History of Hell

Hell is a city in Michigan, near Detroit. In real life, it has a population of 15 people, but that all changed when one person stepped onto the scene- Grover Cleveland.

## The Election of Cleveland

Grover Cleveland announced his run for Mayor of Hell when Midwestern Governor Shrimp first declared mayoral elections in the region. Due to running unopposed, Cleveland easily won his election which would bring about a new era in the near-dead town of the time. The campaign was spent heavily bashing the former mayor, Richard Bellhop, as well as pushing for stronger defence, worker protections, bank reform, and the path to affordable living for the many, not just the wealthy few.

## The Floyd George Riots

The death of Floyd George in Minnesota shocked the city to its core. This caused much unrest in Hell's residents, to the point where protests broke out up and down the streets. Things seemed alright at first, but when the city police were sent to supervise the protests, things turned ugly. Protestors threw potatos at the police, and then started throwing mustard bottles at the cops. Soon after, the police chief, Don Knotts, resigned effective immediately- which only fueled the riots even more.

Rioters resorted to the classic message of "give us what we want or we burn it down!" And burn they did; entire streets were set afflame by rioters who breached police blockades. Cop cars were broken into and fire stations were torched. The police stations were raided by rioters and then burnt down as well. The only form of public transport in Hell at the time, the Bus System, was blown sky-high when a bomb went off in the bust station.

To control the chaos inside the city, and to prevent it from spreading, Governor Shrimp sent in the National Guard once more. They didn't enter the city, though. Instead, the guard blocked entry to the city by rescue and recovery groups, and even denied entry to the Cleveland, Ohio fire department. As the city burned down, Governor Shrimp didn't budge, until Mayor Cleveland started publicly supporting the rioters and encouraging them to clash with National Guard troops. When Shrimp finally gave in, half of Hell was reduced to ash, thousands of residents were dead, and federal troops were exhasted of supplies for quite some time.

The aftermath of the riots saw Mayor Cleveland sign a massive spending package to quickly rebuild Hell, from the bottom upwards. This huge amount of construction sucess saw Mayor Cleveland reeelected to a third term in a landslide. This period, known as the 2nd reconstruction, saw the beginning of the glass industry, which would become an economic powershouse in Hell's economy later on.

## The Southern Invasion

A few years into Cleveland's tenure, Maxwell, the Southern region governor, decided to send military divisions to invade and occupy Hell. The people of the city were having none of it. They stopped rioting for the most part and rallied behind the leadership of Mayor Cleveland, who ordered the trenches be dug, artillery be brought up, and the hot air balloons mobilised for battle. In time, tanks were sent out into the southern swampland of Hell, which gave the Southerners a run for their money...and their lifes.

The fighting was fierce, devolving in house-to-house and street close combat fighting between Maxwell's troops, and the residents of Hell. During the fighting, Governor Shrimp had deployed the National Guard to aid the defence effort, which effectively trapped the South, and forced a general retreat. Militiamen from Hell chased the troops all the way down south and gave them a hard time around every bend and over every road.

"The North Remembers!" became the rallying cry of Hell after the invasion was over. To this day, Hell absolutely despises anyone and anything from the south. They even employed a customs union to detain and search anyone not from the Rustbelt.

## War with Monowi & Madison

After disagreements with Monowi Mayor Jeb! got out of hand, Hell decided to launch monkeys into Monowi. This greatly angered Jeb!, which led to war. Troops on both sides clashed, and soon tanks and other mechanized infantry were involved. Artillery bombardments of Monowi were done over weeks-long spans and caused huge casualties for Monowi.

Seeing an opportunity for expansion, Madison, Wisoconsin Mayor Joe Biden declared war on Monowi as well. After a few small skirmishes, Monowi's army utterly crushed Madison in their own city, leading to the capitulation of Mayor Biden and a drastic increase in resources thrown into the front against Hell.

Battles broke out across the Midwest, with no side backing down. Thousands of ten-thousands were dead as a result of the fighting. In the end, both cities agreed to a truce. No final peace has been reached to this day, and the war is still a sour point with people of Hell and Monowi.

## The Bear War

After seeing Black Bears being released into the forests and swamps of southern Hell by poachers, Mayor Cleveland declared war on them, leading to one year of brutal confrontation between Hell militiamen and the bears. Skirmishes over parts of the swamps were yielding small amounts of casualties until one fateful battle.

