The Great Restoration (Semi-PMT/Nation/OOC/Dead)

[HypErcApitAl]

I did indeed, and not to sound rude but here's a breakdown:

• Rules said no country can be bigger than USA, China, Russia, Soviet Union, British Empire
• The smallest country on that list (China) is 9.5 million square kilometers
• The entire South-East Asian Archipelago, not including Continental Malaysia to be fair, is only 2 million square kilometres
• 9.5/2 = 4.75. I would need 4.75x more land to break the rules
• Scandinavia is 3,425,804 square kilometers
• 3,425,804/2,000,000 = 1.712902. This nation is 1.7x larger than mine and has already been accepted

Thank you for reading the application

Touché

I'm not against unifying or uniting anything, but it's just ethnic tensions. There's so many ethnic tensions irl, and they'd possibly grow in the future. I did use Japan as an example, but that's because, in the past, they weren't homogenized. There were several ethnicities and people-groups in Feudal Japan, and Japan was split into several Prefectures.

I'm talking about indivisible countries, people-groups, nations, and etc. The US strove so hard for Unity, but both irl and in this RP, there's so many issues going on there. China, Libya, Algeria, India, Burma/Myanmar and so on have so many ethnic groups inside of them, and this causes tensions.

I'm the Quebec player, and I wouldn't have that much ethnic tension. I'm mainly French-Irish descended lands (and those lands were already united anyways, by Canada and numerous other countries).

[Oostfalea]

Touché

I'm not against unifying or uniting anything, but it's just ethnic tensions. There's so many ethnic tensions irl, and they'd possibly grow in the future. I did use Japan as an example, but that's because, in the past, they weren't homogenized. There were several ethnicities and people-groups in Feudal Japan, and Japan was split into several Prefectures.

I'm talking about indivisible countries, people-groups, nations, and etc. The US strove so hard for Unity, but both irl and in this RP, there's so many issues going on there. China, Libya, Algeria, India, Burma/Myanmar and so on have so many ethnic groups inside of them, and this causes tensions.

I'm the Quebec player, and I wouldn't have that much ethnic tension. I'm mainly French-Irish descended lands (and those lands were already united anyways, by Canada and numerous other countries).

well to say that the Indonesian archipelago and Malaysia have never united would be to ignore that the Srivijayan and Majapahit Empire existed from 650 to 1500s (far longer than the Kalmar Union), both of which influenced the Philippines in many ways (trade, language, government, religion [Hindu/Buddhism])
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srivijaya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majapahit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_in ... e_polities

and I have stated that the new Union has faced many problems in the history section, with the independence of West Papua, Northern Sumatra as well as religious unrest. Ethnicity hasn't been much of a problem in South-East Asia, unless it's against the chinese

again good man, ethnicity has never been much of an issue in South-East Asia (which is why I found the history offered by the op a bit odd but ill roll with it)

[Plzen]

-snip-

Fascinating!

Is Singapore still the commerce and finance centre it used to be in our RL times?

[Oostfalea]

-snip-

Fascinating!

Is Singapore still the commerce and finance centre it used to be in our RL times?

well it's as successful as you can be with an America that has imploded and non-existent red China (essentially)

but yea its probably like the single most prosperous city in the entire UAS

plus its a tax haven for all the UAS' uber-rich

[Plzen]

plus its a tax haven for all the UAS' uber-rich

How fascinating... how so very interesting. Do tell us more about this "tax haven"...

With a large, very-high-income, commerce-and-finance, tax haven of a city, yours might actually be one of the few non-European governments that Norden deigns to do serious diplomacy with.

[Revlona]

plus its a tax haven for all the UAS' uber-rich

How fascinating... how so very interesting. Do tell us more about this "tax haven"...

With a large, very-high-income, commerce-and-finance, tax haven of a city, yours might actually be one of the few non-European governments that Norden deigns to do serious diplomacy with.

*waves*
True american successor state over here

[Oostfalea]

plus its a tax haven for all the UAS' uber-rich

How fascinating... how so very interesting. Do tell us more about this "tax haven"...

