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Name:
The Dustbowl States

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Leader:
Earl Browder

Government Ideology:
Rural collectivism/Quasi-Communsim

Claimed States:
Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico

Rough Population:
About Seven Million

Capital:
Wichita

Why Your States Decided to Unite(A sort of history):



Acting as the first - and last - director of the US Food Administration, Herbert Hoover had during the Great War fought to keep measures in place during the war years to subsidize wheat farmers across the nation so as to encourage an artificial boom in wheat to feed US soldiers and their allies during the years of the First World War. This policy created an immense economic bubble and people from all across the nation flocked to the farm fields of the American mid-west to strike it rich in "fibrous gold".

As this would mean: the region boomed.

The history of the boom of the American mid-west goes back decades, clear into the previous century when railroad companies and US policies reflected in the Homestead Act set aside massive tracts of land in ranching and farming. Systematically, the face of the US mid-west was reshapes as bison herds devastated at the ends of muskets and rifles, and the native Indians driven from lands they had once believed were theirs forever by treaty.

And as history went even, the state of Texas after the Civil War desired the largest and most expansive state house in all the country and would reward anyone who could design and build it unimaginable tracts of land in northern Texas for whatever they so please do build it. A firm in Chicago would take up the offer and seizing investment from as far away as England they went about to build the state-house, winning the expansive land grant which became the XIT ranch.

However the XIT collapsed in the following decades after the ranching bubble collapsed and the price of cattle plummeted. In the transition to the new century the old XIT lands were auctioned off at bargain bin prices - sometimes nearly close to free - and gave away to new homesteaders looking for a new life in what was shilled as "The greatest farmland ever imagined".

The cowboys of the old XIT knew differently, and better.

Boom occurred, and the region exploded in industry and population as families from across America and immigrants from Germany and Europe flooded the bankrupt ranch-lands scooping up land at penny on the dollar looking to grow wheat in those devilishly evil high plains. Wheat went down, and the crops came up.

The first world war facilitating an artificial explosion in wheat demand and more people came across the region throwing down wheat and digging homes literally into the soil and sod itself; living like hobbits on the windswept prairie and ignoring the condemning words of the old ranchers who saw black doom on the horizon.

Boom was followed by bust, and wheat prices plummeted. Farmers responded the best way they knew how to cover bank debts and mortgages: to plant even more wheat to break even. This carried for several years until the rug was pulled out, and the dirt went sky-ward.

The plains were struck with a fierce drought and the mercury soared to oven-level temperatures. No rain fell on the plains and crops withered and died. The creation of the Dust Bowl States was at hand.

With no bank support the people from Texas to as far north as the Dakotas suffered high-winds. Billowing south from the Canadian yukon bitter cold winds swept the plains and scooped up the once fertile soil throwing it away the way an angry child scoops up sand. Storm after storm the plains were eroded away and families saw their livelihoods dissolve.

They cried to Washington, to their state governments to send them help. But none came. Herbert Hoover, interested in operating a hands-off approach to managing the economy only made quarter-hearted gestures in support. But this didn't help, it did not ease the pain and the death.

The plains before had been a place doctors sent patients from the city to live, praising the "clean air" of Oklahoma and the southern mid-west. But now the air was more deadly than that of the cities. And there was little hope. Nearly any opportunity and many were stuck, many more were simply stubborn.

Opting to believe tomorrow would be a better day, they held on.

During the election of 1933 the region voted unanimously in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt in energetic hope of that bright future, casting aside the racist and cigar chomping William H. Murray "Alfalfa". However, Roosevelt lost by some devilish plot and Hoover maintained his presidency. Things got worse, fast.

Residents of the dust bowl called the election a bum deal and as legislation went through Congress to again disunion the union revolution erupted.

Earl Browder, the chairman of the United State Communist Party made for home; Wichita Kansas to lead the disgruntled farmers. For him, this revolution was a clear cry for help and salvation, he lead them to that. Directing the people to overthrow the local state governments and casting out people like William Alfalfa. A revolutionary, communist and anarchist spirit ran through the people as they liberated from themselves governments and institutions they believed had cheated them.

