Puerto Rico

Flag of Puerto Rico

**Puerto Rico** Officially the **Commonwealth of Puerto Rico** is a recently founded nation within the Caribbean having been flung out during the Second American Civil War. Puerto Rico is a Federal Parliamentary Republic with a system similar to but not exactly like the old United States, having recently broken out the 2 party system. Puerto Rico was forged from the fires of the Second American Civil War in witch it declared independence after a month of fighting in the Americas hoping to get out of Macarthur's government as fast as possible. This occurred on the 6th of May 1937 after around 3 weeks of fighting in the civil war. Puerto Rico did not fight in the Second Weltkrieg and did not do many things relevant during the conflict, aside from an eventually failed proposal to buy the British Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico is a member of the D.A.C and thus aligns with the Entente.

## History

Puerto Rico in 1936 was in the situation of being a U.S territory, but not being a state and thus not being able to elect the president witch made laws for them. Thus like Hawaii who was in the same situation, Puerto Rico was relatively indifferent at the victory of presidents. When the Black Monday Crisis hit america it sent the mainland into chaos and it caused a similar divide within Puerto Rico's small parliament where the two parties of the New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic Party were given serious competition as Puerto Rico developed a multi-party government. When Garner was elected in 1936 the people of Puerto Rico would hope that change was finally coming to the people of America, but they were woefully mistaken... Only a few months later Huey Long would declare his rival government in New Orleans forming the American Union State. Reed would follow up with his own in the following days. McArthur was put in power by congress, and began to purge suspected traitors to the United States. This would cause the creation of the Pacific States on the opposite side of the country from McArthur. Soon territories began to flake away and the U.S Virgin Islands were placed under the temporary administration of the Puerto Rico territory. When the fighting began the people of Puerto Rico were put under great strain as they were cut off by the navy of the American Union State who planed to launch an Operation onto the island. However the people of the Island wanted nothing to do with the war and after Hawaii's Declaration of Independence, Puerto Rico would do the same. After a week of negotiations the factions within America decided to grant Puerto Rico its independence, in return for a massive amount of money to be sent to all factions. This was barley affordable by Puerto Rico, but it would end up being very much worth it as Puerto Rico would begin to be able to send exports and recover the money lost in around 2 years. Puerto Rico would take its governor as its first President however the election in 1940 would see the local José Miguel Gallardo win the election as the Social Liberal party within Puerto Rico became the supermajority and soon the nation would effectively become a one-party state. Under his administration he would massive improve Puerto Rico's economic situation by mostly exporting and marketing tourism to the rest of Latin America and to more stable regions of the world, Puerto Rico would also join the D.A.C in 1944, hoping to stabilize the Caribbean region along with the rest of them. This along with formulating a functioning government structure is how he got the moniker of the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico". However he would in 1944 not be re-nominated by his party who hoped to use his popularity to get Jesús T. Piñero into office. This would succeed and he would end up being just as good of a president. He and his party along with others are thinking about a reformation to the government of Puerto Rico to make it more democratic, or to make it more like its neighbors. Whatever ends up happening, given the lack of ongoing crises in Puerto Rico, it looks like the Commonwealth will have a bright future.

## Military

Puerto Rico has not required a large military for the entirety of it's history, but despite this it still maintains a large force out of worry that the American Union State could try and retake the Island, and the wave of Syndicalist agitators has given Puerto Rico justification for such a large force. Puerto Rico's army is large and trained to be able to sustain fighting on the mountainous Island with the main doctrine of defense being to evacuate the Capital and grind down their enemies in the rural areas. Puerto Rico has a small navy roughly the size of Cuba's however it is far better equipped having been made in mostly American shipyards, however this also makes maintenance of this difficult and Puerto Rico is switching to Canadian-based designs. Puerto Rico also has a small air force, mostly stationed on the Virgin Islands as a rapid response force, however it will not be useful in protracted warfare.