With a large, very-high-income, commerce-and-finance, tax haven of a city, yours might actually be one of the few non-European governments that Norden deigns to do serious diplomacy with.

well if you need a place to store all your nazi gold and stolen artwork we can do it

we shall see in the future

[Plzen]

*waves*
True american successor state over here :P

Drunken cheering

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Start some bonfires in North America so we can sell off our expensive military equipment to everybody in the fight!

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well if you need a place to store all your nazi gold and stolen artwork we can do it

we shall see in the future

My nation concept is basically "it's wild cyberpunk, but the government is social-democratic and would really like the country to not be wild cyberpunk".

I hope the potential for interaction between our two nations is as obvious to you as it is to me.

[Revlona]

*waves*
True american successor state over here

Drunken cheering

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

And buy all of our expensive military equipment!

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well if you need a place to store all your nazi gold and stolen artwork we can do it

we shall see in the future

My nation concept is basically "it's wild cyberpunk, but the government is social-democratic and would really like the country to not be wild cyberpunk".

I hope the potential for interaction between our two nations is as obvious to you as it is to me.

I got my own equipment thank you very much, though I might buy some if it'd earn us an official recognition as the successor state

[Oostfalea]

*waves*
True american successor state over here

Drunken cheering

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Start some bonfires in North America so we can sell off our expensive military equipment to everybody in the fight!

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well if you need a place to store all your nazi gold and stolen artwork we can do it

we shall see in the future

My nation concept is basically "it's wild cyberpunk, but the government is social-democratic and would really like the country to not be wild cyberpunk".

I hope the potential for interaction between our two nations is as obvious to you as it is to me.

I see... well I'm not even accepted yet so we have to wait

[HypErcApitAl]

*waves*
True american successor state over here

Drunken cheering

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Start some bonfires in North America so we can sell off our expensive military equipment to everybody in the fight!

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well if you need a place to store all your nazi gold and stolen artwork we can do it

we shall see in the future

My nation concept is basically "it's wild cyberpunk, but the government is social-democratic and would really like the country to not be wild cyberpunk".

I hope the potential for interaction between our two nations is as obvious to you as it is to me.

Jesus Christ.

Really. Jesus Christ. Y'all are trying to destabilize everything. Concept-wise, I just wanted to be Quebec. Now, I'm just aiming for a decent military. I don't think the QDC and its branches could ever be the successor/spiritual-successor to the USAF.

I really wanna just be left alone, but there's so many threats and immediate threats to my idea of a Quebec Free State (A Quebec that's independent and not under anyone's influence).

[Revlona]

Drunken cheering

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Start some bonfires in North America so we can sell off our expensive military equipment to everybody in the fight!

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My nation concept is basically "it's wild cyberpunk, but the government is social-democratic and would really like the country to not be wild cyberpunk".

I hope the potential for interaction between our two nations is as obvious to you as it is to me.

Jesus Christ.

Shhhhh, Everything will be ok

*hands rifle*

Just praise the lord and pass the ammunition

[HypErcApitAl]

Jesus Christ.

Shhhhh, Everything will be ok

*hands rifle*

Just praise the lord and pass the ammunition

Eh.

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

Reservation

NS Name: Munkcestrian RepubIic (that's a capital "i", not an l)
Country Name: Northumbria
Territory: Northern England, Southern Scotland

[HypErcApitAl]

Reservation

NS Name: Munkcestrian RepubIic (that's a capital "i", not an l)
Country Name: Northumbria
Territory: Northern England, Southern Scotland

ooooooooh interesting

[HypErcApitAl]

england players interest me

we don't have an Upon Tweed player

[Plzen]

Reservation

NS Name: Munkcestrian RepubIic (that's a capital "i", not an l)
Country Name: Northumbria
Territory: Northern England, Southern Scotland

ooooooooh interesting

It splits up the British Isles, which is very good news for Northern frontier security; there's not a snowball's chance in the nether that whatever rump state exists in Northern Scotland can meaningfully challenge our hold over the Orkneys and the Shetlands, and this buffer state separates the highly-developed cities of Southern England from the critical waters of the Norwegian Sea.

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Just praise the lord and pass the ammunition

And when it comes to arms and ammunition, it doesn't get much better than the Commonwealth's. :p We offer Technical Pyrotechnetic Solutions(tm) for the Discerning Warlords/Warladies.