When all was said and done, the people of the Dust Bowl were free. But still not without the storms that ravaged their lands and continued to blow blackish, brownish, yellowish, and reddish dirt clear to Washington DC and New York, seemingly jeering and punishing the policy makers that so badly wished to ignore this had all happened.

When revolution settled, and the disgruntled and impassioned farmers retaken their land and forever killed the threat of foreclosure from New York and Chicago banks, they looked to the great task at hand. Living with the storms: or securing permanent hope elsewhere. To facilitate either goal Browder called for any minds he could find, and any and all personalities. While this happened, the communist kingdom in the heart of the sand-worn states attracted adventurers, exiles, and personalities in their own right to America. Figures like Trotsky, fleeing exile from Stalinist Russia moved from Turkey to the side of Browder. And people like Hemmingway were soon to grace the dust bowl, passionately attracted by the hard grit, gristle, and dogged determinism of the people there.

But figures don't make for a sound future, and they - as well as the people of the Dust Bowl - have to find a way out. A way to fix their beloved plains.
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Name
The United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland

Government Ideology
Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Leader
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George)

Rough Population
47,290,000

Capital
London

History of Your Nation since start of Great Depression
When the Great Depression began, the British Empire suffered from high unemployment and poverty. The empire was still recovering from the Great War and the Depression surprised many government officials. Soon enough, the government took emergency measures to balance the budget and restore confidence in the pound by issuing an emergency budget, which immediately instituted a round of cuts in public spending and wages. Public sector wages and unemployment pay were cut by 10%, and income tax was raised in the pound. However, these measures were unsuccessful as unemployment rose and the gold standard dropped.

After years of measures to combat against the depression, a slow recovery begun in 1934 because of the withdrawal from the gold standard and the devaluation of the pound. As a result, British exports became more competitive on world markets. The revolution in India was proving to be difficult to keep fighting, so they decided to let India become independent. Even know losing India was hard for the British, they still got their massive colonies in Africa and Asia. And with Canada becoming the new Jewel of the Empire, things were looking up from them.

Now, the United States has fallen and Germany is in a state of revolution. The Allies have to end the simulation in Germany before either one wins.
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Name: Empire of Japan.
Government Ideology: Imperialism/Fascism.
Leader: Hirohito
Rough Population: Approx. 65 million.
Capital: Tokyo.
History of Your Nation since start of Great Depression:
Japan's economy survived the Great Crash due to the policies and reforms put in place by Takahasi Korekiyo. As both head of the Bank of Japan and finance minister, Korekiyos sweeping reforms led to the abandonment of the gold standard, mass lowering of interest rates and controversially, cuts to government spending on the military. While saving the Japanese economy, Korekiyo's reforms turned more than few heads in the military, who plotted his demise after the loss of Korea and Taiwan to Chinese forces and the well-publicised seppuku of General Masato.

Korekiyo met his maker at the end of a katana in his summer home in Nagasaki in early 1936 and the uneasy alliance between civilian and military government continued. His successor has proven to be much more conservative in cuts to the military and inflation has begun growing at a steady rate. Despite losing their oldest territories, many still remain. The South Pacific Mandate, bestowed upon Japan by the League of Nations after the First World War, remains under Japanese control, as does the puppet state of Manchuko, cut off from Japan but still very much falling under their sphere of influence. While an interest remains in retaking lost territory, the Japanese have set their sights on the wider Pacific Ocean. The wealth of the Dutch East Indies, the agricultural potential of the Phillipines and the crucial natural harbours in Hawaii have long interested the Japanese and calls for their freedom from western control have grown louder since the revolutions in 1935.

Emperor Hirohito, a puppet to his own Diet, is revered as a god to his own people and this has led to an easy control of Japanese citizens by the government. The Emperors speeches have become increasingly militaristic in the last year as he hopes to rile his people and regain the honour lost in the humiliating wars with the Chinese.

Manchuko, which currently lies isolated between Russia and the Third Chinese Republic, has become infamous for alleged biological testing on captured Chinese soldiers and Japanese control on daily life. The client state, which was firmly declared as under Japanese protection following the short Sino-Japanese War of 1935, lies in a state of uncertainty and fear. The Kangde Emperor, Puyi, resents the Japanisation of Manchuria and a series of operations in Manchuko are currently underway to reign in the reluctant emperor.

