Sylvania Republic

Flag of the SR

Map of the SR

"*Long live the right to liberty,*"
—The motto of the SR[src]

The **Sylvania Republic (SR)** is an unrecognised state that will appear in *April*, is directly mentioned in "*World Gone Mad*", and is indirectly mentioned in *The Langdom Experiment*. It consisted of the upper-midwest states of Wisconsin and Minnesota, which seceded from the United States of America and united during the collapse of the federal government in the early months of the dollar pandemic; they also annexed the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It fought a brief war with the FRF for the few weeks that it was an independent republic, supposedly collapsing around the same time that the federal government ceased to exist.

## History

### Dollar Pandemic

In late 2017, the United States - and the entire world - began to collapse thanks to a pandemic of dollar rabies, a viral bioweapon created by the U.S government that had spread outside of its test site, the town of Langdom, Missouri. In response to the pandemic and the chaos it caused, the government began releasing false information regarding cases, deaths and the status of several major cities that had been overrun by humans infected with the virus, referred to as the "Turned".

When the city of Chicago, Illinois fell to the Turned, a great number of refugees fled north into Wisconsin and Minnesota, which increased the presence of federal soldiers in both states. The Federal Rescue Force, the new branch of the military responsible for handling the pandemic and the chaos surrounding it, began to exert oppressive force across the two states in an attempt to find and silence survivors who had fled. While both Wisconsin and Minnesota had among the lowest number of cases in the country, both states still had more than 2 million cases between them by October 2017; unlike many other states, the state governments remained rebellious against the federal government and made many efforts to resist its influence, primarily by handling their own responses to the pandemic. This was done through their respective national guards, who built makeshift quarantine zones outside of the FRF's authority. In October 2017 the federal government attempted to sanction both states for creating these zones, but the FRF were successfully driven back on several ocassions.

As the situation across the world only worsened, the FRF was quickly becoming the sole authority remaining of the federal government and undertook a violent campaign across the country to keep order, sometimes with the support of the Patriots. In response, Wisconsin and Minnesota decided to unify their national guards into a single force to protect both states, a level of cooperation not seen anywhere else in the country. Their joint effort allowed both states to keep the FRF's influence outside of their borders almost entirely.

### Secession

In November 2017, the state governments of both California and New York collapsed completely, dividing the FRF between both coasts of the U.S as they attempted to deal with the situation. The decreased number of FRF attacks, combined with the fact that the federal government was effectively defunct, allowed the state governments of Wisconsin and Minnesota to unite. Together, both states declared their secession from the United States, uniting into a single sovereign state named the Sylvania Republic.

Under their draft Constitution, the SR would maintain the state governments of both Wisconsin and Minnesota but also create a federal government of their own that governed both states as one entity. They adopted their own state flag and Congress, seeking recognition from whatever sovereign states were remaining as the pandemic worsened into an apocalypse. The city of Minneapolis, located in Minnesota near the border to Wisconsin, was made the capital of the SR.

### SR-FRF War

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With the most populated U.S states now having fallen, the FRF directed all of their attention to the SR and declared them to be in open rebellion, comparing them to the Confederate states during the Civil War.

## Trivia

* The Sylvania Republic is confirmed to appear in some form in the upcoming spin-off *April*.