The New California Republic:


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Name: The New California Republic (NCR)

Flag: 

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Territory (picture or description) and Geography:

California and Western Nevada as States, Western Oregon and Baja as Territories (Military governed zones).

Population: 1,000,000

Government/Domestic Politics: Liberal Democratic Federation with a Unicameral legislature and a separation of powers divided between the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. The head of state and of the government is the President, with the Senate of the New California Republic based in Shady Sands. The model is based on that of the Pre-War united states, a federal system with state legislatures and executives and a national legislature and executive.

Politically, the NCR is divided into multiple parties.

New Republican Party – Led by President Winters. The New Republican Party is the one party closest to the Tandist legacy. Advocating a meritocratic and technocratic base, the New Republican Party supports domestic reform along internalist, ensuring food security through scientific methods as opposed to expansionism. In foreign policy, it enacts a “Good Neighbours, Good fences” platform of genial neutrality, focusing on respect for internal sovereignty rather than expansionism.

Democratic Alliance Party – Led by Senator Moore. The Democratic Alliance Party was Kimball’s party, it is the antithesis of the New Republican Party. It advocates an outward looking platform, securing food and water through seizing viable lands.  Expansionist but democratic, suggestions of a coup attempt were roughly shut down during a conference of powerbrokers, its natural allies are the industrial and agricultural barons and the military.

Communalists – A movement headed by a single mutant, the Communalists are led by the Ghoul known as Ted Jones, a Pre-War Socialist who now heads a growing movement calling for the radical reformation of the NCR into a society based on the group not the individual, of government not business, of nation not citizen, of revolution if no reformation.

National Reform Party – A breakaway from the Democratic Alliance Party, the National Reform Party believes in a reform of the NCR. Led by Marcus Wolfe, the National Reform Party has grown to stand for a return to Pre-War America. Anti-Mutant, Anti-Democratic, Anti-Capitalist, the National Reform Party prowls in the wings of NCR politics, waiting for the right moment to strike, to sink its claws into the NCR and reshape it into the image it believes it should be.

The Cabal – A shadowy group of figures that represent the “Invisible hand of the market”. Enclosed in a smoke-filled room with the blinds shut tight, this faction is composed of the leading industrialists and agriculturalists of the NCR. Based out of the Hub, the Cabal believes in ensuring their business is the business of the NCR.

Notable People: 

President Winters – A lifelong politician, President Winters was the former senator for Maxson before winning the election following Kimball’s resignation.

General James Hsu – Chief of Staff for the NCR military in the wake of Oliver’s dismissal, Moore’s move to politics and Hanlon’s suicide. Hsu is a political nonentity, but commands the NCR military with an ever more concerned view at the actions within and without the NCR.

Senator Cassandra Moore – Hero of the Highway war, Moore personally led the counterattack and pacification campaign against the 80s. Resigning from the military, Moore was drafted into the Senatorial seat of New Reno and outspoken in her views, was duly elected to the leadership of the Democratic Alliance party.

Ted Jones – Chairman of the Communalist Party, Ted Jones was born in Pre-War california and worked as part of the Los Angeles Commune, protesting the imperialist-capitalist policies of the USA before radicalising. Captured and tortured, Ted Jones escaped execution by a single hour when the bombs fell. Mutated by the radiation, Jones has lived in the Boneyard for centuries and now, has his sights set on forging the NCR into a New Communal Republic.

Marcus Wolfe – A denizen of Vault City, Marcus Wolfe epitomises Vault thinking, society ordered and secured, uniformity without divergence. With the upcoming midterm elections, Wolfe leads the National Reform Party, standing for the Vault City seat, he aims to push his agenda across the NCR, turning a human majority into a human totality by any means necessary.

Military (try to be somewhat realistic):

Army of the New California Republic – 25,000 soldiers. 10,000 of which are split between Baja and Oregon to pacify and uplift the new territories. Unchanged from the Mojave campaign in equipment, reforms have been made, weeding out those unsuitable for service. As a result, the Army is much more professional, but has jettisoned around 15,000 service personnel into the midst of an economic recession and political upheaval.
 
