but having to deal with sky bandits is equivalent to 300 doomsday prophets I did the math

Don't make me fly very slowly over there.

[Beutarch]

east coast legit gov'ts:
divided in spirit, united in hating bandits.

Im so glad the friggin bandit space ship thing is on the other coast; having to deal with bandits is one thing but having to deal with sky bandits is equivalent to 300 doomsday prophets I did the math

I imagine them descending like the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz, coming to steal your cans of beans and USB drives

[Sarderia]

If we can have more than two governments i legit thinking to bulid a new bandit clan in Florida. Might call it the Florida Man Republic.

[Ralnis]

Im so glad the friggin bandit space ship thing is on the other coast; having to deal with bandits is one thing but having to deal with sky bandits is equivalent to 300 doomsday prophets I did the math

I imagine them descending like the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz, coming to steal your cans of beans and USB drives

Or you can imagine your settlements on fire and people being taken by sky pirates. But ok, flying monkeys it is.

[Camelone]

Im so glad the friggin bandit space ship thing is on the other coast; having to deal with bandits is one thing but having to deal with sky bandits is equivalent to 300 doomsday prophets I did the math

I imagine them descending like the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz, coming to steal your cans of beans and USB drives

You telling me we have to deal not only with raiders but furry raiders? Well shit.

[Pyrghium]

bro your kingdom is sicko mode and all, but you're so far how tf am I supposed to get trade all the way over there

It’ll eventually happen... probably... if we all survive the winter and Doomsday prophets.

Agreed. Can the Kingdom of New York be included in these trade deals too? I’m between the two of you, so I’m the perfect Middleman.

[Pyrghium]

It’ll eventually happen... probably... if we all survive the winter and Doomsday prophets.

As soon as winter ends I'll send a survey convoy your way. I just don't want to conduct any troop movements while it's still snowing. Lotta people underestimate the affects of weather, but I'm Canadian and I know the drill. Tradition demands NYC stays at home and drinks.

Moi aussi je suis Canadien...

[Nouveau Quebecois]

It’ll eventually happen... probably... if we all survive the winter and Doomsday prophets.

Agreed. Can the Kingdom of New York be included in these trade deals too? I’m between the two of you, so I’m the perfect Middleman.

First we need to make contact with each other. Why don't you both play with radio frequencies (assuming you have some radio tech) and when the next line of posts go up, I'll send some Rangers as an envoy to link our nations up.

[Camelone]

It’ll eventually happen... probably... if we all survive the winter and Doomsday prophets.

Agreed. Can the Kingdom of New York be included in these trade deals too? I’m between the two of you, so I’m the perfect Middleman.

I mean once we have things established that would work but like NQ pointed out we need to know of each other first. By the way is the Kingdom of Niagara the only New York power which still has a functioning republican tradition, even as a monarchy?

[Ralnis]

I imagine them descending like the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz, coming to steal your cans of beans and USB drives

You telling me we have to deal not only with raiders but furry raiders? Well shit.

Flying ones actually, not furry.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

Agreed. Can the Kingdom of New York be included in these trade deals too? I’m between the two of you, so I’m the perfect Middleman.

I mean once we have things established that would work but like NQ pointed out we need to know of each other first. By the way is the Kingdom of Niagara the only New York power which still has a functioning republican tradition, even as a monarchy?

NYC still has an existing state legislature, symbolised with the Cabinet meeting where decisions are still discussed, but ultimately the Contingency Governor holds the final say because of a policy of "indefinite martial law".

[Camelone]

You telling me we have to deal not only with raiders but furry raiders? Well shit.

Flying ones actually, not furry.

Flying furry raiders!
... totally not trying to cover up my typo with a joke.

I mean once we have things established that would work but like NQ pointed out we need to know of each other first. By the way is the Kingdom of Niagara the only New York power which still has a functioning republican tradition, even as a monarchy?

NYC still has an existing state legislature, symbolised with the Cabinet meeting where decisions are still discussed, but ultimately the Contingency Governor holds the final say because of a policy of "indefinite martial law".

Gotcha, gotcha.

[Bewhua]

You sad raider clans and your neutral territories of nothing. You're no match to the West Coast raider clan with the giant airship and soon the entire state underneath their sphere of influence. Enough to push any pesky Republic from making anymore moves.

i will cover the entire west coast with spikes so you can never land

[Pyrghium]

Agreed. Can the Kingdom of New York be included in these trade deals too? I’m between the two of you, so I’m the perfect Middleman.

I mean once we have things established that would work but like NQ pointed out we need to know of each other first. By the way is the Kingdom of Niagara the only New York power which still has a functioning republican tradition, even as a monarchy?

Maybe after we make contact, we strive to link our realms geographically as well, and we form a Federation, wherein we cooperate for Defense and Trade purposes, but each maintain our own Government? Maybe we could even expand it elsewhere into the Northeast. I already have a pithy name: The Confederation of Appalachian States. That way, we could be the first to have an Empire, but with a decentralized government.

[Ralnis]

You sad raider clans and your neutral territories of nothing. You're no match to the West Coast raider clan with the giant airship and soon the entire state underneath their sphere of influence. Enough to push any pesky Republic from making anymore moves.

i will cover the entire west coast with spikes so you can never land

I mean it won't stop me from raiding people but ok.