The Armed Republic of MidAtlantic Appalachia

## MidAtlantic Appalachia

Flag of MidAtlantic Appalachia

The Armed Republic of MidAtlantic Appalachia is a moderately large, yet thinly populated nation spread throughout the former United States. They have a weak central government, with most power being in the hands of the local authorities, in subdivisions called states. They have good relations with Maritime Trade Confederacy, United Alteria, and The Armed Nation of the Southern Militia, but poor relations with The Empire of Socoran (along with the rest of the Old World Alliance) and The Great Byzantine Empire. They have had historical turmoil with Pius Desurongcrandis, however the two nations have worked together in the past such as in establishing the Patriot University of Engineering's New England campus. Despite being a founding member of both NAMDA and the Great American Alliance, MidAtlantic Appalachia is typically isolationist, refusing to be a member of the U.N. and even more so refusing to conform to international guidelines, rulings, and treaties. MidAtlantic Appalachia was founded on a foundation of personal liberties, conservatism, patriotism, and capitalism. Much of patriot law, which is derived exclusively from the constitution, except for local regulation and laws enacted by the PGC, is based in Judeo-Christian values and teachings.

## History

### Pre-Conflict

Prior to the Great Conflict, Fin MacDonal, the owner of the Fin Research Company, purchased a tract of land in Rock Bridge County, Virginia, USA on which he built a small self sustaining homestead. Over the following months and years Fin used profits from his company to expand the services at his homestead, eventually building a small, self-sufficient, privately-owned town commonly known as the town of Cow Pasture-Merriweather which even included a town fire brigade and police force. As the town grew, Fin Research opened a number of offices in the town leading to a significant spike in population both in the town and on land immediately surrounding it. With this increased population, which was cumulatively in the low hundreds, and significantly rising international tensions, a decision was made to build a small bunker codenamed the Atlas Project. At the same time as this a town militia was formed in conjunction with the town police.

### The Conflict

At some point during the Great Conflict, as it was only beginning to become a significant threat to safety in North America, the town militia of the town of Cow Pasture-Merriweather decided that it was time to activate the Atlas Project and evacuate the town into the bunker. The town's populace remained in the bunker for almost 2 months before it the immediate area around the town was determined to be safe again. Upon exiting the bunker, the town was found to have experienced significant damage which was repaired over the following months, during which time much of the population continued to live in the bunker but work on the surface. Within the first days of exiting the bunker, a small group of citizens traveled to the nearby town of Goshen to hire help from a local construction company and mechanics, but upon arrival they discovered a landscape of destruction and death. Discovering this, the group made a call for help summoning first responders from [[Cow Pasture-Merriweather]]. At this point, a distress call was made to the U.S. government, but went unanswered. The first responders, along with the militia and other civilians, initiated a SAR mission, bringing survivor back to the town to have a safe place to go and collecting bodies to give them a respectful burial. Over the following days the nearby scout camp was made hastily connected to town utilities and turned into a refugee camp while similar missions were made to other surrounding towns and cities such as Lexington, Buena Vista, and Staunton. An attempt was made to contact other groups around the country with whom the militia had been in contact with prior to the [[Great Conflict]] using the town's Short Wave and High Frequency (HF) communications equipment. During this attempt they were able to contact 4/6 of their primary contacts, all of whom had witnessed similar devastation to the area around Cow Pasture-Merriweather. As the population grew through these missions, efforts were made to begin rebuilding Goshen and combine the two towns, keeping the name Goshen for the new combined town.

### The Founding

After the initial distress call, a distress call to the the U.S. government was made thrice daily, but was never answered in anyway. After about a week additional calls started being made to other national governments within range of the town's broadcast tower, these too went unanswered. After a month and a half of calling for help, the militia decided that the U.S. was no longer in existence and declared independence from the United States. The militia once again made contact with their contacts around the country and remotely ratified a constitution with a Texas prepper group, who formed the state of Patriot New Texas, a large Montana homestead, which became Patriot Polaris, and a coalition of small towns in Alaska, which became Patriot Alaska. The Southern Militia was able to be contacted but had already fallen under the rule of the great Kingdom of the South. The other two contacts, in Pennsylvania and NoVA respectively, were unable to be contacted twice in a row and were assumed to be dead. This constitution established The Armed Republic of MidAtlantic Appalachia and an election was called, in which Fin MacDonal was elected to be the first Patriot Commander-n-chief. Fin MacDonal established the capital in Goshen where it has remained since.

