New Florida Alliance

The New Florida Alliance is a Democratic Socialist Nation in Central Florida, occupying what was the metro areas of Tampa Bay, Lakeland, and Orlando. It's capital is in St Petersburg.

The New Florida Alliance was formed in 2028, during a civil war with the newly formed Florida Southern Baptist Dominion.

## History

### The Florida Collapse

#### 2026 Gubernatorial Election

The 2026 Gubernatorial Election came in the wake of already rising tensions, as DeSantis’ governorship turned a blind eye and encouraging hand to neo-fascist movements within the state. Barred from running for a third term by state law, the Republican Party of Florida put forward Jason Bouchar, a 38 year-old house representative and proud former sheriff. Before being put to the gubernatorial stage, Bouchar’s law enforcement history was pock-marked with fast and quiet shifts from one sheriff’s office to another as he and the men under his command turned a blind eye to police brutality and neo-fascist groups. His ensuing political career following an unrecoverable incident in 2023 was defined by pushing for broad, pro-police bills which greatly expanded state laws related to unlawful assembly, rioting, looting, and disturbing the peace, as well as the punishments for violating them.

Bouchar’s election as governor  is largely considered the beginning of the end of the State of Florida, as the short few months before the state’s official secession and conversion into a Dominion were marked by a series of explicitly far-right speeches that spoke in high praise of other recent secessions, in sharp contrast to even Republican political norms.

#### Economic Collapse

On August 23rd, 2025, Nicholas Rembe, a white supremacist from Altamonte Springs, FL charged through the fare gate at the Orange Grove Zoo in Osceola County, Florida, and loudly declared that he was carrying a high capacity pistol which he began using to threaten guests. Rembe’s demands called for the resignation, arrest, and execution of several higher ups at the company that ran the zoo, for alleged involvement in a secretive cabal which he refused to specify. Rembe was taken alive by police, and while he was arrested, “mishandling” of evidence led to him receiving a relatively light sentence for the charges of disturbing the peace and making threats with a deadly weapon.

This incident, while occurring at a relatively small attraction, heavily impacted the overall tourism trade in Central Florida, which had already been suffering as corporate events shifted away from the state due to controversial anti-LGBTQ and permitless carry laws. The following 2026 summer season showed marked lows, which only worsened in the following months as domestic and foreign tourism collapsed following the emergence of the first Dominions elsewhere in the American South.

Two further crashes eventually spun Florida into a wide-reaching economic depression; the “Brain Drain”, a rapid flight of aerospace and technology firms from the South as a whole due to projections of instability, and the burst of the housing bubble as spurred on by climate change and political instability challenging Florida’s status as a comfortable paradise.

#### Climate Catastrophe

As a state both built largely on reclaimed marshland and also heavily affected by hurricanes, Florida was one of the first states to bear the true brunt of climate change.

Two Category 4 hurricanes- Hurricane Beryl in 2024, and Hurricane Marco in 2026, stand out as having had major impacts, earlier on. Hurricane Beryl hit Southwestern Florida, shattering for good many smaller communities heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian two years prior. Hurricane Marco made landfall in St Lucie County, and managed to continue up through both Indian River and lower Brevard counties, severely damaging several coastal communities, with the destruction of smaller beachside destinations contributing to the tourism crash. Even smaller storms managed to have significant impacts, as under-maintained infrastructure was overwhelmed, particularly in South Florida. These repeated, heavy storms led to sweeping, federally-backed buyout programs beginning in 2025 which purchased thousands of homes, ranging from mobile homes to former McMansions. This program was latched onto by local right-wing politicians to promote conspiracies against the Federal government, casting the demolitions as deliberate, hostile attacks to silence and erase the Floridian way of life. While grossly exaggerated and misinterpreted, these attacks came from a kernel of truth- the program was racked with criticism and scandal, including preferential payments to richer suburbs, and the controversial placement of refugees in Osceola County, which was already suffering record unemployment from the tourism and housing crash.

#### "The Big One"

On September 21st, 2026, Hurricane Bonnie made landfall in St Petersburg, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane. The hurricane proceeded across St Petersburg, the Tampa Bay, and north-northeast through Tampa and eventually downgrading and dissipating over central Florida. Damage was immense, with hurricane damage leveling many low-rise residential and commercial buildings, and severe flooding often irreparably damaging what remained. State assistance was unusually sluggish, and grassroots help was often hindered by local law enforcement, who were largely bound to overcrowded evacuation centers, and when outside of them, focused on harsh enforcement of anti-looting laws over disaster assistance.

