[b]Name:[/b] The Outer Banks Republic

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[b]History:[/b] The Outer Banks formed through a loose confederation of inhabitants on the islands and lands around the North Carolina coast. In the aftermath of the collapse of civilization, raiders and pirates preyed upon the ships and farmers on the islands. Eventually communities united together to put down a threat. At a meeting on Roanoke Island, a quorum of ship captains met to form a posse. This makeshift fleet of fishing vessels set sail and laid waste to the predators in the area. It was known as the First Quorum and broke up soon after the threat passed.

Five years later, more threats required the meeting of the Second Quorum. This time, after the pirate menace was put down the ship captains returned to Roanoke and set up a provisional government. With each island represented by its ship captains, the charter for the Outer Banks Republic was created. Very little has changed since then. Life goes on, the navy repels threats of pirates, and the people of Outer Banks do their best to live in harmony.

The Outer Banks culture is one of Republican ideals, a mostly agrarian society that sprung up in the years since the collapse of the world. In the Outer Banks a man is free to be left alone and live in peace from interference from outside forces. An ideal Jeffersonian Democracy where the power is invested in the people of the countryside. Although a now growing class of wealthy merchants are attempting to change the shape and form of the Republic. As wealth floods into the nation, there are those who are prepared to fight for the very soul of the Republic.

The great divide does not lie in race, religion, or sex, but in seagoing and land lovers. Those that have no taste for the waters are looked down upon by the sailors who earn their living in the ocean. The merchants are viewed with contempt by the fisherman due to their large accumulation of wealth and ownership of many ships, giving them a seemingly unfair advantage in the Captain's Quorum.