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American Dream: A Shattered Union

Name: The Republic of South Carolina

Nicknames: The Palmetto Republic, The Iodine Nation

Motto: Dum Spiro Spero,"While I breathe, I hope."

Flag:



Nation Type: Republic

Claims:



Terrain: South Carolina is a diverse land that features swamps and marshes and estuaries near the coast, a flat midlands section made of sandy soil, and a rugged piedmont upstate area that slowly becomes more mountainous as you travel north. There are a dozen natural and man-made lakes across the land, as well as a large network of rivers that flow north to south towards the sea. South Carolina is bordered by the former states of Georgia in the west and North Carolina to the north and east.

Government Type: South Carolina is a Republic where the people vote for their local congressman that represents them in the House, the nation's sole legislative body. The House has roughly eighty members and a speaker and congressional leadership from the two main parties, the conservative and liberal parties. The president is a member of the House elected by that body for a two-year term. The constitution states that the president cannot serve more than two consecutive terms.

Capital: Columbia

Head of State: President Joshua Campbell (C - Edgefield) currently at the end of his first term and preparing to run for reelection.

Other Important People:

Figures of note:

Mark Rogers - Sheriff of York County and resident of Rock Hill, a small town on the North Carolina border.

Brig. General Matthew Thurmond - Chief of Staff for the South Carolina Defense Force.

Representative Alfred F. Johnston - Leader of the conservative faction of the House.

Sam Calhoun - SLED Agent operating in Rock Hill.

William "Billy" Brown - Owner and operator of The Slab House, a bar and trading outpost in Calhoun Falls, a small community that is the last stop before Georgia.

Dr. Nimrata "Nini" Ansari - An Indian-American born and raised in Charleston. She is the team leader of the Filament Project, an engineering project to restart the three large hydroelectric dams (Hartwell, Russell, Thurmond) that the US Army Corps of Engineers built along the Savannah River.

Lt. Commander Jerry Hunley - Commanding officer of the SCN Palmetto Rose, a patrol ship that protects the SC coast and merchant ships from pirates, raiders and threats.

Population: 1.2 Million

Attitude Towards Evols: We're agin' it.

Economic System: Capitalism, free trade

Resources: It's agricultural resources are tobacco, poultry, cattle, dairy products, soybeans, hay, rice, and hogs. The states lone industrial output is textile goods.

Currency: Sand Dollar

Technology: The country is mostly agricultural, but industry and technology is slowly coming back. The push to restart the hydroelectric dams will provide the state with the energy it needs to grow.

Official Religion: No official religion, though the majority of the country are Christian with a small minority of Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu followers.

History:

A mostly rural state even in the early 21st century, the majority of South Carolina was untouched by nuclear war. The biggest target, the Savanah River Site, was hit by WMDs and wiped out. As the federal government collapsed, the state government took control and moved away from the fallout of the SRS towards the lower state, working out of the original state capital of Charleston. It was from there that the Republic of South Carolina was formed.

While the lower state and midlands stayed together, the upstate formed its own Coalition of Ten, made up of the ten counties from the Upstate. The Coalition survived for ten years independent. The main sticking point between the two factions in South Carolina was the subject of the three hydroelectric dams on the Savannah River. The Coalition laid claim on them, but only the Republic had the resources to repair them and get them working again. After years of negotiation, the Coalition was annexed by the Republic and united the former state.

Today, the Republic maintains stability while it continues to bring sustainable power to its state. The debate in government at the time is the annexations of the territory of Northeast Georgia, a territory plagued with bandits and anarchy. All the while, the military and intelligence establishment watch North Carolina and anticipate their next move.

Culture: There is a bit of a cultural divide between lower state and upper state. The low country has more power, wealth, and influence throughout the Republic as the coastline allows the low country merchants the chance to monopolize trade routes. The people in the upper state are poorer, farmers, and a bit more country.

