Republic of Brittany (1962: The Apocalypse)

History
The Brittany ''' is a democratic UK survivor nation based in Northern France.

After Doomsday
The nuclear winter lasted between October 1962 and March 1963. A nuclear summer then lasted between April 1963 and September 1964. A severe famine and a cholera outbreak hit the town, killing many people during 1965 and most of 1966. A typhoid and E-coli plague struck in 1967.

First Contact
It was made in 1969 with the North French Republic and in 1972 with the Somme Republic (1962: Doomsday).

Present Day
The storms if June 2007 and the blizzards of the winter 2009-2010 were the worst on record with the latter killing 10 peaople.

Military
The armed forces abandoned the use of bows and swords in favour of rifles and pistols in 2005. The army is a volunteer force of 1,000 and a conscript force of 111.

Transport
Horses are still popular in the nation, despite the resent, but short lived, outbreak of equine ethnocide hematoma. Several canals were dug in 1998 and 1999 that connects towns to the coastline. Costal travel is by steam boat, alcao-fuelled motor launches, yachts and sailing boats.

Economy
It is agrarian by nature largely dependent on agriculture, fishing, low level chalk mining and selling high end wine. Most of the economy is weighted towards agricultural production though there are some industrial aspects to the urban economy but it is nowhere near the capability of nations like Northern France, PRUK or the SER. As of October 2011, the nation’s unemployment rate is 4.5%. A growing food processing, brewing, bread, wine making and scrap metal recycling industry is beginning to develop. Up-market organic sugar beet and wine is sold to Sussex, Wessex, Northern France and the Somme Republic.

Farming
The agricultural produce of the state includes hen’s eggs, feathers, grapes, peaches, wine, dairy products, cattle and tobacco.

Industry
Its industrial output includes hose drawn transportation equipment, steam train parts, hand tools, fabricated metal products, chemicals and chalk products. Industry only took off after the 1985 with the free trade agreement with the other English Channel states. It is mostly focused on the town of Breast.

Healthcare
Thyroid and skin cancers are no longer major issues, and are markedly less than they were before 1986.

Media
Posters a nailed up as and when necessary by the local authorities and a monthly newspaper has been available since 2005. The North French national newspaper has been in circulation since 2007. Radio Brittany has broadcasts from Breast on medium and long wave frequencies as of 2008.

The death penalty
Murderers, sex predators, rapists, child molesters, traitors and enemy spies are executed with the hangman’s rope. A moratorium on hanging has been in place since 1984.