The Desert Republic

The Anahuac Republic, colloquially referred to as the Desert Republic is a Representative Democracy, culturally and politically influenced by the United States of Mexico from the Old World. It was formed in 2224 after a coalition of settlements in Mexico were formed, these 4 settlements were Mexico City, Toluca, Puebla, and Cuernavaca. Since this coalition, it has expanded all the way from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico. The Anahuac Republic is currently the largest country in what was once Mexico, both in terms of land and population ever since it annexed the Gulf Legion. As such the Anahuac Republic continues to make bold claims that it is the true successor to the former United States of Mexico.

## Name & Language

The official name of the state is the Anahuac Republic. This name, which means 'land surrounded by water', comes from the Pre-War indigenous people of the region, the Nahuatl, Since the time before the Great War of 2077 there had been a cultural movement in Mexico that sought to recover and embrace the indigenous cultures of the region. After the bombs fell and devastated Mexico, many of the survivors, especially in more rural areas endured by returning to ancestral traditions, customs, and ways of life. As political coalitions began to be formed by the descendants of these initial survivors, the Nahuatl language was used politically, alongside the colonial language of Spanish (which was used much more often in the urban centers), and to a much lesser degree English, in remembrance of the role that their ancestral culture played in keeping them alive. Other demonyms such as *Mexica, Mexitl, Mēxihco,* are used infrequently around the territory as well as the pre-war name Mexico.

The name the 'Desert Republic' comes into popular usage sometime during the late 2270s. During this time the New California Republic had become aware through the testimonies of traders, that a republic of sorts, not unlike their own had existed somewhere in Mexico. Often these traders from California only spoke English or Spanish and were generally unfamiliar with the Nahuatl language, and were unclear what the actual name of the country they had been traveling to was called. NCR Rangers, in an attempt to avoid confusing this republic with their own, began to refer to the Anahuac Republic as the 'Desert Republic'. This demonym played off of the inaccurate assumption by those from the NCR that all of Mexico was a desert, which was far from the truth.

## History

The Desert Republic was formed after a coalition between 4 settlements, Mexico City, Toluca, Puebla, and Cuernavaca. This coalition was to protect themselves from the raider threat of Mexico, as this was before The Maya of Yucata made a push to clear Southern Mexico from raiders.

After the coalition, a representative government was formed. The republic was divided into 4 states, each state having a capital which was one of the major cities that formed the coalition. Each state was given 2 representatives.

After the government was formed, a president was elected. Each representative unanimously voted for the mayor of Mexico City, Federico Manuel, due to him being the major mastermind behind the coalition. He began to focus in making the cities more industrially, commercially, and culturally knit. He began to expand the already existing trade routes to and from each city, establishing a government-run postal service.

After the cities were fully united, he began to assemble a formal military. For the 3 months it had taken to culturally tie together the cities, the republic had relied on militias over actual servicemen. Manuel established trade with the local gun merchants, and set his few scientists into researching gun manufacturing, arming the militiamen into actual soldiers. After this, he began to recruit the aid of Ghoul veterans who had survived the Great War to act as training instructors, along with instructing future training instructors to train and discipline soldiers.

His term ended in 2232 with his resignation, and his successor was the governor of the state of New Mexico, Alexandro Martinez, the staunch conservative charismatic politician. In 2239, the Republic enacted a plan to cleanse their lands of illegal chems and weapons dealers from their lands. This act resulted in the formation of The Nayarit Cartel. Skipping ahead to the election of 2288, where the threat of the newly formed alliance between The Gulf Legion, The Maya of Yucata, and The New Cuban Authority resulted in the election of the militaristic staunch anti-Principles politician, Angela Silva, the former governor of the state of Puebla.

She won the loyalty of the people in her inauguration speech, rallying Mexico as a whole to unite behind the Republic to stand against the Principles. She closed her speech off with this quote:

> *"Hear me, the hearts and minds of Mexico, we may not allow the slavers, dealers, and murderers of the Gulf to destroy us. We may not allow them to destroy all we worked for. We will not surrender to the Caesar, the General, and the Emperor. We will defiantly stand, not as a republic, but as a people. May God bless Mexico."*
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In 2289, The Desert Republic officially declared war on the Gulf Legion, and by proxy the 3 Principles as a whole. The war was started out victoriously with The Turning Tide campaign humiliating the once confident warband of the Gulf. After the Nayarit Cartel joined the 3 Principles, the war was mostly slowed down due to the army being split in 2 to defend the 2 fronts. The war on the eastern front picked back up when the NCR officially got involved in the war. After the Mayans enacted the Moctezuma Plan, dissolving their ties to the 3 Principles, they entered a loose military truce with the Mayans, essentially promising not to attack eachother for now.

The war ended in Tampico, with Desert Republic and Californian troops alike storming Legion bases and executing their leaders for their warcrimes. The Treaty of Tampico asserted the Republic's position as the guardian of liberty in Mexico. The majority of the Legion's territory was annexed, along with the Lawmen taking over a good chunk of the Nayarit Cartel. While the NCR and Desert Republic are not officially allies, there is a good sentiment of sympathy between the 2 republics, and their diplomacy may go further in the future.

## Military Organization

The Military of The Desert Republic is divided into 3 branches, the armed forces, the air force, and the heavy troopers. The armed forces are standard issue infantry soldiers, a standard ranking member being equipped with desert camo armor, a carbine assault rifle, a combat knife, and 2 Stimpaks. The air force is mostly composed of Vertibirds that have been acquired from old pre-war airbases that were intended to be used by the Enclave as fail-saves if all main Enclave contingency bases fell. The heavy troopers were the soldiers who got the fun stuff, power armor, heavy weapons, explosives, etc. Most heavy troopers are equipped with a suit of T-51 Power Armor and any heavy weapon from a Minigun to a Missile Launcher.

Heavy troopers are rarely seen in combat, only being deployed as bodyguards or if the situation calls for it. The heavy troopers have never had to be called into a battle in the Republic's history, and many hope it stays that way.

One of the largest contingents of the Republic's forces are The Lawmen, an NCR Ranger type group sent north to be a force meant to occupy areas not yet ready to be fully integrated into the Republic, along with being a first line of defense against the 3 Principles. As a result of being sent north, the Lawmen severely crippled the local Nayarit Cartel by massacring almost the entire population of their former capital, León.

## Relations

* The Lawmen

The Lawmen are a satellite state of The Republic.

* The Garden of Mexico

Little is known about the Garden in The Republic, but many of the congress feel that they could be a valuable asset to the Republic.

* The Maya of Yucata

The Republic has a loose military pact and truce with the Mayans.

* NCR Monterrey Expedition

There is a great positive sentiment between the two republics, although there are no official ties.