Military Numbers: The SCDF has roughly 10,000 active duty members posted at hotspots around the country, and there are roughly another forty thousand militia troops that can be called to active duty if need be.

Military Units:

While the small army and navy are based on the pre-apocalypse American military, the militias spring from the tradition of the citizen-soldier/mountain-man that fought in SC, and harassed the British army during the Revolutionary war. They are an informal group that will call when served and have sworn allegiance to their homeland and not any particular figure or politician.

Related to the military is SLED, the nation's intelligence service. SLED as formerly the state of South Carolina's state police investigation service before it morphed into the agency that investigates and prevents all manner of threats both foreign and domestic.

American Dream: A Shattered Union

Alright, that shit is changed, fam.

American Dream: A Shattered Union

CS follows.

Republic of South Carolina

Name: The Republic of South Carolina

Nicknames: The Palmetto Republic, The Iodine Nation

Motto: Dum Spiro Spero,"While I breathe, I hope."

Flag:



Nation Type: Republic

Claims:



Terrain: South Carolina is a diverse land that features swamps and marshes and estuaries near the coast, a flat midlands section made of sandy soil, and a rugged piedmont upstate area that slowly becomes more mountainous as you travel north. There are a dozen natural and man-made lakes across the land, as well as a large network of rivers that flow north to south towards the sea. South Carolina is bordered by the former states of Georgia in the west and North Carolina to the north and east.

Government Type: South Carolina is a Republic where the people vote for their local congressman that represents them in the House, the nation's sole legislative body. The House has roughly eighty members and a speaker and congressional leadership from the two main parties, the conservative and liberal parties. The president is a member of the House elected by that body for a two-year term. The constitution states that the president cannot serve more than two consecutive terms.

Capital: Columbia

Head of State: President Joshua Campbell (C - Edgefield) currently at the end of his first term and preparing to run for reelection.

Other Important People:

Figures of note:

Mark Rogers - Sheriff of York County and resident of Rock Hill, a small town on the North Carolina border.

Brig. General Matthew Thurmond - Chief of Staff for the South Carolina Defense Force.

Representative Alfred F. Johnston - Leader of the conservative faction of the House.

Sam Calhoun - SLED Agent operating in Rock Hill.

William "Billy" Brown - Owner and operator of The Slab House, a bar and trading outpost in Calhoun Falls, a small community that is the last stop before Georgia.

Dr. Nimrata "Nini" Ansari - An Indian-American born and raised in Charleston. She is the team leader of the Filament Project, an engineering project to restart the three large hydroelectric dams (Hartwell, Russell, Thurmond) that the US Army Corps of Engineers built along the Savannah River.

Lt. Commander Jerry Hunley - Commanding officer of the SCN Palmetto Rose, a patrol ship that protects the SC coast and merchant ships from pirates, raiders and threats.

Population: 1.2 Million

Attitude Towards Evols: We're agin' it.

Economic System: Capitalism, free trade

Resources: It's agricultural resources are tobacco, poultry, cattle, dairy products, soybeans, hay, rice, and hogs. The states lone industrial output is textile goods.

Currency: Sand Dollar

Technology: The country is mostly agricultural, but industry and technology is slowly coming back. The push to restart the hydroelectric dams will provide the state with the energy it needs to grow.

Official Religion: No official religion, though the majority of the country are Christian with a small minority of Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu followers.

History:

A mostly rural state even in the early 21st century, the majority of South Carolina was untouched by nuclear war. The biggest target, the Savanah River Site, was hit by WMDs and wiped out. As the federal government collapsed, the state government took control and moved away from the fallout of the SRS towards the lower state, working out of the original state capital of Charleston. It was from there that the Republic of South Carolina was formed.

While the lower state and midlands stayed together, the upstate formed its own Coalition of Ten, made up of the ten counties from the Upstate. The Coalition survived for ten years independent. The main sticking point between the two factions in South Carolina was the subject of the three hydroelectric dams on the Savannah River. The Coalition laid claim on them, but only the Republic had the resources to repair them and get them working again. After years of negotiation, the Coalition was annexed by the Republic and united the former state.

