Québec

The mandated state flag of Québec

**Québec**, officially the **S.S. État de la Commande Québec**, is a country in North America. It is follows the Burgundian System, and is currently headed by Anaelle Lavigne as its supreme leader. The current government rose following the collapse of Canada.

## History

The history of Québec does not differ from the history of eastern Canada up until the 1940s when the Québec nationalist sentiment rapidly rose.

### Collapse of Canada & Québécois independence (1947-1949)

The 1945 Canadian elections had the most parties in parliament in the history of Canada. By 1947, the parliament became extremely divided between left, right, and regional parties. With the Canadian gridlock of 1947 the government completely collapsed and prime minister W. L. Mackenzie King declared emergency in Canada with a temporary regency made up of only Liberal Party members. Seen as a betrayal by the other left parties and outrageous by the right, there was constant protests in Canada. With the violent suppression of these protests, notably the 1948 Montréal Riots and its suppression, led to the violent separation of Canada. It began in Québec where Jules Lavigne, a military commander who fought in Europe during the 1910s for France, took control of the Québécois army and declared independence for Québec. Following this, the western parts of Canada split into its provinces, with British Columbia, Northern Territories, the Western Republic, and Ontario eventually being the nations of Canada by 1950.

### Jules Lavigne (1949-1972)

Jules Lavigne was the first supreme leader of Québec, after he took power of Québec in 1949. Lavigne was represented by his chauvinist French supremacy, with his most notable policies being his *Français seulement* policy. He was also lauded by his Anglo internment camps in Baffin Island, which resided Anglo dissidents who did not want to assimilate into Québécois culture. NGO's estimate that up to 300,000 Anglo's died in these camps, which has led to there only being less than 20,000 Anglo's left in Québec and they are all recorded anonymously. Lavigne also led to Québec becoming a closed country, with there being a strict process to entering Québec, with French official language nations being only ones which Québec can be visited through and a basic French language test needs to be passed through immigration. However, he still allowed non-governmental records to be kept of demographics, climate, etc. of Québec, as long as it was in French. Although radically French nationalist, Lavigne's policies were not incredibly far right, with policies such as abortion access being allowed and economic nationalism with free healthcare, free education, and flexible social welfare systems which benefitted low income French people. Natives were notably excluded from a lot of these policies, which led to the north becoming known as the 'Nord Sale' (Dirty North) as the cities were low income with large companies not related to mining having no business there.

### Arthur Lavigne (1972-1986)

Arthur Lavigne was the son of Jules Lavigne and alpine skier Joanne Lavigne. Born in 1952, Lavigne took power when he was 20 years old and led for 14 years until 1988. Arthur Lavigne's leadership was essentially a continuation of his father, with Arthur being a bit less harsh. Arthur's most notable actions were in the Nord Sale, where he brought government policies to the natives following the 1975 Native Uprising in which the native tribes tried to form the Kuujjuaq republic. Lavigne gave the natives autonomy to rule themselves, and therefore they took on a lot of Québec economic nationalist policies. Arthur's rule was cut short in 1988, when he was shot by an Irish tourist who was at a rally in Montréal. Although he led for 14 years, his leadership was largely unremarkable and he did not do anything major to open Québec. Following his assassination, his 16 year old daughter Annaelle Lavigne took power.

### Annaelle Lavigne (1986-)

Annaelle Lavigne is the current leader of Québec. She controversially took power as a 16 year old, being underage under the Québécois law. She dismissed any detractors on the international stage, citing that there is no age limit to rule Québec. Although officially in power, Annaelle did not do much at all as leader until she turned 22, with a 10 man council making most of the decisions during 1986-1990. Annaelle has yet to do any major decisions over Québec, although she has made it clear that she has no intentions no changing how things are. She believes her predecessors have worked very well, and that she does not need to do much aside from continuing to represent Québec and its French values globally.