But seriously, if any of these filthy primitive savages our honourary diplomatic partners who still run obsolete Central European War-era militaries feel like they have a few dozen billion dollars to throw around for military modernisation, Norden will probably be the model they will be looking to.

That goes for a lot of other things as well, of course, but given how Nordic society is pretty much imploding every year nowadays, I'm not sure anyone would really want to adopt the Commonwealth's industrial, infrastructural, political, or technological model no matter how supposedly "advanced" it is.

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Really. Jesus Christ. Y'all are trying to destabilize everything. Concept-wise, I just wanted to be Quebec. Now, I'm just aiming for a decent military. I don't think the QDC and its branches could ever be the successor/spiritual-successor to the USAF. :( I really wanna just be left alone, but there's so many threats and immediate threats to my idea of a Quebec Free State (A Quebec that's independent and not under anyone's influence).

"It's simple, Dag. We set everyone to war around us while securing peace ourselves, making whatever short-term concessions we need to do so, and when everyone who might plausibly threaten us are all busy fighting their petty brush wars, we reach out and seize the future."

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I see... well I'm not even accepted yet so we have to wait

I look forwards to it.

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I got my own equipment thank you very much, though I might buy some if it'd earn us an official recognition as the successor state :P

And get involved in the mess that is North America? That sounds a bit like voluntarily tying a ball of iron to our legs before trying to go for a swim.

Ah well. I'm sure with a bit of fire-stoking we can find a neighbour or two willing to bomb your "own equipment"-producing arms industries. :p

(I jest, of course... but only a little)

[HypErcApitAl]

ooooooooh interesting

It splits up the British Isles, which is very good news for Northern frontier security; there's not a snowball's chance in the nether that whatever rump state exists in Northern Scotland can meaningfully challenge our hold over the Orkneys and the Shetlands, and this buffer state separates the highly-developed cities of Southern England from the critical waters of the Norwegian Sea.

---

Just praise the lord and pass the ammunition

And when it comes to arms and ammunition, it doesn't get much better than the Commonwealth's. We offer Technical Pyrotechnetic Solutions(tm) for the Discerning Warlords/Warladies.

But seriously, if any of these filthy primitive savages our honourary diplomatic partners who still run obsolete Central European War-era militaries feel like they have a few dozen billion dollars to throw around for military modernisation, Norden will probably be the model they will be looking to.

That goes for a lot of other things as well, of course, but given how Nordic society is pretty much imploding every year nowadays, I'm not sure anyone would really want to adopt the Commonwealth's industrial, infrastructural, political, or technological model no matter how supposedly "advanced" it is.

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Really. Jesus Christ. Y'all are trying to destabilize everything. Concept-wise, I just wanted to be Quebec. Now, I'm just aiming for a decent military. I don't think the QDC and its branches could ever be the successor/spiritual-successor to the USAF. I really wanna just be left alone, but there's so many threats and immediate threats to my idea of a Quebec Free State (A Quebec that's independent and not under anyone's influence).

"It's simple, Dag. We set everyone to war around us while securing peace ourselves, making whatever short-term concessions we need to do so, and when everyone who might plausibly threaten us are all busy fighting their petty brush wars, we reach out and seize the future."

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I see... well I'm not even accepted yet so we have to wait

I look forwards to it.

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I got my own equipment thank you very much, though I might buy some if it'd earn us an official recognition as the successor state

And get involved in the mess that is North America? That sounds a bit like voluntarily tying a ball of iron to our legs before trying to go for a swim.

Ah well. I'm sure with a bit of fire-stoking we can find a neighbour or two willing to bomb your "own equipment"-producing arms industries.

(I jest, of course... but only a little)

Oof.

[Sarderia]

Drunken cheering

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Start some bonfires in North America so we can sell off our expensive military equipment to everybody in the fight!

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My nation concept is basically "it's wild cyberpunk, but the government is social-democratic and would really like the country to not be wild cyberpunk".

I hope the potential for interaction between our two nations is as obvious to you as it is to me.

Jesus Christ.

Really. Jesus Christ. Y'all are trying to destabilize everything. Concept-wise, I just wanted to be Quebec. Now, I'm just aiming for a decent military. I don't think the QDC and its branches could ever be the successor/spiritual-successor to the USAF.

