Great Plains Federation

The American Buffalo Will Never Die

Vice-Subsidiary President

* Jo Jorgensen

National Speaker

* Andrew Ryan (*BioShock*)

National Justice

* Justin Amash

The **Great Plains Federation** is one of the nine nation states of the United Nation States of America. Plenty of wide-open plains and business opportunities for everyone.

## History

### During Apocalypse

During the apocalypse, much of the United States became devastated by everything that was thrown at them. In the midwest, Detroit and Chicago became under attack by androids and robots such as the NS-5 robots from I, Robot and CyberLife androids from Detroit: Become Human. But things gotten worse when dead Mafia families and augmented Detroit gangs tried to seize the cities. As if zombies weren't enough, Deadites from Evil Dead were spreading in Michigan. Aliens from The Bureau: XCOM Declassified started to attack and set up bases in many rural areas with many allied alien species from Defiance saving many humans while setting up a headquarters for their coordinated forces in St. Louis. Although many tried to kill the Annoying Orange after many duplicates of this idiotic fruit started raining down on them. In the southern Dakota, a giant white buffalo started trampling everything in its path.

Illinois is plagued with vampires and werewolves from White Wolf, Super Mutants along with Feral Ghouls and raiders from Fallout, small shadowy people that feed on human emotion as well as devour humans, bio-cybernetic robots and among other things. Indiana have not only zombies, but also zombified beavers that started chewing through many defenses. There are also cartoonish Amish that made robotic weaponry out of wood in areas where the Amish are in order to defend their brothers and sisters against the unholy hordes. Minnesota gets infected by a plague from the 2011 film, Contagion, yet surprisingly didn't get turned to zombies because the plague prevented that. Weird, right? That, and there were red gnomes from Puzzle Agent that terrorized the survivors. Nebraska got hit hard by many twisters, a cult that has children worshiping corn, and a strange black fog that turns people into highly aggressive and corrupt mutants called, Rabid while being lead by the Knights of Hell possessing humans. Wisconsin had a much larger population of zombies yet many get killed by the local rednecks, remnants of the United States military and anyone armed with guns and other weapons. Despite all of these, there have been a large number of cowboys and Native Americans killing each other and anyone getting in their way.

In the middle of all this, a small group that escaped from the death traps in Colorado and losing their little piece of heaven came and help reorganized the situation. The leader of this group was John Galt. Even though altruism is against his philosophy, he voluntarily help many people in exchange for having the survivors being part of a new nation. A nation that focus on more rational thinking, free market, and free individuality. Many agreed to it in exchange for scientific devices that he and the others made that kill zombies instantly withing a mile radius, a device that can stop all electronic robotics from attacking humans and have them be more passive and friendly, and can even defeat supernatural forces. Others reject some of his philosophy and prefer to stick to their way of life. They even have help from many other fictional forces that tried to help save people.

There was also a US special forces known as, Sentinel Task Force from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that came to deal with the Chimera from Resistance. They were also assisted by members of the Carrington Institute, Noir XCOM, some cyborgs from Deus Ex games, and RoboCop. Not only they had the aliens to deal with, but also local gangsters and mafia. The threats were eliminated, but only a small handful of these combined forces survived. They later joined John Galt to help reorganize what is left.

### After Phase I

The weeks after, on October 20th, the Great Plains Federation was born. Many have elected John Galt to be the president of their new nation to help lead a more libertarian and rational nation, including presidential candidate, Jo Jorgensen. He refused a few times, but decides to lead the nation. He even allowed the machines to have free will. Everyone was against the idea, but John said that, "How can we live up to our ideals if we don't practice what we preach to all?" When he did give them free will, the machines became friendly and cooperated with many other organic beings while some left to their own accord.

Many of John Galt's trusted friends started to go into businesses and started to rebuild the new nation. Dagny Taggart started making railways across the Federation as means of transporting goods and supplies. Fransico d'Anconia started a copper mining business in Nebraska. Hank "Henry" Rearden started his steel company and creates large quantities of his alloy, Rearden Metal. Ragnar Danneskjöld became general of the armed forces to protect the Federation, Andrew Ryan from BioShock started making head ways in industrial sciences and coal mining to make cold fusion, Michael "Midas" Mulligan started his bank, gold mining, wheat farming and livestock; Judge Narragansett started a chicken and dairy farm, Ellis Wyatt starting refining oil and mining shale to be used as asphalt and road oil as well as resources needed for certain chemicals, plastics and synthetic materials.

On October 24th, there was a discovery of many other smaller nations that claimed many areas of the former United States. Joe Biden survived the ordeal and asked if the Great Plains Federation would be part of an entirely different America. The G.P.F. will be fully autonomous with John Galt still president and a few negotiative terms. It took a while to negotiate some terms, but ultimately they found some agreements in the middle. Both parties signed a contract in agreement with a few other duplicates.

