For your persual Tort, the Gadsen Bannermen that Caleb tangled with, and a counterpart because sometimes you need a little optimism.

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"Men in this country used to know how to be men. We intend to remind y'all of how."[/center]

Formed by the remnants of a pre-war civilian milita based in northern Alabama, those few members of the Gadsens who survived the plague found that their wildest dreams had come true, and the federal government had fallen. The most visionary of those that survived saw the new world as a tabula rasa to build their dream society: A return to the halcyon days of early America, where the men were frontier vanguards, the women were good wives and those that opposed them were destroyed. To make the dream come true, they began to recruit, siezing control of areas of Huntsville and enforcing their new order. 

With a paramilitary aesthetic and attitude, they're simultaneously opposed to raiders while arguably being little better than a more formal one themselves.

Population: Some 40 odd Bannermen and another 50 or so 'auxiliary staff.'
Resources: High
Leader: "Corporal" Dean Gunn, an ex-National Guardsman now entering his mid fifties.
Survival Strategy: Small-scale farming and scavenging, "voluntary protection money."

Appropriate Theme Song:
Coming Soon
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"All it takes for evil to triumph... Yadda yadda yadda you know this one already."[/center]

All for one and one for all! The Liberty Rangers are a transient band of do-gooders, held together a hatred of bandits and their ilk, significant quantities of duct tape and a lot of democratic bickering. They live off the land and on other people's kindness, moving from region to region, picking up new members, losing old ones and throwing themselves at any group that seeks to take advantage of other people... A lifestyle that unfortunately doesn't lead to the average ranger having a terribly long lifespan. Nonetheless, they have a stirring message and offer hope to innocent folk, and at the end of the day you can't really ask for more than that.

Population: Unstable, but usually within a score of 150.
Resources: Low
Leader: No singular leader, as the Rangers pride themselves on their direct democracy
Survival Strategy: Scavenging, recovering goods from raiders, donations from those they've helped.

Appropriate Theme Song:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGG6mgonGic[/youtube]
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