American Union State

The **American Union State** (**AUS** or **A.U.S.**), alternatively known as the **Union State**, was a country in existence from September 18, 1935, to May 20, 1999. It fought against the US Federal government and the United Revolutionary Front in the Second American Civil War, soon to be founded as a unitary republic by Huey Long on December 1, 1935. The original five states that seceded from the United States and formed the main part of the A.U.S. were Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, later expanding into the Carolinas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Southern Missouri, Kansas, Texas and the Bahamas. Located in the Southeastern region, the country was composed of various Deep South states, whose economy was heavily dependent on agriculture, social services and industrialisation. Its foreign policy involved a firm influence in the Caribbean and strong diplomatic ties with the **German Weltreich**, promoting mutual strategic, technological and economic assistance against the Soviet Bloc. The associations got strained when the Union State broke off relations with the Weltreich, documented as the Union-German Split of 1957, but quickly got rebuilt after the Coup of 1967. From 1967 onwards the American Union State became a military dictatorship led by ex-Union Party member **Gerald L. K. Smith**, an administration which prolonged under General Bernard W. Rogers until the country's capitulation and eventual annexation in the Second Weltkrieg.

## **History**

### **Second American Civil War**

After the the August Uprising of 1935 escalated into the complete Syndicalist takeover of the North-East, Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long made a statement of secession on September 18th, breaking the state away from the Federal government, marking the official beginning of the Second American Civil War in the region. He's eventually joined by David Sholtz of Florida on the 20th, together they formed the Anti-MacArthur Union. On October 2nd the state of Mississippi is transferred into the Union by Theodore G. Bilbo, the states of Alabama and Georgia following soon after.

October 25th was the day marking the Federalist invasion into the South. The 6th and 11th Armies of the US Federal government headed by General Lesley J. McNair pushed into Mississippi and Louisiana to run down New Orleans, while the Mexican Gulf was put under a naval blockade led by Admiral Ernest King. On November 16th, the city of Lafayette was captured, granting the federals the opportunity to besiege the capital. On the same day, General Robert Eichelberger landed in Miami with the LXXVII Corps, to capture Florida. A counterattack was set up by General George Van Horn Moseley with the 6th Army stationed in Louisiana, with the 4th and 5th Corps Areas reserved in Jacksonville and Mobile.

The two Carolinas seceded on November 28th to join Huey's cause, granting additional capital and manpower to the South. The LXXVII Corps occupied the tip of Florida. On December 1st, Huey Long quitted the Democratic Party and formed his own platform, "The Union Party", also declared the formation of the "American Union State" in the Louisiana Capitol State Building, with New Orleans as its capital. New political reforms are brought, including the intake of a more centralised state infrastructure and the utilisation of unitary governing principles. Districts, counties are redrawn and the Carolinas get combined. The new Administration declared provisional martial law, calling everyone into arms from years 21 to 50, while industries, manufacturing and supplement companies were nationalized to increase total war production. The Union Military High Command is formed by Charles Lindbergh, Marshal George Van Horn Moseley and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

By the dawn of the new year, 1936, the Federalists occupied Orlando and encircled Shreveport. On July 25th General Moseley began the counterattack, the LXXVII Corps are defeated at the Battle of Tampa by the newly formed 13th Army, while the 6th Army successfully countered the 11th Army at the Battle of Baton Rogue (Also called the Miracle at the Mississippi) and began to push westward. Admiral Nimitz ordered unrestricted submarine warfare, tactically striking the federalist strongholds and resources in the region. Tennessee is invaded and incorporated by the Unionists in September. In October, the last federalist forces are expelled in the Battle of Lake Charles. Throughout he same month, the Union assembled the "Liberty Division", a elite squadron which attempted the seizure of the original US capital from Syndicalist authority, while the 6th Army pushed into Arkansas.

In the January of 1937, the Liberty Division is pushed back into Carolina at Chesapeake Bay. In April the Unionists have taken Arkansas, which is formally incorporated into the A.U.S. In October, the state of Missouri is split by Union-Syndicalist forces, later to become an occupied, administrative region. The IInd Liberty Division is assembled in 1938, consisted of the 6th, 13th and 15th Armies, immediate invasions began from occupied Missouri, Carolina and Tennessee, but were terminated in October.

On the 15th of February, 1939, Huey Long made a new speech, entailing the Union State's departure from the Civil War. A holiday of commemoration was announced dedicated towards the casualties and victims of the war. On the 7th of April, the Second American Civil War is ceremonially concluded in the Union State. The North American Cold War has begun and President Long (elected on 4th of July) begans the country's reconstruction.