The Battle of the Berry Bush saw the single most deadly casualties of the Bear War. 2,000 Hell soldiers and over 300 bears were killed in the fighting. With their numbers greatly reduced, the Bears sued for peace.

## Midwestern Wars of Independence

Long-time Midwestern Governer Shrimp, the electoral powerhouse of leftwing politics, had developed a love-hate relationship with many of the most powerful Midwestern Mayors; at the top of the list were Monowi Mayor Jeb! and Hell's Mayor Cleveland. After being convinced Shrimp was a corrupt spy for the Southerners, the League of Mayors formed to fight him in his own territory- the Midwestern General Assembly.

The league consisted of the following people:

* Monowi Mayor Jeb!
* Hell Mayor Cleveland
* Madison Mayor Biden
* Milwaukee Mayor O K
* Chick a Go Mayor Maxwell
* Grand Rapids Mayor Lloyd Bentsen

These Mayors weren't just leaders of your average small American (kind of American) town. They were the leaders of every major industrial/labor-intensive part of the Midwest; Governor Shrimp was as good as paralyzed without their population centres. However, this did not stop the Governor from calling upon the National Guard and reinforcements from other regions to help protect his corrupt schemes and go after the Mayors.

After several escalating encounters with the Mayors of Hell and Monowi, Shrimp sent in the National Guard to try arrest Mayor Cleveland; Mayor Jeb! responded with a blockade around the Federal blockade of Hell, MI. This horrifying situation of innocent civilians being murdered with cold blood in the streets led to the Declaration of Midwestern Independence for the cities of Hell, Monowi, Milwaukee, Madison, Chick a Go, Philadelphia, and Cleveland declaring independence from the Midwest and by extension, the United States.

All-out war followed the declaration of independence, and soon led to a huge militia of over 50,000 armed civilians from Hell storming Washington, D.C. Monowi followed suit with an offensive to cut off Federal supplies being shipped into Illinois, the location of the Midwestern capital, from the South. The Mayors of Wisconsin blockaded the Great Lakes, leaving the only way into the Midwest for the Feds being the ports of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Grand Rapids Mayor Lloyd Bentsen began canceling Regional contracts made with Governor Shrimp and Federal contracts with officials in Washington, D.C. This bled the Midwestern economy and lost them the only big-ticket automotive manufacturer in the Midwest, and severly weakening the mobility of Governor Shrimp's forces. While Shrimp tried multiple times to convince Mayor Bentsen to stand down and side with the National Guard, these efforts failed and upon the informing of the League of Mayors, the stage was set for the impeachment of Governor Shrimp.

Milwaukee Mayor O K, leader of the Socialist Party in the General Assembly, confidently submitted the article of impeachment to the Assembly for a vote, knowing he had the votes to see it pass. Mayor Cleveland, leader of the Midwestern Democratic-Republicans, along with Mayor Biden, leader of the Midwestern New Democrats, followed the Socialists in voting to pass the articles of impeachment against Governor Shrimp. After a sham trial, largely overshadowed by news Hell was moving its glass sales from the United States to Canada (which hurt the Midwestern economy even more), Governor Wild Shrimp48 was convicted and removed from office in an 87% to 13% vote; the Governor had messed up so badly that even some prominent New Democrats, like Double A, crossed party lines to convict Shrimp.

Following the removal of Shrimp as Governor, the Assembly voted his Lt. Governor, Joe Biden (Peoples Party-WI), into office as the new Governor of the Midwest. Biden promptly pursued an end to the regional fighting that had spilled as far south as South Carolina. Peace was made, and soon each major city was re-incorporated into a new, revitalized Midwestern Region of the United States.

The end of the Wars of Independence coincided with Hell, MI Mayor Grover Cleveland winning his 13th consecutive term, leading Hell into the next era of GWBU history as one of the leading industrial centres (along with Monowi, Nebraska) of the Midwest.

## The Destruction of Monowi

Hell was deeply saddened when Dwight D. Trump went on a raid of Monowi and practically leveled the city to the ground. Monowi Mayor Jeb! requested aid to help rebuild the city, and Hell gladly complied by giving $200 million and shipments of food and medical supplies to Monowi to help them get back on their feet. Dwight D. Trump is now wanted on the Federal level, as well as in Hell and Monowi for acts of domestic terrorism.