Today, the Republic maintains stability while it continues to bring sustainable power to its state. The debate in government at the time is the annexations of the territory of Northeast Georgia, a territory plagued with bandits and anarchy. All the while, the military and intelligence establishment watch North Carolina and anticipate their next move.

Culture: There is a bit of a cultural divide between lower state and upper state. The low country has more power, wealth, and influence throughout the Republic as the coastline allows the low country merchants the chance to monopolize trade routes. The people in the upper state are poorer, farmers, and a bit more country.

Military Numbers: The SCDF has roughly 10,000 active duty members posted at hotspots around the country, and there are roughly another forty thousand militia troops that can be called to active duty if need be.

Military Units:

While the small army and navy are based on the pre-apocalypse American military, the militias spring from the tradition of the citizen-soldier/mountain-man that fought in SC, and harassed the British army during the Revolutionary war. They are an informal group that will call when served and have sworn allegiance to their homeland and not any particular figure or politician.

Related to the military is SLED, the nation's intelligence service. SLED as formerly the state of South Carolina's state police investigation service before it morphed into the agency that investigates and prevents all manner of threats both foreign and domestic.

American Dream: A Shattered Union

Post sheets here first?

American Dream: Shattered Union (An NRP set in the post apoc US)

I had planned on SC being called the Palmetto Republic as a nickname. That or the Iodine Republic

American Dream: Shattered Union (An NRP set in the post apoc US)

Expect a North Carolina-based military dictatorship headed by two completely insane people. I've never done anything like that before.

@Keyguyperson

I was going to try to do something with South Carolina. Carolina Cold War?

American Dream: Shattered Union (An NRP set in the post apoc US)

Maybe 2.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Washington D.C.
1928

James Madison always preferred to arrive in Washington by train. The Executive Branch could afford to retrieve him in any number of ways, from automobile and aircraft to astral projection and teleportation, but this was how Madison wanted to see the city. The path the train took towards Union Station offered a perfect view of the capitol and the White House. He wanted to see the town and how much it had grown since its inception, when it was just stagnant swampland on the Potomac. Of all the presidents, Washington was truly his city. In a room with just two other men, he brokered the compromise that gave the South the capital. On the House floor, Congressman Madison guided the Residence Act through Congress. The city was named after the Old Man, but it owed its existence to James Madison more than anyone else.

And he very nearly watched it destroyed. That was another reason he wanted to see the view of the city from this vantage point. In 1814, he sat on horseback from a hill not far away and watched Washington burn. He saw the White House burn, Capitol Hill would have burned with it had it not been still under construction. This city, his city, it burned because he failed his country as president. His beliefs of small government, Jeffersonian they would later call it, had led to a toothless federal response to British aggression and a ragtag army in the War of 1812. The British Army tore through American forces at the battle of Bladensburg and gleefully marched into Washington, burning everything in sight.

"Next stop Union Station! End of the line!"

The conductor snapped Madison from his trance. He checked his watch. They would be coming up on the view in just a few minutes. He shifted in his seat and looked around the train car. Nobody made mention of the fourth president of the United States being among them because of his ability to change his appearance, shapeshifting they called it, allowed him to look like a normal man with a forgettable face. Besides, he doubted they would recognize him even if he wasn't disguised as a normal person. Most of his fellow commuters were men in suits coming into the capital for business. Most of them were engrossed in papers, the few that weren't talked of bonds and stocks and business. Madison felt pride in the state of the country at the moment. After the Great War, the United States stood as the top economic power on the planet and continued to grow in a boom that had no precedent. Madison was also wary. This new kind of business was dependent on the consumer and credit, dependent on the people having money to purchase the items they needed. Jobs and whole industries needed the public appetite to continue to be insatiable to stay afloat. He'd seen many booms and busts, many panics and depressions since his revival in 1870. As unprecedented as the growth of the 1920's was, the fall that followed it would be just as unprecedented.