### **First Reconstruction**

Huey Long's priotities in the following years were the American Union State's infrastructural recovery and social remodelisitation. The Administration enacted the neo-capitalist policies of the **Share Our Wealth** programme to stablise the economy, bring social reforms and establish new civil rights. Heavy industry enterprises, especially oil and coal companies were to remain nationalized, a progressive tax code was implemented and the 18th Amendment, alias Prohibition was terminated. In terms of foreign policy, the country allied itself with the Imperial Bloc and its hegemon, the German Weltreich, primarily due to the opposition and ideological threat the North posed, secondly because of the flow of economic and intellectual aid. Besides the cooperation with greater powers, the presidency's set out plans for international trade were protectionism and pseduo-isolationism, as it did not neglect interventionist or imperialist concerns.

In 1943, the occupation zone of Southern Missouri was admitted statehood. The divided state and its cities of Kansas and Saint Louis became symbols of the reminiscent past of the Second American Civil War. In the same year, Chief Chairman of The Armed Forces and Marshal, George Van Horn Moseley attempted a coup d'état on April 7th to reverse the civil reforms made by reconstruction, out of which a political scandal erupted known as the **"Run For Dixie"**. His takeover failed when Long's Secretary of Defense, Smedley Butler and Deputy Marshal George Patton (both secretly corresponding with the Prussian Intelligence Agency) expose his conspiracy and throw a countercoup against him. Marshal Moseley was found dead on the 11th of April in the Louisiana State Building at 15:38. Further investigations have found out he took in a cyanide pill a minute before the countercoup's forces stormed the building. Other confirmed belligerents and co-conspirators were detained and tried.

In 1945, another political event took place known as the Long-Smith Split. Gerald L. K. Smith, who was formerly a member of the Union Party and the Vice President of the Long administration resigned from his position, as he was becoming increasingly sceptical of the reforms of his superiour. After resignation he joined the opposition and formed the infamous America First Party with many of his right-leaning contemporaries.

1947, September 7th: The resource rich 2nd Texan Republic has fallen into a constitutional crisis. The Union State dispatched Marshal Patton to secure the state for the South before any Mexican or Syndicalist influence could take root in the region. Nine days later elections were written out about Texas' independence, with an overwhelming majority willing to join the A.U.S. Texas had therefore been admitted statehood. From this point on a Golden Age commenced, leading the country into an era of industrialisation and prosperity. One year later in May, the remains of the Federalist leadership, (the Central Government buffer state) are dismantled, the Unionists getting the remains of Kansas.

In 1949, President Long, to maintain the dominance of the A.U.S. in the Caribbean periphery and to expand oil production, admitted the depositery of German missiles on the island of Juventud next to the region's leftist powerhouse, the Cuban Socialist Council Republic. Fundamentally being an act of provocation and war, the Soviet and Imperial Bloc began negotiations over the tensions and demands at the Conference of Port-Au Prince. The Soviets requested the removal of the missiles, while Long and Wilhelm the IIIrd demanded the recognition of Fulgencio Batista's government as the "Republic of Juventud-Cuba". The government was recognized, along with the Union State receiving the islands of the Bahamas as an A.U.S. mandate. By 1952, the Long Presidency managed to socially and economically improve the South. Segregation has legally declined, financial reforms proved to be successful. The redistribution of wealth guaranteed the citizens household estates and an annual minimal income of 1,500$; free education and healthcare became essential. However pay gaps and income inequality were still an aching thorn in Long's foot.

### **Second Reconstruction**

In 1954, Huey Long kicked off The Second Reconstruction programme on April 7th in his ceremonial address, which triggered the increasingly extremist opposition. In the coming years strikes and insurgencies by pro-segregationist and far-right platforms became common in the Deep South regions of Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

The Second Reconstruction changed its priorities from sparking economic and social welfare to combatting the power and popularity of leftism, which is why it adopted the Imperial Bloc's political propaganda programme called the **Red Scare**. Leftist factions and trade unions became targeted antagonists of state, but were the most minimally hunted during Huey Long's premiership, because in 1957 Long added his own unique purge to the list, this one targeting his own opposition. Forces on the far-right were detained and hate groups were outlawed.

He changed some of the principles of the country's foreign policy, when coincidentially he suspended relations with the Germans and turned to complete isolationism when Mitteleuropean magnates wanted to invest into cotton production. Domestically, nationalization policies have been expanded and the Presidency has announced a Cotton Holiday.

