Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1962: The Apocalypse)

History
The The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg is a democratic European survivor nation (and Lille-Wallonia client state) based in the former French regions of Luxemburg and Alsace and Lorraine. Its capital is still Luxembourg city, the capital of the old nation of Luxembourg.

Doomsday and Aftermath
Strasburg (1x 10kt and 1 x 20kt), Aachen (1x 1kt), MOD Osnabrück (2x 1kt which did not exsplode), Bitburg Air Base AFB (1x 10kt), Bitburg (1x 10kt), Prüm (1x 1kt), Bastogne (1x 1kt), Frankfurt-au-Mien 2x 10 kt, 2x 15kt, 2 x 20kt. Bitburg, Kaiserslauternand Duren were each hit by 1 x20kt missiles Doomsday. Reims was hit by a 1kt bomb, but it buried it’s self 180ft underground and never went off. A severe famine and an urban cholera outbreak hit the region, killing many people during 1963, 1964 and most of 1978. Several food and water riots also helped to devastate the country in 1964. Food rationing was brought in untill 1979. The nation would struggle bravely with radiation sicness and various raids by the tribesmen around the ruined city of Bitburg until the mid 1970's.

First contact
First contact was made with the Kingdom of Lille-Wallonia on January the 5th 1982. The nations have developed to about the same standard of living, moral values and political attitudes.

Life today
Agriculture has been heavly upgraded since the late 1990's. Both Lille-Walonia and Luxembourg are long standing allies against the hostile tribesmen form the ruined cities of Frankfurt-au-Maine, Kaiserslautern, Bitburg and Duren. Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg OIH (given names: Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume;of the house of Nassau-Weilburg) is the hereditary monarch. He came to the throne in the year 2000.

Bad weather

 * 1) The rainstorm and floods of mid 2007 killed 3 in Clervaux.
 * 2) The winter of 2009-10 was the worst in 50 years killing 5 people in the north of the country.
 * 3) The rainstorms of early in the June of 2012 killed 1 person in Luxembourg city.

Military
The armed forces abandoned the use of bows and swords in favour of rifles and pistols in 1990. The army is a volunteer force of 1,500.

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

Transport
Travel is mostly by horse and bicycle, since there are few motor vehicles.

Media
A national newspaper has been in circulation since 2009.

Healthcare
Lung and thyroid cancer are major issues, but not as bad as they were before 1986.

Water supplies
This is mostly dirived from waterworks on thr rivers Moselle and Sure.

Also see:

 * 1) 1962: Doomsday
 * 2) Add-hock weapons at hand (1962: Doomsday)
 * 3) Editorial Guidelines- (1962: Doomsday)
 * 4) Radioactive animals (1962: Doomsday)
 * 5) Survivor Nations (1962: Doomsday)
 * 6) A song in Europe (1962: Doomsday)
 * 7) Alcohol (1962: Doomsday)
 * 8) Sports (1962: Doomsday)
 * 9) Transport (1962: Doomsay)
 * 10) Afghanistan (1962: Doomsday)
 * 11) The Europa Alliance (1962: Doomsday)