Air Force of the New California Republic – Consisting of Five Vertibirds and 10 Douglas A-1 Skyraiders. All Skyraiders are currently based in Baja and Oregon to act as force multipliers against tribal uprisings and raider incursions. Plans for expansion have stalled for years, upkeep is sketchy and as such, for the past three years, all Vertibirds have been grounded.

Navy of the New California Republic - A glorified coast guard, the NCR navy consists of a 10 PBRs and 3 Point Class Cutters. Once again, all PBRs are deployed in the territories whilst funding arguments have resulted in 2 of the 3 cutters being waylaid in port pending refurbishment approval.

Economy: Wage based economy backed through fiat currency.

The economy of the NCR is the largest on the American continent. A troika of agriculture, industry and services make up the vast majority of this preponderant economic behemoth. 

Culture and Technology (include views towards slavery and mutants): An industrial liberal democratic society, the NCR is founded on principles of anti-slavery and anti-discrimination. A nation espousing the tenets of individual freedom, equality before the law, social cohesion and suchlike. Views range from stone age to atomic age, radios and newspapers and adverts and more influence and shape the NCR much akin to the nation-states of the pre-war age. Reactionary to Radical, Liberal to Conservative, Capitalist to Socialist. All of these and more find themselves welcomed and at home in the melting pot of the NCR. 

Technologically the NCR moves between Industrialisation and Post-Industrialisation in its local economies from location to location. Radio and telegram are the main avenues of communication, mass transit provided by electronic railways and buses. It does not achieve the awesome and dreadful heights of the Institute, nor does it fall to the tribalism rife across the globe. It is a nation state in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It makes its way through the wreckage and ruin, repairing, remaking, rediscovering all that was lost and little by little, learns more and more.

Religion: Secular State. Religious toleration practiced barring unacceptable tenets (Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism, Tax Avoidance etc). A number of religions practiced, but most citizens tend to be irreligious.

History:

The NCR has stood for a hundred years, but never in all its years, not even during the height of the Enclave’s power nor the total-war era of the NCR-Brotherhood war, has it seemed so close to defeat as it stands now.

The events of the Second Battle of the Hoover Dam were, to understate them, a crisis of confidence for the NCR. A national humiliation, dust and blood covered soldiers trudged home escorted by row upon row of gleaming Securitrons. What followed next was a flurry of events, the emergence of story upon story, the confession and suicide of Chief Hanlon, General Oliver disgraced, dishonourably discharged then driven to a drunken death and Kimball forced to resign after a tenuous year of attempting to hold power.

Kimball’s presidency might have ended, but his party remained, its politics remained and even disgraced, they clung deep into the heart of the NCR. Kimball had improved living standards, and a reasonably successful expansion into Baja and then Oregon had secured a reasonable amount of territory for veterans and settlers to take advantage of. All of this however had come at the cost of a budget deficit, uncontrolled military spending and increasing taxes.

Suffice to say, when Kimball finally was forced to resign and new elections were called, the subsequent election led to a New Republican majority. Spending was reined in, the military cut down to size and taxes scaled back. Since then, the NCR has undergone a varied change. The conclusion of the Highway war has led to the revitalisation of the Democratic Alliance as an opposition party, with the Cassandra Moore drafted, that is elected in a special election demanded by petition, as the senator for New Reno and then elected as party leader. 

For the majority though, the divide between the haves and have-nots grow clearer and deeper by the year, most startlingly displayed with the “Californian Agricultural Revolution” following the implementation of data secured from Vault 22. Genetically modified properties have led to the eruption of allergies across the NCR among the lower classes, but tellingly not the upper classes, as the newly enriched diets contrast to the poorer meals of the past years. Furthermore, the new crops have resulted in agriculture being less manpower intensive, intensified by a government subsidisation programme to industrialise much of the process.

Worsening this unemployment crisis is the slimming down of the NCR military and the subsequent reduction of the military-industrial complex that supported the bloated military. Even then the civilian industry finds itself increasingly given over to industrialisation, electrification and at some extremes, roboticization. With Baja and Oregon lands already sold off to the highest bidders in a successful short-term attempt to balance the budget, calls now grow for new lands to be found, for increases in state welfare programmes and more.

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