On June 6th 1967, President Huey Long has passed away in his sleep at the age of 73. His Vice President, John McKeithen was inaugurated as President. The Golden Age which began 20 years prior was seemingly at an end, with the far-right now united under Gerald. L. K. Smith's America First Party, the order under the Union Party has been noticably shaken. Twenty-one days later, it was fulfilled: Gerald Smith, who's promised the German Weltreich more influnce in the country, has undemocratically seized power from McKeithen via a coup.

### **Smith Era**

Gerald L. K. Smith was inaugurated as President of the American Union State on June 30th - a day past the military takeover -, on behalf of his own platform. President Smith spent the majority of his time discontinuing the reconstruction process and allowing foreign capital to fill up the markets. Radical changes were implemented as the far-right gained more and more of a grasp over the republic. Smith reversed the country's isolationist foreign policies made by Huey Long, and immediately repaired the Union-German relations. He fully allied the country with the Imperial Bloc, going against the previous subtle standby politics while suspending nationalization on heavy and light industries, a step which allowed the entrance of German and Mitteleuropean capital under privatisation. Other domestic measures included the popularisation of segregation and the termination of civil rights for coloured folk. Among other traditionailst reforms, he initiated numerous party purges to consolidate his power in his essentially coalitionist party.

In 1972, the German Weltreich launched a joint operation with the A.U.S. known as the *"Caelestis Mission"* (*"Die Caelestis Sendung"* in German), a programme which was the Imperial equivalent of the Space Race's international projects. From 1972 to 1982 a series of ventures were launched to deliver the first humans to space and potentially to the Moon. Eventually the Union-German undertaking was successful, granting them the victory with the **Interval 11 Moon Landing**. On March 23rd, 1976, Gerald L. K. Smith has passed away at the age of 78. In his testament, he granted the head of the Union Military High Command in full executive power. Chief Chairman and Marshal Bernard W. Rogers stepped in his place as a Military Dictator, ushering in the period known as the Rogers Era.

### **Rogers Era**

With Marshal Rogers' takeover, the Union State became a military junta, preserved and expanded to safeguard the German interests in the region. The new Regime declared martial law and started to militarise as the détente started to get heated up. New anti-establishment revolts and insurgencies happened throughout the Union, aiming to disrupt the present authoritarian system and military complex. One of these groups were the **Black Panther**, a freedom fighting guerilla organization composed of segregated Black Americans and establishment-convicted people of African origin, who banded and fought to repel the racial laws the Smith Administration once implemented. Intellectuals and activists were hunted throughout the country, often becoming martyrs for their own beliefs. Two years after the takeover in 1978, a political purge took place in the Georgian city of Atlanta, known as the **Atlanta Massacre**, which involved the systematic detention and execution of over 670.000 suspected Black Panther members and co-conspirators. Almost ten years later in 1983, the Regime began to carry out mass deportation campaigns for the methodical removal of the state-declared terrorist organizations. 1.2 million presumed individuals and affiliates were forcibly deposited into the Far-West tip of Texas, ghettos and labour camps constructed in El Paso, Lubbock, Amarillo and San Angelo.

### **Second Weltkrieg (1993-1999)**

In June of 1993, as the Second Weltkrieg has officially broken out between the two Blocs, the North American Cold War was also set aflame. The American Union State declared war on the neighboring leftist forces, including the Cuban Socialist Council Republic and the Syndicalist States of America with the intentions to extend the reach of its influence and acclaim new capital via territorial gains. Military operations were planned by members of the Union Military High Command, Dictator and Commander-in-Chief Bernard W. Rogers, Secretary for Defense Robert McFarlane, and Generals Frank Kelso, John Otho Marsh Jr. and Chief Chairman Brent Scowcroft.

#### **Operations in mainland America**

On October 12th, the 1st, 2nd Armies tackled the SSA from South Kansas and Greensboro, the IV Corps pushed Kentucky from Dyersburg. Syndicalist invasion occured on Nashville.

1994, June 27th, Unionists made advances in Iowa and Virginia and have pushed into Maryland. Northern ambush from Tennessee, 1st Cavalry Regiment of the IV Corps are defeated. The 8th Armored Divison of the IV Corps retaliated to Huntsville, Georgia along with the 35th Infantry Division for a hidden counterattack.

