Jamaica

Flag of Jamacia

**Jamaica** Officially the **Republic of Jamaica** is a small republic in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean isles. Jamaica is a Unitary Parlimentary Constitutional Monarchy, with King Edward officially being the head of state, however having its own locally elected minister who controls most operations of the state. Jamaica in 1946 was the cause of the fall of the West Indies Federation through the creation of the "Jamaican Commune" a small communist republic witch tried to spread to the rest of the Federation but failed. This commune would end up falling due to infighting between those who supported actual socialism and those that wished for a more democratic system, thus after a battle at Kingston the republican faction would overthrow the Communists on the 6th of August 1946, rejoining the Entente a few days later. Jamaica did join the Second Weltkrieg however it used its army mostly for Stabilization and not for helping the *homecoming* as doing so would leave Jamaica vulnerable to revolution. Jamaica has rejoined the fold of the Entente and is now officially part of the British Empire.

## History

In 1936 Jamaica was part of the West Indies Federation, hosting its capital. However this was not a good thing having to be the heart of a massive federation with far more issues than the government could solve. Thus the government focused on everywhere but Jamaica allowing problems to fester there with widespread prostitution and other issues that turned the island into a hotbed of revolution. When the Black Monday Crisis hit, Jamaica was hit with a wave of protests as the Caribbean Revolution was in full swing forcing issues to be solved within the government of the West East Indies. Thus began the Moyne Commission witch was sent to try and fix the issues of the Federation, with Jamaica repeatedly showing up the worst on almost all metrics aside from GDP and GDP per Capita. Thus the government tried to do some massive reforms to help out along with Canadian aid. However it became apparent that some local reforms would be needed for Jamaica and thus the island was allowed to run itself while the rest of the government worked on the outer islands. Thus unlike the rest of the federation, Jamaica was dominated by the Elite Social Conservative party witch while it cracked down on prostitution it would do very little for everything else, but it would send in false reports and wouldn't get caught until well into the Second Weltkrieg in 1944. Jamaica was also particularly hurt by the crash in trade in the lead up to the Second Weltkrieg as it was reliant on the Sugar Cane trade witch was used to make sugar and molasses witch were hot commodities across the pond. However the Start of the Second Weltkrieg would force Jamaican markets that were in Europe to re-route with Japan being the initial target but later the Middle East becoming favored due to stability there. But this too would be interrupted by the entry of the Entente into the war witch would cause Jamaica to lose basically all trade due to French submarines and the British bases on Saint Helena. However news of victories at home from Jamaican units would keep the people from outright revolt for several years and the dissolution of the local government in 1944 would see aid begin to be sent towards Jamaica. However the rally around the flag effect would stop in 1945 and when syndicalist agitators snuck onto the island they would rally the populace into Socialist Revolution as the government had not fixed the issues of the local populace. This would result in the Jamaican Commune a communist state that was riddled with infighting. Jamaica hoped that such a revolution would spread but instead due to the outer islands being much better administered they did not fall into revolution. Jamaica would soon be blockaded and more and more of the local populace believed that the revolution was a mistake and after the rise of a Totalist leader who claimed to be Gorges Valois began to crack down on the populace so that they could stand a fighting chance, the people rose up in support of a republic. After a short battle at Kingston the commune would dissolve and the new republic would via radio negotiate rejoining the Entente and British Empire. Soon Jamaica would be reintroduced as a new member of the Entente / British Empire on the 10th of August 1946. With Entente support Jamaica was able to resuscitate its economy and has stabilized in recent years. The future of the island looks bright as now that trade has returned the Sugar Cane based nation may be able to finally start making money again.

## Military

Jamaica like Trinidad and Tobago only has a small army. But Jamaica's is slightly bigger but worser equipped and worser trained. Jamaica's military is the remnants of the revolutionary army witch was mostly made up of farmers with ad hock weapons. And now the Jamaican military is formed of actual recruits but its equipment situation has not really improved.