New England Republic (1962: The Apocalypse)

History
The Connecticut  is a democratic UK survivor nation based in Connecticut.

Doomsday

 * 1) Camp Rell Army National Guard Base, Niantic - 1x 1kt (did not go off)
 * 2) Camp Hartell Army National Guard Base- 1x 1kt (did not go off)
 * 3) Naval Submarine Base New London- 1x 1kt (did not go off)
 * 4) Bridgeport harbour- 1x 1kt (did not go off)
 * 5) Stamford harbour- 1x 1kt

After Doomsday
The Doomsday effect shocked the people of Connecticut, who had never expected such an event to happen, nevertheless, the people began to reform the country side. On September 24th, the people of eastern and northern Connecticut met to discuss the state of affairs.

Upon realising they were allowing, Connecticut’s state government set about rebuilding what little they had. Stuff was shared out and 2 food hordes were hung. 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 east of the state, killing many people during 1965 and most of 1966. A typhoid plague struck Hertford Refugee Camp in 1967, killing 62% the camp’s and 75% of the city’s residents. Hippies were outlawed as subversives and shot on site in 1969.

One problem faced was dealing with the local bandits, marauders, mafias and street gangs. Under Steve Jaeger, a new military force of some 250 men was formed and the threats were removed one by one.

The nation would also struggle with various raids by the surrounding tribesmen from Long Island until 1985.

Somehow they would manage to just make it although many would die of cancer and banditry over the years. The Hertford doctor Antony Steve Kennedy and his friend Ann Cerise Withers would serve as firm, but fair dictators, until the first free elections were held in 1987.

First contacts
First contact was made with Carolina, Québec, Bermuda, Canada, New England and Upstate New York in 1967. 2 lost Connecticut fishing boats met a small group of Somme Republic, Irish and a Duchy of Lancashire fishing boat near Rockall in 1985, leading to the handing over of ambassadors in 1986. Connecticut was also discovered by explorers from Cascadia, Mississippi and New Mexico-Colorado c in 1987.

1968-1990
A typhoid and cholera outbreak killed 200 people in mid-1984 and the first free elections were held in 1987. Penoic Bay was fully assimilated in 1997, after 5 years of bitter fighting with local tribesfolk.

Present Day
A small wind farm opened near Winsor in 1998 and was slightly expanded in 2008. On November 12, 2008, Connecticut allowed marriages of same-sex couples.

Earthquake
A minor earthquake hit Hertford in 1977, killing 2 and injuring 12.

Government
The president is elected every 5 years for a maximum of 3 terms. As of 2011, Democrats controlled all 35 federal congressional seats. Joseph Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal are the leading Connecticut's congressmen. Currently, Connecticut leans more strongly towards the Democratic Party. However, Connecticut has a high percentage of voters who are not registered with a major party.

Economy
Like most other post-Doomsday European nations, the economy is poor and suffers from a labour shortage. 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 Carolina or Mexico. It is agrarian by nature largely dependent on agriculture, forestry and selling looted metal from the ruins of nearby towns. As of November 2011, the state's unemployment rate is 6%.

Farming
The agricultural produce of the state includes hen’s eggs, clams and lobster, dairy products, cattle and tobacco.

Industry
Its industrial output includes hose drawn transportation equipment, aircraft parts, fabricated metal products, chemicals and pharmaceutical products. Industry only took off after the 1987 free trade agreement with New England, Up-state New York, Niagara, Carolina and Maine-New Brunswick.

Tourism
A report issued by the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism on October 8th, 2010, tourism from neighbouring states generated more than $12 million in economic activity and 11,000 jobs annually.

Military
The armed forces abandoned the use of bows and swords in favour of imported Carolina rifles and pistols in 2005. The army is a volunteer force 945 and a conscript force of 95.

Foreign Relations
It is a willing client state of New England and Carolina so since the start of the economic slump of 1987-89.

Transportation


Due to the lack of modern transportation methods horses are the main beast of burden and land travel. Yachts and canoes are used on local rivers, when possible. South-western Connecticut was served by MTA's Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, providing commuter service to New York City and New Haven, with branches servicing New Canaan, Danbury, and Waterbury. While New York is permanently out of bounds and the land south west of Stanford is quarantine until 2014, along with the town it’s self which still fill of hostile and/or isolationist tribal war bands, 5 trains a day stem train service runs between the other cities and the town of Windsor. It reopened with 2 steam locos and 4 carriages use the cannibalization of existing stock and track in 1987. It was up to its present strength of 6 locos and 18 carriages by 1994.

The rivers are mostly navigable by canoes and yachts to the sea. When the supply of gasoline and diesel and petrol ran out, horses were taken up for transport. They re-established paddle-wheel shipping on the coastline of the nation's territory in 1977. The demand for wood for fuel and new boats has fuelled a minor boom in the logging industry, but that has stabilized. The railways and the 7 paddleboats are the only economically viable method of transporting either people, goods and mail across the nation. There has been an increased use of old automobiles fuelled on New England aloc-fuel and Kentucky oil, as well as horse-driven carts, but they have yet to reach a point where the economic viability of the paddleboats or trains are threatened.

Horses are still popular in the nation, despite the resent, but short lived, outbreak of foot and mouth disease and equine ethnocide hematoma.

3 alco-fuel busses run twice on Mondays and Fridays between Hartford, Waterbury and New Haven. 4 alco-fuel buses run twice on Mondays and Fridays between the capital of Connecticut, the New England, Kentucky and Vandalia.

Health
Some cases of cholera still occur in some rural areas in the less well developed south west of the state. Skin, lung and thyroid cancers stopped being a major issue in 1989.

Media
A national weekly newspaper was first issued in early 1993 and a FM radio station opened in Hartford during mid-1995.

Sport
Baseball is common place.

The Death Penalty
Murderers, Sex Predators, 'rapists, child molesters, traitors and enemy spies are executed by hanging.