Ancosma wrote:Nationstates Name: Ancosma
Faction Name:Faction Type: Legitimized Government
- (English): Republic of Fergesia
- (Fergesian): Fergesa Republiqa
Flag (Optional):
Governing Ideology:
Leader(s): Dom Leonardo Modesto
Territorial Claims: Inyo, Tulare, Mono, Esmeralda, and Mineral Counties
Population: 10,000
Armed Population: 3,000
Technology Level: Mixed (Prior-Collapse and Metal Age Tech)
History:
Culture:Theme: Once upon a time in the Blossoming Mountain
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ID TAG 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)
I'll step in now to clarify that Legitimized Gov'ts are restricted mostly to post collapse technology. The minority of which can be prior collapse, which are dated designs, but still a step above post-collapse tech. Not everyone in your nation is going to have a pacemaker or M14 rifle.
Acceptance of this app is basicaly waiting for it's completion so long as you're aware of the tech constraints.
Beutarch wrote:Nationstates Name: Beutarch
Faction Name: The Federal District of Annapolis
Faction Type: Legitimized Government
Flag (Optional): US Navy Jack
Governing Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy
Leader(s): President Wallace A. Westbrook, Fleet Admiral John J. Milford
Territorial Claims: Here.
Population: 10,019
Armed Population: 3,000
Technology Level: Mixed, largely pre-collapse supplemented with prior-collapse
History: The District's history is long, stretching back to the years surrounding America's descent into anarchy and subsequent collapse. Most old timers, however, agree that the notion of the "District" came about shortly after the Atlantic Fleet's naval base in Norfolk fell to the disease. The site of makeshift hospitals and the anchorage of several hospital ships, the disease quickly ravaged the installation. Under presidential orders, Norfolk was to be one of the first targets of the atomic bombings that would engulf much of the continental US. The station's then commandant, given advance warning of the bombardment and ordered to evacuate as many able bodied men as he could, refused to believe that his government would perform such an atrocity to American citizens. Days prior to the bombardment, his flagship fired warning shots toward the naval base and its surrounding tent city, causing many to flee inland, avoiding the tactical nuclear device that would be dropped soon after.
During the exodus, many ships were left behind, as there were simply not enough healthy sailors to adequately crew them. Those that did successfully make it out of the anchorage were ordered to sail regroup with a Canadian task force in Nova Scotia, though the purpose of this order was unclear, as communication with the US's regional command structure fell apart soon after it was issued. The fleet's commanding officer, one Commander Marcus Wilson, determined that the best course of action would be to make contact with the military forces in Washington, ostensibly to assist with the ongoing evacuation and consolidation of the government in the district. Later commenters add that it is likely Wilson intended to confront those that had carried out the nuclear holocaust against America's own citizens, but such an operation would be highly impractical. Though the locations of the officials who approved the attacks remain unknown, it is almost certain they were not in Washington at that point in the crisis. Nonetheless, fueled by emotion and with no other goal, the fleet set out toward the capitol. A detachment of the fleet, however, was ordered to approach the United State Naval Academy in Annapolis, taking up the midshipmen to supplement the disease-ravaged crews of the ships of the main group.
This detachment would never be able to link back up with the main task force, as the largest nuclear bombardment yet seen would soon be loosed on the nation's former capitol. It remains unclear what happened to those in the fleet, but it is assumed that they were disabled in the blast, or fled elsewhere in the immediate aftermath. The detachment, upon learning of the fate of the fleet, would return to Annapolis permanently.
In Annapolis, the civilian government soon became one and the same with the admiralty, as the military force provided by both the men of the academy and the firepower of the Navy's ships proved vital in the city's early years of effective independence, a bastion of humanity against the waves of mutants that spilled out of the rubble of Washington. After securing a defensible border against the mutant threat, the city's leaders asserted that a proper government needed to be established and the admiralty, clinging to their last formal orders, realized that they would never be able to reach the District of Columbia. In a compromise of both memories and aspirations, the Federal District of Annapolis was founded.
