Kingdom of Michigan (1962: The Apocalypse)

Stats
The Kingdom of Michigan was created some time in 1969 when the Republic of Lansing was overthrown by Rick van Dike, who proclaimed the Kingdom of Michigan 3 days after he took power.

Government
The Government is a constitutional monarchy with the Parliament being like the United States Congress with two houses, the House of Reps and the Senate. The King controls the army but declarations of war and peace treaties are handled by the Parliament. However, Executive Orders are a loophole to get around the Parliament's wishes, allowing the King to occasionally rule the nation by himself, this is stopped usualy when the people threaten revolution or the King runs out of money.

Doomsday
The Warsaw Pact targets were at:

Wisconsin

 * 1) Fort McCoy- 1x 10kt (did not explode)
 * 2) Camp Williams- 1x 10kt (did not explode)
 * 3) Milwalkie harbour- 2x 10kt (did not go off) and 1x 1kt.
 * 4) Milwalkie- 2x 1kt (did not go off).

Michigan

 * 1) Detroit- 1x 20kt and 1x 10kt (the prior one did not go off).
 * 2) Selfridge Air National Guard Base- 1x 1kt
 * 3) Wurtsmith Air Force Base- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 4) Naval Air Station Grosse Ile- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 5) Raco Air Force Base- 1x 10kt (it did nit go off and burryed it's self 20ft in to the ground)
 * 6) Kincheloe Air Force Base, Sault Ste. Marie- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 7) K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base- 1x 1kt
 * 8) Alpena Air National Guard Base- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 9) Battle Creek Air National Guard Base- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 10) W. K. Kellogg Airport- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 11) Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Warren - Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 12) Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center, Battle Creek- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.
 * 13) Seafarer, at Republic- Oddly, it was not targeted by the USSR and was never hit.

Ohio

 * 1) Scioto Ordnance Plant, Ohio- 2x 1kt, 1x 10kt and 1 x 20kt ( the 20kt one did not explode)
 * 2) Cleveland- 1x 10kt (did not go off) and 1x 1kt
 * 3) Akron- 1x 10kt (did not go off)
 * 4) Dayton AFB- 1x 10kt (did not go off)
 * 5) Columbus, Ohio- 1x 10kt (did not go off)
 * 6) Fernald Site, Cincinnat, - 2x 250kt
 * 7) Cincinnati- 1x 10kt and 1x 100kt (the latter did not go off)
 * 8) Portsmouth Millatery Works Plant, Portsmouth - 1x 250kt
 * 9) Mound Plant, Miamisburg - It was not targeted by mistake and was thus never hit.

Indiana

 * 1) Camp Atterbury- 1x 1kt (did not explode)
 * 2) Fort Benjamin Harrison- 1x 1kt (did not explode)
 * 3) Gary 1x 1kt (did not explode and broke up spilling toxic wast dirty bomb style)

Illinois

 * 1) Charles M. Price Support Center- 1x 10kt (did not explode)
 * 2) Rock Island Arsenal- 1x 10kt (did not explode)
 * 3) Chinagro fertilizer plant, southern Chicago- 1x 10kt
 * 4) Chicago sea front - 1x 1kt (did not explode)
 * 5) Chicago O'Hair airport- 1x 1kt (did not explode)
 * 6) Chicago - 1x 1kt (did not explode)

After Doomsday
Things were tough with the famine of 1964. Luckily most places in the state were not nuked and so many resources remained.

First Contact
It was with Wisconsin in 1967, then Canada, Vandalia and the Confederation of Greater Carolina in 1974.

Beginnings
The Kingdom of Michigan was created some time in 1969 when the Republic of Lansing was overthrown by Rick van Dike, who proclaimed the Kingdom of Michigan 3 days after he took power.

1972


In 1972, after a huge military buildup, the Kingdom invaded the surrounding counties and occupied a chain of them all the way to Chicago, taking the city after fierce fighting which lasted for weeks. With the fall of Chicago however, Michigan now had a large industrial and naval base to boost its man power and weapon manufacturing as well as a base to construct a new navy.

1975


In 1975 after the Kingdom had been full integrated, the King ordered the capture of Toledo and all territories between it and the Kingdom. It took several months until the region finally fell to the Michigan Army. During the process of the war with Toledo, the Michigan Navy and Marine Corps took the Macinaw Island region and the straits between the Upper and Lower Peninsula of Michigan. This gave the Michiganite Army a base through which they could attack the UP and a base in which the Army could take over the rest of Lower Peninsula, a feet which would take many years of planning.