I really wanna just be left alone, but there's so many threats and immediate threats to my idea of a Quebec Free State (A Quebec that's independent and not under anyone's influence).

We'll throw the Boeing planes on you with low prices, don't worry. Cascadia has no interest in North America, except for the mountain US regions and California.

[Sarderia]

I just did the maths. According to the time value of money, which means inflasion, which means if I put one cascadian dollar as 1.2 USD in 2020 it would multiply to 4.21 usd by 2060. So if I put my GDP as 4.25 trillion in 2020, my GDP would instead be 178 TRILLION dollars.

Y'all might want to tone down that currency rate a bit.

[Plzen]

[...] my GDP would instead be 178 TRILLION dollars.

Y'all might want to tone down that currency rate a bit.

I’d be curious to know by what calculation you arrived at that number.

[Sarderia]

[...] my GDP would instead be 178 TRILLION dollars.

Y'all might want to tone down that currency rate a bit.

I’d be curious to know by what calculation you arrived at that number.

I use this to determine the exchange rate between 1 Cascadian dollar and 1 USD in 2060. (for example, if 1 Cascadian dollar is 1.2 usd in 2020, it would be 4.25 USD in 2060, because inflation). I did the maths concerning the GDP growth of American states, then Canadian provinces, and Russian federal districts all the way to US$ 4,250 trillion. Then, I multiply it with the currency rate of US$ 4.25 and the result is 178T dollars. I've lowered the currency rate of the CS$ just for the sake of reality.

[SangMar]

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NS Name: SangMar

RP Name: The New Southern Republic/La Nueva República del Sur.

Capital: Amarillo, Texas.

Territory: Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico

Population: Texas - 50,250,000 (https://demographics.texas.gov/Resources/publications/2019/20190128_PopProjectionsBrief.pdf) - I changed my original estimate, I found slightly better data - which allows me to take into account migration levels too.

New Mexico - 2,600,000
(https://bber.unm.edu/media/presentations/RobertRhatiganDUC2015.pdf) - The population growth estimate only goes up to 2040 here, so I made an another estimate.

Oklahoma - 4,700,000 - couldn’t find an estimate here, so I guessed based upon previous census results.

Altogether - 57,750,000


Type of Government: Unitary Parliamentary Republic

Government Explaination:

The NSR/NRS is a unitary parliamentary republic, with a unicameral legislature which is headed by the Captain-General. Despite the name, the title is equivalent to a European-style President, for example. The Captain-General is part of the legislature - serving as an elected member of it, and representing a district in the chamber. There are approximately 565 seats in the legislature. The legislature itself is referred to as the “Tulip Center”.

For elections, the state uses a system called Single Transferable Vote (STV) - where candidates for each seat are ranked by each individual voter in terms of preference. If a voter’s first choice is eliminated from the running, then their second choice is allocated their vote instead, and so on. Eventually, one of the candidates for each area will get enough votes to be elected. This is used in all elections for local towns, larger metropolitan mayoral elections, to national elections.

There’s also another layer to democracy in the state - which sets it apart from other unitary parliamentary republics - the ability for citizens to compel the government to hold referendums. To make it work, all a citizen must do is gather 65,000 signatures on a petition and send it off to the government - the petition must be electronic and with verifiable supporters. To this end, the government has set up a website to accomplish this. Should a petition receive this support, and it is verifiable, then the government will hold a national referendum on said issue, and depending on how said referendum goes, a law can be repealed or enacted - without a vote being held in the legislature proper.

Leader(s): Captain-General - Alfredo Montoya (SAP)
Deputy - Pat Thomas (CUGS)


Image(s) of Leader(s):

Party or Coalition in Power: The Christian Union for a Greater State-Social Assistance Party (CUGS-SAP coalition) (CUGS = Christian Democracy, Liberal Conservatism) (Social Assistance Party = Social Democrats) (Altogether = 386 seats)

Executive Title: Captain-General

State Ideology: By 2056, and the NSR/NRS is solidly “Purple, leaning-blue” to use the old American political marker between Republican red and Democrat blue. Very much due to an increased Hispanic population, the state is far less conservative than what the region was as a whole during the 2010s and 2020s. Instead, the NSR/NRS pursues a relatively interesting goal - combining old libertarian attitudes with progressive mostly left-leaning politics. Still however, this doesn’t mean it’s a hotbed of new thinking like the North-Western states. There are limits.