Current territory:
Japan, South Pacific Mandate, Manchukuo/Manchuria (client state).
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u]Name[/u]: The New Union of America

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Government Ideology:
Capitalist/Democratic Free Nation based on the old ideals of America, except a full republic than a democratic republic.

President
Jacob Hightop

Capital
Indianapolis.

States Claimed
Indiana
Missouri
Michigan
Kentucky
Iowa
Minnesota
Illinois
Ohio
Wincoinson

Rough Population
20 million (Im not sure...)

Why did theses states unify?

After the disunification of the United states, it was clear the old way where, indeed, broken, but that didn't mean it couldn't be fixed, however. After Hoover was sent to prison for his crimes against the USA, the people realized disunification was not the way. In order for the united states to survive possible invasions from communistic and or fascist countries, they had to be united under a common flag. So, found supporters of the old US, the New Union of America has emerged. There goal is to reunify the USA back to its formor glory. A new wave of nationalism formed in this commonwealth of states, and with the rise of communist confederate states, many have adopted anti communist ideas, despite the situation regarding the depression. Many senators and USA politicians had migrated to the NUA in hopes of being free from communist suppression in Washington DC, and to be around a familiar goverment. The NUA managed to free the declaration of independence and constitution, now seen in Indianapolis museums. Agriculture is a highly important to the NUA, being one of the few industries to actually bear fruit on any level. A new currency had been made in the NUA, a sort of Fiat currency called Shines, and not part of the gold standard. Though, it solved the deflation problem, a fiat currency can rapidly inflate...so the NUA keeps strict control on there government backed money. More money, though, had got there people actually to spend money, and use it within the government, though stuff cost comparably more than what said item used to be. A car costing 600 Dollars, would cost 1800 shines, so roughly 1/3 the value of a regular dollar from before the depression.

Segregation: Segregation is still going, but some states are becoming more liberal, one even going as far as elimating it completely, and some even allowing the minorities to vote and hold office, claiming the newly formed NUA needs all the supporters they can get, but with great detest from the more racist and KKK active states, and try to fight these new regulations, as they see the black man unfit for office in this new government, claiming the black man had created the depression in the first place.

The NUA president: Jacob High-top, a respected business man from Michigan, who helped create the new currency depicted by Franklin D. Roosevelt and slowly bring the NUA out of the deflation with his new Shines currency. His progress in this matter had earned him popular vote as he ran for governor of Indiana against the KKK member, Ed Jackson. With minority votes at hand for his promise to help spread equality to citizens of any kind, and paired with his ideas on fixing the economy. Many critize him as he never worked on a farm, and was a factory worker at Ford Industries until the crash....some saying he never worked a day in his life. But no one disagreed, however, that his plans for a true America where coming into fruitarian. So many voted for him as his plans for his new "True Republic" System filled the needs and wants of the people, with everyone represented in the new government, and the economy rising under the shines currency, and the disunification of the USA, all brought him as the diplomatic helm of a new nation. His traditionalist ways help advocate patriotism in such hard times.

Military

The NUAs Military is quite a force to be reckoned with. With military weapons from Fort Knox, Kentucky, the NUA has been able to create BAR, M1grands, and even tanks and jeeps that would go in and out of the compound before the depression. Soldiers usually wear standard American uniforms and carry a common M1911 on there side. But alas, these soldiers are few in number, with only 20,000 active soldiers, as the military is still being trained up. The Bulk of the military relies on militia or mercenary groups that now inhabit the Disunited States.



Militia: Citizen soldiers with relatively small amounts of training and carry civilian grade firearms, such as hunting rifles or shotguns. What the soldiers miss in training and weapons, makes up for in large numbers.



Mercenaries: Mercenaries are not trusted by the NUA, But they are hired to participate in certain wars. The NUA only pays half before a battle, once the battle is completed, the other half of payment is restored. Mercenaries vary in numbers and equipment.

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Technology

The NUA has been researching on new ways to farm and cultivate crops, Better infrastructure, and currently studying on Albert Einstein's equations and math and relativity. Rising education with public schools are helping to contribute to science, though the fact many are in agriculture and farming, science break through are rare, but not impossible.



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