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NS Name: Munkcestrian RepubIic (that's a capital "i", not an l)
RP Name: Northumbria
Capital: Durham
Territory: These borders (the historic counties of Northumberland and County Durham) + Scottish council divisions of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, and the Scottish Borders.
Population: 3,554,391
Type of Government: Unitary parliamentary republic
Government Explaination: The head of both state and government is the Foreman, elected by majority vote of the Folkmoot. The Foreman may appoint cabinet ministers as they see fit, though the Folkmoot has the ability to dismiss ministers and impose bans on holding public office by majority vote. The Folkmoot consists of 300 members elected from multi-member constituencies by means of the single transferable vote.
Leader(s): E. A. Stinchcomb
Image(s) of Leader(s):
Party or Coalition in Power: Stinchcomb's leadership is supported by the independents who make up the vast majority of the Folkmoot, as well as several minor parties.
Executive Title: Foreman
State Ideology: The 'ideology' behind the government of Northumbria has been called 'Stinchcombism' by foreign observers, though this is not a name used by its supposed adherents, who instead choose to just call themselves 'Northumbrian nationalists', and has been described as incorporating cultural ultranationalism, left-wing ultranationalism, autarky, ethical socialism, Christian socialism, Christian nationalism, pro-intellectualism, anti-Nordic sentiment, and revanchism. The Christian elements have more to do with Northumbria's history than anything else.
Ethnicity Breakdown:
94% White Northumbrian
3% Asian
2% White Other
1% Other
Religion Breakdown:
66% Christian
30% No religion
2% Muslim
2% Other
Flag: of Northumbria
National Anthem: of Northumbria
National Motto: None.
Demonym: Northumbrian
Map Color: Purple
Public Goals: Continued economic growth. Continuation of reindustrialisation policies. Firmly establish Northumbria's status as a leader in shipbuilding and manufacturing. Continue reopening the coal mines that were the source of Northumbrian prosperity for so long and the closing of which led to the decline of traditional communities and rise of crime.
Private Goals: Annexation of Yorkshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Strathclyde, the Isle of Man, and Anglesey. Bretwalda-ship. Support for militants in Ulster with the eventual aim of 'reunification' of the 'Ulster Northumbrian' people with their homeland.
Military name: Northumbrian Here, Northumbrian Ferd
Military branches:
- Here: Northumbrian Landhere, Northumbrian Shiphere, Northumbrian Skyhere
- Ferd: n/a
Total military size:
- Here: c. 100,000
-- Landhere: 65,000
-- Shiphere: 17,500
-- Skyhere: 17,500
- Ferd: c. 300,000
Breakdown of ground force(s): (shared with Ferd)
974 main battle tanks
2,504 other armoured fighting vehicles
Breakdown of naval force(s):
9 destroyers
11 frigates
32 corvettes
8 diesel-electric submarines
Breakdown of air force(s):
46 F-35 Lightning II
21 BAE Systems Tempest
14 maritime patrol aircraft
19 transport aircraft
Breakdown of other branch(es):
Extra military information: The Ferd is a reserve paramilitary also tasked with civil defence.
GDP: £196,524,422,000
GDP per Capita: £55,290
Currency: Northumbrian steck (N$)
Currency and value of currency compared to USD: no idea, I'm using 2020 British pounds for all the statistics
Major Domestic Issues: The absence of an established party system in favour of a consensus of independents and minor parties completely subordinate to Stinchcomb. The creation of a new national identity and culture from what was just a few decades ago a declining regional one. Whether it’s really appropriate to be using coal in 2056 when the Maldives are supposed to be half underwater.
Major Foreign Issues: The Northumbrian government has been semi-secretly supplying Ulster-Scots ex-‘Unionist’ militias waging war against the Irish government, and public opinion is overwhelmingly sympathetic towards them. Stinchcomb and his circle also have some ideas on the Northumbrian heritage of the ‘Scotch-Irish’ in America (who commonly just describe themselves as Americans: see these maps) that would perhaps seem rather strange to outsiders, and in the event anything were to happen would be heavily inclined towards supporting them. Also see the aforementioned anti-Nordic sentiment in Northumbria.
History: The dissolution of the United Kingdom had already been underway, but it was accelerated and exacerbated by the embarrassing defeat of Britain, a nuclear-armed great power, at the hands of the Northern Commonwealth, a country with a population less than half than that of Britain, and that country’s annexation of the Northern Isles. Martial law became outright military rule, and Northumbrian nationalists and an assortment of now-radicalised northern Labourites united in rebellion against London. From this united front Stinchcomb emerged to assume leadership of the movement as a sort of Northumbrian Subcomandante Marcos. For the following few years the British state, largely preoccupied in Northern Ireland, was met with endless shitposting-as-disobedience online and even a few Northumbrian militants who had, shouting something about ‘Norman landowners’ and land redistribution, occupied rural villages.
The junta, however, was at a disadvantage – most Northumbrian nationalists restricted their revolutionary activities to posting online and the actual, real-life ‘militants’ were still not actually committed to the cause enough to actually practice the traditional guerrilla lifestyle of living in tents in makeshift camps and so, like many young Britons unable to afford anywhere to live, went home to Mum and Dad for tea. Traditional counterinsurgency tactics thus proved unsuccessful, and this was not helped by the fact the vast majority of the army was fighting in Northern Ireland anyway. By the time the junta collapsed, the Northumbrians were strong enough to just assume control not just in the North East but also parts of Scotland (the pro-European Scottish nationalists significantly weakened from having been a rather obvious target for the military regime to go after).
The new government quickly called for elections to legitimise Northumbria’s existence to the international community. With a first-past-the-post electoral system, previous political parties having been dissolved during the junta's rule in the interests of ‘national unity’, and the only opposition coming from the Space Navies Party (supporting world peace, asteroid mining, and making Gerry Anderson real), the electorate gave Northumbrian nationalist candidates every single seat in the Provisional Assembly.
Having secured his position, Stinchcomb embarked on a programme of reindustrialisation and the rebuilding of Northumbria’s economy: shipyards were reopened and newly built, and a nationalised Swan Hunter began operating once more; foreign advisers were hired; the Armstrong name, once known around the world, was revived for use by a new state-owned arms manufacturer; and all sorts of entities involved in the manufacturing sector received government investment and support. Northumbria was to reclaim its place as an industrial powerhouse.
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