By and large however, the state is strongly in favour of embracing new concepts - now that the older conservatives of the previous decades are firstly, now almost entirely extinct and two, the white population - which was more likely to vote for these conservative elements now finds itself as a minority - in all areas with the exception of Oklahoma.


Ethnicity Breakdown: By the 2010 US census, Hispanic people were the second largest ethnic group in Texas, just after non-Hispanic whites. However, by 2020, the Hispanic population now held a slight majority in Texas - which would only be increased in the years up to 2056. By 2056, Texas is as follows: 49% Hispanic - both white and non-white, 27% Non-Hispanic White, 12% Asian and 12% Black.

New Mexico: 57% Hispanic - both white and non-white, 30% Non-Hispanic White, 11% Native American, 1% Black, 1% Asian.

Oklahoma: 51% Non-Hispanic White, 12% Black, 6% Native American, 4% Asian, 27% Hispanic - both white and non-white.

Religion Breakdown: As a whole, 36% of the population of the NSR/NRS claim to be irreligious, nearly some 18 million people. Most of the population however, believes in either Catholicism or one of the many variants of Protestantism - officially anyway. For even those who consider themselves religious, religious participation has certainly been on the decline. Even amongst Hispanic populations - which are traditionally strongly Catholic, and in rural Texas and Oklahoma - which are traditionally strongly Protestant. Both of these religions, when combined made up 60% of responses in the census of 2050. The remainder of the populace tends to be mixed - mainly amongst Sikhs, Jews, Muslims and various other religions.

Flag:

National Anthem: “The Song of the Nuevo” - Unknown, composed in 2053.

National Motto: “Plus Ultra”\”Further Beyond”

Demonym: Nuevo

Map Color: Bright Orange

Public Goals: To ensure the territorial integrity of the state, establish relationships with the other states on the North American continent and the continued internal development of the state.

Private Goals: N/A

Military name: The Armed Forces of the New Southern Republic/Fuerzas Armadas de La Nueva República del Sur.

Military branches: The National Legion/La Legión - (Army), Republican Naval Infantry/Infantería de Marina de la República (Marine Corps), Republican Navy/Armada de la República (Navy) and National Air Defence Force/Fuerza Aérea (Air Force)

Total military size:

Ground Forces: 320,000 Active/140,000 Reserve.

Marine Corps: 9,500 Active/500 Reserve.

Air Force: 95,000 Active/20,000 Reserve.

Navy: 10,000 Active/1,000 Reserve.

Altogether: 596,000.



Breakdown of ground force(s):

460,000 Personnel
790 Tanks
1100 APCs
800 IFVs
550 Artillery - all types
20,000 Combat Robots
5,000 Drones - the Rotor-blade Kind.

The ground forces take up the vast majority of the national military budget - and it shows, with the average NSR/NRS Legionnaire being both well trained and equipped for future conflicts. Most of their equipment is of indigenous origin - having been developed in no small part thanks to said military budget. An NSR/NRS Legionnaire for example, can expect to go into battle knowing that they have secure communications - a lightweight, heavily encrypted ear-piece and radio set being issued to each trooper. Furthermore, all NSR/NRS infantry also get overlays of their surroundings in real time: transmitted to them through bullet-resistant glasses, which also double to track heart rate and their physical state. Things like body armour and helmets are a similar story - with the nation’s scientists constantly working on issuing troops with the most lightweight, but also protective equipment. Finally, all frontline Legionnaires also make use of basic exoskeletons - increasing their strength, endurance and speed by a significant degree.

Good progress has also been made regarding the modernization of older equipment - mainly things like Abrams Tanks and Strykers. NSR/NRS engineers and scientists, much like with the Air Force, prefer to modernize older equipment for now, wanting to design new armoured vehicles and heavier weapon systems in a few years instead.