### Phase II

When the galaxy got bigger and the real universe became more crowded, a consecutive order was given to have all micronations to be deported to other worlds. John Galt and his associated were against the order but were under contract by the UNSA to do so. They were reluctant but had no choice.

## Society

It is quite liberal in the federation with individuals able to enjoy their privacy and enjoying their own lives without people telling them what to do and what to think and not being forced to sacrifice anything. All are treated as equals in the G.P.F. with everyone able to cooperate, build, and compete no matter your race or origin. Yet everyone must be willing to take responsibility for their actions rather than to blame it on someone or something else. As such, people take things in moderation such as drinking and smoking.

Since there aren't many restrictions, people can have a multitude of opportunities and interests outside of whatever profession they chose. Such as a banker having a farm, a judge owning a vineyard, a doctor creating medical devices, or a scientist running a bakery. There are no restrictions to what kind of jobs and interests thanks to limited government interventions and people are happy about that.

St. Louis is the largest concentration of alien beings with major starports in this city as well as the headquarters of the military. Detroit and Chicago are the largest manufacturing production cities that make many goods that are then delivered to St. Louis for export trading.

## Government

The government of the G.P.F. follows much of the philosophies of John Galt (albeit Ayn Rand's) that believes in the power and glory of the human mind, and the rights of individuals to use their minds solely for themselves. Or this case with various species, the individual mind. All individuals are sovereign over their own lives and are not forced to sacrifice their values for the benefit of others. In other words, individual rights and egalitarianism. So there is lack of government intervention. Yet some areas of the Great Plains Federation don't exactly agree with it.

As a democratic government, voting is done voluntarily rather than compulsory. They also support laissez-faire capitalism and won't intervene with various businesses. They also have an "Anti-Looter & Parasite" law to prevent people from stealing, backstabbing, or have any form of oppression through various means. This also ensure that no one takes advantage of loop-holes of contracts or break them.

Yet under contract and part of the UNSA, they have to follow the president and the cabinet.

## Economy

The Great Plains Federation has a decentralized and mixed economy.

You have plenty of farmlands with wheat, chickens, cattle, vegetables, orchids and vineyards. After the apocalypse, new forms of livestock and crops made it into the market. The crops include quadrotriticale, a genetically engineered hybrid of rye and wheat from Star Trek; desert fruits called dragon pods from Planet Explorers, grassland kind of cactus called euphorbia that is used in medicines, also from Planet Explorers; and a variety of other fruits and vegetables from the anime, Toriko. New livestock includes a new type of dinosaur that can survive in alpine mountains and tundra in the northern parts called, Balaclav, from New Dinosaurs: An Alternate Evolution; from the same source, there are the Sprintosaurs and Monocorns but the meat of the Monocorn is more flavorable. Another type of livestock imported from Japan is the Soda Water Buffalo, which produces fizzy green soda from its utters and the meat has a bubbly sensation for each bite.

Farming maybe the primary source of income, but there are others. There are some mining businesses in the G.P.F. that mine for copper, gold and silver being their primary focus. Oil and shale are also mined and refined for other materials rather than gasoline. The Galt Motor is used in all forms of transports as well as Rearden Metal. Trains, cars, airplanes; all use the same motor and materials to reduce pollution and for farther travel with a greater amount of protection. Thanks to these two inventions, they also entered the transportation trade. But their not the only ones.

They also sell Plasmids, Vigors, Salts, EVE and ADAM to the public and beyond. Although they do trade with the Atlantic Alliance, the American Empire and the New England Commonwealth for the sea slugs called, ADAM Slugs, since they also exist in the Atlantic Ocean. But they also require smelling salts, ammonia carbonate, as well for their products. They also get them from the Lutece Device for cost saving measures. The products from BioShock are a hot commodity for many that want to have superpowers yet their main demand come from off-world colonies to help make colonizing worlds easier. However, there have been some illegal bootlegging of these items on certain colonies.

Due to their libertarian economy, they are economic rivals of the American Empire.

## Military

The military is comprised of mainly volunteers that joined to protect the nation from not just foreign invaders, nasty creatures or power hungry mongrels. They also protect the nation from looters and parasites that would like to rob them. However, the most prominent military force in the Great Plains Federation is the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel. They are a more rational military force that gain recruits from villages and other settlements they also protect via contract as well as recover any form of technology that might be lying around after the apocalypse.

All are equal in the military as they all depend each other to survive and get each other home.

## Trivia

* The Great Plains Federation is actually the same name as the one succession nation from a video game, Shattered Union. Same with the flag.
* John Galt is from an Ayn Rand novel, Atlas Shrugged. A novel that inspired the Libertarian Party of the USA.
* Andrew Ryan is from BioShock, a game also inspired by Atlas Shrugged.
* There were supposed to be Demogorgons from Stranger Things appearing in Indiana, but they didn't show up. Instead, they appeared in the Caribbean.