Ohio Valley Civilization

The Ohio Valley Civilization or Ohio is a country in the former state of Ohio and a member of The MAA. Ohio has a democratic system as its government. They have three branches of government, The Capital, The House of Ohio, and The Court of Ohio. The Capital is The President and his or her cabinet. The House of Ohio is all the members of the government; they write laws and hold votes. The Court of Ohio like the old Supreme Court, approves laws and regulates cases when they make it to the court. Ohio is a poor country that struggles with industry and development. Ohio's top profession is farming. Ohio's national bird is the cardinal, what little of them are left. Ohio's national symbol is the buckeye nut. Ohio's national anthem is "The Buckeye Battle Cry"

## History and Formation

The Ohio Valley Civilization was founded in 2123 by Joe Blystone. Ohio Valley needed a capital and sought out Columbus, Ohio which was already owned. Blystone needed Columbus to keep Ohio alive and used the church to get his way. He asked the American pope from Montana to crusade the city. The pope sent crusaders and along with combined forces from The Ohio Volunteer Army they took over the state of Columbus and implemented it into Ohio. Joe Blystone after taking Columbus looked for farmland. He found it everywhere. Ohio farmland was plentiful but there was one problem, squatters plagued the land. Joe decided to have a call to arms. He formed his army and started rapidly kicking squatters off the land. These conflicts became known as The Tramp War. Joe Blystone after the war gave land to soldiers as payment for service. Soldiers became professional farmers as their after-war job. Joe quickly gathered the Ohio house to pass tax laws on crops and land to higher profit from the farmers. A disagreement about taxes causes Joe's whip Lipkin to leave and start his party. Joe started a regular army of 500 men after the war. Blystone was easily re-elected as president as everyone loved him. Joe developed musket rifles to arm his regular army after being elected for a second term. Joe tried and failed to fix Ohio's education problem before retiring at the end of his second year. Ohio's conservatives being dominant elects Jim Renacci. Jim as his first act raised taxes with caused a tiny labor uprising. He pulled back taxes after The Labor Party grew exponentially. Jim tried and failed to kick off an alcohol company as Iowa had an alcohol monopoly over MAA. Jim banned The Church from selling drugs. (they had a habit of doing that.) After a series of misunderstandings and arguments about drugs, the MAA breaks up for a bit. Iowa and Ohio being mad at Chicago for them killing Iowa citizens and being involved in the drug trade make plans and declare war on Chicago. Iowa never partakes in the war while Ohio has two battles and surrounds Chicago. Ohio pulls out of the war after Detroit does a series of negotiations and peace is made. Ohio calls the war an "Iowa Win" After the war, Jim Renacci retires and leaves the job of getting Ohio's economy out of the gutter to his and Joe's vice president Joanna Swallen. After being the VP to the first two presidents Joanna is the current president.