The train rose over the hill and Madison watched the city appear down below. He liked to be reminded that while his error was costly, it had not been fatal to the country. America was stronger than even the most forward thinkers of the 18th century could imagine, and Madison was dedicated to seeing it stay that way. He'd blundered once before, but he would not do it again.

---


Executive Branch Headquarters
Smithsonian Institution

"Mr. Madison, welcome home."

Alexander Hamilton's handsome face and sparkling blue eyes greeted Madison at the entrance to the museum's subbasement. Madison felt a sense of warmth and affection overcome him at the sight of Hamilton. The two men had a complicated history when they were alive, first as allies that wrote the Federalist Papers and defended the Constitution, then later enemies when Madison feared the federal government was becoming too big. It wasn't until a decade after Hamilton's death that Madison saw the need for a stronger federal government, the type of government Hamilton had argued for. Since their rebirth, the two men had become something akin to friends... or at least as close as standoffish Madison and workaholic Hamilton could be.

"Mr. Hamilton."

The two men shook hands and Madison followed Hamilton through the doors. Inside as a cacophony of key clacking. A dozen secretaries were busy typing our reports and missives on large typewriters. Their desks were arranged in a semi-circle facing a large map of the world. Several spots in the map had pins stuck in them, pieces of yarn stretched across the map to link pins together. Hamilton kept walking, Madison following in his wake, down the corridor.

"I know you were convalescing, sir, but the matter we're faced with requires an agent with experience and skill, and you are the only one I fully trust with this matter."

They entered Hamilton's office, a spartan layout with just a desk and typewriter and two chairs. Hamilton's desk was neat and orderly, the only thing on it a tidy stack of papers. Hamilton took a seat while Madison followed suit.

"Have the Founders come out of seclusion yet?" Madison asked.

Hamilton shook his head. Ever since the War, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson had been in hiding. Rumors abounded that the three men had died or that the strength it took to finally destroy the Timekeepers had rendered them comatose. Whatever the reason, Hamilton had been running the day to day operations of the Executive Branch for close to ten years at this point. While there was no one better suited, it unnerved Madison to think the Founders would be out of touch for this long.

"Every day I try to make contact, and every day I only hear silence." Hamilton pulled something from his stack of papers and handed it to Madison. "But this is for you"

Madison skimmed it before looking up.

"Germany?"

"Yes," Hamilton nodded. "There's an election this year. Our intelligence tells us that a potential coup or rigged election may be in the works. Germany is a mess, Mr. Madison, financially and politically. We need a stable Germany to prevent another European war. We want you to observe, report, and if need be dispatch anyone who attempts to influence the elections in any undue ways."

"It says I'll have a partner." Madison raised an eyebrow. "Agent codenamed Tiger. I'm not familiar with him."

"A new addition," Hamilton said with a smirk. "We lost a lot of good men during the War so we had to recruit. Tiger is Woodrow Wilson, and he is something of a natural when it comes to deception and espionage. I believe two shall get along famously."

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

You forgot to throw in the anime pic.

Star Trek: To Boldly Go

"She's just banged up," Carter mumbled as he worked the laser cauterizer up Brown's arm. "A console or something exploded on the bridge and she was hit by some shrapnel. Cuts, burnt skin, and some shrapnel in her arm. You're worst for the wear than she is."

Carter pulled the pen away from Brown's arm and inspected his handiwork. A two-inch vertical line of burnt flesh went up the security chief's arm. He looked closely at the now closed wound and was satisfied that it was neat and straight.

"Doctor Cole," one of the nurses called. "We need you over here."

"Stay here," Carter said, pointing at Brown to accentuate his point. "The wound is closed but that serum I injected into you may take some time to work. In order to prevent any internally bleeding, you need to stay still and let it do its work."

Carter gave the security chief one last, long look before he went away to solve the next crisis awaiting him.