Commune of Winchester (1962: The Apocalypse)

History
The  Commune state of Winchester  is a democratic UK survivor nation based in Hampshire.

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 plague struck in 1967. The nation would struggle with various raids by the surrounding tribesmen from Hampshire and Berkshire.

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 25 and a conscript force of 50.

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

Economy
It is agrarian by nature largely dependent on agriculture, forestry and selling looted metal from the ruins of nearby towns.

Media
Posers a nailed up as and when nessasery by the local authorities.

Healthcare
Thyroid and skin cancers are no longer major issues, and are markedly less than they were before 1976.