1995, June 5th, the counterattack is successful, Georgia is secured. Unionist forces have pushed into Syndicalist Missouri and Illinois, the Maryland Front stagnated. Syndicalist blockade assembled in the Atlantic, landings performed in Charleston, Carolina, the Bahamas' Grand Bahama, Abaco and Eleuthera islands have been captured.

1996, June 16th, major Syndicalist offensives were made, successful assaults on Charleston, Wilmington, Greensboro, Columbus, St. Louis, Tupelo, Hunstville and Tennessee is fully occupied. Northern offensives deteriorated, the majority of the armies concentrated in Cuba; Augusta, Georgia; Jackson, Alabama and Little Rock, Arkansas, while the 4th Fleet is moved to defend the Bahamian capital of Nassau. McFarlane-Scowcroft defensive line is formed across the Mississippi River, connecting the cities. Riots and rebellions in Texas and Florida.

1997, June 28th, Birmingham, Carolina and the Bahamas are taken, Augusta, Atlanta, Little Rock and Springfield have been put under siege. New defensive lines pulled up between Shreveport, Louisiana & Jackson, Mississippi and Hattiesburg, Mississippi & Mobile, Alabama.

1998, January 13th, Unionist forces are driven out of Cuba, major Northern advances in Georgia and Alabama. Southern-Missouri and Jackson are occupied. Two days later, the war has ended in Europe with the German surrender, Bernard W. Rogers protested unconditional surrender.

1998, June 2nd, Syndicalist forces captured the Floridan cities of Tallahasse and Jacksonville, Georgia occupied.

1999, May 1st, Syndicalist forces occupied the main part of the Union State, New Orleans has been laid under siege.

1999, May 17th, the Dictator Rogers escapes for Mexico along with the heads of the Union Military High Command, Frank Kelso attended the Treaty of Lafayette as the A.U.S. delegate. Three days on, on May 20th, the American Union State unconditionally surrendered, accepting annexation from the Syndicalist States of America and ending the Second Weltkrieg all around the world.

#### **Operations in Cuba**

On October 1st, 1993, the 5th & 3rd Fleet blockaded Cuba from the North and East, and the 6th & 8th Airborne and II & V Corps have been deployed at Pinar del Rio after an established air supremacy. Troops from Jamaica and Juventud also landed by November in the region of Ciénaga de Zapata.

1994, March 1st, Imperial forces have separated Havanna, isolating it from the South. Cuban counterattacks towards the tip. On May 1st, while Havanna is under continous bombardment, Union supplied Cuban Republican forces began to push towards the Cuban capital.

1995, January 1st, Union forces began an assault on Santa Clara. By July 1st, Havanna has been completely encircled, guerilla fighters threw counters from the hills.

1996, January 1st, A.U.S. forces captured the city of Cammguey, destablising the Syndicalist supply lines. Attacks from the SSA have shaken the reinforcements. On April 1st, Cammguey is retaken by Cuban forces, counterattack from there and Las Tunas. On the 1st of August, Santa Clara is encircled, but by October 1st it's recaptured.

1997, Febuary 1st, as the war effort on the mainland is concentrated in the Deep South, Republican supplements and reinfrocements began to putrefy. Union troops are gradually brought back.

By January 13th, all remaining Union State armies are evacuated and brought back to the mainland.

## **Demographics**

### **Form of State**

* Unitary Multiparty Constitutional Republic - Neo-Capitalism

### **Population**

* **Total - 53,8 million**
* White Americans - 40,2 million
* Black Americans - 10,4 million
* Latinos - 2,3 million
* Others - 0,9 million

### **Significant Cities**

* *New Orleans* - 4,3 million
* Charlotte - 2,0 million
* Orlando - 1,9 million
* Houston - 0,9 million
* Springfield - 0,7 million

### **Regions (States)**

* Louisiana
* Florida
* Mississippi
* Alabama
* Georgia
* Carolina
* Arkansas
* Texas
* Kansas
* Southern-Missouri

### **Political Party**

* Union Party (1935-1967)
* America First Party (1967-1976)
* Military Dictatorship (1976-1999)

### **Anthem, Motto and Popular Patriotic Songs**

* Songs before 1967: ***"Hail Columbia"**;* *"Ev'ry Man A King"; "Dixieland"*
* Mottos before 1967: "Every Man A King!" and "Follow The Kingfish!"
* Songs after 1967: ***"Battle Hymn of the Republic (Glory, Glory Hallelujah!)"***
* Mottos after 1967: "For God and Country!"