Breakdown of naval force(s):

11,000 Personnel
200 Naval Patrol Boats
10 Naval Helicopters

Breakdown of air force(s):

115,000 personnel
850 Multi-Role Aircraft
750 Fighters
350 Close Air Support aircraft
200 Attack Helicopters
1200 Transport Helicopters
5 E-WACs (Early Warning and Control) Aircraft
25 Tankers
40 Search and Rescue Aircraft

Due to Texas having arguably the largest air base in what used to be the United States, it makes sense that a lot of the US Air Force’s 1990s-2020s equipment has come to find itself within the NSR/NRS arsenal. This, combined with a significant share of the military budget has allowed the NSR/NRS Air Force to maintain excellent capabilities across most fronts when it comes to the aerial theatre. More recently, NSR/NRS researchers and engineers have begun to explore modernization packages for some of their oldest aircraft - with new designs being several years away.


Breakdown of other branch(es):

The marines are some of the state’s most well trained troops - skilled in amphibious landings and operations, they also double as paratroopers - forming the armed forces’ only airborne contingent. They’re small, but like the Legionnaires, well equipped. In fact, they make use of the same technological advances that their army counterparts do too. However, much of it is modified in-house to suit their needs. Like the Legionnaires however, they’ve deemed a modernized NSR/NRS variant of the M4 rifle to be their service weapon of choice - preferring to delay a change in small arms for now at least.

Numerous Logistical Trucks/Vehicles
Several thousand civilian and military employees working in things like cyber-security, catering, logistics etc.

Extra military information:

Since 2041, NSR/NRS governments have allocated approximately 5% of GDP on the needs of the military. This entails around 205 Billion USD (As of 2020) per year. Roughly 70% of this goes to the ground forces and naval infantry, 20% to the air force and 5% to the navy. The remaining 5% goes into fields like logistics and cyber-warfare/security.

Accordingly, the NSR/NRS can say that they field one of the most high-tech and well trained militaries in the world. If not at least, the North American continent. The NSR/NRS therefore is able to make strong use of robots, drones and other cutting-edge technology. All of these are means for which the state can compensate for the armed force’s small size in comparison to some of its neighbours. At least, this is true for the air force, marine corps and army. The navy, on the other hand is only a small force - designed for patrolling the state’s coast - and not for any serious projections of military power. Therefore, it’s well funded - in comparison to its size, but it isn’t anywhere near powerful, especially when compared with some of the other North American states’ navies.

There are also numerous former US military bases located within NSR/NRS territory, which have been repurposed by the NSR/NRS military. Some of these include the Brooke Army Medical Center - the US Army’s best medical institution and the largest facility run by the pre-collapse Department of Defence, Joint-Base San Antonio, Fort Bliss and Fort Hood.

Lastly, there are tens of millions civilian gun owners residing within the NSR/NRS - able to do so because of the NSR’s loose regulations on firearms ownership: which is a holdover from when the largest state - Texas, was part of the United States. These gun owners, in part due to the changing demographics and political attitudes had to accept a compromise whether they liked it or not: the NSR/NRS would enshrine firearms ownership into national law - never to be revoked or infringed upon in anyway, with few restrictions on open carrying, concealed carry or the types of firearms permitted; but in return, those same gun owners would have to provide proof that their guns were being used on the shooting range monthly, and all first time gun-owners would have to take mandatory courses in firearms safety, mental healthy and overall marksmanship. Furthermore, all guns have to be registered with the state - and no one with a record of indictable offenses or mental illness would be permitted to purchase them.

GDP: The NSR/NRS economy boosts a GDP of 4.1 trillion USD - with Texas providing the vast majority of this sum. They provide 3.6 trillion USD, Oklahoma provides 350 billion USD and New Mexico provides the remaining 150 billion USD.



GDP per Capita: $70,000 USD is the average figure, however it does vary with rural areas typically seeing less than those in the cities. These rural areas tend to be poorer - although, with the NSR/NRS being more left-wing economically than its predecessor, programmes are being extended into these areas to improve the standard of living, creating new jobs and to reduce poverty levels.

Currency: The National Dollar.

Currency and value of currency compared to USD: The National Dollar can be found in notes of $500, $200, $150, $100, $50, $25, $20, $10 and $5. Notes are typically pink, made from burn and tear-proof material and feature a map of the state. 4ND$ = 1USD.