Though initially the District's borders extended only slightly outward from Annapolis itself, as the threat of the neighboring mutants mounted, the District annexed several counties across the Chesapeake. By virtue of the District's already large naval presence, the new acquisitions were utilized to great effect, providing the food and material required to hold on to Maryland. A bureaucracy grew to manage the logistical concerns, cementing the District as a legitimized government in the wastes of New England.
Culture: The people District are steeped in American history, treasuring artifacts recovered from incursions into the Corrupted Holds of D.C. and modelling the government of Annapolis along the guidelines laid down by the Constitution, hundreds of years prior. This fascination and desire to return to American glory is largely seen through the lens of military and especially sea power, as both the Navy and the Academy serve as symbols and key aspects of the community. Under these two institutions and in the context of the survival-of-the-fittest environment of the Post-Collapse US, issues such as sexism and racism have largely been forgotten, the Fleet will tolerate any midshipman so long as they are able to kill a sufficient number of mutants. On the other hand, hazing rituals within the Academy have become endemic and inter-service rivalry, between the Fleet and the growing Marine Corps, shows itself in physical altercations.
The two major political factions within the District both agree that the District is the only legitimate successor state to the United State of America, but feud over how best to proceed, given their current situation. Those who identify as "Columbians," believe that, for both the survival of the District and the morale victory that would be recapturing the capitol, the District must partake in a vast military build up, soon using those forces to lead a crusade against the mutants who inhabit Washington. A member of this faction would claim that it is only a matter of time before the mutants overwhelm the border, and that the District must strike while it is strong. The opposition to this faction, the "Easterners," believe that it is in the District's best interest to utilize its resources to continue settling in Delaware and other non-infested areas, and that an attack on D.C. would be suicidal.
The Columbian faction is largely made of the government's stratocrats and, increasingly, the Marines, who assert that the only way an invasion of D.C. is to take place is with an increase of the District's land forces. The Columbians also believe that moving toward D.C. would also fulfill the Fleet's final orders, those being to regroup and approach the capitol. The Easterns, consisting of the civilian members and commercial interests within the government, along with members of the Admiralty unwilling with give the Marines what they want, would claim that those orders were delivered by a mentally unsound officer and thus void, or are so impractical within a historical context that they were simply imagined by the Columbians as a political device, and never existed in reality.
Theme: will add later
ID TAG 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)
As stated above, there are tech constraints on certain governments. After 200 years, parts break down, knowledge is lost, at this point in time, it's highly likely that the fleet that once existed has had to be cannibalized down to a half a dozen ships, if not less. Same goes for weaponry, while a lot more easy to maintain over long term use, they too will eventually break down. M16s in use with the US military in Vietnam have been recycled or refitted in the 90s, and almost none are in use today, and that was only 50 or so years. A large amount of your tech is gonna be post collapse, supplemented by small amounts of pre-collapse.
I will say I am glad that you have a valid, believable reason to have said technology class however. As it stands, this app can be accepted when the issue of tech class is addressed.
Unfortunately, with the reservations of Nouveau Quebecois, Pyrghium, and Beutrarch, and the all but completed application by Ancosma, Legitimized Governments have no more open slots.
Pyrghium wrote:Very well, then. Perhaps then most of the Québécois flee south into upstate NY and build an Empire there? Could I be a Legitimized Government and add the counties of Rensselaer and Columbia to my claim?
Sure.
Ralnis wrote:Can I reserve a bandit clan that lives on an airship or an actual ship?
Airship, yes. Actual ship, it depends on the reasoning behind it.
Greater Socialist Albania wrote:Reserve Clark county, Nevada please.
I'm sorry, but Clark County has already been taken. I just forgot to update the map last night.
The World Capitalist Confederation wrote:Reserve Tribal Confederacy. I should've reserved a Legitimized Government while I had the chance, but oh well...
Acknowledged.