Tensions quickly rose between law enforcement and community aid groups.Locals outside of official shelters foraging for supplies were often harassed and in some cases injured or even killed by police harassment and fire, in all cases quietly excused under anti-looting and riot control laws passed under Bouchar. It was in this environment that several rudimentary community defense organizations first arose, often identified as the earliest precursors of the New Florida Alliance. This harassment continued through the coming months, including a brutal crackdown on a protest for attention and aid in St Petersburg in mid-October, which ended with two deaths after injuries from “less-lethal” rounds.

### The Floridian Secession

On February 28th, 2027, the state of Florida under Steve Bouchar officially announced its secession from the United States of America, rechristening itself as the Florida Southern Baptist Dominion. The new nation would function as a fascist ecclesiocracy, with many members of existing churches stepping up as political leaders at all levels, and sweeping reforms being passed quickly by Steve Bouchar, now a newly minted dictatorial President. While pockets of fighting flared up across the state, resistance outside military bases was violently stamped out, and even those military installations, isolated and racked by sympathizers in their ranks, fell before the end of March. Organized federal resistance initially mustered in Merritt Island, Florida near the Kennedy Space Center, supplemented by forces from Patricks SFB. This position was never strongly held, and following the evacuation or destruction of important materials, it was abandoned by the end of April for a retreat to Jacksonville. The “cracking” of Jacksonville was the first major military operation of the new Dominion, and teething troubles led to federal forces holding it as an effective city-state for several months, before finally being taken by FSBD forces in October.

Hopes for the emergence of more liberal city states in classically blue areas of the state, similar to the emergence of Free Atlanta in Georgia, are quickly dashed; St Petersburg-Tampa is still crippled by the after-effects of Hurricane Bonnie, Orlando remained in the throes of a localized economic crisis, and Jacksonville had been effectively hollowed out in the Dominionist siege to capture it from federal forces. Miami is the only successful city, emerging as the Miami Free State; another Category 5 hurricane, Hurricane Richard, rocks the city state in 2029, and it largely fails to recover, collapsing into a web of minor settlements and slipping into the wider dark zone of Ungoverned South Florida.

### The Rise of the New Florida Alliance

#### The Gasparilla Massacre

While tensions remained overall high on a backdrop of the US’ greater destabilization, the Tampa Bay area entered a period of slow rebuilding. While major parts of the city were still damaged, local groups pushed to continue festivities for Gasparilla in 2027, as an effort to raise morale and help reunite the shattered city. A limited event, focusing on the Parade of Pirates through the city, is decided upon, and in spite of Florida’s secession in February, it continues as planned in early March. The most noticeable impact of Florida’s new nationhood is a heavy presence from the “Florida National Police”; a  para-military force that succeeded the Florida State Guard and absorbed members from the upper echelons of previous police departments and military forces. They communicate their involvement is simply to ensure civility and prevent the violation of the law, and assure organizers their actions will be light.

During the parade, a member of the FNP intervenes and yanks out of the rear of the procession a young parade member wearing a shirt associated with a newly outlawed left-wing political group. As they are wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, the soldier is accidentally struck by a firework and thrown backwards. This panics several nearby officers, and the area is locked down by FNP and Sherriff forces to identify the “attacker”. Panicked parade marchers and drunk crowd members hamper these efforts and warning shots fired into the air by members of the FNP send the crowd into complete chaos. By the time the smoke clears, 9 people are dead from a combination of blunt impact wounds from police and crowd crush related injuries. Remaining crowds are arrested or otherwise forcefully evacuated, and the event is quickly covered up, with the start of the brawl as well as all deaths and injuries attributed to left-wing or atheist groups.

This event, retroactively dubbed the “Gasparilla Massacre” by many anti-Dominion residents, reinvigorates the efforts of many small community defense and aid groups initially created in the wake of Hurricane Bonnie. As individual groups are cracked down upon by Dominion officials, these scattered bands coalesce into two main groups- St Petersburg Community Defense, and the Cigar City Socialists. By 2028, these groups established unstable autonomous zones within St Petersburg and Ybor City, small havens for minorities and other groups heavily policed or outright made illegal by the new Dominion government, eventually garnering a response from the Florida Southern Baptist Dominion Army (FSBDA) under “Operation Riptide”; in the face of this the two groups joined together in 2028, officially forming the New Florida Alliance in late 2028.

**2027: Church of Scientology failed coup**

In July 2027 the Church of Scientology lead a Coup following the 2027 NFA Presidential election claiming the legitimacy of the election was invalid and not sound. the July 17th insurrection caused Clearwater to split from the NFA in a civil conflict that lasted 3 days. As the result of the civil war and annexation of Clearwater the Church of Scientology Headquarters has been turned into the NFA Congressional building where laws in the NFA will be made.