After Toledos fall it took several years before the Kingdom was ready for another military expedition, one which would take all of the territories loyalty and troops: the Conquest of the Lower Peninsula, after sever planning, the Army and navy were ready to invade and take over them Michigan heartland.

1978
1978, Michigan's army invaded the Lower Peninsula from the north and south while marines invaded in the east and west. Soon the Lower Peninsula was embroiled in full out war, with certain areas declaring allegiance to Michigan to avoid occupation.

Before these changes in loyalty occurred, the Michigan Kingdom looked like it would lose the war, but with the new infusion of manpower and war industries, the tide turned in favor of the Kingdom, allowing Michigan forces to take out the stronger areas of resistance and finally subdue the Lower Peninsula in the spring of 1979.

1984/1986


By 1984 the LP was fully loyal to the Kingdom, and it was ordered to that the UP should fall soon after the death of King Rick I, which occured on May 22nd 1986, King Ricks son Arnold van Dike then ascended the throne as King Rick II.

He soon ordered a military buildup, and 2 years later, the King ordered an invasion of the Upper Penninula, and from there base north of the straits, the Kings Army launched its invasion and took over the region within a few months as well as parts of northern Wisconsin and Greenbay.

1987


The pirates on Lake Huron's Manitoulin Island were defeated after a heavy fight in mid 1987. Essex, Algoma, Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Kenora, and Lambton in Onterio were taken and held until order was restored.

The King ordered the Army to then prepare for an invasion of the squabbling remains of central Canada and managed to bring order to lawless southern Manitoba by 1988, with which Michigan entered its Golden Age.

1988-1998
The various city states and minor nations of Wisconsin was granularly intercorperated in the the form of Wisconsin Territory after several battles.

Present day
Relations are good with with Wisconsin, Canada, Connecticut, New Mexico-Colorado and Confederation of Greater Carolina.

Military
The military consists of 11,500 volentear and 4,500 conscript troops.

Army

 * 1) 2x T15 Tank
 * 2) 2x FT-17 Tank
 * 3) 15x Chevrolet RD 4x2 (USA) - Truck
 * 4) 6x T17E1 Staghound (USA) - Armoured Car
 * 5) 5x AMC 35 Tank
 * 6) 5x The Renault R35 Tank
 * 7) 6x Leopard 1 Tank
 * 8) AEC Matador 4 x 4 medium artillery tractor.

Navy
Michigan only has 2 major war ships and 4 auxiliaries.

Elite Forces (Naval Infantry)
Michigan has a force of 250 personell.

Weapons

 * 1) Colt M911 (side arm)
 * 2) Thompson Sub-machine gun
 * 3) The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42)
 * 4) The French Darne machine gun.
 * 5) The M60 (formally named United States Machine Gun, Calibre 7.62 mm, M60)
 * 6) Mauser C96 (Construktion 96)
 * 7) The FN Model 1903 (M1903, Browning No.2, FN Mle 1903 or FN Ml 1903),
 * 8) Nagant M1895 Revolver
 * 9) The M116 75mm Pack Howitzer M1
 * 10) Canon de 75 modèle 1897
 * 11) Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider
 * 12) The 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 neuer Art (7.7 cm FK 96 n.A.)
 * 13) Ordnance QF 18 pounder
 * 14) Ordnance QF 25 pounder
 * 15) BL 4.5 inch Medium Field Gun
 * 16) Stokes mortar
 * 17) Enfield No. 2 Mk I Revolver
 * 18) Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk I (1903)

Air force
Michigan has only 4 light cargo aircraft, 2 ground attack aircraft and 6 helicopters.

Flue
Michigan has 7 oil and 6 minor gas wells that produce fuel from below Lake Michigan. They were all drilled directionally from the surface locations on shoreline in the late 1980's. Further directional drilling beneath the Great Lakes was banned in 2005. A gas well to the Medina Group was drilled in 1958 in Pennsylvania state waters in Lake Erie and was jointly run by the states of Pennsylvania and Niagara until the gas ran out in 2009.

The Coal Basin is heavily exploited in and about the Saginaw Valley. The first coal mine opened in 1973

Transport
Horses are still popular in the nation, despite the recent, but short lived, outbreak of equine ethmoid hematoma.