Major Domestic Issues: Rural areas of New Mexico and Oklahoma still lag behind those of places like Texas - meaning significant money will need to be spent on them to bring them up to a more modern standard. Migration along the Southern border will need to be checked and if need be, curtailed. Finally, the state highway system needs to be overhauled significantly - as much of it is in a state of disrepair following the collapse of the central government in Washington over a decade earlier.

Major Foreign Issues: Ensuring that the state remains secure against threats on the North American continent, no allies as of the beginning of 2056 and a lack of European trade partners.

History:

Texas seceding from the union in 2037 could be said to have been the final act of a dying breed - as already, since 2020, Hispanics - who leaned heavily Democrat were now a demographic majority within the state. Therefore, when the white-majority Republican-held legislature voted to leave the United States at that time, to many Latinos within the state, it signaled the beginning of the end. Texas Republicans had had their time in the spotlight, and it wouldn’t be long until it came to a close. Within two years, it happened - mass migration from Mexico pushed up the Hispanic population even further, with many of these finding the job of assimilating in places like El Paso, and Dallas an easy task: namely due to the culturally similar populations living there.

From then on, Hispanics took the initiative - to set up their own country, where they could be accepted as equals to whites, politically at least. It didn’t take much either - the demographic shift meant that when a new government was formed during the following year, the vast majority of those elected were considerably more liberal than those who were elected in previous years. Now they were able to control the narrative - and in 2041, they did: forming the New Southern Republic/La Nueva República de Sur - a nation that unlike the old Texas embraced both of the Spanish and English languages - making sure that neither was above the other. A place where freedom truly could be had.

A new government - democratically-elected and utilising elements of Swiss direct democracy and European systems of proportional representation was created to lead the new state. There would be no gerrymandering or electoral fraud of any kind within the nation, which was unlike the previous itineration of Texas - which had heavily disenfranchised minority voters during the 2000s-2020s. That couldn’t be allowed to happen again. In 2045, New Mexico - with its majority Hispanic population petitioned to join the NSR/NRS: reasoning quite soundly that there was more safety in numbers than going it alone. Oklahoma would petition to join two years later - many younger non-Hispanic Whites helping to give the final push for admission into the NSR/NRS. Younger people as a whole turned out to be the driving force of the new state - shunning the prejudiced attitudes that older generations had displayed - on all sides.

In 2051, the SAP-CUGS coalition would come to power after brokering a power-sharing agreement, and Alfredo Montoya would become the state’s 2nd Captain-General, with Pat Thomas serving as his deputy. Together, the two would lead the country - focusing for the next four years on internal development: deciding in late 2055 that with 2056 being an election year that they would try a different tactic - reaching out to the slowly recovering world, hoping to help prevent events like those that had caused their previous nation to crumble so spectacularly.



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[HypErcApitAl]

I’d be curious to know by what calculation you arrived at that number.

I use this to determine the exchange rate between 1 Cascadian dollar and 1 USD in 2060. (for example, if 1 Cascadian dollar is 1.2 usd in 2020, it would be 4.25 USD in 2060, because inflation). I did the maths concerning the GDP growth of American states, then Canadian provinces, and Russian federal districts all the way to US$ 4,250 trillion. Then, I multiply it with the currency rate of US$ 4.25 and the result is 178T dollars. I've lowered the currency rate of the CS$ just for the sake of reality.

I know, right?

[HypErcApitAl]

Jesus Christ.

Really. Jesus Christ. Y'all are trying to destabilize everything. Concept-wise, I just wanted to be Quebec. Now, I'm just aiming for a decent military. I don't think the QDC and its branches could ever be the successor/spiritual-successor to the USAF.

I really wanna just be left alone, but there's so many threats and immediate threats to my idea of a Quebec Free State (A Quebec that's independent and not under anyone's influence).

We'll throw the Boeing planes on you with low prices, don't worry. Cascadia has no interest in North America, except for the mountain US regions and California.

Much appreciated. There's no Ontario player yet, but if there was, both the French and Irish-descended Quebecois would be telling them to piss off.

Hooray, Anglophobia!