### Initial Expansion

Following the creation of MidAtlantic Appalachia, the new states quickly pushed to expand. In Patriot Alaska, towns around the new state were eager to join in, but expansion was halted when they hit the mountains as it was not practical logistically to expand beyond the mountains, although frequency trips were made beyond the mountains to trade and work with locals, which continued through the Maritime control of the region beyond the mountains. Patriot Polaris also had some success in expanding as many people and entire local towns were enthusiastic to join in, but the area's rural/wilderness location inhibited expansion due to a lack of infrastructure. Patriot Polaris also had difficulties with local prepper groups who were aggressive or unwelcome of the state's expansion, blocking off their expansion. [[Patriot Polaris]] is also particularly susceptible to wild fires, which posed a significant problem during the initial expansion period as they did not have adequate resources for dealing with these fires. Patriot New Texas struggled significantly at expansion as they were fairly well surrounded by other prepper groups who were not welcoming to their new state, they did however find a number of groups who were at least friendly to them, which eventually played a significant role in Patriot New Texas' future rapid expansion. Patriot Virginia was able to expand drastically with little effort because of their reputation of humanitarian aid that preceded them from their initial rescue missions and because of good infrastructure in the region along with better pre planning. During this period, the army corps was also ordered on a series of secretive missions known as Operation Fire Power, in which they were ordered to take control of former U.S. nuclear silos and the remaining weapons inside. The success of these missions put MidAtlantic Appalachia in a position of military dominance and made them a viable contender in the international community despite being a isolationist nation.

### Long Term and Continued Expansion

Patriot Texas and Polaris continued to build relations with other locals eventually allowing them to expand, with Patriot Texas even gaining significantly more power as similarly sized militias joined them. Patriot Virginia continued to expand to a point where it became necessary to divide Patriot Virginia into several states including Northland and Patriot Coast.

{ Rise to significance on the global playing field (in an oddly similar fashion to the U.S. lol

[southern standoff]

[Slavery wars]

}

{ Golden era of innovation and shows of force

[Ubunifu Colony, space program, and Antarctic research (+space weapons)]

[Old world alliance war]

}

{ fairly mundane era

[BSA & Offlandian conflicts]

[Side note on the great Patriot Fire drill]

[Southern Militia regional stability operation + Patriot Southern Valley]

}

{The fall and rise of nations/modern history

[DRH Texas Oil Reserve Fire]

[Alaskan Independance movement]

[Arian Stand off]

[Alaska Gains Independance]

[Ubunifu Colony shutdown]

}

## States

A list of all states. Former states are crossed through.

* Patriot Northland
* Patriot Virginia
* Patriot Coast
* Patriot South Valley
* Patriot New Texas
* Patriot Polaris
* ~~Patriot Alaska~~

## Government

MidAtlantic Appalachia is a constitutional democratic republic with two levels of government: federal and local. Despite having states, MidAtlantic Appalachia does not have formal state governments, states are instead treated as political subdivisions within the federal government. The federal government consists of a Commander-n-chief who oversees the military and serves as ceremonial head of state, a federal sheriff who is responsible for all law federal enforcement and domestic security, a secretary of state who is responsible for international relations, supreme court justices who are the federal justice system and review laws, and a house of representatives who serve as the nations legislative body. Both the house and representatives and supreme court are sized based on the number of registered voters, however the supreme court always has at least 3 justices and always rounds up to an odd number of justices. Term lengths are 6 years for representatives and justices, and 4 years for commander-n-chief, sheriff, and secretary of state with elections staggered to be evenly spread out and an election every year. There are no term limits, a politician may run for as many terms as they want and may serve as many as they are elected for, however being found guilty of using federal political powers to maintain a position is punishable by removal from office and banishment from future federal public office.

MidAtlantic Appalachia is also unique in their use of Governmental Corporations, which are a key component in their system of free market government. Free market government is a citizens ability to choose which (local) government to use (or use multiple if preferred) and the local governments choice as to which citizens they are willing to serve. The system essentially works like a business, where the government provides services and legislation in exchange for taxes. If a citizen doesn't pay their taxes to a governmental corporation they simply don't receive services. A governmental corporation may also only enforce laws and legislation against people who pay taxes to them and may only tax individuals who they will provide services and who wants to use that government. These governmental corporations make up MidAtlantic Appalachia's local governments. Each governmental corporation may choose their own political system. There is also one federal governmental corporation. While the federal government can enforce laws and levy taxes against all citizens, their scope of their powers in limited beyond that so for many additional services such as minting the nation currency, although other currencies are allowed, or maintaining nation infrastructure are managed by a governmental corporation chartered by the house of representatives and run by a group of elected officers, although to vote for these officers you must pay taxes to the patriot federal governmental corporation. The PFGC is also the only entity besides the American Brotherhood that is charted by the house of representatives. Just like any other governmental corporation, citizens do not have to use the PFGC.

Despite their name, patriot states do not have official state governments, states are simply used as political subdivisions of MidAtlantic Appalachia for logistics and voter representation.

## Controversies

-PGC tax outsourcing

-Patriot Modesty and Decency Act

## Civil Service

Civil service is compulsory. Every citizen is required to volunteer in the armed services, the medical corps, a local fire brigade, or the local militia. Citizens may also alternatively serve in volunteer organizations like the society for civil defense or Red Cross, but must meet certain minimum hour requirements.