Daventry and Woodford Halse Union (1962: The Apocalypse)

History
The following article is impart based on rumours, victims' accounts and defectors' reports about the hermit state and is thus unreliable.

Doomsday
It is known that no atomic devices had hit the territory in the Soviet attack.

After Doomsday
A severe famine and a cholera outbreak hit the region, killing many people during 1963 and most of 1964.

A British soldier called Captain David Kaminski took control of Brackley in 1965 in the wake of post war cholera outbreak. His son, Richard took over in 1984 and started to annex outlying villages. The current warlord is his son, Pete. Richard and David were noticeably more ruthless than Pete, who became leader in 1995.

The Union has focibly assimilated many nearby tribes and villages over the years. Several independent Northamptonshire villages are still being reportedly intimidated in to joining the union and are victims of a local protection racket.

Fist Contact
Friendly relations stateted with the Brackley and Hinton-in-the-Hedges Union in 1972 and hostile reations began with Buckinghamshire in 1989. It defeated an atempted invasion by a radeing party from the Southern English Republic in 1990.

Population
It said to be about 7,500; but this does not include the 100 or so captured tribesmen and village folk who toil in the Daventry Ironstone mine.

Military
It is largely armed with swords, billhooks, machettes and bows. A few guns have also been found.

Economy
It is largely dependent on agriculture and stone exports to East Anglia and the Provisional Republic.

Media
A once monthly 2 page news sheet is issued.

Healthcare
Thyroid cancer ceased to be a problem in the late 1970’s.