Palmetto

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A secretive country occupying territory formerly encompassing North and South Carolina, Palmetto lies between land claimed by the Florida government and the nebulous ARP.
==History==
===Pre-War===
One of the original 13 North American colonies and the eighth state to join the Union in 1788. 72 years later South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union in 1860 and was the site of the first military engagement of the ensuing American Civil War.
===Human-Vannai War===
Due to population density, as with the rest of the eastern seaboard, South Carolina was hit hard by the Vannai invasion in 2014. The large number of military bases in the United States' southern regions provided a strong organized resistance to the aliens and their servants, but after the Two-Week War, government control began to slip, and surviving populations began to locally consolidate. With the last representatives of the federal government retreating to Florida, South Carolina abandoned its statehood in 2015 and became the independent nation of Palmetto. The new nation's borders were enforced by the substantial small arms manufacturing facilities in the capital city of Columbia, and later due to the ambiguous status of ARP preventing direct contact with the American Coalition.
===Post-War===
Palmetto remained an independent state in North America after the Human-Vannai War, eventually laying claim to Florida after the dissolution of the remnant government there. However, increasingly destructive natural disasters resulting from the climate shift caused by the war have made resettling the peninsula economically unfeasible for Palmetto, and as result the landscape has been more or less left to be reclaimed by nature after the Palmettian government relocated whatever important industrial assets it could find farther up north. 
==Policy==
===Military===
What has been seen of Palmetto's military has been limited to armed border patrols with typical AR-15-style small arms, though Palmetto officials have gone on record claiming that their military forces are "just as good" as the their neighbors'. They are at least known factually to possess the ability to manufacture small arms of both very high and very low quality, and possess a large number of gunsmiths relative to the size of the state's population.
===Economic===
Palmetto's economy is a mixture of various agricultural products, machinery and automobile production. The state likely struggles to supply food to its population and relies on fishing to meet these demands. One of Palmetto's primary exports is exotic firearms, to both Texas and the Coalition.
===Diplomacy===
Palmetto maintains good diplomatic ties with both the Texan Republic and the American Coalition, though it is perceived to get along with the former more than the latter. It is speculated to have some ambiguous relationship with Mexico and the populations of the Gulf. 
Category:PACYOA: TE
Category:TE Nations
Category:North America